Matthews knocks down wingnut radio host

By Libby

Help. My world is falling apart. Tweety actually did something good today on Hardball. He nailed some wingnut hate jockey that I've never heard of when he called him on his empty sloganeering. The guy evoked the Chamberlain appeaser smear and Matthews got him to admit that he had no idea what Chamberlain actually did.

Matthews rebuked his clueless guest — and the entire Bush administration — for being “blank slates in terms of history”:

You don’t understand there’s a difference between talking to the enemy and appeasing. What Chamberlain did wrong, most people would say, is not talking to Hitler, but giving him half of Czechoslovakia in 1938. That’s what he did wrong. Not talking to somebody. Appeasement is giving things away to the enemy.

Watch the video at the link. It's really a thing of beauty.

I wish Matthews had been doing more like this since say 2002, but I'll take a metamorphosis any time, even though I suspect it's fleeting. I suppose he'll be disappointing me by using his gotcha skills on trivialities again soon enough. Still, one should praise good behavior and he did good this time.