How Does It Feel When We Call You a Cunt, Jimmy Cayne?
In your aspirational Monday media column: Jimmy Cayne's a rat bastard, Scottie McClellan spawns, Liz Smith groks the email, and newspapers do various sad things:
Happy Birthday
State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver turns 65 today. Rudy Giuliani's ex-wife, Donna Hanover, is 59. Real estate developer Francis Greenburger is 60. Peter Gabriel is turning 59. Robbie Williams is 35. Stockard Channing turns 65. Jerry Springer is 65. And Henry Rollins turns 48. People celebrating their birthdays this…
Scott McClellan Endorses Obama
The White House press secretary hinted he would do it in May, and now Scott McClellan has finally pulled the trigger, telling CNN's D.L. Hughley "I will be voting for Barack Obama... I am going to support the candidate that has the best chance for changing the way Washington works and getting things done." This…
O'Reilly Being Framed As Bush Puppet, He Says
Everyone is out to get Bill O'Reilly! First Scott McClellan, the elven former White House press secretary, said on MSNBC last weekend that he and his minions used to feed Bush administration talking points to O'Reilly and other Fox News shouting heads. "It was done frequently, especially on high-profile issues," he…
Scott McClellan Still Defending Bush
Like an old, scorned lover, Scott McClellan can't quite fully betray and repudiate the man who made him do awful things, George W. Bush. The former Bush press secretary has written a fairly extensive and blunt tell-all book about his time with the president, but he's still splitting hairs about what happened. So when…
The PR Industry Will Not Stand For These Outrageous Criticisms!
The PR industry loves to get riled up any time someone takes what might be construed as an unjustified shot at its awful reputation. This is because there are already so many perfectly justified criticisms of PR that any argument not directly linked to a huge public scandal gives the industry a rare chance to get on…
Scott McClellan: Former Hottie
Book-writin' Bush traitor Scott McClellan is not well-liked by anyone these days, but it was a different story back in Austin High School in the mid-1980s. As a classmate tells Joshua Stein: "He was a senior when I was a sophmore and there was a golden light bathed around him at all times. He was sweet and smart and…
Loser Advance For Sad Scott McClellan
Look at that: The tell-all book from former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is flying off the shelves, ranking number one on Amazon.com and spurring his publisher to double the print run to 130,000 copies. Sales are no doubt helped by the fact that the dishy memoir is a well-timed and fairly complete…
Honesty In Communications
Business journalist Gary Weiss wonders why the Public Relations Society of America hasn't yet condemned former Bush flack Scottie McClellan for lying. Well I'll tell you why, Gary: because the PRSA is a society of pussyfooting apologists with plastic smiles that exists mainly to give PR people in Kansas City an…
Hookers and Lies: The Scott McClellan Book Tour
Former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan has a new book about how George Bush's White House is full of liars and cads. Have you heard? Oh, also the President was totally a cokehead, maybe. He can't remember. But probably. People continue to weigh in! Matt Cooper (a reporter involved, you may remember, in the…
McClellan Shocker: Bush Too Drunk to Remember How Much Cocaine He Did
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was the doughy, ill-informed punching bag the press needed after a couple years of smarmy wise-ass Ari Fleisher. But now he's getting his revenge, as all big dumb doughy dudes must after they realize their "friends" just pretended to like them. He wrote a book. It's…
Scott McClellan's Editor Says Reaction To Book Excerpt Was Disproportionate
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's editor Pete Osnos steps to his author's defense on Editor&Publisher today, accusing the media of misinterpreting the excerpt of McClellan's book in PublicAffairs' spring catalog. The snippet, widely publicized last week, seems to accuse high-ranking administration…
