“Chris Matthews Blows Hard”

Todd Gitlin writes in The American Prospect:

“Chris Matthews blows hard. This may sound less like a news flash than a crashing redundancy. And it’s true that yelling is nothing new for the omnipresent MSNBC/CNBC barking head, for whom picking up the pace and pumping up the volume almost always substitute for picking apart the fairy tales that keep the Bush White House intact. But in recent months Matthews’ obsequiousness toward his favorites and nastiness toward his betes noires have ballooned to new proportions.” Here’s his evidence…