From the interview:
AMC: That's true. I think...and this is a rare case for the Bush administration. The more detail you get into with this story, the more clear it becomes not only did Rove not break the law, that by Washington standards, he didn't really do anything wrong, either. But again, this is a situation where the headline may sway people. I don't know if it will or not. This is certainly an inside the Beltway story.
CB: Do you agree with Hugh that it doesn't relate at all then to people out in the Midwest, or people in California don't care that Karl Rove was part of this story, Ana Marie?
AMC: Well, I think that they could care. It's really...the Democrats, for once, have a story where they don't have to do the explaining, that it's actually the White House's duty to try and explain the situation in such a way that it doesn't make it look like Rove did something wrong. And it's true. I think it's pretty clear from the E-mail at least that he sent to Cooper, that he didn't break the law. But to be on the defensive, where you're explaining the difference between breaking the law and doing something wrong, is a situation that the Bush White House doesn't want to be in.
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AMC: I think again, I'm just going to repeat myself, that the nature of cable news is going to be what benefits the Democrats in this case, if they choose to make an issue out of it. Because I can just sit here and repeat Karl Rove identified and undercover CIA agent, and then it's up to Hugh and his compatriots to kind of explain why that's not such a wrong thing to do.
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(AMC is Wonkette. Her point is, this is a BS noisebomb, and it only has legs to the extent that people only see and remember the initial NYT headlines.)
