A Must Read: Caveman Chris Mathews
(Apologies to any cavemen) even if you didn’t happen to catch Chris Mathews foaming and ranting at his guests views of the Swifties story last night including Larry Thurgow and Michelle Malkin. (Mathews was crazed, crazed I say, even before Michelle come on, so much so that I nuged awake my husband just to watch Mathews implode on air.) I was so disturbed that I sent this email to MSNBC immediately after the show:
Your channel should just put up a banner that says “Vote for Kerry” and let everybody go home. You shouldn’t call your hosts journalists but opinionists, as they are one-sided, present a half story, and treat those with opposing opinions contemptuously. Incidentally, how can Chris Matthew’s rant and foam about a book he’s never read?
I also sent the swifties a donation. It was that over the top. But enough about me. Go read Michelle. She did a great job under extremely hostile circumstance. (I was wondering if Mathews was going to pop her. He was that angry- yelling, spitting, interupting.)
Well, guess what? This foaming jerk Matthews, who called me irresponsible and kicked me off the show admitted that a) he himself had not read the damned book, b) he was not interested in asking Kerry about the specific doubts raised by vets about his wounds, and c) he had not and would not question Kerry about these specific allegations.“Are you saying he shot himself on purpose?” Matthews hammered. I repeated myself again clearly that I was referring to the allegations about self-inflicted wounds in the book. When I tried to explain that the vets who were with Kerry had cast a lot of doubt on whether enemy fire occurred during the first two incidents, Matthews cut me off again. “Why did you say that?” he badgered. Because, I said, I was talking about what was in the book, which he had admitted he hadn’t read.
“Don’t you wonder?” I asked. “No, I don’t,” he bellowed. “It’s never occurred to me.” With that, I was kicked off the second segment.
Updates: Right on Red posts: The thing to remember about Matthews is that he joined the Peace Corps rather than go to Vietnam. He is consumed with liberal guilt over this, and John Kerry is the Redeemer for his generation - the soldier who was brave enough to go to war, and righteous enough to protest the war when he got back. This is why Matthews takes it so personally to hear Kerry’s war record questioned.
From Balloon Juice: Chris Matthews is now officially off the deep end. …It was stunning.
The Mathews “blog” is availble here, with an email comments link.
LaShawn Barber reports: John Kerrys band of legal thugs is asking Regnery Publishing to withdraw the book that exposes him as a liar. What a gaggle of idiots. (I try not to call people idiots, but it’s Friday and I feel like doing it.)
UPDATE: Mathews curiously “on vacation” tonight. My guesses:
1) he is meeeting with his shrink, working on “rage” issues-a one day intense session;
2) he is crashing hard- a two day sleep;
3) he is reading “Unfit for Command,” a three day marathon with cliff notes.
UPDATE II: MSNBC now airing ad acknowleging book says wound was from ricochet from Kerry’s own grenede but self-inflicted is not a perjorative term in the military.
