CHRIS MATTHEWS JUST LIED HIS ASS OFF, Claims Kerry never said a word

[blm]

about the average working class. He said that Kerry never opened his mouth once about minimum wage or working class issues.

That is such a lie. Kerry spoke of those issues and the plight of those workers worried about their healthcare EVERY TIME HE HAD A MICROPHONE.

This is how the media and whores like Matthews make excuses for THEMSELVES for not covering the real issues of the campaign in favor of horserace crap and peripheral hooliganism like the Swift vets.

They absolve themselves for their own failures by blaming the Democrats or whoever is holding the Dem banner.

And, btw, he was talking to Bob Schieffer who just sat there agreeing with Tweety. Liberal media.....yeah, sure.

[emulatorloo]

1. Blast him w an email - I know I will!

not that he will see it or care.

[e-mail]

[fooj]

I bet they'd care if we wrote a letter to the editor in The Post or NYT!

[cthrumatrix]

15. he's a coward and corp whore ..... not in search of "right"

[moggie12]

19. Thank's for the link -- just sent him an e-mail

Everybody should do this!! It only takes a minute -- if they get bombed with hundreds of e-mails on a particular subject, they take notice.

Edited to add:

Here's what I wrote:


Re: Kerry DID TOO talk about helping the working people

"Yo Chris,

Don't you remember the third debate -- the one that focused on economic issues? Kerry talked at length about raising the minimum wage. (Sure, it was boring the way he droned on about it, but he DID talk about it!!!)


P.S. Hey Chris, stop bashing the Democrats so bad. I used to watch your show all the time until you started coming down on them so hard. Not that they're great, but Jeez, Bush is leading us down the path to destruction!! Lighten up on the good guys a bit, okay???"

[cthrumatrix]

21. so did I

let's see what he says

[despairing optimist]

33. Write to the program's advertisers. That will work better.

Advertisers like feedback so they know which programs to support and which to ax. Hit him where it hurts.

[FreedomAngel82]

60. Do you have an email

for advertisers? I'm Emailing him now and I'm outraged. I told him how Kerry did talk about it and pointed when and where and demaned that he apologize to Senator Kerry and his supporters.

[despairing optimist]

70. No. I don't have cable TV. Just watch the show and note the advertisers

Google them and find a "contact us" link on their websites. Try to get something specific, like customer relations or media promotion.

Advertisers like popular shows but shun controversy out of fear of losing potential buyers. If they know that a sufficient number of consumers are outraged by a program's content, they'll take notice, and then MSNBC and Matthews will have to as well. (Hardball is on MSNBC, isn't it? Pardon my ignorance.)

[moggie12]

81. There was just a discussion of targeting advertisers in GD

Here's the link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3041265

It didn't go anyplace, but some interesting ideas were discussed. To be effective, you'd really have to get a very organized campaign going. I'm hoping to talk to people here on DU over the next few weeks and see if there's real interest in doing it. My preference would be to target Sean Hannity and/or Joe Scarborough because there's such a huge, incontrovertible body of evidence against them (see MediaMatters.net, for example). Tweety's pretty bad, but he's a pussy-cat most days compared to those morons.

[pbartch]

34. My email to the liar.....CHRIS MATTHEWS

You did not tell the truth about Senator Kerry and the Average worker/Average American. You said He said that Kerry never opened his mouth once about minimum wage or working class issues. That is a LIE.

Kerry spoke of those issues MANY, MANY TIMES -- about how American workers worried about their healthcare EVERY TIME HE HAD A MICROPHONE. He offered PLANS that would work.

When I heard him speak in PORTLAND, Oregon.....he spoke about raising the wages and providing medical insurance. I HEARD HIM.

You Chris Matthews are a liar.

xxxxxxxxx
Portland, Oregon

[Tigress DEM]

92. Makes me PROUD to be an American!

[Vadem]

45. Here is my email to him:.....

You Lied, Chris:

How dare you say that Kerry never mentioned the working class? That is an out and out lie and YOU KNOW IT! How about health care for all kids; 45 million Americans are without health care and Kerry will do something to take care of that; how about his speaking of US outsourcing jobs; how about Kerry talking about taxing corporations who have their headquarters in Bermuda to avoid US taxes; so much more that I can't come up with now in my anger at you for your lies!!!! You say you are a Democrat! You are a liar!

name
etc.

