Bob Dole

Former senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole sent an angry e-mail message to Scott McClellan Thursday calling the former White House press secretary a "miserable creature" for publishing his recent tell-all book about the Bush administration.

In his message, Dole claimed McClellan was typical of folks "in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique."

Despite the focus given this book last week, many major news organizations completely ignored Dole's comments which were first revealed by Politico Friday, and widely disseminated hours later by UPI. Yet, from what I can tell, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, and USA Today have all ignored the matter.

What follows is the entire e-mail message published by Fox News.com Friday (h/t NBer motherbelt, picture courtesy Politico):

Here's something you don't see every day: a Republican publicly chastising one of the leading conservative voices in the nation.

After all, it's one thing for liberal media members across the fruited plain to bash talk radio's Rush Limbaugh.

But former Senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole?

Well, hold on to your seats, for Politico reported late Monday (h/t NBer coffee260, emphasis added throughout):