Reply #51: put this on his tombsone, from Cathie Martin, during the Libby trial: [View All]

[Gabi Hayes]

As Martin rated their options, putting Cheney on "Meet the Press," NBC's Sunday morning talk show, "is our best format." Cheney was their best person for the show and "we control the message a little bit more," according to Martin.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/01/27/national/w093216S19.DTL&hw=

Martin replaced Mary Matalin in Cheney's office, fwiw

something like this for his headstone....

''Meet the Press is our best friend. We control the message a little bit more''....Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States*

*OK, I know he didn't say it, but it sounds better...truthiness is what we're talking about here, with M$M, right?

That's ALL I ever need to know about the man as a journalist

RIP, unlike....well, never mind

one last, from the same story, versions of which are all over the place, having to do with getting Tenet to take the blame for the original yellowcake story, in which they mapped out strategy for dealing with the media:

Top levels of the Bush administration decided that CIA Director George Tenet would issue a statement taking the blame for allowing Bush to mention the Niger story. Cheney and Libby worried Tenet would not go far enough to distance the vice president from the affair.


Libby asked Martin to map a media strategy in case Tenet fell short.


A Harvard law school graduate, Martin had succeeded legendary Republican operative Mary Matalin as Cheney's political and public affairs assistant. Matalin had brought Martin to Cheney's office as her deputy and trained her.


Martin offered these options in order:


Put Cheney on "Meet the Press."


Leak an exclusive version to a selected reporter or the weekly news magazines.


Have national security adviser Condoleezza Rice or Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld hold a news conference.


_Persuade a third party or columnist to write an opinion piece that would appear in newspapers on the page opposite the editorials.

note the TOP option for catapulting the propaganda was MTP. what else do you need to know?

and for those who seem squeamish about apparent gravedancing

the TRUTH is always appropriate. the only opinion I've expressed here is contained in the previous sentence and that one doesn't need to know any more about Russert as a journalist than the info I posted.