Chris Matthews’ Meltdown

In one of the most pathetically emotional performances I have seen in fifty years of watching television news, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews gave up all pretense of objectivity during the last several days of covering the New Hampshire primary. In his near homoerotic infatuation with Barack Obama, he has smeared Hillary Clinton and the voters of New Hampshire in vicious and vile ways that deserve the same contempt and outrage poured out on Don Imus previously. In his dream of reliving the sixties and resurrecting John F. Kennedy through Senator Obama, he declared on “Morning Joe” that the only reason Hillary is running for President and sitting in the Senate is because Bill cheated on her. He then claimed that there was nothing wrong with the polls that suggested Obama would win, just that the voters of New Hampshire were racists and lied when polled. It took Tom Brokaw on Tuesday night, Keith Olbermann on “Countdown,” and Matthews’ boss Dan Abrams to put him down, though not by name.

Brokaw chided him by saying that the news media had allowed its enthusiasm for Obama to cloud its objectivity. Olbermann pointed out that the polls were correct in predicting the Obama vote but that the undecideds broke for Clinton. Abrams said the same thing and pointed out that the size of the Clinton rallies, despite the wildly exaggerated claims of Matthews and others, were the same size as Obama’s and that there are many people in the news media who dislike Senator Clinton, and not just the right-wing nuts on talk radio and False News.

Matthews and his Boomer compatriots need to get over the sixties. The decade of The Sixties is not coming back. John F. Kennedy is not coming back. Obama is not Kennedy. Get a life.