Dear Chris Matthews:
You were right to criticize your Republican guest on today’s show for not knowing his history.
However, may we offer this small style point: When ripping the lungs out of a guest for his lack of historical knowledge—by, among other things, calling his historical ignorance about 1938 “pathetic”—try to avoid making a history mistake of your own in the same segment.
You were right to criticize your Republican guest on today’s show for not knowing his history.
However, may we offer this small style point: When ripping the lungs out of a guest for his lack of historical knowledge—by, among other things, calling his historical ignorance about 1938 “pathetic”—try to avoid making a history mistake of your own in the same segment.
Particularly a huge mistake concerning more recent history—like who the president was in October, 2000.
It happened on this afternoon's Hardball. After lambasting a guest for not knowing his Neville Chamberlain history, Matthews asserted that the attack on the USS Cole in October, 2000 happened under . . . President Bush. Oooops. [HINT: The President’s initials were WJC].
View video here.
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