[MJY1288]

This was a brilliant move by Steele, he used the anti-Bush Media to make a huge deal out of this, only to say they took him out of context.

He knows their weakness and used it against them :-)

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Also, this is a lesson to be learned , that there is no such thing as " off the record " with the media.
Yeah, they will tell you that the mikes are off, and " you can trust me, this will be off the record "
but, DON"T trust them.