Canucks misquote Chris Matthews
From today's "Best of the Web." Emphasis added.
As we suspected, Chris Matthews says the Canadian Press distorted his comments at a Toronto appearance, which we noted yesterday. In an e-mail to RedState.org, the "Hardball" host writes:
I told the students that my way to deal with terrorists was to do what Golda Meir did after the killing of Israeli athletes at the Olympics: track them down and kill them one by one and be rough about it.
I don't know why the reporter chose to ignore my clear statement was the appropriate response to terorism [sic], why he chose to skip to my strong belief that we need to get behind this massive hatred we're facing in the Muslim world.
Check with the University for confirmation. I was invited by the political science students. I'm pretty sure they taped it because that had an audi-visual [sic] person there putting on my microphone.
Anyway there were many witnesses who can recall what I said if somebody asks.
There's plenty of other things to criticize Chris Matthews about, but if you're gonna slag him when he's wrong, you've got to be willing to give him props when he's right. He gets this part right. Shame on the reported for distorting his comments like that.
Posted by: Mike 2005-11-23 |