Chris Matthews inched up to the line on the neoconservatives tonight in a conversation with Pat Buchanan about the briefing of Sarah Palin. Don't you think, Matthews said, that McCain's foreign policy guru Randy Scheunemann is scripting her on this stuff. This is the neoconservative way, he said in so many words (I was eating ye olde spag-bowl when he said it, and lunged for a pen). "They find a cover" and here he mentioned Dan Quayle and George W. Bush, and then they brief them. Sort of invasion of the body snatchers, neocon style. And lest there was any doubt in the viewer's mind about what the neocons care about, he then mentioned Palin's thrice-repeated "I won't second guess Israel" line to Charlie Gibson. "Someone with an ideological point of view has given you exact words to use," Matthews said.
So Chris Matthews called George W. Bush a "cover" for the neocons' agenda, which he suggested was Israel. So much for the single-gunman-theory of the Iraq war, that it was all Bush. When will Chris give full throat to what he really believes, and have Walt and Mearsheimer on his show to explain it?
P.S. Recall that at AIPAC in June, Bill Kristol told a political session that it's all about relationships and then said that Dan Quayle was great on Israel because Hart Hasten, a Holocaust survivor and Indianapolis businessman, helped him from early on. And of course Kristol was Quayle's chief of staff and then the choirmaster for the They-will-greet-us-with-flowers strategy re Iraq. Matthews was really talking about Kristol. Say it, dude.
I think it would be interesting and worth reporting what kind of pushback Chris Matthews gets, or what the consequences are, in response to questions and comments like that. For those of us not in the journalism business, it would be interesting to hear the back-story of how 'political correctness" gets enforced in the news media.
Comment about economic situation:
If you had money in the stock market in 1929, you did not get those prices back until 1954, 25 years of stock market being off its 1929.
Imagine that we are in 1929, and that the wealth that existed in February of 2008 will evaporate until 2033. Then think about all the financial power that is wrapped up in Wall Street, think about the failed investment banks, and consider Olmert's recent statements about how Israel must cede back East Jerusalem.
Why is he doing so now?
Without the exponential growth of the 80s and 90s, the stock market would be around 7000 to 7500. Look at a chart and think about that– consider what the stock market going to 7000 would do to New York City's economy.
Not good times for the elites…
Chris Matthews has been on the neocons since the begining…and in a covert way on the zionist also.
He 'drops' little statements and questions from time to time concerning the neo's and zionist and Israel…if you listen to him often enough you will hear his dog whistles sooner or later…and dog whistles are what they are…those of us familiar with the US Israel deal know exactly what he is doing and why he is doing it.