Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill stunned Katie Couric on the "Today" show this morning.
O'Neill in "The Price of Loyalty" contends the administration's decision-making process was often chaotic and Bush Cabinet meetings made the president look "like a blind man in a room full of deaf people."
On the Today Show, O'Neill said, "It was not my intention to be personally critical of the president of anybody else," but to cooperate with Suskind "on a chronicle of 23 months" in government.
O'Neill said a cover page for the documents might have suggested they were classified material but said that the legal counsel's office "sent me a couple CDs, which I never opened." He said he gave them to former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, the book's author.
He never looked at the material. Jebus, this man is beyond naive.
O'Neill told the "Today " show he was guilty of using some "vivid" language during his interviews with Suskind for the book. "If I could take it back, I would take it back," he said of the blind man quote. He also said he would vote for Bush...that Bush was the best man of the current crop...Couric was almost speechless.
The media now realizes that they've been had. Again.
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