Matthews Keeps Pounding Perry's Social Security Ponzi Critique Despite Being Exposed for Saying Same Thing
Despite having been exposed for at least twice calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, MSNBC's Chris Matthews continues to pound Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry for saying the same thing.
Here's what the "Hardball" host hypocritically said on Tuesday's program (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS: And now for the "Big Number." GOP candidate Rick Perry may be making headlines for clarifying or classifying Social Security as a -- quote -- "monstrous lie and a Ponzi scheme," but that doesn`t mean people agree with him. In a new CNN poll -- catch this number -- people were asked about whether they agreed with that "monstrous lie" description of Social Security.
How many of those who identified themselves as Republican answered no? Sixty-nine percent. Not quite rallying the troops with that one. Sixty- nine percent don`t like that call on Social Security, a monstrous lie.
I guess Matthews has forgotten what he said on his own program just last Thursday:
MATTHEWS: The genius of Franklin Roosevelt, who was a great president, maybe one of the greatest two or three, I think, was that he figured out that Social Security had to be for everybody, no; means test, you pay for it while you work. When you retired and have no other form of income, this will help you out. In fact, a lot were impoverished in the old days without Social Security. It's a great anti-poverty program.
Then people started to live past 65. Even the great Franklin Roosevelt didn't make it to 65. In those days, if you made it to 65, you were lucky. You got a few bucks on Social Security.
Today, lots of people fortunately make it past 65. They live into their 80s and 90s. They're still getting checks.
TODD HARRIS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: OK.
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MATTHEWS: The system doesn't work that way anymore. It's not as healthy as it once was.
So, how's the Republican deal with the fact it is a Ponzi scheme in the sense that the money that's paid out every day is coming from people who have paid in that day. It's not being made somewhere --
HARRIS: That's absolutely right.
And here's what he said on November 5, 2007:
THE LATE TIM RUSSERT: Everyone knows Social Security, as it’s constructed, is not going to be in the same place it’s going to be for the next generation, Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives.
MATTHEWS: It’s a bad Ponzi scheme at this point. Yeah.
You would think someone that's been in the "news" business for as long as Matthews has would know that he can't ridicule people for saying what he's on the record as saying himself.
Maybe someone over at MSNBC ought to clue him in that he's already been exposed and needs to stop attacking Perry on this issue.
Or would that be too much like journalism for these shills?
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Hypocrisy is an of the
Submitted by Chandler on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:26am.
Hypocrisy is an essential character requirement for a liberal.
It has to be on their resumé
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:26am.
It has to be on their resumé in order to be placed in consideration for their exclusive club.
As I have written before,
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:24am.
As I have written before, Matthews can't remember what he said 24 hours ago much less several years ago. He's got more flip-flops than a Panama City Beach, Florida souvenir shop.
ok now THAT is funny!
Submitted by kata on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:29am.
:)
Beukeboom~flip-flops
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 12:03pm.
What an incredibly witty line!
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
FDR condemned government involvement in medicine as Governor
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:45am.
Five years before passage of the Social Security Act. Addressing specifically the issue of Prohibition, this Democrat Governor of New York noted:
"...under the Eighteenth Amendment Congress has been given the right to legislate on this particular subject, but this is not the case in the matter of a great number of other vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare and of a dozen other important features. In these, Washington must not be encouraged to interfere." ---FDR
FDR sounded like another "States' Righter" who's getting flac over his "ponzi scheme" sound bite.
Roosevelt back peddled from his "States' Rights" speech in which he described the federal system embodied in the Constitution in the way it had been generally understood and accepted since the Constitution was debated and ratified. The powers delegated to the national government, he noted in that address, included the defense of the nation and any of the states from foreign invasion, the power to make treaties with other nations and the regulation of commerce with foreign nations and among the several states. The issuing money and protecting it from counterfeiting, the regulation of weights and measures, the protection of patents and copyrights are also among the enumerated powers of the Congress, as are the establishment of federal tribunals and post offices and post roads.
"On such a small foundation have we erected the whole enormous fabric of Federal Government which costs us now $3,500,000,000 every year, and if we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple Constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more."
Then along came The New Deal with all its regulations.
FDR was a blowhard and so is Rick Perry.
so..
Submitted by kata on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:50am.
your candidate of choice is...?
come on Irgon -
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 2:43pm.
A politician whose power would be increased by supporting states rights - supports states rights?
The same politicians will support federal power when that will give him more personal power?
Heck, sounds like a typical politician with an over inflated ego. Wrong but nothing that should be of any surprise to anyone.
Kata~
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 12:05pm.
Everytime I ask someone that very question on NB, they "disappear."
Was it something I said???
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
You Want a Ponzi Scheme? Cwissy Tingles' Brain
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 12:20pm.
There goes the Village Idiot yet again. Jaws flapping, spittle flying, heart palpitating, while a steady stream of cowshit pours out of his cavernous cakehole.
He looks like he is in dire need of Ritalin injections. What a clown.
MSLSD, I have one request:
When President Downgrade becomes ex-President, please promise to air the tape of this douche-bucket's head exploding
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
Social Security is Too Big for Matthews to handle!
Submitted by iamsaved on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 2:33pm.
Chris Matthews shouldn't delve into intellecutal matters like the massive SS program and all of it's flaws. His head won't just get a tingly feeling but may explode. He should stick to the smaller issues of social security like explaining how Obama, while a resident of Hawaii was given a SS number that identifies it as being from Connecticut when he never lived there. After he explains this, then he can start moving up to the more philisophical aspects of this giant chain letter.
The drunken diabetic is ....
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 6:19pm.
.... saying anything to avoid how wrong he was to tingle down his leg over the punk who bathed with Rahm at the gay bath house in Chicago. The facts:
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/rush/080916
http://citizenwells.com/2010/05/25/obama-down-low-man%E2%80%99s-country-...
C'mon NB'ers....
Submitted by USMC8411 on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 6:59pm.
Chrissy said that LAST week. He is still evolving that position... This week, he is kinetically repudiating the right and what they said TODAY now that he has evolved and disagrees with the current right side position.... He is a comedian?... That statement is no longer operative?... No'bama made him change his "mind"?....
We just cannot hold liberals to account for what they say and what they don't say and when they change what they say. They never claimed to have principles you know...
I missed him today. Did he blame the Jews for the NY-9 democrat defeat too?
As I have written before,
Submitted by bagtree on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 3:34am.
As I have written before, Matthews can't remember what he said 24 hours ago much less several years ago. He's got more flip-flops than a Panama City Beach, Florida souvenir shop.
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