Matthews: "Cindy Sheehan More Representative of Most People's Thinking"

[sabra]

http://newsbusters.org/node/5351

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Chris Matthews' guest was NY Times media reporter Bill Carter. Matthews, discussing W's low poll numbers, observed:


Carter: "You have to say, the media didn't go after him for a long time."

Matthews: "Tell me about it. They were embedded, I think. Too much."

Carter: "Way too much. So when it turns around . . . "

Matthews:

"Here's a favorite topic of mine, which is the war in Iraq. I've been skeptical about the arguments made. I can't say right or wrong, but I think there's been real questions about the case made. But I see the media still in this lazy habit of assuming if you're pro-war, if you think this was a smart thing to do, you're treated as the majority. The fact is that Cindy Sheehan, is more representative of most people's thinking now, as far left as she seems, because most Americans for months now believe it was a mistake to go to war, yet the mainstream media continues to act as if most people support the war and it's the outside weirdos that oppose it. That's not true! The average American opposes this war."

Carter: "That's what the polls are telling us."

Matthews: "Why does the media still act as if this is a gung-ho country?"

Carter: "I think the media has been very much currying favor with the administration for a long time."

Matthews: "Why?"

Carter: "Because I think that was the only way to get access with these guys. They've been very difficult to talk to and you see that playing out."

Matthews: "You're singing my song. I think you're right. The word embedding is of course appropriate for people like David Bloom who went out there and lost his life, really risking in the tough conditions of war, but when you start thinking like the party you're covering, the politicians you're covering . . . "

[Terran1212]

1. Carter's absolutely right

"It's the only way to get access to these guys"

[burythehatchet]

2. Chris matthews wets his finger

sticks it up in the air gagues the wind direction and speaks.

[eleny]

9. I think he's been sticking his wet finger somewhere else

[ourbluenation]

24. He's a trippy fair-weather friend.

[tridim]

3. That whooosh sound you heard

is the hypocrisy going over Tweety's head.

[MelissaB]

6. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard this. n/t

[flordehinojos]

21. and he says it all with such a straight face too!

[jazzjunkysue]

8. "The news media helped fix the intel for the war." Pot, meet kettle.

Makes me want to shoot my TV.

[LisaLynne]

17. That bang you heard was ...

my head exploding. And on a Friday night, no less!

[rurallib]

4. Matthews must take red pills one day, blue pills the next

Good gods that man is just all over the place. One day he's stupider than Fux, the next day he almost sounds sane. I can't stand to watch him anymore.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

5. Three years later, a suckass wakes up

Sorry, Tweety, but we're not as stupid as you think we are. You were as "embedded" (what a bullshit, controlling, manipulative concept into which the MSM bought) as any "journalist" who went to Iraq, so, sorry, but your acknowledgment of Cindy Sheehan - and why the conceptualization of her as "left," when, in fact, she's for peace, which is neither "right" nor "left" - gives you away as the suckass panderer that you have been, you are, and you will continue to be, because that is what you are.

Go rot.

[Trajan]

7. What a FUCKING Hypocrite ...

Matthews was HEAD PIG at the trough of lies .....

NOW he sees the light ? ...

You have OBSCURED that light with your mindless suckling on the breast of the corporatist government ....

FUCK YOU Tweety .....

[hatrack]

10. "You're singing MY song" - Whatever, Chris.

Jesus, simultaneously outrageous and pathetic - Tweety will never get Bush's ball prints off his chin, and he's talking about how "they" - the MSM - were too embedded.

What a farce. :puke: on you, Tweety.

[Justice]

11. I cannot believe Matthews said this. True but amazing.

[TacticalPeek]

12. Matthews has consistently opposed the Iraq war since 2002.

It disturbs me when I see so many who remark about hypocrisy or finger in wind or 'finally' regarding Matthews' war position. On important issues like war and peace, it is important to pay attention to who is friend and who is foe. Elemental.


http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh020906.shtml

http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&comment=113945169811412101#7319447

[LoKnLoD]

14. He just owes Delay one

a real big one. Tweety is a worthless hack trying to save his ass just like Russert, except Tweeties going left, Russert more right.

[Trajan]

16. I stopped watching him ....

After I could NOT tolerate the GOP/NEOCON asskissing, and the baiting of Democrats ... on a regular basis .....

You can support this man all you want, but I have NO DOUBT what I felt when I watched him (WHEN I watched him) ..... I believe my own eyes and ears, and the sinking of my heart .....

Chris Matthews can go to hell ...

[ribrepin]

29. Who's the lady on the left?

I know that's Randi Rhodes on the right--she rocked tonight on Larry King.

"I was serving when I was your age, why aren't You?"--Randi Rhodes 5/12/06.

[Trajan]

30. She was some Right Wing Radio Host on CSPAN with RR ....

Whom I hadnt heard of before, and whom I cannot recall now ....

But I love the pic .....

[ribrepin]

31. Thanks --She does look like a nut job

Guess she just got the latest poll numbers on Bush.

[ChiciB1]

13. Chris: Why Does The Media... What The

WELL, Tweety IF you haven't noticed it yet. YOU BE ONE OF DEM!!

But having said that... keep it up TWEETS! They say redemption is GOOD for the SOUL!!

[UTUSN]

15. Tweety should be able to say WHY HE has been currying favor n/t

[Ksec]

18. Saw that and its a good question

Why does media act like anti war folks are the minority whackjobs when polls show we are the majority of this country?

[Dudley_DUright]

19. They???

I think you mean "we", you human weather-vane.

[Old and In the Way]

20. One think about Chris, he functions at a very high level for someone

who's had a frontal lobotomy.

[dweller]

22. for a moment i thought when the clue phone rang, Tweety

was available ... but instead he was downloading ring tones from Karl Rove as usual.

here's a tune for ya, Tweet.
http://www.willingspirits.com/worldtowin/CD2/She%20is%20All%20of%20Us.mp3

dp

[Neecy]

23. unbelievable....

He speaks of the "mainstream media" as though he doesn't whore for General Electric!

Earth to Chris...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. Has the "sunny nobility" of Bush's "glimmer" met that rainy day?

Whores aren't very faithful are they, when the political capital runs out.

[Canuckistanian]

26. More like "dim assholetry"

He's as sunny as a mugger in a thick fog at night.

[Tactical Progressive]

27. That was good. Eight more years of that from Matthews

and he might get back in my good graces.

[UrbScotty]

28. Did I just hear some oinking from up above?

It sounds like pigs are flying.

[mntleo2]

32. "They": were embedded Chris, What About YOU?

...ya rat bastard...you have no credibility. You are a media whore like the rest of them. Just admit it. You will not get away with pretending you are not just as much of a prostitute as any of them. "They" were embedded, yeah right. And where were YOU "embedded" Chris, except firmly and proudly right up just about every treasonous butt?

Thanks for being such a watchdog for free press, you f-ing piece of snake intestine.

God I hate these people!

Cat In Seattle