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Jon Stewart: McCain 2008 = Bush 2000
Olbermann Smacks down the RNC over 9/11 Tribute
Iraq Veterans Against the War protester at RNC
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McCain says only World War III would justify draft
Reuters
June 25, 2008
Only World War III would prompt Republican presidential candidate John McCain to bring back the military draft, McCain said on Tuesday.
Many Americans are fearful the U.S. government will be forced to reinstitute the draft given the prolonged Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Asked about that possibility by a potential voter in Florida during a telephone “town hall meeting,” McCain said: “I don’t know what would make a draft happen unless we were in an all-out World War III.”
The United States ended its last military draft in 1973 in the waning years of the Vietnam war, moving to an all-volunteer military force.
McCain, a Vietnam veteran, said the draft during that conflict weighed most heavily on lower-income Americans, and that this should not be repeated.
“I do not believe the draft is even practicable or desirable,” McCain said.
Lieberman Must Go!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McC..mpeach_Bush_0626.html
Wash. Post omitted that Bush withdrew nomination of FEC chairman who questioned McCain loan
http://mediamatters.org/items/200806250006?lid=401636&rid=10117687
McCain Would Give America’s 200 Largest Corporations $45 Billion In Tax Breaks
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/26/fortune-200-report/
McCain: ’I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago’
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/mccain-gambles.html
Wexler: McCain’s ’calculating the value of a terrorist attack’ is ’eerie’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/W..pattern_of_using_0626.html
Filed under: 60 minutes, Al Gore, carbon credit, carbon credit system, carbon credits, carbon dioxide, Carbon Tax, Co2, cult, Daily Show, eco nazi, environmental taxation, EPA, Eugenics, George Bush, global cooling, global tax, Global Warming, health and environment, IRS, John Kerry, jon stewart, mars, Nancy Pelosi, Neolibs, Newt Gingrich, Population Control, rockefeller foundation, s. 2191, smear campaign, ted turner, weather channel, weather manipulation, weather modification, world wildlife fund | Tags: earth hour, geoengineering, live earth, ocean iron fertilization, phyto plankton, the 700 club, The Biggest Loser
Gore to spend $300M on global warming campaign
San Fransisco Chronicle
April 1, 2008
Al Gore believes the road to solving the climate crisis winds through American pop culture, from “American Idol” and “The Biggest Loser” on through “The Daily Show” and “The 700 Club.” The former vice president and the beneficiary of his Nobel Prize, the Palo Alto-based Alliance for Climate Protection, want Washington politicians to act faster to solve the climate crisis. And they think the way to do this is to create a popular movement that appeals to Americans through the pop culture that unites them, rather than political issues that divide them.
Their three-year public advocacy campaign – estimated to cost $300 million – called “We” premieres Wednesday night with a 30-second ad on “Idol,” the nation’s top-rated TV show, where 30 seconds of advertising time costs roughly $700,000. The “We” effort aims to create an army of 10 million activists, twice the size of the group that drove the civil rights movement.
The first ad tells viewers that Americans didn’t wait to storm the beaches of Normandy in World War II, or to overcome segregation or to put the first man on the moon. “We need to act now” to solve the climate crisis, the ad says, and refers viewers to http://www.wecansolveit.org.
Later TV ads will present “unlikely pairs,” who disagree on many issues but appear together to help thwart climate change. The pairs lined up so far include conservative televangelist Pat Robertson and the Rev. Al Sharpton; John Kerry-supporting country rockers the Dixie Chicks and George W. Bush-endorsing country singer Toby Keith; and Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
They’ve even enlisting the nation’s 2.7 million Girl Scouts, and their 900,000 parents and adult leaders, to spread the word through their social networks.
Al Gore Seeks Earth Worship Cult Of Millions
Lee Rogers
Rogue Government
April 2, 2008
The establishment continues to hype the non-existent threat of global warming as part of an effort to establish a global carbon tax and a dangerous cult like army of new age earth worshipers. This past weekend, the World Wildlife Fund a known front for the eugenics and depopulation movement launched an effort called Earth Hour in which people around the world shut off their lights to fight global warming. Google even changed the color of their home page to black in order to symbolically promote the event. In addition, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has announced that he is going to spend $300 million to recruit a so called green army of 10 million people. Gore is also calling on the youth of the world to get involved to fight this phony environmental threat. Even though Gore won’t say so, this is all designed to establish a global carbon tax and to push a one world religion based off of earth worship.
