Chris Matthews won the Media Matters 2005 award for Misinformer of the Year. And it was richly deserved. But the most damning thing about Media Matter’s documentation for the prize wasn’t misinformation per se. The worst of it was how it revealed just how much of a suck-up Matthews is. What else can we conclude from comments like these?
“[S]ometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility.”
“Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs …”
He even suggested that Bush might deserve a place on Mount Rushmore. So, it is kind of amusing to see Chris trying to compute the latest polls numbers that show a plurality of Americans consider the President an incompetent, lying, idiot.
Even so, reading the following, dontcha feel just a teensy bit bad for Chris?
MATTHEWS: I always thought Bush was more popular than his policies. I keep saying it, and I keep being wrong on this. Bush is not popular. I’m amazed when 50 percent of the people don’t like him — just don’t like this guy. Thirty-nine percent like him. Are you surprised? Does that fit with the world you walk in?…
It fits perfectly in the world I walk in. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Chris.
