Scott McClellan
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He was a spokesman for the chief. He traveled with him, conversed with him, shared meals and confidences with him, was certainly one of his closest friends. He learned from him, believed in him, benefited greatly from the association — and, when asked, would try to explain him and his mission to others.

He was trusted. He was identified with the chief, and he basked in that. Oh, he didn’t go along with everything the chief did, and he didn’t fully understand all he said, but he tried to faithfully represent the man and what he was doing, and he profited greatly from it.

But a time came when he lost confidence and sensed that the loss might be mutual, that the chief didn’t fully trust him either. Looking around for one last means of profiting from the relationship, he offered to betray his friend to the highest bidder, to sell him out. And of course, his friend being very high profile and quite controversial, he took a big fee for the betrayal.

His name was Judas.

Look back over what I’ve just said, and see if I’ve exaggerated or misapplied what Scott McClellan has done to President George W. Bush.

Scott McClellan — President Bush's Judas
Monday, June 9, 2008 11:20 AM By: Pat Boone
http://www.newsmax.com/boone/Scott_McClellan/2008/06/09/102885.html

In his first public comment on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s book, former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card calls the book “tawdry.”

While Card has not yet read “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” he tells Newsmax, “I don’t think it’s appropriate for people who are assistants to the president to do that, to write these kind of books.”

Card says, “I’m sad, because it has created a climate that makes it more difficult for a president to get unvarnished counsel if he has to think — or other people on the staff — have to think that what they talk about could show up in a book contemporaneous to their service.”

Card adds, “It’s troubling that a trust was broken. So I view the book as tawdry; the fact of the book is tawdry.”

Andy Card: McClellan Book 'Tawdry'
Monday, June 9, 2008 10:01 AM By: Ronald Kessler
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/andy_card_mcclellan/2008/06/09/102861.html