{"id":16288,"date":"2015-09-22T10:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=16288"},"modified":"2015-09-22T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:04:47","slug":"matthews-iraq-war-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/matthews-iraq-war-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews &#8220;Iraq War&#8221; Denial&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews doesn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/chris-matthews-was-against-the-iraq-war-while-he-was-tingling-over-it\/\">remember bein&#8217; a cheerleader<\/a> for the Iraq<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Chris-Matthews-Real-Time-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Matthews Real Time\" width=\"312\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Chris-Matthews-Real-Time-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Chris-Matthews-Real-Time-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Chris-Matthews-Real-Time.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/>(You lose!)<\/p>\n<p>War. On Real Time With Bill Maher He Did<\/p>\n<p>this gallin &#8220;Hey bud, I was against the war&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>to an &#8216;actual&#8217; Journalist Jorge Ramos, back<\/p>\n<p>on Friday. He gave Jorge a class in Revised<\/p>\n<p>History, on subjects he never did in his life:<\/p>\n<p>RAMOS: It was clearly a mistake. We made<br \/>\na huge mistake and as journalists, I think it<br \/>\nis also part of our responsibility. We were<br \/>\nsilent, we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t challenge\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nMATTHEWS: No. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not true.<br \/>\nRAMOS: We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t challenge George W Bush<br \/>\nand we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nMATTHEWS: Keep that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to yourself.<br \/>\nRAMOS: No, no, no.<br \/>\nMATTHEWS: No, keep that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to yourself.<br \/>\nI opposed the war. The we doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work here.<br \/>\nRAMOS: The fact is that as journalists\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nMATTHEWS: No! No! No. No. (crosstalk) I<br \/>\nopposed the war in every column I wrote and<br \/>\nevery time I was on television.<\/p>\n<p>Did he?! Every time in a Column, &amp; EVERY<\/p>\n<p>time he was on television? The answer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c0U3l0OZCe8\">no!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, Matthews said this of all Iraq Critics:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Lets-Share-the-Blame-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"Let's Share the Blame\" width=\"311\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Lets-Share-the-Blame-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Lets-Share-the-Blame.jpeg 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/>(Let&#8217;s not)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I think this is a brilliant political move<br \/>\nby the president (Bush), forcing the Carpers<br \/>\nand Complainers to all come Forward saying<br \/>\n&#8220;You don&#8217;t like my Strategy in Iraq? So vote<br \/>\nagainst it. Go ahead, make my day&#8221;. This is<br \/>\nClint Eastwood stuff I think potus&#8217;s brilliant&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, there&#8217;s Way more showing His Utter BS<\/p>\n<p>with quotes like, &#8220;We won the war!!!&#8221; About<\/p>\n<p>Iraq gushin&#8217; about W. Bush. So he even said<\/p>\n<p>that W. Bush might Land on &#8220;Mt. Rushmore&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>THAT my friends, take massive balls. To yell<\/p>\n<p>at Jorge Ramos, who Pointed out His Failure<\/p>\n<p>For Matthews is was basic, simple Projection<\/p>\n<p>He <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> do his job, was a suck up &amp; doesn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matthews-with-Pataki-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Matthews with Pataki\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matthews-with-Pataki-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matthews-with-Pataki.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/>(&#8220;I&#8217;m a douche!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>do real Journalism. That&#8217;s why it bugged him<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: &#8216;Idiot Fucking Moron Republicans&#8217; In<br \/>\nHouse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/8\/2\/9084695\/defund-planned-parenthood-history\">Vote <\/a>To DeFund Planned Parenthood<br \/>\nIronically Creating MORE Abortions. WTF?!?<br \/>\nWill Not Pass Showing How Insane They Are<br \/>\nNOTE II: Turd Cruz <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ted-cruz-gets-booed-during-123649170.html\">Booooed<\/a> On &#8216;Late Show&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews doesn&#8217;t remember bein&#8217; a cheerleader for the Iraq (You lose!) War. On Real Time With Bill Maher He Did this gallin &#8220;Hey bud, I was against the war&#8221; to an &#8216;actual&#8217; Journalist Jorge Ramos, back on Friday. He gave Jorge a class in Revised History, on subjects he never did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16288"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16309,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions\/16309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}