June 15, 2008
Tata Tim
Ready for yet another state funeral? Will we have a coffin pulled by horses, another corpse at the Rotunda. or simply in the lobby of the NBC News Building? All of us here at Dakota feel that we should speak the truth about the dead. and if the truth turns out to be ugly, so be it. The truth is pretty hard to find among the hysterical media mourners at the moment.
Here it is, unbridled, from Dana Milbank's Washington Post column January 26,2007:
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."
Thirsting for more? Read Joe Raymond or Digby on the subject.
Photo note: Bloodless clay feet peeking out from shroud - a thin, but effective metaphorophoto