Matthews: 'What's Wrong' with a 'Show Trial' or 'Witch Hunt' of Bush Officials?

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"Why would a show trial or witchhunt be bad?"

So asked Chris Matthews of Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy on today's edition of "Hardball." Gaffney was joined by liberal pundit David Corn of Mother Jones magazine in a segment around 5:20 p.m. ET and they were discussing the call by liberal Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) for a war crimes investigation of senior Bush administration officials and terrorist detainee interrogators.

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Great use of dollars. Yeah, "Why not?"

Isn't Conyers the same idiot who held the mock Bush impeachment hearings a couple years ago.  Can't these partisans find anything better to do with tax payer dollars than play dress up and hold fake hearings and trials? 

How about another round of Valerie Plame hearings where the left can express their outrage at the "crimial acts" of Dick Cheney while completely avoiding the words "Dick Armitage" for 4 hours?

I remember the last show trial...

So Chrissy suddenly thinks that the Clinton Impeachment (which was nothing more than a show trial since the outcome was pre-ordained) Trial was good for America?

I thought he had convinced America that 'censure' was the appropriate way to deal with perjury, abuse of power and lying to the public?  My, how times change....

MSNBC - The Network Of Change! (swear to God, it's their slogan)

Good one.

"How about another round of Valerie Plame hearings where the left can
express their outrage at the "crimial acts" of Dick Cheney while
completely avoiding the words "Dick Armitage" for 4 hours? "

Boom.

 

Because with a name like Obama... you know it has to be good.

Ummmmmm.......

Maybe....because they DIDN'T COMMIT ANY CRIMES?!

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

I agree choselife3x

The "crimes" are just figments of their tiny little vindictive minds, delusional in the extreme. But in a larger sense this trend of thought is very disturbing. We, in this country, enjoy an extreme rarity in among world governments current and historical. Namely the peaceful and orderly succession of power. If this Pandora's box is opened (unless there are real crimes rather than just differences in policy) peaceful succession of power could become a casualty ushering in a climate of violence. 

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

Got that Chrissy?!?!

900+ different investigations against the Bush administration by Waxman and others have yet to produce one crime.

The last thing any Democrat will be is bipartisan.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

Of course he comitted a crime.

He stole the election and they must exact their revenge for that.

Perfect Demotivator for the Obama Administration

http://www.despair.com/government.html

Bush and Cheney are guilty

Bush and Cheney are guilty of the crime of being Republican.

MidAmerica... If it's any

MidAmerica...

If it's any consolation, even I think it should only be a misdemeanor.

Jer

LOL

Jer,

Now, that's funny.

___________________________________ 

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Jer

  Yeah, I can just see your punishment now.  After a highway is named for obama, Bush and Cheney will be sentenced to Community Service picking up trash along the roadway.

Jer

lol that was cold Jer.Good but cold.

charged with

Obstructing democrat vision of america
fighting terrorists
not caring what the media says
Thoughtcrime(that's the big one)

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it - Voltaire

When are  Fannie/Freddie

When are  Fannie/Freddie trails???

 

 

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

 

You just don't get it

Fannie and Feddie are old news. We already dealt with that.

We need to move on and get along with the big #1, The O, The man, The man who celebrates being a D.

You need to be an O D fan. Until you O D ( or Owe D lots of money ), you won't understand why we need to go after Bush as hard as we can [ so we can thank him big time for defending this country and for cutting taxes ].

Just look at Matthews. He loves getting O D'ed any time he can and doing hits of BDS helps open his mind to the closed level that the Big O dwells in.

Chris Matthews is Mentally Ill

And no, I am not trying to make a joke here.

This man has taken leave of his senses.

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.

Matthews is a complete moron and pimp for the left

#1- beacuse there have been no crimes commited.

#2- even if there is evidence of a crime, using the words "Show trial" and "Witchhunt" means the manufacturing of evidence where none exists and the complete lack of any justice whatsoever.

IS this what you meant Chrissy? Does that give you a thrill up your leg too?

