Posted on 10/22/2017 12:09:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
ABCs make-believe Republican, Matthew Dowd was on a tear Sunday morning during his appearance on This Week’s “Powerhouse Roundtable.” While there, he continued his exhausted criticism of President Trump but he set his eyes on a new target: White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly. And according to Dowd, Kelly’s defense of President Trump’s call to a gold star widow meant people should start to question his intelligence.
Before handing the floor to Dowd, fill-in Moderator Martha Raddatz noted that her guest found parts of Kelly’s comments “especially troubling.” He did mention that he was moved by Kelly’s touching briefing on the process involved in bringing a fallen soldier home and notifying their loved ones.
But for Dowd, the problem was Kelly’s slamming of Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and how it related to Trump. “The problem that I have is, you ask the question, does he know who he works for,” he asked before he rambled:
He talks about the sacredness of gold star families and that we lost that when he works for a guy who attacked gold star families and attacked John McCain as a prisoner. He talks about the sacredness of women and he has somebody that said certain things on tape that are at best predatory, at best predatory and has been accused by 12 or 14 different women of behavior. We says we lost the sacredness of religion and he works for someone who wanted to ban Muslims. And if he read the Sermon on the Mount he would probably think it was Marsan. The President did.
Dowd Questions Kelly’s Intelligence, Claims Lincoln’s GOP Is Gone
Dowd’s original question could have been dismissed as just a rhetorical one, but his follow-up proved his seriousness in questioning Kelly’s mind. “And so, I think, part of what John Kelly did was, it was touching. But also it left wide open the question of, does he really know the guy that he works for?”
Dowd, of all people, shouldn’t be questioning someone’s intelligence. Back in August, he compared Trump to North Korea’s murderous dictator, Kim Jong-un. And in May, he claimed ISIS’s genocide against Christians wasn’t that big of a deal and pushed for a socialist health care system in the U.S.
But Dowd wasn’t done with his ridiculous hyperbolic claims. A few minutes later, he angrily argued that real Republicans like him needed to realize that the GOP was taken over by racists. “I think that what has to be recognized by Republicans and many conservatives who have resisted Donald Trump is that the Republican Party as they know it is gone,” he exclaimed. “This is a party that would never nominate Lincoln again, would never nominate Teddy Roosevelt.”
“Certainly wouldn't nominate Ronald Reagan in this. And that party is gone. They might as well get H.G. Wells on the line, get back in a time machine, and find the party they think still exists. It’s gone,” he added to the giggles of liberal mouthpiece Cokie Roberts.
Dowd’s smears of Kelly, a gold star father, just further debased America’s political discourse.
Transcript below:
ABC
This Week
October 22, 2017
9:38:47 AM Eastern
MARTHA RADDATZ: I want to go back to John Kelly again. It was a big week and I do think the debate would have ended there after his emotional briefing on that. But there were aspects to his remarks that you, Matt Dowd, found especially troubling.
MATTHEW DOWD: Well, I thought the initial part of his conversation obviously on how a soldier comes home after they're killed and what happens in that process was very emotional and very touching. The problem that I have is, you ask the question, does he know who he works for?
He talks about the sacredness of gold star families and that we lost that when he works for a guy who attacked gold star families and attacked John McCain as a prisoner. He talks about the sacredness of women and he has somebody that said certain things on tape that are at best predatory, at best predatory and has been accused by 12 or 14 different women of behavior. We says we lost the sacredness of religion and he works for someone who wanted to ban Muslims. And if he read the Sermon on the Mount he would probably think it was Marsan. The President did.
And so, I think, part of what John Kelly did was, it was touching. But also it left wide open the question of, does he really know the guy that he works for?
(…)
9:43:09 AM Eastern
RADDATZ: Matt, I want to talk about those comments by the former presidents. How significant is that?
DOWD: Huge. I mean, I think that this is just another added effect. George W. Bush is somebody who basically disappeared for eight years during Barack Obama's term. He went back to Texas. Went about his business. Never said a word. Those words he said would never have been said if not for Donald Trump.
