Chris Matthews Drools at Prospect of Bashing Bush Over Libby
Matthew Sheffield
"Truth is stranger than fiction" is a phrase you often hear tossed around. I'd add a corollary to it: truth can be funnier than fiction, too.
Such was the case on tonight's "Hardball" where host Chris Matthews got so excited with his quest to blame the Bush admin for the Valerie Plame kerfuffle, he actually started drooling about it on the air, going past anything that "Saturday Night Live" actor Darrell Hammond has ever done in parody.
And no, that's not hyperbole. See the screenshot to the right and watch the video here in WMV or in RealPlayer.
This wasn't the first time Matthews has embarrassed himself regarding Scooter Libby and Valerie Plame. Last September, the notoriously effusive commentator couldn't find the words to describe the case once it became clear that Karl Rove would not be indicted.
You, I mean. You're hysterical. And not in the ha ha sense.
There are lots of reasons why people drool (and not least of which are a bunch of minor medical problems), and human beings drooling because they are secretly excited is actually pretty uncommon and uncharacteristic of humans.
But, this "drooling with anticipation" interpretation of things is apparently just too in line with your worldview to NOT be true.
For all we know, maybe Chris was suffering with excess saliva because he couldn’t find enough civilian murdering Iraq war veterans to spit on over the weekend…..
White House concludes "This guy's a partisan hack who should be discredited" and decides to say so, and this gets spun into some sort of insane quest on their part to destroy Wilson by any means necessary.
Let me know when this farce is over.
I guess my issue is that if Wilson was such a hack, they should have just responded to his points and not to him personally. I mean if he was wrong, just say so. There's no need to needlessly impugn both his motives and those of his wife. Regardless of the veracity of claims of nepotism, it doesn't speak to what Wilson reported. I mean legal or illegal it was still a stupid smear job.
It simply is not illegal, immoral, or unethical to note that someone works for CIA. Never has been, never will be. Neither is it any of those things to accuse someone of getting a job he was poorly qualified for because his wife got him in the door.
That's why this entire farce deserves all the ridicule it gets.
personally, though, i could care less what happens during the trial.
Maybe you're not putting St. Wilson on the pedestal, but everyone in the media did. And the only way to answer that is to point out the feet of clay.
Or maybe you think their anointment of St. Wilson was scurrilous as well?
i dispute that the feet of clay argument is the only way to counter an undeserved beatification.
"This guy's a partisan hack who should be discredited"
i think we can agree that certainly that it was their intent to discredit wilson whatever their motivations. perhaps the easiest way to discredit someone is to smear him, but aren't we enlightened souls of the blogosphere supposed to be able to see through such obvious fallacies of logic? it may be more difficult, but it certainly is more pertinent to the discussion at hand and infinitely more persuasive to discredit wilson (if it's possible) by directly refuting what he had to say with counter-facts. why is making a rational, logical, persuasive argument naive? i think, rather, that it was supremely naive of the white house to believe that they could so obviously attempt to smear a man who you've already described as anointed by the MSM as a saint, and not expect more blowback than blow-forward.
It was made. The answer came back: "But he's your own hand-picked unbiased source. How can you disagree with him?" The only possible response to that is "No, he's not. His wife selected him."
Show me the smear, zach. Don't just claim there was one, show it. You'll find that what you call a "smear" was always a response to a false claim of his unquestioned correctness. We can't let false claims go unanswered.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.