First let’s look at the evidence showing the fraud surrounding this phony threat of man made carbon emissions causing global warming. Scientists have seen evidence of global warming on Mars and other planets in the solar system. Now unless there is man made carbon emissions occurring on Mars and other planets in our solar system it seems pretty clear that if the Earth is getting warmer it is because of solar activity. In the 1970s, the media attempted to scare the general public that global cooling was taking place and that we were facing a new ice age. How is it possible that only 30 years later that the threat has changed from global cooling to global warming? This past winter had temperatures of -40 degrees Fahrenheit in Minnesota, an unusually rough winter in China as well as near record amounts of snowfall in New Hampshire. So where did the global warming go? Not only that, but there are many scientists who refute the science that Gore uses to convince people that man made carbon emissions are the cause of this so called global warming. The founder of the Weather Channel has even said that Gore should be sued for promoting the global warming fraud and that it is one of the biggest scams of all time. On top of all of this, carbon dioxide which the elites are blaming this phony problem on, is a gas that allows life to exist on this planet and is something that human beings emit. On its face, the whole thing is absurd.
There is a great deal of scientific data and anecdotal evidence indicating that man made carbon emissions causing global warming is simply not factual. However, that doesn’t stop the establishment from hyping this phony threat because they wouldn’t be able to achieve their great dream of a global carbon tax without creating this phony problem to blame on man made carbon emissions. It is simply an excuse for them to extract more wealth from the people to fund their system of global government.
Here in the United States, Senator Joe Lieberman has introduced S 2191 which will establish a carbon credit system here in the United States. The bill would also give the Environmental Protection Agency draconian powers to enforce it. Businesses would actually be forced to report their carbon footprint to the EPA much like businesses and people are forced through the barrel of a gun to report their income to the IRS. Similar programs are being proposed in other regions of the world. There is no question that the elites are attempting to implement this program on a global scale.
Evidence of this can be seen with staged events like Earth Hour and last year’s July 7th, 2007 Live Earth Concert. Through Gore and assorted staged events, they are attempting to propagandize people to convince them that man made carbon emissions are causing global warming and global warming is destroying the planet. This is the furthest thing from the truth, but if a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth. That is exactly what the establishment is trying to do and this lie will be used to establish large monopolies through the carbon tax and put smaller businesses out of business.
On top of this, Gore is pumping millions into a campaign to recruit an army of brainwashed cult followers that will promote this agenda. Instead of focusing in on real environmental problems like the spraying of pesticides over California, the military use of depleted uranium in the Middle East, the disappearance of bees around the world, the merger of human and animal DNA and other horrors taking place, Gore would prefer to focus in on a fake problem. The reason for this is because Gore is poised to profit off of this whole scam and he’s an establishment hack that supports the objective of enslaving humanity.
What we are seeing is an attempt by the establishment to form a one world religion based off of earth worship which will be supplemented by their carbon enslavement tax. Gore is playing the role of a cult leader who is attempting to spread a new age religion of earth worship to the masses through one of the biggest scams in the history of mankind. Gore and the sicko eugenics freaks in the World Wildlife Fund who are promoting this earth worship agenda are disturbing individuals who should be held liable for this giant hoax.
Al Gore: Climate Change Skeptics are Flat Earthers
March 29, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HSh1WuN_dnc
If you have problems with the United Nations’ scheme to frighten the rabbits and herd them into global warming ghettos, take heed in the words of Mr. Green, Al Gore.
On Sunday, Leslie Stahl will interview Gore on 60 Minutes, an interview that coincides with Gore’s “major advertising campaign to raise awareness of global warming,” according to David Edwards and Muriel Kane of Raw Story. In a teaser for the show (see video here), Gore compares those of us who have big problems with dismantling civilization — in other words, forcing millions to accept a New Stone Age lifestyle — with “the ones who still believe that the Moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat.”
