Boy, it's a good thing that the media have such a liberal bias, otherwise I might think that Chris Matthews was being, you know,
unfair to gays and liberals when he speculated on
Hardball tonight, despite having no evidence whatsoever, that we're behind a series of church arsons in Alabama. It's particularly outrageous when you consider that we GLBT folks haven't committed acts of political violence since, well, pretty much
ever!
Rest below the fold. Crossposted at
The Big Gay Picture
MATTHEWS: Is there anything in the papers down there where a Baptist church has taken a position on some social issue, gay marriage, something that's hot, where that would have aroused somebody?
ATF AGENT CAVANAUGH: I haven't seen that Chris, but it's very viable because we had an arson at a Unitarian church in rural Virginia, back in the summer, and it was right after the church at a national level had embraced gay members. There was an attack on this church in Staunton (?), Virginia, so things like that can happen.
MATTHEWS: That's why I'm thinking like that because the more liberal churches would drive some people on the right crazy and maybe a more liberal person, who's gay for example, would feel that they've been terrorized by the beliefs of another church too. We don't know.
Media Matters has the whole outrageous story (and hat-tip to
AmericaBlog for covering these stories so well).
I've long found Matthews to be teeth-grindingly irritating, mostly because he follows the Charlie-Rose-"I'm so much more interesting than my guest" style of interviewing. But his spewing of right-wing talking points in search higher ratings lately is pathetic. I had thought his "coverage" of the Swift Boats Veterans for "Truth" debacle would be a low for him, but sadly, he had not yet begun to pander.