Action Alert: Let MSNBC's Matthews Know People in Wheelchairs Are Not Pathetic or Lowly

In his coverage of the Presidential Inauguration, MSNBC's Chris Matthews commented: "

And I can tell you again that metaphor here of the Vice President in that wheelchair - it is a metaphor for the low esteem with which he's held in this country.  His numbers are pathetically low."

A clip is available at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanREs942w0

Action Alert:
Let the media know that we do not appreciate wheelchair use being villanized:

Mr. Phil Griffin,
Senior Vice President, News
NBC Television Network
30 Rockefeller Plz
New York, NY 10112
phil.griffin@nbc.com

Steve Capus,
President, NBC News
steve.capus@nbc.com

MSNBC
letters@msnbc.com
MSNBC/Microsoft-NBC
30 Rockefeller Plz
3rd Fl
New York, NY 10112
(212) 664-4444

Chris Matthews
hardball@msnbc.com

Well Said:
Excerpt from a response by Laura Hershey:

Source: http://www.laurahershey.com/?p=104

Cheney's Villainy — Nothing to Do with His Wheelchair
Jan 20th, 2009
 
... Is Matthews aware of the fact that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the most 
effective and most popular presidents, governed from a wheelchair?

Around the Internet, I've seen numerous gleeful references to the 
image of Cheney in a wheelchair. Several compared him to Dr. 
Strangelove, the maniacal nuclear scientist in Stanley Kubrick's 
film. Others invoke Mr. Potter, that mean old banker in Frank Capra's 
It's a Wonderful Life.

We don't need another villain in a wheelchair. A villain he may be, 
with shared responsibility for torture, repression, and all kinds of 
other crimes against humanity. But the wheelchair has nothing to do 
with it.