Mara Liasson reporting on Wes Clark right now (on NPR)

[AP]

Let's see what she does with this.

[Cush]

1. who?

[scarface2004]

4. mara s been taken over by pods!!

she s a piece of shit...fuck her!

[seventhson]

2. Will she ask about the "Stephens Group" where he worked in investments??

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2000/Jun-30-Fri-2000/business/13881326.html

These guys have tioes to BCCI and Harken and even UBS which purchased Enron, I believe.

[AP]

3. Suggests hoplessness of the rest of the field is the reason

so many are putting 'hopes and dreams" in Clark.

Then she says that he has been stumbling.

Contradicted himself on whether he'd have voted for Iraq war resolution. Has an expert on calling this a "first time mistake".

Now she's reaching back to the statement made on Tim Russert's show ("I had no evidence 9/11 connected to Sadam" so he couldn't, when asked by administration, back this line). Says he later contradicted himself when he corrected report to say nobody in WH contacted him regarding this.

She compares Clark to Perot.

Uses the word "amateur".

So, my conclusion, Liasson promoted Dean the first time she did an extended piece on him. She tried to knock Clark down a notch.

Now they're doing a wrap up of the week in politics and they have someone on saying Clark is doing well because he understands what Dean understands, implying Dean and Clark are great and the rest of the field are too conventional. (They're great because they're attacking Bush.)

They're talking about how WH wanted to run against Dean, but they're afraid of Clark because he runs well outside the NE, unlike Dean.