Who Cares About The Book

Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary, has written yet another book about how, among other things, the Bush Administration lied about their reasons to go to war in Iraq. It is all over the news today on all the 24 hour cable news shows. Osama bin Laden's high tech cave complete with high speed Internet and a television studio not withstanding, you would have to live in a cave to not be aware of this administrations manipulations of the press and the intelligence leading to this "military engagement."

The real news is the new Republican nominee, John McCain and the continuing infestation of registered lobbyist running his campaign. In particular former Texas Sen Phil Gram, co-chair of the McCain campaign who, according to MSNBC.com ,"was being paid by a Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the U.S. mortgage crisis at the same time he was advising McCain about his economic policy, according to federal records." The report goes on to say that, "UBS filed paperwork deregistering Gramm on April 18 of this year. Gram continues to serve as UBS vice chairmam.' As early as October, 2006, RealClearPolitics.com reported that Gramm was advising McCain on economic issues. Politico.com quoted McCain advisors saying that Gramm had input on McCain’s March 26 policy speech about the mortgage crisis. McCain himself has often cited Gramm’s influence as a way to establish his bona fides with economic conservatives."

So this is the man that, according to Gallop Poll, 28 percent of Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton would vote for instead of Barack Obama. A man who's campaign is being advised by the very people that took or is in the process of taking your hard working, blue collar home.

The media dropped the ball today. Just as they had on Bush's march to war. Next time maybe they will let the publisher pay for the advertising and the media can get back to truly covering the news.