This just in - Chris Matthews is still a tool

Charles Koch wrote, what I thought , was a well thought out response to Hot Rod Harry's continued assault form the Senate floor in the wall street journal this week. He lays out the case that freedom of speech is essential to a free and open governance. If you'll remember Reid's  argument from the floor of the Senate was a full throated fist in the sky diatribe of how the Koch brothers were buying America. Notwithstanding that George Soros has poured in three times the amount the Koch brothers have given in the last three election cycles.

Not to be outdone, here is Chris Matthews insinuating that Charles Koch, a captain of industry, a self made billionaire can't string two words together. His evidence? The same evidence Reid had when he said Mitt Romney hadn't paid taxes in 10 years.

What a tool. Is it any wonder that Hardball is consistently beat out by Greta each night by 700,000 viewers.

With him spouting crap like this it's no wonder why his show is unwatchable.

And you wonder why these guys are going out of business

Really? That's where they want to go?


At least Romney doesn't throw like a girl..

Don’t Blame Chris Hayes - He can’t help it.

In my previous post honoring our fallen heroes I included the Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier by W. H. Auden (emphasis mine):

To save your world you asked this man to die:
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

I return to Auden epitaph because less than 24 hours later MSNBC's Chris Hayes gives us a perfect example of what Auden was talking about:

Thinking today and observing Memorial Day, that'll be happening tomorrow.  Just talked with Lt. Col. Steve Burke [sic, actually Beck], who was a casualty officer with the Marines and had to tell people [inaudible].  Um, I, I, ah, back sorry, um, I think it's interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words "heroes." Um, and, ah, ah, why do I feel so comfortable [sic] about the word "hero"?  I feel comfortable, ah, uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism: hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that. 

I had to count to 10 20 10,000 before I sat down to write this post. However, as sat counting, with the intense fury of a thousand suns, I was able to reflect and look at this from Hayes' point of view. Can I blame him for this stupidity? Where would this kind of thinking come from? His parents? In part surely - but there must be more to it than that. A quick peek at his Wikipedia page goes a long way to help understand his politics:

I swear - this stuff writes itself

Chris 'tingle' Matthews had this to say on MSNBC after the President's speech today via Real Clear Politics. And yes I couldn't resist (emphasis mine):

"I think the Commander in Chief has a particular personal responsibility to the families of every service person. This is one of those critical moments he should be there. We'll see what he says today. This is going to rip the scab off every feeling about this war. Joe Biden, who gets beat up for his mental limitations, and yet he was the one that understood intuitively this should be a counterterrorism operation.

Freudian slip? Regardless, Matthews should lay off Biden; after all Biden is the founding member of the cracked head club.