COKIE ROBERTS: Right.
DOWD: And what’s been happening in the campaign and Steve Bannon. I think that what has to be recognized by Republicans and many conservatives who have resisted Donald Trump is that the Republican Party as they know it is gone. This is a party that would never nominate Lincoln again, would never nominate Teddy Roosevelt.
ROBERTS: Reagan!
DOWD: Certainly wouldn't nominate Ronald Reagan in this. And that party is gone. They might as well get H.G. Wells on the line, get back in a time machine, and find the party they think still exists. It’s gone.
(…)
‘The Confederate Army stopped recruiting 152 years ago.’
if they wished to start again, they’d find some promising nimrods on this forum...
‘ANY solution would have been better than Lincoln’s Blood bath.’
so, you’d have done what, since you’re passing out opinions so freely...?
‘you’re attitude is why some people refuse to stand for the flag or national anthem.....’
that’s an interesting point...all these neo-confederates here, supposedly hating what the Stars and Stripes stand for, should be extolling the virtues of the NFL kneelers and arm linkers...
Clintons Democratic Party is gone.
Goodwin the plagiarizer for the left? Her credibility as a historian went down the tubes for all but the Democrats who worship plagiarizers, adulterers, and sexual predators.
I guess the memo went out from the DNC yesterday, and these two gladly followed orders.
It was not “deaths”, it was casualties. Different thing.
This misinformation needs to stop.
Actually, forgive me. The old 600k number does indeed refer to deaths, not all casualties.
But DO consider that half of those are due to disease and other accidental things.
Shove it.
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HERE'S ANOTHER TALKING POINT--House Democrat "Intel Gang of Eight", Cong Adam Schiff, told Raddatz on ABC News Sunday awhile back: “Indeed, it would be negligent for us not to investigate the Russian connection......if a foreign government…has something that they can hang over the head of our president that can influence US policy, it is very much in our national security interest to know it.”
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Democrat Cong Adam Schiff advanced the discredited Russian bunk, as Paki spies working in Democrat Congressional offices.....accessed US govt-issue computers teeming w/ sensitive intel involving the safety and security of Americans.
The deaf, dumb and blind Democrats gave the Awan spy ring a treasure trove of intel. Cong Schiff's House Intelligence Committee oversees all or part of the following executive branch departments and agencies:
• Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Defense Intelligence Agency
• Department of Defense
• Department of Energy
• Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Justice
• Department of State
• Department of Treasury
• Drug Enforcement Administration
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• National Reconnaissance Office
• National Security Agency
• Office of Naval Intelligence
• Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
• United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
• United States Coast Guard Intelligence
• Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
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Democrats noticed nothing ---as the IT staff back-doored Congressional computers to siphon off classified security intel. The IT staff then absconded, hustled out of sight.......shockingly given visas while under criminal investigation.
Martha Raddatz of ABC News was completely unprofessional for not asking Schiff about the Capitol Hill breach.
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Who cares! It’s all fake after all. Folks like this guy are just saying what they say to get people to watch. It’s all about ratings after all.
True dat.
I am gonna re-watch the election night coverage on youtube, it is great entertainment..
Casualties are not deaths. Historians have revised the military deaths upward to around 750,000.
Yeah, they have come up with higher numbers and they were indeed deaths, not all casualties (deaths are only part of casualties).
Still, it’s always informative to know up to that time or later, about half of deaths would be due to disease and injury (leading to disease or bleed-out, etc).
Lincoln was crazy. So were a lot of the people pushing him to war.
The hate that the north was full of, no doubt had to be media driven. Many communist aided Lincoln.
I think it might have been in the recent 2017 documentary on steven spielberg, where it covered his directorship of lincoln.
i almost fell out of my chair and spilled my corn soup when she came out with that line. like, the democrats get to define who the republicans are, and switch places with them? whaaaa thaaaa faaaa
lol
Today we would call that dying from exposure. And it was at least half, if not more. I have read about the sound of the coughing in the camps when they were awakened by bugle.
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