Posted on 11/09/2009 10:14:26 PM PST by STARWISE
MSNBC's Chris Matthews has said some things that would make your scratch your head - like getting a thrill up his leg from a speech given by Barack Obama.
However, this one will really make you wonder what he was thinking.
On his Nov. 9 broadcast of "Hardball," in an interview with Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Matthews compared the incident of Maj. Nidal M. Hasan at Ft. Hood to Sirhan Sirhan's 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
"You know, I have a hard time with this because people like Sirhan Sirhan, who is still serving time for killing Bobby Kennedy, didn't like what Bobby Kennedy had said on television," Matthews said. "Bobby Kennedy had made political statements saying we're going to sell arms, fighter planes directly to Israel, not under the table. We're going to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Those are the things that triggered his killing spree. He killed one person - Bobby Kennedy, horrifically. But did he become a different religious person because he committed the crime? And when did this happen?"
But the struggle Matthews was having - that given Reuters had reported Hasan had tried to contact al Qaeda, was that reason enough to intervene on the activities of Hasan (emphasis added).
"See - we have a problem," Matthews said. "How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al Qaeda.
Is that the point at which you say, ‘This guy is dangerous?' That's not a crime to call up al Qaeda, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?"
And this was obviously a philosophical struggle for the "Hardball" host, as he reiterated he confusion.
"Well, this guy, according to all the testament, admittedly it has not been admitted into court. We cannot call him the shooter until we have a trial. That's the way we work here, you know, that's how it works in America, certainly not in the news business.
You can't call somebody a murderer until you get a conviction in court. And the question here is when can you identify a problem? That's what we have to deal with. And you say it's an ideological point - you can find the problem. But then we get into the business of checking out on people's thinking. And that's the problem.
Incredibly, this wasn't just a one-time lapse for Matthews. He reiterated his question, if contacting al Qaeda, an institution classified as a terrorist organization by several international governments and organizations, was crime (emphasis added).
"When does a person become a danger, when they have a certain thought system? Or when they go out and buying semi-automatic pistols, or when they start phoning up al Qaeda, saying how can I join the gang? I mean, where do you stop a person? This is criminology, maybe not ideology, but or even religion.
But how do we weed out a guy - it seems to me, all of the warning signs, I mean, we have seen them all now. It's like looking at pictures of Muhammad Ata hanging around convenience stores and going to ATM machines. We got all kinds of information on this guy after it's too late."
Amazingly, Matthews even compared himself to Hasan - suggesting his actions were just criticism of the United States invasion of Iraq, with just one subtle difference.
But this guy was running around shooting his mouth off saying how he hated this country's wars with - look, you can listen to me on television and hear me saying I didn't like the war with Iraq. You know, I don't agree with the war on Iraq and a lot of Americans didn't like the war with Iraq. They didn't start shooting people about it."
He’s JD Hayworth’s doctor. He’s always sounded reasonable to me and he does come out publicly to denounce the Islamofacists. Debbit Schlussel does not like the Dr. and had recently blogged about it.
Could it be that Chrissy longs for the 72 virgins? His staff better watch out and be ready before he goes on a killing spree.
Chrissy longs for 72 Barrys
This is why there is no television in my home.
Believe me, when you’ve been away from it for years, it is literally painful to watch it again. I just can’t stand it anymore.
Commercials, leftist a-holes, talentless ‘talent’, painted trollops—keeping you up on the ‘news’, Girls gone Whores, humorless sh*tcoms, did I mention commercials ‘til yer eyes bleed?
Television has become a clear and present danger to the human race.
Save yourselves!
;)
I do not believe Matthews and others like him are mental cases. I believe they have been compromised. By what I don’t know. Money, drugs, sex, his position itself...who knows.
We saw the same thing during the Cold War and before. People couldn’t figure out how apparently sane people would swallow the lies from Stalin. When the Soviet archives were opened, we found out. Money, jobs, sex, whatever bait someone would take. Ernest Hemmingway sold out and hated himself for it. He, sweating and ripped, told Don Passos that if he didn’t give a speech at Madison Square Garden in support of the Popular Front, his career would be over. The publishing houses would make him a non-person (as they pretty much did to John Dos Passos who had been the left’s most prominent literary figure until a mentor of his was murdered by socialists in Spain and he spoke up about it).
“That’s not a crime to call up al Qaeda, is it? Is it?”
Duh!
Matthews is a fool. I don’t suppose he noticed there are dead and wounded Americans due to Islam?
Oh Matthews quit trying to cover up for the offenders.
For once be an American.
that, is funny.
I’m sure the White House has the hot line number. How do you call up “AlGayda”?
That pic of Omoslem with Chrissy is hilarious.
I'll try to make it simple enough for even flaming Chrissy to understand.
They are at war with US.
Would you have even axed this question, about German/Japanese citizens in WWII trying to contact their HQ?
C'mon, it's not that tough to figger out!
You should send this to MSNBC. I am sure they would like it ;-)
Matthews is an idiot, but technically, he`s correct. Hasan isn`t guilty of anything unless a jury says he is. This is probably a stupid question, but is there a specific law that says it`s a crime to contact al-Qaeda? Seeing how goofy things sometimes work, it would`nt surprise me if it`s not against the law.
Good grief.
Wonder if Comcast's going to show the CNBC freak show the door after they've assumed control of NBC-U.
Seems if Comcast bought the sorry outfit Comcast just might be entetrtaining ideas of making a buck.
With the "lineup" at CNBC as it stands now --and NBC to a slightly lesser extent-- I simply cannot see how [that] goal w/could possibly be attained if they had a million years. Or attained in a Capitalist system, anyway. Unreal.
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