Did anyone just hear what Matthews said on MSNBC? Wow!

[fooj]

He's in Rome and just said:

"Fair to say John Paul II cannot be called a neo-con. He doesn't believe in going into other countries and TAKING THEM OVER AND KILLING PEOPLE TO CHANGE THEIR WAY OF GOVERNMENT."

Wow. I'm aware that Matthews is anti-war, however, never expected to hear him make such a strong statement.

Peace!

[0007]

1. Chris Matthews is a real mind fuck to say the least!

[Cha]

22. Agreed!

Well said!

[etherealtruth]

2. Even an idiot like Matthews is going to get it right, sometimes

[dhinojosa]

3. Holy crap

that is interesting.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Hey there!

:hi:

Is the Pope watch still going on?

[fooj]

8. Yes...

I think that Tweety left his "script" at home! What a trip! My view? It's about time!!!

Peace!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Have you heard his interview with Robert Redford?

Shocked me!

I'll go find the link....


***Here ya go

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6881213/


REDFORD: I think going in was not a wrong issue to debate. I don‘t like the way we did it because it involved too much misinformation and distorted information to justify some I think narrower cause than we were led to believe. But that‘s just my belief.

I do think there was a reason to go in and take the guy out. I think there was another way we might have done it. But I‘m not a military man. I‘m not part of the military industrial complex. I‘m not in office, so I don‘t feel comfortable talking too much more on that. That‘s just my personal opinion.

MATTHEWS: You seem like a man who is to my right.

REDFORD: I‘m to your right?

MATTHEWS: You‘re further right than me on this issue, I think.

REDFORD: I am?

MATTHEWS: Yes.

REDFORD: Wow.

MATTHEWS: Do you want to reconsider that thought?

(LAUGHTER)

REDFORD: Well, I‘m feeling kind of broad-shouldered. Hey.

(LAUGHTER)

REDFORD: I feel like a real egalitarian.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Do you accept—there was a very strong message in the president‘s inaugural address, which I think I can explain in a minute to anybody in the world. He said something that is going to really cause people like me, everybody watching, to think about for months and years to come.

He said that we‘re not free in our liberty here in this country if there‘s parts of the world like in—he was obviously talking about the Arab world—where people are not free. Do you buy that argument, that we have to liberate or try to liberate every country in the Middle East or we will not be safe from terrorists?

REDFORD: I think we can certainly play a role, because that‘s our fundamental belief, that we should.

If anybody is being squelched from being able to have freedoms—I mean, there‘s nothing more valuable than the freedoms we have in this country. Where I get most riled is when it looks like they‘re endangered by our own people. So to take that—and I think they are, quite frankly. And the distortion, the trying to manipulate information, to shutting down opposing points of view, what is more fundamental to the American Constitution than dissent? And when dissent is classified or reclassified as unpatriotic, you have a problem.


more @ link

[gratuitous]

5. Although, if you gave the Pope the world's largest army

I think it's safe to say that the thought would cross his mind.

[kevsand]

16. Back in the days

when Popes had large armies, they used them all the time.

[whistle]

6. Matthews needs to put himself on record as to exactly who he...

...would call a neo-conservative. Now that would be a spiritual transformation on the part of Chris Matthews!!

[fooj]

9. No kidding!

Do you believe in miracles?

Peace!

[Windy]

7. Just proves he lacks integrity

He won't let his own leanings show on his program and instead, goes far to the right rather than appearing unbiased as he should to keep Bushco happy so that his show is not boycotted and they still provide him with guests. This really got bad after he was "chastised" after going after the Swiftboat hatchett squad during the election campaign.

[TheFarseer]

11. They think they have to treat every issue

as if both sides had a good point. If Tom Delay came out tommorow and said that every parent should eat their children, they would bring in Bill Crystal, Charles Krauthammer, Tucker Carlson and Anne Coulter to debate it. If we're lucky, one of them might take a moderate position and say we need more study before we can start eating children! The fact that that position is completely stupid would not even enter into the equation.

[jaysunb]

10. As they say...

even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[fooj]

12. LOL!

Peace!

[Rockholm]

13. Some priest on CNN said something similar earlier.

[BlueManDude]

14. Is he really in Rome?

WTF is he doing there? He and his ilk descend like vultures to garner ratings and $$$ for they corporate pay masters. If he's there then as an American I apologize to the Italian people - he doesn't represent me.

[zbdent]

15. Did anybody tell Tweety that

April Fool's Day was yesterday?

[DemoTex]

17. Just one of the many faces of Chris Matthews.

His views are all over the map.

[robbedvoter]

18. The broken watch theory. Waiting for the second time he's right.

[General Zod]

19. Matthews has always been against the war.....

He pretty much kisses his right wing guests asses on most other issues, but he has been consistent in his opposition to the war. The big problem is that he didn't show that same moral outrage like he did with Clinton with the whole Lewinsky affair.

That's why I despise Tweety. Every night he hammered Clinton for lying about a blow job, but he never showed that same passion about his opposition to the war.

[cestpaspossible]

20. Chris Matthews believes nothing, thinks nothing

You know that room full of monkeys and typewriters that might someday produce the works of Shakespeare? That is a good approximation of the inside of Tweety's head.

[Contrary1]

21. Did they charter a private jet

to rush all the media whores from Pinellas Park to Rome?

[mattclearing]

23. Perhaps the Pope's passing will call people to some real morality.

Can't be very moral to bomb people to achieve your goals, now can it?