Memo to Tim Russert: Dick Cheney thinks he controls you.
This delicious morsel about the "Meet the Press" host and the vice
president was part of the extensive dish Cathie Martin served up yesterday when
the former Cheney communications director took the stand in the perjury trial of
former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Flashed on the courtroom computer screens were her notes from 2004 about
how Cheney could respond to allegations that the Bush administration had played
fast and loose with evidence of Iraq's nuclear ambitions. Option 1: "MTP-VP,"
she wrote, then listed the pros and cons of a vice presidential appearance on
the Sunday show. Under "pro," she wrote: "control message."
"I suggested we put the vice president on 'Meet the Press,' which was a
tactic we often used," Martin testified. "It's our best format."
Not that this is news to anyone who has ever watched the GOP lapdogs in action and has been pointed out many times by the netroots, but maybe now that one of his fellow guardians of national discourse in the Washington Post has pointed out that the emperor has no clothes Russert will correct his behavior.
But I would not bet on it.
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