Van Taylor Does Well on MSNBC and Chris Matthews
Is there any wonder MSNBC is at the very bottom of the rankings of the cable news networks, especially when there are still anchors like extreme liberal Chris Matthews on? I do not watch any MSNBC programs, but I ran across the text of an interview Van Taylor had with Chris Matthews and Paul Hackett. Taylor is currently trying to unseat Democrat Chet Edwards from Waco, Texas in US Congress TX-17. The liberal bloggers are saying Taylor was out of his league. After reading the text, I disagree. Taylor was on message, was knowledgeable, and held his own even when he was rudely interrupted by both Matthews and Hackett. The MSNBC anchors came across as biased, rude, shallow, ill-informed, and extremely partisan.
Matthews starts off the program with a short dialog, wrong of course, but I include it to show how far to the left Matthews and his program has turned.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC ANCHOR: You know a Republican is in a political state of mind when he starts talking about the Democrat Party, Democrat Party. Those are fighting words meant to tick off the Democrats, stir up Republicans. Two weeks before Labor Day, the country‘s top Republican wants a tussle. He wants to fight any Democrat who takes on his Iraq policy. You talking to me? I‘m never leaving Iraq. Let‘s play HARDBALL.
Good evening I‘m Chris Matthews and welcome to HARDBALL. At his press conference Monday, President Bush drew a partisan line in the sand on the war in Iraq, saying that withdrawing troops would be a disaster with this dire warning.
Huh? How is saying withdrawing troops would be a disaster drawing a partisan line? If you’re the great Chris Matthews, you don’t need to explain yourself.
Then they show a video clip with MSNBC correspondent David Shuster who gets his facts all messed up.
BUSH: Imagine a world in which Saddam Hussein was there stirring up even more trouble in a part of the world that had so much resentment and so much hatred that people came and killed 3,000 of our citizens.
SHUSTER: The problem is that none of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis.
BUSH: What did Iraq have to do with what?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The attack on the World Trade Center.
BUSH: Nothing except for its part of—and nobody has ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack.
SHUSTER: But before the war, President Bush himself suggested Iraq was involved.
No, President Bush never said that. Osama bin Laden said he attacked the US because we had troops in Saudi Arabia. We had troops in the Saudi Kingdom because of Saddam Hussein. Shuster is being incredibly deceitful. He twisted around Bush’s words to make his own point. No wonder people do not trust MSNBC.
Chris Matthews bias shines through when he introduces Van Taylor as a Congressional Candidate while Paul Hackett is introduced as an IRAQ WAR VETERAN. Van Taylor is also an Iraq War veteran, so why wasn’t he introduced the same way? Maybe Hackett should have been introduced as ‘Paul Hackett, Failed Congressional Candidate.’ The point is, MSNBC is trying to make a point by influencing their viewers.
This is a typical statement by Paul Hackett.
HACKETT: Chris, if I may interject—if I may interject, Chris, Van obviously doesn‘t understand the war on terror. Where is Osama bin Laden? Where is the 6‘2” white robe-dressed, left-handed Arab who is walking around in Pakistan or Afghanistan? That was the war against those who attacked us on our soil.
War on terror? I mean, that‘s a ridiculous soundbite. Terror, as you know, Van, is a military strategy. It‘s not a philosophy. You are not going to defeat a strategy. You are going to defeat a philosophy. And if you want to defeat it, you have to address what compels those people to sacrifice their lives and kill innocent women and children.
No wonder Hackett lost his Congressional election in Ohio. This is the liberal mantra, we just have to understand what it is that offends these people. That way we can stop doing it and they will not attack us anymore. What rubbish.
After reading the whole transcript, Chris Matthews and Paul Hackett come across as shallow, hide your head in the sand, cut-and-run Democrats. As Matthews was saying goodbye to Hackett, he fawns all over him, telling Paul he needs to run for office again. Chris just tells Van goodbye. MSNBC’s low ratings are well deserved. The behavior of Chris Matthews has ensured it.
Van Taylor came across as knowledgeable. A review of just a couple of statements by Van Taylor will illustrate this fact.
TAYLOR: Al Qaeda is trying to foment an insurgency in Iraq. We have got to secure our country against terrorists and they are attacking us right now, U.S. forces are risking their lives fighting al Qaeda terrorists that seek to destroy our country and our way of life. We have got to do whatever it takes to finish the job in Iraq and make sure that we give a secure country to our children.
TAYLOR: OK, we have got to win the war on terror. Al Qaeda is a vicious terrorist organization. They are seeking to destroy our way of life. They have come to this country. They have attacked us. They are attacking U.S. forces in Iraq. They have attacked U.S. forces around the world. They‘ve got to be dealt with. You cannot put your head in the sand. You cannot walk away.
Van Taylor is a guy who understands the problems with Iraq and knows what is at stake, our security and our freedoms. We definitely need to be supporting Van Taylor over Chet Edwards in the Congressional election, the stakes are too high to make a mistake now.
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