I have to admit, I hadn't even heard anything about the Alamabam Church arson until today. That's beside the point. Pundits have completely wrecked their perspective on the world at large:
"MATTHEWS: Is there anything in the papers down there where the Baptist Church has taken a position on some social issue: gay marriage -- something that's hot -- where that would have aroused somebody?
"CAVANAUGH: I haven't seen that, Chris, but it's very viable, because, you know, we had an arson of a Unitarian church in rural Virginia back in the summer and it was right after the church, on a national level, had embraced some gay members. And then 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 is gay for example would feel that they've been terrorized by the beliefs of another church too. We don't know."
Did it ever occur to Chris Matthews that things in the world aren't always politically motivated? The conversation gets confusing: Cavanaugh makes an example of how the church in Staunton was attacked for accepting homosexuals. Matthews equates that with the possibility that crazy lefties attacked the Alabama church on a simlar basis - with no sources to back up that assumption. He even has to ask Cavanaugh if there was any political motivation! Don't these guys have some research done before they air a story? Getting the facts wrong is one thing, but Matthews assuming leftist political motivation behind a random act is him scraping the dregs to smear non-republicans.
Talk about coming out of left field, to coin a phrase. With that, Matthews and his ilk have succeeded in demonstrating their elitism.