[moggie12]

54. THAT'S TELLING HIM!! n/t

[hector459]

48. I titled mine "Chris Limbugh" to get his attention.

I have been e-mailing Chris, Judy, Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Blitzer so much my fingers are blistering.

[moggie12]

56. Really?? Great!! Can you do another before your fingers fall off?

I've been trying to get people to e-mail that a-hole Joe Scarborough about some lies he told about Wesley Clark and other Democrats. Or just give it a kick if your fingers are too sore:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1552474

it's great that you take the time to do e-mails..:hi:

[PROGRESSIVE1]

78. Lou Dobbs is in a much higher class than those others.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

2. I heard him say that the other day. He just wasn't listening like

the rest of the so-called journalists (well, maybe I won't call him a journalist...I guess he's more a commentator). Tweety is too busy hearing himself talk to listen. He's so full of Tweety shit.

[Cha]

30. That would be something good to

remind tweety of in an e-mail ..that perhaps he didn't hear Kerry speak of minumum wage all those times because he was blowing his mouth so hard he couldn't hear Kerry.

It's no secret even to tweety that he bellows.

[blm]

46. They keep lying and lying to bring the Democrats completely.

That way when we are living in fullblown fascism they can say it wasn't their fault, it was the Dems who tried to NOT get elected.

[flpoljunkie]

76. Exactly. Tweety just pulls it out of his ass--not a shred of integrity!

A sorry excuse for a journalist. Although, he has, at times, seriously questioned the neocons about the runup to the Iraq War, he has also repeatedly drooled at the sight of Dubya in his flight suit.

And why is he so obviously threatened by Hillary Clinton? The man obviously has issues.

[rodeodance]

3. lets get some evidence and email him!!

btw I listened to him spout off also!!

[pacalo]

25. Damn straight!

Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 1984, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has compiled a 91 percent lifetime AFL-CIO voting record on important working family issues. Kerry was elected to the Senate after serving as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and a private–practice attorney. He served his nation in Vietnam, and for his distinguished combat service was awarded three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star.

As a U.S. senator, Kerry often has stood up for workers’ rights, most recently in 2003, voting to protect workers’ overtime rights in the face of a Bush administration assault on the Fair Labor Standards Act that could cost millions of workers their overtime pay. He backed the extension and expansion of federal unemployment insurance benefits for long-term jobless workers and voted to protect millions of retirees from the loss of their employer-provided prescription drug coverage as part of the recently passed and seriously flawed Medicare prescription drug law.

In Kerry’s legislative career, he addressed the nursing shortage, increased the minimum wage, expanded early childhood development and children’s health insurance coverage, increased law enforcement funding and provided assistance to families of Vietnam veterans who were victims of Agent Orange.

http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/politics/kerry.cfm

Also:

http://www.johnkerry.com/

http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/economy/

http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/health_care/

[OneTwentyoNine]

4. What crap,Kerry wanted to raise MW to $7.00-7.15

Man,I am soooo sick of this shit...

[fooj]

5. Isn't there an ethics code these losers are required to adhere to?

Who demands accuracy in reporting? If these boneheads make mistakes in their reporting...aren't they supposed to "correct the record"?

[blm]

32. There hasn't been an ethical code for journalism since 1999.

.

[fooj]

104. How sad is that?

[robbedvoter]

6. $7/hours - over 3 years - minimum wage. I wish he stayed silent.

As for tweety, he is always an a*

[LittleClarkie]

16. Why?

Isn't that better than 5 something an hour?

[robbedvoter]

88. It's also better than a bullet in the head, it doesn't mean its respectful

of human needs. neither you, nor Kerry.

[LittleClarkie]

91. How much did you consider to be a reasonable number?

Also, it was at least a start, and more than we're going to get out of Bush.

Hey, my brother works for that minimum wage. Seven is better than five. I'd want more, but I would take that for a start. Sorry you think Kerry and I are such ogres. I'll just be going back to my bridge now. Fetch me a goat, there's a good fellow.

[Tigress DEM]

93. Hey, minimum has to be somewhere. A $2.00 raise with the ..

other budgetary concerns the Bushits had wracked up was reasonable. At least he was talking about moving it up at all.

With Bush we've lost more jobs than under any other administration. And in the Bush world those on minimum wage are meant to die off anyway.

The point is whether you thought it was enough or not, liars are saying he didn't talk about the issues at all.

