Matthews Frustrated That The ‘Mainstream Media’ Treated GOP Too Fairly During The Campaign

Chris Matthews opened his Wednesday night program with a monologue indicting the “mainstream media” for their effort to report in a balanced fashion, even when the circumstances did not, in his opinion, merit balance. He said that the Republican party had shifted to the extreme right in 2012, and the media was guilty of not reporting that fact in the misguided effort to achieve fairness.

“Did you think the people delivering the news were pushing what we call ‘balance’ at the expense of the obvious facts,” Matthews asked his audience. “The Democrats in this election were like Democrats going back to Jack Kennedy. But the Republicans were far to the right of anything we’ve seen from that party ever.”

He went on to cite a number of examples of policies or statements made by members of the Republican part as evidence of the conclusion that the GOP had shifted to the far right in 2012.

“All those wild statements, all that lingo in the GOP platform approved at Tampa, and not a word that one of the country’s two major political parties has gone so far starboard that not even Ronald Reagan could get aboard,” Matthews added.

He concluded saying that he sought to illuminate this truth which “dared not be reported in the mainstream media.”

Watch the clip below via MSNBC:

h/t Breitbart

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