Why Chris Matthews pisses me off

I admit to being a political junkie. I watch my fair share of the political news shows on MSNBC and CNN. I rarely watch the Fox News Channel because i can only take about a minute of that bs before wanting to throw a brick through my tv. Unfortunately the other networks are becoming like the Fox News Channel, nothing but a Republican spin machine painting every Bush administration and Republican scandal as a partisan attack by the Democrats. That brings us to a perfect example of this, Chris Matthews. I'm sure many have seen his show Hardball on MSNBC. The premise of this show is that guests go on, usually politicians and spokespeople for the politicians from both sides and Chris Matthews asks them the tough questions. Unfortunately what usually occurs is that Matthews will repeat Republican talking points as if they were fact. MediaMatters.org named him misleader of 2005 for this very reason. He'll throw out the softball questions for the Republicans and really go after the Democrats appearing on his show.

Republicans love to say that Chris Matthews is a partisan Democrat by pointing out that he was a speech writer for Jimmy Carter and worked on Tip O'neill's staff. However, Matthews love for President Bush became apparent on that faithful day in 2003 when Bush landed on that aircraft carrier all dressed up in his flight suit. On his show Chris Matthews acted like a teeenaged schoolgirl with a crush describing how great President Bush looked in that flight suit. He was literally beaming. A more recent example of Matthews love for president Bush occurred just a few weeks ago when he mentioned to a guest that most americans liked President Bush and that the only ones that didn't like him were the radical lefties. I'm paraphrasing but that's pretty close to what he actually said. Of course polls show that a majority of americans have an unfavorable opinion of President Bush, it's not just those on the extreme left.

The one time that i thought Chris Matthews may have been turning the corner and becoming more balanced was when he went after Michelle Malkin in 2004. She went on his show and tried to say that John Kerry had shot himself in Vietnam. I don't know what got into Matthews that day but he really laid into Michelle Malkin. It appeared she was on the verge of tears by the time Matthews got done with her. Anyway,once the Republicans got wind of this they decided to boycott Matthews show for awhile. Their boycott obviously worked as Matthews is back reciting the Republican talking points. Just this past week he had on the NSA whistleblower who revealed to the New York Times that Bush was illegally spying on Americans. Matthews actually said to him that sometimes it's the President's job to break the law. Unbelievable. He sure didn't have that attitude when it came to Clinton and Clinton only lied about a blowjob. Have i mentioned that Chris Matthews really pisses me off? I'm just thankful that MSNBC still has on Keith Olbermann. How long before MSNBC pulls the plug on his show like they did Phil Donahue's show? Let's hope not for quite awhile.