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  • "Heading to 10": Matthews Claims Bush Leak Allegations Top Seriousness Scale

    04/07/2006 5:20:39 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 76 replies · 2,394+ views
    Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    by Mark Finkelstein April 7, 2006 That didn't take long! Back in the MSM's Watergate heyday, it took a while for a steady drumbeat of revelations, stories and allegations to gather sufficient momentum. The pace has apparently quickened in the modern liberal-media world. On this morning's Today show, Matt Lauer, speaking of the allegation that President Bush authorized the disclosure of information by Scooter Libby, asked Chris Matthews: "scale of 1 to 10, [where] 10 is a deal-ender, where does this fall?" Matthews didn't hesitate: "heading to 10." Even Lauer seemed taken aback: "Really, that big?" For good measure, Matthews...
  • Matthews: "Hoover Was Wiretapping Dr. King," Compares to Bush Wiretapping

    02/08/2006 5:09:35 PM PST · by Mike Bates · 85 replies · 2,340+ views
    NewBusters.org ^ | 2/8/2006 | NewsBusters
    On Tuesday's Hardball, the discussion turned to Jimmy Carter's remarks at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. The former president had brought up wiretapping. Host Chris Matthews observed: "Of course that‘s hot because J. Edgar Hoover was wiretapping Dr. King and feeding all the dirty to LBJ, you know?" The former FBI chief had indeed wiretapped the late civil rights leader, but not on his own authority and initially not for President Lyndon Johnson. King biographer David Garrow wrote in a 2002 Atlantic Monthly article: "On October 10, 1963, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy committed what is widely viewed...