Matalin's Finished Too ---pix->>>

[Stephanie]

She really screwed this one up and she knows it. Matalin is toast.












Vice President Dick Cheney, center, walks back to his office in the White House after doing a television interview, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006, in the Esinehower Executive Office Building. At right is Mary Matalin, Cheney's former communication director. Man a left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060215/480/fb0efcb3009a4d0aba36db6821a65821

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/13/AR2006021300452.html?nav=rss_world

White House Deferred to Cheney on Shooting
In a Break With Policy, Hunting Accident Was Not Disclosed for 14 Hours
Tuesday, February 14, 2006; Page A01

<excerpt>

The White House typically releases information immediately on incidents involving the president's personal life, such as bike-riding accidents, to avoid the appearance of covering up embarrassments. It is highly unusual, if not unprecedented, for the White House to allow a private citizen serve as its de facto spokesman.

But current and former aides said the White House rarely imposes its practices, especially on press matters, on Cheney. The vice president's office often operates autonomously in a manner that many top White House officials are reluctant to challenge.

In this case, Cheney worked with family members and former aide Mary Matalin on how to handle the fallout of the shooting accident, said a person close to the vice president who demanded anonymity to talk about internal discussions.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. How Did She Screw Up? nt

[Stephanie]

2. Um, she had the ranch owner release the story to a local paper?

She had Cheney hide out for four days before speaking about it. Didn't release the news to the WH press corps. Withheld it for 14 hours. Etc.

[WI_DEM]

22. Um, thanks for the clarrification

[Stephanie]

36. um, I guess you haven't been following the news.

[bling bling]

42. um, a great way to discourage people from asking questions

in the future is to be condescending in your answers. that's helpful.

[babylonsister]

4. She probably counseled Cheney on not talking, and look where

that got him. :shrug:

[Ilsa]

5. I think she originally suggested to the media that this was a

private matter between Cheney and a private citizen on a private ranch, as if that made a difference. I htink she was actually trying to cover for Cheney's original screw-up in handling this.

[mikeytherat]

14. She also stated Dick did nothing wrong; in fact he did everything right

Which means he shot Whittington on purpose. Now, I know that's not what she meant to convey, but she did, and it's inexcusable for the Veep's PR flack to be that sloppy.

mikey_the_rat

[librechik]

28. somehow I don't believe Matalin was hands-on in this

I'm pretty sure Cheney put on the iron gloves and issued the rubber ball gags himself on this one. Matalin, as much as I detest her, surely is more professional than this incident made her look.

I want to think that, anyway, god knows why...

[Stephanie]

37. Did you read the snippet from the article above?

She's the one that crafted the PR strategy on Saturday night. Might have been Dick's decision to try to hide it, but she was the PR person on this one.

[Ilsa]

38. She did that on Saturday night? What was SHE drinking?

Maybe she just wanted to get it over with so she could party down with Mardi Gras James Carville so she said anything that came to mind.

[librechik]

44. ok, end benefit of the doubt with Mary

she didn't deserve it anyway.

[CottonBear]

3. Matalin has no shame.

BTW, was DeadEye Dick's pink tie supposed to make him seem "nice"?

[NanceGreggs]

11. If it was tied REALLY, REALLY, REALLY tight ...

... I'd think he'd look very NICE!!!!!!!!

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Pink tie, nice catch

They don't miss a DAMN thing do they?

[Twillig]

40. I dunno, take a look at

Matalin's necklace of bronzed testicles..Not a good choice if you wanna show fake contrition.

:rofl:

[txindy]

19. I wondered the same thing! LOL! And, nope, it didn't work. n/t

[bullwinkle428]

27. "See the pink tie - that means I love the queers!"

"Even the ones outside of my family!"

[yodermon]

6. cheez she looks like living death in those pix, n/t

[babylonsister]

7. Matalin: rode hard and put up wet, and it shows! nt

[blm]

8. Good - I think media's been protecting her on Plame, too. This is why

I didn't trust Carville from 2003 thru now - he KNEW they outed Plame and even wrote glowingly about Rove KNOWING about his treason.

Carville had too much to protect and wouldn't want an open-government Democrat in power, either.

[glitch]

25. I couldn't agree with you more about Carville. nt

[wicket]

9. What is James Carville thinking???

n/t

[janx]

10. In another article (there are so many I'll have to try and find it),

it was mentioned that ROVE worked with Ms. Armstrong.

[underpants]

15. The Armstrongs set Rove up with his first (only?) business-direct mail

LONG ties between the family and Rove. Basically this is the RW M.O.


Do some work for us we will set you up in a situation to make a lot of money and then you will be free to come back and work for us. Also you will have the "Rich so he must know what he is talking about" cover.

