Chris Matthews is an Ass

In his election night coverage, Chris Matthews, obviously ruffled by the night's events and Michelle Bachmann's sign about the loss of his "tingle," demonstrated a complete lack of professionalism and a blatant political bias. I know he was upset about the night's events and the sign behind Bachmann that asked him about his present "tingle," but he really acted like an ass. She should refuse to appear again on his show unless he apologizes. Decorum in political discussion is essential in a democracy.

On top of his rudeness, Matthews protests that he never used the word "tingle" when describing the feeling he got when the then Democratic Presidential hopeful spoke. Actually, what he said on two separate occasions was more embarrassing. He first described the feeling as a "furrowing up his leg" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9Gbb6NSwM and then as a "thrill, up my leg, all over me." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVwWDj0VtG4 Yuck. 

Although I disdain Chris Matthews, the person, I am more upset that he is able to constantly push his liberalism onto unsuspecting seniors that have watched channel 4 since its inception and still don't realize cable exists. (By the way, Fox News had higher ratings than MSNBC and CNN combined on election night.) In his show after the elections, he actually suggested that the Republicans forced Obama to the left. See if you can watch this without laughing. I couldn't. The text is below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjbjJ2qZCAw

The Republican strategy of the past two years has been to force Obama over to the left so that he could only pass left-wing legislation or center-left legislation without the grace of a bipartisan support. They won. They made him into a lefty. That's what they wanted to do. How do you teach them that they better not do that again? How do you make Republicans as an institution, not as voters, but as an institution, to say you cannot win by screwing the other side and making it into the worst cartoon of itself?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The thing is, he isn't. He is serious and almost as delusional as the President. The President's policies were to blame, but only because the Republicans forced him to the left and made his legislation more liberal than the country could handle? Maybe someone should tell Chris that they were in control of both houses and capable of proposing and passing basically anything they wanted for the past two years. If the legislation had been anything but far left, Olympia Snowe and her sort would've considered jumping on board. That was not the plan. Compromise was never considered. They pushed it through the House and refused to let the Senate fix it, in a bipartisan way. They deserve what they got on Tuesday and no one is to blame but themselves.

What a buffoon. He will eventually go as far as Dan Rather in his political zealousness and be shown the door. I predict it will happen in 2012 as he desperately attempts to get Obama re-elected to ensure at least an intermittent furrowing, thrill and maybe even a tingle.

Update:  It appears Keith Olberman beat Matthews to Dan Rather's fate. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021940-503544.html