In case you ever thought the media played things straight — you know, actually quoted people accurately and, when paraphrasing, gave a fair summation of what the person actually said and meant — think again.
Check out this priceless clip from the increasingly irrelevant Morning Joe MSNBC gabfest, which features a sputtering Chris Matthews summarizing some remarks from Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, who’s running against Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) in Nevada for the U.S. Senate.
Like a typical leftist, poor Chris has no sense of irony or metaphor or anything else — spooked by his own dark fantasies of the right, he takes every statement made by a conservative absolutely literally, then spins it into a terrifying tale of lurking militias and Christian-rightists and lions and tigers and bears oh my…
Note too the dramatis personae yukking it up on the set: accused plagiarist Mike Barnicle (how did this guy ever get rehabbed?) and the Game Change twins, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann — you remember, the political correspondents ostensibly working for Time Magazine and New York Magazine who saved all their good stuff for their book instead of giving it first to their readers and employers.
What a bunch.
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