I'm sure lots of you are aware of the flap surrounding Chris Matthews. There is an excellent chronicling of his offensive comments that lays out how he talks about Hillary Clinton as compared to how he talks about the men she is running against. It turns out the ratio of comparatively favorable and negative things he says about the senator run something like 8 negative for every favorable comment. Anyway if you are interested, check out the details here at Media Matters.
But, that's not what I want to write about. I really want to comment on that half-hearted apology he made, all 5 minutes of it, at the beginning of his show today. I was really turned off by it, because he conveniently skipped right past the dogged way he has hounded her in the past months, totally failing to address the noxious trend that is on record, there for all to see. None of us who support Sen. Clinton want to see her get special treatment, we just don't want her to be dinged at every turn for doing some of the same things that the men have done.
Chris Matthews will never get that. He thinks he is just telling it like it is. Problem is he is only speaking his own truth which can be summed up in the very telling remark he made some time ago about Hillary Clinton - "I hate her, I hate everything about her".
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