Via Think Progress: Immediately following President Bush’s press conference today, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spent three unbroken minutes fawning ov
August 9, 2007

Via Think Progress:

Immediately following President Bush’s press conference today, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spent three unbroken minutes fawning over the president’s “powerful rendition” of his “philosophy” without uttering a single critical word. "I thought in listening to the president, I was listening to one of the great neoconservative minds who's worked in this administration, the former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, who had lunch with me way before this war began."** gushed Matthews.

Calling Bush “powerful” on three separate occasions, Matthews marveled at the president’s defense of his foreign policy:

We were given a rare opportunity to hear the real philosophy of this administration with regard to the war in Iraq. A powerful rendition by the president of why we’re there. When he talked about the fact that we can support emerging democracies in the Middle East, and that’s the only way we can prevent future 9/11’s, you’re getting to the heart of why this administration is fighting that war in Iraq.

“This president is ready to fight like a rock through the rest of his term,” Matthews proclaimed. “He made it clear that he’s going to fight as long as it takes to develop a democracy in Iraq. There’s not going to be any change come September.”

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**Thanks to MBH for corrected quoted.

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