Why do Tweety and the MSM continue to miss this BIG Cheney lie?

[Elwood P Dowd]

This may have been covered already since I've only read a few posts tonight. During Tweety's afternoon show their was a clip of Cheney from 2003 saying he had never heard of Wilson and never met Wilson. That was a lie. Wilson was quite the talk of the Bush 41 cabinet when he stood up to Saddam during the Baghdad embassy crisis in 1990. Cheney also was at the ceremony when Bush 41 gave Wilson an award. Cheney knew all about Joe Wilson.

[unschooler]

1. Sorry. Who's "Tweety"?

[Olney Blue]

4. Tweety is the DU term for Chris Matthews of Hardball on MSNBC.

He looks a little like Tweety bird!

[unschooler]

5. Oh. Thanks. I don't get much afternoon TV in. Is he the one they parody

a lot on "Saturday Night Live"?

[thebigidea]

6. he's the one who parodies himself.

[unschooler]

9. I really must check into a hotel for a week and watch all of these

cable news shows....

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. He's the one

Tweety also has a show at 7:00 PM EDT on MSNBC

[Olney Blue]

15. He also has a show on Sunday on NBC (not cable).

[Metta]

2. They're on the take.

That's why.

[ClassWarrior]

3. Why do some DUers continue to miss this Radical RW lie?

That the Corporate Media are "mainstream."

Please don't call "the MSM."

NGU.

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. Okay, I'll call them the corporate media from now on.

:) That's what I use to call 'em until I joined DU, but everyone on here always referred to them as MSM.

[ClassWarrior]

14. Thank you. That's the power of framing. It catches on like a virus.

NGU.

[unschooler]

7. Wasn't Wilson appointed by 41? I wouldn't think they'd miss

their own ambasssador to a country they went to war against!

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. That's right

Cheney knew all about Joe Wilson, and I'm sure he knew all about his wife.

[wishlist]

10. They haven't made it clear Wilson got kudos working for Bush 41

Media have been too busy spreading the RW talking points tearing down Wilson's credibility and character and motives to bother informing viewers about him standing up to Saddam and being awarded and praised by Bush 41.

[unschooler]

17. Of course, Joe's (heroic) character is beside the point. Outing a

CIA agent is a crime regardless of what her husband is like.

[goforit]

12. I do believe they have been threatenned to pimp the message.

[Roland99]

16. Remember Cheney lying during the debates about not meeting Edwards?

Pathological, he is.

[emulatorloo]

18. Tweety said that Cheney obviously knew who Wilson was at the time

He showed the MTP clip over and over. . .I don't think he is "missing the BIG Cheney lie."

He kept picking at it trying to get his guests to say something about it.

He said Cheney obviously knew who Wilson was yet Cheney has remained silent all this time.

Why has Cheney not stepped forward and cleared this up, Matthews said over and over.