A lot has been made of the Matthews/Malkin incident on Hardball. Here is the transcript. It starts about 2/3's of the way down. Poor Willie Brown hardly gets a word in edge-wise. Basically I think this is a case of Malkin making this on-the-sly unsubstantiated slander attack against Kerry, which, regardless of what you think about him, isn't worthy of national media (though you can see it all the time on Fox News), and getting called on the carpet for it. All he is trying to do is get her to say yes or no to whether it was a self-inflicted wound.
Sorry, I can't really see the problem here. Someone goes on national television (MSNBC not NPR) and makes ridiculous allegations against a respected veteran and politician. She should get called out for that. Put up, or shut up.
Are we supposed to listen to this crap from the SWIFT boat vets just because they have Texas Republican money to fund their ads? We have been bombarded with their crap with no debunking, no investigative journalism, no balance or fairness. I'm glad that Matthews finally had enough of that crap and decided to call it out. You can say what you want, but being a vet doesn't give you the right to make accusations without having to prove them.
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