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Fifth Column
Canucks misquote Chris Matthews
2005-11-23
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

#4  I knew what the intent was anyhow. This attempt a image managemnt just fortifies it.

MSM = Treason
Posted by: Mahou Sensei Negi-bozu   2005-11-23 20:03  

#3  Sorry - I'm not gonna feel sorry for a member of the MSM when he or she crys that "I was misquoted" or "they put words in my mouth" That's what the MSM does every day.

Shoe on the other foot, tarred with the same brush, and all that...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2005-11-23 16:25  

#2  and a wise man you are, RC. Poor Mikey ... always on the short end of the truth.

the truth hurts

Update On Matthews: He Meant What We Thought He Did, That Terrorists "Just Have A Different Perspective"... He's Said As Much Before
More Than Loans remembered this post I did way back last November. It pretty much settles the question of what Chris Matthews meant in his latest outburst.

I was pretty much the only guy, as far as I know, to catch Chris Matthews making this statement a year ago; I transcribed his words directly from his show. It's a perfect translation; I remember going back and forth on the DVR to catch every word.

MATTHEWS: Well let me ask you about this. If this were on the other side, and we were watching an enemy soldier-- a rival, I mean, they're not bad guys especially, they're just people who disagree with you; they are in fact the insurgents fighting us in their country -- if we saw one of them do what we saw our guy did to that guy [i.e., shooting the playing-dead terrorist], would that be worthy of a war-crime charge?
Posted by: 2b   2005-11-23 16:01  

#1  Except that he's said the same thing -- about needing to understand terrorsts -- in the past.

I don't buy his denial. He's too much of a jerk for me to buy it without a transcript or (preferably) tape.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-11-23 15:48  

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