Marcy Wheeler does what Gregory doesn't...David Shuster should have been conducting this interview, but you know Rove would never submit to that. And this segment shows why Cheney used MTP for message control. Get a question, spin---spin---spin---on to the next question.
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Not surprising, when David Gregory had Karl Rove on Meet the Press this morning, he never called Rove on any of Rove's misrepresentations. That's par for the course, on NBC. When Russert had Bob Novak on, he didn't call him on any of the misrepresentations, either. (Though to NBC's credit, they had Matt Cooper on to smack Karl around after Karl was gone.) Of course, both Russert (as Libby's fictional source for Plame's identity) and Gregory (as one of the people whom Ari Fleischer leaked Plame's identity to) are key players in this story. They're not exactly reporting from a position of comfort or clarity.
Here's the transcript, with my annotations:
