Kiss and tell books usually reflect negatively on the credibility of the teller and it will be no different with former Bush White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s book, “What Happened.”

When you’re flacking for the President and defending his actions and policies on one hand and then you write a memoir damning him on almost every level you quickly call into question your own character, credibility and loyalty.

And this is what McClellan has done to himself.

He says in his book that he was pushed to leave earlier than he had planned, and displays bitterness about that as well as about being kept out of the loop on key decision making.

The White House called the memoir, ’self serving sour grapes.’

“Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House,” said current White House press secretary Dana Perino a former deputy to McClellan. “We are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew.”

What causes one to draw their own character into question can only be explained by hypocrisy for money.

The book has already provided fodder for Barack Obama who responded to John McCain’s request for him to visit Iraq to experience for himself how the surge is working. Obama, who says he will pull out the troops in Iraq, has not been there since 2006, yet constantly speaks out that we are there for all the wrong reasons and now cites McClellan’s book as an example of what he has been saying.

McClellan, according to the Associated Press, excludes himself from major involvement in some of what he calls the administration’s biggest blunders, for instance the decision to go to war and the initial campaign to sell that decision to the American people. But he doesn’t spare himself entirely, saying, “I fell short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.”

He includes criticism for the reporters whose questions he fielded. The news media, he says, were “complicit enablers” for focusing more on “covering the march to war instead of the necessity of war.”

McClellan got a splash in the past 24 hour news cycle that may have a few days of legs, make a few bucks off the book, but he shouldn’t expect the media to be too easy on him on a book tour. And all of this will pass and in a few months and you will probably be able to buy the book on e-bay for $1.95.