Matthews, when interviewing the 9/11 foursome of wives: Ben-Veniste never asked Rice if the PDB warned of attacks, only what the title of the PDB was.
Transcript of that specific portion of the Q&A between Rice and that creep......
BEN-VENISTE: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6th PDB warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB?
RICE: I believe the title was, Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.
Now, the ...
BEN-VENISTE: Thank you.
RICE: No, Mr. Ben-Veniste ...
BEN-VENISTE: I will get into the ...
RICE: I would like to finish my point here.
BEN-VENISTE: I didn't know there was a point.
RICE: Given that _ you asked me whether or not it warned of attacks.
BEN-VENISTE: I asked you what the title was.
RICE: You said, did it not warn of attacks. It did not warn of attacks inside the United States. It was historical information based on old reporting. There was no new threat information. And it did not, in fact, warn of any coming attacks inside the United States.
That same wry, irreverant inflection is why I loved watching David Brinkley read the news all those years ago. Of course it helped that David Brinkley was most often correct.
I don't believe I lodged a complaint about partisanship per se, but idiocy.
You'll find no argument from me, but sensible is sensible and the right has more sense than the left and that's just the way it is. I'll take sensible.