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Chris Matthews says liberal ad on TV lies when in fact it's 100% accurate


Chris Matthews claimed on his show this evening that a Democratic ad about the Jack Abramoff scandal was factually incorrect. In fact, the ad was not just absolutely true, but Matthews' claims about what the ad actually said were the lie (or incredibly sloppy journalism on Matthews' part).

Here is the Hardball transcript I just wrote down while watching my recording of tonight's broadcast:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Have you noticed in the Democrat ad though they do a close-up on Tom Delay and they said "bribery"? Well that's not a charge against Tom Delay. His charge is this thing about hard money/soft money, it's a political little bit of a fandango but nobody's accused him yet of bribery, but that ad sure does.

DANA MILBANK, WASHINGTON POST: Right, but nobody holds these ads to any sort of standard at all...

CHRIS MATTHEWS: You say [unintelligible]. You're not the target for one of these things.

DANA MILBANK: There's no standard for accuracy or truth in these things, it's all about what innuendo you can put out there...

ANNE KORNBLUTT: I mean, can anybody say "Swift Boat."

Swift Boat, indeed.

If you actually watch the ad, and Matthews conveniently shows the ad as an introduction to the discussion above, you clearly hear the announcer say the word "bribery" on the close-up of Jack Abramoff - who was in fact convicted of bribery. The ad does not, as Matthews claims, say "bribery" for the close-up of Tom Delay. Rather, the ad clearly says "indicted for money laundering" during the close-up of Tom Delay, which is also correct. So the ad was 100% correct, but Matthews savaged it for something it never even said, then permitted his guests to accuse the ad's liberal creators of pulling a "Swift Boat."

Whether an intentional lie, or sloppy journalism, Matthews yet again skewers the left by skewing to the right.

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....."liberal Media" my fucking ass!!!

Chris Matthews is a Rightwing Media Toady?

Originally posted by Brooks
Chris Matthews is a Rightwing Media Toady?

To belabor the obvious..........yes.

To the right of you is not necessarily right wing.

to him Sean Penn is probably a Bush lacky sent to iraq to spread neocon propaganda

Originally posted by Brooks
To the right of you is not necessarily right wing.

True.

But Matthews --like the majority of status-quo toadies in the mainstream Media-- can be counted upon to consistently provide the spin that paints the controlling right wing in the most favorable light and that minimizes or hides or obscures any wrongdoing on their part while at the same time incessantly criticizing, villifying and spreading lies about people who are not on board with the far-Right agenda.

I tell you what,the right wing does a crappy job of using its toadies in the media to spread its message. perhaps they are using reverse pyschology on us.

Originally posted by Travh20
I tell you what,the right wing does a crappy job of using its toadies in the media to spread its message.

Quite the contrary. It does a masterful job of it. It has been doing a superlative job of it for over 50 years, since the advent of widespread television ownership.

The complete control of the major media outlets and the mainstream dissemination of information to the masses by the dominant (extreme RightWing) political faction is the very foundation and cornerstone of the socio/political system that America operates under.

The pro-militarist, pro-war, anti-democratic, anti-environmentalist, anti-human political cabal in Washington now exists to fulfill one primary purpose; facilitating the efficient tranfer of immense sums of money (currently around a half trillion dollars) each year (in the form of taxes) from the poor and working classes to the wealthy elites who own and operate the military/Industrial complex.

The control of the dissemination of information (IOW, the use of the mainstream Dis-Info-Tainment complex) to inform and instruct the great unwashed masses as to what they should think) is the key to keeping the Prosperous Few in power over the Restless Many.

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“The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.” — Michael Parenti
political scientist.

do you own a TV?

Originally posted by Freethinker
Quite the contrary. It does a masterful job of it. It has been doing a superlative job of it for over 50 years, since the advent of widespread television ownership.

The complete control of the major media outlets and the mainstream dissemination of information to the masses by the dominant (extreme RightWing) political faction is the very foundation and cornerstone of the socio/political system that America operates under.

The pro-militarist, pro-war, anti-democratic, anti-environmentalist, anti-human political cabal in Washington now exists to fulfill one primary purpose; facilitating the efficient tranfer of immense sums of money (currently around a half trillion dollars) each year (in the form of taxes) from the poor and working classes to the wealthy elites who own and operate the military/Industrial complex.

The control of the dissemination of information (IOW, the use of the mainstream Dis-Info-Tainment complex) to inform and instruct the great unwashed masses as to what they should think) is the key to keeping the Prosperous Few in power over the Restless Many.
Gore Vidal, anyone???

Originally posted by The Praetorian
Gore Vidal, anyone???

One of the greatest thinkers and most astute political observers of the past two hundred years.
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"Now to the root of the matter. The great unmentionable evil at the center of American culture is monotheism. From a barbaric
Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament,three anti-human religions have evolved---Judaism,Christianity and Islam. These are
the sky-god religions. They are,literally,patriarchal---God is the omnipotent father---hence the loathing of women for 2000 years in
those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. The sky-god is a jealous god,of course. He requires
total obedience from everyone on Earth,as he is in place not just for one tribe,but for all creation. Those who would reject him
must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately,totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can
truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth.
One God, one King, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home."______Gore Vidal