Scott McClellan's Blasts from the Past

Scott McClellan wrote a "tell-all" or "make-it-all-up" book about the Bush Administration, and of course, is being lauded by the press. The wacky lefties have driven the book to #1 on Amazon.

However, McClellan didn't seem to think much of other former administration officials who released "tell-all" books:

"It appears to be more about trying to justify personal views and opinions than it does about looking at the results that we are achieving on behalf of the American people."

-- White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, speaking about former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's memoir, The Price of Loyalty, in 2004.

"Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he's raising these grave concerns that he claims he had."

-- McClellan, speaking about former White House counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke's book, Against All Enemies, in 2004.

I think this is what's known as "situational ethics".