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October 05, 2007
Chris Matthews, Just Another Old Media Liberal
MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, like many of his Old Media colleagues, is dropping any pretense of impartiality. At an event to promote his new book, Matthews said that the Bush administration has "finally been caught in their criminality". The audience included some Kennedys and other Democrats along with NBC executives. It would have been hard to tell them apart - especially since they are one in the same.
I devote an entire chapter to Matthews and his fellow travelers in my book, "The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report." In "Election 2006 - The Old Media Comes Out of the Closet", I discuss how Matthews and others helped Democrats win control of Congress. The MSNBC host, along with The Washington Post hammered away at the "macaca" story for months, resulting in the defeat of Republican Sen. George Allen and the election of Democrat Jim Webb.
Until recently, Matthews pretended to be non-partisan. At a cocktail party last year before Bill Maher's DC show, Matthews made a point of telling me, "In 2000, I voted for your guy." However, at a different event when he thought nobody was paying attention (I was there and I was) he admitted to the audience, "I'm a liberal!"
Matthews already moderated one GOP Republican debate and is slated to do another. It is doubtful that MSNBC will remove him from the broadcast or that Republicans will pull out of the debate. Unlike the cowards of the Democratic Party who refuse to debate on the Fox News Channel, Republicans are used to the hostile environs of the Old Media. The Old Media doesn't seen to understand that their credibility is greatly diminished by phonies like Chris Matthews.
I enjoyed Jon Stewart eating his lunch for him: THE DAILY SHOW
Posted by jeffgannon at October 5, 2007 07:12 AM
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