That's My Media

On yesterday's Hardball, Chris Matthews responded to a long soundbite from Al Gore about the unseriousness of our media and its focus on irrelevant issues by asking his guest if she thought Gore "had cosmetic surgery around the eyes."

Is it bad that I saw this live yesterday, and just chuckled and muttered "typical"?

Is it back that this is now what I expect from the modern media?

Here's another example of this, albeit a little different, as Dana Milbank bases a whole column on whether it's wise politically for Al Gore to be so smart, instead of just stating for the record that it would be wise for America to, you know, have a smart President.