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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 5, 2010

MSNBC's Chris Matthews, resident left-wing extremist, caught in more lies about Rush Limbaugh's use of the word 'regime'

The Internet should never have been invented – at least that’s what some liberal politicians like West Virginia’s Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller think. Yes, because it can quickly expose the clumsy, heinous lies you liberal cretins and the Obama media tell about conservatives. Hence, they want to control the Internet, but that’s another story about progressives/socialists wanting to control everything and everybody.

For now, this post addresses the left-wing media’s blatant lies when reporting on conservatives or conservatism — their blatant “Pinocchio journalism.”

The latest… Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and political writer Byron York of the Washington Post have exposed MSNBC’s Chris “Tingle Up My Leg” Matthews’ latest set of easily exposed, laughable lies — that of Limbaugh’s use of the word “regime” as it applies to Team Obama and how often it was used against the Bush administration.

Including by… this is priceless… Matthews himself in 2002 against Bush.

Media lapdog Matthews’ faux outrage is comically over-the-top, like that of cartoon figures Donald Duck or Elmer Fudd. He has no concept of the wonders of Google to unearth and shine light on his statist fabrications. Nor does he know how to tell the truth.

The following transcript is from the April 5, 2010 broadcast of Rush Limbaugh’s EIB radio program. The link provided is accessible to the transcript for a short time to everyone, indefinitely to members of Limbaugh’s 24/7 Club.

Rush Limbaugh, EIB Network
Broadcast April 5, 2010
“Regime”: Matthews Freaks Out Over Same Word He Used on Bush

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: As you know, ladies and gentlemen, when was it that Obama beat up on me? Thursday? In the Harry Smith interview. I got a request from Byron York in The Politico for a reaction. I gave ‘em a reaction and I said, “I’ve never seen a regime that governs against the will of the people, purposely like this. I’ve never seen a regime that is so inconsiderate of the American people. I’ve never seen a media so impressed and supportive of a regime amassing such power.”

This set Chris Matthews on fire Friday night. Oh, yeah. We have two sound bites. He’s talking here with F. Chuck Todd. I don’t know that F. Chuck Todd ever appears in our sound bite, but here’s the first of two.

MATTHEWS: I’ve never seen language like this in the American press referring to an elected representative of the government, elected in a totally fair, democratic, American election, we’ll have another one in November, we’ll have another one for president in a couple years, fair, free, and wonderful democracy we have in this country, and this guy, this walrus, under water, makes fun of this administration, calling it a regime. We know that word regime. It was used by recent presidential — by George Bush, regime change. You go to war with regimes. Regimes are tyrannies. They’re juntas, they’re military coups. The use of the word regime in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus to stop using it.

RUSH: And he’s right, my use of the word regime is to connote an authoritarian government. And it fits. It is a regime! They’re governing against the will of the people, the election be damned. Public opinion be damned. The budget be damned. The Constitution be damned. What the hell else is it if not a regime? Here’s the second bite, but the best is yet to come, not this bite, it’s what follows.

MATTHEWS: What about the walrus, walrus under water, Rush Limbaugh, what do you make of a guy calling this a regime today to the DC newspaper? He calls this government a regime. I have never heard that language. This isn’t Stalin. This isn’t some junta. He was elected the same way a Republican would be elected, and the next time if a Republican is elected it will be Republican administration, it won’t be a regime. We don’t have regimes in this country. We have Franklin Roosevelt; we have Harry Truman; we have Ronald Reagan; we have administrations. To use the word “regime” suggests to me just like “kill the Nazis,” regime change. More part of this neocon lingo.

RUSH: So Byron York, himself amused by this, started doing some searches, and he found out that during the Bush administration — and I might get these two reversed — the New York Times used the word “regime” 24 times to describe Bush, including Maureen Dowd a number of times in her column. The Washington Post described the Bush administration as a regime by no less than Howard Kurtz 17 times total, Howard Kurtz once. And none other — wait for it — than Chris Matthews himself in 2002 while talking to a panel about Bush’s horrible response to 9/11 starts asking Al Sharpton a question, “What do you think this says of the Bush regime?” So the Post has said it, used it, and written it.

Grab sound bite six and have it standing by again. Chris Matthews himself has used the word regime, as have numerous MSNBC hosts in describing the Bush administration as a regime. Knowing that, listen to this again.

MATTHEWS: I’ve never seen language like this in the American press referring to an elected representative of the government, elected in a totally fair, democratic, American election, we’ll have another one in November, we’ll have another one for president in a couple years, fair, free, and wonderful democracy we have in this country, and this guy, this walrus, under water, makes fun of this administration, calling it a regime. We know that word regime. It was used by recent presidential — by George Bush, regime change. You go to war with regimes. Regimes are tyrannies. They’re juntas, they’re military coups. The use of the word regime in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus to stop using it.

