He’s….A……Liberal
- Posted by MacStansbury on January 30th, 2006 filed in John, Journalism, Moonbats
There’s this leftie group that’s out to get Chris Matthews for his “right-wing” bias (no, really) and they are trying to get some kind of boycott of MSNBC. What’s hilarious is the website they made up, but tonight Open Letter To Chris Matthews just proved how “out-of-touch-with-reality” they are: Chris Matthews accuses Sen. Kennedy of molesting Judge Alito’s wife. Uh, wanna see how that works out?
MATTHEWS: …won’t they say something up beat and (bucking up)… isn’t she a great woman, didn’t she stand up-and then they’ll put the camera right on Ted Kennedy and show how he was the guy that molested her basically-that’s the way they’ll play it…
That’s the transcript. Now, in journalism classes, we learn something about quoting people. In that class, I learned that sometimes people use colloquialisms, or language to imply something else, using other words. Perhaps a euphemism.
They also told me that when said colloquialism or euphemism comes up, you put it in quotes. Notice something about the words I highlighted? Obviously, Chris Matthews was not saying that Kennedy “pester[ed] or harass[ed] (someone), typically in an aggressive or persistent manner…” Oh, wait, yes he did.
Regardless, where the sexual connotation implied, then the use of the quote-marks was justified. According to that transcript, they weren’t. They need to clarify, in the article, either Matthews was using the proper sense of the word “molest,” or was using the colloquial meaning to sexually abuse another person, usually a woman. I don’t expect a clarification, because that would remove all that cool rantiness from their baseless attack.
Now, I’m going to have to stop you if you think I’m jumping on the Ultra-Conservative Chris Matthews bandwagon. He’s a liberal, a Liberal, a “Liberal” and everything in-between. Watching these people twist in the wind amuses me to no end, especially when they are so blatantly wrong.
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He’s….A……Liberal
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