Tweety making false statements

[ProSense]

Matthews mischaracterized polls showing people trust Democrats on taxes and claimed "nobody has ever accused the Democrats of tax cutting"

Summary: Continuing to mischaracterize polls showing that the public prefers Democrats over Republicans on handling taxes, Chris Matthews acknowledged that "the latest polling shows that people trust Democrats more" on taxes, but still stated that the polls referred to "tax cutting" and suggested that the results were surprising because "nobody has ever accused the Democrats of tax cutting." In fact, the polls asked more broadly about tax policy, not merely "tax cutting," and contrary to Matthews's suggestion that Democrats do not cut taxes, numerous Democrats have enacted or proposed tax cuts in recent years.

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Further, contrary to Matthews's statement that "nobody has ever accused the Democrats of tax cutting," many Democrats have enacted or proposed tax cuts recently. For example, during his run for president, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) proposed making middle class tax cuts permanent, advocated for an education tax credit, a 5-percent reduction in corporate tax rates, and tax credits for health insurance, among others. Other recent examples, according to a February 20 Associated Press article, include Gov. Brad Henry's (D-OK) proposal to cut taxes on retirees, Gov. Bill Richardson's (D-NM) proposed income tax cuts, and Gov. Janet Napolitano's (D-AZ) proposal for $100 million in tax cuts for various programs. A 2003 tax plan proposed by Senate Democrats would have given middle-income taxpayers an average tax cut of $542. In 1996, former President Bill Clinton proposed a budget with "about $100 billion in tax cuts for the middle class" according to a March 20, 1996, New York Times article (subscription required). Clinton's budget included a tuition tax deduction of up to $5,000 per family. In 1997, Clinton also signed The Taxpayer Relief Act, a bill cutting taxes by $152 billion, including a $500-per-child tax credit, a cut in the capital gains tax, and additional tax incentives for education.

more...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604010002

From a link in the article:

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/1000634_KerryPlan.pdf

[globalvillage]

1. There will come a time

when people will only have to hear the name Chris Matthews and break out in fits of laughter. Same with Imus.
This crap will catch up with them both some day.

[sandnsea]

2. Watch today's show...

Be sure and have blood pressure medication, tylenol or a drink handy; maybe all three. So so horrible I can't even talk about. I suppose Media Matters will rip it up satisfactorily soon enough.

[JI7]

4. i can't watch the asshole

sometimes he says something and people on DU will start with "OMG Tweety is turning on Bush".

but it never lasts. it was just one statement, probably meant to keep some of the lbieral audience since the right wing is mostly glued to Fox.

but the guy has some serious personal issues when it comes to Democrats. it's not about his own political beliefs as is the case with Scarborough and some others. but rather a personal offense from the time Clinton turned him down for a job in his administration. now he hates all Democrats.

i remember during the bush flight suit stunt he actually said something like "can you imagine what Kerry woudl look like in a uniform". even that idiot Coulter who he was talking to was smart enough to not respond to that one.

[sandnsea]

5. It's background noise at my house

A channel gets turned on in the morning and pretty much stays there. If I'm home alone, I usually flip to HGTV or sometimes C-Span. My boys will flip to sports, and then promptly leave and there I am, watching sports center 3 hours later, and saying WTF! The only other choice is talk shows or repeats of sitcoms all day, no thank you. So the happy compromise is MSNBC. I really need to learn to start turning on music because those idiots just make my blood boil. I know Matthews is absolutely hopeless, but today he had on Crawford and Ron Reagan and they weren't any better. All guffawing over the security plan. I changed the channel on that one. And now Eleanor Clift has a security article too. Do you think if Clark, Kerry, Murtha, Kerrey, Harkin, Gore, Hackett, et al, suited up and went and got Bin Laden themselves that it would be enough to shut these mofos up. Gads.

[ginnyinWI]

8. nothing will shut up people who have an agenda

If those Dems did take out OBL personally, they'd be derided as political opportunists or something. You know they would be.

I'm upset today after seeing a lawyer named Joshua Denbeaux on Washington Journal. He's an atty. for a couple of detainees at Gitmo. These people might spend the rest of their lives there in horrible conditions--innocent people who were simply in the wrong place in the wrong time. People swept up at a time when the U.S. was paying a bounty for people. Four years and counting...

Why can't some of these chuckleheads on cable news get upset at something like this? Something worth paying attention to? Oh--I guess that would mean doing some actual WORK.

[TayTay]

6. He said that about Sen. Kerry

Damn! Kerry probably still fits into his uniform. That nice white dress Navy one. Oh geez, I mean, oh my.

What was I saying? Oh yeah, Tweety is insane. Bush wore a cod-piece on the fake Mission Accomplished thing and he looked crappy in his flight suit, like a little kid playing dress-up. Besides, he never earned the right to wear that very smart looking Navy Officers dress whites. Oh my, oh my, oh my.

What were you saying? Oh yeah, Tweety has a man-crush on GW. He has exceptionally poor taste in men. Honestly. "Can you imagine what Kerry woudl look like in a uniform." Ahm, yes, but then I have to take a shower.

[ginnyinWI]

9. yup--a man crush is a good word for it

also another word: unaccountable. He is unaccountable for everything he says. It doesn't need to be true--it only needs to generate ratings. This is what passes for news on tv today!

[karynnj]

12. Presidents wear suits - and from the debates, we saw who looked

far better in a suit. That one had a suit jacket that wrinkled weirdly in the back gets special minus points.

Kerry would likely look better in any type of clothing than Bush. Also, he could have actually flown the plane, rather than pretending he could.

[ProSense]

3. Did this week not happen?

Time to Take a Stand
Democrats have good reason to fear being tagged the antiwar party. But that doesn’t mean they should be afraid of bold steps.

Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek
Updated: 3:42 p.m. ET March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006 - Democrats released their national-security plan this week. Like the proverbial talking dog, it’s not so much what it says, but that it says anything at all. Democrats have been in a defensive crouch for so long that when Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid previewed the plan at a breakfast with print reporters, he felt compelled to say that “Democrats are just as patriotic as Republicans”—as though that were in dispute.

more...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12098907/site/newsweek

[_dynamicdems]

7. Matthews sold his soul long ago.

He's not only a right-wing shill, he's making money doing it.

I've been collecting a series of links about Tweety on the Media Whores page of my Web site. http://www.dynamicdems.com/mediawhores.htm#matthews

The article you posted shows that the boycott of Matthews has not caused him to repent in the least. (This is a good find and I'm going to add it to the Media Whores page.) He's still lying and distorting. Gee, why does that sound so familiar?

Prediction: his show is going to lose popularity and he's going to be replaced by a "new kid on the block" who is younger and more brash and more liberal. Just a hunch.

edit: anyone with a Web page should link to this site
http://openlettertochrismatthews.blogspot.com/

[ginnyinWI]

10. Olbermann's ratings are going up.

Maybe that will give NBC a clue.

[_dynamicdems]

11. Maybe. I really liked Olbermann's show until he virtually ignored the

filibuster effort. After that, I gave up on MSNBC entirely.