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012

Criminalizing political differences

Why is it wrong to criminalize political differences? Because you can't start from a juvenile premise that I am always right, morally and legally, and anyone who disagrees with me is either immoral or ignorant.

You don't declare your opinion to be an absolute truth, and then embezzle the authority of the justice system to penalize "the liars."

Why not? Because the authority of the state comes from the people as a whole, in aggregate - and not from any individual's personal point of view.

Bush would be criminal if he agreed with Conyers that the behavior is wrong, and did it anyway. Instead, the Bushes disagree that the behavior is wrong in the first place. Well, what if Bush's political disagreement is really just a deception, designed to stall retaliation while they pursue their nefarious ends? How can we tell whether Bush is sincere in his political opposition? Answer: if Bush agrees to go through the legal process.

Does he alert and consult the proper authorities? When courts make decisions, does Bush obey them?

It turns out that Bush has indeed been scrupulous in following the process. We know that Bush consulted with Congress on Guantanamo and all these interrogation techniques. (How can Nancy Pelosi prosecute the techniques as criminal if she was advised about them? She makes herself an accessory.)  When the Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan, Bush respected the decision even while he disagreed with it. Bush has absolutely shown his sincerity.

Show trials criminalize political differences. They're the tools of the totalitarian, who are nothing more than juveniles too cowardly to confront their opponents, and who prefer to destroy opponents instead.

Matthews is a political and intellectual coward.

Great post KC. As soon as

Great post KC.

As soon as the left starts to criminilize ideaological differences, I'm sure it won't be long, before they come to the epiphany and realize who posseses most of the guns and ammunition in this great nation.

I go to ballot box, so I do not have to use the powder box. But I gird the powder box, like my loins, just the same.

 

  "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

I blogged a few weeks back at NB

That Republicans/Conservatives may be come or have become the new "jews". (With absolutely no disrespect to jewry intended or implied but intended in a historical sense). The left has almost all the power now I see the hatred and vindictiveness coming to the fore. The gloating vindictive hate filled conservative bashing is continuing even though their man has won. They feel they don't have to pretend anymore. The process has begun. We are a couple of SC judges away from losing our freedom.

I just received this email from a friend. It is a letter to the editor to the London Mail (I have not checked the website for the veracity of this letter so reader bear that in mind):

Subject: Editorial - London Daily Mail
 
              John T. Reed

                  London Daily Mail editorial 1/6/2009

                  Obama's Victory--A British view

                       A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.
                      A victory for Hollywood , the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon. Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence.  For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.
                      Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom.  He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition. A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity. A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.

                      Congratulations America !   
 

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

Wow

That was awesome.Spot on.

What a good little Stalin

What a good little Stalin boy you are chris.

Well you know

With the new Obama relaxed position on FOIA, we may be able to get to the truth about Clinton complacency causing 9/11. Everyone knows it was the inattention of Clinton to the build up of al Qaeda that led to 9/11 attacks. Now maybe we can get to the bottom of it.

What's wrong with a witch hunt for the truth.

What can be said is it's been 7 years and no attacks, next one is all Obama's.

I heard that all requests.......

for information must go through the AG. Do you honestly think Clintoon's records will be exposed?

It would not be a good idea to rile the honest citizens....

...by show trials against the Bush administration and it's officials lest we start to consider our right to keep and bear arms if you get my drift..

"What you can not enforce, do not command" -Sophocles-

"..by show trials against

"..by show trials against the Bush administration and it's officials
lest we start to consider our right to keep and bear arms if you get my
drift.."

 

I agree. I have an assortment of assault rifles and handguns. Enough to passout if need be. I also have a couple of mean a$$ shoties.

We can do this.

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

Well Matthews, about a witch hunt for Clinton?

Well Matthews, what about a witch hunt for Clinton and Clinton officials, then?  After all, there was a legal precedent  set:

The presiding judge [court in Belgrade] said an arrest warrant had been issued for the convicted [of war crimes] leaders, who include US President Bill Clinton

Wouldn't even be a witch hunt then, would it? 

