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RUSH: Now, to show you how absurd it\u2019s getting, last night Chris Matthews on his show — Oh, take it back. Well, he did play Cheney last night on his show from an interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press, in which Cheney said he didn\u2019t know Joe Wilson; he had no idea who he was — which is true. When Cheney found out what was going on, Wilson comes back and starts saying all this, he called George Tenet, “What\u2019s this? Who\u2019s this guy?” and Tenet said, “Ah, well, ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da,” but it\u2019s apparent Cheney didn\u2019t know. But Matthews refers in this bite here from this morning on MSNBC to Cheney\u2019s appearance with Russert as essentially “false testimony before the American people.” So Randy Meier, the host, says, “Much has been said about what Vice President Cheney knew and when he knew it, talking about Joe Wilson on Meet the Press, touched off the whole thing about the criticism of the war in Iraq. Chris, I want you to listen to this.” He plays the video of Cheney on Meet the Press, 9-14-2003. Cheney says, “Joe Wilson? I don\u2019t know who sent Joe Wilson. He never submitted a report that I ever saw when he came back. I don\u2019t know Mr. Wilson. I probably shouldn\u2019t judge him. I have no idea who hired him,” and Russert says, “The CIA did.” Cheney responds, “Yeah, but who in the CIA? I don\u2019t know.” Then Meier says, “At the end there, the vice president acknowledges, ‘Yeah, it\u2019s the CIA but I don\u2019t know who in the CIA would have sent him.\u2019 Does that give the vice president some wiggle room in this whole issue?”<\/line> MATTHEWS: He\u2019s certainly not being helpful to Timothy Russert, who\u2019s interviewing him at the time. I mean, if you — he had been informed by Tenet, the head of the FBI [sic–CIA], that it was Mrs. Wilson who sent, who had a big role in sending her husband on the trip, he could have said that. He chose not to say that — and I have to tell you, I don\u2019t think he was being cooperative as a witness on national television, if you know two things: He told his chief of staff and his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, wrote it down, he said it was Mrs. Wilson who sent her husband on that trip, and then three months later he said, “I don\u2019t have any idea who sent him on the trip.” Well, that\u2019s not the whole truth.<\/line>RUSH: Well he\u2019s appearing on Meet the Press! Russert is not a special prosecutor. You don\u2019t take an oath when you go in there. What is this, “uncooperative witness to the American people on national television”? Unbelievable! I mean, that\u2019s where we\u2019ve gotten. Now you gotta hear this. This is Katrina vanden Heuvel, and she was on Matthews\u2019 show last night, Hardball. She\u2019s the editor of The Nation magazine, and I\u2019m telling you, folks, she looked like she was sucking a lemon on this whole show. Yeah, just puckered up. You know what you look like when you\u2019re sucking on a lemon, if you would do it. So Matthews says, “Katrina, do you buy the argument that the vice president knowingly kept under the carpet the knowledge he gained from a trip to Africa by Joe Wilson, disproving the case that there was a deal by Saddam to buy nuclear weapons from Niger?” And that was not disproven, by the way. That\u2019s another myth here that survives in the mainstream press. But here\u2019s vanden Heuvel\u2019s reply.<\/line><\/p>\n

HEUVEL: This is a day when we have learned the grim and tragic news that 2,000 soldiers, American soldiers have been killed <\/emphasize>in a war of choice. I think we need to connect the dots to that video of Dick Cheney, the lead cheerleader for this war, who manufactured — who is out there with manufactured evidence to basically frighten — one might say terrorize <\/emphasize>the American people into a war — which even Brent Scowcroft, George W. Bush One\u2019s national security advisor, is very clear as undermined our security. I think we need to connect the dots —<\/line>MATTHEWS: (interrupting) Okay, lemme, let me ask you — <\/line>HEUVEL: Well, let me and keep connecting the dots.<\/line>RUSH: Isn\u2019t it fascinating she can “connect the dots” to Cheney and all this, but can\u2019t connect the dots to Saddam Hussein? Can\u2019t connect the dots to Al-Qaeda, can\u2019t connect the dots to anything. So Matthews says, “Well, did you believe that Bill Clinton, you think Bill Clinton should have been kicked out of office for perjury and obstruction?”<\/line>HEUVEL: No, I don\u2019t. I think —<\/line>MATTHEWS: (interrupting) <\/line>HEUVEL: I didn\u2019t like a lot of his policies. However, I think the key thing is, —<\/line>MATTHEWS: What? What is it?<\/line>HEUVEL: No one lies to a special prosecutor, but if it\u2019s about national security —<\/line>MATTHEWS: Okay.<\/line>HEUVEL: — that\u2019s far more important —<\/line>MATTHEWS: Okay.<\/line>HEUVEL: — than a sexual relationship.<\/line>RUSH: So you see where they\u2019re going with their defense. “Ah, Clinton didn\u2019t do anything! It was about sex. In fact, he was being virtuous, protecting his wife, his daughter, from embarrassing circumstances. It was honor<\/emphasize>able for Bill Clinton to lie and commit perjury and take the heat, rather than admit the truth.” It\u2019s getting ridiculous because another guest on the show last night was John Podesta, who spent his entire time in the White House defending the indefensible and spinning lies. Podesta\u2019s job was to lie for a liar. Podesta was chief of staff to Bill Clinton. So Matthews says, “Now, we\u2019ve heard half a dozen, a dozen cases where they\u2019re out pushing a story that Joe Wilson\u2019s no damn good; his wife put him on this junket. Why did they take that risk if they weren\u2019t protecting the vice president against something really serious? I don\u2019t get it.”<\/line>PODESTA: Why they got so worked up I think goes back to the fact, uh, that they really were pushing this intelligence in a way that — that was unsubstantiated by the facts probably as they knew them in February when the state of the union was given, and I think they just — they just freaked out. The one thing we know for certain is that Scooter Libby and Karl Rove told Scott McClellan to go out and tell the American people they had nothing to do with this. They did that in September —<\/line>MATTHEWS (interrupting): We also know —<\/line>PODESTA: — we know that was a lie.<\/line>RUSH: Okay, so the drumbeat continues. (sigh) The hopes, dreams and prayers of the mainstream press continue to be worn on their sleeves, and it\u2019s gotten to the point now you go out and get the chief of staff for the Clinton administration to comment on the honesty and veracity of this <\/emphasize>administration.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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