Chris Matthews continues to ignore reality
"Hardball" used to be an entertaining show (or maybe just the SNL spoof of Hardball was good, I'm not sure). But Chris Matthews has become little more than a partisan hack, shilling for the left while ignoring reality. During the presidential campaign, he repeatedly made the charge that George W. Bush was not pro-life, as in this October 21 transcript:
"Very clearly, the president of the United States has not promised to . . . promot[e] a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion, to overturn Roe v. Wade. He‘s not saying he‘s going to pick pro life judges. How can you say he‘s pro life, then, I don‘t get it. He‘s not pro life. . . . Don‘t call the president pro life—don‘t call the president pro life if you mean it. . . . But he doesn‘t want to outlaw abortion."
One week earlier, he had made the following remarks:
"What struck me is that he never really came down and said he is pro-life in the sense of meaning something. He didn‘t come out for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion or to leave it up to the states. He didn‘t come out and say I‘m going to pick judges who are going to overturn Roe vs. Wade. He seemed to play around the edges of the issue. Yet he is enjoying the support of the Catholic hierarchy on this issue. . . . They‘re pro-life. They want to outlaw abortion. And yet he doesn‘t seem to be taking their position, but he is benefiting from their opposition to a Catholic being elected president as a pro-choicer. It seems like he is benefiting by hedging."
This, about the first president to sign a ban on partial-birth abortion. But Matthews has not relented on revising history since the election. On tonight's broadcast, he reached back into the 1980's and asserted that Ronald Reagan was not really pro-life, and only paid lip service to the issue. In fact, Reagan was passionate on the issue. In his 1985 State of the Union Address, he said,
"The question of abortion grips our nation. Abortion is either the taking of a human life or it isn't. And if it is--and medical technology is increasingly showing it is--it must be stopped. It is a terrible irony that while some turn to abortion, so many others who cannot become parents cry out for children to adopt. We have room for these children. We can fill the cradles of those who want a child to love. And tonight I ask you in the Congress to move this year on legislation to protect the unborn."
An essay written by Reagan in 1983, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation," became the first book ever published by a sitting president, and inspired the pro-life movement. Chris Matthews needs a reality check.
"Very clearly, the president of the United States has not promised to . . . promot[e] a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion, to overturn Roe v. Wade. He‘s not saying he‘s going to pick pro life judges. How can you say he‘s pro life, then, I don‘t get it. He‘s not pro life. . . . Don‘t call the president pro life—don‘t call the president pro life if you mean it. . . . But he doesn‘t want to outlaw abortion."
One week earlier, he had made the following remarks:
"What struck me is that he never really came down and said he is pro-life in the sense of meaning something. He didn‘t come out for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion or to leave it up to the states. He didn‘t come out and say I‘m going to pick judges who are going to overturn Roe vs. Wade. He seemed to play around the edges of the issue. Yet he is enjoying the support of the Catholic hierarchy on this issue. . . . They‘re pro-life. They want to outlaw abortion. And yet he doesn‘t seem to be taking their position, but he is benefiting from their opposition to a Catholic being elected president as a pro-choicer. It seems like he is benefiting by hedging."
This, about the first president to sign a ban on partial-birth abortion. But Matthews has not relented on revising history since the election. On tonight's broadcast, he reached back into the 1980's and asserted that Ronald Reagan was not really pro-life, and only paid lip service to the issue. In fact, Reagan was passionate on the issue. In his 1985 State of the Union Address, he said,
"The question of abortion grips our nation. Abortion is either the taking of a human life or it isn't. And if it is--and medical technology is increasingly showing it is--it must be stopped. It is a terrible irony that while some turn to abortion, so many others who cannot become parents cry out for children to adopt. We have room for these children. We can fill the cradles of those who want a child to love. And tonight I ask you in the Congress to move this year on legislation to protect the unborn."
An essay written by Reagan in 1983, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation," became the first book ever published by a sitting president, and inspired the pro-life movement. Chris Matthews needs a reality check.
posted by Hal | 11:47 PM
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