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Originally Posted by disneydude  McClellan: Bush should have fired Rove - Yahoo! News
McClellan reminds us of one more of Bush's lies: That he would fire anyone he found to be involved in the Plame leak scandal.
Once again....the President lied to the American public and failed to keep his word. |
I feel a slight but palpable sense of revulsion just listening to former White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan discuss his book on BookTV.
Book TV - What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
Because so many politically unaware opponents of the invasion are (coincidentally???) also fans of Sci-Fi films I assume they (or you, dear reader) would be familiar with the film classic, Blade Runner.
Scott McClellan seems to me to be like a replicant. He looks and sounds like a real human being and is quite functional to a certain extent. But in little things he is totally devoid of real human intelligence.
He obviously hasn't been doing his homework on the circumstances leading to the buildup to he invasion and he has an outsider's perspective on the actions going on before his very eyes.
I think the truth of he matter is that the people in the White House quickly determined that he wasn't capable of the highest level of understanding so he was marginalized. Rather than giving him a pink slip when Ari Fleischer left they promoted him and he did his best to give them the impression that, at the very least, he would justify that promotion by remaining loyal.
They didn't give him any serious information with which he might hurt the government but just by virtue of his job he did have more knowledge than the average leftist critic. So when he was not given access to the inner circle and he may not have been the most popular person in the life of the President or the White House he may have felt left out. And after he left the White House the only ones who were kissing up to him were the opposition who encouraged him to let spill out all of his misgivings and 'replicant' interpretations and understandings of things.
Bottom line, this young man was an example of the Peter Principle at work.
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The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." While formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in a humorous book which also introduced the "salutary science of Hierarchiology" "inadvertently founded" by Peter, their 1968 The Peter Principle, the principle has real validity.
The principle holds that in a hierarchy members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".
Peter Principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
After he'd exceeded his highest level of competence he was asked to leave and his feelings suffered. In his search to become relevant and important again and to try to regain the attention he once enjoyed he took his cards and played them in the worst possible way.
He has shown his immaturity, his lack of understanding of world affairs and recent American history or Middle Eastern history, his disloyalty, his need for ego fulfillment at almost any cost, his lack of integrity and ethics.
I think he is really just a confused young man who got in over his head and was allowed to stay around long enough to become a 'loose cannon.'
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The expression "loose cannon" or "loose cannon on deck" refers to an irresponsible and reckless individual whose behaviour (either intended or unintended) endangers the group he or she belongs to.
The term originates in the Age of Sail, and wooden men-of-war. When a storm began, all cannons had to be securely fastened and lashed in place. A gun that broke free of its lashings would roll uncontrollably around the deck with the motion of the ship, causing havoc. A loose cannon, weighing thousands of pounds, would crush anything and anyone in its path, and possibly even break a hole in the hull, thus endangering the seaworthiness of the whole ship.
Loose cannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
It is ironic that McClellan is probably blind to the fact that in their own ways both he and Saddam Hussein were loose cannons. And even stranger still, that if McClellan understood how and why Saddam was a loose cannon it might have prevented the former Press Secretary from following that same path as Saddam.
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