About McClellan's Book Publisher

A couple of final thoughts on Scott McLellan's book. I just learned that the publisher is PublicAffairs, a division of Perseus Books Group. Perseus Books is owned by a fund whose chairman, Frank Pearl, has close ties to far left liberals such as George Soros (they published at least two of Soros' books and managed a biotech fund together) and Al Gore (whose son-in-law, Drew Schiff, used to work for Pearl), among other well-known left wingers Richard Holbrooke and Jim Johnson (Obama's VP search head). [See Perseus' website for key personnel.] Also, PublicAffairs is run by far left editor Peter Osnos.

The books published by Perseus are certainly to the left more often than not. The bigger question, however, is how much say the book's editor had over the final product. I believe that the editor had significant authority to make final changes, making McClellan essentially a useful idiot. One other interesting tidbit is that Perseus' last Pulitzer Prize winner came from author Samantha Power, who recently resigned from the Obama campaign for comments she made about Hillary (and other anti-Semitic comments).