While the White House seemingly stands by its man, NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory discusses the investigation, how the administration is expected to proceed, and how the root of the scandal is once again the controversial justifications for the war in Iraq.
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Is this a case of the curse of the second-term scandal?
No, it would be the curse of the first term. This happened in the first term. This is perhaps the curse of a controversial basis for going to war.
Really what this is about is the case for going into Iraq. The issue is really the debates about the war, the evidence that was used to go to war, and the claims that were made by this administration that proved to be false. MSNBC Link
Folks, this isn't blogs. This is our cowardly, cowering mainstream press - the White House correspondent for NBC. If these people are consciously making an effort to tie the whole package neatly together for the average American, this administration is ... TOAST.
Imagine this for the next few weeks, night after night on the news.
And he's saying our words for us, singing our song ... tying this whole Rove lying nightmare into the lies that dragged us into war.
Yes, perhaps I'm getting giddy early after the years of non-analytical spinelessness of the press corps, but this stuff now will reach mainstream America. Not just those of us who delighted in the past few days of uncomfortable press briefings for Scotty. This is Gregory translating his toughness of the past week with Scotty into coherent, digestible form for those Americans who (unlike us) aren't glued to CSPAN.