After an entire political season with Chris Matthews, I have tired of him completely. Apparently just over seven hundred thousand people a night do not. While I'm not a fan of reference posts, a new piece in the New York Times Magazine reveals what I have thought about him all along. Mainly, that he is a bloviating apologist for people in power. 
While this feeling is always vague and based on his performance on the tube, it's nice to see some journalism that takes on the man himself. He does equate himself with Hemingway, him and his producers aren't capable of understanding that even an upstate bumpkin like yours truly will suffer through his Sunday morning schtick with mucky mucks, at least during the dead of winter. But when push comes to shove, it only takes little Jon Stewart to out him for the fake that he truly is. Is it any wonder that he totally missed the boat on John McCain and melted for Obama once it became obvious ? I miss David Brinkley.
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