Matthews Feels The President Should Listen To People Like Matt Damon
I brought up Matt Damon the other day in this thread. I didn’t mention the part in the interview where Matt was knocking the POTUS and said: “I don’t feel that there’s a shared consciousness and a shared sense of sacrifice, and we have these young men and women who are fighting a war and our president tells us to go shopping.” Sacrifice? Our economy tanked when we were hit on 9/11. The interesting thing about this statement is that he is sitting next to Robert DeNiro. The TriBeCa Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Manhattan. Festival organizer De Niro, a Tribeca resident, encouraged people to shop and eat in the neighborhood: “Things are coming back, but we’d like to help it come back a lot faster.” Â
Mark Finkelstein:Â Have a look at this video clip from this afternoon’s Hardball.
The specific object of Chris’s ire was the president’s suggestion at his press conference today that Americans shop more. Asked Matthews:
“I wonder if he’s in touch with the critics out there, like Matt Damon, the actor, who was on this program Monday?”
How many shows did Matthews dedicate to the awful economy? I guess his memory is selective.  Obviously, Damon didn’t study economics at Harvard!
