Chris Matthews: "What's your biggest worry?" -- Sy Hersh: "George Bush"

[sabra]

{Paraphasing from the Mathews interview on Hardball this evening}

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=844658c8-f365-4d27-8635-a41ae1ce8b24&p=Source_Hardball&t=c1150&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/&fg=

How close are we to war with Iran?

<snip>

CM: What's your biggest worry in the world? Is it Iran? Is it this Administration going to war with Iran? Is is a civil war in Iraq? Is it Musharraf inability to fight the Taliban on his own soil? What's your biggest worry?

SH: George Bush

{silence}

CM: OK, thank you very much Sy Hersh of The New Yorker. He has a huge story there about the Iranian situation. He's always fascinating because he's always right.

[Bjornsdotter]

1. Wow

...that's my answer too.

Cheers

[Nimrod2005]

2. I saw that, it was beautiful........nt

[donco6]

3. That pretty much sums up every word Hersh got in.

Yay Tweety! :sarcasm:

[spanone]

4. K&R

read the story here:

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070305fa_fact_hersh

[Blue Belle]

16. Thanks for posting the link!

My subscription to the New Yorker has run out and I'm too poor to re-subscribe!

[BeyondGeography]

5. We deposed a Sunni dictator so we could round up all the other Sunni dictators

in the region to fight Shiites, whose stature in the ME was dramatically strengthened after we deposed a Sunni dictator.

Other than that, everything's fine.

[Shakespeare]

10. That may be the single best summary on Iraq I've ever seen.

:applause:

[malaise]

6. It was the first time someone silenced Tweety in

ages. A beautiful moment.

[Supersedeas]

20. A pregnant silence -- giving birth to something more than superficial in Tweeties head...almost

[The Count]

7. That shall be my signature in my e-mail

[H2O Man]

8. It was a good

interview. Matthews continues to cover important territory on his show.

[jannyk]

9. Crap! I missed that and I so want to see it. Tweety silenced! nt

[H2O Man]

12. Then you are lucky

you missed it. Matthews was impressed that Hersch said that. He ended the segment by noting that Hersch is always accurate in his reporting. Hersch and Matthews are friends.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Was there the slightest hesitation or pause before he said it?

Or was his response so quick and sure that it seemed like no other worry was even close?

[bleever]

14. There was the briefest pause,

but the hesitation (I thought) did not come from doubt about his answer.

[bleever]

13. It was a good interview; Chris obviously has a lot of respect

for Hersch.

Me too. How many other people would have answered the last question that way, even if it's what they thought?

[TacticalPeek]

15. K&R

I hope Russert gets nasty White House phone calls again, and tells them to piss up a rope this time.


:kick:

[bleever]

17. .

:kick:

[lebkuchen]

18. Olbermann said Cheney scared the crap out of him

and that Condi was dumber than dirt.

That about covers all bases.

[sabra]

19. transcript here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17384580/

seems like I did a pretty good job :-)

[faithnotgreed]

21. kick for sy hersh again sounding the alarm