Catapulting the Propaganda

MANIFESTO

This is bound to get a lot of attention in the next week or so:

The spokesman who defended President Bush's policies through Hurricane Katrina and the early years of the Iraq war is now blasting his former employers, saying the Bush administration became mired in propaganda and political spin and at times played loose with the truth.

In excerpts from a 341-page book to be released Monday, Scott McClellan writes on Iraq that Bush "and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war."

With the exception of the identity of its author, I don't think this information is going to surprise anyone.

My favorite part of the story? Bush's Brain's reaction:

Fox News contributor and former White House adviser Karl Rove said on that network Tuesday that the excerpts from the book he's read sound more like they were written by a "left-wing blogger" than his former colleague.

Well, at least we left-wing bloggers got a little publicity.