Posted on 02/03/2005 7:54:50 AM PST by paudio
MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews suggested last night that the high point of President Bush's State of the Union Address - the emotional hug between grateful Iraqi voter Safia Taleb al-Suhail and Janet Norwood, mother of a Marine who died liberating her country - was staged by the White House.
The cynical host apparently first voiced his skepticism during a commercial break. His comments were immediately seized upon by "Hardball" guest, MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan when the show returned.
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You think it's an accident both these people were invited, and seated next to each other, and introduced? It's a State of the Union address, they've been staged for their entire history, I don't see a problem with that. Maybe nobody actually told them to hug but you know it was the action they were hoping for when inviting them, which makes it staged, but being staged doesn't devalue it.
You mean Diane Sawyer actually asked her if it was faked?
Matthews was in the Peace Corps in Africa...I don't remember the years but it couldn't have been in the late '50s because the Peace Corps was started by JFK.
That doesn't mean it wasn't staged. The two just happened to be seated next to each other? They have a seating chart at the SOTU, I'm sure. Just because the Iraqi and American women didn't know they would be next to each other doesn't mean the Bush admin didn't.
See #41.
It was not staged.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the camera start to cut away, or had cut away to show applause or President Bush, and then quickly went back to the women? Maybe I'm just remembering it wrong.
Negative nancies. Negative nancies. Negative nancies.
YEAH.!!
What you said.
YES....but she said the word *staged*...
Mathews is such a liberal hack that it's almost comical. Bill and Hillery on the beach dancing was just a natural expression of their love for each other. It was captured by mistake and was meant to be private. END SARCASM! He now claims that an embrace by a mom who lost her son in Iraq, and an Iraqi who was able to taste freedom through voting for the first time in her life because of our brave men and women over there attempting to establish a democracy. Some like this mom's son have given their all because they believe in this mission to spread freedom.
How dare that POS question the emotions of these two women. This is why the liberal MSM have lost all credibility with the public.
Not according to the women who hugged one another. You're as bad as Matthews.
He joined the Peace Corps instead of going to Vietnam.
Chris Matthews stages his program everynight. It even occurs on a stage. All of his world is a stage. There just isn't anything real about Matthews - not even his head.....it's hollow. Not even his heart....it's non-existent.
Well there's staged and then there's STAGED, I'm certainly not saying this was some rehearsed thing and they had earpieces and some off camera producer counting them down to the hug, but there were decisions made and reactions hoped for, that makes it staged. Which is OK in my book, I'm not against things being staged, I've got a problem with STAGED, but merely staged is a non-starter. SOTUs are made for TV events with messages and goals, anybody who has a problem with some event in it being staged should probably object to them pre-scheduling it and writing the speech before hand.
ROFL
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