It is hard to imagine a crappier job than White House Press Secretary.

It is bad enough to have a job requiring daily grilling by people looking for a
story, or any gaff or slip. But being Press Secretary for THIS White House,
where information is held so tight and there is so much hostility against the
free press (Not to mention the incompetance and corruption, but that is a more
politically biased evaluation), is horror enough to give Lovecraft chills.

The job is to quite deliberately say nothing of meaning and repeat mindless
talking points over and over. Not to mention daying stuff you strongly suspect
to be lies (if not outright known to be lies, although generally I believe the
PS is deliberately left out of all loops). You will be mocked daily (and Daily)
and bear the brunt of all the sins of everyone else in the Executive Branch.
Vice President shoots an old man in the face: You get yelled at.

That is a SHIT job.

Having said that, I actively despise all the present White House's Press
Secretarys (Fleischer, McClellan and now Snow), because to be willing to do such
a shit job means you have to be a True Believer. True Believers in this
Adminstration are pretty far down on my respect list, somewhere below Pia
Zadora.

More objectively, this should help. Scottie was a terrible PS. He always looked
sweaty and uncomfortable like he was lying. Ari was much better. It was like you
were playing poker with him. Maybe he was lying, maybe he wasn't. All you really
knew was that he thought you go fuck yourself for all he cared.