RUSH: I gather he thinks I sound like a walrus under water. I still don’t know what that means, but nevertheless Chris — (laughing) — your own network popularized it, your own New York Times, your own Washington Post, and even you, sir, back in 2002, at least once that we could find. It was all over the left’s discourse. The only difference here is, remember nobody really got upset about them calling Bush a regime because it had no basis in fact. The reason these guys are upset is ’cause it’s true. They’re upset because I have the audacity to properly describe this as a regime.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Chris Matthews doesn’t like the word regime but he also said, “in a country of free, fair elections”. Chris, you mean like 2000? When you regime supporters were attacking that election? And then the White House escalates the fight with Karzai in a fraudulent election there that we are responsible for, according to Karzai, as you did with Bibi, as you did with Honduras. This regime is taking action against traditional friends and allies. By the way, on Thursday, April 3rd, 2003, John Kerry. “What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, we need a regime change in the United States,” Kerry said, in a speech to New Hampshire Democrats at the Peterborough, New Hampshire, Town Library.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I’ve had a couple of e-mails asking me, “Are you really serious about this regime business or are you just trying to be funny and irritate them?” I don’t mind irritating them as you well know, but I’m serious about it.

Let me give you just a recent example of why this is a regime. Take a look at AT&T, John Deere, Caterpillar, Verizon, a number of companies found the elimination of a tax provision in the health care bill that requires them, if they follow the law, to take a charge to their bottom line by however much it’s going to cost them by having this tax cut taken away from them, the tax break. In the case of AT&T, it’s a billion dollars. The law says, thanks to the Enron scandal, that you have to take the charge against your bottom line during the quarter the legislation was passed, not implemented, but signed. Well, that happens to be the first quarter of this year. So these companies have taken the charge, in the case of AT&T, of a billion bucks, to their bottom line. That’s one billion out of three.

Now, other companies it’s smaller, based on their size, number of employees, and so forth, but the key here is that the law says you have to take the charge in the quarter in which the legislation was signed into law. So what happens to these guys? They follow the law, ’cause if they don’t the SEC is gonna end up on their back, so they follow the law, and what happens? They get the essence of a subpoena from Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak, of their oversight committee, demanding that these guys show up and not just show up, but they show up with their books to explain themselves because everybody knows Obamacare is going to reduce costs. And they think that this is a trick that all these Republican CEOs are playing on our poor young president, Obama. Well, now, that is what makes this a regime. They follow the law to keep the SEC off their backs.

When that doesn’t work, the regime comes after you. These companies are following the law. They’re taking the charge as the law prescribes, and yet the regime is coming after them to make them justify themselves, to explain themselves.

Henry Waxman has no right to these books. Henry Waxman has no right to any of this. But these guys go up there and they’ll open the books because when the regime calls you, the regime calls you. Chris, if you don’t like regime I’ll call ‘em a junta, you know, whatever. They’re governing against the will of the people, it simply doesn’t matter. Backroom deals, bribes, unconstitutionality in order to get legislation passed. Legislation the vast majority of the American people don’t want.

It’s a regime.

From Byron York, Washington Examiner, Rush Limbaugh, Chris Matthews and the ‘regime’ question:

It appears that Matthews has suffered a major memory loss. I don’t have the facilities to search for every utterance of Joe McCarthy, but a look at more recent times reveals many, many, many examples of the phrase “Bush regime.” In fact, a search of the Nexis database for “Bush regime” yields 6,769 examples from January 20, 2001 to the present.

It was used 16 times in the New York Times, beginning with an April 4, 2001 column by Maureen Dowd — who wrote, “Seventy-five days into the Bush regime and I’m a wreck” — and ending with a March 6, 2009 editorial denouncing the “frightening legal claim advanced by the Bush regime to justify holding [accused terrorist Ali al-Marri].”

“Bush regime” was used 24 times in the Washington Post, beginning with a January 22, 2001 profile of Marshall Wittmann by Howard Kurtz — who noted that Wittmann served as “a Health and Human Services deputy assistant secretary in the first Bush regime” — and ending with an October 6, 2009 column by Dana Milbank which quoted far-left antiwar protester Medea Benjamin questioning whether the Obama administration “looks very different from the Bush regime.”

Perhaps Matthews missed all of those references. If he did, he still might have heard the phrase the many times it was uttered on his own network, MSNBC. For example, on January 8 of this year, Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak said that, “In George Bush’s regime, only one million jobs had been created…” On August 21, 2009, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz referred to something that happened in 2006, when “the Bush regime was still in power.” On October 8, 2007, Democratic strategist Steve McMahon said that “the middle class has not fared quite as well under Bush regime as…” On August 10, 2007, MSNBC played a clip of anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan referring to “the people of Iraq and Afghanistan that have been tragically harmed by the Bush regime.” On September 21, 2006, a guest referred to liberals “expressing their dissatisfaction with the Bush regime.” On July 7, 2004, Ralph Nader — appearing with Matthews on “Hardball” — discussed how he would “take apart the Bush regime.” On May 26, 2003, Joe Scarborough noted a left-wing website that “has published a deck of Bush regime playing cards.” A September 26, 2002 program featured a viewer email that said, “The Bush regime rhetoric gets goofier and more desperate every day.”

Finally — you knew this was coming — on June 14, 2002, Chris Matthews himself introduced a panel discussion about a letter signed by many prominent leftists condemning the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terror. “Let’s go to the Reverend Al Sharpton,” Matthews said. “Reverend Sharpton, what do you make of this letter and this panoply of the left condemning the Bush regime?”

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