Chris Matthews Gets Shutdown
If you have not seen it, heard it or saw it yet, Radio Blogger has the scripts.
PK: Let me tell you, Chris. Mike Chertoff is with the president every step of the way. I met with Secretary Chertoff. Mike Chertoff has been with the president each stage over the last several days. He was there in the planning. I was with him last week when he was involved with the planning. He’s been with President Bush at every stage. And Chris, there’s sort of a frenzy here by the media. Let’s not forget the incompetence of the mayor of New Orleans. the Governor in New Orleans. They were the ones in the first instance you were required to do the job, and they didn’t. As far as President Bush, it’s wrong for you to say he wasn’t caring. He certainly was caring. But what he was not equipped for was to explain for the incompetency of local officials, or to explain the hysteria, or anticipate the hysteria created by you in the media, who go off the deep end. Let’s treat this with a little rationality, and a little bit of decency.
BT: Well, Chris, let me give you a little…
CM: You can make that charge, but the fact is that most people trust the media on this story, because the pictures of what was happening down there in New Orleans apparently got to them before they heard of any federal action. But go ahead.
PK: Chris, you are totally distorting reality, and that’s the problem with you. You’re distorting reality. You’re wrong on this story. You and MSNBC are carried away with this. You should be ashamed of yourself. You’ve disgraced yourself and the media.
Do read it all. He breaks it down in four rounds and it is all good.
I have to say that it puts a smile on my face when Chris Matthews is left with this much egg on his face.
Is that wrong?
The only sad part to all of this is that it does not happen more often. Typically Chris Matthews is so far off base, it is not a surprise that ratings are in the toilet where they should be. Probably the reason I never find the time to watch along with most everyone else.
Chris Matthews, why don’t you stop pretending to be a moderate, quit your pitiful show and go work for the democrats you know and love. Maybe it is because you are doing your part for the democrats with this sad little show.