Just when my friend John Combest declares that media bias has “jumped the shark” Chris Matthews comes out and admits something that we all know, that he is a biased partisan hack. So what? In this case, he admits that he has been against the Iraq war since the beginning. Here is the transcript:

MATTHEWS: It is like we are at war — we have killed 15,000 people that died over there in that war, we still get guys knocked off every couple of days, a couple more guys are killed — and yet it is not on the tube. It’s like, are we bored with the war now? Is that the new thing? We don’t cover a war guys are fighting? And I watch the news, I don’t see the war any more. It has been taken off television, and Bush must love it. Certainly Karl Rove loves the fact that the Iraq War has gotten boring for the American people.

IMUS: It probably had something to do with the tainted spinach, you know, if you’ve been thinking about it.

MATTHEWS: How can we be in a war and not watch it?

IMUS: Well, I don’t know, that’s a good question.

[snip]

IMUS: It must make you uncomfortable to read Frank Rich’s book, “The Greatest Story Ever Sold,” because it’s Frank’s essential thesis that they sold us this bill of goods — the administration did, you know Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld all them about the Iraq war — and it was you and the rest of the media went along with them…

MATTHEWS: Me?

IMUS: …like enablers with an alcoholic.

MATTHEWS: No. no. no. no. Don. Dono. You can check everything. Get your Nexis-Lexis out. Get your google out. Every column I have written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it. Now you are chuckling because you know damn well you’ve pulled my chain here. I have been a voice out there against this bullsh*t war from the beginning.

IMUS: OK, well, except you then.

MATTHEWS: OK. That’s nicer.

IMUS: Do we have to edit that for the radio, Lou?

PRODUCER: Yeah, we got it.

MATTHEWS: I have never used it ’til now because it was never more appropo. But you are right. The amazing thing is the President is winning now with a hand with nothing in it. They were wrong about the WMD, wrong about the connection to 9/11. Cheney said he didn’t even know there was going to be a war when we went in there. He was totally wrong, and yet he talks like god on television, and we are supposed to believe every word.

Why is this important?

Well, it is very important when a source calls them self a journalist to realize that much of what they are producing is opinion and not fact. In fact Matthews lies in his reply to Imus.

The Bush administration has never claimed that Iraq was behind 9/11. It has claimed that Iraq had ties to Al Qeada and other terrorist, and that is a fact. It also claimed that the possession of said WMD was a gathering threat.

I would also like to point out that there have been stories from Iraqi generals going on the record saying that the WMD were tranfered to Syria by Russian agents. The Isrealis even told us before the war started that Saddam was moving them.

In either case, what is important here is that we recongnize that the media is biased and is focused on in an antiwar effort which by its very nature is supportive of our enemies. In the past we would call that treason. What would you call that today?

I mean, who needs a propaganda wing if you are an opponent of the United States when you have “journalist” like Chris Matthews on your side?

Hat Tip: Hot Air

Update: Hot Air has another really good article about the media and terrorist taking each other by the hand. In this case, we have an AP photog who was caught with several members of Al Qeada in Iraq. Can you say “all your fakes are blong to us?”

It is very important to realize bias when we see it. This way we can better synthasize reports and the nature of their intended impact and not accepting reports as “factual” on their face.

Posted by Paul Seale on Thursday, September 21st, 2006 at 11:41 am. Filed under Media, National Politics, Tin Foil.