Posted on 08/21/2004 7:52:57 PM PDT by Snuffington
TAM asks and someone delivers. Ed Moltzen offers up the 04.27.04 Hardball where Chris Matthews lets John Kerry spout out about President Bush's National Guard record:
MATTHEWS: What went out, it basically tracks what you did the other day on “Good Morning America.” And the question your staff put out, under your name, is, is Bush telling the truth, President Bush, when he said he had no special privileges or favoritism in jumping 150 places to get in the Air Guard in Texas?
What do you think about that? Is that something you care about? You want to know the truth?
KERRY: He ought to answer that question.
MATTHEWS: Is it accountable—should the president be accountable for skipping that—that physical when he was in the military?
KERRY: It‘s up to—it‘s up to Americans to decide.
MATTHEWS: Should he prove that he was in the Guard and actively involved in the Guard when he was out of town, he was in Alabama?
KERRY: Chris, as I—as I said, I‘ve never begrudged people the choice they made.
MATTHEWS: But your statement today asked for particular information.
KERRY: But once you—but once you‘ve made a choice, I think you have an obligation to fulfill the choice you‘ve made.
MATTHEWS: Is it relevant that you served in combat and faced enemy fire and the president of the United States did not? Is that a relevant fact, when picking a commander in chief for the next four years?
KERRY: Again, it‘s up to Americans to decide.
I'm still not done. Here's some innuendo about Bush and Cheney testifying befor the Sep. 11 committee:
KERRY: Well, everybody bought into the intelligence. How—what bothers me about this administration is they‘ve even fought the effort to get to the bottom of why the intelligence was bad.
I mean, when Roosevelt was president and Pearl Harbor took place, it was almost instantaneous that he appointed a commission and said, “We‘ve got to know exactly what happened.”
In the case of this administration, not only did they fight against it, they‘ve stonewalled it. They wanted to terminate it early. And now, for some unknown, unbelievable reason, the president of the United States actually has to testify with the vice president at his side. I don‘t get it.
MATTHEWS: Do you think he‘s—he‘s afraid that his testimony won‘t jive with the vice president‘s?
KERRY: You‘ll have to ask them what the real reason is. I noticed in his press conference that he certainly didn‘t answer that question.
MATTHEWS: I mean, they‘re not the Menendez brothers. I mean, they don‘t have some major crime to hang—hang up. You were a prosecutor. You just brought me into an area of great opportunity here.
If you had two witnesses, two material witnesses, you had two, even defendants, and they said, and they were accused of operating together in some sort of theft or whatever, and they said, “Can we testify together?” What would you have said as a prosecutor?
KERRY: Well, first of all, I don‘t like the analogy you‘re making to the president and vice president.
MATTHEWS: Well, I make the analogy, but generally, in terms of human nature, do you think people have good reason for wanting to testify together?
KERRY: Fundamentally, I think you always want people to testify on their own two feet, standing alone. And obviously, you want to be able to see what the different views are...
MATTHEWS: But he says he never makes mistakes. So why would he be afraid to do it alone?
KERRY: Ask him.
Are any of these accusations any worse than what Michelle Malkin said? My how Matthews keeps Hardball clean. It's so clean the muds still dripping off it.
Guess that chrissy did not have to take off the next day after that interview.
PRIYA DAVID, MSNBC POLITICAL REPORTER: Well, according to John Kerry, nothing. He released a statement today...
MATTHEWS: Well, according to anybody, what‘s it mean?
DAVID: ... saying, you know, Don‘t worry about it...
MATTHEWS: What‘s the word choice?
DAVID: Well, you know, what they‘re trying to do is frame that John Kerry is weak. That‘s the message that they‘ve had all along.
MATTHEWS: OK, let‘s get some...
DAVID: It‘s a very typical message.
MATTHEWS: ... straight—Dick Cheney is probably the man most responsible for the fact we‘ve had troops in Saudi Arabia for 10 years. That‘s what drove the terrorists to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They were angry that their own holy lands were besmirched—basically, dumped on by the United States for 10 years.
That sensitivity might have saved us a horror, knowing how angry those people would be about us putting our troops, 10,000 troops in the holy land near Mecca and Medina. Why is it stupid to be sensitive to those kinds of insults to a country?
DAVID: Right, but when you...
MATTHEWS: It caused people to kill themselves to come get us.
DAVID: And kill us when they come here. I mean, when you hear the Cheneys speak out on the stump, though—and this is both Lynn and Dick Cheney when they‘re out there—they say there‘s something wrong with those people who think there‘s something wrong with us. Nothing‘s wrong with us. Something‘s wrong with the rest of the world. We don‘t need to be sensitive. We need to destroy these people.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
DAVID: This is the language they use all the time.
MATTHEWS: Well, unfortunately, it begins to sound like na-na-na-na-na-na in the schoolyard, calling people fruits and words like “sensitive.”
And I again appologize to everyone for every having defended Chris Matthews.
Chris Matthews is the Jerry Springer of political talk shows.
bttt
After reading it, my opinion of Matthews is just about on par with Michael Moore.
Disgusting boils on America's a&& that need to be lanced and flushed with antiseptic.
Both are infections that are infecting the weak-minded voters.
He is a drunk that is a screaming,spitting,woman abuser because Kathleen Matthews wears the pants in the family. Kathleen gives him his orders and he follows them like a servant. Time for Chrissy to detox again.
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