Thursday, July 19, 2007

World Class Weasel Alert

Chris Matthews and Judy Miller on Hardball yesterday:

MATTHEWS: Judy, I believe in you. You‘re great. And by the way, Ididn‘t ask you about Scooter Libby because—because the president didn‘tlet‘s make it clear what happened here. If he had pardoned the guy, we could talk because there‘d be no further legal action against him. But because he‘s now floating around there in limbo, as the guy with clemency commutation but still appealing his case, you can‘t talk about the case.

MILLER: That‘s right.

MATTHEWS: I completely understand that. I sympathize with you.

MILLER: Thank you, Chris.

MATTHEWS: And I sometimes even sympathize with Scooter Libby.

(LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you, Judy Miller.

(LAUGHTER)

MILLER: Thank you, Chris Matthews.

That's big of you Chris, seeing as how it was your false (and insistent, in the teeth of David Gergen's correct statements to the contrary) claims that Joseph Wilson had been sent on his Mission to Niger by the Vice-President on Hardball's July 9, 2003 program, that triggered Scooter Libby's fateful telephone call to Tim Russert later that week.

Without Chris Matthews ignorant ravings, Scooter Libby would probably never have been in any legal jeopardy in the Valerie Plame affair, at all.

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