Reply #3: And now this creep is on the WaPo Editorial pages - and payroll. [View All]

Damn. Here's more.

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His renown landed him a senior fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations, a column in The Washington Post, a regular spot in Newsweek and a contract for a book on the future of conservatism. But Scully says it is an image puffed up by an unrelenting talent for self-promotion that ignored the contributions of two fellow speechwriters, Scully and John McConnell.

"The narrative that Mike Gerson presented to the world is a story of extravagant falsehood," Scully writes. "He has been held up for us in six years' worth of coddling profiles as the great, inspiring, and idealistic exception of the Bush White House. In reality, Mike's conduct is just the most familiar and depressing of Washington stories -- a history of self-seeking and media manipulation that is only more distasteful for being cast in such lofty terms."

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