Posted 9:44 AM by Scoobie Davis

Last Night on Hardball
Salon.com's Joan Walsh was great:

MATTHEWS: What do you find of [George W. Bush's] remarks with Matt Lauer the other night educational? Anything new there?

WALSH: I don`t think there`s anything terribly new there.

He wants to make it clear that he stood up to Cheney. He wants to make it clear that he was really his own man, and so he reveals a few things that basically we already new about Libby. I find it -- the idea that Libby was a soldier on the battlefield left behind is just so self- pitying and so dramatic on Cheney`s part. But I guess I...

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Especially since Cheney made a point of never being a soldier on the field, with five deferments.

WALSH: Really. Really. Exactly.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: And so the common soldier on the field, or use that reference, like I`m an old battle hand. I have been out there as a warrior. I know how these...

WALSH: And we`re all out there taking fire, when we`re sitting in comfy offices and we`re outing a CIA agent and putting her in danger.

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