Feingold Pulls a Chung

Years ago Connie Chung roped Newt Gingrich’s mom into revealing that her son had called Hillary Clinton a “bitch” by suggesting her question about what Newt thought of the First Lady was “just between you and me.”

Turned out it was between you, me and everybody else.

And now this: Yesterday on “Meet The Press,” Sen. Russ Feingold revealed that he asked a top general in Iraq when he thought troops should be withdrawn from Iraq. Problem is, at the time he asked him, it wasn’t on “Meet The Press.” Nor was it for the press.

Mr. Feingold?

I said, "Off the record, your own view, would it help if we had a timeline to let the world know that we're not staying here forever?" And this is what he said, verbatim. He said, "Nothing would take the wind out of the sails of the insurgents more than having a timeline in place."

Remind me: what does “off the record” mean? Just whisper it to me. I swear I won’t tell anybody. Verbatim.