Archive for 20th February 2008

Chris Matthews Hates Everyone and Thinks You’re an Idiot

Kirk Watson is a Democratic Senator from Texas who has worked with Obama over the last year and is an enthusiastic enough Obama supporter to be on the live feed on Hardball for Obama. Another reasonable question, another answer filled with nothing. And he’s a Senator!

Matthews certainly hasn’t been hard on Obama up to this point, and it’s high time he’s gotten around to this. Of course, Chris Matthews doesn’t actually hate everyone, and doesn’t think you’re an idiot. Neither do I, contrary to the implications in the commentary I’ve had to put up with whenever I bring up this point about Obama and his supporters. But if you think it’s bad now, when Obama’s not officially the nominee, it’s going to get multiple times worse when he is the nominee, and he’s going to have to answer some hard questions, which will force many of his supporters to do the same. The media can only be soft on Obama for so long.

This is reality. Time to get used to it.

Wednesday Links

Someday, I hope to catch up with everything. Someday.

* Behind the scenes of the superdelegate courting. With Obama winning handily last night, this may be a moot point, but yeah.

* A possibly leaked memo from CNN to the newsfolk about how to handle the Castro resignation news. Good to know they, uh, have their priorities straight.

* QandO provides a link dump of a building backlash against Paul Krugman. Where the hell have they been the last 8 years?

* Newsweek profiles Students for Concealed Carry, an advocacy group forming in response to the campus shootings we’ve had this past year. I still think the “Gun Free Zones” that were in place for most of these shootings are a lawsuit waiting to happen, but kudos to this group for making some attempts at an inroad. The group’s website.

* Overlawyered profiles how the AP chose to handle the Supreme Court’s Katrina insurance case. Kind of ridiculous.

* Reason talks about how Palm Beach is trying to ban “formula restaurants.” Again - the mind boggles.

* Remember the Baltimore cop who went off on the skateboarders? It wasn’t the first time.