Shame On Us For Hyping A Story!

That shit from Chris Matthews today was seriously unbelievable. He Olbermanned it up by calling the beginning segment an "opening comment." Then he excoriated the media over this so-called debunking of Rudy Giuliani's Shag Fund story, which doesn't actually debunk any of the numerous problems people have with the it. The Times piece says he did pay for trips to the Hamptons with taxpayer money. He did prepay for hundreds of thousands of travel dollars on an American Express card. He did bill close to $300,000 in travel to obscure agencies. That's in the debunking! And it said nothing about things like giving Judi security detail before she was his wife, or having the cops walk her dog. The headline of the story says "Rudy Moved Money Around? Yes." Somehow, though, that was good enough for Matthews to rent his garments and deplore the giving of bad information to the electorate.

And he did it as if he hovers over the media somehow but isn't part of it. This is his stock in trade. He's CONSTANTLY overhyping stories, and I've never seen him offer such a grave retraction as he did today, not for any of the crap stories he's highlighted about Hillary (cleavage and body language garbage), Obama (A Muslim, which he was apparently the first media figure to highlight), Edwards (the haircut), or saying that Gore invented the Internet, which he STILL SAYS to this day even though it's 100% untrue.

It was almost as good as earlier in the week, when he was talking to John Edwards about a part in his stump speech where he takes on the media, and says "Well, that's not about me. I think of myself as anti-establishment."

We could only wish. Then you wouldn't have a voice.