Scott McClellan is off the Christmas card list for good!

Either McClellan has gone bonkers or...could it be...he's now feeling free to tell the truth! Which do you think? I love this quote from the CNN article:

[I]ntimates of the president feel McClellan has violated the president's trust.

"Part of the role of being a trusted adviser is to honor that trust," said [Former White House counselor Dan] Bartlett. "It's not your place now to go out" and criticize the president.

In other words, watch your back, McClellan, now that you've violated the White House code of omerta.

James Poniewozik discusses McClellan's take on the White House press corps, which McClellan describes as

"...too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.

“The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

Poniewozik explains:

[W]hen it comes to press acquiesence, it's not about ideology or corporate political dictates; it's about following the money. Put mathematically: Financial Terror + Sense of the Public Mood = Wimpy Press Coverage. After September 11, you had a media business that was dealing with a recession and steep cutbacks and journalists who were convinced that their audience would punish them for delivering discouraging words about the President and the war. Not all journalism between September 11 and the start of the Iraq War was driven by the fear that journalists would be seen as unpatriotic—and thus revenues would suffer—but a shameful amount was.