Pot, Meet Kettle

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907130041

Pot, Meet Kettle

July 13, 2009 5:38 pm ET by Jamison Foser

Chris Matthews on Hardball moments ago, referring to books by David Corn, Mike Isikoff, and Ron Suskind detailing Bush administration practices: "You guys are writing books after the fact. It didn't do us much good at the time, though."

In fact, Suskind's One Percent Doctrine was published in 2006, as was Corn & Isikoff's Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War.

And what good was Chris Matthews doing us "at the time"?

On November 28, 2005, just weeks before Hubris was published, Matthews said of Bush "Everybody sort of likes the president, except the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left." (It wasn't true.) Two days later, Matthews praised a Bush speech about Iraq - a speech Bush had not, technically, delivered yet -- as a "brilliant political move" and dismissed Democratic critics as "carpers and complainers."

A month earlier, Matthews said Bush "glimmers" with "sunny nobility."

In February 2006, after Hubris was published, Matthews said of Bush: "He looks like he's a wise man now ... almost Atticus Finch."

Then, of course, there's Matthews embarrassing "Mission Accomplished" performance.

Oh, and his March 2006 endorsement of Bush's trustworthiness: "How can you not trust a man who says, 'I won't be able to win this war in my presidency; I'm leaving it up to other presidents in the future'?"

Matthews probably isn't the best person to call out the media for being critical of the Bush administration now, but not doing so when Bush was in office.

UPDATE: ... and Suskind and Corn are pretty far down on the list of people who deserve such criticism. Like, near the bottom. Or on another list entirely.

Always has been

The book where O'Neil at the first security meeting said they pulled out the map of Iraq.

wanting to throw things at the TV and turning it off in 2003 and 2004 and 2005. FUCK MSNBC. FUCK ALL OF TALK TV. I'm sick of them.

cheer leading all through the bush administration so who is he to say anything. He is so sickening.

I had been saying this for YEARS here, and would be shouted down by the pro-Tweety faction here. My contention is that he would throw in a little 'doubt' during the program so that later, if it didn't work out (and it didn't), he could (and did) say..."See, I knew this was a problem!!"

Anyone who isn't aware that Tweety is a tool is not paying attention

He is an obvious Poppy cult follower and loves Saint Reagan. I'm surprised his lips aren't chapped from all the fluffing he has done over the years for neo-con artists.