I am an an MSNBC fan. Basically, the only TV source I use for politics, but lately things have gotten a bit weird and it irks me. Hardball has brought on a commentator, Hugh Hewitt, with a great radio voice and really nice hair. Unfortunately, he is just a broken record who, between offering up a few interesting tidbits of punditry, spends most of his time on Hardball spewing out mostly traditional but some Trumpian Republican applause lines at any opportunity.
Hewitt was sensible enough to leave Trump hanging on criticizing Gold Star families and that Obama founded ISIS, but he can never resist an opportunity to talk about the gold star Moms that Trump trotted out to blame HRC for their sons' deaths in Benghazi. Of course, seven reports have cleared Hillary on any charges of wrongdoing. But, Hugh is more interested in slinging mud than providing information. He is a right-wing foghorn that Matthews and other commentators treat with kid gloves.
And, as Hewitt signs off each commentary, he almost always throws in every current and past international crisis that he can spew out in the remaining time and blames HRC. Like many right wing zealots, they are intent on making it seem that she is this arch-criminal who has been single-handed controlled international events for decades, and doing it so badly that the nation is a tailspin of epic portions (you know, like the ones about which Glenn Beck is always so "sincerely" preaching moist-eyed doom and gloom).
Seriously, Hewitt's worked as an atty in the Reagan admin, but his greatest claim to fame seems to be that he oversaw the construction of the Nixon library and tried to ban from it all those untrustworthy and "irresponsible journalists" like, as the best example, the notoriously unprofessional (irony here, folks) Bob Woodward.
Then, we have Ms. Conway. Almost every commentator has been falling over their tongues to praise her savvy and skills. Please get real. She was part of a Ted Cruz PAC who showed the incredible moral courage of becoming Donald Trump's campaign manager, managing the campaign of the guy who said Cruz's father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.
Admittedly, she is not stupid. She is slick. But, she tries to sell BS like "bigot" really means HRC has supported policies that have disadvantaged African-Americans. She would do better to look at her candidate’s record for a definition of bigot. It seems to forget she is working for a guy who took out a full page newspaper ad calling for re-institution of the death penalty for the young black men who were wrongly convicted of the Central Park rape and whose real estate ventures have been mired in charges of discriminatory housing. And, he was the poster boy for the birther movement. Walks like a bigot; talks like a bigot, etc.
Yet, Chris Matthews seems to do what he often does for mysterious reasons--have his "favorites" who get special treatment. Matthews, Mr Interruption and Mr. I Can Talk Over Anyone Since It Is My Show, and other commentators give Hewitt and Conway completely undeserved deference.
It is the rough equivalent of what you have to wipe off your boots when you come in from the corral, then they need to call it, not act like it is news or serious information.