Bob Dole on Scott McClellan’s Recent Rhetoric

Fri 05/30/08

…[If] all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high-profile job…That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively.
— Bob Dole, zinging former White House spokesman Scott McClellan and his new book

3 Comments

  1. Daniel

    I really can’t disagree with that.

    Of course coming from a politician, it seems rather disingenuous; people with political ambition don’t speak up publicly like a man very often. They calculate what they say, how they say it, and in this case, when they say it.

    McClellan was a press secretary – always on TV, always in front of reporters, always quoted. A book like his is a good way to get him back on TV, in front of reporters, and quoted. And it’s working like gangbusters, at least for the next week I’d wager.

    Sat 05/31/08 at 2:29 pm

  2. charles

    Class is one thing that is missing in MOST politics. Bob Dole’s suggestion would have been the classy thing to do.

    Mon 06/02/08 at 7:14 am

  3. M.A. Turner

    Eh, fuck ‘em both.

    Mon 06/02/08 at 7:46 am

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