Tweety Praises Trump For Going After Bush for 9/11 - Dems ‘Never Had the Stones’

[kpete]

Matthews Praises Trump for Going After Bush on 9/11: Dems ‘Never Had the Stones’
by Josh Feldman | 8:44 pm, October 19th, 2015

Chris Matthews opened tonight’s Hardball by practically applauding Donald Trump for going after George W. Bush over 9/11, something he said Democrats “never had the stones” to do.

Matthews said Trump finally argued what everyone has been yearning to say for years: Bush “didn’t keep us safe”and 9/11 is a pretty huge reason why. He claimed for years the Bushes and their allies said it just wasn’t proper to question whether the administration didn’t do its due diligence in keeping the nation safe leading up to 9/11.

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He continued, “The Democrats never had the stones to go out and challenge George W… because they probably felt that would be un-nice. Trump isn’t un-nice, he’s willing to be tough.”


Video & more:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/matthews-praises-trump-for-going-after-bush-on-911-dems-never-had-the-stones/

[leveymg]

1. Sometimes Tweety shows signs of intelligent life.

[malaise]

11. Why didn't he raise it to any of the Democrats on his program?

Why didn't he challenge Bushco on this subject until recently. We've discussed this several times on DU.

[Act_of_Reparation]

41. If you consider jumping on the badwagon intelligent, sure.

Back in 2001, it was difficult to tell precisely where Bush's ass ended and Chris Hardball's lips began. Today, he slams Democrats for not having the stones to do what he didn't have the stones to do.

Seriously. Fuck Chris Matthews.

[redstateblues]

2. Sad commentary on the left

that it took a buffoon like Trump to call out Bushco on this scam

[Octafish]

3. ABSOLUTELY TRUE.

Well, some on DU were willing to buck up. Bartcop, Smirking Chimp and a few others, too. Too few, though, when it came to the Democratic leadership; and that's where Tweety hits home.



PS: Paul Wellstone DID oppose these traitors.

[underpants]

4. Uh Chris, do YOU maybe know someone in the TV "news" business

who could've maybe sort of brought this point up somewhere in the last 14 years? Anyone? Anything ringing a bell for ya there Chris?

[Sanity Claws]

12. Is this an allusion to Phil Donahue?

Whom Tweety is allegedly responsible for getting fired?

[underpants]

15. No, it was pointed at Tweety

Not only did he not bring it up (career protection) he gushingly praised W every chance he got.

[Octafish]

16. The trickle up the leg was a tell.

But, now, the BFEE brand is not what it was. Change is in the air. Someone less obviously PNAC-y...

[certainot]

25. yes, while also helping cheerlead us into the war.

all prominent critics of the iraq attack, bush, and the aftermath were attacked by the rove machine and it was spectacularly effective intimidating msm and its tweeties. got dan rather fired too, and i'd like to see the movie with redford about rather and mapes- limbaugh has been criticizing it defensively.

he and 1000 radio stations rove used to attack rather and all the other critics were the most important part of the attack machine and talk radio is largely why we still waste so much time on benghazi and still deny global warming- not talk radio's little brother fox.

one of these days the left will wake up and stop ignoring the right's best weapon and we'll be able to move forward again.

guys like him might have second thoughts, like now apparently, but the fascists would be a lot less intimidating if americans stopped letting them blast the country with that talk radio PSYOPS all day.

[treestar]

5. It's one thing to do it in 2015

And another in 2002.

Did Tweety, who claims to be a Democrat, say anything like this back in the days after 911? No, he was tingling over Bush, or something. So he is one to talk.

[kpete]

9. Cheerleader

Chief among the cheerleaders was MSNBC's Chris Matthews. On the May 1, 2003, edition of Hardball, Matthews was joined in his effusive praise of Bush by right-wing pundit Ann Coulter and "Democrat" Pat Caddell. Former U.S. Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-CA) also appeared on the program.:

MATTHEWS: The president there -- look at this guy! We're watching him. He looks like he flew the plane. He only flew it as a passenger, but he's flown --

CADDELL: He looks like a fighter pilot.

