Why do I feel ill? Oh, that's right.
I watched Chris Matthews chatting it up with Jay Leno tonight.
I haven't recovered yet.
It was pure propaganda.
The "Bush is going to nuke Iran" stuff, the immigration stuff -- it was all anti-Bush Administration garbage.
At one point, he said something like, "I don't want to get in trouble here, but having power is not the same as wisdom."
I'm not sure exactly what he said, but he was slamming Bush for being a poor leader in respect to dealing with Iran, and in every other respect for that matter.
On immigration, Matthews summed it up as the Democrats want to be nice to illegals and the Republicans hate everybody and want them out now.
What a crock! That sort of utterly lame simplification really does a disservice to the public.
I think the worst part had to be Matthews' discussion of the Scooter Libby "leak" story. He reiterated the same lies that poor Joe Wilson and his lovely wife were unfairly targeted by the Bush Administration for telling the truth about Iraq intelligence.
Even the Washington Post* decided to show some decency and admitted to the idiocy of the story; but Matthews won't let go of it, being the sycophant that he is.
Beyond my personal feelings of nausea, the real problem with this drivel is that he was spewing it out on an entertainment show. For some people, the only exposure that they get to current events and news is Leno's monologue and the rot that guests like Matthews offer.
NBC gave Matthews a network forum from which to pontificate. The Tonight Show audience dwarfs what Matthews normally draws on his little cable program. So in a few quick minutes he was allowed to rattle off the Dems' talking points and the lib agenda to people that normally don't hear him.
What would they take away from Matthews' segment? Bush = Bad for America.
The closest that Leno comes to having a conservative voice on his show is when Dennis Miller is a guest. The libs/Bush-haters, on the other hand, are offered in abundance -- Chris Matthews, Bill Maher, Al Franken, James Carville, even Jimmy Carter.
Often, these guests are hawking a new book. But tonight, Matthews' appearance served no other purpose than to provide the late night audience with a big dose of Bush-bashing bunk.
If Leno is going to let Matthews come on and very clearly promote the lib agenda, then he should allow a conservative to have some air time.
Actually, I'd prefer Matthews to just stay put in the ratings abyss known as Hardball, and not venture out of his cable spider hole.
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*Note: The Washington Post editorial board's shocking display of good sense was speedily countered by E.J. Dionne's op-ed piece, "All the President's Leaks."
Dionne is grasping at straws. It's embarrassing.
Sometimes, I just can't believe the extent to which the lib elite hate the President.
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