I guess that getting a tingle running up his leg only lasted so long before he had to give himself another fix. Since talking about all the successes of the current administration seemed like a hard sell, Mr. Matthews put together a hit piece on the Tea Parties and the right, or as he calls it, the “New Right.”
On his Hardball program, Matthews “documentary” was titled “The Rise of the New Right.” In it he tries to paint the Tea Party movement as a fringe group of racists, gun nuts, and generally a group waiting for a reason to break into violence.
You would be hard pressed to find a more over the top cheerleader for Barack Obama than Chris Matthews. Matthews took advantage of his position in the media to actively work to get Obama elected, and now he is crestfallen that General Electric, CBS, and Disney/ABC do not control the news like in the good old days. He openly attacks Fox News and blames the Internet for allowing the Tea Party to do an end run around the main stream media and get their information out. Matthews, like big government, is smarter than you. He knows what “news” you need to hear, and will diligently work to keep what you don’t need to know from reaching your eyes and ears.
The Tea Party that I know has some very basic principles:
- Fiscal responsibility
- Accountability
- Transparency
- Free market solutions
Pretty radical stuff, eh? In a Rasmussen poll taken earlier this month, 46% of voters say the Tea Party is good for America, while 31% disagree. Matthews doesn’t tell you this and he makes sure his “documentary” doesn’t provide the information that would let you draw that conclusion.
He reports on the militia movement and specifically mentions the Hutaree militia that plotted to kill a policeman and then those who would attend his funeral. While constantly tying the Tea Party, and the militia to the Republicans he doesn’t mention that the one person in the Hutaree militia whose political affiliation is known was a Democrat and he voted as such. Not that there is any linkage between what party one belongs to and being a nut-case, but a fair reporter might mention that to give an honest representation of the story.
Matthews also makes several references to violence against Democrats after the health care vote. He neglects to say that only one case of violence resulted in an arrest. That was for an attack against Republican Eric Cantor’s office. Any one can get a brick and write a note on it quoting one of the Founding Fathers, but until to catch who did it and find out who they really are, you don’t know if it is an extremist on the right, or a Saul Alinsky disciple on the left who wants to discredit the Tea Party people.
Matthews liberally, no pun intended, sprinkles through his story extremists on the right, going back to the 1930s, such as Father Coughlin, but nowhere does he mention extremists on the left. There is no profile of Louis Farrakhan, Reverend Wright, the Democrats who fought against the Civil Rights Act, while a majority of Republicans supported it. There is no mention of our government internment of thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.
It’s getting closer to the mid-term elections and Matthews doesn’t like seeing everything he has bet his reputation on going down in flames. So he takes out this “hail Mary” pass to try to turn the tide against the Tea Party and scare people into staying safe with the Democrats. But this time, the main stream media is not in control. They can’t craft the message and force feed it to the American public. Broadcast news and many major newspapers are losing viewers and readership daily, because Toto has pulled the curtain back on the Great and Powerful Oz that was the main stream media and exposed it for what it is, a shill for the Progressive left.
