BILL MAHER HAD AN INTERESTING PROGRAM ON THE OTHER NIGHT.
I
SAY INTERESTING IN QUOTES.
THERE IS A LOT I DISAGREE WITH
ON THE PROGRAM.
WHAT IS INTERESTING IS THAT THEY HAD A
SEPARATE ARGUMENT ABOUT HOW THE MEDIA COVERED THE IRAQ WAR.
JORGE RAMOS WAS TRYING TO MAKE A GOOD POINT ABOUT HOW THE MEDIA
WAS COMPLIANT WITH GEORGE W. BUSH.
THAT IS NEARLY INARGUABLE
AT THIS POINT, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE MEDIA WENT ALONG
WITH IT, EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES WRITING NONSENSE STORIES ABOUT
HOW HE HAD WEAPONS OF MASS ATTRACTION, WAS LINKED TO AL
QAEDA WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE FABRICATED, AND THE MEDIA WENT
ALONG WITH IT.
IN FACT CHRIS MATTHEWS WAS AT MSNBC, AND MSNBC
FIRED PHIL DONAHUE AND IN AN INTERNAL MEMO SAID WE COULDN'T
HAVE THAT GUY OPPOSED TO THE WAR WHILE THE REST OF THE MEDIA WAS
WAVING THE FLAG.
THAT WAS HIS COMPANY AT THAT TIME.
NONETHELESS, THEY WILL SHOUT DOWN JORGE RAMOS AND SAY NO,
THEY WERE AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR ALL ALONG.
THEY WILL BE SHOCKED
AT HIS COMMENTS.
WE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE.
AS JOURNALISTS IT WAS PARTLY OUR RESPONSIBILITY, WE WERE
SILENT.
THAT IS NOT TRUE.
KEEP THAT WE TO YOURSELF.
WE OPPOSED THE WAR.
THE WE
DOESN'T WORK HERE.
WE WEREN'T FOR THE WAR.
THE FACT IS THAT AS JOURNALISTS WE DIDN'T
CHALLENGE IT AS WE SHOULD HAVE.
I OPPOSED THE WAR IN EVERY COLUMN I WROTE.
I'M SURE YOU DID.
I DID TOO, AND MICHAEL MOORE GOT UP AT THE OSCARS --
WHAT YOU MEAN I'M SURE YOU DID?
DON'T BE CONDESCENDING.
YOU REALLY DON'T LIKE THIS GUY.
I DON'T THINK IT'S JUST ME.
WE SHOULD HAVE DONE MUCH BETTER.
WE?
WE DID CHALLENGE IT.
OBVIOUSLY WE DIDN'T CHALLENGE HIM ENOUGH.
BUT WHY ARE WE ALL LUMPED TOGETHER?
SOME JOURNALISTS DIDN'T.
CHRIS AND I SPOKE OUT AGAINST THE WAR.
DID YOU?
BILL MAHER DID.
THEN CHRIS MATTHEWS SAID THAT IN ALL
MY WRITINGS I OPPOSED THE WAR.
HE DID, HE WROTE SOME THINGS
WHERE HE WAS AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR.
THAT IS A CURIOUS THING TO
SAY BECAUSE HE IS MAINLY ON TV.
DO WE HAVE CLIPS OF HIM OPPOSING
THE IRAQ WAR?
COULDN'T FIND THEM.
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT IN
DIFFERENT SEGMENTS HE DID IN FACT SPEAK OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF
HIS MOUTH AND SAY SOME THINGS AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR.
I WILL
SHOW YOU THE OTHER SIDE IN A SECOND.
BUT THIS SMUG ATTITUDE
-- DON'T BE CONDESCENDING.
DON'T SAY WE, WE NEVER SUPPORTED THE
IRAQ WAR.
WE DID CHALLENGE THE PRESIDENT.
IS THAT RIGHT, CHRIS?
MAYBE DO IT AGAIN.
LET'S GO TO CHRIS MATTHEWS'S QUOTES.
FIRST OF
ALL, CREDITOR TOMMY CHRISTOPHER WHO WROTE A GREAT ARTICLE IN
MEDIAITE ABOUT THIS.
AND I HAVE SOME VIDEO.
MATTHEWS WAS TALKING
TO A GUY NAMED CADDELL BACK IN THE DAY WHEN BUSH LANDED ON THE
AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND THEY HAD THE BIG MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
SIGN ON THE BACK, HE LANDED IN HIS FIGHTER OUTFIT.
