Posted on 08/25/2004 10:17:15 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
The MRC's Geoff Dickens caught this exchange, on Monday's Hardball on MSNBC, in which Matthews not only refused to admit his distortion of Malkin's point, but repeated it:
Matthews: "Welcome back to Hardball. Before we go to Dick Cavett, we want to get some final thoughts from Doug Brinkley and Stanley Karnow. Let me go to Doug Brinkley on a hot point on this program. Doug, there was a woman on the show the other night, Michelle Malkin or something, who was discussing in rather loose terms the idea that maybe John Kerry had purposely wounded himself to win a Purple Heart. Where would she get such an idea?"
Doug Brinkley: "Well, from the Internet, from talk radio. You know this is a right-wing August takedown on John Kerry, and rumors, and accusations, innuendoes flying. And that's just how, how gutter politics is played sometimes in America. It's a, I feel it is a completely irresponsible comment and she needs to apologize for making it. There's no evidence that says John Kerry ever shot himself."
Matthews: "Just a minute, Pat, we'll be back in a minute here. But do you want to say something?"
Buchanan: "Yeah, I do want to say something. Chris, I saw the show you did with Malkin. And there was, there was a misconnection there. She said-"
Matthews: "No, there wasn't. I asked her a dozen times to clarify what she was saying."
Buchanan: "She said, was it a 'self-inflicted wound'? And she said yes. And you were saying, was it purposefully done by Kerry? She should have said, no, it was the-"
Matthews: "Why didn't she say it when I gave her 12 times to do that?"
Buchanan: "Well, it was-"
Matthews: "Twelve times."
Buchanan: "Well, look, I mean-"
Matthews: "Just a minute, Pat."
Buchanan: "You can argue that with Ms. Malkin. But that, what she was saying was right from the book that it was a 'self-inflicted wound,' probably by a grenade that hit the rocks in front of Kerry."
Matthews: "Right. Of course we all know that kind of thing happens in war. The question is, was it purposely, did he purposefully shoot himself or not? That was the question that was being suggested by that discussion."
Buchanan: "I saw her and I do not believe she said it was purposefully-"
Matthews: "Watch the tape, okay."
"Self-inflicted" does not mean on purpose and no one in O'Neill's book, nor Malkin on the August 19 Hardball, ever said that Kerry "shot himself." Only Matthews came up with that slam at Kerry.
Yeah, like she's a nobody and he's so famous. He's got the hots for her--just admit it Chrissy.
Matthews was a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter and a staffer for Tip O'Neil. He's just one of the many Democrat operatives that the Lamestream media hires and presents as "journalists."
As for his rabid behavior, a friend of mine insists that Chrissy is on coke, but I think he's on speed!
<< "Way back, I used to like Buchanan, not any more. Like O'Reilly, they are not conservatives, they are CINOs."
Pat Buchanan isn't conservative? >>
No, he is not.
On so many of the contributing-to-his-platform aspects -- especially insofar as it effects union thuggery and trade and tarrif tax Luddism -- of Mr Buchanan's makeup as to be definitive, Mr Buchanan's ideology differs not one effective iota from that laid out in the handbooks of classic totalitarian socialism.
"He (Buchanan )does his homework"
I agree on this. He has a good memory. Most of the talking heads haven't done their homework and speak from ignorance. It is clear Buchanan has read book and has enough brain power to keep a few facts straight in his head unlike the others.
Doesn't this expose her to rabies?
Remember... he was foaming at the mouth at the time.
She didn't say it cause Girly-Man Mathews incessently interupts anybody who does not parrot his liberal line. I heard that interview. Mathews is a lying sack of fecal matter.
Hi zip. See ya Saturday?
Oh, yeah.
Wellll, maybe she could have taken her chair and hit him over the head with it. Betcha she felt like it. Hahahahahhaha!
PIG
I heard 2 pig references today.
Marc Racicot said "a pig with sows ears"
A democrat operative said "putting lipstick on a pig
You can't get better than barnyard insults!
Why don't conservative writers like Michelle and others just refuse to appear on Matthews' show? He deserves to have NO RATINGS. I can't stand him and Imus. They're both going after Republicans.
Scarborogh must be being BLACKMAILED! He is totally in Kerry's corner!! I don't wtch him...OR Matthews anymore.
Amen!! Max Cleland is the poster child for SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS!
It's OK, more people heard her side of what happened than actually saw the interview on Hardball.
I sure hope so. Although after today, I don't know. We lost electrical power at 4 PM today and UE says it will be midnight or after before they can replace all of the poles so who knows? We got 2.4 inches of rain in 30 minutes with lightening (neighor's tree over another neighbors chainlink fence) and about 10 trees down in our subdivision from wind. We have to go a mile and a half thru another subdivision to get to highway 50. It's a real pain.
Has anyone seen any recent ratings? Have they dropped even more since the Dem Convention?
I got curious after that woman popped up screaming at him during the Dem convention so did a search -- there is some truth, but not sure exactly what -- it appears he wasn't in town when it happened -- but in usual fashion it was hushed up and he left congress rather than run again with this hanging over him... happened the same time as the Chandra Levy thing. If you Google his name it's all there.
What was the deal with the woman screaming at Scarborough during the Dem convention? Didn't hear about that one.
These are a little old but I couldn't find the actual share ratings for a more recent date with a quick search. I think this order and share is pretty much how they run month to month. According to the article I took this from "CNBC is on "life support"." I wish it was MSNBC.
CABLE NEWS RATINGS
July 9, 2004
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 1.9
CNN LARRY KING 1.2
FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES 1.4
FOXNEWS GRETA 1.1
FOXNEWS SHEP SMITH 1.2
FOXNEWS BRIT HUME 1.1
CNN AARON BROWN 0.8
CNN PAULA ZAHN 0.6
MSNBC HARDBALL 0.5
MSNBC OLBERMANN 0.3
MSNBC NORVILLE 0.3
CNBC DENNIS MILLER 0.2
MSNBC IMUS 0.4
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 0.3
Like he didn't know her name!!!!!
Sick, slimey Spitball Matthews. He's just a PUNK for acting like this concerning a great girl like Michelle. Matthews is DIRT!
During the "afterhours" program with Ron Regan, he was talking to one of the activists at the ropes and this woman came up and started screaming.... I didn't really understand it at the time, but it threw him off his game as security came up and drug her away -- turns out it was someone who know this "aid" that had died in his Florida office (while he was reportedly in Washington) and this woman was screaming you killed ------ the woman's name... when he sat back down he was very rattled.
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