Chris Matthews was in rare Matthewsian form in his coverage of Obama’s Afghanistan speech last night. To wit, courtesy of TPM:
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He also referred to West Point as the "enemy camp", something the left wing sites apparently didn’t see anything working with as no one talked about it critically. I guess it goes to show where CJR folks go for their news.
#1 Posted by Mike H, CJR on Wed 2 Dec 2009 at 10:12 AM
Matthews is the Beltway-wired, Democratic equivalent of Bill O'Reilly, without the subtlety. His partisan identification is the only reason I can think of for the relatively more respectful treatment Matthews gets from orthodox media/political/entertainment sources. (The only other reason I can think of is that O'Reilly gets better ratings.)
Criticism of O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc., is usually couched in terms of style points, but, as always, their MSM critics do not get their own transparent leanings. If Fox and the rest of the New Right media sources that have emerged in the past 15-20 years do nothing else, they provide a standard by which the fairness of political reporting can be measured. The MSM gets trapped into criticizing practices by the above news sources that they employ themselves. Matthews' roster of guests on his weekly panel program - members in good standing of the Washington media-political echo chamber, right down to 'token Republican of the non-assertive variety' David Brooks, illustrate the double standard.
#2 Posted by Mark Richard, CJR on Wed 2 Dec 2009 at 12:34 PM
What a tool.. Chris needs to keep his pie hole shut and move to Iraq!
#3 Posted by Nobamaplease, CJR on Thu 3 Dec 2009 at 08:51 AM
Bill O''Reilly. Subtle. BWAHAHAWA! Like a brick to the head, perhaps! BWAHAWAHA!
And yeah, the lefty blogs did react to the enemy camp remark
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/matthews-obamas-speech-west-point-he-went
as it's a beltway assumption that all democrats are hated by the army and all military folks love republicans. That's why democrats are constantly bashed on national security issues by the TV press/pundits and why many dems are afraid of doing any rational criticism of military policy/funding because they know some idiot will say "You want to lead the army? Armed with what? Spitballs?"
In other words it's your president who was getting disrespected by Matthews, because he assumes the army will always lean towards jingoist republicans and that a democrat will always lack credibility with the military. He wasn't calling the military the enemy of the country, he was casting them as the enemy of weak democrats.
Chris has a bit of a weird thing going on with the military and republicans
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/09/matthews-bush-monologue/
#4 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Thu 3 Dec 2009 at 09:56 AM
No, I mean weird.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/speaking-of-unseemly-bulges-as-we-watch.html
anyways he apologized.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200912020032
#5 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Thu 3 Dec 2009 at 10:01 AM