Chris Matthews- Dishonest reporting
Someone really has to take Chris Mathews to task for his tailored reporting on this latest Jeremiah Wright issue. Today, on his Hardball show, Matthews joined with two other liberals (David Korn and Eugene Robinson) in blasting away at the conservatives over Jeremiah Wright.
The issue was why some conservatives and Romney supporters were talking about Jeremiah Wright again when that issue had been covered in the 2008 campaign. It was so ridiculous in their eyes that for several minutes the three sounded and looked like three drunks sitting at a bar and telling off-color jokes. They even showed a video clip of Sean Hannity discussing the issue on air and stating that "Governor Romney, I respectfully disagree with you".
About what? The clip, unfortunately, didn't show us because it began at precisely the moment that Hannity was telling Romney he disagreed with him as he went on to refer to Wright. The edited clip begged the question-what was the disagreement?
The disagreement was the fact that this week Romney disowned and refuted any attempts by his supporters to bring up the Jeremiah Wright issue-which was conveniently left out of Matthews' reporting. It was Romney's statement that Hannity was respectfully disagreeing with.
Also missing from the discussion was the fact of how Wright had re-entered the conversation. It was because writer Ed Klein had just released a three-hour tape of an interview he recently had with Wright, in which Wright basically accuses Obama of trying to silence him during the 2008 campaign.
To add to the less than honest reporting, there was even an off-hand reference to Romney not wanting to get into a debate over religion and a reference to how blacks were viewed prior to 1978 (by the Mormon church). This is nothing new to MSNBC. One of their other talking heads, Lawrence O'Donnell, makes no secret on the air of his contempt for the Mormon church.
Chris Matthews is intellectually dishonest in not mentioning two important parts of the Jeremiah Wright re-emergence in the national news.
Almost every American of African descent wanted Wright to shut up in 2008. I would expect Barack Obama did want to silence the old fool.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for Wright being an issue in 2012, the president of the United States is Barack Obama, not Jeremiah Wright. I have no doubt that Wright considered it an affront to everything he ever wrote or spoke to see a man of Barack Obama's color actually supported by a majority of the electorate.
I suppose that gives Wright and Fouse something in common.
Good thing Sean Hannity is always a pillar of honesty. (No, I'm not a Chris Matthews fan - for the same reason you aren't.)
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