[robbedvoter]

110. Spoken like a true democrat. "Slightly better than a Republican"

MLK in the 60's was talking about $10. But then again, he was a dreamer.
And I won't even mention what kerry said to Clinton on the subject and what Ted Kennedy said to Kerry on the very subject.

[cindyw]

103. What state are you from?

You may not realize this, but $7 is a major increase for some states. If you are from a progressive state like mine that already has this, you may think Kerry was being stingy, but he was talking about bringing the regressive states up to par. At that point you can continue to rise the minimum wage of all states in a fair way.

[WI_DEM]

7. Matthews obviously doesn't do his homework

When I saw Kerry at a huge rally in Madison during the final week he spoke about all of these things and I know he did at every stop in his stump speech.

[pacalo]

31. "Wisconsin is Kerry Country!"

:hi:

[ClarkUSA]

8. Transcript, please?

[GetTheRightVote]

9. Boy, they continue with the lie after lie........

:kick:

[Fla4kerry]

10. Matthews lied his ass off

I just turned off Matthews and his Bull$$. I can not believe that discussion with Bob Schaeffer it's nauseating..We need to send our comments to that ass on msn and let him know Kerry talked alot about workers in America.. It's republican all the time on any talking pundit shows.. and the biggest one will happen Wednesday night with our President Lier, he will sugar coat Social Security issue to the likes we have never seen.

[Sanity Claws]

11. he even talked about it in the debates

How much more of a public forum can you get?

[moggie12]

14. That's right, in the third debate he talked about raising the min. wage

[LittleClarkie]

12. Didn't someone else just claim that last week as well?

I'm trying to remember who.

Was it the head of the NAACP? Hmm.

Funny, it feels like the campaign, as if Kerry is still under attack. Were the pundits still on about Gore at this point?

Maybe since he's still visible, they feel they need to go after him still.

[FreedomAngel82]

63. Of course

Kerry's still a senator and Gore kind of disappeared.

[OneTwentyoNine]

13. Hell,go to the top....Email Kerry.

[LittleClarkie]

18. Why?

He already knows he talked about the working poor. Does he need to be reminded?

Or do you want us to tell Kerry to punch Chris Matthews' lights out.

[OneTwentyoNine]

17. Uhh...June 18th 2004. Took about 1.2 seconds to Google it Tweety...

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0618.html

[clydefrand]

20. Go to johnkerry.com and look at his speeches for evidence.

http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/economy/workers.html

The following is from his economic plan:

Raise The Minimum Wage. As president, John Kerry will raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.00 by 2007. An increase in the federal minimum wage is well overdue. It has fallen further and further behind the cost of living, and the impact of the last increase has been entirely eroded by inflation. Today, the minimum wage is worth only 33 percent of the average American wage, its lowest level since 1949. John Kerry's plan for an increase will impact nearly 15 million American workers, helping families move another step towards the American Dream by ensuring that no parents working full time will have to raise their children in poverty.

Protect Wages And Workplace Rights -- Including Overtime Pay. As president, John Kerry will reverse recent changes made by the Bush administration that will deny overtime pay to six million workers, and oppose efforts that allow employers to create company organized and controlled employee organizations aimed at replacing unions under the TEAM Act.

Enforce Equal Pay For Women. Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. John Kerry believes there shouldn't be two pay scales in America for the same honest day's work. Because working women are treated unfairly, there is less take home pay for almost every working family in America. As president, John Kerry will support pay equity legislation to remedy this economic injustice.

[ottozen]

22. Matthews works for the CIA.

Now he has new bosses, has to toe the line.

[MissWaverly]

23. Even Faux news says Kerry supported wage hike!

Hey everybody, Chris Matthews is doing an Ann Coulter imitation.

June 18, 2004. Kerry Calls for a $7 Minimum Wage to Help Families Get Ahead. New Report Shows Working Women Benefit Most from Increase. For Immediate Release. ...
www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0618.html

FOXNews.com - You Decide 2004 - Kerry Proposes Minimum Wage Raise... Kerry Proposes Minimum Wage Raise. Friday, June 18, 2004. PHOTOS, VIDEO. STORIES. ... Inflation has eroded the value of the last increase in minimum wage, Kerry said ...
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123043,00.html

MSNBC - Kerry proposes $7 minimum wage... Kerry: Minimum wage 'unacceptable' June 18 ... NBC News. Kerry proposes $7 minimum wage. The Associated Press. Updated: 1:42 pm ET June 18, 2004. ALEXANDRIA, Va. ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5239288/


:wtf:

[AusTexDem]

24. the marketplace is the only thing that will change the MSM

turn it off! for good. you can get all the news you need on the net or if you're lucky Air America radio.

