Saturday, September 04, 2004

Liar

Chris Matthews is a liar.

Recently, Chris Matthews interviewed Michelle Malkin on MSNC's Hardball. Malkin's role in the interview was to comment on the accusations made in the book, Unfit for Command. Malkin noted that the authors raised the question regarding whether some of John Kerry's war wounds were self-inflicted. Chris Matthews then demanded a "yes" or "no" from Malkin regarding if Kerry had "shot himself on purpose".

First, the accusation against Kerry did not come from Malkin. Second, the accusation was of self inflicted wounding, not Kerry shooting himself. These are important distinctions. Obviously, it was Matthew's intention to make Malkin look like a liar now, or for future use, her as a liar for future use.

Now fast forward to Matthew's interview with Zell Miller after Zell's speech at the Republican convention. Zell seemed quite hostile with Chris, and to be honest, I cringed a little. . . at first. Then I heard Zell tell Chris he wouldn't be treated as "that girl" had. Wouldn't you be hostile if you expected a very disingenuous pundit to twist your words as aggregiously as Matthews had twisted Malkin's ? To make matters worse, Matthews repeated to Zell that Malkin claimed Kerry had shot himself. There's no way he was not aware of his false statement. He's either stupid, or he's a liar, and he's definitely not stupid.

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