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Posted at 5:54am on May 9, 2008 Chris Matthews: Jealous of Rush Limbaugh

The London Telegraph might want to rethink putting Matthews above Limbaugh on the list of most influential pundits

By Erick

Poor, poor Chris Matthews. He is so jealous of Rush Limbaugh he finally blew it the other day on Hardball. Matthews said

"I have to offer a Keith-style special comment on that. Anyone who voted to screw up the political system of this country with the purpose of mischief should carry that with them the rest their lives. What a ridiculous way to use the vote for which people fought and died, to use that vote to make mischief. I hope you're proud of yourself."

There are a few things to take away from that.

Matthews and his pals at MSDNC have, for months, been shilling for Barack Obama like a Quiznos junior manager in a gorilla outfit in the right of way -- obviously, obnoxiously, and with little impact on sales. For months and months we've heard Matthews describe how he nearly wets himself every time Obama sighs and has chills go down his spine and up his leg every time Obama speaks.

The whole network, save Joe Scarborough, has behaved like dogs in heat for Obama. Dan Abrams, just two weeks ago, begged and pleaded for Obama to avoid Fox News because they might actually ask the candidate substantive questions, unlike his network. Olbermann is all Obama all the time when he isn't putting Limbaugh and RedState on his "worst person in the world" list -- a list no one would be shocked to see all of the apostles except Judas show up on.

And then there is Limbaugh. After months of MSDNC shilling for Obama, begging people to vote for Obama, and slanting all their "news" coverage to favor Obama, Limbaugh just suggests that voters go vote for Hillary and they do. People went out in a coordinated effort to prolong the Democratic primary. What Matthews and all of MSDNC could not do after months of trying, Rush Limbaugh was able to do -- get people to the polls in droves.

Hell, I'd be jealous too if I spent months preaching the gospel of Obama only to have some guy on freakin' radio outdo me in one day.

Of course, there is more to it than that. Read on . . .

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Posted at 5:28pm on May 7, 2008 Netroot betrayal: a retrospective.

Nope, not something about to happen. Something that *did* happen.

By Moe Lane

First, watch this clip from Hot Air.

(Relevant bits from the transcript after the fold)

Three observations:

1). As Allahpundit noted, Chris Matthews totally insulted Markos Moulitsas with that last comment. Not that Markos cares: it is, after all, good for business.

2). If you're wondering why Ms. Bernard is endorsing Rush Limbaugh's comments about the Democratic Party's historically shabby treatment of the African-American community (another example of Rush's argument here), it's probably because she's a member of the Independent Women's Forum, which is in fact a conservative group (an angry, Leftist take on the IWF may be found here). The Daily Howler noted this several months ago, which means that Chris Matthews has been helping a conservative spokeswoman get to a place where she can whack on the monolithic lock that the Democratic Party has on African-American voters - and from a ostensibly pro-Obama stance, to boot.

3). None of the players involved have a very high opinion of the ability of progressives - particularly online ones - to work this all out for themselves. Which is... fair, because it's not immediately obvious that many of them have actually noticed what's going on inside what is apparently one heck of a blind spot for them. Shoot, I wouldn't even mention it myself if it wasn't too late to do anything about it Presuming that they actually could have, of course, which is always an open question with the netroots. All in all, the casual and largely justified contempt shown to them by their betters would be pathos-inducing if it weren't quite so funny.

Ha! I guess that I had four observations, then.

Moe Lane

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Posted at 9:12pm on Oct. 29, 2007 Chris Matthews says Hillary is dumber than Bush

By Mark Kilmer

As an aside, and quite by mistake this afternoon, I found myself watching on of the most pointless exercises in the history of Presidential politics: Chris Matthews interviewing Chris Dodd on Hardball. I neither know nor care how he stands all the time, but during this interview, at least, Matthews seemed the friendly Dodd supporter.

As they were nearing the end of their little talk, Matthews designated two columns of candidates based on their repeated Iraq "strategy." Most of the Democrats are Column A, he said, which means they talk about getting out of Iraq but they want to basically continue what President Bush is doing. Column B, people like Dodd, want to get out now.

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