Guns and Guts

Chris Matthews is Insane

November 7th, 2008

There is little doubt that Chris Matthews is and has been for years nothing more than a political hack. While he has been accused by both sides of being in the tank for their opponents over the years, Matthews has become nothing more than a mouthpiece for Barack Obama and the Democrats now. The video above is concrete proof of this, even if his tingling leg wasn’t. While it is admirable to want a new President to do well, Matthews has illustrated to everyone that he has no credibility left as a journalist.

He masquerades as a journalist every night. A journalist’s job is to inform the people watching of what is going on in their world, and what they need to pay attention to. It is not the job of a journalist to be a cheerleader for Barack Obama. Honestly, I would have no problem with this if he was simply a commentator, that let it be known in advance where his loyalties lie. That would be fine of course. He would be no different than Sean Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh at that point.

He hasn’t done this though. He claims to be a journalist that is reporting news, and that is a lie. After this election there is little doubt to almost anyone that the media has an overwhelming liberal bias. Conservatives have been saying this for years, and liberals have made fun of them for it endlessly. Their rebuttals were always weak, but they clung to them.

Anyone who has had this conversation is told about how the media is owned by conservatives and therefore couldn’t possibly be biased to the left. Another often posited theory is that it is balanced out by talk radio. This of course was an admission that the mainstream media was full of liberals, but was often trotted out anyway. Often times, the Washington Times or the Wall Street Journal would be parroted about as well.

These arguments were ridiculous in the past, and are flat out stupid now. The media made no attempt to disguise their complete bias in favoring Barack Obama and the Democrats this election cycle. There is no argument to be made against an ingrained institutional bias, that has existed for years. Talk radio is full of successful right leaning talk hosts. None of them claim to be anything else than that. Talk show hosts. They aren’t journalists. Two newspapers hardly constitute balance, in a sea of leftist editorial boards, whose bias is obvious in their paper’s reporting throughout. All of the major networks are biased towards the left. Most of the cable networks, MSNBC notoriously, are full of leftist talking points. The only cable outlet that is not is the often savaged Fox News.

After the obviously biased election coverage, Matthew’s stunning revelation that his job is to prop up Barack Obama’s presidency should not come as a shock. The shocking thing to me was that he has the nerve to openly admit it, and claim it as he did in this clip. His ego is so big, that he feels he alone knows what the country needs, and it is his journalistic duty to make sure that Obama is successful.

Categories: Politics | Tags: obama, socialist stupidity