Imus: “The jury says he (Scooter Libby) was lying, and Frank Rich says he was lying, and…”

Mary Matalin: “Frank Rich says Scooter’s lying?”

Imus: “Yes. Did you–Frank–did you read Frank’s column yesterday?”

Mary Matalin: “No.”

Imus: “He said icky stuff about you.”

Mary Matalin:
“Well I haven’t even been around for a week, I don’t care, so what. I
mean you know what, if you play this game you’ve got to–so what I
don’t care about that. Here’s what I care about, here’s what you should
care about, and here’s what any listener should care about.”

Imus:
“He said that Scooter Libby was part of this this White House Iraq
group along with Karl Rove, and you and others that were cooking up all
this stuff to get us into this war in Iraq, and that the reason that
Mr. Libby lied to those nice people at the Grand Jury and the other
nice men over at the FBI was because they didn’t want to–he didn’t
want everybody to find out what you guys were up to.”

Mary Matalin:
“Well as Frank Rich knows, or he should know, and maybe he doesn’t and
this is so–cracks me up, it was the New York Times that first wrote
about the White House Iraq group which was nothing other than a, how do
we communicate what our policy is here in a more effective way. We were
open and transparent about it, there was nothing that’s being cooked
up, there was no–there were multiple investigations on what was in the
intelligence when, and what did we know, and what did we act on and it
doesn’t–I don’t know why we had these investigations. I don’t’
know–they’re bi-partisan and the British have done them and we have
done them in the senate and we have come to several of them. We come to
the same conclusion that it was flawed intelligence but it wasn’t
manipulated. Why do we do this and then people like Frank Rich, who
know better, and people like Harry Reid who know better, go out and
just continue to say the same thing. They say the same thing that Bush
lied because it serves their political interest, it does not serve the
public interest.”

Imus: “So you’re saying, that Mr. Libby didn’t lie?”

Mary Matalin: “I’m
saying completely that he didn’t lie and I’m saying that this
media lynch mob that continues to say that there’s a Wilson smear, I’m
going to say this again for your listeners and if they want to know
more about this they can go to scooterlibby.com, scooterlibby.com and
drop off some money if they think that this is an unfair process.”

Imus: “How much money have you raised?”

Mary Matalin: “We’ve raised four million, we spent four million, and we’ve got to raise another four million.”

Imus: “Why would you even pay Ted Wells, the way he screwed this thing up?”

Mary Matalin: “He didn’t–I’ll say again that…”

Imus: “Well Scooter didn’t lie though, you just said that?”

Mary Matalin: “He didn’t lie, but the narrow…”

Imus: “The dog ate his homework. Didn’t he? Didn’t the little dog eat his homework?”

Mary Matalin: “You–Imus has been in a news blackout…”

Imus: (singing) “The doggy ate his homework, the doggy ate his homework.”

Later in the interview

Imus: (singing) “Scooter’s going to jail.”

Mary Matalin:
“You know what? Do you think that’s funny? Do you understand he has a
daughter Wyatt’s age, he has a son that’s fourteen years old, listen to
me…”

Imus: “He shouldn’t have lied than.”

Mary Matalin: “…Whose father–he did not lie.”

Imus:
“You know what’s a bigger outrage is that the administration has
allowed to go on what’s going on over there at Walter Reed and
throughout the Veterans Administration, that’s what’s an outrage. Don’t
you agree?”

Mary Matalin: “Well, they’re not allowing it to go on.”

Imus:
“Well they have allowed it to go on. If it hadn’t of been for Dana
Priest and Anne Hull and Bob Woodruff we’d never even know about it.
I’ve been to Walter Reed, have you been over there?”

Mary Matalin: “I’ve been over there, the Vice President’s been over there, the President’s been over there.”

Imus: “When were you over there last?”

Mary Matalin: “I’ve–not recently.”

Imus: “Okay. Have you been over there since the Iraq war started?”

Mary Matalin: “Yes I’ve been there since it started.”

Imus:
“Oh okay. I was talking to Chuck Schumer Friday, he voted for the war,
he thought it was a great idea like Hillary Clinton and all you other
guys did, and Chuck Schumer hadn’t been over there since the war
started, so, why don’t you go over there and see the consequence of
your vote? These kids with no arms, and no legs and stuff, or faces
melted off, or no ears or arms and that kind of stuff.”

Mary Matalin: “And then when you–it is horror as all war is horror…”

Imus:
“So I feel a lot more sorry for them than I do Scooter Libby’s family,
a lot more, you know, Scooter Libby shouldn’t have lied.”

Mary Matalin: “Scooter Libby didn’t lie, and he didn’t lie in the investigation that shouldn’t have taken place.”

Imus: “They’ll have a visitation deal at his prison, they can go see him on the weekends.”

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