Cross Posted at Media In Trouble
When did you know it, and more importantly, why aren’t you telling any of your Democratic friends? We are left on the sidelines, gleaning from press reports when one of our very own political operatives’ wife Mary Matalin was involved in the now implicated White House Iraq Group (a.k.a. WHIG).
Remember 2 years ago when HBO had that ill fated series K Street? Where the luxurious and lustrous life of lobbyists was intermingled with actors playing out sub-plots? I thought for sure George Clooney had a winner here.
Then around the 5th week or so, the leak investigation hit Carville and Matlin’s lobby firm. Matlin was probed, then Carville, and the series took a turn towards less of the reality of politics, and more towards the lives of the fictional characters.
Either way the show got cancelled and little was ever portrayed regarding the Leak Case. However, as of this week, it seems that the WHIG has come back into play here. So the scrambled camera shots in the HBO series we know were totally real, and we know that their is information that perhaps James Carville can help us figure out from his very own involvement.
So Mr. Carville, I am sure you have discussed the issue with your wife, what is it that she knows from being on the inside?
Why aren’t you helping those of us here in Left Bloglandia uncover such things?
If Matt Cooper can come clean I am sure you can do the same?
What’s really nauseating to me about Mary Matalin’s participation was that she was one of the very few — and KEY! — people in the United States charged with “selling” the war to the American people, members of Congress, and the media.
She is guilty of being a member of the key group that led us into a terrible war based on lies.
P.S. I thought I was the ONLY person who watched K Street! I LOVED that show … wish HBO would rerun it. I’d watch it twice-three times a week! 🙂
Count me in on K Street. Loved the debate prep with HoHo (first episode?) – but the show started getting overly peculiar with those subplots!
If Carville, Begala, From, and Reed get indicted along with the rest of’m it won’t bother me at all.
From this morning’s IMUS transcript:
Imus: “The information we have about Mr. Rove though is that apparently, at least the information in Time Magazine and other places, was that in fact, something did surface even by his own admission, that he, some conversation he had and some e-mail that he sent that he’d forgotten about, so we do know that?”
Mary Matalin: “I honestly don’t know what you’re talking abut. I am not following this. I don’t know what’s going on, nobody else knows what’s going on. Anything that has happened that’s been reported that people have said is the extent to which is what they know.”
Imus:”Well why wouldn’t you be following it? You’re up to your neck in this thing.”
Mary Matalin: “You wanna know why? It’s because I have two kids that take up a lot of time and I’m working other projects and in the sweep of history, this is completely and utterly meaningless. I am confident nothing, no crime was committed. I am confident by his own admission, that Wilson is not just a fool, he’s a liar or as he prefers to call it, uses literary flare. And you know there’s a real event going on in Iraq and that is there is a forward movement on a political process, there is forward movement on Iraqis securing themselves. That’s the real life. This is just idiocy and it’s a waste of time, that’s why I don’t follow it. I’m following what’s really going on in Iraq. There’s changing people’s life and making us more secure and I’m turning off the TV because I know I’m getting to this place where you’re going to start rolling your eyes.”
Ya, mmm. . .hmmm “in the sweep of history this is completely and utterly meaningless”. We’ll see. . .
I cross posted this on MyDD and Dkos as well.
Unbelieveably, peopel were defending Carville like I wanted him to throw his wife to the lions.
Is booman the only place where people are sane and can actually read between the lines?
All I am asking for is Carville to tell us what he knows. If his wife was so closely assocciated with the gate, then she would have been going to the Grand Jury a bit more often than she has.
But i don’t doubt for one minute that Carville and Matlin tell each other everything. Then go whore it out on K Street and the media.
Give me a BREAK. Carville is no fucking saint, and his wife (as demonstrated by her hypocrysy on this morning’s Imus show) is down right evil.
The odd couple indeed.