CHRIS MATTHEWS CALLS CLINTON “AL SHARPTON OF WHITE PEOPLE” AND SHOULD BE FIRED

Chris Matthews’ bias against Hillary Clinton and for Barack Obama is well known and well documented. [Matthews said of Clinton: “Hillary Clinton bugs a lot of guys, I mean, really bugs people — like maybe me on occasion. . . . She drives some of us absolutely nuts.” In comparison, Matthews has called Obama “bigger than Kennedy” and compared the success of his campaign to “the New Testament.” And of course, Matthews once described “this thrill going up my leg” after an Obama victory speech.]

It is bad enough that a so called “journalist” with this kind of transparent bias is doing “Hardball”—which is arguably commentary. But to put Matthews in a position of anchoring election night news coverage is absurd, and for Matthews to call Mrs. Clinton the “Al Sharpton of white people” while “reporting the news” is as egregious a breach of journalistic ethics as we could imagine.

To be sure, Keith Olbermann—Matthews’ MSNBC co-anchor last night—was also unabashedly biased last night, weaving blatant sarcastic digs against Clinton into his “reporting”—but if MSNBC does not fire Matthews after the Al Sharpton comment it cannot even pretend to be a news network.

Instead, MSNBC will forever be an entertainment and faux news network characterized by Matthews' buffoonery and Olbermann’s sarcastic commentary.

To be sure, commentary has its place, but the lines need to be demarcated, as when Wolf Blitzer reports on election night and calls on Donna Brazile and others to provide commentary.

MSNBC, on the other hand, has lost all pretense of objective journalism. Hell, it has lost all pretense of journalism. Last night's election "coverage" was nothing more than a hate filled free-for-all against Hillary Clinton, with Olbermann asserting over and over that "if the media leaned at any point early on in this race, it was not against [Clinton], but towards her." We think that Olbermann protests a bit too much.