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August 23, 2004

Chris Matthews Update

Looks like the liberals' first defense -- "These are all lies cooked up by Bush partisans" -- has jumped the shark.

Matthews' new defense sounds suspiciously like a variant of "Let's move on." First deny, then claim it doesn't "rise to the bar" and doesn't "affect his job performance." As Pat Buchanan states that John Kerry lied about being in Cambodia, the Blonde Blatherer can only offer, "I'm not interested in that issue at all."

On the other hand, Matthers finds an "inconsistency" in Bob Dole's attack on Kerry. He finds a chapter in Bob Dole's biography in which Dole was wounded by shrapnel by his own poorly-tossed grenade and was then given a Purple Heart. Thus, Chrissy asserts, Bob Dole should understand the sometimes vague nature of Purple Hearts. (BTW, this was not the more-serious injury that resulted in the permanent impairment of his right arm.)

Newstwit Matthews seems to miss the fact that Bob Dole's account downplayed any suggestion of heroism in this action, and in fact denigrated his actions by calling his injury his own fault. He poked fun at himself, and his own clumsiness, even as he related the story of him being wounded.

The difference between Bob Dole and John Kerry is that John Forbes Kerry, and not Robert J. Dole, has turned a minor self-inflicted wound into a glorious spectacle deserving of a Roman Triumphal parade.


posted by Ace at 07:25 PM
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How is the Cambodia issue not interesting? Didn't Kerry claim that it was the turning point of his life, the moment of enlightenment upon which he based all future decisions?

Posted by: Scout on August 23, 2004 07:45 PM

I wonder if Dole had to go around his commander and file the paperwork himself to receive his purple heart. And was Dole's injury treated w/ a band-aid?

Posted by: Golden Boy on August 23, 2004 10:00 PM

Absolutely Scout, the memory was seared into his brain in fact.

Posted by: Joe R. on August 23, 2004 10:00 PM

Is it just me or does the way Kerry's supporters make excuses for him sound like the rationalizations of a abused woman defending her boyfriend's behavior.

"It doesn't matter what he did or said back then. He really Loves me."

Posted by: Eric Pobirs on August 24, 2004 01:45 AM

Freudian Slip Alert! Ace, dude, you called Matthews 'Mathers' in the 3rd graph. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm as eager as the next guy to hear what the Beaver has to say about the lying sack of shit, er, I mean Kerry's Viet Nam experience. But, golly gee Mr Ace, using another guys name when you're talking about a spit-spraying ass-wipe like Chris Mathews is pretty harsh.

Posted by: Dacotti on August 24, 2004 10:17 AM

Chris Matthews looked like a beaten man last night. Brinkley came across as a hopeless Kerry shill. Sarnow meandered aimlessly through the fog of war so badly that Matthews just kept cutting him off.

Posted by: Tongue Boy on August 24, 2004 11:59 AM

Interviewer: Mr. Matthews, just a moment ago you said on camera that you didn't drink the koolaid.

Matthews: "I don't see how that-"

Interviewer: Yet in an internal corporate memo dated one hour ago, you wrote, 'I, Christopher Matthews, drank the koolaid and I can report that it is tasty and satisfying, cool and delicious.'

Matthews: "That is an unsubstantiated rumor."

Interviewer: You had the memo notarized, for some reason. And here is a picture of you posing with other staff in the lunch room this afternoon.

Matthews: (yawns)

Interviewer: You are all holding dixie cups of bright red liquid. Here is a picture of you drinking the red liquid, and a picture of all of you sticking out your bright-red tinted tongues at the camera. It proves conclusively that you are all going to die wretchedly, and soon.

Matthews: "I'm not interested in that issue at all."

Posted by: lauraw on August 24, 2004 12:03 PM

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Yaaaay.

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