I watched this interview and the best part was watching Matthews snarl at his off-screen assistants after Laura goaded him into reading Greenspan’s direct quote from his book. It was great television!! Matthews was clearly agitated that Laura forced him into reading directly from the book. He didn’t want to do it, clearly.
Unlike most Hardball guests, Laura didn’t let Chris get away with making a false allegation. Greenspan did not write that Bush admitted he went to war over oil, as Matthews charged. And, after the book’s PR machine tried to sell the idea that Greenspan accused Bush of going to war over oil, Greenspan issued a statement correcting that false impression. Laura told Matthews he knew that to be the case.
I loved seeing Matthews taken to the mat. It doesn’t happen often.
I loved Laura going after David Schuster too. Most of the time, Matthews presents Schuster’s long winded reports and no one gets the chance to rebut them with facts, or even criticize his accuracy.
Laura is hawking a book, doing a great job of it too, even going into the Hardball snakepit. I think POWER TO THE PEOPLE is still top ten. LOL as I imagine how that irritates the helloutta Matthews
Greenspan told Bush the war "should be about oil" and Bush rejected this !
Go read what Greenspan said on Fox yesterday and he said the President rejected his notion that the war on Iraq should be about oil and Greenspan told him he could make a good case on going to war for oil but said Bush told him that's not the correct reason..