Subject: [big campaign] Matthews eviscerates guest for Chamberlain comparison
From: "Adam Jentleson @ American Progress Action" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:32:22 -0400
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This video will make your night.

Chris Matthews Stumps Right-Wing Radio Host: 'Tell Me What Chamberlain
Did?' 'I Don't Know'
<http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/kevin-james-appeaser/> >

On MSNBC's Hardball tonight, right-wing radio host Kevin James attempted
to defend President Bush's comments
<http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/bush-obama-nazi-appeaser/>
comparing Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to Nazi appeasers because he favors
talking with our enemies. James compared Obama to Neville Chamberlain,
about whom James could only cry: "He's an appeaser!" 

Matthews pressed James at least 19 times over five minutes to simply
explain what Chamberlain had done in 1938 and 1939 to make him an
"appeaser." James could only shout his talking point over and over,
prompting Matthews to threaten to end the interview:

	MATTHEWS: You don't know what you're talking about, Kevin. You
don't know what you're talking about. Tell me what Chamberlain did
wrong. 

	JAMES: Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, Chris. Neville
Chamberlain was an appeaser, all right? [...]

	MATTHEWS: I've been sitting here five minutes asking you to say
what the president was referring to in 1938 at Munich. 

	JAMES: I don't know. 

	MATTHEWS: You don't know, thank you. 

Watch it: 

Matthews was trying to prompt James to explain that Chamberlain signed
the Munich agreement <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement>
with Hitler in 1938, which allowed Hitler to occupy part of
Czechoslovakia <http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/%7Ejobrien/reference/ob66.html>
in exchange for peace with Britain. 

Matthews rebuked his clueless guest - and the entire Bush administration
- for being "blank slates in terms of history": 

	You don't understand there's a difference between talking to the
enemy and appeasing. What Chamberlain did wrong, most people would say,
is not talking to Hitler, but giving half of Czechoslovakia in 1938.
That's what he did wrong. Appeasement is giving things away to the
enemy.

Matthews's other guest, Mark Green, advised James: "When you're in a
hole, stop digging."

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