Chris Matthews Crappy book on JFK

[Albert Doyle]

Where were Matthews' comments on Cuba?

[Phil Dragoo]

Chris Matthews presents as a foaming chatterbox powered by gin and Benzedrine talking over guests of all persuasions while gushing of the thrill going up his leg being on the street where Barry lives.

We have seen Matthews dancing the full Cass Sunstein at:

http://hardballblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/...ardblogger

When he slams down his Strawman Troika Thesis beginning with the following telling excerpt:


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Let me finish tonight with the paranoids of American politics.
These are the people who believe the world is conspiring against them. It's a fearful, insane world of everyone out to get you, everyone relentlessly meeting in secret to destroy your world, your hopes, and your dreams.
Is there any logic to it? You've got to be kidding me.
It is a demented view of the world that holds no logic for the basic reason that fear of the unknown requires no logic. Thinking isn't necessary. The fear alone does the work for you.
I give you the trio of conspiracy theories.
One is that the people in power in this country killed Jack Kennedy. The CIA, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, the Joint Chiefs, oh, throw in the Dallas Police, even the Irish mafia who worked for the late president. They were all in this, all in the plot to send his car down the same street where L. Harvey Oswald waited a few floors up with his rifle, where he'd had his job for weeks - long before the motorcade route had been planned. This is grand conspiracy, the best kind! - where everyone was in it together so that they continue a horribly unpopular war in Vietnam.


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Matthews is a jackass, but his treatment of Jack shows he not only doesn't know Jackhe doesn't want you or anyone to know Jack.

DiEugenio vs Matthews, as always the battle of wits between one wielding a rapier and one lacking any is not balanced, but telling all the same.

Five items:

One: Matthews is a denier of Kennedy's opposition to making Vietnam a U.S. wara major reason the latter was assassinated;

Two: Matthews denies that Kennedy was the premier anti-Cold Warrioranother reason he was killedI mean, détente with Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev? Come on! This is why our friend from army intelligence said Kennedy was "very dangerous," why Elmer Moore the SS beeyatch for the Commission called him "a traitor"he was throwing the Great Game!

Three: Matthews ignores what Kennedy grasped and even Dulles pretended to deny, that the Bay of Pigs was a CIA plan to embarrass and demonize Kennedyand it worked: all Cubans and military men henceforth thought of Kennedy as that (expletive deleted) traitor;

Four: Kennedy-Castro talks were successfulanother reason he was killed (and Mark Lane told us Lisa Howard's death added to making it personal for him), but Matthews ignores this;

Five: Ignoring NSAM 263 and the related strategy for its success conceals a major reason he was killedand this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is Matthews' mission.

He's not just doing Robin Williams on crack playing Cable Liberal Mouth, he's damping down any curiosity in the life and death of a very different president, and the scarring of the nation which cannot heal without cleansing the wound.

The bookends talked: Ike January 17, 1961 warned serious as a heart attack of the Military-Industrial Complex. Truman December 24, 1963 insisted Limit CIA to Intelligence.

The Dulles Brothers' Regime Change R Us continues with Brzezinski-Gates' Iran: Time for a New Approach, a little bit of bossa nova, Arab Spring, we'll figure out the sequel to Iraq-cleaning for the Saudis/Smackistan's Naked Lunch.

Matthews continues in order that cognitive dissonance prevents that terrible wrath Frank Zappa forecast to his concerts:

If you knew how lame your parents are, you'd kill them in their beds.

[Dawn Meredith]

Great review Jim, as always. I shared it on my fb page from Lisa's - (since it was not on yours) -and asked the two AIB members I am friends with on fb to read it.
Matthews is so intellectually dishonest that I cannot watch his show. I catch bits at times surfing to avoid commercials and he never seems to miss an opportunity to dismiss the notion of a JFK conspiracy. I hope he reads your review and grows a brain.

Dawn

[Albert Doyle]

The real culprit is the American media that allows no counterpoint.


MSNBC is supposed to be the liberal cable TV news. It spends 48 hours straight on the weekends televising programs that condition American minds to corporate correctional facilities.

[Jim DiEugenio]

Thanks ALbert, Phil and Dawn.

THat review is on page one of Yahoo search already. Great, let us keep it up.

[Seamus Coogan]

Where were Matthews' comments on Cuba?

Somebody posted it in the comments after Jims article.

[Magda Hassan]

Thanks ALbert, Phil and Dawn.

That review is on page one of Yahoo search already. Great, let us keep it up.

I saw one of my network friends is giving this a good thumbs up and spreading it around her networks. Her name wont mean any thing to you Jim (though it may to Seamus) but she probably Australia's brainiest woman. It was wonderful to see he promoting it.

[Seamus Coogan]

Thanks ALbert, Phil and Dawn.

That review is on page one of Yahoo search already. Great, let us keep it up.

I saw one of my network friends is giving this a good thumbs up and spreading it around her networks. Her name wont mean any thing to you Jim (though it may to Seamus) but she probably Australia's brainiest woman. It was wonderful to see he promoting it.

One of Aussies smartest women huh. So it's not you Mags hahahahahahahahahaha. Hook me up. It's great that Jim's article is getting wings
Thank God for Consortium they are pretty bloody solid and have a big following.

[Magda Hassan]

Thanks ALbert, Phil and Dawn.

That review is on page one of Yahoo search already. Great, let us keep it up.

I saw one of my network friends is giving this a good thumbs up and spreading it around her networks. Her name wont mean any thing to you Jim (though it may to Seamus) but she probably Australia's brainiest woman. It was wonderful to see he promoting it.

One of Aussies smartest women huh. So it's not you Mags hahahahahahahahahaha. Hook me up. It's great that Jim's article is getting wings
Thank God for Consortium they are pretty bloody solid and have a big following.

No, not me Seamus lol. This woman was forever doing this degree and then another everytime I saw her being interviewed. Eventually a High Court judge and part time film maker. She was sending around the Reader Supported News version, which is the same article, but I agree Consortium is great.

[Seamus Coogan]

Thanks ALbert, Phil and Dawn.

That review is on page one of Yahoo search already. Great, let us keep it up.

I saw one of my network friends is giving this a good thumbs up and spreading it around her networks. Her name wont mean any thing to you Jim (though it may to Seamus) but she probably Australia's brainiest woman. It was wonderful to see he promoting it.

One of Aussies smartest women huh. So it's not you Mags hahahahahahahahahaha. Hook me up. It's great that Jim's article is getting wings
Thank God for Consortium they are pretty bloody solid and have a big following.

No, not me Seamus lol. This woman was forever doing this degree and then another everytime I saw her being interviewed. Eventually a High Court judge and part time film maker. She was sending around the Reader Supported News version, which is the same article, but I agree Consortium is great.

Whats her name with brains like that love she's gotta be a Kiwi.