Hug Staged?

Left Salutes Nazis?

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from JoeUser Forums

Some members of the liberal media have really gone off the deep end!  not just for a short swim, but jumped in over their heads!

Chris Matthews stated the hug between the soldier's mom and the Iraqi woman was staged, even tho no one else (besides Ron Reagan) seemed to agre.  I guess he thinks it was staged because that is what democrats do for the camera.  Stage events (Bill Clintons Smile turned Upside down, Dancing on the beach, Al Gore's Kiss, etc.).  While Matthews is supposed to be a journalist, it is apparent he is just a mouthpiece for liberals.  And some one on this site tried to suggest MSNBC was not liberal?  Try convincing morons, because any sane rational person is going to laugh in your face.

next we have the lowest form of hate speech, from the left as usual! Janeane Garofolo compared the Iraqi purple fingers to a Nazi Salute.  She is beneath contempt!  To cheapen the holocaust that way and then to compare them to Republicans shows that the loony loopy luddite liberals have no decency or respect for victims of a true horror.  She cheapened their memory with her salute and idiotic words.

Liberals, now do you see why you have to denounce clowns like these?  Do you really want to be grouped in the same group with the likes of a nazi Saluting, moronic member of the leftist media?  And if you believe the hug was staged, as I am sure many members of DU do, I got some lake front property in Florida for you.  It does not come with a septic system, as cess pools dont need them.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'll denounce clowns like Matthews, if only because of the soft ball questions he asked Bush in their "interview." I'll also continue to denounce clowns like you see liberal boogeymen everywhere. Look out behind you!

Cheers.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
P.S. With the past staging of photos -- the famous Iwo Jima flag raising, the look-alike WTC flag raising, the pulling down of some Saddam Statues -- I think it's natural to question the "candid" quality of a shot.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
*cringe*

I heard Matthews say this on the the show too. This isn't a "Liberal Boogeymen" thing, Matthews tore into it the first chance he got, saying it would be very relevant if it were staged and it should be discussed. It was an asinine thing to say with no proof, and had O'Reilly said something of the sort they would be tearing him a new hole.

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

I heard Matthews say this on the the show too. This isn't a "Liberal Boogeymen" thing, Matthews tore into it the first chance he got, saying it would be very relevant if it were staged and it should be discussed. It was an asinine thing to say with no proof, and had O'Reilly said something of the sort they would be tearing him a new hole.

Matthews has gone from reporting the news to trying to make it.  He is a sad excuse for a news person, and one of the prime reasons MSNBC is in last place.

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have always thought of Matthews as a bit of a hack, but to say that it's just the left who "Stages" photo ops is pretty naive. It's been going on since the camera was invented.

Another example of this was when Reagan was shot and they put makeup on him and propped him up so they could shoot pics and say everything was ok, when the man was seriously wounded and practically at deaths door.

Staging photo ops is part of the american political landscape folks. face it!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Matthews is a blowhard, and I have just as much respect for him as I do Bill O'Reilly. Which is to say: none.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

Another example of this was when Reagan was shot and they put makeup on him and propped him up so they could shoot pics and say everything was ok, when the man was seriously wounded and practically at deaths door.

I would not call that a staged shot, as more of a symbol to America that he would be ok.  Any President that is shot frightens the country and some amount of reassurance is needed.

That being said, I will agree that there are many staged shots on both sides, but then it is a bit far fetched to watch a spontaneous event and call it a staged shot.

I am glad to see that Matthews is a spokesman for the left in his mind only, as well!

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Dr. Guy >> It might surprise you that many of the so-called "liberal voices" annoy the hell out of me. Janeanne Garofalo being #1 on that list, followed closely by Paul Begala and Alan Colmes. The only "liberal" voices I can read regularly are Molly Ivins and Paul Krugman (and yes, I like Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore, although Noam is much more honest). But the majority of the "Air America" folks and the blowdried liberals of MSNBC, CNN, et al. are as distasteful to me as their conservative counterparts.

Cheers.

(p.s. Even if it was staged, it's still an iraqi woman hugging a soldier)
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

I don't think or feel that it was staged, and I find it typical of Matthews to suggest that it was. 


It was moving; it was appropriate, and I don't think the tears that ran down those women's faces were staged.  Even if it was a photo-op, it was a hell of a good one.


 


 

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

It was moving; it was appropriate, and I don't think the tears that ran down those women's faces were staged. Even if it was a photo-op, it was a hell of a good one.


Life sometimes presents itself with unique opportunities for the camera.  It was an excellant photo, but they happen frequently in life, if one has the Camera to capture them!

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Guy, if they put makeup on someone and prop them up for a picture when they are barely conscious, its staged...Sorry.

It's not like Ronnie had any say in it.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't know if the Iraqi woman pic was staged or not. Just for clarification. But it was a good pic.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top

Guy, if they put makeup on someone and prop them up for a picture when they are barely conscious, its staged...Sorry.

It's not like Ronnie had any say in it.


Let me re-phrase then.  It was not a shot to bolster the status of Reagan (as most staged shots are meant to bolster the stager), but to bolster the morale of Americans.


Better?

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Their presence was "staged" - the tears and the hug were not, plain as day.

Matthews is a disgrace to suspect for a moment that the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq 3 months ago would knowingly participate in a choreographed political stunt. Memo to Matthews: The election was last November. Someone won it. His name is Bush.

Cheers,
Daiwa
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top

Memo to Matthews: The election was last November. Someone won it. His name is Bush.

Cheers,
Daiwa

Memo to Matthews.  Learn English too!

Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
matthews is a bit of an embarrassment.

it makes no sense to accuse someone of staging a photo-op. you gain nothing from such an accusation. but myrrander is right: it also makes no sense to declare that one party supports such bungholes while another maintains its purity. as someone else likewise pointed out, matthews does NOT speak for me. You probably don't want to declare who else has no right to speak for you. that gets a little irritating after awhile.

im with you, though. matthews. . .oh, boy.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

In the BROADEST of terms it was "staged". Only in the broadest of terms, however, and it is grossly unfair to single out dubya for doing the same thing every president since the advent of TV has done: placing "prop" personnel in strategic places to underscore points in one's speech, so that, in this case, the Iraqi woman and the family of the slain soldier were seated in the same area.


The press needs to find something more substantial to talk about, methinks. When they have me actually DEFENDING Bush, something's wrong!

Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top

The press needs to find something more substantial to talk about, methinks. When they have me actually DEFENDING Bush, something's wrong!

It is unfortunate that those on the fringe left have been given a voice in the democrat party so much.  Instead of disavowing the loony loopy luddites, they seat them next to an ex president at their convention.  So the libertarian and moderate crowd have no where to go but to the republicans.  another melt down like this past year, and the other viable party will be the Libertarians.  Then they have to decide who they will 'coalition' with as they build the party to a viable rival of the republicans. I dont think it will be the Michael Moores and Chris Matthews.