Matthews: "Hoover Was Wiretapping Dr. King," Compares to Bush Wiretapping

NewBusters.org ^ | 2/8/2006 | NewsBusters

[tbone56]

I rarely watch Crissy but I caught the segment with Ms Clarke. His rant was beyond rude. The guy's a nutcase.

[Wiseghy]

Why did Nazism and Stalinism spring from the Left side of the spectrum? Yeah, its an extreme example, maybe unfair, but I feel it was no coincidence historically

[Bahbah]

How did he beat up on TorieA? How did she take it?

Well, he went on at great length at how every single reason for going to war in Iraq had been debunked and basically called her a liar and never gave her any real opportunity to respond. It was not an interview, it was an ambush. It was awful. She was trying to respond and he cut her off and went to his next segment.

[carlr]

I believe Matthews held some position in Carters administration,so that should give some insight into his wisdom.

[rdcorso]

Just about every American knows about the dirty dealings of the lowlife Kennedy klan but sloppy liberals like Chris Mathews like to pretend that it's a secret.One look at a red faced tub of shit like Ted Kennedy or Chris Mathews and you'll realize how pathetic they are.

[Mike Bates]

From his MSNBC bio:
Matthews spent 15 years in politics and government: he worked in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a Presidential speechwriter and on the Government Reorganization Project, in the U.S. Senate for five years on the staffs of Senator Frank Moss (Utah) and Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine), and was the top aide for Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. for six years.

No wonder he's messed up.

[0siris]

I said this yesterday and I'll say it again:

When you make Bush's wiretapping of Al Quaeda with RFK's wiretapping of Civil Rights leaders morally equivalent, you are also making Al Quaeda and Civil Rights leaders morally equivalent. You are either lowering Martin Luther King to the status of Richard Reid, or you are elevating Richard Reid to the status of Martin Luther King. How irrational and immoral do you have to be, to make such a comparison? The left is dangerous, and should never, ever recieve political power, ever. Because that's how stupid and corrupt they are (amongst other evidence).

[Brilliant]

Is he implying that Martin Luther King was a terrorist?

[Sonny M]

There is something sad about comparing the wiretapping of Martin Luther Jr to wiretapping Al Queda.

Chris Mathews may not mean it, but he is essentially equating Martin Luther King with Osama Bin Laden.

[Mike Bates]

Just about every American knows about the dirty dealings of the lowlife Kennedy klan

I wish that were true, but I'm not so certain. My personal experience is the more years a person spends in college, the less likely they are to be aware of the Family Kennedy's mischief.

[Ann Archy]

Thanks...he's so boorish.

[oldtimer]

I distinctly recall that Martin L. King belonged to twenty-four communist organizations.

In those days, yes it was OK to indentify communist organizations that way.

[jwalsh07]

Mathews gives cognitive dissonants a bad name.

[Mike Bates]

Don't think so. On the same show he said, ". . .Martin Luther King, the great man of all times. . ."

Most worshipful.

[muawiyah]

Why am I not surprised to find Russert as senile as Jimmuh' Kkkartuh'?

[muawiyah]

The FBI, et al, weren't terribly interested in King, per se, but he had a major advisor who was almost always with him who was a top ranking Commie.

The general trend of analysis the last 20 years has been toward exonerating Kennedy and Hoover since materials obtained from the Russians (about this guy and many others) demonstrate that this fellow was very dangerous.

[CIDKauf]

I disagree...Hoover was a demi-god in this country by then. He had files on John Lennon, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, and any one of a number of citizens that HE deemed a risk, and carried them through all administrations, orchestrating whatever was necessary in HIS mind to supply crucial information on domestic matters to any political group in power at the time.

[BenLurkin]

Matthews comes across as being very 'oral'.

The guy slobbers over Slick Willy.

[AmishDude]

Did you know that Chris' brother is running for Lt. Gov. in PA?

As a Republican.

On the ticket with Swann.

[new yorker 77]

I had no idea.

He may be the opposite of Non-Reagan on MSNBC as well.