Wow
Another great moment for Chris Matthews today. He was listening to right wing nutjob congresswoman Michele Bachmann prattle on about how Barack Obama associates with all sorts of anti-American people and then starts implying that anyone who is liberal or leftist might be anti-American. Matthews just started questioning her about the rhetoric she was using, asking if some of the people she had directly referenced like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were anti-American. She kept this awful, unflinching stepford wife smile on her face and wouldn’t back down from it. He pointed out what large percentages of the country are self-described liberals and conservatives and asked again if all the liberals were anti-American. She demurred, but then went back to implying that there may be members of congress who are anti-American. Matthews finally asked her how many of the congresspeople and senators that she serves with does she suspect of being anti-American. She said that it would be good to know and said flat out that the media should start investigating and do an expose on the anti-Americans serving in congress. She was pretty much directly calling for a new McCarthyism.
