David Gergen Defends Cheney Story
David Gergen defends Cheney Story David Gergen defended himself on Reliable Sources today when Ron Brownstein opined that journalists are being irres
David Gergen defended himself on Reliable Sources today when Ron Brownstein opined that journalists are being irresponsible in reporting that Dick Cheney could be a target.
BROWNSTEIN: Everybody has got to take a deep breath. I mean, look, the press does a lot of things well. I'm very proud of the way we covered Harriet Miers. There is a lot of other things we've done well, but this is not -- this is not the best moment....read on
GERGEN: Depends on your sources. They were confident of their sources, and, yeah, if you got very low-level sources, that would be irresponsible. If you have got somebody up the chain, somebody high up in the Republican circles and you got a couple of people saying that, that's a very different proposition.
Atrios finds that Gergen was very good today as well.