Reply #42: "quitting when it might have done some good?" [View All]

[nbcouch]

When would that have been, and how would it have done any good? The press secretary quits, they find a new one the same day, and in fact when Scottie did quit, they replaced him with a far more adept liar (Snow).

No doubt Scottie's motivation has a LOT to do with book sales, but on the other hand there are plenty of folks (e.g. Coulter, O'Reilly) who make a real good living selling books that are filled with lies. Scottie could have gone that route - he could instead have written some sort of BushCo hagiography, which would have sold quite well - but he chose to write the truth (the book by and large corroborates what we have long known or suspected), and for that he deserves some credit.