Word: matalin
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...about 8 a.m. Sunday, a Cheney aide called strategist Mary Matalin, who regularly advises the Vice President. The aide read her a statement about the accident that Cheney had considered releasing before he decided to encourage Armstrong to go to the Caller-Times. But the statement "didn't say much of anything," Matalin says--not even that Cheney was the shooter. Matalin then spoke with a second aide and with Cheney's family and heard different versions of what had happened in the shooting. She decided no statement should be released amid the confusion. Matalin spoke with Cheney...
After that final nudge from the President Wednesday morning, Cheney retreated to his office with his longtime adviser Mary Matalin, chief of staff David Addington, daughter Liz and, later, his press secretary, Lea Anne McBride, to prepare. Matalin and McBride laid out all the questions being raised about the incident. Cheney just soaked it in "like a sponge," Matalin said, but not only did he not rehearse his answers, he also gave no indication of how he would respond. Matalin heard the full version of the accident only when he taped the interview...
...Sources tell TIME that the Vice President and his staff had prepared an elliptical statement about a hunting accident and were considering releasing it on Sunday morning. But Mary Matalin, the well-known Republican strategist and former counselor to Cheney, said the statement "didn't say much of anything." She said she thought it "would have invited hysteria," and that "a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness" would be preferable. Matalin said she talked with a Cheney staff person around 8 or 9 a.m. Sunday, and talked with the Vice President shortly after that, and that his concern was "what...
...Matalin also said people who don't understand the Vice President's reaction-especially his reluctance to go on camera to talk about the tragedy-have stopped thinking like normal people. "His audience is Harry," Matalin said. "Every time I've talked to him, it's always about Harry. ... He wasn't covering up. He was gathering facts, going to the sheriff. It wasn't Campaign 101 style. It was the objective of getting the information to the press, and attending to the sheriff and most importantly dealing with my friend. Sorry, those were the priorities. It got done...
...high-tech and laborious. The party chairman, Ken Mehlman, made appearances all over the state this weekend, including a stop at a phone bank in Fredericksburg that had made more than 40,000 calls in just a couple of days. Mehlman will be out again Monday, as will Mary Matalin. White House Political Director Sara Taylor canvassed the state as if she were a candidate herself, making appearances in Richmond, Charlottesville and the Shenandoah Valley. On Saturday, Kilgore appeared with Sen. George Allen, the presidential candidate and son of the legendary football coach, who was zinging around both the football...