{"id":38089,"date":"2013-10-22T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38089"},"modified":"2013-10-22T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:23:25","slug":"matthews-cruz-is-the-new-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38089","title":{"rendered":"Matthews: Cruz is the new McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Matthews&#8217; perpetually twisted knickers made an appearance again on his &#8220;Nutball&#8221; TV show, or whatever it is called, because Senator Ted Cruz said, upon his return to Texas this weekend, &#8220;It&#8217;s great to be back in America.&#8221; From <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/10\/22\/chris-matthews-ted-cruz-racist-for-implying-washington-dc-not-part-of-america\/\">The Daily Caller<\/a>, Matthews compared Cruz to Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy who has been dead for decades for Cruz&#8217; slight to Washington DC.<br \/>\nI moved the video below the fold because it auto-starts.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.newsinc.com\/Single\/iframe.html?WID=1&#038;VID=25280214&#038;freewheel=69016&#038;sitesection=dailycaller&#038;width=500&#038;height=300\" height=\"300\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>I lived in the DC area for a decade, and Cruz is right &#8211; that place isn&#8217;t really America. That&#8217;s why so much crap comes out of DC. Even the people who don&#8217;t work for the government are deluded about government&#8217;s role in our lives. They so insulated from the rest of the country that they don&#8217;t understand that life outside the Beltway is totally different from their little world. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t mind if gasoline goes so high that folks can&#8217;t afford to drive to work &#8211; they should be taking a bus or a subway that doesn&#8217;t exist. Yes, one of the Bethesda MoveOn aliens actually told me that at a protest a few years back.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is McCarthyism writ large,\u201d he said. \u201cDisagree with this guy and be prepared for the accusations. We are witnessing, I think, the greatest challenge to progressives, to moderates and reasonable conservatives in modern memory. It\u2019s an indictment against the great majority of Americans. To compromise he says is bad. To support the law he says is wrong. To oppose his brand of right-wing politics is to stand accused by him of being un-American.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, what compromise, Chrissie? I&#8217;m pretty sure that the president and the Democrats pretty much said &#8220;My way or no way&#8221; in last week&#8217;s debate. And today&#8217;s news is full of evidence that we needed to wait a year for the Affordable Care Act, just to work out the bugs of the website. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually surprised that I made it out of DC without a criminal record because everything is so overly regulated that you can hardly keep up with the laws. No, DC is not part of America, not the America that I spent my youth  defending. And, while we&#8217;re at it, Chrissie, if you&#8217;re going to attack someone for criticizing what America has become, you&#8217;re probably not a real American, either. <\/p>\n<p>As a side note, McCarthy was right, Matthews &#8211; you need to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Haunted-Wood-Espionage-Paperbacks\/dp\/0375755365\">The Haunted Wood<\/a> sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Matthews&#8217; perpetually twisted knickers made an appearance again on his &#8220;Nutball&#8221; TV show, or whatever &hellip; <a title=\"Matthews: Cruz is the new McCarthy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38089\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matthews: Cruz is the new McCarthy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}