Did He Really Just Say That?
I guess we should be surprised about this exchange from NBC host Brian Williams and Chris Matthews (video at link). Brian Williams has shown his amazingly ignorant view of history by comparing Osama bin Laden to George Washington and other such nonsense before. So this is somewhat to be expected, I guess. Still, it is amazing to hear someone say it sincerely and outloud:
Amazing. He should be ridden out of town on a rail for such idiocy...
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: But, here we have maybe 24 people who have lived in London and England and the free world for all these years that become citizens, subjects of the Crown, and yet, after having gotten to know us, they want to kill themselves to hurt us. Isn’t that an even deeper conundrum here than the chemicals being used in these attacks.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: And that, Chris, that last aspect, the willingness to take one’s own life. I always tell people there are guys on our team like that, too. They’re called Army Rangers and Navy Seals and the Special Forces folks and the first responders on 9/11 who went into those buildings knowing, by the way, they weren’t going to come out. So we have players like that on our team.
Amazing. He should be ridden out of town on a rail for such idiocy...
