Chris Matthews: The media is liberal. Why did Bill Clinton think we were against him?

[rmp yellow]

The following exchange occured last night (Thurssday) between Chris "I-hate-her" Matthews and the author of the book "The Clinton Tapes," whose answer, I may add, was very good:

MATTHEWS: Why did he hate the press?

BRANCH: Because he felt that he looked up to the press and he thought they should be trying to do the agenda of the country. But instead they were falling in behind the Republicans, who were trying to do the tabloid stories.

MATTHEWS: Most people watching this show—I’m not talking about our show, because I have a tough sort of attitude. But they would say that the mainstream broadcast nets, ABC, NBC, CBS, are all sort of somewhat left of center, they would argue. Certainly conservatives would say they’re not lefty. They’re sort of establishment liberal. Why would he think that the liberal establishment, reflected in news people’s opinions, would be anti-Clinton?

BRANCH: That’s what—that’s what drove him nuts. But more specifically, the New York Times and the Washington Post drove the Whitewater scandals. And he had always looked up to them. And he thought they were sucked into some sort of tabloid nether-world that was detracting from his agenda for the country, which he—and his mission that he saw was to try to rescue the country from years of cynicism.

Transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33141024/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews/

[DJ13]

1. Is he really that dense?

[Orsino]

12. No. He's that much of a fucking liar.

No honest person's memory is that selective.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Ah. The Onion.

[BeyondGeography]

3. First they sucked up to Reagan and Poppy, then they treated Bill like shit

That's how they showed impartiality.

[LovinLife]

4. I've always thought the media had a right wing tilt.......

Most of the rich execs are probably republicans. It sickens me how they run with crazy right wing lies and then try to convince people Sarah Palin is capable of leading the nation.

[City Lights]

5. He's clearly nuts. nt

[Ineeda]

6. clearly n/t

[lob1]

7. If the media is liberal, why don't they say liberal things or take up liberal

causes? Except for a couple of people on MSNBC, the media always spins the story to fit right wing talking points. The liberal media myth is all bullshit. If Mathews thinks the media is liberal, that gives us an insight to his thinking, but not necessarily the truth.

[Enthusiast]

10. Right. They never give things a liberal spin.

Mathews believes in some mythical Catholic chicken hawk Democrat Reagan middle. He considers anything to the left of that to be liberal.

[Hepburn]

8. The media is liberal?

LMBO....:rofl:

I want a hit of what Tweety has been smoking!

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. If Tweety thinks the media is liberal, he's crazy

If he believes that he's Liberal himself, he's fucking certifiable.

[uponit7771]

11. Mathews can't name one EP that is "liberal", could care less if the people who work are liberal

...the ep's are NO WHERE NEAR liberal whatsoever.

[Metric System]

13. Journalists serve their corporate masters. Whoever doesn't toe the line is unemployed.