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Continue reading …MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell have been telling viewers in recent days that Republicans considering blocking an increase in the debt ceiling could be creating a financial crisis. Seven years ago after George W. Bush was re-elected and the debt ceiling had been raised in November 2004, the perilously liberal couple felt Republicans should be “embarrassed” for having done so (transcripts follow with commentary): ANDREA MITCHELL: But what is looking over his shoulder is history. He wants a legacy. He wants to be able to do something about Social Security. He knows he's got to do something about deficit reduction. That is the big embarrassment for Republicans. They ought to be ashamed of themselves, what the Hill Republicans have done. They've been worse than Democrats. CHRIS MATTHEWS: They just increased the debt ceiling. MITCHELL: Exactly. This exchange occurred on the November 21, 2004, installment of “The Chris Matthews Show.” Yet as NewsBusters has been reporting , Matthews has in the past several days twice referred to Republicans as terrorists because they're refusing to support a raise in the debt ceiling if it includes tax increases. For her part, Mitchell on Tuesday, during an interview with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tx.) said, “You did say that some revenue — tax reform couldn`t be done obviously by August 2nd, but some future tax reform that would close loopholes would be acceptable. But you want it to be revenue neutral, so that means that it would not add any money to the pot for any negotiation that could resolve this crisis.” So, not raising the debt ceiling is a “crisis” and the act of “terrorists” in 2011. But in 2004, when there was a Republican in the White House, doing so was a “big embarrassment” for the GOP. With this hapless duo, Republicans are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Continue reading …Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh doesn't like to comment about MSNBC because he fears it will help their dismal ratings. However, he made an exception on Thursday's program saying amongst other things, “That whole network is a loony bin filled with people who are overflowing with uncontrollable rage, anger, unhappiness, and misery, by design” (video courtesy Right Scoop follows with transcript and commentary): RUSH: See, I think there's a new strategy. I don't think this is happenstance. It's for the Drive-Bys to specifically refer to Republicans as terrorists and suicide bombers. And, you know, folks, the last thing, I'm very uncomfortable giving these people any kind of publicity anyway because nobody really watches 'em, and it's very frustrating for Cookie and Cookie's little helpers 'cause most of this crap happens on MSNBC, and I told 'em I really don't want to give them any attention. Nobody else watches 'em, why should we give 'em any attention? And they get very frustrated because MSNBC is the best example of where all this crap is happening. It does happen throughout the left-wing media, but MSNBC is just where it's all codified, condensed, and concentrated. Chris Matthews, I can remember when he once guest hosted this show. It once was sufficient that we could put him on here to guest host the program. It wouldn't happen anymore. I don't know what's happened to the guy, I really don't. That whole network is a loony bin, and it's a loony bin filled with people who are overflowing with uncontrollable rage, anger, unhappiness, and misery, by design. This is their niche. They've chosen it. Chris Matthews said Tuesday it was scary that Republicans like Michele Bachmann were willing to not face the warning signs about raising the federal debt ceiling and take the United States right off the cliff. His guest was Senator Claire McCaskill from Missouri. She noted that it was a misconception that raising the debt ceiling would permit Congress to spend more. (laughing) My brother went to law school with her and I remember he used to say she was okay. They've gone nuts. I mean, a misconception, raising the debt ceiling would permit Congress to spend more? “All we're doing is making good on the spending that's already occurred,” she said, “It's like they bought a new car and don't want to make the payment.” That's a crock. It's not true. And then later speaking with Joan Walsh at Salon, who is also out of control, and these people are all part of the cabal that, you know, the Duke lacrosse case, without any evidence those lacrosse players were guilty as sin. These people were recently embarrassed on a similar type story, they all piled on, they were all wrong about, I forget what it was. I don't think it was DSK. I'll find out what it was. Anyway, Joan Walsh was a guest, and Matthews said, “Republicans' plans to hold the debt ceiling hostage until the Democrats agreed to budget cuts was terrorism.” Now, I say this in the context, okay, if we're gonna suspend Halperin for using the word “dick,” I'm just telling you there is a lot worse and more incendiary language out there being used. This is dangerous stuff. I mean it really is over the line. Tina Brown, “Republicans are acting like economic suicide bombers.” That was on MSNBC. She was talking to Mika Brzezinski. Tina Brown is the editor of the Daily Caller and Newsweek now. And Chris Matthews called the Republicans the Wahhabis of American government. Meaning that the Republicans are Muslim terrorists. Wahhabiism is the militant Islam. And I'm just saying this stuff is far more incendiary than what Halperin said. And of course, (imitating New Castrati) “It's not civil, it just isn't civil and we're supposed to be civil.” Remember that, Obama goes out there to Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords thing, and talks about the need for new civility because these people lied about Sarah Palin being responsible for the shooter out there, and then me? And then you got these guys making these kinds of comments? Those needing more proof of the insanity at MSNBC should review the following: Twice in Less Than 24 Hours, Chris Matthews Compares Republicans to 'Terrorists' Calm Morning Joe? Newsweek Boss Tina Brown Says GOP Are 'Suicide Bombers' Chris Matthews Smears the 'Scary' GOP as the 'Wahhabis of American Government'
