NBC Trumps Rice With Anti-Bush Widows (Matthews suggests sodium pentathol for Bush)

[misunderestimated]

Who are the most important judges of the investigation of what went wrong before September 11? The media elite have provided one consistent answer on who is in the political driver's seat: the relatives of the victims. But not all of them.

In recent weeks, the networks have interviewed a selected set of 9-11 widows and other relatives, and most have focused the lion's share of their outrage at the Bush administration. Viewers at home might assume that a poll of 9-11 families would find they almost uniformly blame Bush more than the terrorists and want him to lose in November.

Minutes after National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice finished testifying, Tim Russert told Tom Brokaw live on NBC: "But the real issue will be, how did the families of the victims of 9-11 respond to this testimony? They have been the driving force for the commission, for information from the White House, for Dr. Rice to testify under oath."

On this morning's Today and for multiple segments in a 90-minute post-Condi Hardball special on MSNBC, only four widows were singled out as judges of Rice?s testimony. The four were celebrated in the April 1 New York Times as "nonpolitical." NBC has emphasized Kristen Breitweiser, who has appeared in four Today interviews in four weeks.

Mrs. Breitweiser insists that she voted for Bush in 2000, but has wildly declared that "Three thousand people were murdered on Bush's watch." Times arts editor Frank Rich also noted how she tartly complained that a Showtime 9-11 docudrama failed to display President Bush reading to school children "while people like my husband were burning alive inside the World Trade Center towers" because it would have been contrary to "Karl Rove's art direction and grand vision." She's hardly "nonpolitical."

In fact, these widows are liberal lobbyists against the Bush team, even as they claim to speak for all 9-11 victim families. Even Tim Russert linked the widows and John Kerry as two forces who will now press the White House for a complete declassification of the much-discussed August 6 presidential daily briefing. (One weblog even urges Kerry to pick Breitweiser for veep.)

In their front-page widow story, the New York Times noted that liberal Senators Ted Kennedy and Charles Schumer were advising the widows to demand Bush and Cheney also answer commissioner questions (and speeches) on live TV. Print accounts have also noted these widows tried to get the 9-11 commission's director, Philip Zelikow, fired for being too close to Condi Rice.

(NBC wasn't all alone today in the anti-Bush widow department. On ABC's Good Morning America, widow Beverly Eckert was charging "Everybody's basically been covering up, I think, for the administration, this whole Washington scene.")

In March, 9-11 relative Ernest Strada sounded a different note, telling Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball that "anybody can be a Monday morning quarterback." Strada says he told Bush at a memorial event: "Mr. President, you are on the right side of the issues. We're with you 100 percent. Forget what the media says, the country believes in you." Is it any wonder he didn't get to debate the Kristen Breitweiser crew on this important occasion?

[misunderestimated]

This morning, Matthews said the President and Vice President should be questioned in separate rooms like suspects are questioned in different cells suggesting that their plan was to not tell the truth. Further, Matthews suggested sodium pentathol should be used. This was during his conversation with the "non-political" widows when he asked them what their thoughts were on why Bush and Cheney insisted on being interviewed together (maybe were they afraid of being misquoted?). The entire scene made me sick and I turned the TV.

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[misunderestimated]

Sorry, I included the URL but it did not post for some reason. The link to the above is
http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2004/fax20040408.asp

[cripplecreek]

I suggest electroshock therapy for Matthews.

[misunderestimated]

Could you include this link to the article posted above? For some reason it did not post though I entered it. Thanks!

http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2004/fax20040408.asp

[rageaholic]

The Al Kaida problem was left unsolved for 8 years by Clinton. He left it in the White House like a pair of soiled underpants for Bush to clean up.

If Bush has to shoulder the responsibility for 8 months of inaction, why don't the Dems have to shoulder 8 years of neglect?

[facedown]

Matthews is rabid.

[My2Cents]

Lobotomy comes to mind.

[misunderestimated]

I used to be a fan. I can't tolerate his anti-Bush bias any longer.

[My2Cents]

He even foams at the mouth.

[ken5050]

As I wrote on anothe Matthews thread...I seems that nobody is wtching him except a few Freepers who have a morbid desire to elevate their BP to excessive levels.....his ratings are NOGAS..( no one gives a s**T)

[cyncooper]

Yes, I posted on another thread that I saw just a bit of this but a little is all it took to get the gist and it happened to be the part you point to.

I felt the widows came off as petty and unreasonable and I do not think the country as a whole sees the commission's job as satisfying the whims (impeach Bush) of this extremely small, extremely bitter group. (Although a select few commission member see themselves that way, and thus Matthews and his ilk pick up the ball and run with it)

BTW, I do not believe Breitweiser's assertion that she voted for Bush. I just don't find her credible.

[misunderestimated]

I know they were low but are they going lower recently (as in the last month) or higher?

[Steven W.]

She is so consumed with ugly hatred I actually feel no sorrow for the woman, quite frankly.

[Right_in_Virginia]

In recent weeks, the networks have interviewed a selected set of 9-11 widows and other relatives

They need to go away now. Really. They're bringing dishonor to the memory of their "loved one".

[MJY1288]

I recommend a lobotomy for Chrissy Matthews

[cripplecreek]

I allways enjoy when Pat Cadell is Matthews guest. Cadell doesnt let the media bias slide and hes a democrat. Cadell once told Mattews that the media was a wing of the democratic party and only a moron could miss that fact.

[ken5050]

Lower, and lower....and lower....also, FWIW, it hurts because NBC canaballizes its audience...today, the network covered the hearing, as well as MSNBC and CNBC....and the same talking heads are on all three shows...Matthews must have some very interesting pics of Bob Wright in very compromising positions...

[misunderestimated]

What was really disgusting was Matthew's attempts at leading their answers to his question "why do you think they insist on testifying together?" with his separate cells interrogation comment and his comment about sodium pentathol which was way over the top and highly unprofessional. I was looking for a script but I doubt if MSNBC posts the script for this segment that they will include these outrageous comments from Matthews. We'll see.

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[CholeraJoe]

(Matthews suggests sodium pentathol for Bush)

CholeraJoe suggests euthanasia for Matthews. Some people are too stupid to live.