Chris Matthews unstuck in time

[katty]

contd at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/chris-matthews-is-unstuck_b_13925.html

R J Eskow

Listen: Chris Matthews has become unstuck in time. Last week he flickered through the years like a fourth-dimensional Forrest Gump - defending "states' rights" over civil liberties like a plantation owner, describing lawbreaking as "the President's job" with a Future Dictator's doublespeak, and standing up for sleazy politicos as if he were Warren G. Harding's personal secretary.


And wait'll you hear his "whites-only country club" defense of Alito. Buckle your seatbelts and ride with us as ...

FLASH! It's 1974 and Watergate is in full swing. The Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) is guilty of burglary, wiretapping, and a variety of other criminal acts. It's an all-Republican scandal like today's, but our hero is right there serving the GOP cause:

Don't you have to be a real ideologue, a real partisan to believe that one party's more crooked than the other?

Oh, wait - that wasn't 1974. It was last week, when Matthews claimed - despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary - that current corruption scandals point equally to both parties. Then ...

FLASH! It's 1863, and he's standing up for up for the right of states to decide whether or not to permit slavery:

What's wrong with letting the people make the decision on whether people should be kept in slavery state-by-state?

[ixion]

1. I like the usage of Vonnegut style there

very effective. :-)

[RazzleDazzle]

2. I think he's coming unglued, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who

noticed. It's been ultra-bizarre, frankly (not that he's ever been tha solid ethically or otherwise).

Yesterday he asked the former interrogator "how does it feel to torture someone?" and later whether or not it bothered him more to torture someone who was especially religious. It was unbelievable. The man is sick, I'm now convinced.

[A Simple Game]

3. One of the very few things I do like about him are the

freaky questions he sometimes asks.