"Chris Matthews, Climb Down From Your High Horse"

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-meyer/chris-matthews-climb-down_b_581158.html

"Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general and a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, misrepresented his service record -- claiming to have served in Vietnam when, in fact, he did not.

Chris Matthews, on Hardball Tuesday night, had smoke blowing out his ears, condemning Blumenthal's misrepresentation as "unspeakable". Matthews couldn't contain his outrage -- "I don't know how you could lie about such a thing." The only moral course for Blumenthal, Matthews suggested, was to fall on his sword, and if he doesn't, then the Senate -- that body of high virtue and moral standards -- maybe should refuse to seat him if he's elected. "The United States Senate cannot take on the morally dead weight of this candidate without honor."

The writer's point is: Matthews got deferments too. He never served. So who is he to pass judgment on Mr. Blumenthal?

[babylonsister]

1. Can you post a few paras? Otherwise, I might as well find my info

at the link to begin with. Thx.

[The Wielding Truth]

2. Lawrence Meyer dissects the situation nicely.

[Lil Missy]

3. Mathews didn't LIE about serving.

[BrklynLiberal]

17. He didn't have to. He NEVER served. He also NEVER watched the entire video.

[sendero]

4. Frankly...

... I'm disturbed at all the stepford dems here trying to defend this maggot.

He LIED. Deal with it.

[butterfly77]

5. Yes, he lied but..

I didn't see Matthew telling Bush/Cheney to step off there high horses,he was afraid to..

[Enthusiast]

19. Yeah, he never challenged 'Dim-Son'.

Come on.

[Jennicut]

6. Yeah but do you live here in Connecticut? Tell me who to vote for then to

avoid McMahon as my Senator. That maggot is what Dems have right now. Also, you probably don't know much about Blumenthal. He does not have a rep as a sleazy scumbag. Never had anything like this in the last 20 years that I have been watching his career in CT. Chris Mattews is any better?

[Dawson Leery]

8. Half of those around here are just as bad as that Maggot Matthews

Schultz is also a Maggot for pushing this nonsense.

[Jennicut]

9. Well, it is up to those of us in CT. If he polls terribly, 10 points or more

behind McMahon that it might start to be an issue. I still say he weathers this and will be okay by the general election.
It does make me rethink ever telling anyone here what should be done in races in different states. You have to live in that state to understand the situation.

[Dawson Leery]

11. I agree.

Neither of us want to have McMahon :puke: as our Senator.

[UpInArms]

7. 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.

On May 1, 2003, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln aboard an S-3B Viking jet, emerged from the aircraft in full flight gear, and proceeded to "press[] flesh," as The Washington Post put it, as he shook hands and hugged crew members in front of the cameras. Later that day, Bush delivered a nationally televised speech from the deck of the Abraham Lincoln in which he declared that "ajor combat operations in Iraq have ended," all the while standing under a banner reading: "Mission Accomplished." Despite lingering questions over the continued violence in Iraq, the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction, and the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein, as well as evidence that Bush may have shirked his responsibilities in the Texas Air National Guard (TANG) during the Vietnam War, the print and televised media fawned over Bush's "grand entrance" and the image of Bush as the "jet pilot" and the "Fighter Dog."

:puke:

Matthews is a freakin' whore pig who only cares whether his ugly mug appears on television. His only motive is his own "stardom."

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Tweety seems to have been overcome with rage since realizing that his idol, Spector, lost.

[one_voice]

12. Ok, so it wasn't just me..

that thought Matthews looked as though he was going to be sick when the race was called for Sestak? I thought he was gonna cry.

[Dawson Leery]

13. Andrea Mitchell was speechless.

[UpInArms]

18. oooh! that makes me so happy! did she look as though someone

had stuck a sock in her ickly mouth?

what a freak she is - married to greenscum and still pimping the good line for the BFEE and the GOP

[Bitwit1234]

14. That wasn't the whole truth

Later in the tape he did not say served in Viet Nam he said he served in the Viet Nam area. And he said that when he said he served in Viet Nam the first time he meant to add era and mis spoke. The man wasn't trying to lie about anything and I think Matthews owes him an apology. McMahon edited the tape with the real part out.

[BrklynLiberal]

15. Here is entire tape.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/at_same_08_speech_blumenthal_more_correctly_descri.php?ref=fpb

At Same '08 Speech, Blumenthal More Correctly Describes Military Record (VIDEO)

Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a story about the ambiguous way Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal describes his military service. In the Times' strongest example of Blumenthal's misrepresentations, he says, "when I served in Vietnam."

But as the Associated Press points out today, in a longer version of the speech -- which has been posted on the YouTube page of one of Blumenthal's Republican opponents since the Times story broke -- the attorney general also describes his military service more accurately, saying he "served in the military during the Vietnam era, in the Marine Corps."

The more accurate description comes a couple minutes before the incorrect "I served in Vietnam." Although Blumenthal served in the Marine Corps Reserves for six years during the Vietnam War, he was never deployed overseas.

A spokesman for the Times did not immediately return a request for comment.

Watch the long version:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

20. The NY Times should run an article to correct it

[BrklynLiberal]

22. I would not hold my breath waiting for that to happen..

[BrklynLiberal]

16. This entire scurfuffle was a set up hit job by the McMahon Campaign.

Earlier today, the McMahon site was bragging about how they fed the story to Raymond Hernandez.
I heard Hernandez categorically deny he had gotten the story from McMahon..on two different radio shows this AM.
Hernandez sounded like he was almost in tears whining about all the "dogged research" he had done to get the story...
Guess the McMahon folks just could not resist gloating, and blew the whole scheme.

Obviously the repukes will do anything to win...and they even have some "democrats" going along with them

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8372579&mesg_id=8372841

Blumenthal made a mistake...but I would rather have his imperfect ass in the CT Senate seat than that **** McMahon and her cronies.

Blumenthal's record of supporting veterans, and their rights and post-war care speaks for itself.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8371567&mesg_id=8371784

AND

The video that was shown on the NYTimes site..and other places like Tweety's show...was incomplete.
How about watching the entire video.... ?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8369611&mesg_id=8369611


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/at_same_08_speech_blumenthal_more_correctly_descri.php?ref=fpb

At Same '08 Speech, Blumenthal More Correctly Describes Military Record (VIDEO)
Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a story about the ambiguous way Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal describes his military service. In the Times' strongest example of Blumenthal's misrepresentations, he says, "when I served in Vietnam."

But as the Associated Press points out today, in a longer version of the speech -- which has been posted on the YouTube page of one of Blumenthal's Republican opponents since the Times story broke -- the attorney general also describes his military service more accurately, saying he "served in the military during the Vietnam era, in the Marine Corps."

The more accurate description comes a couple minutes before the incorrect "I served in Vietnam." Although Blumenthal served in the Marine Corps Reserves for six years during the Vietnam War, he was never deployed overseas.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. I Haven't Thought That Much About It

Take out the protagonists. The point that you shouldn't make up a war record if you don't have one seems fairly unremarkable.