chris mattnews....'bu$h took us to war under false pretenses'.

[spanone]

thank you mr matthews. if you only had subpoena powers.

[JoePhilly]

1. Chris was a media cheerleader at the time.

"We're all neocons now!"

[spanone]

3. he's changed his tune....and that's good imho

[JoePhilly]

5. I'm happy that he now sings a different tune ...

but if I'm honest, Chris tends to be a weather vane.

And his personal gusts tend to follow in the direction of the prevailing winds.

[spanone]

18. he was responding to the 'no bush baggage' statement by jeb. folks change, ala andrew sullivan.

not here to defend his past only stating his current status.

[OldDem2012]

32. Tweety was a horse's ass before we went to war in the Middle East, and the only reason....

....he's changed his tune now is because he senses he's on the correct side now.

He is a pure opportunist, nothing less.

[OldDem2012]

31. After how many unnecessary deaths and countless other casualties of several nationalities? nt.

[alsame]

4. Exactly. He's been rewriting his own

history for years now. He's another one who seems to forget we can find video clips of his comments from 2003.

[UTUSN]

23. Chiming in on earliest sub-thread pointing out his 2003 cheerleading for Shrub

It don't matter that he's rehabilitated (for this season). If he had said then what he is saying now, which is what nearly ALL of us here said all along, he would be a hero. Here is what I saw him do in '03:

How Tweety "Executed" DONAHUE on MSNBC. Tweety was on his book tour for another one of his "books" (large type, wide spaces between lines, blank half-pages). It was in the jingoistic hysteria in the run-up to the illegal Iraq attack. The book was about supposed "Americanism" -- an American Civ 101 ripoff about books and movies and cultural stuff that are essentially American (think, "The Great Gatsby&quot . So Phil welcomed him as a colleague and peer on Phil's show for the full hour to plug the book. From the moment he appeared, there was a strange, deadly snake look in Tweety's snake eyes. Phil was walking around the audience, apparently not sensing anything, while Tweety was motionless, following him only with his eyes. Phil brought up something or other questioning blind, kneejerk jingoism, and Tweety STRUCK! He started out with venom dripping, "You see, THIS is EXACTLY what's wrong with YOU Liberals: You are NEGATIVE about this country, you find NOTHING good about it," and on and on. It took awhile before Phil figured out what was happening. Later, Phil, devastated and spent, was sitting at the table with Tweety and, weaker and weaker, did some of his trademark shoulder shrugging and arm waving. Tweety delivered the coup de grace, "What's THIS (mimicking the movements)??!! What's with the --APE-- movements???!" Days or a week or two later, Phil's cancellation was announced and took effect.

[tularetom]

2. That's exactly what a lot of us said to Matthews just about 10 years ago today

Of course he was too busy getting all worked up over the bush baby's "mission accomplished" stunt and raving about how manly he looked with that sock stuffed in his space suit to pay any attention.

I'd love to hear what he was talking about on March 12, 2003.

[Brother Buzz]

6. These false pretenses were well documented back in 2004 and he's just now bringing it up?

Rep. Henry Waxman (CA-33) released a report of the U.S. House of Representatives (16 March 2004) that identifies 237 misleading statements about Iraq made by President George Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in 125 public appearances.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gries/howbushoperates/pdf_admin_iraq.pdf

[indepat]

22. Tweety had his nose too far up junior's ass (metaphorically speaking of course) to

notice.

[indepat]

24. That's not quite two misleading statements on average per appearance, but enough to convince

any rational person that junior's emissaries would and did lie to anybody about anything anytime if it would advance their agenda.

[Lasher]

7. All the while glimmering with a kind of sunny nobility.

Chris Matthews: 2005's Misinformer of the Year

[Whisp]

13. o yeah, it's written down Chris. It's written down, you fake assed liar ass kissing warmongering foc

"[S]ometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility."

"Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left," adding, "I mean, like him personally."

