A lot of the time, I think Tweety does ok at his job – He’s not Tim Russert, to be sure, but, compared to David “stenography is my business” Gregory, Matthews is more like Murrow than not.
Think Progress saves me the time with this –
It’s ironic that a cable news host such as Chris Matthews would attack bloggers for supposedly not checking their facts, considering the amount of falsehoods and factually inaccurate statements he regularly utters on the air — which have all been fact-checked by bloggers.
Tweety – sometimes you’re such an asshat.
* – I fact checked that Matthews actually said what he said. Then I posted a video of, that I got from another blogger, who had also fact checked that Matthews is an asshat.
I bitched a lot about Russert when he was around, but looking back, I miss him. Gregory is a hack, I can listen to Matthews for about 5 min before I want to stick pencils in my ears, and it doesn’t get any more (what’s the opposite of challenging, through provoking good journalism?) milquetoast than George Stephanopolopopopopoluffaguss.
It almost makes me want to switch over to Brit Hume, so I can at least get my pulse rate back above coma. Almost… but not quite, (if I want to dumb down my Sundays, I’ll watch some MTV… better odds of accidentally learning something there than on Fox).
It’s a sad day for Sunday talking heads.