Chris Matthews Really Plays Hardball With BET Guest
March 29th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
by Rachel Sklar and Danny Shea
Demands BET Guest Name Sources For Obama Claim
Talk about playing Hardball. Tonight Chris Matthews absolutely went off on guest Crystal McCreary Anthony, host of BET-J’s “My Two Cents”, demanding that she provide sources for her statement that Barack Obama had taken some heat today for anti-Semitic comments sourced to a surrogate.
She talked about “senior Barack Obama advisors” who “were making some anti-Israel comments” and raised the question of “does Barack Obama have issues with Jewish people, does his campaign.”
Anthony agreed with Matthews and volunteered that she was sure she’d seen it in the New York Daily News, saying “it’s out there, though. It won’t be very difficult to find.”
She’s right — it’s not difficult to find, it just takes a quickie Google, and she’s also right that right-wing sources were definitely on this. I am guessing that Milbank and Freeland knew what she was getting at, and probably Matthews’ “Hardball” producers did too. Matthews probably should have been aware of breaking campaign news that day. We’re thinking his response was a little extreme, especially his warning to her exactly what was expected of a guest on his show.
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