Tweety All Aflutter

by digby

Wow. Of all days to miss Hardball, it sounds like I missed a spectacular one. I received a whole bunch of emails from various readers. (I’ve set the 1am broadcast to record so I’ll catch it in the morning.)

Meanwhile, check out this post by D-Day. I’ve noticed Matthews’ recent spitting and screaming emotionally about driver’s licenses, so I guess he’s decided to give Dobbs a serious run for his money. But you really have to love this:

And then he just scratched his head and couldn’t figure out what this whole Judith Regan thing is all about and why it has anything to do with Rudy Giuliani. He just can’t figure it out and it’s all so complicated and what is Judith Regan really saying (um, it’s all in the lawsuit, bud) and this is “a media echo chamber” and clearly there’s no impropriety here and maybe Rupert Murdoch should “write a big check” to Regan to straighten all this out.

Here you have a juicy scandal involving possible collusion between a presidential candidate and a rival network, and old Chris just can’t wrap his mind around it. He even suggests that maybe Murdoch should pay Regan off to make it go away. Neither professional rivalry or direct competition (certainly not journalistic integrity) can override Chris Matthews’ loyalty to the Village. (Of course it’s entirely possible that GE/NBC has a similar arrangement with the Giuliani campaign, judging by the coverage.)

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