Posted on 01/03/2006 4:08:58 AM PST by PJ-Comix
MSNBC's Hardball show actually delivered some interesting news for once tonight, despite Chris Matthews' anti-Bush spin and uninformed sputtering over the NSA counterterrorism program. NBC's DOJ correspondent Pete Williams corrects Matthews' assertion (borrowed from the NYTimes' report yesterday) that top Justice Department officials opposed the NSA program.
In response to Matthews' fulmination that "it wasn't like the President was even getting support from his own people," Williams reported:
There does appear to be something here where both deputy AG Comey and AG Ashcroft were concerned about technical aspects of it and concerned about how it was being carried out--the sort of pretext that the NSA needed to start monitoring someone.
But once those things were worked out, my understanding is from talking to current and former Justice Department officials that they then agreed to the program and one former associate of the deputy attorney general's said today that at one point Comey was among those officials urging the NY Times not to run the story, that he ultimately accepted the legal basis for the program after his initial objections were resolved.
Watch the exchange:
Download the video (.wmv file).
That little moment of silence after Williams schools Matthews is hilarious. For once, the Hardball harumpher is left speechless.
The MSM/dems have to have a strategy that says, keep putting the negetive pressure on and one will finally take him down. That's the only conclusion I can come too...
The current spin among the idiot class of the MSM is that (a) Comey was "opposed to the program" and that (b) Ashcroft was also opposed.
Both clauses are transparent lies.
Loved the video(I no longer watch Chris)..Chrissy looked dumbdtruck and anything that keeps him from motor mouthing is a moment to be cherished!
I don't want PRO BUSH stories from Matthews. I simply want the TRUTH every now and then.
Pete Williams generally spends his time licking Hissy Fits loafers on the air.
Who cares? I don't. I'd rather see some objective news instead of 30 minutes to an hour of some schmuck telling me what he thinks I should think. News these days is nothing more than 30 minutes to an hour of some clown in a suit and tie telling the viewer what they think is news.
Actually what I found interesting in what Pete Williams reported is not in that video but part of the same interview, I think,(I can't be sure because i didn't hear it all). He said (paraphrased) PW:you have right leaning lawyers who agree that it was legal and you have left leaning lawyers who say it isn't, but there are a lot of lawyers in the middle who agree that what the president did was completely legal. Something like that. From PW on Hardball THAT was a BIG one.
Buchanan had to correct Matthews too, when Matthews insisted on accusing the president of "wiretapping". Buchanan explained "eavesdropping" is not a wiretap.
Half what Matthews says is incorrect and inflammatory, and I"m quite sure he knows it. Guests who correct him are few and far between. I can never tell if the guests just aren't listening, or if they approve of Matthews' false premises.
Time to join the 21st century. When I switched to cable connection last summer, it was like a whole new Web World opened up for me. BTW, using cable actually costs me LESS overall than dialup. Why? Because I got rid of my home phone. Don't need it with my cellphone. Therefore the decrease in my monthly phone bill due to not paying for a landline is MORE than the increase from the cable. Plus cable connection is GREAT for RSS Feeds. In fact, I found this very story via my RSS Reader.
Well, you're not going to get it from the MSM/dems, that's FDS!
Until enough people refuse to absolutely pay no attention, you're going to have to deal with it. But unfortunately there is enough minds of mush, and idiocy out there that keep these liars in business.
This is why FR is so important, at least both sides are presented with FACTUAL data so you have enough info to make an informed decision about what to believe.
Matthews is a DNC hack... a party-stooge, who never held a real job in his life. His show is nothing more than a critique of DNC talking-points.
< Because I got rid of my home phone. Don't need it with my cellphone. Therefore the decrease in my monthly phone bill due to not paying for a landline is MORE than the increase from the cable. >
Exactly. I just am not a big telephone user so Cingular gets nothing but the basic rate from me. It works for me. If you live on the phone, maybe not.
I caught it last night..Matthews was flummoxed.
Good for you. Cable isn't offered here, and I'm too far outside of town for DSL.
Plus cable connection is GREAT for RSS Feeds. In fact, I found this very story via my RSS Reader.
RSS feeds don't require the same amount of bandwidth as say, a streaming video or streaming audio would.
I have FireFox and use "Live Bookmarks" extensively, so my bookmark folder is constantly changing with updated news headlines even as I am surfing along.
The video is short and ever so sweet! Thanks for the posting.
Down here in South Florida, half the population uses MetroPCS. SAME flat rate every month (about $52 including taxes) no matter how much you use it or where you call within the USA.
Pete Williams is just another partisan shill. What's unprecedented is he actually takes Matthews' to task.
If you have a Nextel phone, forget it. It won't work in Montana at all. The only cellphone provider that does work in this area where I live is Verizon.
Here, this will undo the nonsense you were talking about from Howard Notsofineman
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