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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 07:45 AM
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Did anyone hear Tweety just define the Murtha plan??
Just now on Tweety's show on NBC he listed the different Iraq options on the table, beginning thusly:

"Fist of all there is the Murtha / Pelosi plan which is to simply get out now ..."

I am going to try and send him an email telling him what an ass he is for his lame attempt to try and control the debate by miss labeling the Murtha plan.
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SkiGuy Donating Member (451 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 07:49 AM
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1. I'm with you there
could you post his email.
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:11 AM
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2. I never watch Tweety.
I refuse to knowingly support his advertisers.
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:29 AM
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5. Out here in the country
this is the only TV station that I get. No cable out here and can't afford satelllite.

I don't feel that I am supporting his advertisers by watching the program.
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:36 AM
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6. Well, out in my part of the country, the only place you can find
Tweety on is cable. I got tired of watching all the hate and anger mongers.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:41 AM
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10. Out in my part of the country, if Tweety is all that's on, I get my...
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 10:47 AM by Hubert Flottz
guitar out, turn off the TV and work on my newest Fitzmas carol! Hell a sharp stick in the eye is more fun than Bush's/Jack Welch's neonazi propaganda team.

The GREAT thing about TV is, you can unplug the damned thing, when Jerry, Pat, George, Billy O' or Twatty comes on the screen lying and making lame assed excuses for their systematic ruining and ripping off of the Have Lesses and the Have Nots,(poor and middle class)like they have strived so hard to do, since they helped Bush steal his job, twice!

If Hitler's public had had TV sets Hitler wouldn't have had to travel around so much. Bush can push his propaganda and not worry about tangling with the general population. Bush only plays to the hand picked crowds and guys like Twitty, Wolf and ShYAWN do all the rest of the propaganda/pr work for the pResidork, from the safety of a secure location. Hitler wasn't a coward like Bush and Cheney, so he could hold mass rallies and go anywhere he wanted to go in his country, even before he totally controlled Germany!

When was the last time you saw a camera shot of Bush jogging through DC to MacDonald's like Bill Clinton was unafraid to do?

With the price of energy going through the roof, you have yet another reason to...SAVE ELECTRICITY, TURN TWEETY OFF!
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59millionmorons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:23 AM
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3. That's funny
Because just the other day he described Murtha's plan as NOT getting out now but as a plan to get out within a year. I guess he says so much shit that he forgets what he said to Murtha's face.
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:25 AM
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4. Here is the letter I am sending and his email

Chris:

Last week in the essay at the end of your program, you said that you loved it when someone discussing politics with you told you something that you didn't know. Well, I am about to make your day.

You just began your recap of the various public positions on Iraq by completely misstating the "Murtha/Pelosi plan," saying that it was to "simply get out now."

Nothing could be further from the truth. If you had been paying attention, you would have realized tht the Murtha Resolution called for a phased withdrawal while leaving an over the horizon presence. I would go into it more thouroughly, but if you are interested, you can read it for yourself, or better yet, get someone who is intellectually honest to read it to you.

I can only speculate as to why you did this. Was it, as it seems, a blatant and intellectually dishonest attempt to parrot the GOP line and control the debate by misrepresenting the other side's plan. I would prefer to think that you were simply sloppy with the facts.

Neither option is very palatable. In either case you owe Representatives Murtha, Pelosi, and others who have endorsed this plan, as well as your listeners, an apology.


Sincerely,



I am sending this through the contact us link on the show's website. If anybody knows other ways to contact this asshole, please post it.

http://www.thechrismatthewsshow.com/contact.html
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 09:19 AM
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8. my letter...
Chris...why don't you lose the illusion that what you report is unbiased and informed.Your comments on the Murtha/Pelosi plan were not only wrong,they appeared to be maliciously done to misrepresent their plan.I'm sure you'll be educated by enough viewers,so you don't need a lecture on the Murtha plan from me.My question for you is...have you been briefed by the Lincoln Group,or the Rendon Group,or some other propaganda factory.Just know this,Chris...while you sell your soul to these bastards,our kids are dying overseas.My kid is over there,and I hold you responsible for this misinformation that might get him killed.
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No Exit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:31 AM
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12. Another great letter--and this one packs a special punch at the end!
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 02:38 PM
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18. Very well said.
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No Exit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:29 AM
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11. Excellent letter.
You may even have made a dent in Tweety's stuffed-shirt viewpoint that everyone outside the Beltway is a drooling idiot.

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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:58 AM
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7. he subconsciously absorbs repub talking points and spews them out
like he thinks they're his own original thoughts -- even when by his previous statements he knows these talking points to be untrue! It's almost as if due to post-hypnotic suggestion.
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BJW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 02:33 PM
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17. I think so too
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chaumont58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:13 AM
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9. How much influence does Tweety have?
How many people really watch the beltway whores? I quit watching Tweety the night before the California recall. Since then, I may have seen portions of three or four programs.
I don't think he or any of the talking heads on cable tv have serious influence on anyone. Tweety is a whore, a beltway whore. He has many companions inside the beltway.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:32 AM
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13. Is it lazy or misleading?
with Tweety, you never know.
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emdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:37 AM
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14. What I sent....
"You misrepresented The Murtha Plan as "get out now." Why? "Get out now" is actually The Duncan Hunter Plan, which he proposed and then voted against. The Murtha Plan is much different as can easily be found."
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SkiGuy Donating Member (451 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:38 AM
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15. email sent
Also sent one to Tucker Carlson (for the 4th time too since he still has his incorrect version there on his web page).
Sometimes I see what Chris has been doing, he seems to purposely take the other side of no matter who is on his show. Sort of like prepping them for questions that may possibly be asked by the opposing side. Was thinking for a while he was more left, but I'm not seeing that as much anymore. He's just another one who has cashed his check given to him by Bushco.
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SkiGuy Donating Member (451 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:49 AM
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16. Biden on Blitzer this morning
Just said the same thing! What is going on here???? Did these people not read Murtha's proposal and the GOP amendment? (rhetorical question)
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 02:39 PM
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19. Which is why even when he does hit a homer or seems to, it really
doesn't get me jumping out of my seat as an appreciative audience, the guy is scum, he does nothing but misuse his voice and this just proves again as it will in the future, he cannot be trusted to be fair and balanced longer than a few seconds at a time..
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