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We like us our Chris Matthews. He's like crack-cocaine to us politics geeks (And doesn't the West Wing rock this season?). Sure, he has bluster; but Matthews cuts through Washington spin like a hot knife through butter. Have you ever seen him defang the noxious gasbag Rahm Emanuel? He's like motherfucking Picasso. We have a pet theory that it was Matthews' relentless nightly mentions of Ahmed Chalabi's $300,000-plus US paycheck that eventually led to Chalabi's falling out of favor with the neocons in the Bush Administration. Just an intuitive media guess. Now, according to HuffPo, Matthews incurred the wraith of the recently indicted Scooter Libby, which, indeed, is an unbad thing:
"On or about July 10, 2003, LIBBY spoke to NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert to complain about press coverage of LIBBY by an MSNBC reporter. LIBBY did not discuss Wilson�s wife with Russert. (page 7, Paragraph 20.)
"Right after the indictment was released to the media, Tim Russert told MSNBC viewers that Lewis Libby called him that day to complain about a reporter's comments on a cable show.
He did not identify the reporter or the show.
"A little sleuthing on Lexis-Nexis turned up this Hardball transcript for July 8, 2003. The reporter is Chris Matthews .."
Now, if we could only get Chris to replace that lamentable aquamarine painterly attempt at "Art" -- Abstract Depressionist? -- in the background of his Sunday talk show, we would be most pleased. It seriously makes our eyes bleed each and every Sunday morning and we just want it to stop. We are connoisseurs, you see (Libra Moon, you see), and thus have very particular tastes as to what is ... The Beautiful. (The Corsair gingerly sparks a Cohiba Romeo y Julieta Vintage #5)
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