Matthews cut short Schumer quote, omitting gist of concern over ports deal

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200602270006

Summary: Chris Matthews cropped a quote by Sen. Charles Schumer to suggest that Schumer had simply denied that his concerns about the Bush Administration's ports deal arose from any "anti-Arab suspicion." Schumer, as quoted by Matthews, said that his concern about the ports agreement "is not because the UAE is an Arab country." However, in Schumer's next sentence, which Matthews left out, Schumer spelled out the reason for his concern about the agreement -- he said it was "because the UAE has had involvements with terrorism."

On the nationally syndicated Chris Matthews Show, during a discussion of whether racism is a motivation for critics of a deal to allow a company owned by the government of Dubai -- a member state of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- to manage terminals at six U.S. ports, host Chris Matthews cropped a quote by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) to suggest falsely that the senator had simply denied -- without explanation -- that his concerns about the deal arose from any "anti-Arab suspicion," as Matthews put it. Schumer, as quoted by Matthews, said that his concern about the ports agreement "is not because the UAE is an Arab country." However, in Schumer's next sentence, which Matthews left out, Schumer spelled out the reason for his concern about the agreement -- he said it was "because the UAE has had involvements with terrorism."

From the February 26 broadcast of the syndicated Chris Matthews Show:

MATTHEWS: This week's port fight was yet another east-west culture clash, with Congress railing against an Arab takeover of America's ports. Some specifically denied that that had anything do with anti-Arab suspicion. Here's Senator Chuck Schumer of New York:

SCHUMER

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1. Don't worry, BEB, Tweety is part of the group of Bush worshippers who will

be held accountable

"""To take away the excuse," he said, "that we didn't know." So that two or four or ten years from now, if somebody should ask, "Where were you, Conyers, and where was the United States Congress?" when the Bush Administration declared the Constitution inoperative and revoked the license of parliamentary government, none of the company now present can plead ignorance or temporary insanity, can say that "somehow it escaped our notice" that the President was setting himself up as a supreme leader exempt from the rule of law."" from

The Case for Impeachment
By Lewis H. Lapham
Harper's Magazine
Monday 27 February 2006

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022706C.shtml

They will ALL be held to account ! They ALL knew and sat on their hands or twirled their hair, while Rome burned.

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2. Wonder if he got his "subpoena" from Fitz yet?

Read on an earlier post that the Judge has allowed for more reporters to be called to testify! Remember Chris 's statement on TV that Rove called him bragging that "Plame was fair game"? Then Chris immediately called Joe Wilson to inform him!!!

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3. He also cut McMahon off when he was trying to explain about

the breaking (at the time of taping) CG story (watching now). Cherry-pick much, Tweety?