MSNBC’s Chrissy Matthews Wets Himself (again)

The poster hanging above Chrissy Matthew's bead

Chris Matthews — in addition to being a blubbering sack of shit partisan hack with a (literal) hard-on for Barrack Obama — is also a myopic hypocrite.

Last week, Rush Limbaugh responded to Obama ‘s unprecedented attacks on him and other not-in-the-tank-for-Obama free media by referring to the Obama administration as the “Obama regime:”

Never in my life have I seen a regime like this, governing against the will of the people, purposely.

Which sent Chrissy Matthews into a new level of pissing himself (again, literally):

“I’ve never seen language like this in the American press,” he said, “referring to an elected representative government, elected in a totally fair, democratic, American election. . . .We know that word, ‘regime.’ It was used by George Bush, ‘regime change.’ You go to war with regimes. Regimes are tyrannies. They’re juntas. They’re military coups. The use of the word ‘regime’ in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus [Limbaugh] to stop using it. I never heard the word ‘regime,’ before, have you? I don’t even think Joe McCarthy ever called this government a ‘regime.’

Never, Chrissy? Are you sure you want to stick with that story? Because the Internet is something of a Way Back machine, that lets the rest of us non-professional, unbiased, totally-not-in-the-bag-for-Obama, shlebs check the veracity of that claim.

No — not me. I was too busy in Power Point hell all weekend to care about what your latest hissy fit and too busy to check out your obviously insane claim.

Thankfully, Byron York wasn’t as busy or as disinterested as I was.

As Byron York demonstrates, however, there are few in the mainstream media, or (to cover Matthews’ case) its fringe, who have standing to so instruct Rush. According to York, the New York Times used the word “regime” 16 times with respect to the Bush administration, spanning both of its terms. The Washington Post topped that with 24 such references. In one instance, Post-man Howard Kurtz also applied the term “regime” to the presidency of George H.W. Bush.

York tops off his findings by pointing out that Chris Matthews himself called the Bush administration a regime. On June 14, 2002, he introduced a panel discussion about a letter signed by many prominent leftists condemning the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terror. “Let’s go to the Reverend Al Sharpton,” Matthews said. “Reverend Sharpton, what do you make of this letter and this panoply of the left condemning the Bush regime?”