MSNBC's Chris Matthews gets some of his own in return...

[Gewehr98]

The guy creeped me out something fierce in the days and months leading up to the election.  Now he's getting his come-uppance:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/22/media-critic-blasts-chris-matthews-man-crush-on-obama/

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

Media critic Bernard Goldberg says Chris Matthews has a 'man crush' on President Obama.

(CNN) — It has become one of MSNBC host Chris Matthew's most infamous lines of the 2008 presidential election:

"I felt this thrill going up my leg," Matthews said the night Obama resoundingly defeated rival Hillary Clinton in the Virginia and Maryland Democratic primaries.

And former CBS News Correspondent Bernard Goldberg, who has long alleged liberal bias in the media, highlighted that line as indicative of the media's "slobbering" press coverage of candidate Obama during his campaign for the White House.

"That's not commentary, that's a man-crush," Goldberg declared on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday.

Goldberg, the author of the new book “A Slobbering Love Affair,” credits the media coverage of the 2008 presidential election for ultimately resulting in Barack Obama's victory.

He specifically faulted coverage of the prolonged Democratic primary campaign, during which two historic candidates contentiously squared off.

"I think in elite liberal circles, certainly inside the media, race trumps gender, and that's why they slobbered over Barack Obama, and took Hillary Clinton to the back room and beat her with a rubber hose,” Goldberg said.

Goldberg also faulted political journalists for not digging up controversial sermons of the president's longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, until Obama had already effectively captured his party's nomination.

"These tapes were available, you didn't have to be Woodward or Bernstein to dig them up," Goldberg said. "If those tapes had come out six months earlier, certainly a year earlier, I don't think Barack Obama would have been the nominee.

"I think Hillary Clinton would have been. And I think she would have been the president today," he continued. "And in that sense, she's the biggest loser in all of this."

[txgho1911]

I would bet Hillary is counting on a SC appointment.

[Monkeyleg]

I wonder what Gunnery Sergeant Hartman might have to say to Matthews' face about the "tingle" comment? :)

[RevDisk]

I would bet Hillary is counting on a SC appointment.

If she stayed true to her voting record, that wouldn't be too horrible.  Her rhetoric is a bit worrisome, but her voting record is actually a lot more moderate than you'd think.  She's a politician, and not a zealot.  Personally, I'd rather have ten thousand corrupt average politicians than one zealot who actually believes the koolaid is wonderful.

[Strings]

Mmmmmm, grape!

[RaspberrySurprise]

I wonder what Gunnery Sergeant Hartman might have to say to Matthews' face about the "tingle" comment? :)

Likely something involving a golf ball and a garden hose.

[HankB]

If she stayed true to her voting record, that wouldn't be too horrible. 

She'd be no worse than a Ginsburg, Stevens, Souter, or Breyer.

SCOTUS would take a distinctly anti-American tilt if she were to replace one of the other five.

[RevDisk]

She'd be no worse than a Ginsburg, Stevens, Souter, or Breyer.

SCOTUS would take a distinctly anti-American tilt if she were to replace one of the other five.

The first comment I agree with.  The second...   Eh, I honestly think she's be a swing voter on different issues.  I don't like the lady in question, but she's a professional and far from stupid.  Evil, maybe.  Stupid, hardly.  Professionals are generally reliable not to cause too much of a ruckus.

[RoadKingLarry]

Hillary voted the way she did to get re-elected. Remove the political aspects by giving her a life time appointment and all bets are off.

[Perd Hapley]

So at what point is Matthews getting come-uppance?  Bernie has said this sort of  stuff before, although I believe him when he says that the Obamanon Phenomenon is a whole other level from previous levels of bias.  His earlier book had a number of zingers about Dan Rather, but I can't see that it had much effect on Rather. 

When Matthews and Olberman (Sp?) are fired, or fail to renew their contracts, I'll consider their come-uppance delivered.  They ARE pretty obvious hacks, after all.