MATTHEWS: He looks for real. What is it about the commander in chief role, the hat that he does wear, that makes him -- I mean, he seems like -- he didn't fight in a war, but he looks like he does.

CADDELL: Yes. It's a -- I don't know. You know, it's an internal thing. I don't know if you can put it into words. [...] You can see it with him and the troops, the ease with which he talks to them. I was amazed by that, frankly, because as I said, I was originally appalled, particularly when I heard he was going in an F-18. But -- on there -- but the -- but you know, that was --

MATTHEWS: Look at this guy!

CADDELL: -- was hard not to be moved by their reaction to him and his reaction to them and --

MATTHEWS: You know, Ann --

CADDELL: -- you know, they -- it's a quality. It's an innate quality. It's a real quality.

MATTHEWS: I know. I think you're right.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/04/27/mission-accomplished-a-look-back-at-the-medias/135513

[SoapBox]

23. It's enough to make one sick.

I can't stand Matthews...he's all over the map...it gives me whiplash.

[geardaddy]

28. ^^This^^

[yardwork]

47. Vomit. I remember it all.

[hifiguy]

54. Pass the barf bag,

and make it a BIG one. Grocery-bag sized.

[Skittles]

51. yes, Chris was salvating over Bush codpiece

but Obama told us all we needed to LOOK FORWARD which was a bunch of BULLSHIT

[City Lights]

6. Chris is right, but no one in the media had the "stones" to do it either. nt

[whathehell]

18. Bingo!

We have a winner.

[bullwinkle428]

21. My very first reaction when I saw the OP title.

[d_legendary1]

39. Absolutely Correct!

If anything they were blaming Bill Clinton for not killing Osama Bin Laden, which why 9/11 happened. And don't even get me started on the whole "casket blackout" thing...

[gratuitous]

50. Chris is right, except for one minor quibble

Any Democrat who did indeed have the stones to challenge the official version of events didn't get to be on Chris' program for some reason. Or if they did get on, there was a panel of at least three as counterbalance, as well as the baying spittle of the host to contend with and try to talk over.

It's just a total mystery why nobody ever brought this up before T Rump started yammering.

[AngryAmish]

7. During his 2000 campaign, Bush2 called for less screening of Arab men in airports

How did that work out?

[Stuart G]

8. This needs to be seen by millions.

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And just as important, many others in the media need to the same thing..

[leftupnorth]

10. I watched the whole Iraq debacle unfold real time. I often wondered if dems were complicit or

Just cowards. Then I wondered which was worse.

Still haven't comemto a conclusion on that...

[Thespian2]

31. Thanks

I had a similar reaction...complicit or cowards...


These days, Democrats seem to work very diligently...to lose...

[leftupnorth]

32. The Detroit Lions of politics.

I can say that, because I'm from the Mitten. Lol.

[marmar]

13. Tweety didn't either until he could sense a change in wind direction.

[ronnie624]

34. Yep.

In the months following 9/11, he became unwatchable to me.

[Zambero]

14. Trump's motive is not getting at the truth

It has more to do with capitalizing on very palpable Bush Fatigue, and thereby destroying the credibility of Jeb "My brother kept us safe" Bush. Getting him out of the way once and for all as was done with Walker and Perry, and then moving on to the next target.

[SoapBox]

24. He could care less about the "truth".

It's all about him and advancing himself.

And America falls for it.

[olegramps]

17. All he needs to do is look in the mirror to see chicken shit journalist.

The Fourth Estate has totally failed the citizens. They allow FOX to spread outright lies without one word of challenge just as they did during the run up to the Iraq war. In this regard Obama also failed us. He refused to investigate an evil administration that cost nearly 5,000 American service people the lives and left tens of thousand devastating injuries that will ultimately cost trillions of dollars. The loss of Iraq civilian lives is staggering. The media still refuses to challenge Cheney and call him out as a damn lying bastard as he goes for station to station spreading his propaganda.

