Video Proves Chris Matthews Totally Distorted Ronald Reagan's Position on Taxes
On Wednesday's Hardball, Chris Matthews took a clip from a 24 year-old Ronald Reagan press conference and disingenuously passed it off as the Republican's take on "raising taxes to deal with the ballooning deficit."
Matthew's version was out of context and video from October 22, 1987 proves it. [See below for video. MP3 audio here.]
After playing a snippet of Reagan that had nothing to do with taxes, Matthews touted, "That was, of course, the great Ronald Reagan in his own words back in October of 1987 about raising taxes to deal with the ballooning deficit."
The host continued, "Well today, many Democrats in Congress have picked up on Reagan's comments about raising taxes and are using the most revered of Republican' s words against his own party."
What did Reagan actually say on October 22, 1987? He asserted:
RONALD REAGAN: ...The spending is roughly 23 to 24 percent. So that it is in - it is what is increasing, while revenues are staying proportionately the same and what would be the proper amount they should - that we should be taking from the private sector.
And I think that this is something we have to consider, if we're going to maintain prosperity.
I will say this, with regard to taxes or sources of revenue: we must not do something that has an adverse affect - affect - on the economy.
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But I'm going to tell you, I have not changed my opinion about ever accepting a tax that will have a deleterious effect on the economy, and most tax increases do. Taxing is not the policy, or the problem, with the deficit. The deficit is due to too much spending. Every dollar of increased revenue since 1980 - and that means including our tax cuts -every dollar of increased revenue has been matched by a dollar and a quarter of increased spending.
Matthews was not being honest with his audience by trying to portay his brief clip as "the most revered of Republican' s words against his own party."
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Default position
Uh, "Totally Distorted" is my default position with anything Chris Matthews says.
Even when he doesn't tinkle on his own leg.
Chris Matthews is a loon now.
Someone who cares for him should take him aside and have a
'that talk" with him.
Why he has 2 hours on MSNBC daily with very low ratings is a mystery.
sick and tired
Sick and tired of these lies. I don't care about bias. Go ahead and be biased. Fox News, CNN whoever go ahead and push your agenda of what you think is right. But this lying has got to stop. This is just a big flat out LIE this loon is speaking about. It just makes me sick.
It would be awesome for
It would be awesome for someone to go on his show under some other pretense and press him on distorting the video and the truth on this video until he responded to it.
Another "fake but accurate"
Another "fake but accurate" story.
Reagan said what Chris says he said; he just wasn't talking about the same thing as Chris.
You know he meant to, though!!
Liberals know the "truth." The facts are a conspiracy.
What keeps this lying scum bag on the air?
It can't be his knowledge.
Say no more ...
"The deficit is due to too much spending." The Great Ronald Reagan
What do you expect?
Chris Matthews is a liar, plain and simple. A prevaricator, a mountebank. This is entirely understandable. The Democrats, liberals, the Left in general must lie daily and creatively to conceal the fact that their policies don't work, that their ideas are pie-in-the-sky and that their philosophy is based on false premise, assumption, and self preservation. It's all utopian phedinkus mixed in with job security paranoia. And the rest of us who inhabit the planet earth either go along with the lie or are labeled racists, rubes, rednecks....you name it, Chris and his buddies have an unending resource of names to call anyone who can't get behind the s__t they shovel daily. But make no mistake.....CHRIS MATTHEWS' PARENTS RAISED A LIAR,.....A LIAR HE IS....... AND A LIAR HE WILL REMAIN.
Once again....
Once again Matthews did not distort anything, he lied about it. Plain and simple. He knowingly with full knowlwdge and clarity of thought lied about it. As shade is not an executive digging implement, it is a shovel.