We see that sort of nonsense statement fairly frequently from extreme Lefties. They really, really don't want a piece of that action.
BTW, I love the way Victoria Toensing keeps getting back to the "these people are confused" theme, which is really a nice way of saying they haven't a clue.
My favorite Victoria quote:
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you both about the motivation of prosecutors, all right?
If you‘re up against, whatever case it is, as complicated as this is, this leak case and it has to do with the war and the argument for the war somebody challenged the argument...
(CROSSTALK)
TOENSING: It doesn‘t.
It has to do with whether somebody violated the criminal law and gave a name of an undercover agent as defined by the law and whether that person knew that she was undercover.
MATTHEWS: And what would be the motive for doing that?
TOENSING: Look, go back in time and just think about this a little bit.
When Bob Novak wrote his column it could just have easily been framed as he, Bob Novak was exposing nepotism. But it didn‘t happen that way because the press didn‘t like President Bush and framed it all for poor Joe Wilson. If a wife gets a husband an assignment and he doesn‘t have any experience in WMD and he doesn‘t have any kind of senior experience in the country, Novak thought he was exposing nepotism.
MATTHEWS: Yes?
TOENSING: So why would every good reporter in town...
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: Because the dispute between the people who have been called back before this grand jury, Karl Rove, the chief of staff to the vice president—I‘m sorry, Scooter Libby and Karl Rove have been called back, because the issue is about Joe Wilson‘s statement in the press, which started this whole thing that case for the war in Iraq was groundless.
TOENSING: Chris, you know what was happening with reporters at that time. And you weren‘t one of them because I‘m not—that‘s not what you do, but the written press was going around saying, why Wilson? Why Wilson? And they were calling all over. There were probably a dozen reporters around here saying, why would they pick that idiot because he wasn‘t well thought of, and we all know that, and if it wasn‘t for ...
MATTHEWS: Well, right, but that was a good way to discourage the trip, and fairly so. A fair criticism of the fact he was picked by his wife for a trip.
TOENSING: So when somebody says his wife picked him, that would be fair game to get out. Nobody—Novak never ...
MATTHEWS: But the fact is the White House subsequent to this disclosure by Joe Wilson redacted, rather, they withdraw their claim of the 16 words in the president‘s state of the union. Ari Fleischer did that, Stephen Hadley took the hit for it.
So whatever you say about the reason he was picked for the trip, the result of his trip back from Africa was to basically discount the argument that there was a deal between Saddam Hussein and the government of Niger. And that was a fact of life.
And it‘s—by the way, it is to do with the war because that‘s what the result of the trip was. Later on we have this legal case. But the trip was to prove there was not—prove one way or another whether there was case for war or not.
TOENSING: But can‘t you see the vice president—being in the vice president‘s office, and call over to the CIA why did you pick this idiot, as they learned that he was?
MATTHEWS: Right.
TOENSING: Oh, we don‘t know. George Tenet says I didn‘t do it. Oh my gosh, his wife did.