Matthews has also hammered the cakewalk zealots (the ones that will still come onto his program) when they repeat unsubstantiated claims about Iran.

Although tonight when Stephen Hayes said we should go on into Iran, Matthews did not challenge him.

On Matthews tonight Hayes and Clintons campaign manager called Iranian Ahminejad(sp?) a Holocaust denier about 10 times. Matthews did not challenge these repeated statements.

I wish Chris Matthews would have Juan Cole on so that he could define what Ahminijad actually said about the Holocaust. I do not trust the cakewalk crazies or the Israeli lobby’s interpretation of what anyone says in Iran. They want Iran bad.

I sure would like to see Matthews have Juan Cole on to interpret exactly what the Iranian President said

Juan Cole Kucinich and Ron Paul Ahminijad is not anti-semitic
http://www.juancole.com/2007/0…..mitic.html

http://www.juancole.com/2006/0…..-as-w.html

August 28, 2006

Is Iran’s President Really a Jew-hating, Holocaust-denying Islamo-fascist who has threatened to “wipe Israel off the map”?
Putting Words in Ahmadinejad’s Mouth
By VIRGINIA TILLEY

http://www.counterpunch.org/tilley08282006.html

An appoligist for the MSM? Have another tankard of kool-aid.

Man, was that predictable. Just because I don’t follow a knee jerk catechism doesn’t mean I don’t know what I’m talking about. Disagree with me if you like, but I made a cogent argument. I can understand someone having a different point of view, but this response is just pathetic. Exactly what part of what I said do you disagree with? Or is that too much to ask?

I’m no fan of big pharma, and Matthews drives me crazy like everyone else. But if we’re going to puff out our chests and talk about a blogger besting a conventional journalist, how about a little accuracy? The caller said big pharma was controlling the news, and offered as an example the number of ads they run. The fact that some journalists are part of an insurance speakers’ bureau has nothing to do with the topic. If you want to talk about them being under the spell of the insurance companies, fine. But you can’t just lump two separate industries together and claim to have made your point.

If Tweety criticized the Democratic Party for something, and used as proof statements from the NEA because “they both represent enormous institutional roadblocks,” we’d all be up in arms. You can’t claim to be better than the journalists and then ignore the most basic journalistic principals because the outcome pleases you. Saying “the insurance lobby isn’t technically Big Pharma” is rather a large caveat. It’s more than a technical difference. While they both have reasons to obstruct single payer health care, I suspect big pharma would be perfectly happy to have those insurance companies writing huge checks for medicines, which would be the opposite of what the insurance companies would want. You can’t just lump them all together as “the bad guys.”

As for Tweety getting heated, what do you expect? A caller says the network news is in the pocket of big pharma, then offers nothing to back it up. Is Tweety supposed to agree with him based on that? “You’re right, we’re all whores. Thanks for the call.”

And before everyone jumps down my throat, I’m not saying the caller was wrong. I just don’t think it’s accurate to claim that “Eve whipped Matthews’ ass.” They were talking about different subjects. Blogger triumphalism gets really tiring sometimes.

An appoligist for the MSM? Have another tankard of kool-aid.

If Tweety criticized the Democratic Party for something, and used as proof statements from the NEA because “they both represent enormous institutional roadblocks,” we’d all be up in arms. You can’t claim to be better than the journalists and then ignore the most basic journalistic principals because the outcome pleases you. Saying “the insurance lobby isn’t technically Big Pharma” is rather a large caveat. It’s more than a technical difference. While they both have reasons to obstruct single payer health care, I suspect big pharma would be perfectly happy to have those insurance companies writing huge checks for medicines, which would be the opposite of what the insurance companies would want. You can’t just lump them all together as “the bad guys.”

As for Tweety getting heated, what do you expect? A caller says the network news is in the pocket of big pharma, then offers nothing to back it up. Is Tweety supposed to agree with him based on that? “You’re right, we’re all whores. Thanks for the call.”

And before everyone jumps down my throat, I’m not saying the caller was wrong. I just don’t think it’s accurate to claim that “Eve whipped Matthews’ ass.” They were talking about different subjects. Blogger triumphalism gets really tiring sometimes.

Haughty bastard that Tweety.

But then again, nothing Tweety shits out his piehole surprises me anymore.