Sorry, David, you got spun.
Yesterday, we flagged what David Gregory said on Hardball.
Now we’ve got the transcript in which Gregory repeats the endlessly refuted GOP canard that Joe Wilson said Dick Cheney ‘ordered’ the trip to Niger …
The point here is that Wilson alleges that the trip was set up essentially by the vice-president, that Cheney knew that he was going and knew of his findings. So the vice-president did have a personal interest in saying, Whoa, that was not the case. And in fact, that was not the case, that the vice-president ordered him to go or arranged the trip. And there`s a big controversy about whether he was ultimately briefed on the results.
If you’re not familiar with the backstory, here’s a detailed de-bamboozlement.
The short version is that Republicans came up with a fake version of what Wilson said so that they could refute it. Classic strawman argument.
