Taylor Marsh is raising issues and asking important questions that warrant discussion:
Everyone embracing Mr. Obama's dynamic win in Iowa, what he accomplished, as well as his amazing speech is totally understandable. But Matthews has become the laughing stock from liberal blogs like this one to wingnut blogs (video above from Hot Air) to Fox "News," where Bill O'Reilly laughed at Matthews on Friday. Via my friend Larry Johnson:
But you would not know that if you happened to listen to the ravings of Chris Matthews. Jesus Christ!! The guy is doing everything but foaming at the mouth and having a full blown gran mal seizure. Bet you didn’t know that what happened tonight in Iowa is the equivalent of the shots fired at Lexington and Concord to torch off America’s War of Independence? Yep. It is so because Matthews said so.
For a grown professional to act this way, especially since we all know Matthews' motives are grounded in Hillary hatred, is unethical, unprofessional, not to mention unseemly. You don't have to like Clinton to come to this conclusion. I couldn't care less about that, but fair media coverage should be expected, because this type of coverage is always converted to another Democrat when the big races come. It's never okay, no matter the Democratic target. No wonder MSNBC came in dead least on Iowa coverage. They earned it. [...]
So if you want to know how I became a partisan, it was a slow process, believe me. But what clinched it was the negative press coverage of Clinton, with virtual silence coming from the blogosphere. As I've said before, at the very least we should have worked together to go after Matthews. But what started out as me being a contrarian to push back and call out the negative press coverage on Clinton, eventually became something else. That the press also ignores all facts for the Access Hollywood part of the political story was another issue. No one was drawing out Mr. Obama's record. They still aren't, though there is some hint they're stirring.
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And Chris Matthews continues to prove what a total dolt he is... He is talking about Obama as if he has had a religious experience. That is not what we need in a public political debate.
Oh, and for some more choice quotes from Matthews check out this blog.
I've had a problem with Matthews for a very long time. It seems that others are finally waking up to just how wacky this guy is.
BAC
Yeah, there are very few political pundits out there these days that aren't wack jobs. Lets see, we have Limbaugh, O'reily, Coulter, Dobbs, Matthews, Olberman... the list goes on. The ones I do respect are Russert, Ruden (pardon the spelling, I only ever hear his name on NPR), and when I'm not too busy on Sunday to listen to them, Stephanopolis and Will.
I only disagree with you on a couple of your picks. I think Keith Olbermann is terrific, and I think Tim Russert is a weenie. Olbermann takes on the Bush administration and their lies, and Russert gives administration officials a full hour to present their propaganda. Russert touts that he can get high-ranking adminstrative officials on his probram, but why shouldn't they come on? He lets them speak unchallenged!
BAC
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