Former Boss Slams Author Of Bush Admin Tell-All: He Was A Failure

Wall Street Journal:

Ditto for Air Force One. Yes, he was on it, but not because he was important. To the contrary, I put him on it because he was failing. At one point in the book, he admits that he "never felt the connection" he was supposed to feel with the president. Bringing him into the Oval and getting him on Air Force One was a (losing) attempt on my part to get the president to warm up to him. These are distasteful things to have to say publicly about someone who once worked for you. And I would have taken them to the grave had Matt not used these props and the snippets of conversation he picked up to paint a highly distorted view of some very good people during some very tough times.

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Comments

[traveler501]

pretty funny ...so all the failures didn't think this guy fit in. that's as good a compliment as you're gonna get from this bunch.

[DubyaGump]

What else would one expect Rupert Murdoch to publish?

[Calinative]

How can they call the speechwriter the failure?

The Bush administration had all the wrong moves for eight years. But every time they wanted to do some stupid thing like invade Iraq, or give Wall Street a giant bailout, they had a real humdinger speech to convince everyone it was a good idea.

[HBD]

Golly. From reading the article, it seems like McGurn is maybe the one being the child here. Doesn't he realize that if you make a fuss over something like this, it only makes that something more popular?

[blukazoo]

Pot, meet Kettle. Everyone in the bush administration was a failure by definition.

[theblueAmerican]

Census Data Show Recession-Driven Changes. George Bush and the Republican Party are responsible for this headline.

[rjohns3]

Face it, every one of you from bush on downwas a failure on both a personal and professional level.

[FlightLover]

McGurn, you stood in the crammed elevator. You released it. Be original - move on, and stop blaming someone else. Be part of the solution.

[Y2KCockroach]

Worst president in my lifetime. Worst administration in fifty years. Worst results in one hundred years. Worst supporting cast since William Buchanan's.

[MajorKong]

This sounds like the standard "Everybody pile on the whistleblower" strategy.

[jsgaetano]

Isn't calling a member of the Bush administration a failure kind of redundant?

This dude was a failure, his boss was a failure, and his boss's boss was a failure.... and so on all the way to the top.

[shanghaislim]

.....or the bottom (depending on your perspective?)

[iMissMollyIvins]

I thought being a failure was a prerequisite to being hired for any job in the Bush/Cheney administration.

[shanghaislim]

......or a degree from Bob Jones University?????

[17ladyslippers]

So this is the "cut bait" piece of "fish or cut bait".

McGurn's attention to this tome falls into the more than likely "C Y A" category because he knows how much of it is fact.

[oz3472]

Please note McGurns current biography

William McGurn is a Vice President at News Corporation who writes speeches for CEO Rupert Murdoch. Previously he served as Chief Speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

Enough said

[monk2000]

Agreed.. Rupert Murdoch.. the man who is single handedly destroying the news.. Who hopes he just d.i.e.s already?

[jazzdad51]

Smart move there Mcgurn. You have managed to put yourself in the crosshairs. I am sure that Olberman and Rachel will do their homework and dig up some very embarrassing dirt on you. You might even make worst persons.

[Reefdancer]

I guess it's kind of hard to "warm up" to a psycopath. If Bush said "you are my star" the book would be different and the opinion piece would have been positive. What a shock.