RUSH: I want you to hear audio. There is video to this. It’s available at I think Breitbart.com and LiveLeak.com. I was advised to watch this, and I did, and it’s Chris Matthews being berated, if you will, by a black Army veteran after the Ann Coulter show on MSNBC earlier this week.
MATHEWS: Wait, who has been attacking the soldiers?
VETERAN: Okay, let’s see, Dick Durbin has compared them to the Nazis, ‘Abu Ghraib is now open under new management.’ Okay, but our soldiers are not out there blowing them damn selves up, and I as a veteran take a genuine–
MATHEWS: So you don’t think they should have criticized Abu Ghraib?
VETERAN: No, hey, look, policy is made by civilians. Troops only do what they can.
MATHEWS: I’m going to tell you something. This administration has denied that was a policy from the top. I believe it was, you don’t agree.
VETERAN: I believe–
MATHEWS: No, you believe–
VETERAN: Wait, wait, wait. Wait a damn minute Chris, if you want to talk about policy made from the top, let’s talk about the mess made over in Rwanda.
RUSH: Rwanda. This is a black veteran and what his point was, ‘What are you wasting time here with Ann Coulter? You’ve got one person.’ He says, ‘I’m getting sick and tired, you never criticize politicians. You’re always criticizing people out there, one person who wrote something in a book but you don’t criticize John Kerry, you don’t criticize Dick Durbin. You don’t criticize anybody who’s elected. Ann Coulter is not elected to the Senate.’ Matthews said, ‘Who’s been attacking the soldiers?’ What kind of question is that? Who’s been attacking the soldiers? How about the entire Democrat Party leadership in both the House and the Senate? What do you call it when you invest in defeat? What do you call it when you say the surge is worthless, when you say that we’ve lost the war in Iraq, what are you doing? When you run around and impugn the integrity and the intelligence of enlisted personnel by saying, ‘Ah, they come from the wrong side of the tracks. That’s the only place they can go to get an education. That’s the only place they can go to have a future. They don’t really want to be in the military,’ what do you do? How do you not know that the troops are being attacked by Democrats if you host a cable news show, as Chris Matthews does?
Of course this guy fired right back, ‘Well, Dick Durbin called the troops Nazis,’ and so forth, and it was Ted Kennedy who said that Abu Ghraib is now open under new management, comparing our running of Abu Ghraib to Saddam Hussein. Now, this was cool, because this is a veteran who’s fed up with this kind of coverage, and he was in the audience, and he sought Matthews out after the show to give him piece of his mind. To Matthews credit he stood there and talked to him. There was a camera rolling, and I think Matthews knew it.