Of all the left-leaning media personalities, Chris Matthews personifies, in my view, all that's wrong about journalism. One might even consider him a caricature. The fact that he could even admit on air about having a "thrill up the leg" after listening to Obama speak, and consider the statement an"objective assessment," goes beyond caricature. Matthews is the same person who told Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe, shortly after Obama was elected, "I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work." When Scarborough asked if that was an appropriate thing for him, as a journalist, to say, Matthews said, "Yeah, that’s my job. My job is to help this country."
Nearly six years into Obama's disastrous presidency, it appears that at least a few Obama loyalists in the media are starting to emerge from their euphoria. It's a bit of a culture shock, for instance, to listen to Chris Matthews today, throwing a few of his celebrated hardballs leftward. Here he is, asking the same kind of questions many of us on the right have been asking for over a year, regarding the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012:
How come this is shrouded in mystery? What I can't understand is all these months later we're still trying to figure out what happened. I just want to know, as an American, what happened? Did everybody do what they were supposed to do? Did everybody make a really good desperate effort to save the lives of our people over there or didn't they? If they didn't, that's a problem, but I want an answer.Good questions. Questions that should have been asked (and not just by Republicans) from Day 1. Instead, like docile, well-trained house pets, the mainstream media compliantly accepted the Obama administration's deceptive narrative, letting both him and Hillary Clinton off the hook, and allowing the Republicans to be the "bad guys" in their attempts to get to the bottom of this story.
I guess the thrill is gone, at least for Chris Matthews, and hopefully, for other mainstream journalists, as well. I won't say too little, too late. I will say (again), shame on those in the media who continue to lob softballs at the Obama administration. And not just about Benghazi. There are more scandals in this administration than there are journalists, it seems. Perhaps now, as the health care debacle continues to come apart at the seams, and the president's bald-faced lies get more and more scrutiny by an increasingly skeptical press, these other scandals will be re-visited more objectively.
Here's the rest of the Hardball segment, if you're interested.
Real Clear Politics: Chris Matthews on Benghazi
