I think everyone is, at least in principle, a big fan of fairness.
Most of us would say that if, you know, someone you know ignores his or her best friend's alcoholism or kleptomania or obsessive-compulsive tendencies and then suddenly starts to attack you for your tendency to drive down to the grocery store at precisely 8:32 p.m. every night and steal a bottle of Fat Bastard wine (no bubbles) to drink in the parking lot would be acting "unfairly."
I would agree.
So take a look at this video, which TPM has "drudgingly"--er, "grudgingly" decided to spend time on:
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I've taken the time to transcribe what Matthews said:
"All right. Can we all say what we think? History shows as recently as the 2004 election that things haven't changed that much--that the party that has the strongest suit when it comes to security issues benefits when there's stress, when there's a threat. We had a recording come out of the Obama headquarters--not Obama, I'm sorry; bin Laden, bin Laden--it came out of bin Laden's headquarters over there in Pakistan or whatever (in the hills). And people believed that that did help--help Mc--, Bush get re-elected, right?"
And here's the illustrious Greg Sargent, following in the footsteps of his arrogant prick boss, having "mixed feelings" about being a complete douchebag on behalf of his crackpot team of partisan investigative-ish journalist-os:
Hoo boy. Here's the thing about this. The man made a mistake. And I have mixed feelings about jumping on this.
Oh! You have "mixed feelings"! Maybe you should "mix" the writing of this post with some of your thoughts about your semi-secluded vacation in Tahiti, where you spent the majority of your time naked body-surfing with one of your "friends." Hmm? Oh, too late.
Matthews and many other reporters and commentators--us ["we" or "ourselves," go to school] at TPM included, obviously--write or say the words Obama [should be ital, I think] and Osama [should be ital, I think] multiple times a day. And we all dread being the one to make this mistake.
Anyone with either hemisphere (or both) of their brain working knows that that is complete bullshit. And Sargent knows it is too. You see, because he doesn't have to TALK for a living. He gets to type-n-skype.
So for G-d's sake, don't put yourself in the same boat as someone who actually has to be a real, physical person in front of millions of people, (hundreds of thousands?) rather than a semi-curious laptop keypad-clicker with a head full of worthless opinion and a mouth full of blind partisan arrogant terrorist-appeasement, appeasement.
But, look, one of the realities of this campaign is that there is a tacit, and not so tacit, effort underway to sow doubts about Obama with false suggestions that he's got a secret Muslim past or even terrorist sympathies.
With all due respect, stop being such a f---king pussy.
And, by the way, don't give us 24-hour coverage of "how you think Obama's right on everything." (Even TDS and Colbert had the hairy nuts to make fun of Obama's decision to forego public financing.)
No disrespect. All due respect. Fuhgettabouttit. How 'ya doin'?