HE DID NOT
FLY THE PLANE, IT WAS ALL A GAG.
PROPAGANDA.
THEN CHRIS MATTHEWS
ATE IT UP.
THIS WAS IN MAY, WHEN THE INVASION BEGAN IN MARCH.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, THE WAR IS ALREADY OVER AND CHRIS
MATTHEWS IS ALREADY GIVING OVERWHELMING PRAISE FOR.
IT
TURNED OUT THE WAR WAS NOT OVER.
MATTHEW SAYS, THE PRESIDENT, LOOK
AT THIS GUY.
WE ARE WATCHING HIM.
HE LOOKS LIKE HE FLEW THE
PLANE.
HE DIDN'T, CHRIS.
HE ONLY FLEW IT AS A PASSENGER, BUT HE'S FLOWN --
HE LOOKS LIKE A FIGHTER PILOT.
HE LOOKS FOR REAL.
WHAT IT IS ABOUT THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ROLE,
THE HAT THAT HE WEARS, THAT MAKES HIM, HE SEEMS LIKE --
HE DIDN'T FIGHT IN A WAR, BUT HE LOOKS LIKE HE DOES.
I AM ALREADY ENORMOUSLY AMUSED BY THIS.
OUT OF ONE SIDE OF HIS
MOUTH HE SAYS HE DIDN'T REALLY FIGHT IN THE WAR AND HE DIDN'T
REALLY FLY THE PLANE, BUT HE LOOKS LIKE HE DID.
HE LOOKS
GOOD.
I LOVE PROPAGANDA.
CADDELL JUMPS IN.
IT'S AN INTERNAL
THING, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN PUT INTO WORDS.
YOU CAN SEE IT
WITH HIM AND THE TROOPS, THE EASE WITH WHICH HE TALKS OF
THEM.
I WAS AMAZED BY THAT FRANKLY BECAUSE AS I SAID I WAS
ORIGINALLY APPALLED, PARTICULARLY WHEN I HEARD HE WAS
GOING IN ON AN F-18.
BUT THAT WAS -- MATTHEWS JUMPS IN AND
YELLS, LOOK AT THIS GUY!
VERY EXCITED.
HE THEN WENT ON TO SAY
THAT LANDING ON THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER, NOT ACTUALLY DOING THE
WAR, LANDING ON THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER WAS AN AMAZING DISPLAY
OF LEADERSHIP.
HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT GEORGE BUSH WAS AN
EFFECTIVE COMMANDER.
THEN CHRIS SAID, WE WON THE WAR.
WHAT A
CRITIC OF THE WAR.
TWO MONTHS INTO THE WAR, DECLARING THAT THE
WAR WAS WON AND IT WAS WON BY GEORGE W. BUSH, THE GUY WHO
LOOKS LIKE A HERO, AT LEAST TO CHRIS MATTHEWS.
WE ARE JUST
WARMING UP.
THEN HE IS TALKING TO G. GORDON LIDDY, A FELON AND
CRIMINAL, PART OF WATERGATE, THEY ARE HAVING A GOOD OLD TIME
TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT GEORGE BUSH IS LOOKING IN THAT OUTFIT.
THEY ARE BESIDE THEMSELVES WITH THE OUTFIT, THEY CAN'T LET IT GO.
MATTHEW SAYS, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS BROADSIDE AGAINST THE
USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND ITS CHIEF VISITOR LAST WEEK?
LIDDY SAYS IN THE FIRST
PLACE I THINK IT IS ENVY.
AFTER ALL AL GORE HAD TO
GO GET SOME WOMAN TO TELL HIM HOW TO BE A MAN.
HERE COMES
GEORGE BUSH.
YOU KNOW HE'S IN THIS FLIGHT SUIT, STRIDING
ACROSS THE DECK, WEARING HIS PARACHUTE HARNESS, I'VE WORN
THOSE BECAUSE I PARACHUTE, IT MAKES THE BEST OF HIS MANLY
CHARACTERISTIC.
I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP.
HE SAYS, YOU GO RUN THAT
STUFF AGAIN OF HIM WALKING ACROSS THERE WITH THE PARACHUTE.
HE HAS JUST WON EVERY WOMAN'S VOTE IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
YOU KNOW ALL THOSE WOMEN WHO SAY SIZE DOESN'T
COUNT, THEY ARE ALL LIARS.
CHECK THAT OUT.
