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August 20, 2004
Chris Matthews goes around the bend
If Kerry's campaign has gone kinda nutsy, then his minions in the media have really lost their little pea-pickin' minds, raging against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Check out THIS ACCOUNT by Michelle Malkin of her appearance last night (8-19-2004, TRANSCRIPT) on Hardball. I saw this, and Matthews was every bit as whacked out and hostile as she describes, if not more so.
Matthews was practically foaming at the mouth. Now, he's routinely animated and assertive. I don't mean that. I mean, the guy was absolutely hysterical, insisting on casting her as a representative of the Bush administration for starters. This was just looney tunes, as she has never been anything like that. She's certainly conservative, but has never been a Republican partisan, let alone their spokesperson.
She wasn't even there to discuss the swift boat stuff. This was just put on her. Her reporter/analyst beat is immigration. Here's a reporter with a new book apparently fairly critical of the Bush administration (In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror), and Matthews apparently expected her to take responsibility on behalf of the Bush administration for the claims of yet a third party on a completely different subject. What was he on, anyway?
Indeed, by rights people like Malkin are among Bush's most damaging critics. Coming at him from the right, she's been raising hell with his administration on immigration. This would be one of his more vulnerable points with a good part of his base. She's goading Bush, not cheerleading for him.
It was really odd just watching the emotional dynamics. Matthews went increasingly hysterical. Now even in the etymology of the word, hysteria is mostly thought of as a female emotional behavior. Yet, there is Ms Malkin carefully concentrating on calmness and civility as Matthews becomes increasingly unhinged.
By the time he dumped her - without ever talking about her book, which was supposed to be her subject of discussion - he'd gone completely around the bend. He made up some claim supposedly in the Unfit for Command book which he's obviously never read that Kerry had purposely shot himself to get one of his Purple Hearts, and seemed to be demanding that Malkin defend this claim on behalf of the Bush administration.
Who did she think she was, anyway, telling these scurrillous lies about Kerry. We'll have none of that on this show! And no, Matthews will NOT be grilling Kerry about any of these details.
To me, Matthews looked like he was just out of his head. Interestingly, another writer took this as brilliant media manipulation by Matthews. It was fascinating either way.
Yeah boy, this was definitely NBC's must-see Thursday program.
posted by Al at 8/20/2004 05:40:00 PM
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