In fact, the enviro-crusaders, funded over the years by the Rockefeller foundation, are the flat-earthers, unable to accept alternative theories to their junk science. Instead of debating the opposition, followers of the climate change orthodoxy continue to slander and attempt to minimize them.
Somebody needs to question the “solutions” proffered to mend climate change proposed by the enviro-fascists. One such “solution” entails “geoengineering,” that is the deliberate change of the climate with sulfate aerosols, the same stuff that comes out volcanoes (see Can We Offset Global Warming By Geoengineering The Climate With Aerosols?). Such a harebrained scheme, even if possible, would increase “global dimming” and reduce the amount of light and solar energy that reaches the planet. Never mind the resultant acid rain and massive impact of agriculture. Starvation is an effective way to scale back carbon emissions, as there will be a lot less people breathing.
Another crazy idea is ocean iron fertilization, also known as the “Geritol solution,” and involves seeding the oceans with iron to increase phytoplankton populations. The thought here is that the iron will encourage phytoplankton growth and the phytoplankton will suck up the CO2 as part of photosynthesis. Nobody knows if this will work but why let that stop the eco-fascists from polluting the oceans with heavy metals?
“Other wacky ideas under consideration include artificial trees, giant space mirrors, painting city buildings / roads white, etc., etc.,” notes Global Warming Hoax. “Some of these ideas are scarier than others as some are easy to undo. However the earth warms over time and once we spend a trillion dollars on a space mirror and cool the earth 5°C it will take time to rewarm the oceans, it will also be so embarrassing that it could take decades to convince politicians to scrap such an expensive system. Painting all buildings and roads white would take far longer to undo. Ocean fertilization has unknown consequences and could trigger a chain of events that could go on for decades.”
Recent News:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/56321
Al Gore’s Buys His Own (Green) Private Army
http://yournewreality.blogspot.com/2008/0..s-own-green-private.html
Junk Science: Global Smearing
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342276,00.html
Ted Turner: Inaction on Global Warming “will be catastrophic” those who survive “will be cannibals”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-b..s-inaction-warming-cannibalism
States Sue EPA Over Global Warming
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080402..RyWcBZqfSiVdw1y2HSs0NUE
Earth Hour To Plunge Millions Into Darkness
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080..MWbi4jk8.FWGOrgF
ABC Smears Scientist For Questioning Global Warming “Consensus”
http://infowars.net/articles/march2008/240308Singer.htm
Ice Cap Alarmists Cherry Pick Science To Fit Carbon Emissions Theory
http://infowars.net/articles/march2008/270308Ice.htm
Americans Oppose Paying Global Warming Gas Taxes, New Poll Finds
50 Cent Tax Hike On Each Gallon Of Gas?
Climate Change ’Experts’: We Will Need Camps
The Sloppy Science of Global Warming
Gore’s 10 Errors: Old and New. Scientific Mistakes and Exaggerations in an Interview in India Today
NPR Snowjobs Evidence Of Global Cooling
EU threatens sanctions on CO2 rebels
Global Warming Hoax News Archive
Filed under: 2008 Election, Daily Show, Fox News Debate, jon stewart, New Hampshire, new hampshire primaries, Republican Debate, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani
Jon Stewart defends Ron Paul against Giuliani advisor
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VyDhhNH4Geg
Filed under: al-qaeda, Alberto Gonzales, Chicago, CNN, Daily Show, fake terror threat, False Flag, FBI, jon stewart, Media, Media Fear, Propaganda, Psyops, State Sponsored Terrorism, War On Terror
Liberty City Seven Shows Terror War Is Fraud
Lee Rogers
Rogue Government
December 14, 2007
In a stunning defeat for the federal government, seven Miami men dubbed the “Liberty City Seven” who were accused of plotting to join forces with Al-Qaida to blow up the Chicago Sears Tower in 2006 were let go. One man was acquitted and a mistrial was declared for the six others after a federal jury ended up in a deadlock. What makes this case significant, is that the FBI actually utilized a paid informant to infiltrate the group posing as a fake Al-Qaida member in order to convince the men to blow up the Chicago Sears Tower. The group itself never made contact with any real so called Al-Qaida members and never acquired any weapons or explosives. Prosecutors even acknowledged that the alleged terror cell was aspirational versus operational. The FBI actually tried to create a threat that didn’t exist and the jury’s actions confirms that there was not adequate information to convict these men. Since the public isn’t buying the phony war on terror, the federal government with help from the establishment media tries to invent phony terror threats.
