Did anyone hear David Gergen this weekend?

My mom said she heard him on the radio so I'd be shocked if it wasn't NPR. She said he was great. Comparing Bush to Nixon saying that secretive organizations like the Bush WH become so isolated, live in an echo chamber, they don't get it when someone disagrees with them and can't cope.

I love it when they eat their own.

Gergen has been critical of the Bush White Houese. He actually seems to be one of the few talking heads who has some integrity.

I coulda sworn...

He's slippery though. There's an element of trustworthiness, but he's still quite conservative, and most of his opinions are filtered through an automatic "propriety" to sustain the right. Yes, he worked with Clinton, but so did Dick Morris, and lest we forget: Clinton is not a liberal.

he has never been a rabid right wing nutcase.

I started a thread on this, sorta, and his appearance on Tweet only served to shore up my premise, which is that President Cheney has the most to lose from this.

Why? because they're trying to muddy the waters as to who first requested that Wilson go to Africa.

He seems to imply that it was Cheney in his oped piece, but doesn't come right out and say it:

In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report.

Gergen and Jay Rockefeller disagreed on the source of the request, and Gergen didn't seem to want to take Rockefeller's assurance that that it came from Cheney's office.

After a break, Gergen, after putting on his glasses, READ from a piece of paper a quote from Wilson's piece, saying that the CIA sent him there. In trying to put the onus on the CIA (and keep Cheney out of the loop), he said a few things that contradicted his assertion I taped it, and Gergen said this:

"it came from the vp's office to the agency...."

then "the agency was the one who requested this report, not the VPs office, directly", "directly" being his point of emphasis.

I thought this was very important, as he was clearly scrambling to keep Cheney as far removed from this fiasco as possible.

Why do you think he was nowhere to be seen today? I'll bet he doesn't take any questions on this topic, and is now hunkering down somewhere in the bowels of all that new construction up on Mass ave.

He was on Tweety's show talking about how angry the republicans were that the democrats were trying the steal the election and said that there might be violence. This was about the time that Delay's goons were shutting down one of the recounts. He's an insider and I hope he goes down with the stinking ship.

Their first reaction is to circle the wagons and everybody tries to shield the president and end up just leaving him isolated from reality. According to "The Final Days," Nixon simply had no clue how deep the dung really was because he'd run off all the naysayers.

Nice Asian lady who says Gergen's a real nice fella. Guess he lives in my neighborhood.

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...is a consummate Yalie. His daughter also attends there with Barbara.

think they talked about it afterwards?

and where was Jenna?