Tim Russert, appearing on the Today Show, notes that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s book could have considerable impact on the Bush administration’s reputation AND on Campaign 2008. Watch it in full. Russert hits the nail on the head.
Also be sure to keep watching for the MSNBC early report on the book, which follows Russert.
Russert’s report makes it clear why the White House and its supporters are in full discredit mode right now to try squelch the allegations in the book (which polls show many Americans already believe and have believed for some time about an administration that will be mentioned in the same “credibility gap” sentences as the Johnson and Nixon administrations by future historians and political scientists).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1CmbLsOwGM
Here are some excerpts from the book.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.