Scott McClellan

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Intelligence deficit

Bush fooled voters and the press once on Iraq. Can McCain get away with the same thing?
The American press and public rarely get riled up these days over new revelations concerning President George W. Bush and his administration’s sorry history.
By EDITORIAL | June 11, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Gerry Dee

We put a visiting comic on the hotseat. This week's victim. . .
Start a group called “The Oldest Man on Facebook.” And then “poke” away.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | June 11, 2008

Man of the Century

The late, great Bo Diddley helped put Lupo’s on the map
Bo Diddley, a particular favorite of Lupo, was the first “name” performer to play the club.
By PHILLIPE + JORGE | June 04, 2008

March to war

Why isn’t the press paying more attention to a possible attack on Iran?
During the course of two weeks in May, America’s top-ranking military officer went from warning that war with Iran could cripple the US military to rattling his saber at Tehran.
By ADAM REILLY | June 04, 2008

His pants were so on fire

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan will be publishing a memoir in 2008
By JAMES PARKER | December 16, 2008

What smell?

2006: A second-quarter scorecard — summer fiction bonanza
It’s always summer to George W. Bush, our lazy, hazy, crazy commander in chief who puts in shorter presidential work weeks than Woodrow Wilson did after he was paralyzed by a stroke.
By BARRY CRIMMINS | July 28, 2006

Stop whining and do your job

The White House and the media are not supposed to get along, stupid
A president with a history of antipathy toward the media complains openly about the “knee-jerk liberal press.”
By MARK JURKOWITZ | May 28, 2006

Schmucks unlimited

2006: A first-quarter scorecard
It’s April, supposedly the cruelest month, but after a winter that seemed like 150 days of March, how bad can it be?
By BARRY CRIMMINS | April 05, 2006