What Will The Timed Release Of This Book Do For The Presidential Election?
What Happened
by Scott McClellan (Former Press Secretary to George W. Bush)http://search.barnesandnoble.com/What-Ha…
Exerpt:
“I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself.”
Plame’s response:
“I am outraged to learn that former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan confirms that he was sent out to lie to the press corps,” she says.
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) adds, “If the Bush administration won’t even tell the truth to its official spokesman, how can the American people expect to be told the truth either?”
McClellan’s book may indeed have an impact on the November election. These scandals and numerous others are not going away, and McCain is intricately tied to the Bush administration–no matter how hard he tries to extricate himself. McCain has voted in conjunction with the White House agenda 95% of the time during the past 8 years, and this book will definitely affect his campaign, along with an array of other problems he has generated for himself.
Not sure but publishers ask writers to put in items that will sell books. Most of the time the items are false. A bad selling book costs publishers millions of dollars just like a badly attended movie costs movie studios millions of dollars.
Mainstream books written by “celebrities” are made to make money, not to be an accurate record of history. If you want to read an accurate account of history then what is being written needs to be written without financial incentives (such as experts who write history books).
Seeing as Bush can’t run again, I don’t think it matters.