The following is taken from an Associated Press article covering the event.
Prosecutors said the “Liberty City Seven” — so-named because they operated out of a warehouse in Miami’s blighted Liberty City section — swore allegiance to al-Qaida and hoped to forge an alliance to carry out bombings against America’s tallest skyscraper, the FBI’s Miami office and other federal buildings.
The group never actually made contact with al-Qaida. Instead, a paid FBI informant known as Brother Mohammed posed as an al-Qaida emissary.
The defense portrayed the seven men as hapless figures who were either manipulated and entrapped by the FBI or went along with the plot to con “Mohammed” out of $50,000.
The group never actually made contact with al-Qaida and never acquired any weapons or explosives. Prosecutors said no attack was imminent, acknowledging that the alleged terror cell was “more aspirational than operational.”
When the arrests of these men first became public, the arrests were made a national joke by
John Stewart mocking the press conference with then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Gonzales and the Feds had admitted at that time that the men had no means to carry out a terror attack yet still considered them a viable terrorist threat.
The deadlocked jury combined with admitted statements from the federal government is obvious proof that there was no terror threat from the “Liberty City Seven” and that this whole situation was provoked by the FBI. Other incidents like the Fort Dix Six raise additional questions about the federal government’s credibility on the subject of this phony war on terrorism. The war on terror isn’t real and if it was the government wouldn’t need to send FBI informants to entrap a group of crazy people hanging out in a warehouse.
Sears Tower Bomb Plot Case Falls Apart
http://news.aol.com/story/_a…14080009990001
Jon Stewart: Seven dipshits living in a warehouse prepared to take on the United States, right!
http://www.onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gm…a_once.html
Chicago bomb defendant is cleared
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7143553.stm
Filed under: 9/11, al-qaeda, anthrax, Daily Show, Dick Cheney, jon stewart, Lynne Cheney, War On Terror, White House
Lynne Cheney: Terrorist Attacks Worldwide Don’t Affect ‘American Interests’
Think Progress
October 11, 2007
A frequent Bush administration talking point in defense of the “war on terror” is claiming that United States has not been attacked since 9/11.
Yesterday, Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Cheney, reiterated this point on The Daily Show, claiming that terrorists regularly struck between 1993 and 2001 but not since 9/11. “It’s been more than six years. And that is not an accident. … There were many attacks between 1993 and the World Trade Centers coming down in 2001,” Cheney said.
Stewart rebutted Cheney’s claim by listing off the many terrorist attacks around the world since 9/11:
I mean, there was the anthrax thing. … [Terrorists] have been doing that all these past six years. The Spanish bombings, the English bombings, and then all the bombs in Iraq.
Cheney replied that attacks on other countries were not relevant to the discussion: “Yes, yes. But we’re talking about American interests.” The audience booed Cheney’s remarks. An incredulous Stewart responded, “Aren’t we interested in [attacks on those countries]? I’d assumed they were our allies.”
Watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFn6ialOeV4
Worldwide terror attacks are rising as a result of the policies Cheney supports. A State Department terrorism report released this year showed a nearly 30 percent increase in worldwide terror attacks in 2006. Prior to an attempted terrorist attack in London in June, British experts warned that the war in Iraq had increased the threat of terror attacks on their country.
A White House report released this week also stated that al Qaeda remains the “most serious and dangerous” terrorist threat and “is expected to intensify attempts to place agents inside the United States.”
Evidently, according to Cheney’s logic, even though almost 170,000 U.S. troops are in Iraq, bombings and terrorist attacks there don’t have anything to do with our nation’s “interests.”
