11.09.2005

Pissy, Pissy, Pissy..er.. Judy, Judy, Judy

From DC Media Girl:

Judy Miller’s talking, and she’s hopping mad:
    Ms. Miller and her lawyers signaled that they were specifically displeased with and might consider legal action about Mr. Keller’s use of the word “entanglement” in his memo to describe Ms. Miller’s connections with now-indicted Vice Presidential aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. In the light of long-circulating gossip about Ms. Miller’s romantic life, that word choice led to widespread speculation and mockery. In a follow-up phone conversation, Ms. Miller described the insinuation as “completely untrue.”

    “Many people many other journalists—assumed that there was an improper relationship,” Ms. Miller said in Sag Harbor. “Many people assumed there was a sexual relationship, which is one reason I’m so insistent on that, on his clarifying [the word choice]. I’ll be diplomatic, O.K.? I call it a correction. And at The New York Times, we call it a correction …. But I’ll settle for a, quote, ‘clarification.’”...

    ...Ms. Miller continued: “I welcome a debate on the subjects that we should debate …. But to then let all this other stuff blur the core issue - W.M.D., alleged sleeping with sources, taking seats away from colleagues 15 years ago - to let all of that cloud the issue does our profession and those issues no good.”