Same thing as the K Street Project

[janx]

20. No, I mean to cover the situation! Here:

Cheney told Hume that Ranch owner Katharine Armstrong made the call to the local media because she was an "acknowledged expert," had "grown up on the ranch," had been a former official with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, along with being an eyewitness to the shooting. Cheney also said that Rove communicated with Armstrong since he knew her, and had hunted before at the Armstrong Ranch.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Vice_President_Cheney_tells_Fox_about_0215.html

[underpants]

26. Oh okay

right I remember reading that. That doesn't actually square with the story that Dick talked to her and told her to tell the local paper, I think that is how this particular fustercluck story went.

[Stephanie]

16. right, I did see that

however the bush team is complaining that the cheney team screwed this up by not listening to them

[napi21]

12. The guy in the back is a SS agent. I know him!

I don't think I've ever seen him in one of Cheney's pic before, but he's been on the Cheney Detail since the Campaign in 2000.

[finecraft]

17. The Witch is on the Louisiana Recovery Authority

The agency that will oversee the rebuilding and reconstruction of Louisiana. She has never showed up to a meeting. She has never toured the destroyed parts of Louisiana. When she is on tv or the radio she never mentions that she serves on the LRA, or discusses hurricane related issues. As far as I am concerned, she is totally useless.

[underpants]

18. Looks to me like they brought he back in to take the blame

I thought she left his office a while ago.

I am sure she will take the blame and be paid handsomely for it.

[SoCalDem]

21. "Man a left is unidentified."

Man a(t) left is hidden by flag..no need to identify:)

[Catherine Vincent]

24. Is that Rove's brother?

[txindy]

23. So she might soon be leaving "to spend more time with her family?"

Those poor kids.

[Jacobin]

29. Carville's gonna get punched in the face for laughing at her

:rofl:


:rofl:

Couldn't have happened to a stupider trollop.

[mattclearing]

30. Who's the "unidentified" other guy???? n/t

[AlCzervik]

31. his stunt double?

[Sydnie]

33. I missed the interview today ... is that his lawyer on his left?

I hate it when work gets in the way of keeping up to the minute current, don't you?

[cliss]

47. Somebody said on another thread it's Dick

Cheney's look-alike.....for security reasons....you know.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. None of these people are ever done until they don't have media companies

anymore.

What the hell are Bill Bennett's qualifications for pontificating about ANYTHING now? That he once had a shred of credibility?

[deminks]

34. Cry me a river, Mary.

You are complicit in most of the crimes of this administration, if not all of them.

[Bluebear]

49. boo hoo hoo

[Dunvegan]

35. LOVE what Molly Ivins said about Matalin's piz-poor spin:

The buck stops... where?
Again, the White House can't face up to a mistake

Molly Ivins
Tuesday, February 14, 2006; Posted: 12:39 p.m. EST (17:39 GMT)

I am not trying to make a big deal out of a simple hunting accident for partisan purposes -- just thought it was a good chance to pay tribute to old Harry, a thoroughly decent man. However, I was offended by the never-our-fault White House spin team. Cheney adviser Mary Matalin said of her boss, "He was not careless or incautious (and did not) violate of any of the (rules). He didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do." Of course he did, Ms. Matalin, he shot Harry Whittington.

Go git 'em, Molly!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Stephanie]

39. Does she have a cold, or did Dick yell at her and make her cry?

hmmm....

[Swamp Rat]

41. The man on the left looks suspiciously like a quail.

:D

[Dunvegan]

45. Heck, SwampRat...you'd think Mary would have more sense to dress in...

...quail brown while waking with Cheney while he's under so much pressure.

Next thing you know Crashcart will suffer a PTSD flashback to the shooting, grab the Secret Service agent's gun, and "Go all quail huntin' on her azz."

[annabanana]

43. He said Armstrong was an eyewitness..

from the yahoo article (emphasis mine)

"Cheney said he had agreed that Armstrong should be the one to make the story public because she was an eyewitness, because she grew up on the ranch and because she is "an acknowledged expert in all of this"

But she said that she at first had thought that it was Cheney that was down..when she saw personnel running towards them..

-so which is it? -

[Garbo 2004]

51. She didn't see shit. She was in the car and the only saw Cheney's SS

men running to the scene and thought perhaps Cheney had another heart attack. This is according to her own account. So much for her status as an "eyewitness."

[Bluebear]

46. Couldn't happen to a more deserving piece of dreck. nt

[Beelzebud]

48. The fact that she is married to Carvile, makes not totally NOT trust him!

I can't trust James Carville for one second as long as he is married to this republican whore.

[lovuian]

50. Mary poor mary its hard to work with these guys

[rucky]

52. She can always take up the cause of freeing black people...

from the evil clutches of the civil rights movement.