Comments on: Video: Harold Ford says, “I would have voted for torture”

By: dthorny

dthorny — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:30:52 +0000

Matthews == useful idiot

hoakie on May 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM

Just an idiot.

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By: Onus

Onus — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:49:31 +0000

Credit where credit is due. Ford got this right, and actually made a reasoned argument. Two things that are anathema to Democrats.

By: mankai

mankai — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:22:22 +0000

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28301954

Earlier this month [Dec 2008], a congressionally mandated task force reported that terrorists are likely to strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction by 2013. It added: “In our judgment, America’s margin of safety is shrinking, not growing.”

By: DelD

DelD — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:42:57 +0000

Ya know, if Ford would switch to the Republicans, and tack 10 degrees to the right, he would be the next Governor of Tennessee, if not president.

He’s smarter, more telegenic, better spoken, and more pragmatic than Obama, and Republicans would embrace him if he shifted positions just a little bit.

By: Western_Civ

Western_Civ — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:38:49 +0000

Ford knows which way the wind is blowing on this issue, and it’s not blowing toward hack demagogue pigs like Chrissy pee trickle. It’s blowing toward “Cheney Talk.”

Haaaaarold, call me!

By: PersonalLiberty

PersonalLiberty — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:18:10 +0000

Matthews is a dolt. Scary. I actually used to like him during the Clinton years. He seemed much more rational then.

By: MirCat

MirCat — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:49:47 +0000

P.S. He pulled a Bill Maher. Make an outrageous statement and then go to commercial so there can be no rebuttal.

- The Cat

By: MirCat

MirCat — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:47:50 +0000

DINO! DINO! THROW HIM OUT! (waiting for it)

- The Cat

By: cruadin

cruadin — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:28:04 +0000

Matthews continues to entertain with his cartoonish persona. Having such a hystercial response to a moderate and common sense statement is part of Matthews’ shtick.

It’s probably the reason his audience continues to evaporate, although I’m surprised anybody is still watching him.

By: DrSteve

DrSteve — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:09:27 +0000

Ford is no marginalized voice crying in the wilderness, he’s the head of the freakin’ DLC. It’s nice for them to have leadership that actually believes things — unfortunately Al From is still in a major role there, and he’ll let the organization be as protean as it needs to be for the cool kids to give him a seat at the table. Al just wants to be loved.

By: ladyingray

ladyingray — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:45:49 +0000

I read a while back that Harold Ford’s political hopes are dead in the water since he married a white wife.

SilentWatcher on May 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM

I would say it has much more to do with the fact that his father, an aunt and an uncle have been caught in serious political scandals. He would do well in W Tennessee as a Congressman as that is where he is from, but he’ll not make it as Senator or Govenor. Well, at least not in Tennessee. Voters in Middle and East Tennessee want no part of that political crap.

By: sarahpalinfan99

sarahpalinfan99 — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:20:28 +0000

Harold Ford is right on this. Very smart man. I think he is one of sharpest and most pragmatic Democrats around.

Chris Matthews can’t allow anyone to deviate from the “Cheney/Bush are evil and love torture” script. That would mean that MSNBC would have to admit 80% of their programming is based on lies and false memes. Of course, Matthews went apoplectic.

It’s as if Harold said to Chris, “The emperor has no clothes.” What Heresy!

By: MB4

MB4 — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:10:45 +0000

I read a while back that Harold Ford’s political hopes are dead in the water since he married a white wife.

SilentWatcher on May 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM

Since the man looks mostly white himself, he may have been skating on thin ice already.

By: MB4

MB4 — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:07:32 +0000

This spikes Matthews’ Outrage-O-Meter to 11, and he argues that any talk about nuclear or biological attacks is paranoid fantasy from Dick Cheney.

Matthew’s is a babbling moron. A biological attack would not even be that hard to do.

By: SilentWatcher

SilentWatcher — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:59:55 +0000

This Conservative has no respect for Harold Ford. I used to watch him on Fox, and he used to appear quite a rational and balanced character, a light-skinned black version of Evan Bayh. Then, Ford proved himself to be just like Evan Bayh; I watched as he unblushingly proceeded to mouth Democrat lies and reveal himself to be a viciously partisan Democrat. Previously, I’d been thinking that Bayh and Ford might be-could be Democrats I could vote for. After the political season revealed them for the liars they are, I vowed again that never will I vote for a Democrat. They’re unprincipled and vicious, no matter how rational they might seem. Lying is as air to them all.

By: SilentWatcher

SilentWatcher — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:55:38 +0000

I read a while back that Harold Ford’s political hopes are dead in the water since he married a white wife.

By: ladyingray

ladyingray — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:54:21 +0000

We have a lot of “conservative” dems in Tennessee, but when they get to Washington they have an astonishing change of thought and become buddies with the usual suspects on the left. Harold Ford would have been no different.

hip shot on May 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM

True, dat. That is why the “D” after his name cost him the Senate seat. Algore taught us that.

By: chicagojedi

chicagojedi — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:48:40 +0000

I always wondered why many conservatives respected Ford. This is why. At least he can be honest and rational. He has no future in the DNC. We may not agree on everything but bravo to Ford for standing up for common sense.

By: infidel4life

infidel4life — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:48:19 +0000

Chrissy’s leg musta gone gangrenous at that statement of common sense.

By: n0doz

n0doz — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:43:40 +0000

Matthews is a hack. He is the epitome of the out-of-touch Washington elitist.

By: hip shot

hip shot — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:36:37 +0000

We have a lot of “conservative” dems in Tennessee, but when they get to Washington they have an astonishing change of thought and become buddies with the usual suspects on the left. Harold Ford would have been no different.

By: scottm

scottm — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:34:33 +0000

Poor Ford. He knows torture’s an issue that-in the end-causes more damage to Democrats than to Republicans. He knows the reality that in 2001, 2002, and 2003 the US intel community was freaking out, dazed, and confused (as every 911 and Iraq investigation shows), and he just can’t tell the Bush haters to stop, let it go, MOVEON.

Why?

Because torture, 911, BUSHLIED, etc are all distortions of the truth that come out if there’s an investigation.

Good luck Harold. I’m with CHEEENY-Show the docs. Show em all!

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:29:58 +0000

I always thought that Ford seemed like an intelligent and thoughtful person. That makes him rare in politics.

I think Chris Matthews is no better than Pelosi. Back then the Democrats were more concerned with how Bush let this happen and what he was doing to stop a repeat than anything else. And the same is true for the press.

By: Del Dolemonte

Del Dolemonte — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:28:12 +0000

I can’t wait to see the aneurysm Chris has when he finds out Hillary Clinton supported to invasion of Iraq.

AUINSC on May 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM

Especially when Cissy finds out that she based her decision not on what the evil Bush claimed about WMDs, but instead decided to vote yes after her husband’s intel people told her about Iraq’s WMDs.