Why Brit?
Mary Matalin says that by going to Brit Hume for yesterday’s interview, the vice president’s office wanted to avoid the “grandstanding” of a press conference. “Everyone asks the same questions so they can get on their networks,” she tells Howard Kurtz.
Of course, there’s a unresolved question of whether this interview resolves anything: “Going to Brit Hume doesn’t solve Dick Cheney’s crisis problem,” said Lanny Davis, a Democratic lawyer and damage-control specialist. “It’s not because Brit Hume works for Fox, because Hume is a tough reporter.
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