Matthews praised Bush speech as "brilliant" even before it was delivered. Before Bush had even delivered his November 30 speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, Matthews used variations of the word "brilliant" twice to describe it, while deriding Democratic critics of the Iraq war as "carpers and complainers."

BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF, ASSHOLIO!

[Whisp]

8. matthews is a two faced liar revisionist.

crooks and liars

August 31, 2010 09:38 PM
Chris Matthews Revises History on His Opposition to the Iraq Invasion During his 'Let Me Finish' Segment

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/chris-matthews-revises-history-during-his-

And for viewers that night who didn't get a strong enough sense of just how obediently in-step the press corps was with the White House, there was the televised post-press conference analysis. On MSNBC, for instance, "Hardball's" Chris Matthews hosted a full hour of discussion. In order to get a wide array of opinion, he invited a pro-war Republican senator (Saxby Chambliss, from Georgia), a pro-war former Secretary of State (Lawrence Eagleburger), a pro-war retired Army general (Montgomery Meigs), pro-war retired Air Force general (Buster Glosson), a pro-war Republican pollster (Frank Luntz), as well as, for the sake of balance, somebody who, twenty-five years earlier, once worked in Jimmy Carter's White House (Pat Caddell).

[OldDem2012]

33. I think you're being much too kind. nt.

[rhett o rick]

9. Brilliant Chris. Took you long enough to figure it out. Dipshit. nm

[GoCubsGo]

27. Yep.

File this one under "No shit, Sherlock."

[cbrer]

10. Better late than Never

Although there are about 300,000 people who would disagree with that expression if they were still alive.

[rhett o rick]

11. I cant not express my disgust for people like Mr. Matthews. We know that the neo-cons

want war but when Democrats in Congress and idiots like Mr. Matthews follow along like sheeple, follow someone that is so disingenuous as the DimSon, it is unconscionable. They have blood on their hands. Some one should throw a shoe at dipshit Matthews.

[WilliamPitt]

12. "The women love this war" and "I have a man-crush on Bush"

Direct Chris Matthews quotes circa: the war. Ask me and I'll throw you the links.

Fuck Chris Matthews. The human fucking weathervane.

I shit on him from great height.

"Ermahgerd, the wer was wreng."

Goddam genius, ten years too late.

Piece of shit.

[broadcaster75201]

14. Guess we all AREN'T NeoCons now, are we? Jackass. NT

nt

[on point]

15. Tweety was right there pushing for war and dumping on critics - He can't hide now

[quinnox]

16. If only he had realized this at the time

[kairos12]

17. I remember Matthews fawning over Bush and his codpiece as he marched over the SS

mission accomplished. He makes me puke.

[Whisp]

19. I hope some of these kinds of messages get to him directly

and I hope he can't sleep tonight and think about his involvement in that war.

you miserable spineless dipshit, chris.

[Stardust]

34. And remeber the clip in Fahreinheit 9/11 when he practically had an orgasm when

he was told Cheney was on the phone (or something like that...it's been awhile since I've seen it.) I just remember his face literally lit up when Cheney's name was mentioned. It was pathetic.

Chris is easily enamored of powerful people. Maybe he really has seen the light. I hope so. He could be a valuable ally.

[Carolina]

20. Too little

too late, with too much convenient hindsight

Where was the blonde blowhard back in 2003 when it mattered?! He was salivating over Boy Bush.

Many knew then that it was under false pretenses and tried to get media attention but were sequestered in 1st amendment zones and ignored by the Tweetys of the world. So, fuck Matthews.

[AlinPA]

21. I believe the POS supported Bush at the start of the war. Matthews is a loudmouthed slobbering fool.

[rhett o rick]

29. The POS must ask each morning, "which way is the wind blowing today dear?" nm

[samsingh]

25. and if he had only said this during the hysteria of the bush years

instead of fawning over bush in his flight suit

[arely staircase]

26. or were willing to say it at the time eom

[hrmjustin]

28. Guess Chris you should not have voted for Bush like you said you did.

[Cleita]

30. A little too late of Chris.

He had a media pulpit to point this all out when it was happening. Why didn't he before we got here?