Posted on 03/27/2006 5:28:47 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
March 27, 2006
Wouldn't you think that someone who fashions his show "Hardball" would have the intestinal fortitude to invite on at least one guest who disagrees with his world view? At least tonight, Chris Matthews apparently thought that unnecessary.
Here was Matthews guest line-up this evening:
Philippe Sands: left-wing Brit, author of a new book, Lawless World, accusing Bush of having decided very early on in the game to go to war against Iraq.
John Podesta: the lugubrious former chief-of-staff to Bill Clinton and member of Hillary's inner circle.
Pat Buchanan: while the Today show had the chutzpah last week to bill him as a 'Republican strategist,' this 2000 presidential nominee of the Reform Party tonight acknowledged the undeniable - that he's "left the party." His gloves were off on this evening's show, accusing his favorite targets, the "neo-cons," of ginning up the Iraq war.
Susan Page: reporter for the Dem-friendly USA Today. Let's call the affable Page a voice of the more reasonable realms of the center-left media.
Craig Crawford: the snarky MSNBC/CBS political analyst who enjoys taking snide shots at the Bush administration.
Charlie Cook: political pollster, he of the Cook Political Report. Call Cook reasonably down-the-middle, but consider that the bouquets he put in his bio come from the NY Times, Bob Schieffer Al Hunt and David Broder. No one has ever accused Cook of being a Republican.
Sure, Matthews has had his share of Republican guests. But couldn't he have found at least one to round out tonight's left-leaning/Bush antagonist line-up?
Hardball/NewsBusters ping to the Today show list.
There, that's better.
The words "intestinal fortitude" and "Chris Matthews" should never be mentioned in the same sentence without a negative in between. He's an assclown of the highest order.
I was not aware that show is still on.
Softballs.
The larger question is "why is MSNBC still on?".
Nobody watches it.
Tomorrow, Chrissy is really going after Bush, the panel will be made up strictly of Freepers.
"Softballs"
or Goofball
I don't know anyone who watches Matthews and his garbage show.
It sounds like Matthews had half his audience on his panel.
Shocked to hear that Pat B. has a soft spot for Islam after hearing for so many years that he was a bigot and a racist, but if you say so and this blogger would put it into writing and sign it then I pretty much should believe it.
Thanks for watching and reporting. Matthews is pathetic.
The numerous guests and their family members will likely provide a positive blip for Hardball's ratings.
I'd simply like to ask the assembled guests of Matthews, who are all undoubtedly anti-Bush and anti-Iraq War, that if we are supposed to be fighting Al-Qaeda and it's friends, what do they make of the latest hard evidence showing conclusively that Hussein aided and abetted Al-Qaeda? I'd like to see them squirm out of that.
Chris doesn't need to balance each show. What is the ratio over time?
An amusing aside: perhaps conscious of the lack of Republicans, Matthews decided to offer up as a token Republican none other than . . . himself! He stated that for years he had been in the habit of voting for an unidentified Republican congresswoman from his home state of Maryland. Liberal Republian Connie Morella, perhaps?
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