[OneTwentyoNine]

28. Or a few thousand E-mails with links to Kerry's stand on MW increases...nt

[ginnyinWI]

96. Former MSNBC junkie here

Used to watch Hardball--quit cold turkey sometime in October. It feels great! :)

These days, it's Cspan and PBS for me.

[AusTexDem]

106. I haven't watched one second sense Nov 8.

I turned it off and haven't looked back. I feel a lot less stressed and I have much more time for other stuff. I highly recommend it to everyone.

[ginnyinWI]

112. the turning point for me was

I was watching Hardball, but had been getting more and more frustrated--he always had right-leaning guests much more than left. So I said to myself, ok, I'll watch and see how long it takes them to diss John Kerry three times. So Tweety starts right out with one, and within about two minutes, they had all poked fun of and/or criticized him at least three times. So then I knew they had an agenda, turned them off and never looked back.

[Cha]

26. That's such utter bullshit and

typical whore rhetoric! I heard Kerry with my own ears.

[karynnj]

27. I guess if Mathews isn't watching, it never happened

I wonder if he would even take the time to look at rallies (if CSPAN achieved any). It's annoying that the press did such a miserable job covering Kerry that they have no idea what he talked about.

However this is just reinventing history, I remember Mathews and others making fun of Kerry/Edwards using the 2 Americas theme that Edwards did in the primaries. (Not that Kerry didn't talk about the same issues then.) Also it's hard to be the #1 liberal ignoring the poor. Even Kerry's Biblical quote dealt directly with this.

Matthews may not want to face the fact that he (and his peers) as much as anyone sunk the candidate that when it really comes down to it has values closer to those they like to attribute to themselves. If the press divided even close to 50/50, Kerry would have won.
As long as he can blame Kerry, he doesn't have to take responsibility for keeping Bush.

[cthrumatrix]

29. he won't call bush out on any lies....and he himself is a paid whore

there is no search for truth....

[pbartch]

35. I just sent CM (paid whore) this info too

http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/economy/workers.html

The following is from his economic plan:

Raise The Minimum Wage. As president, John Kerry will raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.00 by 2007. An increase in the federal minimum wage is well overdue. It has fallen further and further behind the cost of living, and the impact of the last increase has been entirely eroded by inflation. Today, the minimum wage is worth only 33 percent of the average American wage, its lowest level since 1949. John Kerry's plan for an increase will impact nearly 15 million American workers, helping families move another step towards the American Dream by ensuring that no parents working full time will have to raise their children in poverty.

Protect Wages And Workplace Rights -- Including Overtime Pay. As president, John Kerry will reverse recent changes made by the Bush administration that will deny overtime pay to six million workers, and oppose efforts that allow employers to create company organized and controlled employee organizations aimed at replacing unions under the TEAM Act.

Enforce Equal Pay For Women. Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. John Kerry believes there shouldn't be two pay scales in America for the same honest day's work. Because working women are treated unfairly, there is less take home pay for almost every working family in America. As president, John Kerry will support pay equity legislation to remedy this economic injustice.

[Fla4kerry]

36. lie,lie

thanks for the link to Msn/Matthews. Just sent an email letting them know they are quickly catching up to Fox on ignorant facts.

[WrtMandamus]

37. He's whack

Did you hear him say to Bob schieffer "I'm going to ask you a sarcastic question. Do you really think that seeing anymore of John Kerry,with his personality, would've made any difference to middle America, I think they saw too much of him" Very sarcastic. I've never liked Matthews, I don't know why I put it on.

[LittleClarkie]

38. This coming from a man with the personality of styrofoam

I think middle America see too much of Chris Matthews.

[Fla4kerry]

40. he isss whacked

I stopped listening to all TV pundits since Nov3rd, don't know why I chose to put it on tonight. Thank god for air America.

Organize Now

[moggie12]

39. If everybody on this thread sent Tweety an e-mail,

it might have an impact!!!!

[WrtMandamus]

41. I'm doing it now

But I'm not too good at phrasing things, I tend to ramble on and on.

[moggie12]

50. Me too -- I used to practically write novels

You really only need to do 3-5 lines tops. The key to these e-mail barrages is volume -- they usually just count-up the number of e-mails that come in on a particular topic. The more volume, the better!! Also, it's best to keep it fairly civil and polite, no cursing or name-calling (yes, that's the hardest part).

