Howard Kurtz's wife on Hardball now, talking about Bush/Intel commission

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Sherry Annis, rightwing media shill (I mean consultant), is on vs. DeeDee Myers, discussing McCain's presence on dumbo's new commission.

you all know the brouhahah stirred up, and ignored in the media, regarding Kurtz's many conflicts of interests, including apparently close ties to groups affiliated with his wife's company.

IIRC, such conflicts include the appearance of many wingnuts on his laughable media analysis show at CNN

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1. Dana Priest on, too, with Norah ODonnell

OD talking about how Bush got NO bump from SOTU, is "suffering in the ratings"....."off kilter, made several about faces," now is deciding whether to start using their 170 Mil warchest to "start attacking" now, instead of in the spring

Tweet just mentioned Luti and the OSP.....he couldn't bring himself to say OSP without stumbling....could tell he DIDN'T want to say it!

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2. Tweet asks Annis if there will be positive response on Monday

she says, of course; Dumbo "is not a cowering type"

ODonnell says Bush "does NOT like to be questioned," and the TONE he uses in anwering future queries will be very revealing.

she made a snide remark just before that about how infrequently he ever DOES take questions from her or her colleagues.

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3. rerun is on

Norah OD just called Russert a tough questioner.

touted HOUR long, didn't mention it would be taped.

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4. tweet just said

"THAT's going to look good in the history books: the US attacking some country because it hoped to be powerful some day"

this was in answer to Dana Priest saying that the new defense will be that we HAD to attack Sadam before he got WMDs, cause he WANTED them, and, if he ever got them, he'd use them.

pre-Mushroom cloud defens, yes?

[Bozita]

5. Howard's a whore ... it runs in the family

Howie and Sherry were programmed for one another.

Ain't love great?

[salin]

6. Please tell us if the phrase: Office of Special Plans

is used. Trying to keep track of where it shows up.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. This thread says it was

on this edition of Hardball, by Matthews.

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8. yes, it was. I taped this one...let me run it back

hold on

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9. just listened to a few minutes of this...VERY VERY GOOD stuff!

Tweet is doing one of his "Sane Sybils" tonight, really giving it to Mrs. Kurtz, not buying a SINGLE thing she's saying, and she's very weak, very unconvincing, very insubstantial appearing. zero gravitas...looks to be 15 years younger than Howie, at least.

Is she his trophy girl?j seriously; she looks about 30.

I'd like to transcribe this excellent segment, but I'm fading.

do they have transcripts

well worth it, if so

have only seen him like this once or twice.

here's one exchange, then I'm off:

CM: Sherry, you've worked with people like Shwarzenegger. Is this like AS saying, "I'm going to create a commission to look into my messing around with women....my groping?" It's not really credible if he picks the commission, is it?
above is almost word for word

below, close paraphrase
SA: It/s credible because he's going to be able to say "I'm going to be able to talk about this no matter what; I'm going to--I'm taking charge here. He doesn't want to say "I'm leaving this to someone else." He wants to show that he's leading this. Now--he's--PAUSE--

THEN, the HIGHLIGHT--Tweet interrupts at exactly this point, where she gives him the in, and says THIS:

CM: "Leading what-->the COVERUP?"

hard to top that....give the woman credit, though, she didn't bad a lying eye......just blathered on, looking like one of Mike Tyson's defense lawyers from that point on.

a moment to cherish

[Isere]

10. How right you are!

She is nothing more than a twit! The Twit and the Tweezer! What a combo!

When she was on the tube defending Schwarzenegger it was quite evident that she lacked substance. Why are they recycling her once again? Must be an In-Group thing.