It’s On! Markos Moulitsas Responds To Chris Matthews’ Netroots Mockery

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by Robert Quigley | 10:00 am, December 19th, 2009

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The MSNBC crossfire continues. On Thursday night, Chris Matthews dismissed the Democratic netroots as “troublemakers who love to sit in the back seat and complain:” you may recall that his colleague Keith Olbermann sometimes blogs at Daily Kos and recently used the platform to dismiss the health care bill currently under consideration.

Yesterday, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz rolled a clip of Matthews’ remarks for Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, who promptly fired back.

The Huffington Post has the transcript:

In 2003, when Bush landed his plane in the aircraft carrier, and spoke in front of the banner that said, ‘Mission Accomplished,’ Chris Matthews had an entire show based on that event,” Moulitsas said. “And he said everybody knows that we won the war, except a few critics. Well, I was one of those few critics. People like me in the Netroots were some of those critics. And it turns out that we were right and the Beltway conventional wisdom was wrong. And once again, we’re in a situation where people like Chris Matthews don’t learn from these mistakes. They’re trapped in this bubble and they think that they know better.”

“If Chris Matthews is worried about us working, and if he thinks that we’re not Democrats, then he really should be worried, because he’s got a thing coming,” Moulitsas said.

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Jim R

Chris was a little cranky that day, having just turned sixty-four. I was glad someone punched back against the tired beltway insider caricature.
m

I love Chris, but he’s wrong on this one.
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

Once again, I’m going kind of political, but…

If you hadn’t voted prior to 2008 and if you’re threatening to withhold your vote or throw it to a third-party, you’re not a real Democrat. You may be a voter, you may be a citizen and you may have been right about something once, but you have to have a history of participation and some sort of allegiance to the group, if you’d like the older members of any club to consider you a full-fledged member.
Pat Doherty

It’s like the DNC all over again. Amusing.
SWWT

Hmm, it seems like nobody is happy with the bill. Probably means it’s a good bill.
ireenawagner

Some good points about fighting in public serving the republicans but c’mon, Obama needs to show that he’s willing to fight for something he campaigned on. So far he’s shown himself to be what a kinder-gentler (more articulate) Bush might have been.
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