Victor Davis Hanson is calling Scott McClellan "the worst press secretary of either party since [President Nixon’s] Ron Ziegler," words that will sting in West Austin if, indeed, Scott’s mom ever hears about them. But, so far, Carol Stewart Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn (which accounts for her given name and those of her three husbands), former Austin mayor and onetime Texas Comptroller, is just pleased as punch about her son Scott’s tell-all book about President Bush. "He knows his values," she told the daily, "and this book is his values." That’s her boy.
Not that the beans he has spilled are very important ones, and they’re mostly his own opinion. But, so far, he’s outselling Carol’s ex-husband (and Scott’s dad) Barr McClellan’s 2003 book alleging that LBJ killed President Kennedy, or video rentals of her 1980 movie Roadie starring Meatloaf. Scott, as you can see, comes from an unusual family. The daily’s political humor columnist John Kelso says that Scott could be aiming to become the next mayor of Austin. Somehow that rings true. This is, after all, a very quirky town. Weird, some would even say.
UPDATE: Oops, it seems poor Scott had something else in mind all along. Wonder how mom would have felt about this?
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Nice pedigree. At least he didn’t blame Bush for 911 – yet.
Heh. That’s next, in his sequel.