[Duval]

19. I may like Matthews again!! eom

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

20. "it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility."

Tell us about stones, tweety.

[napkinz]

22. Bill Maher and Chris Matthews Tear Into Jeb: "How Can He Get Away with Saying W Kept Us Safe?!"

[rufus dog]

26. I believe I could spend five minutes and find some...likely Grayson

But I ain't your Monkey Boy Tweet.

Fuck him and his kind.

He provided cover for the bullshit stories, and if true, had Donahue tossed.

Again FUCK OFF Tweety

[niyad]

27. I'm sorry, tweety, did I miss the parts where YOU called the bush cabal to task any time since

sept 11 2001? I don't recall ever hearing about you doing so here on du, for example. DID hear an awful lot about that funny feeling in your leg, though.

[Paladin]

29. Tweety was too busy wanking off over Dubya's flight suit, after that carrier landing.

"Mission Accomplished" my ass.

[niyad]

30. that pic always makes me ill, on so many levels.

[ronnie624]

35. *

[Paladin]

36. I hear that flight suit is prominently displayed at Dubya's museum in Dallas....

....sacred codpiece and all. That's what I hear from acquaintances, you understand---I've never visited that museum, nor will I ever.

[niyad]

37. they could not pay me to set foot in that place.

[deutsey]

44. Here are some real gems

http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/04/27/mission-accomplished-a-look-back-at-the-medias/135513

MATTHEWS: What do you make of the actual visual that people will see on TV and probably, as you know, as well as I, will remember a lot longer than words spoken tonight? And that's the president looking very much like a jet, you know, a high-flying jet star. A guy who is a jet pilot. Has been in the past when he was younger, obviously. What does that image mean to the American people, a guy who can actually get into a supersonic plane and actually fly in an unpressurized cabin like an actual jet pilot?

[...]

MATTHEWS: Do you think this role, and I want to talk politically [...], the president deserves everything he's doing tonight in terms of his leadership. He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics. Do you think he is defining the office of the presidency, at least for this time, as basically that of commander in chief? That [...] if you're going to run against him, you'd better be ready to take [that] away from him.

MATTHEWS: We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a [Russian Federation President Vladimir] Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.

[Paladin]

45. Even worse than I recalled---especially that last one.

And Chris Matthews thinks he has standing to lecture Democrats about a lack of "stones" when it comes to Dubya? Fuck that.

[Stainless]

33. Chris Matthews is a Pathetic Hypocrite

He was a cheerleader for Bush during the entire fiasco of his presidency.

[Geronimoe]

38. So is Hillary

Yet some how she is the front runner, inevitable candidate. Something is very wrong.

[librechik]

40. Tweety never had the stones either

does he think he has enough cover to tell the truth now?

[B Calm]

52. My thoughts too!

[Deadshot]

42. I clearly remember Jon Stewart and Michael Moore going after Bush about 9/11.

But Matthews is right, not a single Democrat did.

[geek tragedy]

43. Says the guy who swooned over Bush's aircraft carrier landing nt

[Vinca]

46. I think I'm going to jump off a bridge. I agree with both Tweety and the Donald.

[Efilroft Sul]

48. All you need to remember about the Democrats' courage is...

...that when it came time for a joint session of Congress to certify the 2000 presidential election results on January 6, 2001, not one damn Senate Democrat stood with the Congressional Black Caucus. Had just one Senator done so, it would've forced Congress to adjourn, and each house would have had to overcome the CBC's objection by simple majority votes.

Only the CBC had courage then, but most people didn't know it and still don't know it.

[Stuart G]

49. thanks for posting. nt

[hifiguy]

53. Would it be impolite to point out

that Tweety spent years publicly fellating Cheney 'n' the Chimp and talking about the thrill running down his leg?

No?

Then consider it pointed out.

[napkinz]

55. Dems never had the Stones, but the Stones had the Repugs ... "Sweet Neo Con"