Filed under: ALCA, Amero, Canada, FTAA, George Bush, global currency, Globalism, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, jon stewart, Larry King, Mexico, NAFTA, North American Union, South America, Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox admits that he and George W. Bush have ‘agreed’ on common currency, North American Union
Webwire
October 10, 2007
Los Angeles, CA (Oct. 10, 2007) — Speaking on the Larry King show, former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed every assertion made by Jerome Corsi in his new book, NY Times bestseller “The Late Great U.S.A: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada” (WND Books, ISBNs 0-9790451-4-2, $25.95, July 2007). Not only did Fox admit that he and George W. Bush have “agreed” to create a common currency, the Amero, he contended that a North American Union is “inevitable” That’s something that Jerry Corsi takes issue with while applauding Fox’s openness on national television.
“At last we have public confirmation of the pernicious secret activity that’s been going on towards merging Mexico, Canada and the United States” declares Corsi, whose book became a bestseller shortly after publication. “Personally, I’d like to thank Vincente Fox. His candor about this merger is what’s going to stop it dead in its tracks”
Corsi continues, “Fox’s appearance with Larry King and, of all places, on The Daily Show constitutes the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. has openly confirmed a plan to create a regional currency called the Amero — a plan I document in detail in ‘The Late Great U.S.A.'” Fox went on to explain how current regional trade agreements between the United States and its hopelessly corrupt neighbor to the south are intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of North American integration.
As reported in WorldNetDaily, Larry King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener: “I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency”
Fox answered in the affirmative, admitting he and George W. Bush had “agreed” to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere – and that part of the plan was to institute a regional currency from Canada to the tip of South America!
“Long term, very long term” he said. “What we proposed together, President Bush and myself, it’s ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas”
According to Corsi, Fox has indeed performed a public service. “George W. Bush is president of the United States, not king. He has utterly no right to enter into any such agreement with a foreign country, particularly a hostile one” During Fox’s tenure as Mexican president, millions of Mexicans entered the United States illegally. In Corsi’s view, this constitutes an invasion that has cost American taxpayers billions of dollars while destroying schools and bankrupting hospitals and municipal governments across the country…and is only a taste of what a merger would bring.
“Finally” says the author of “The Late Great U.S.A” “here is unequivocal proof, straight from the mouth of Mexico’s former president, that Bush’s goal is to erode United States sovereignty in order to create free movement for Mexico’s peasant class across our border, in the process flooding us with even more anchor babies and illiterates ready and willing to take advantage of our country’s all-too-generous welfare programs”
Mexico’s invasion of America can and must be stopped, but in order to do so, every citizen must rise up and demand an end to it. “George W. Bush has been bought lock, stock and barrel by the elite and multi-national corporations pushing for a merger with Mexico, but he has utterly no right under the Constitution to push for a merger of the U.S with Mexico or any other country”
Fox’s comments are part and parcel of Mexico’s ongoing campaign to destroy American sovereignty to its benefit. “Going by what Fox has said on national television, it’s clear that Mexico has declared war on the United States” Corsi asserts. “It’s the only way such words can be interpreted. Since Bush has no interest in protecting our interests, and since all too few legislators have stepped up to condemn a North American Union and shared currency, it’s up to we the people”
Thanks to Corsi’s book “The Late Great U.S.A” “more and more patriotic Americans are learning the truth about our ‘good neighbor’ to the south, the one George W. Bush can’t do enough for at the expense of every American’s future. In just two unguarded interviews, Vincente Fox has confirmed every aspect of the ugly future that I’ve laid out in “The Late Great U.S.A” It’s past time we put a stop to his dream – and George W. Bush’s”
Vicente Fox Calls For North American Union
http://noworldsystem.com/2007/10/10…n-for-single-nafta-currency/
Vicente Fox Admits Plan For Single NAFTA Currency
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/091007_fox_admits.htm
Ex-Mexican prez: ‘Amero’ on the way
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58052
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: ALCA, Amero, Euro, european union, FTAA, George Bush, global currency, global government, Globalism, Hugo Chavez, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, jon stewart, Larry King, Mexico, middle class, NAFTA Superhighway, New World Order, North American Union, Oklahoma, SPP, SPP Summit, Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Admits Plan For Single NAFTA Currency
Former Mexican president wants North American Union based on EU
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
October 9, 2007
Mexico’s former president, Vicente Fox, made an astounding admission last night on CNN’s Larry King Live when he acknowledged the plan for a NAFTA single currency, a “euro-dollar” as King labeled it.
