Kerry Campaign: Hardball Host Calls on Bush to Stop Distorting Interview

[Nambe]

U.S. Newswire

The Kerry-Edwards campaign reported that Monday night on Hardball, host Chris Matthews held the Bush campaign accountable for deceptive editing of his interview of John Kerry in January. In campaign speeches, the president has been using the clip to claim that Kerry called himself an anti-war candidate, when in fact, Kerry voiced his consistent position that it was right for the United States to hold Saddam Hussein accountable, but that George Bush has created greater problems for the country by doing it without involving allies to a sufficient degree and without first formulating a plan for post- Saddam Iraq.

Bush Campaign spokesman Matt Dowd refused to stop using the deceptive clip or even point out the error to the president, the Kerry Campaign said. ..

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[thebigidea]

1. if I were the K/E campaign, I wouldn't be so quick to embrace Tweety

he'll turn on them by tomorrow and call the stupid video "brilliant"

[flordehinojos]

4. I think I know what you mean, Tweety can turn around quicker than the

batting of an eye. He may seem to be on the side of truth ... but truth has been somewhat elusive to tweety most of the times.

[gratuitous]

2. Whatwhatwhat?

Bush lied (nothing new about that), and not only the Kerry campaign, but a media chucklehead are pointing it out? Stop the presses! This is man bites dog territory.

[JuniorPlankton]

3. When was the last time the Bush campaign

admitted anything?

Anything???

[hadrons]

5. Tweety can know think himself an important player .....

maybe K/E believe that flattering the shill will help

[RobertSeattle]

6. I'd like to see an ad titled "Cherry Pickers"

"Just like they cherry picked intelligence data - picking only the data that helped their rush to war and ignoring and hiding anyting that didn't the Bush/Cheney campaign is now cherry picking John Kerry's 20 year record in the senate with deceptive and deceitful ads..."

Maybe in the background showing a cherry picker only picking the spoiled cherries...

[prodigal_green]

9. mmmmm...

cherries. (best Homer drool)

good idea!

[salinen]

7. PNAC

People not actually Christian, never admit to error, they cannot show that Jesus was wrong to force * into a quagmire.

[colonel odis]

8. matthews really is kind of pitiful when you get down to it.

n/t

[tom_paine]

10. I don't know, at least he isn't full-time shilling for the Imperial Family

Which seems to distinguish him from ALL Prime-Time Cable Whores.

I am not saying I am jumping on the Tweety Bandwagon, but hell, even a LITTLE decency and counterbalance to the Imperial Lie Machine is welcome, whatever his motives are.

Kindly elaborate on your comment, "colonel"

[colonel odis]

11. well, "tom," i think he's pitiful for lots of reasons.

granted, he doesn't shill for the imperial family all the time. but it's a sad state of affairs when that's how we measure a talk show host's effectiveness.

but i digress.

i think he's pitiful because he's rude to female guests, because he's a blatant name dropper, a pathetic star f*cker, has an overblown sense of his own importance as a journalist, and he's boring. five years ago, i watched every night. now i bear to watch him.

my elaboration, "tom."

[Generator]

13. Not to mention Matthews voted for Bush in 2000 and is proud of it

He's got a long way to reform himself in my eyes. I do think it's ironic that as soon as I swear to not watch him he starts to act like a decent journalists for a good five minutes. Amazing!

[depakid]

12. Maybe insulting his ego will be enough

for him to stop whoring for Republicans... Nah.

[kwolf68]

14. What has gotten into Matthews`

Is he actually trying to be a journalist searching for truth? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh....

[radfringe]

15. idea for flash animators....

get clips of bush* saying what kind of pResidunce he is

--I'm the education president
--I'm the environment president
--I'm the war president
--I want to be a peace president
--wish I wasn't the war president

fade to black -- fade in the text "President Bush - after 4 years - make up your mind as to what kind of president you are....."