Welcome to DU! Glad to see yet another pro-active, action-oriented DUer willing to write letters and e-mails!! :hi:

[OneTwentyoNine]

43. I sending him one with a LINK that he could have looked up himself!! nt

[w4rma]

44. It won't. Tweety is a propagandist. He is being paid to lie. Exposing his

lies to others so that he thinks he might be thought of, more widely, as a liar and a propagandist is the only tactic with a chance to make him recant.

In other words, send your email to everyone EXCEPT Tweety, especially folks who are most likely to air this on their shows.

[FreedomAngel82]

64. What about

Keith Olbermann?

[cry baby]

74. Not KO, he's a fair journalist.

:loveya:

[Vadem]

42. I just said the same damned thing you did! How can he get ....

away with lies like that???? Bast**d!

[LittleClarkie]

47. It's okay to lie on John Kerry. After all, nobody really likes him anyway

so nobody will care. They'll just nod their heads in agreement, right or wrong.

We were all voting against Bush, not for that elitist flip-flopping Republican-lite Skull and Bonesman, dontchaknow. So nobody will even notice if we misrepresent him. We didn't listen to ol' Lurch, anyway.

[blm]

49. They'll just keep doing it to Kerry and ANY Dem banner holder. That's what

they do. They don't get paid to be honest. They get paid to convince the public that those looking out the most for the working man are their enemies.

[LittleClarkie]

52. And I was wondering if they thought they'd get away with it esp w/Kerry

because they don't think he has much support out here.

I think he has more support than they realize.

Hell, how many people watched the debates and remember him talking about minimum wage and such. Even if they're not all that keen on Kerry, hopefully folks have more of a memory than Chris Matthews is giving them credit for.

1984. Kerry never supported MW. Forget the past.

[Mitt Chovick]

51. Tweety lying isn't news

If Tweety told the truth, now that would be news....

[Stand and Fight]

53. Sent him this message:

Chris,
I don't know where the heck you were when the third debate on economic issues was being aired, but it would do you some good to remove your head from your nether regions. Apparently you missed John Kerry talking about raising the minimum wage over a three year period... Guess you didn't bother to get that memo when you got your right-wing talking points. So much for investigative journalism -- people like you are not worth one honest journalist like Helen Thomas or Dan Rather. Maybe if you bothered to fact check you wouldn't look like such a dammed right-wing idiotic tool all the time!

You're a joke...

[LittleClarkie]

55. I just emailed him too. This is what I said:

"For heaven's sake, he even talked about it in the debates. Did you forget that, or is there a reason you feel it necessary to malign the man in this way? Be aware please, reports that all the votes for John Kerry were merely votes against Bush have been exaggerated. More people than you realize supported, and still support, the man. And we remember what he said on the campaign trail, even if you don't. Furthermore, I don't think he'd be pushing a children's health care bill right now if he didn't care about the working poor.

Thank you for your time.

Erica XXXXXXXXX

[NAO]

57. Media repeatedly said, "Kerry has no Plan", but his clear, detailed plans

were posted to his website, and were in print in an inexpensive paperback.

It was brazenly irresponsible journalism for these reporters to say, as they repeated did during the course of Kerry's campaign, that "Kerry has no plan".

Kerry's website had detailed plans for all the major issues, linked from here:
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/

Further, his overarching vision and detailed plans were laid out in a comprehensive, integrated style in his book, which was available free of charge to anyone as a pdf document, and still is, here:
http://www.johnkerry.com/plan/

How could they possibly say, "he has no plan"? How could they say, "no one can figure out where he stands on the issues"? Anyone who is able to read, (that excludes Bush, of course, but not the mainstream media journalists) would have known that Kerry had well thought out plans and clearly articulated positions on the issues.

[NAO]

62. One of Kerry's plans is now being used by *

* has proposed increasing the military death gratuity, exactly as Kerry proposed it during his campaign months ago. Kerry was talking about this way back in the summer of '04. I hope Bush raids more of Kerry's ideas. Even if Bush claims credit, Kerry's plans and proposals were great.