Fox also vowed to help unite the Americas beyond a trade agreement, following what he described as “a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA”.
The comments follow Fox’s appearance on The Daily Show in which he advocated the creation of a North American Union based on the model of the European Union.
Watch the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYGrn0hZlCQ
KING: E-mail from Mrs. Gonzalez in Elizabeth, New Jersey. “Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency?”
FOX: Long term, very long term. What we propose together, President Bush and myself, it’s ALCA, which is a trade union for all of the Americas. And everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came. He decided to isolate himself. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea…
KING: It’s going to be like the euro dollar, you mean?
FOX: Well, that would be long, long term. I think the processes to go, first step into is trading agreement. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7290698440658114475&hl=en
In a recent appearance on The Daily Show With John Stewart, Fox also expressed his desire for a North American Union based on the model of the European Union.
Vicente Fox Calls For North American Union
http://www.infowars.net/articles/october2007/101007Fox.htm
Ex-Mexican prez: ‘Amero’ on the way
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58052
Oklahoma Senator on NAFTA Corridor and SPP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cBEFJAq7-M
There’s A War On The Middle Class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNCe8N4R55M
Media Propaganda Campaign Says Lack Of Illegals Inflating Food Prices
http://infowars.net/articles/october2007/091007Illegals.htm
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: 2-party system, Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton, Censorship, Chris Matthews, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Hardball, jon stewart, neocons, Neolibs, Ted Kennedy, War Crimes, White House
Matthews says Bush administration has “finally been caught in their criminality”
Examiner
October 4, 2007
Chris Matthews had barely finished praising his colleagues at the 10th anniversary party for his “Hardball” show Thursday night in Washington, D.C. when his remarks turned political and pointed, even suggesting that the Bush administration had “finally been caught in their criminality.”
In front of an audience that included such notables as Alan Greenspan, Rep. Patrick Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy, Matthews began his remarks by declaring that he wanted to “make some news” and he certainly didn’t disappoint. After praising the drafters of the First Amendment for allowing him to make a living, he outlined what he said was the fundamental difference between the Bush and Clinton administrations.
The Clinton camp, he said, never put pressure on his bosses to silence him.
“Not so this crowd,” he added, explaining that Bush White House officials — especially those from Vice President Cheney‘s office — called MSNBC brass to complain about the content of his show and attempted to influence its editorial content. “They will not silence me!” Matthews declared.
“They’ve finally been caught in their criminality,” Matthews continued, although he did not specify the exact criminal behavior to which he referred. He then drew an obvious Bush-Nixon parallel by saying, “Spiro Agnew was not an American hero.”
Matthews left the throng of Washington A-listers with a parting shot at Cheney: “God help us if we had Cheney during the Cuban missile crisis. We’d all be under a parking lot.”
Following his remarks, a few network insiders and party goers wondered what kind of effect Matthews’ sharp criticism of the White House would have on Tuesday’s Republican debate in Dearborn, Michigan, which Matthews co-moderates alongside CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo.
“I find it hard to believe that Republican candidates will feel as if they’re being given a fair shot at Tuesday’s debate given the partisan pot-shots lobbed by Matthews this evening,” said one attendee.
When reached, the White House declined to comment and NBC refused requests to release video of the event. The event included such NBC/MSNBC brass as NBC Senior Vice President Phil Griffin (the former “Hardball” executive producer called “Hardball” the “best show on cable television”), “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, “Today” show executive producer Jim Bell, NBC News Specials Executive Producer Phil Alongi, “Meet the Press” Executive Producer Betsy Fischer, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC Vice President Tammy Haddad, “Hardball” correspondent David Shuster and Vice President for MSNBC Prime-Time Programming Bill Wolff.
On a side note: Matthews was overheard discussing his Tuesday appearance on “The Daily Show,” which featured a heated exchange with host Jon Stewart. According to one source, Matthews was steadfast in his belief that the debate left Stewart crestfallen, and Matthews victorious.