Just In: Matthews Won't Attack Clarke but Rather Will Use Him for Info

[BabsSong]

Just heard Matthews on Imus. Matthews said he isn't going to interview Clarke like Russert, etc. He says that this guy has valuable information and it's like getting a hold of someone inside the Mafia who will talk. He says he really is enjoying this book and started to blather pieces and parts of it which shook Imus (Imus is part of the hit squad and they don't want any more parts of this book talked about). Matthews says he wants to use Clarke to find out how Rummy and Powell and Rice and all these people work and operate. He says Clarke is valuable material because Clarke's life for decades has been to be there in all these meetings and observe. He says it's like having another John Dean. He pointed out that people like Dean, thus Clarke, always are hated because they reveal what's going on while people like Liddy become heroes because they shut their mouths and are part of the cover up (Imus said "real men"--yep, it's more macho to let scum get by with murder in this country than to speak up---we do love being morons in the dark in this country, don't we! blah). Anyway, Matthews isn't going to do the "when did you stop beating your wife" stuff. Oh, he said also that the people in this White House laughed at terrorism because they were all stuck in trying to bring up the Cold War again and rattle chains with Russia, etc. In other words, he agrees with Clarke's assessment. This could truly end up being THE interview and about goddamn time, too, if you ask me. I've been dying for more of the book to come out--when you think of it, the media has tried to squash all this before any of the other revelations from the book sneak out. This is Clarke's opportunity to get them and much more out in front of the public.

[ewagner]

1. Clarke will be on tonight?

I must have missed something here........

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. I think he will be on Weds night

Clarke will be on the Daily Show tonight.

[randr]

17. Clarke is on the Daily Show TONIGHT!

[chelaque liberal]

2. When and where will this interview happen?

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Real men talk.

The country always comes first and fighting against the numbers, as Clarke did, is what was called a profile in courage.

[BabsSong]

5. The interview was postponed from Monday night to Wednesday night

on Hardball. One other thing: Matthews says he's talking to people on the commission and pressing them on why they aren't demanding that Bush appear under oath because Rice is just a smoke screen. He doesn't want the one hour with two people but thinks he should be out front and center because of the seriousness of this situation. Matthews is smelling some blood---I know from things over the last couple years that things Clarke talks about are things that have bugged Matthews about this administration.

[Mari333]

6. Oh and we shall see...

I dont trust Tweety as far as I can spit.
Ill be happy if he does tho.
The questions should have been asked a long time ago, before the attack on Iraq, by every talking head chickenshit there was.
If the Tweet wants to save one ounce of credibility for his 3 years of whoring, he can start now.
wake up media, the blood is on your hands even more if you dont start asking the real questions and demanding tough answers.
(and we know they have been sitting on tons of information for years)

[rfkrocks]

7. Wow I couldn't make it thru Imus

I admire your courage-Matthews actually sounded good but the Imus crew has gotten on my nerves-they are true freepers (except for Imus although he will support the sockpuppet in the end)-the Imus crew was more troubled by the great Clinton pen** hunt of Ken star rather how many of our troops are mained,killed or scarred in a war fought for no reason.

[BabsSong]

9. As I listened I sensed that Tweety is dreaming of Watergate type

glory where the hard hitting news nose uncovers the dirt that brings down a President. Tweety is a self-absorbed bastard and he can't resist that he could be 'the one'. Obviously to just attack Clarke's credibility for the thousandth time makes his interview fade before the camera even goes black. He's a political junkie and he loves the idea of insiders revealing their secrets to HIM. This could be the interview the administration DOES NOT want. They don't want this expanded into criticism of the 'dream team'; they don't want the other things in this book to come out and so far the media has obliged them.

[rfkrocks]

10. You have got Matthews pegged

Very good analysis of the tweety one- hard to believe he worked for Tip in the Congress-BTW Tweety's brother is a rethug county commissioner here in PA

[Mari333]

13. I was hoping just ONE journalist or reporter would have his or her ego

start thinking about the fact that they would get a Watergate out of this.
Its sad, really, that it would have to be their ego to do it, rather then their conscience and personal compassion for the 9/11 victims and the dead and wounded soldiers and dead and wounded civilians in Iraq etc.
oh well.
http://www.bringthemhomenow.com

[Iceburg]

8. Clarke: Last strand of American DNA CAPABLE and WILLING

to tell the truth ...
I hope you are right because I have my cable providers number written on the back of my hand waiting to cancel the tube waves entering my home. I just wrote to Chris ...

Dear Chris,
I like many of your viewers,anxiously await your interview with Richard Clarke on Wednesday. For me it will be a watershed moment in journalism. If the flying monkeys in Washington have managed to persuade you of all people to participate in the destruction of one of the last strands of American DNA CAPABLE and WILLING to tell the truth, then its time for me to pull the plug on my TV/cable subscription.

American journalism has followed the flight path of the Do-Do bird -- all but extinct. I for one, will not pay for 24/7 right-wing infomercials.

I am trusting that you will be a truth enabler and not another truth disabler.
Respectfully,
XXXXX

[underpants]

11. Mathews must have actually read the book (good idea)

because it was very apparent that either Russert hadn't read it or was just following Rove's attack orders and trying to shoot holes in Clarke's story.

I'm 2/3 through and it is quite the read.

[BabsSong]

12. Yes, Underpants, he was quoting from it - and I do get the impression

from so much of this media that they haven't even bothered to pick it up - or they have been ordered to shut up about what more is in there. He was psyched about the thing. It's the kind of reading he loves and so he wants to have Clarke tell him more, more more. Other's wanted Clarke to shut up, say no more and prove he was a liar.

[mmonk]

14. Matthews has always been suspicious

especially over the Iraq war stuff. Maybe he is looking to hit a homerun.

[ewagner]

15. Oliphant's discussion with Imus

after Imus talked to Tweety....

gave a little more insight into the direction Tweety wants to take the interview. Condi is a side show. What the commission really needs to know is what the President was told and what the president did about it. He mentioned the PDBs and said the line of questioning should go something like: "On this date you were told this. What did you do about it?"

It was also very clear that Tweety wants to nail Wolfie and Rummy.

God I hope this works.............

[UTUSN]

16. Tweezer Is a De Facto Repuke Operative, Nothing More

Since CLARKE has been on all of the top rated shows, Tweezer is getting the sloppiest of seconds at best. It's a little late for him to be getting any kind of "exclusive" on this story. And his show is at the bottom of CABLE ratings. The only funny line in the entire SNL season a couple of years ago was Darrell HAMMOND as Tweezer, cracking himself up with, "For the...FIFTY...people who watch this show (Hardball, not SNL)..." And probably most of the people who DO watch his show are us Dems. The wingnuts don't trust him, although they LOVE using him as a TOOL. He is a political flunky in the hothouse atmosphere of D.C., where the staffers gain their own status from the status of the boss they work for, up or down, winner or loser. He admires "SUCCESS" above all. He started "turning" when RAYGUN beat the pants off CARTER and O'NEILL. The last time he was identifiably one of us was when his book Hardball was published, which was BACK IN 1988. He has been trashing all things Dem since the FAKE impeachment and thoroughly during Campaign 2000. He voted against GORE. He is LOST to us in ALL ways. He has never done a show on Enron. He is scum.

Whew, that felt good. I'm adding it to my saved drafts of similar rants on the same topic.