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Chris Matthews Fails to Identify Disgraced Pennsylvania AG as a Democrat
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/17/2016 8:34:25 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Imagine that a Republican state attorney general had been forced to resign after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. Now imagine how the story would have been played on MSNBC. Fair to assume that the word “Republican” would have featured in the story’s first sentence?

But in a stand-alone segment on today’s Hardball on the forced resignation of Kathleen Kane, the Pennsylvania AG who was convicted on nine charges, host Chris Matthews failed to ever mention, and the screen graphics never revealed, that Kane is a Democrat. Kane had illegally leaked secret grand jury documents to harm a rival prosecutor, then lied about it under oath.

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: chrismatthews; doublestandards; kathleenkane; mediabias; msm
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1 posted on 08/17/2016 8:34:26 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: GOPJ; ColdOne; AmericanCheeseFood; netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; ...

Guess Chris Matthews just forgot to mention that Kane is a Democrat ;-)

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 08/17/2016 8:35:17 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Chrissy Matthews is merely another dishonest propaganda hack for the DNC. The only surprise is that he felt the need to report on Kane’s implosion at all.


3 posted on 08/17/2016 8:37:33 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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4 posted on 08/17/2016 8:40:10 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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It’s true: to a certain extent I give him credit for reporting it at all, which I’m sure most MSNBC shows didn’t do. I’m guessing it had something to do with Matthews coming from Pennsylvania.


5 posted on 08/17/2016 8:42:34 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Standard operating procedure. I’ve observed this my whole adult life. Scandal, such as Dennis Haster, will always make his party affiliation prominent. Democrat scandals will have it buried deep in the article or not disclosed at all.


6 posted on 08/17/2016 8:42:42 AM PDT by BJ1
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Is anyone surprised about this?????


7 posted on 08/17/2016 8:44:01 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

oh, I didn’t realize that Matthews came out of PA.... I live in PA and I never hear of him in this context.... I think any ties he may have had must be in the distant past?


8 posted on 08/17/2016 8:44:26 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Never, never, never forget that Chris Matthews was successfully replaced by an orange traffic cone.


9 posted on 08/17/2016 8:46:45 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Once they are convicted the DNC pulls their membership card until they get out of prison.


10 posted on 08/17/2016 8:46:47 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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yep, I’m surprised a democrat actually resigned. Of course it was after conviction, but then again still surprised.


11 posted on 08/17/2016 8:49:46 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (;-)
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Chris Matthews wife is running for office. He is and has been bought off forever by the democrats.


12 posted on 08/17/2016 8:52:07 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: blueunicorn6

Never, never, never forget that Chris Matthews was successfully replaced by an orange traffic cone.

don’t know the context of that but it sounds remarkably funny...


13 posted on 08/17/2016 8:52:16 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Not only does the eneMedia fail to mention the party affiliation of convicted Democrat officials, but they cast as already-convicted any Republican/conservative on trumped up “lawfare” charges when a trial is still pending, such as Ken Paxton of Texas or Scott Lively in the frivolous SMUG lawsuit.


14 posted on 08/17/2016 8:52:49 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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She’ll never see the inside of a prison, I’ll wager. To much ground work to be done on Hillary’s campaign.


15 posted on 08/17/2016 8:54:09 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: IrishBrigade; blueunicorn6

And orange traffic cone would be much more informative.


16 posted on 08/17/2016 8:55:16 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Jake Tapper also did a dis-service to this story - he covered it in last minute or so of show, while talking like an amateur auctioneer to comic effect.


17 posted on 08/17/2016 8:55:32 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Somehow, people know these things, inherently....................


18 posted on 08/17/2016 9:03:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I thought he was a Masshole!................


19 posted on 08/17/2016 9:04:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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The other trick is for a Dem member of the house to have a scandal....the media will always use “Rep. John Doe accused of X” - trying to make you think it’s a republican and not Representative...


20 posted on 08/17/2016 9:07:59 AM PDT by NOVACPA
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