.. and while you're at it, since you respect the views of David Corn so much,  you biased fake of a journalist, why not talk about what David Corn thought of President Bill Clinton?

Too little, too late - How many times is Bill Clinton going to apologize to Africa?

Might he claim that, as with the Rwanda genocide, he was not fully informed of the horror? A cynical guess might be this: AIDS in Africa, it doesn’t poll well.

"The argument was that testing was too expensive, and it led to things that were more expensive," Gregory Pappas, a Health and Human Services official said to the Post. " ... In other words, the prevailing view was, these people should die quietly. And USAID did not seek any extra funds for AIDS overseas. In 1996, USAID did not even fully staff its office on AIDS.

Now, Chris Matthews, the popular MSM talent here, uses this opportunity to go out and use the tired old MSM lame line, "President Reagan didn't even say the word Aids in public for a few years."

Meanwhile President Bush came into office, proposed, planned for, got passed in congress, and implemented an historic and profound plan to tackle the global HIV/Aids crisis. In the end, he handed out over 2 billion condoms in Africa alone, exceeded the goals for anti-viral treatment of, instilled major operational prevention programs, established education centers and treatment centers, and in the end not only prevented millions of future infections, but saved over a million lives.

 

Oh, things you don't want the public to know.

Let's see how you would like it Chrisy

'What's Wrong' with a 'Show Trial' or 'Witch Hunt'  of Chris Matthews for TREASON?

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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Thomas Jefferson

Speak where it matters

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ 

Be better than Chrissy and Olbermann.

Stop the Dumb A$$ circle jerks.

 

 

Chrissy... How about a

Chrissy...

How about a real witch hunt... Evil In White House

 

 Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

Tingles!

Asking what's wrong with a show trial or a witch hunt is tantamount to asking what would be morally wrong to have a group of clingers of religion and guns - you know, those you despise - armed with pitchforks and machetes and going to your very tony neighborhood, dragging you out of you luxurious dwelling and roasting your extremely fat ass on a spit.

Now do you get it?

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell

Trix

That should have come with a spew alert! I had just taken a sip of coke, and then the picture of CM dragged out of his house, in the dead of night, dressed in PJ's with bunnies on them with little bunny slippers, then being hauled onto a spit was more than I could take. My eyes are still watering. I cannot imagine why the liberals don't ouster CM and the gang, I would be dying of embarassment to admit I was in the same party as these loons.

 

 

Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke

I wonder?

Did Chrissy have to learn to be this stupid or is it just natural talent?

He now wants: formal investigations of UnAmerican behavior?

Well, speed dial please to Michelle Bachmann.
Now that the election is over, Hypochris, I mean hypocrite
Matthews wants formal investigations.
How odd?
Talk about total flipflops around an election cycle!
This one really takes the proverbial cake.
What must Bachmann think of this moron?

Seriously, it's time to start a national campaign . . .

. . . to have Matthews jerked off the airways.

Given that MSNDC and NBC don't care, anyone who's had enough of the insanity of this man's craziness and dysfunctionality should begin to apprise the advertisers on his show and others that they no long will buy those products.

As for Conyers, one can only hope that his constituents come to their senses and remove him from office.

I'm all in favor of

I'm all in favor of trials.

But first, let's put Bill Clinton on trial for accepting Chinese money from Buddist Monks, the 44 plus murders involving former Clinton employees including Vince Foster, and Clinton's lifting of trade sanctions for rocket technology to North Korea among others.

What's wrong...

What's wrong if 1000 people get togather and 999 of them agree to lynch Prissie Chrissie? Majority rules at the time.

 When there are no fair courts or laws anything goes. If the democrats think they can run the country with mob rule they are sadly mistaken, there will be oposition.  This type decision is coming fast.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

Chrissy and Olberdoofus

Chrissy and Olberdoofus have conducted show trials of conservatives, President Bush and VP Cheny, etc on a daily basis for years. What's their complaint?

