The Hardball smackdown of Freeper wingnut Michelle Malkin was a breath of fresh air in a long stale fog of previous MSNBC coverage, so of course, there has to a reason (other than the truth) about how it all went down.
It's not that Ms. Malkin was in the wrong to spit baseless Scaifesque smears without knowing what she was talking about, oh no. Its not that she was hopelessly out of her league. Nope. But that the liberal media had sicked a 'Caveman' as the alpha male of its 'Democrat attack dogs' on poor innocent her, who was only there to promote her book and did 'nothing' to provoke Matthews vicious 'attacks'.
I provide this link for two reasons, to point out that Ms. Malkin sounds surprisingly like Bill O'Reilly after getting a real battle from an equal like Al Franken... (or anybody from the left who has been subject to the 'Bill O'Reilly treatment' that her dear Fox News cohorts have pioneered and do so completely well. Guess she forgot she wasn't 'home'.) And to show my fellow Kossacks the bizzaro world of how Freepers view their actions when they get caught well outside of Freeperland.
Ms. Malkin also baits Olbermann and Matthews repeatedly even making an accusation that borders on claiming Chris Matthews was so obsessed with her beauty that he inched towards sexually harrassing her, and I can't believe that somebody like Matthews will let this little piece of 'editorializing' go without responding to it.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000418.htm
The hint of a smear:
"Here's a peek behind the cable TV curtain. It's not pretty."
"As I am seated at the table with Matthews, who I am meeting for the first time, he cracks a joke--and not in a well-meaning way--about how I look. (There are quite a few people who are hung up on this.) "Are you sure you are old enough to be on the show? What are you? 28?" I grit my teeth. He badgers me again with the same question. I politely answer his question and supply my age."
"(I wonder how Matthews' wife, the respected TV journalist Kathleen Matthews, who hosts a show about working women, would react if informed about her husband's treatment of a fellow female journalist. I've been in the business a dozen years and would be happy to talk to Mrs. Matthews about my firsthand experience with Neanderthal chauvinism in the workplace.)"
"Needless to say, things went downhill, fast and loud, from there."