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Et tu, Scotty?

Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary who sharply criticized President Bush in his memoir last spring, told CNN Thursday he’s voting for Barack Obama.

“From the very beginning I have said I am going to support the candidate that has the best chance for changing the way Washington works and getting things done and I will be voting for Barack Obama and clapping,” McClellan told new CNN Host D.L. Hughley

This is a bit odd for me. McClellan was always a guy I thought was too pathetic and almost too easy to make fun of when he worked for the Bush Administration.

One incident in particular comes to mind. During the heat of the Plamegate scandal a few years back, there was a several day stretch where McClellan was on television every night saying he “didn’t know” the answers to virtually every question asked of him. One nationally syndicated progressive talk radio show which will go unnamed was making a big deal out of the fact that McClellan seemed clueless.

With the help of an accomplice, I sent in a clip from the song “Scotty Doesn’t Know” by some band called Lustra which apparently was a featured on the Eurotrip soundtrack at the time (no, I still haven’t seen it). The basic refrain was, over and over again, “Scotty doesn’t know! Scotty doesn’t knowwww!” Anyway, the radio show used it as a bumper a few times to play segments in and out and it was a pretty gratifying experience, but after that the guy seemed awfully easy to make fun of to me.

It was almost too easy: he was the public face of an Administration and was responsible for defending dumb dumb dumb decisions he had no part in making. Maybe that’s the case of every administration, but it just seemed so much more so in his case. I won’t say I ever felt sorry for the guy, but he did seem like too easy a target at times.

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