Cliff Kincaid says "What accounts for Matthew defending Kerry against charges in a book he hasn't read? He's guilty over the fact that he avoided the Vietnam War through a draft deferment that got him into the Peace Corps."
"Caveman" Chris Matthews Almost Spits on Michelle Malkin
Caption: Conservative syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin is the daughter of naturalized Filipino immigrants who are "rock-ribbed Reagan Republicans," in her words. Their daughter's semiweekly, widely read column appears in more than 100 newspapers, an unusual accomplishment for a 32-year-old. Her recent book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, is about how the nation's failure to enforce its immigration laws has left America a dangerous place by making it easy for those who wish to do us harm to enter the United States and travel freely. Her book is full of specific examples of the violence and tragedies to which this immigration policy has led. Photo: Rick Kozan/Insight
Why do conservatives go on Kerry Democrat Chris Matthews "Hardball" show? Michelle Malkin is asking herself that question after being used as a human punching bag by Matthews. She calls it an "ambush" by a "caveman." The transcript of her appearance is here. This is deliberate on Matthews part, in order to create controversy and get better ratings. He is languishing near the bottom. It can work. Matthews has obviously not read the book, Unfit for Command, but tries to destroy it and anybody who cites it.
"What happened last night was pure slimeball," says Malkin, "and the unfair, unbalanced, and unhinged purveyors of journalism, or whatever it is they call what they do at MSNBC, should be ashamed." She calls Matthews a Democrat Party waterboy whose "spittle nearly hit me in the face."
On her blog, Malkin reveals that, before the show, Matthews made fun of her appearance. She reports, "As I am seated at the table with Matthews, who I am meeting for the first time, he cracks a joke--and not in a well-meaning way--about how I look. (There are quite a few people who are hung up on this.) "Are you sure you are old enough to be on the show? What are you? 28?" I grit my teeth. He badgers me again with the same question. I politely answer his question and supply my age. (I wonder how Matthews' wife, the respected TV journalist Kathleen Matthews, who hosts a show about working women, would react if informed about her husband's treatment of a fellow female journalist. I've been in the business a dozen years and would be happy to talk to Mrs. Matthews about my firsthand experience with Neanderthal chauvinism in the workplace.) Needless to say, things went downhill, fast and loud, from there."
What accounts for Matthew defending Kerry against charges in a book he hasn't read? He's guilty over the fact that he avoided the Vietnam War through a draft deferment that got him into the Peace Corps.