For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.

I refuse to hurt my head

I refuse to hurt my head this evening by listening to one spewing word from this POS...this has been on-going diatribe from this pathetic creature since the Plame/Wilson deal...he didn't get his frog-march walk with Rove, Cheney and least of all Bush...and he isn't about to stop anytime soon.

He, Olbie, Shyster, Madcow all make me ill.

msnbc is a side-show...a pathetic one at that.

bt

   Sounds like you could use some idiotic blather anti-dote.  Listen to Reagan as he graciously talks about Carter.  There was no booing.  No calls for investigations.  Wasn't it great when adults with manners ran the Whitehouse?  Reagan was change we believed in and he delivered.

MA... So right you

MA...

So right you are.

Being gracious, having class, using Presidential protocol are something the dems have been sorely lacking since the Clintoons came on the scene...in a big way.

MA

Thank you. That was wonderful. He was elected the day after I was born, so I've never seen that!

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

  Too bad about being so

  Too bad about being so young.  (LOL)  But there was a time when those in government were adults and behaved as ladies and gentlemen.  The obnoxious side of the boomers (hippies, protesters, druggies' etc.)  never learned any manners.  If you look at the generousness and civility of the Bush family you can see what used to be the norm. 

CL3x

Go to youtube and watch interviews of Goldwater and Buckley. They were intelligent, conservative, and proud of it.RWR, too, of course.

 

Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke

I have NO DOUBT that CHRIS TINGLE would imploy ...

... ANY means to get information from a TERRORIST that was part of a group threatening his life.  Hey, Chris, I did not sign a suicide pact with you and I don't appreciate your boy BARRKY making us LESS SAFE by closing Gitmo.  BARRKY a JERK OF HISTORICAL PROPORTIONS.

Chris Matthews et al should

Chris Matthews et al should be tried for abusing the First Amendment and tampering with elections.  Because I feel that the press lying and keeping information from me is therefore a violation of my Constitutional rights to make informed decisions and express thought.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

lets get in our time machine.....

fast forward to october, 2010.  obama has been in office for two years. even after consulting with the finest n. korean and cuban economists , the economy is still in the tank. the dems are looking at a worse defeat than in '94. to distract the public and energize they're base (bread and circuses) it is announced that former-pres. bush will be subpoenaed to testify on alleged "war crimes". after much legal wrangling, president bush appears and is sworn in.....and promptly removes his shoes with delibrate aim scores a direct hit on conyers and the cryogenically suspended corpse of ted kennedy. i guess it's ironic he'll spend eternity suspended in fluid......

SPITTLE-DROOLING MATTHEWS:

SPITTLE-DROOLING MATTHEWS: "Why should the innocent fear (a witch-hunt and/or show trial)..."

Now THAT'S as un-American a statement it is possible to find.

Matthews would have felt so at home in Stalin's Soviet Union, Ulbrech's East Germany, Hitler's Third Reich, Mao's China. Well those guy's MUST be guilty because why would the state find them guilty unless they were.

I believe 80% of the human body is water. In Matthew's case it's 100%.

"The nature of an ideology is not determined by majority vote—but by logic... The logic of environmentalism leads to a society without technology... even if various environmentalists would deny this." Ayn Rand, 1971

great comment

Yes, the left really reveals their true self when given full power.
And it isnt pretty, and does harken to oppressive regimes (state trials now that "we are in power").
How is this clown not being ripped even in the MSM for this trash when he created the pre-election firestorm over "UnAmerican."

Mindboggling!

Do the Dems really want to open THEIR part in government

dealings to inspection?  Wouldn't a Bush trial mean that all the government dirty laundry would be put on display - to include the Dems contribution?  If the Left tried to protect themselves surely the Right would have the cajones to take it to the public even if they have to do it via the blogosphere. Who knows - maybe we could get the final answer on what Carter/Clinton did or didn't do when we were attacked.

Try it

Just try it ya snarkey bastid, and a whole lot more will happen in the country.