You're suprised, but not really, there was a good article written a few years back, and...did you have anything to say, Joan?

Could you maybe give this spot to someone who'll write interesting articles, stories, or (even) blog posts?

Now that is writing. Excellent...

"I think, however, that such fraternity between naturally opposing professional roles has given many journalists an ill-placed sense of inclusion and gratitude."

This much is obvious. It's like the embedded reporters who completely lose sight of their mission. Or like a minor form of Stockholm Syndrome.

People get too caught up with their glee at being included in the party. They change their opinion to something that will help keep them there. If being extra nice is what it takes, or not asking hard, embarrassing questions and being labeled the bad guy, then most of them will go along.

It's great that somebody on the other side of the game, Scott McClellan, has stepped outside of the game and provided a commentary on it. I am glad that Yellin and Couric are willing to admit as much (especially after some of Couric's less-than-admirable recent performances as a journalist, including her embarrassing play-along with General Petraeus in Iraq).

So scotty wrote a book that panders to the people most likely to run out and buy it. Sounds like he's just chasing cash.

We spent years watching him tell lies. We made fun of his sorry efforts in the face of impeaching evidence. Still, he insisted on saying things that his masters wanted to hear.

Now, he tells folks on left the things they want to hear. Boy does that sell books! Where did his sudden credibility come from? Has he done anything to make anyone believe he is no longer a lying tool?

I wish the media coverage of his book had been more about his lying and perjury in the past. Perhaps a photo pairing him with james frey.

The Pope is Catholic. And bears sh*t in the woods.

Washington a-twitter. Repubs outraged; Dems see advantage for election.

President Bush dismissive; "Scott was never really in the loop."

Homer Simpson: "Doh!"

Astronomers continue search for planet on which Washington is located.

Physicists say: proof of existence of alternate universe.

Rest of world yawns.

That if the Bush machine had thrown Bush's successor Rick Perry under the bus so that McClellan's mother, Carole Strayhorn, would have had a serious shot at the governor's mansion in 2006, this book never sees the light of day.

Regardless, McClellan's no hero. He's getting slammed, but his ass isn't really on the line, let's be honest. Scotty-boy is just confirming what most of us already knew. He's collected his payday and if he's smart with his money probably won't have to work again unless he wants to. It doesn't take a brave person to say "I told you so" a couple of years after the fact.

Actually, as the recent post over at War Room states, McClellan got a less than $100,000 advance. That's not "never work again" money.

Are you people laughing at him for not being rich or hating him for selling out? Cmon get your stories straight already.

Confusing the message with the messenger. He is telling us what he experienced in the White House. Perhaps you do not believe him. That is fair. But this story is not about Scott McClellan's supposed turn of character. It's about the White House and how our country has been tricked and lied to. Let me be clear. To take "insider sources" at face value while they trash the former Press Secretary is, at this point in the game, beyond naive.

It's ironic, actually. He's being attacked with the same kind of lies and obfuscations that he himself was paid to generate. And that would be fine, except that we the citizens are the ones who lose out by prioritizing the rumor mill over the message.

Bottom line, if he has something to say about the White House, let him say it. We can judge for ourselves whether or not it's the truth. Everything after that is just gossip meant to distract us from the truth of the matter.

livinggreen: "Actually, as the recent post over at War Room states, McClellan got a less than $100,000 advance. That's not "never work again" money."

Does he get royalties? I haven't read the War Room blog yet.

Anyway, if you criticize people for making money from writing a book, then you are obligated to criticize everybody who has ever written a book and made some cash -- including Bush hack Ari Fleischer.

I am just thankful that the story is out from an insider. We had to wait for 20 years to get Albert Speer's inside the Third Reich. Speer was similar in one way ... the only one of the horrible bunch who apologized at the time for not coming to his senses earlier. He only went to prison for his efforts ... most were hanged.

Looking forward to the trials.

The only man in America willing and able to Change the Damn Subject Already. Yay, Scott!

While the left is happy to hear an insider confirm all the things that many of us always suspected, they too are piling on like the wing-nuts. I applaud McClellan because it's not easy to blow-up the world you've inhabited from birth. People are calling him names from coward to snitch to weasel. Admittedly, he was a part of the problem but we have to stop thinking that many of the foot soldiers in the Bush Army are motivated to do evil. They have been convinced that what they are doing is for the greater good. They are religiously fervent but hopelessly misguided. I liken a lot of these people to cult members. Once you become a true believer, it's difficult to see or accept when your leaders and colleagues are doing illegal, immoral and illicit acts. Yes, it's cognitive dissonance but most of us practice it at some times in our lives. Once Scott realized that not only was this Administration lying to the country (which I'm sure they justified for the foot soldiers) but was also willing to lie to him and manipulate him to lie without his consent, the dissonance became unbearable. Writing this book is probably his form of purgative. The larger story for me is the indictment and the comeuppance McClellon gives the impotent media. Look how they are squealing trying to rewrite history.