{"id":864,"date":"2006-04-20T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2006-04-20T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T15:45:00","slug":"in-defense-sort-of-of-scott-mcclellan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/in-defense-sort-of-of-scott-mcclellan\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense (sort of) of Scott McClellan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s having a pretty good time at the expense of pouty-faced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/19\/AR2006041900897_pf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scott McClellan&#8217;s resignation<\/a>. And yes, it does seem cathartic to see him canned after three years of his ducking and dodging and weaving around questions and dancing that infuriating half-truth dance. <\/p>\n<p>But, honestly, there&#8217;s no great reason to celebrate his departure. He was a flack, a whipping boy, of no great consequence to anything. There will be another question-dodger to replace him. (Anyone remember Ari Fleischer?) And if a Democrat ever takes the White House, his or her party flack will take to the press room podium and do the same tired old shit. <\/p>\n<p>Scott McClellan is no demon who has been justly slayed. There are plenty of demons with real power still left in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s having a pretty good time at the expense of pouty-faced Scott McClellan&#8217;s resignation. And yes, it does seem cathartic to see him canned after three years of his ducking and dodging and weaving around questions and dancing that infuriating half-truth dance. But, honestly, there&#8217;s no great reason to celebrate his departure. He was a flack, a whipping boy, of no great consequence to anything. There will be another question-dodger to replace him. (Anyone remember&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-dW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}