Tweety Follies

Just saw Chris Matthews give his best Lou Dobbs impression, attacking Eliot Spitzer and Hillary Clinton for their "flip-flop" on driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, saying with full precision why people don't want to allow it, and brazenly speculating if Hillary "coordinated" with Spitzer to shut down the proposal, accusing her of all sorts of backroom dealings. He was joined in the pile-on by Republican Rep. Peter King and, for balance, a writer from the New York Post.

And then he just scratched his head and couldn't figure out what this whole Judith Regan thing is all about and why it has anything to do with Rudy Giuliani. He just can't figure it out and it's all so complicated and what is Judith Regan really saying (um, it's all in the lawsuit, bud) and this is "a media echo chamber" and clearly there's no impropriety here and maybe Rupert Murdoch should "write a big check" to Regan to straighten all this out.

Interesting how he can speculate to his heart's content when it comes to Hillary, but when it's about Rudy, it's all so confusing and there's no there there.

(Also, the whole point of the Regan case is that News Corporation threatened her to shut up about her affair with Kerik to protect Rudy Giuliani's campaign, and he just had a guy from the New York Post on, who might know a thing or two about Rudy's relationship to the Post and the parent company News Corp, but he let the guy go.)

Then, John McCain "hit the middle ground" when he fielded a question about Hillary of "How can we beat the bitch?" by saying "That's a great question." And then he played Rudy Giuliani's new TV commercial, for free, twice.

This is on the "liberal" MSNBC.