Eric Boehlert in Salon spanks (ad viewing required) Chris Matthews and his HardBall crew for calling the vice-presidential debate a big win for Cheney – contrary to the near unanimous verdict that the faceoff was at best a tie



Eric Boehlert in Salon spanks (ad viewing required) Chris Matthews and his HardBall crew for calling the vice-presidential debate a big win for Cheney – contrary to the near unanimous verdict that the faceoff was at best a tie

What's in MSNBC's Kool-Aid?

Posted by lakshmi on October 6, 2004 @ 4:59PM

Eric Boehlert in Salon spanks (ad viewing required) Chris Matthews and his HardBall crew for calling the vice-presidential debate a big win for Cheney – contrary to the near unanimous verdict that the faceoff was at best a tie.

Boehlert writes,"None of that seemed to matter inside the MSNBC echo chamber. Matthews and his crew had their story line -- Cheney won big! -- and they were sticking with it, with Matthews even wondering out loud if the choice of Edwards for V.P. 'casts doubt on the judgment of John Kerry,' and whether Edwards may 'not be ready to be vice president of the United States.'

Which again raises the question: What debate was Matthews watching, and what did Edwards ever do to him?"

When this story was posted in October 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:

Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview PCOL sits down for an extended interview with Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez. Read the entire interview from start to finish and we promise you will learn something about the Peace Corps you didn't know before. Plus the debate continues over Safety and Security.

Schwarzenegger praises PC at Convention Governor Schwarzenegger praised the Peace Corps at the Republican National Convention: "We're the America that sends out Peace Corps volunteers to teach village children." Schwarzenegger has previously acknowledged his debt to his father-in-law, Peace Corps Founding Director Sargent Shriver, for teaching him "the joy of public service" and Arnold is encouraging volunteerism by creating California Service Corps and tapping his wife, Maria Shriver, to lead it. Leave your comments and who can come up with the best Current Events Funny?

Peace Corps: One of the Best Faces of America Teresa Heinz Kerry celebrates the Peace Corps Volunteer as one of the best faces America has ever projected in a speech to the Democratic Convention. The National Review disagreed and said that Heinz's celebration of the PCV was "truly offensive." What's your opinion and can you come up with a Political Funny?

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