The only trouble with Chris Matthews, who incidentally is my favorite political commentator, is that he almost always assumes that anybody who does not agree with his point of view is an idiot. This is evident from the difference in the way he interviews liberals and conservatives – to one group, he is genial, even soft, while to the other, he puts on a confrontational tone. (Maybe it’s just me, for it is a proven fact that the viewer assigns tones to the speaker’s words based on his or her own prejudices.)
Today though, Matthews met his match. The man was William Kostric, now famous as the guy who carried a gun to a town hall in New Hampshire where President Obama spoke today. Kostric held his own when placed under the scanner. He appeared informed, and did not wilt under Matthews’ usual lines of questioning — Chris, who is more well-read than most people he interviews always tries to browbeat the other person on his knowledge of history. Here is the video. I thought it was a champion performance. What do you say?
Update:
I think the point where Chris realized that Bill Kostric was not someone he could kick about at will was when Kostric told him that he had voted for Ron Paul in 2008. Had Kostric told Chris that he had voted for McCain, the tone would have changed considerably — Chris would have done his daily Palin-bashing routine, questioning the intelligence of those who voted for a woman who was “one 72 year-old’s heartbeat away from the Presidency.” While there is no doubt that Sarah Palin was, and still is, almost completely unqualified to serve as President or VP, the liberal crowd has to stop milking this topic as a defensive tactic.
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August 11th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
It was good to see Tim Phillips AND Bill Kostric kick GE schill Chris Mathews ass!
August 12th, 2009 at 12:09 am
if you pause the video at 2:10, it shows the footage of kostric at the rally with his sign, and if you look closely, you will see that he is wearing an in-ear monitoring device, similar to the ones worn by private security or secret service. who is this guy really?
August 12th, 2009 at 5:55 am
This guy is my new hero. Standing up for ALL of our constitutional rights.
August 12th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I am a fan of William Kostric
August 16th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Would a muslim up at a George Bush rally wearing a side arm with a sign that suggests Bush was a tyrant and it’s time let some blood for the tree of liberty pass muster with you?
No the republiCONs would have insured 24-7 coverage.
Who dares predict the next lynching for you birfers to have an orgams over?
August 19th, 2009 at 8:15 am
hmm…if everyone had a gun….wouldn’t we all be dead?
August 19th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
@Matt, you couldn’t be more simplistic, could you? What about those who already have guns? Surely they could have wiped us all out. Kostric says he uses it for self-protection.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:04 pm
To the person who posted ” hmm…if everyone had a gun….wouldn’t we all be dead?” all I can say is…huh?
I’m assuming that you’re referring to your personal belief that guns are designed and built for killing and nothing else. I disagree with this belief however, since if I were holding a loaded gun it’s entirely up to me what I shoot at, whether it’s a paper target, a clay-pigeon, etc. If you choose to kill people with your loaded gun, then I would have no choice but to question your mentaility and intelligence, rather than that of the gun’s.
A gun is a tool, nothing more. A car is a tool as well. Perhaps there are people out there who are consciously and cold-bloodedly making the decision to run down small children as they leave the school bus – so following this ratonale we should ban cars. The fact remains that cars are involved in more deaths in the United States than guns are, but gun deaths are more sensationalistic & “newsworthy”. In the vast majority of these cases however, everyone accepts that it is the driver who is responsible for these deaths, and not the car. So why are guns any different?
Hoplophobia at its paranoid best.
August 21st, 2009 at 7:30 pm
You liberals just don’t get it, do you ? You don’t even have the most basic understanding of what the Constitution is about. You don’t know what freedom is, you don’t have a clue what liberty is, nor do you have the slightest idea of the price that has been paid to maintain what the framers put on paper 230 years ago. I suggest you sit down and read the Declaration of Independance, and then read the Constitution of The United States. It wouldn’t hurt you to read the Federalist Papers as well. All 85 of them. If you have any understanding at all of what you just read, maybe, just maybe you’ll begin to understand what America is supposed to be about, and why we defend all of this so steadfastly. Bill Kostric is just one of millions that are saying enough is enough. We WILL NOT let you destroy this nation or the principals on which it was founded.