Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, August 29, 2008 9:54:29 AM
I guess Chris Matthews couldn’t bring himself to go the full Harry Belafonte
and call Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell “house slaves”. Instead, in
his effusion over Barack Obama, Matthews throws away all journalistic
objectivity and manages to also mangle the truth in demeaning Rice,
Powell, and other high-ranking officials in the Bush administration as “showcase appointments”:
First, his description of Obama’s nomination is simply not true. Indeed, Obama was selected,
and selected by the power structure of the Democratic Party. Neither
he nor Hillary Clinton won the nomination through the primary process;
Obama had a pledged delegate lead, but nowhere near enough to win the
prize. He won because the superdelegates decided to back him instead
of Hillary Clinton. Hillary actually received more popular votes in
the end than did Obama, who prevailed in caucuses.
Matthews and Keith Olbermann have become the prime-time purveyors of
hatred in American broadcast news. NBC should fire them all and hire
actual journalists who can refrain from swooning on camera.