I HOPE THE DEMOCRATS
KEEP RATTING ON HIM AND ALL OF THIS STUFF SO THEY KEEP SHOWING
THAT TAPE.
THEY ARE NOW LITERALLY TALKING ABOUT HIS
DICK, OKAY?
THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH'S CROTCH.
MATTHEW SAYS, IT'S FUNNY.
I SHOULD NOT TALK ABOUT RATINGS.
I
DON'T ALWAYS PAY ATTENTION TO THEM -- TOTAL LIE -- BUT LAST
NIGHT WAS A RIOT BECAUSE AT THE VERY TIME HENRY WAXMAN WAS ON,
THESE PICTURES WERE SHOWING LAST NIGHT AND EVERYBODY IS TUNING
IN TO SEE THE PICTURES AGAIN.
HE THINKS HE HAS GOT GOOD RATINGS
BECAUSE THEY SHOWED GEORGE W. BUSH'S COCK.
THE ONE HE FELL IN
LOVE WITH.
HE HAD THE NERVE TO SHOUT DOWN JORGE RAMOS?
WE OPPOSED
HIM?
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF.
YOU WERE ON THERE TALKING IN GLOWING
TERMS ABOUT HIS CROTCH, LIKE YOU THOUGHT IT WAS THE SUITCASE IN
PULP FICTION.
I AM NOT EVEN HALFWAY DONE.
YOU KNOW WHAT HE
THEN CALLED THE CRITICS OF THE IRAQ WAR?
REAL CRITICS OF THE
IRAQ WAR?
CARPERS AND COMPLAINERS.
THEN LATER HE
PRETENDS HE WAS A CRITIC OF THE IRAQ WAR.
CHRIS, ALL YOU EVER DO
IS SUCK UP TO POWER.
WHICH WAY IS THE WIND BLOWING?
I AM
AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR LATER IF I WANT TO RUN AS A DEMOCRAT, WHICH
HE CONSIDERED RUNNING FOR SENATE LATER.
CHECK THAT BOX.
I WON'T
SAY IT ON TV, I'LL TALK OUT BOTH SIDES OF MY MOUTH BUT I
WILL WRITE IT IN PRINT AND LATER I WILL BE LIKE, CRITICS, CARPERS
AND COMPLAINERS.
THEN WE GOT THE IRAQ ELECTIONS LATER ON.
MY
FAVORITE, THE ACTUAL VIDEOTAPE.
HE SAID IF THE ELECTIONS GO
WELL, BUSH IS SET AND HIS PLACE IN HISTORY IS SET.
HE WENT ON TO SAY THIS.
PROBABLY THE GREATEST GAMBLE SINCE ROOSEVELT BACKED BRITAIN
BEFORE WORLD WAR II.
IF HIS GAMBLE IS THAT HE CAN CREATE A
DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ARAB WORLD AND HE DOES IT, HE
BELONGS ON MT.
RUSHMORE.
BY THE WAY HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE GAMBLE
OF WHETHER IRAQ COULD HOLD AN ELECTION.
THEY DID HOLD THAT
ELECTION, LATER ON MATTHEWS SAID HE DID IT.
I WAS WITH THE
PRESIDENT LAST NIGHT, YOU WERE THERE, WE WENT TO SEE HIM FOR
CHRISTMAS, YOU GET THE PICTURE TAKEN WITH HIM, IT IS LIKE SANTA
CLAUS.
I WAS WEARING A RED SCARF AND I WANTED TO LOOK A LITTLE
BIT FESTIVE FOR THE OCCASION, LIKE A LITTLE PREPPY.
HE SAID
MATTHEWS, I DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE THAT PREPPY.
THIS IS THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
I SAID, I WENT TO HOLY CROSS BUT
YOU YALE GUYS STARTED WITH ALL THAT STUFF.
IT WAS A LITTLE TOWEL
SNAPPY, BUT I THOUGHT HE DESERVED SOME CREDIT.
THAT WITH A CRITIC OF GEORGE BUSH AND THE IRAQ WAR?
YOU HAD
THE AUDACITY TO SHOUT DOWN JORGE RAMOS AND SAY FOR YOURSELF, I
WAS A CRITIC OF THE IRAQ WAR?
I'M SORRY, I DID NOT KNOW YOU
MEANT A CRITIC OF THE WAR WAS BEING A LITTLE TOO TOWEL SNAPPY
WITH THE YALE GUYS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
YOU ARE SO, SO SAD.
YOUNG
TURKS.