Posted on 06/04/2014 6:50:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Liberal MSNBC host Chris Matthews continued his attacks on the Obama administration for the trade of five dangerous Taliban prisoners for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, slamming the White House’s claim that soldiers who served with Bergdahl are “swift-boating” him and asking “where is the dishonesty in the portrayal?” of Bergdahl as a deserter.
Matthews, who strongly questioned the trade even while facts continued to pour in on Monday, has been the only host on his network so far to even remotely challenge the Obama administration’s narrative on the prisoner trade and Bergdahl’s history of service.
And on Wednesday, he angrily rejected the characterization by Obama aides that the right-wing and Bergdahl’s former comrades were “swift-boating” the Army Sgt. — a reference to attacks made by then-presidential candidate John Kerry’s fellow servicemen on his record during his deployment in the Vietnam War.
“I’ve had a few [White House] aides . . . refer to this, they didn’t expect the ‘swift-boating’ of Bergdahl, trying to bring back memories of the whole political fight with John Kerry back in 2004,” NBC reporter Chuck Todd told Matthews.
“Wait a minute,” Matthews responded. “Wait a minute. Swift-boating is totally misused here. Swift-boating is when you make up stories and misconstrue the evidence — you don’t like the way John Kerry opposed the Vietnam War when he came back and turned it into an attack on his service over there. Totally dishonest.”
“These are questions raised about a guy who left post, wrote letters, sent signals that he was leaving post as a matter of principle, he didn’t believe in the war effort,” he continued angrily. “And we don’t know what’s worse here, but the idea — where’s the dishonesty in the portrayal of Bergdahl so far? I haven’t seen it.”
“What’s been misconstrued about him so far?” Matthews asked. “I know there have been questions raised. I have those questions. Most Americans do.”
“Chris, I understand,” a nervous Todd responded. “This is not my portrayal. I’m simply reporting to you how the White House is viewing this.”
The tingle is gone.
The tingle is gone.
The “tingle” down his leg appears to have dried up.
Who is that man posing as Chris Matthews?
This is orchestrated propaganda.
If Obama has lost Chris Mathews, is he in big trouble with his liberal base?????
Actually, the White House is correct about the swift-boating, but they are relying on the same moonbat definition that Matthews does.
Just as with Kerry, the people who knew him best at the time are coming forward with the truth.
Team Clinton is on the move.
au contraire. I suspect the tingle he feels right now is a rash caused by p#ssing his pants now that he sees what a despot Obama really is.
Nope. It's the same thing. Eye-witness soldiers speaking truth to power and exposing a sham - that's swift-boating.Interesting how those soldiers from Vietnam were dishonest but these soldiers are not. How does he know? He must be a mind-reader
The tingle may be gone, but the drool is still there.
Wait a minute,” Matthews responded. “Wait a minute. Swift-boating is totally misused here. Swift-boating is when you make up stories and misconstrue the evidence —you don’t like the way John Kerry opposed the Vietnam War when he came back and turned it into an attack on his service over there. Totally dishonest.”
He should a little turpentine on that rash.Fix him right up.
No, Chrissy.
"Swift-boating" is when you expose a fraud like John Kerry who uses contrived, perhaps even traitorous, military service for political gain.
BB King - “The Thrill Is Gone”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXsusJ787sU
“Team Clinton is on the move.”
I was about to say that.
What 'story' was made up and what 'evidence was misconstrued' by the Swift Boat Vets regarding John F'n Kerry's dishonorable service in Vietnam?
I thought the swift boat veterans for truth, told the truth about John Kerry and Vietnam. It was liberals who claim that swift boating is a smear tactic. Liberals decided the inconvenient truths about John Kerry were really lies. But liberals thinking they were lies doesn’t make their attacks on the swift boat veterans credible.
Wonderful graphic, lol.
I actually saw him say this…he looks different with a spine, wasn’t sure it was Chrissy.
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