Continue reading …In a segment on the religiosity of Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, MSNBC's Richard Lui on Wednesday looked to an author who has smeared conservative Christians as “radical,” weird individuals who “hate” America. The guest host for Martin Bashir interviewed Frank Schaeffer, a blogger on the liberal Huffington Post website and also a constant critic of the religious right. Schaeffer, the son of a conservative theologian, excoriated conservatives: ” But, I came to understand that these people actually hate the United States as it is .” Lui never pointed out Schaeffer's liberal leanings or his endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008. The author and blogger warned of apocalyptic dangers, should Bachmann be elected president: “She comes from a wing of the evangelical movement where takes the Bible literally, and that includes the old testament that has passages about stoning gay people to death and all the rest of it.” Apparently, if the Republican Congresswoman wins the White House, she “would produce a theocracy in the country where the Bible would be paramount and no longer the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.”
Continue reading …Julian Assange is offering a clever twist on a well-known credit card ad to zing MasterCard for blocking donations to WikiLeaks. A narrator lists various expenses as the sophisticated YouTube ad shows Assange at work on his computer, notes MSNBC . “Fighting legal cases across five countries : $1 million,” says the…
Continue reading …In the wake of Mark Halperin's suspension by MSNBC for calling President Obama the D-word, there have been numerous vulgarities aired on the network further proving his offense wasn't what he said but who he said it about. After MSNBC allowed numerous F-bombs during its Independence Day coverage of the Casey Anthony trial, Matthews uttered a D-word of his own on Tuesday's “Hardball” (video follows with transcript and commentary, vulgarity warning): CHRIS MATTHEWS: The world’s watching Greece last week, and the parliament finally got its act together and pushed through a serious budget. All of a sudden the world was at ease and we had a serious sense of relief. You don’t think they’re going to be watching the most important country in the world, us, when we start dicking around with stuff, and we don’t get it done? You don’t think they’re not going to notice we’re not getting it done? That it’s four o’clock in the morning and it’s August 3rd or August 5th or August 8th and we still haven’t gotten it done? You don’t think they’re not, there’s going to be a world watching this and saying, “They’re blowing it? There’s something wrong with America today?” So, five days after Halperin was suspended for calling Obama the D-word, Matthews used a version of it to describe all of our national elected officials if an agreement isn't reached on the debt ceiling. This came a day after numerous F-bombs were broadcast during MSNBC's Independence Day coverage of the Casey Anthony trial. Speaking of F-bombs, MSNBC intentionally aired one during last Monday's “The Last Word.” Yet the only MSNBCer to be suspended or disciplined in any way so far was been Halperin. It sure seems vulgarity is quite acceptable on this so-called “news” network – as long as it's not directed at the President, that is.
Continue reading …Two eastern European nations last week debuted commemorations to thank former President Ronald Reagan for playing an instrumental role in freeing them from communism. I only found sparse television coverage of the two “Reagan Centennial” events in Hungry and the Czech Republic, but thought I’d share what I located since the events didn’t earn much air time. The accompanying video first shows a brief item on Wednesday’s Special Report where FNC played some video of a life-size statue of Reagan being unveiled in Freedom Square in front of the U.S. Embassy in Budapest. Second in the video, a short item from MSNBC on Saturday morning about a block of a street in Prague getting named for Ronald Wilson Reagan. The week of commemorations in Europe, a USAToday.com posting noted, “will wrap up on July 4 in London, where a statue of Reagan will be unveiled on Grosvenor Square, where the U.S. Embassy is located.” Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice represented Nancy Reagan at the ceremonies in Budapest and Prague. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation’s Facebook page has a photo from Budapest . The caption: “Hundreds gather in Budapest's Freedom Square as a statue of Ronald Reagan is unveiled during a ceremony to mark the Centennial year of his birth.” YouTube has video from the U.S. Embassy in Budapest of remarks made by U.S. and Hungarian officials. I found another video on YouTube capturing the comments made by the U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, but sans video of the street name being uncovered — which is in the MSNBC video.
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