How They Do Debates

Our friends at Media Matters noticed that the MSNBC moderators take on a different style depending on who's debating. When the GOP is debating, the questions are softball. When the Democrats are debating, the questions are hard-hitting, suggestive, loaded, personal.

"When the Democrats debated, Brian Williams asked Barack Obama a loaded question about his ties to a controversial figure. But Rudy Giuliani's relationship with Bernard Kerik -- which could charitably be described as one of the most spectacular examples of poor judgment by a national figure in the past decade -- didn't even come up during the Republican debate. Chris Matthews didn't say a word. Nor did he ask John McCain about his role in the Keating Five scandal.

In fact, none of the Republican candidates got a single question about their business dealings, personal finances, or ties to controversial figures. Only Democrats got such questions."

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Topsy-Turvy Media World of Whores

The way it works is this. When President Clinton says he does not agree with Bush's decision to go to war, the media reports that he fully supports Bush's decision.

When Senator Clinton makes a speech from the Senate floor opposing Bush's threat to go to war, the media reports that she favors going to war.

Eventually, some of you will figure it out.

Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com seems to have figured it out.

"These Beltway media figures are not only completely vapid, shallow, and devoid of any objective other than to defend government leaders, but they are completely out of touch with the "Americans" whom they constantly invoke as props in order to depict their own biases and beliefs as being shared by the American mainstream.

In virtually every instance over the last six years -- from realizing that the country was misled into the invasion of Iraq to realizing that administration claims of success there were false to opposing the pardon of Lewis Libby by a wide margin -- Americans end up realizing the truth long before the national press comes close to it.

While our media stars continue to defend the administration, Americans have come to realize on their own just how profoundly inept and corrupt this President is. The President's real "base" -- his most loyal followers -- are not red state Republicans, but instead, are Norah O'Donnell and Gloria Borger and the stable of media elite feeding at the Republican power trough, boundlessly worshipful of those who fill it, and eager to defend them at all costs."

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More Whoring from Matthews

''Is Hillary willing to say she's against the war?'' - Chris Matthews - March 25, 2007

Uh, yes, Chris. She ALREADY said that in October, 2002.

''So Mr. President, for all its appeal, a unilateral attack, while it cannot be ruled out, on the present facts is not a good option.'' - Floor Speech of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on S.J. Res. 45, A Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq - As Delivered

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Matthews - Media Whore

With Chris Matthews, his plan seems to be, when all else fails in his effort to smear Senator Clinton, just lie about her.

On his March 19 Hardball, Matthews stated, "Hillary Clinton said this weekend that she wants a permanent base over there. ... She made a very clear statement this weekend we cannot take our troops out of Iraq."

Matthews is simply lying, of course. She never said any such thing.

The good folks at Media Matters looked into it, and this is what they report:

"Matthews appeared to be referring to the Iraq position Clinton outlined in a lengthy March 13 interview with The New York Times in which she explained that she would, according to a March 15 Times article on the interview, "keep a reduced military force there [in Iraq] to fight Al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military" as part of her troop-withdrawal plan. Clinton did not, in the Times interview or elsewhere, say she wanted to keep U.S. troops in Iraq "permanently" or that she supported a "permanent base" in Iraq. A Media Matters for America search of the Nexis database did not turn up any instances of Clinton stating support for "permanent" U.S. troops in Iraq (search string Hillary w/2 Clinton and permanent!)."

There is no lie so bold these media whores will not tell in their effort to destroy Senator Clinton.

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