Here is a snip from Kerry's website, where he proposed what Dubbya is yapping about today and claiming credit for:

from Kerry's website
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/national_security/milfamilies.html

Assistance When A Service Member Has Been Killed

Increase The Death Gratuity. When a service member is injured or killed in the line of duty, military families deserve full, complete, and timely notification. No other moment in life will ever carry such pain, and the nation owes surviving families its highest respect and best efforts. As president, John Kerry will work to have a $250,000 gratuity added to the Service Members Group Life Insurance if a service member is killed in a combat zone.

[FreedomAngel82]

That's all he knows

how to do. I wonder how many ideas of Gore's he used in 2000-2004? That really pisses me off. And now W will get all the praise when it's Kerry's ideas!!!

[Tigress DEM]

95. Dubbya thinks he invented "clean air" too. ,n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

58. Oh good grief!

Did he not watch any of the debates?! I have them recorded if he'd like to borrow them. I even have a rally in Wisconsin (I believe it was) and Kerry talked mainly about working class!!! ARGH!

[Walt Starr]

59. I wonder how much Rove paid Tweety for that one?

That's my standard question now with CM whores.

[DemocracyInaction]

61. Isn't this rather embarassing for Tweety because it shows to all the

world that his great "political analyst" routine is a ruse and shows that he is incompetent or a liar or both. It's like standing in front of the camera with your fly unzipped. In his case, it's his mouth that could use zippering.

[Sparkly]

65. There needs to be a creative response to this

This is very similar to what I posted about last night -- Republicans saying Democrats never offer alternative proposals. How loud do we have to shout things for these idiots to hear (and admit they heard)??

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1551475&mesg_id=1551475

- Should we snailmail transcripts of Kerry speeches printed in HUGE fonts for easy reading?
- Should we fill his email inbox with audio clips?
- Should we send him links to websites about memory loss since he seems to be losing his, or maybe some Gingko Biloba?

I'm so sick of these same stupid whines the rightwing makes about Democrats. They either can't hear, read, or remember, or they simply can't tell the truth.

[FreedomAngel82]

66. When a democrat

speaks all they do is close their eyes and ears and go "la la la la la you're not here." No matter what. :mad: :grr:

[moggie12]

86. Hey Sparkly, that's a good one -- when you write your e-mail,

offer to send him some Gingko Biloba since he seem to be having such memory problems. A little satire is just what is needed!! And tell him a few of the things you've come up with for making the media remember that the Dems have proposed a zillion things.

P.S. If you can, post what you write on this thread -- this, I gotta read.

[Clarks_Babe]

67. I think I know what he means

I think he is refering to lower class issues. Middle class people were the focus of Kerry's campaign and I remmember being frustrated that he did not talk about the poor or the homeless or those with no hope of insurance under his plan. How can you buy into an insurance plan if you are working part time for 6 dollars and hour?
Not a soul talks about the poor and about minimum wage issues anymore.

[moggie12]

71. Talking about the"middle class" is a mantra these days

But Kerry did propose raising the minimum wage (I remember hearing him make a good case for it in the third debate). And I think his health insurance plan would have addressed many issues related to lack of health care for those stuck with menial jobs that offer no benefits. You're right about the homeless issue -- haven't heard that talked about in -- what? -- a decade or more??? Times have changed. Who'd have thought we'd need to fight to the death just to preserve Social Security??!!!

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[OneTwentyoNine]

68. OK,its an obvious,blatant lie,so...who LOSES their job at MSNBC??

Its a big ass lie,they didn't even try to check facts. So,just like at CBS shouldn't a few people be shit canned over this??

Nope,only blatant if the reporting is done on a Repuke.

[ourbluenation]

69. I just emailed him - wrote the following

and I mean it...

"He did talk about working class issues all the time. Why would you say that. What happened to you man? 'Ol Tip is looking down on you and he's not very happy with what he sees."

[moggie12]

75. That's the sad truth- poor Tip is spinning in his grave n/t

[iwantmycountryback]

72. It's a good thing nobody watches his show

:D

[DemDogs]

73. $7.00 an hour

Over and over again, Kerry said that he would raise the minimum wage to $7.oo hour. Do your homework, Matthews.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

77. My email:

To: Chris Matthews,

On your show (2/01) you said that John Kerry never discussed the working class's economic conditions. That is a LIE! Senator Kerry made the minimum wage, union protection, and job protection a central part of his campaign. Tip O'Neill is looking down upon you with shame. You sir, are a liar.

.

