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Opinion Editorial Kiss and tell just one more The public and the Washington political axis of evil have spent the last 10 days reeling from assertions a former Bush administration press secretary made in a kiss-and-tell book. In "What Happened," Scott McClellan, a longtime hanger-on in President George W. Bush's entourage, took Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Karl Christian Rove to task for continuing the election campaign instead of running the government. But even more serious, McClellan called Bush and others out for lying — there is no other word for it — about the reason to attack Iraq and about Bush's not living up to his promise to hold those in his administration accountable. Of course, the first shot out of the Bush cannon was that McClellan was a "disgruntled" former employee. That's always the first epithet used to attack credibility, but the insult is irrelevant if the employee has truthful information. Then came the onslaught of others bashing McClellan for not leaving when he determined the White House was dishonest. Then, former Sen. Robert Dole called McClellan a "miserable creature." Anyone who remembers Dole's 1996 presidential campaign — negativity personified — will know Dole is the pot calling the kettle black. As the attacks continued, none of the big media, local or otherwise, pointed out how former treasury secretary Paul H. O'Neill was attacked after his book about serving in the Bush regime. The horrid irony in all this is that it's one more piece of evidence that this is the most corrupt and incompetent administration in the history of the United States and no one wants to face that fact squarely. The public and the other media will simply continue to give more priority to celebrity peccadilloes while those who should be working for us take away our constitutional rights. This administration is an insult to the First Amendment. And to the integrity and honesty to which most true conservatives subscribe. Days left in the Bush administration: 229. E-mail
comments about this story Posted: June 5, 2008
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