According to a source close to Wilson, Matthews said, "I just got off the phone with Karl Rove, who said your wife was fair game." Matthews told Newsweek: "I'm not going to talk about off-the-record conversations. Consider this paragraph. If true;
- Rove should be fired
- Mathews disclosed a confidential sources (Rove) to Wilson and now Mathews is hiding behind confidentiality. Mathews should be shunned.
If it is true, though, why did Wilson backpedal on his accusation against Rove?
This is the fishiest 'quote' I've heard in ages. Someone says that Wilson says that Matthews says (but Matthews refuses to confirm or deny) that Rove says..." This doesn't fall under any respectable category of evidence I've ever heard of - it's worse than gossip.