MoDo has a new name for Biggus Dickus, Shooter, to go with his Chief of Staff's nickname, Scooter.
Maureen Dowd: Hunting for a Straight Shooter:
I love it when Shooter and Rummy call us unrealistic for trying to hold them to standards that they set.
Maybe I've had Dick Cheney wrong all along.Maybe he's not maniacally secretive, manipulative with the truth and contemptuous of democratic institutions. Perhaps he's cruelly misunderstood in his heartfelt desire to disseminate information.
It was at the end of his interview with Brit Hume, when Shooter talked about Scooter, that his eagerness to share important facts with the press and public — a well-concealed trait in recent days, years and decades — burst forth. He pronounced himself a Great Declassifier.
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Rummy misses the point: we're supposed to be the good guys, the beacon of freedom. Our message is supposed to work because it has moral force, not because we pay some Lincoln Group sketchballs millions to plant propaganda in Iraqi newspapers and not because the press here plays down revelations of American torture. If the Bush crew hadn't distorted the truth to get to Iraq, it wouldn't need to distort the truth to succeed there.“Ultimately, in my view,” Rummy concluded, “truth wins out.”
Bad news for him, and his pal Dick.
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