Rumsfeld slaps Russert around.
Just watching Meet the Press and the Tim Russert interview of Donald Rumsfeld. Russert played the clips of Rumsfeld answering the question about the armored Humvees and their lack of said armor at that time. Well, Russert played tiny clips which of course made Rumsfeld look bad. The quote about going to war with the Army you have and not the one you wished you had. Well Rumsfeld saw that one coming and you could see the papers coming out of his pocket. A copy of the transcript with his complete answer highlighted in yellow. Rummy elevated his voice and announced that those clips were unfair and unrepresentative of his answer. Russert said well it was representative and at that point Rummy interrupted the hemming and deflected the attempt to continue forward. Rummy went along and went said he was going to read the whole answer. Which he did. The answer sounded like an actual answer to the question and not the characterized flippancy as widely reported. A good answer. And Rummy said it was a complete answer, followed by more response from the four star at his shoulder and then pointing out to Russert again his framed question was a cheap shot. Nasty little cheap shot. I call that a TKO against the media guy. A thing of beauty.

It continued to be a bad day for Russert cause the follow up guest, Ted Kennedy, was also belligerant and not willing to take the usual slamming by the Media guy. That's when I love politics.