Mary Matalin: "It's Not Russert Who Hates Chris Matthews . . . . It's ME Who Hates Matthews"

If Patrick Fitzgerald is on the up-and-up, he'd put this witch on the stand under oath.

And Dick Cheney, too.

Cheney's mouthpiece Mary Matalin is still spreading the lie that Valerie Plame wasn't a covered CIA agent. [See transcript of Patrick Fitzgerald's press conference of 10/28/05, "...she was a CIA officer from January 1st, 2002, forward. I will confirm that her association with the CIA was classified at that time through July 2003...]

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After Matalin hung up, Imus spoke with Kelly O'Donnell of MSNBC News about Scooter Libby's trial:

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Matalin was *vexed* about what she heard. She called back into the show:

UPDATE:

Howard Fineman, you'll pardon the expression, weighs in:

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Matalin's style (dogged determination in demanding to have the last word stand as the position of record, no matter how false) is the formula for the Bush-Cheney offensive in getting their agenda realized.

Why wasn't Cheney questioned under oath? Why isn't he being called as a witness for the prosecution?

This case has all of the appearance of a dog-and-pony show run by a prosecutor who cast with his net too narrowly. For whatever reason.

Everyone involved will walk or be pardoned without the American people ever knowing the full extent of the conspiracy to commit this nation to a drastic shift in foreign and military policy, and chronic state of war.