August 20, 2004
Update
Michelle Malkin (see previous post) will be on Rush Limbaugh in a few minutes. I'll report if I hear anything interesting...
Malkin is going to Berkeley next to talk about her book! Amazing.
Apparently Matthews was badgering Malkin to tell her age--what a chauvinist...Saying "Are you old enough to be on this program?"
She was scheduled for the second segment of the show, and then that was cancelled after the 1st segment. Rush asked how they did that. (I was wondering the same thing.) Michelle: 'He just said "you're off!"'
Rush was amazed that the network didn't have a copy of the book. He said, "so they don't have their own copy?" Apparently they snatched up Malkin's copy and leafed through it after the segment!
Rush played a clip, with Matthews twisting "self inflicted wound" (which can be a variety of things) into "Are you saying he shot himself in the leg?" He kept repeating the "shot himself" line, though that wasn't what was said at all. But Malkin wasn't allowed to explain.
Good last comments by Rush: "You showed yourself to be above that fray." (Yes. I was amazed, listening to the clips, how calm she stayed.) And: "15 years ago there would have been nowhere you could go to get the truth out about what happened, and to shine a light on these people..." That's sure the truth.
Posted by John Weidner at August 20, 2004 10:04 AM | TrackBackDude. Matthews gave her many opportunities to say 'no, that's not what i'm saying'; she chose not to, preferring to leave it an open question what *exactly* she was accusing Kerry of.
She's just mad that she got caught playing the Dark Innuendo game.
Poor her.
Posted by: Al at August 20, 2004 11:21 AMHere's a clip of Rush playing the Matthews interview http://rhhardin.home.mindspring.com/matthews.ram (60 seconds)
I wonder if there's a pattern to how far you can get into your answer before a new question comes at you from Matthews. It seems to vary between subject and the first words of the predicate.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at August 20, 2004 02:13 PMAl has a point, to a certain extant. She might have made an attempt to explain that "self-inflicted wound" is not the same as "intentional self-inflicted wound."
But Matthews wasn't listening. In the piece I heard, he interrupted every single sentence she started. She would have had to try shouting over him, and she seems to be too much of a lady to do that. She could have been clearer, but Matthews was defintely not interested in clarity, or learning anything.
Dems have no right to talk about "dark Innuendo games" when most of their response so far has been to keep mentioning that the vets got some money from Republicans. Big deal. You're avoiding dealing with the issues.
And Matthews' behavior was atrocious. He must have been raised in a barn. And that he could invite someone onto his show to discuss one of the big controversies of the day, which he himself didn't bother to learn about , and then instantly start arguing against it--what a panicked buffoon he is.
Posted by: John Weidner at August 20, 2004 02:23 PM
