Chris Matthews slams GOP Ron Christie for shamelessness on Iran deal and historical ignorance

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Tweety really rips him a new one.

Chris Matthews did what few journalists do these days. He immediately slammed a politician spewing misleading and false talking points. This is important because political talking points have a tendency to metastasize into a new reality after they are repeated over and over and broadcast by a generally willfully incompetent traditional mainstream media.

Republican spokesperson Ron Christie and Democratic spokesperson David Axelrod appeared on Chris Matthew's Hardball to discuss President Obama's historic agreement with Iran. David Axelrod stated that the punishing sanctions imposed on Iran by President Obama was responsible for bringing Iran to the table. Axelrod said that the agreement if realized will help America avoid a military conflict with Iran.

Chris Matthews then asked Republican spokesperson Ron Christie to chime in. Ron Christie was ready with some of the most vile Republican talking points. He attempted to equate the agreement with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Adolf Hitler by ceding Sudetenland to Germany. Chris Matthews accused Ron Christie of a fundamental misunderstanding of that history. Moreover he accused him of completely contorting history to attempt to give his comparison some sort of relevance.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/05/1375740/-Chris-Matthews-slams-GOP-Ron-Christie-for-shamelessness-on-Iran-deal-and-historical-ignorance?detail=email

[elzenmahn]

1. It should bear repeating...

...even for the DU readers who know this concept quite well:

The Republican Party does not trade in the truth because THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH. Truth means NOTHING to them.

PERCEPTION, on the other hand, means everything.

The way that people vote is dependent on their perception of events, which can be manipulated as Edward Bernays and Noam Chomsky have taught us. Cold, objective, truth, based purely on FACTS, is much less malleable.

Businesses live and die on their ability to sell things, whether it be a product or an idea. The Republicans are the party of business, therefore, they would naturally be much more adept at the sales game than those of us on the left. Effective sales requires fewer, more powerful words and messages, and keeping things as simple as possible. The left's ideas require more nuance, and tend to be more difficult to put into nice, neat bumper sticker phrases.

The more people can see through the attempted sales game, as exhibited by Ron Christie and called out by Chris Matthews, the more that the Republicans will be forced to defend their arguments with facts.

And that is when they will lose.

[90-percent]

7. Here's a lefty idea compressed down to bumper sticker size

"The left's ideas require more nuance, and tend to be more difficult to put into nice, neat bumper sticker phrases. "



Shopped it on DU before. elzenman's post above is an opportunity to shop it again.

-90% Jimmy

[still_one]

2. It looks like he should add schumer to that list

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. I know Schumer's come out against the deal

But has he compared Obama with Neville Chamberlain?

[still_one]

4. no, but he can influence enough yellow-back democrats to override a veto, and if that happens, and

we go to war because of that, I will NEVER forgive the Democratic party.

[Lil Missy]

5. I saw that. It was great! n/t

[Chicago1980]

6. I thought that Christie's eyes were going to go straight for a moment

from being smacked about verbally.

It was a beautiful thing.