Just saw Chris Matthews poor excuse for a Sunday yack show. This really is the absolute worst Sunday show I've seen. Here's a rundown of the "topics" the show covered.
First, the cast:
1. Joe Klein
2. Andrea Mitchell
3. Andrew Sullivan
4. Karen Hughes look-alike from Vogue (Julia
Reed?)
5. Chris Matthews himself
And now the most IMPORTANT topics are (drumroll)
1. Is Howard Dean destroying the Democratic
Party or is he merely maiming it?
2. Is Hillary Clinton going to far is saying
the Republican Party isn't telling the
truth?
3. Would Hugh Grant make a good president?
4. Bush's grades were better than Kerry's!!
This means Kerry was stupider than Bush AND
Democrats don't know how to relate to
people.
I knew Joe Klein hated Democrats but the lengths he will go to bash the party is just disgusting. During the entire show I did not hear one negative word about Republicans. Not one. The entire show was an inside the Beltway spittle-fest about how driftless and listless the Democrats are, except for Dean who is just certifiable.
I have a theory for why Joe Klein is such a tool. I think he's wanted to be a player in the Democratic Party but save for Kerry talking to him on the phone before the primaries last year, Democrats have said "no thanks joey". So since he can't have an influence on the party directly, he sits on his beltway perch and flings as much poo as he can, hoping that someone will listen and pay attention to him.
" THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NO IDEAS!" "The left, corporations, and the right have been coming up with a health care plan, and the Democrats have nothing!!!"
Oh really Joey? Is that why EVERY Democratic presidential candidate last year (save for Joe Liebermann) had a health care plan?
" DEAN IS DESTROYING THE PARTY by saying that Republicans are white and Christian!!!"
Actually this was the sentiment of all of the guests. It's amazing to watch conventional wisdom in action. For a bunch of <clear-throat> journalists, they sure do lose their questioning abilities pretty rapidly. There was complete agreement on EVERY subject, except that Andrea Mitchell likes Hillary Clinton and wants her to be president so she thought her comment about Bush not telling the truth was good political red-meat for the base. Never mind the fact that what she said is true, or that what Dean said is true. Or that maybe what he said was also good red meat for the base and the only reason it was deemed a controversy was because the belt-way elite thought it was offending.
So there is no questioning of the veracity of Dean's statement. He's just, "....WRONG and CRAZY! Come on! It's obvious!"
No wonder nobody watches this show. The media loves conflict but theres no conflict on this show. Everyone is in complete agreement:
Democrats suck, repubs are strong and in charge.
I should do a whole other diary on Andrea Mitchell
but I'm too disgusted right now. The cowtowing these people are doing to the Republican party is just one more small part of the corporate state we now live in.
Now to help calm my nerves, please take a snarky poll!