[agincourt]

79. Thats why campaign finance reform,

though well intentioned, is such a joke. Trying to control campaign spending is useless when you have entire networks that are nothing but clever advertising to get repiglicans elected. The corporate honchos make sure the news helps con-servatives, pulling back, just once in a while to help with the illusion that they are a news organization.

[Vinnie From Indy]

80. Tell Everyone You Know That These Guys Are LYING!!!!! n/t

[Disturbed]

82. John Kerry should sue Tweety.

"Not a soul talks about the poor and about minimum wage issues anymore."

John Edwards spoke a lot about the poor and how it is such a disgrace that America has so much wealth but has forgottin the poor.

[moggie12]

83. And tell them to send e-mails, too

Here's the link: [e-mail]
Copy to: [e-mail]

Post yours on this thread when you're done. We're getting quite a collection -- most really biting (and funny).

[marcologico]

84. He also talked about it in every debate, primary and general.

Only he didn't call us "working class," he called us "middle class," because that's the way we see ourselves, and you know what?

I APPRECIATED THAT!!!!

[DoBotherMe]

111. And he also used the phrase

"and those striving to become middle class." D ; )

[ArkDem]

85. Bob Schieffer and Matthews both have a long right wing

pedigree. UGH!

[0007]

87. ....and their memories are as short as their dicks!

[ArkDem]

109. I have no knowledge of their genitalia.

[Catherine Vincent]

89. You should send me an email and let me know that you caught him in a lie.

Although I'm sure you already did. I don't watch cable news anymore besides cspan (and Keith O.). I stopped watching all of those whores since the election theft. I don't miss them at all.

[EC]

90. Doesn't that just piss you off, when you know they know better and

do it anyway? It's amazing to me how Chris can think he has any credibility...he tells a completely different story when he's on someone elses show, on Bill Mahrs, he basically said that he wouldn't get any guests on if he didn't spin their crap...

Last night was the last straw for me...he lied outright about Reid over and over...He was saying that Reid was calling for the immediate withdrawal of the troops when Reid pointedly said He WAS NOT calling for the withdrawal of the troops at this time, that he was demanding plans for withdrawal...which is required by the War Powers Resolution of 1973.

[incapsulated]

94. He was confused...

He is the one who never speaks about those issues.

You see, when you area self-absorbed asshole, like tweety, you get yourself and your little concerns confused with the rest of the world.

[Dr Fate]

98. Classic projection- the MEDIA never adresses working class issues.

Kerry focused on it- the media are a buncha damn clowns!

[zulchzulu]

97. Has Tweety ever heard of something called "Google"?

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_1002.html

"Raise The Minimum Wage And Support And Restore Overtime for Six Million Workers.  John Kerry will raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.00 by 2007, giving more than 7 million Americans a raise and increasing the earnings of a full-time worker by about $3,800 a year.  In addition, John Kerry will restore the overtime protections that Americans lost under George W. Bush."

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/02/elec04.prez.kerry.speech/

"Kerry went through a list of promises which included cutting the deficit in half in four years; eliminating loopholes in the tax code which allow corporations to export jobs; adding incentives for the creation of manufacturing jobs; and raising the minimum wage."

I personally saw him speak dozens of times and that was ALWAYS something he would bring up.

I even remember SEEING Tweety in Des Moines when Kerry was giving a speech about many things, including raising the minimum wage.

I guess he was too busy staring at Teresa'a ass. Twit.

[wisteria]

99. Chris Matthews

Thanks for the alert! I e-mailed Matthews and offered to send him my copy of the Kerry/Edwards Plan for America. He should read it before he distorts the truth again and tries to bash Kerry.

[cry baby]

102. Welcome to DU, wisteria! Hope you have fun...

:hi:

[montana500]

100. fucking lying asshole NM

nm

[Toucano]

101. We live in a nightmare.

The truth is invisible to these chumps.

[ashiebr]

105. I will never understand why...........

.......the Dems do not have 'Rebuttal Unit' monitoring all broadcasts like the UK Labour Party.

If there is anything untruthful or even dubious broadcast, they get straight on to the show/producers etc and put the facts right there and then in as aggressive a way as possible.

[CWebster]

107. That blabbering, sputtering stupid blonde.

ex-drunk Catholic cop from Philly with a baseball announcer's mentality, slobbering over studs in a uniform. Stupid white boy.

;-)

[The Backlash Cometh]

108. Why any Democrat would treat Tweety with any modicum of civility

is beyond me. They should go on the attack on his show. Out the son of a bitch for the Democratic poser he is.