Bush Reelect eCampaign Director:"McClellan savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true"

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Source: Open Left

Bush Reelect eCampaign Director:"McClellan savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true"

by: Matt Stoller
Thu May 29, 2008 at 10:21

Feeling for Scott McLellan. Nice getting savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true anyway.
That was Bush-Cheney 2004 eCampaign Director Mike Turk, 16 hours ago on his Twitter feed.

Twitter is a social network that limits people's messages to 140 characters. The thoughts are partial, groggy, sometimes witty, useful, casual. And so Turk, who worked at the RNC after the reelection of Bush and then for the cable industry, is tossing off what has pervaded the mid-level operative class of the Republican Party.

Matt Stoller :: Bush Reelect eCampaign Director:"McClellan savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true"

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This story has been reiterated on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olberman and Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/29/former-bush-aide-mclellan_n_104102.html

Former Bush Aide: McClellan Is Getting Ripped For Telling The Truth

May 29, 2008 12:50 PM

In response to his scathing memoir detailing the "propaganda"-filled run up to war and seedy political machinations behind the CIA leak case, Scott McClellan has received withering criticism from his former colleagues. A money grubbing, attention seeking, devoid-of-principles hack has been the description of choice; "this is not the Scotty we knew," the most popular quote.

One former Bush aide, however, is sticking up for McClellan, arguing that the former Bush press secretary is "getting savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true."

Mike Turk served as the eCampaign director for President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign. As such, his tenure corresponded with that of McClellan's. No longer connected to the administration, Turk is now one of the few (if any) voices with connections to that crowd who are saying, quite simply, that the book "What Happened" is steeped in little more than truth.

"After watching McClellan on Today this morning, I think the reception his book received exemplifies the point he was making," Turk told The Huffington Post in an email. "People had high hopes for President Bush to bring America together after his election and after the attacks on 9/11. They felt disillusioned by the Administration's adoption of the 'win at all costs' partisan mentality in this town. I think the bigger point of Scott's book comes from the lessons he learned while playing a part in the permanent campaign. It's an exploration of how that mindset can lead to some really bad choices."