Just for the schadenfreude-liciousness of it all...

Add me to the growing list of those who are having great difficulty understanding McClellan's motives. I spent two years as a White House reporter, much of it during McClellan's reign. At no time did Scott ever indicate, either publicly or privately, he had the misgivings he expressed in this book.

What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say without fear of contradiction, that I knew Scott better than any other White House correspondent or Washington reporter.

In my book, "The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report" I discussed McClellan's handling of the White House press operation. At every turn, I gave Scott the benefit of the doubt for the devastating communication failures that plagued the Bush administration. It now appears that Scott did not deserve such allowances. By his own admission, McClellan either perpetrated a fraud behind the podium or has done so with this book. Whichever the case, Scott McClellan's credibility is zero.

If anyone knows about having zero credibility, it's Jeff Gannon.

Meanwhile, Bush's eCampaign Re-election Director: "McClellan savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true"

SteveAudio here again with some fresh Tuesday sounds:

When I think about you I touch myself. . . Stephen Colbert is running for President, and plans to debate. . . himself.

I heard the news today, oh boy. . . Judy "Kneepads" Miller = Seymour Hersh. Hot Military Stud Jeff Gannon whines. Studs Terkel swings his pulitzer like a bat and hits it out of the park. And it's fun to make fun of Fox News because they're so funny.

Man he's too cool for school. . . Intelligent Design is so . . .intelligent. Free-market economists are so economical with their brains. The two Naomis write great books.

Everybody wants to rule the world. . . Giuliani had fantasies of adequacy. And he thinks Democrats will learn to love Iraq like he does. And he makes stuff up about health care.

It's time to be a big girl now, and big girls don't cry. . . Condi Rice thinks the State Department has done a bang-up job in Iraq. Andrew Sullivan doesn't like Hillary.

That music you hear means we're playing our break song. More music tomorrow, hopefully we'll play something you like. Send any tips or song requests to steveaudio at earthlink dot net, with Blog Round Up as the title.

So long, we're here all week, and there's a great view from the patio, just watch the gnats.

Catherine Crier has some really good monologues at the end of her show and this was one of them. She takes a look at Bush's abuse of power

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Crier: In the last six years this President has assumed more power than any President in history...

Crier: How about the other matters in the King's court...Former WH counsel Harriet Miers would now be a Supreme Court justice. Michael Brown would still be head of FEMA because as you know he did a " heckofajob." Donald RUmsfeld would still be Secretary of Defense because of his marvelous handling of the Iraq war. And former gay prostittute Jeff Gannon, a mysterious member of the WH press corp. might now be sitting in Helen Thomas's seat....

She uses some really good video clips of Bush to make her point---and that includes the press...She covers the Attorney scandal and goofs on Rove.

It looks like Jeff Gannon is on board.

The Washington Post covers the Murtha smears, but Murray Waas uncovers a few more facts about David Thibault, editor in chief of the Cybercast News Service that the WaPo does not.

Murray:

"But the article tells us very little about Thibault himself. Had the reporters done a simple Internet search, they would have discovered this biography of Thibault posted online which describes him as a "senior producer for a televised news magazine" broadcast and sponsored by the Republican National Committee. I dunno, but I for one, would have wanted to know that...read on "

It would have been nice to know that the swiftboating of Murtha is coming from someone with deep ties to the RNC. He's also linked to Bobby Eberle of GOPUSA, the former boss of Jeff Gannon.

(Update): from Waas:

"What the Post leaves out of its story is that Saylor is deceased, and well, has been for some time now. (Saylor died way back in 1973, something that the Cybercast "News" Service, noted in their news story-- not to impugn their reporting practices.) In short, the Washington Post is relying on something said by a person with an axe to grind (Fox), who is quoting someone who is deceased (but who the newspaper forgot to tell you is deceased.) But it is even somewhat worse than that: the Post is quoting the ever-so-reliable and unbiased Cybercast News Service, which is quoting a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, which includes an allegation by Fox... who is citing someone now deceased.

Blast from the Past: Jeff Gannon retrospective in Video

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I posted this on Feb, 22nd:

A collection of the many questions, answers, interviews and satire video clips that has made up the Gannon/Gate story so far.

The Leftcoaster, AmericaBlog and Joe Conason have Jeff Gannon possibly involved in Rove-Gate.

There's nothing that fool would want more than is to have people talking about him again. That is except this part of his anatomy.

Milbank on was Countdown talking about the Roberts nomination and said:

"...This is going to dominate the news up until the court begins in Oct 1; that's not to say the Karl Rove story won't make its cameo appearance somewhat-of course it will and it's likely to go on somewhat after this nomination ends, but this is clearly going to be the main game in town now..."

When Jeff Gannon was outed as a fake journalist Milbank was one of the first reporters on the tube all up in arms over Jimmy/Jeff being in the White House posing as a newsman. Milbank saw that as an affront to his profession, but the possibility of a breach in national security coupled with a perjury case and Dana goes back to being a hack. The lesson being " don't mess with my club."

There’s this funny story in the Houston Chronicle penned by Julie Mason about President Bush.

Bush once famously needled Adam Entous of Reuters for entering the Oval Office with a loosened tie.President Bush likes to wax populist by calling the White House "the people's house," but his rules of decorum aren't what you would find in most people's homes.

And:

Members of the White House press corps understand that, as a rule, touching the furniture in the Oval Office is strictly forbidden. Even when Bush brings a group of journalists in for an informal chat, he does not invite them to sit"

You see where I'm going with this one? How many times have you heard the expression " anal retentive?" I think Bush is the epitome of the phrase. Here's the defintion:

A person interrupted at the late stage of the anal development is an anal retentive, and this is thought to result in adult personality or behavioral traits that include orderliness, rigidity, obstinacy, obsession with rules, meticulousness, and ungenerousness.

Now check out an email to: Dear Julie Mason

I'm disappointed with your story. The obvious question missing (that is, obvious if you keep current with the Bush White House scandals) was whether Bush held Jeff Gannon, the fake White House corrrespondent whose online presence included nude shots of himself on male sex sites like HotMilitaryStud.com, to the same standards you say Bush holds real journalists. Since Gannon/Guckert (he used an alias when posing as a journalist) had many overnight stays at the White House ---which he claimed was not unusual--- I would think you would've pursued whether journalists staying overnight were expected not to loosen their ties or touch the furniture?

via Capitol Buzz: Thune At Center of Emerging Scandal The scandal epidemic running through the Republican party is spreading to South Dakota's John Thune. It's kind of complicated so we're not going to delve into the details -- we'll leave that to Clean Cut Kid and ThuneWatch.com. Go over to CB and check out the Buzz...

Wasn't he Jeff Gannon's favorite?