[StBernard] Our loyal Watch Dog is gone!

[Westley Annis]

I hope Tweety-that s.o.b. decides to run for the Senate.  I'll contribute as
much as I can to whoever his opponent is.  He's a pig.  His comments on
Clinton and Palin gave that away.

Jim




	
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	NBC journalist: It's my job to see Obama succeed Jim Brown -
OneNewsNow -
	11/7/2008 8:15:00 AM
	
	A media analyst says MSNBC host Chris Matthews effectively admitted
	yesterday he was an unpaid member of Barack Obama's press office.
	
	 
	
	Matthews appeared Thursday on MSNBC's Morning Joe with Joe
Scarborough and
	was asked for his opinion about Congressman Rahm Emanuel's initial
public
	reluctance to accept the position as chief of staff for
president-elect
	Obama. Emanuel has since accepted the post.
	 
	During the MSNBC interview, a suggestion was made that there might
be
	turmoil within the new Obama administration, but Matthews refused to
get
	drawn into the conversation, instead saying that as a reporter he
was
	unwilling to "question motives." (See YouTube
	 video
	<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6pq_Pwjwc0> )
	
		Matthews: "Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do
everything I can
	to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that
--
		 
		Scarborough: "Is that your job? You just talked about being
a
	journalist!"
		 
		Matthews: "Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this
	country...because this country needs a successful presidency."
	
	Mark Finkelstein, a contributing editor at Newsbusters.org, believes
	Matthews is trying to accomplish two things, one being improving his
	ratings, which have risen the further to the left he goes.
	 
	"[Matthews] has publicly stated that he is interested in running for
the
	United States Senate from the state of Pennsylvania in 2010," says
	Finkelstein. "It's the Arlen Specter seat -- and this is, I believe,
	Chris
	Matthews attempting to position himself for that...to ingratiate
himself
	first of all
	 with Democratic leaders in the state of Pennsylvania, and then
	potentially also with the Democratic primary electorate."
	 
	Finkelstein notes that panelists for MSNBC's election night
coverage,
	including former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford, were even
teasing
	Matthews about his strong affinity for Pennsylvania politics.