Posted on 11/05/2006 6:33:47 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Here's an antidote from an unlikely corner for all the Dem outrage at the 'November surprise' of the Saddam verdict. On this morning's 'Today,' none other than Chris Matthews just pronounced his considered opinion that the verdict actually helps . . . the Democrats.
According to Matthews, given the unpopularity of the war, anything that draws attention to Iraq hurts Republicans. Apparently that even extends to a good-news story such as the Saddam verdict. Opined Matthews to host Lester Holt:
"One general rule would be anything that brings attention to Iraq is bad for the Republicans. I think Iraq's become a four-letter word for the voter. And this trial and condemnation of Saddam Hussein is probably going to remind us of Iraq again. It's probably going to help the Democrats to some extent."
More predicatable was the analysis over at CNN, where a skeptical Susan Roesgen asked Suzanne Malveaux:
"What about critics, especially in Iraq, even Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer, who say the verdict was timed to come out just before the election to help the GOP?"
Well, if Saddam's lawyer said it, that should surely be good enough for CNN!
Roesgen continued her effort to rain on the Saddam-verdict parade in a subsequent interview of international criminal law expert Prof. Michael Scharf of Case Western law school. Asked the cynical CNN host:
"Does this turn [Saddam] into a martyr for the Iraqi people more than a monster?"
Oh yeah - huge martyr to all those Shias and Kurds whose relatives he slaughtered.
And later: "In some ways this trial has been a sideshow compared to the ongoing bloodshed in the streets of Iraq. Does this verdict really matter?"
Translation: let's get off this positive development and back to the IEDs!
To his credit, Prof. Scharf, who has written a book about the trial, gave a balanced view of events, noting the trial has served as a model of due process in contrast with the courts under Saddam. If Iraq can stay together as a country, the trial will be seen as a key point in bringing back the rule of law, opined the professor.
Let's hope the good professor himself will be be brought back by CNN despite his refusal to take direction from Roesgen's gloom-'n-doom script.
Interesting how they try to spin it both ways. To Chris, Saddam's sentencing means Democrats will benefit. To Brown, his sentencing is politically motivated (evidently, in her way of thinking, to help the Republicans).
" Where is Chris Matthews in the TV ratings? "
Somewhere below the "Head-On/Apply Directly to the Forehead" commercials.....
Saddam Verdict Helps Dems
I don't see how, they just lost a vote!
I think both.
Matthews was shaken and ashen when he announced his commentary -- he knows damn full well that this does not help the RATS and he is unnerved.
I do think Matthews went a bit loopy ages ago.
Right here.
If bin laden were captured today, chrissie would say it helps the RATS
I've seen a few leftie bloggers try to spin it that way, that the troops were showing they "got" Carry's "joke," and agreed. Twisted, ain't it?
Chris Mathhews just makes up his lines as he goes along. He is probably no longer working directly in the Dimorat organizations because he is so incompetent.
Then of course their moms came home from work and explained it to them...
Chrissy needs to be labelled what he really is: Lobbyist.
"Then of course their moms came home from work and explained it to them..."
Duuude, buzzkill. LOL.
Life's a bitch when reality forces you to be delusional because reality challenges your moonbat views, which you cling to because you're, well, a moonbat.
Anything is bad news, even good news is bad news, but bad news is still better than good news, and any news is bad news , but bad news is any news that could be good or bad news.
These people are so obsessed with Bush they can't think straight. Matthews is a very, very confused person.
LOL! Lot's of truth to that.
Their hate is what drives them.
The only way it could be better is if they drug him from the court room and hung him right away.
The judge has more patience than I do. I would have packed a .45 under my robe and capped him as soon as the verdict was read.
Chief lawyer...let me guess: Ramsey Clarke? Chrissy didn't want to drop the name?
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