Chris Matthews accuses Bush campaign of lying

Chris Matthews recently skewered Matthew Dowd of the Bush-Cheney campaign for outright lying about something John Kerry had recently said on Matthew's TV show. Atrios has the link where you can go to read the transcript and see the video clip of the show.

In a nutshell, Kerry was asked if he was one of the anti-war candidates, and he said yes, if you mean does he think Bush prosecuted the war in the wrong way. The Bushies then took only a portion of the clip - cutting out the part where Kerry explains that he only oppose THE MANNER in which Bush ran the war - and put the out-of-context clip into an 11-minute attack video that claims Kerry "admitted" to being the anti-war candidate, when in fact Kerry only said that he opposed the way Bush has handled the war. The video has reportedly been sent out to 8 million Americans, and is being promoted via the Bush-Cheney Web site "KerryOnIraq.com" (as I noted a while back, if you click on KerryOnIraq.org you get sent to John Kerry's campaign home page - the dufus Bushies forgot to buy the .org so I bought it and pointed it to Kerry).

Anyway, Matthews, not very pleased at all that the Bushies are using him to lie about Kerry's statement on Matthews' own show, let the Bush drone have it, big time. You really need to read the transcript or see the clip - it's towards the end, you can simply search the transcript for the name Dowd and you'll see where he starts being interviewed. The debate over this comes up shortly after that.