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malaise

(268,724 posts)
5. His Op Ed was carried earlier this week
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:09 PM
Mar 2013

I disliked his cheering them on but he did not support the invasion.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
9. he's got as much nerve as a teabagger in regards to fudging the truth:
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:20 PM
Mar 2013

Chris Matthews complained that the news media "sucks lately in covering the Iraq war," later asserting, "I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning." But Media Matters has documented numerous instances during the past three years in which Matthews lauded President Bush's handling of the war, advanced false and misleading claims about the war, and attacked Democratic critics of the war.

September 21, 2006 7:12 PM EDT ››› ROB MORLINO

As Media Matters noted, Matthews was chief among the cheerleaders when Bush delivered a nationally televised speech from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, in which he declared that "[m]ajor combat operations in Iraq have ended," all the while standing under a banner reading: "Mission Accomplished." Despite lingering questions over the continued violence in Iraq, the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction, and the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein, Matthews fawned over Bush: "He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics. ... He looks for real. ... [H]e didn't fight in a war, but he looks like he does. ... We're proud of our president. ... Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president."

http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/09/21/matthews-claimed-he-has-opposed-iraq-war-from-t/136694

worthless piece of shit liar.

 

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
11. He was also part of the plan to get rid of Phil Donohue because Phil was loudly against the war. eom
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:23 PM
Mar 2013

malaise

(268,724 posts)
4. Actually there was an excellent post earlier this week demonstrating thatTweety was against the war
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:08 PM
Mar 2013

He cheered Bush on with the mission accomplished part.

Carrying Perle's crazy statement from earlier this week.
Wolfowitz lies from 2003 being played now.

I'm lovin' this.

PCIntern

(25,491 posts)
6. I am so fucking incensed at that asshole Tweety about this
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:13 PM
Mar 2013

that I can't even type straight. That fucker...does he really think that no one remembers?

and for those of you who say he was 'against'...he had a technique: he would question the need for the war in a sideways studied manner, and then he would mercilessly cross-examine, (read: interrupt) those who opposed the war, belittling and calling into question the patriotism of those who doubted that Dick was telling the truth. He's a sack o'shit.

malaise

(268,724 posts)
13. I thin William Pitt nailed it
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:32 PM
Mar 2013

he was an inconsistent weather vane, but his pre-war Op Ed did oppose the illegal invasion and occupation.

 

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
12. Exactly! He was complicit in his manipulation of the message. Just as the media at large was
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:27 PM
Mar 2013

complicit in not questioning the bullshit about WMD in Iraq, in not highlighting the failures of 9/11/01, in not exposing the Neocons for what they are and were: greedy blood-thirsty war-hawks. The media failed miserably and Tweety was in it with both fucking feet.

redqueen

(115,103 posts)
7. He's a damned windsock.
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:13 PM
Mar 2013

It was probably all the critical coverage during the 10th anniversary and news about increased criticism of Blair that has him blowing this direction now.

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