{"id":12709,"date":"2006-04-05T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/words-fail-him\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T21:17:00","slug":"words-fail-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/words-fail-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Words Fail Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Vanity Fair<\/i> has an interesting article about White House Press Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_mcclellan\" target=\"_blank\">Scott McClellan<\/a> entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/features\/general\/060404fege01\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Words Fail Him<\/i><\/a>.  It&rsquo;s a long article that tries to delve into the motivations behind wanting such a thankless job and why W&rsquo;s administration might have chosen him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now that the daily White House briefings are instantly available online, Press Secretary Scott McClellan&rsquo;s mangled sentences, flat-footed evasions, and genial befuddlement have made him the butt of a thousand blogs, as well as of an increasingly savage press corps. Is he a victim, a pawn, or a P.R. disaster?<br \/>&hellip;<br \/>Putting someone as strikingly out of his depth as McClellan into this job (and keeping him there) could well be part of this administration&rsquo;s contempt for the press. But while that contempt is surely real, installing McClellan here may actually, in another self-awareness gap, have been the administration&rsquo;s idea of a generous act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Definitely worth the read.  By the way, rumor is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/04\/03\/whitehouse.staff\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">current administration shake-up may include McClellan<\/a>.  We&rsquo;ll soon see, I think&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/language\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">language<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/w\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">w<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/dick\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">dick<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114424783535429076?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanity Fair has an interesting article about White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan entitled Words Fail Him. It&rsquo;s a long article that tries to delve into the motivations behind wanting such a thankless job and why W&rsquo;s administration might have chosen him: Now that the daily White House briefings are instantly available online, Press Secretary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/words-fail-him\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Words Fail Him&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}