Today Chris Matthews Joins Ugly and Desperate Refrain against Edwards:
A John Edwards presidency would represent a greater populist movement. This scares people who have spent capital accumulating political power. The evidence of this fear continues to accumulate. We must pay close attention, because John Edward's enemies are telling you a great deal about him, substantively.
Lacking any real substantive attack on John Edwards, big media has decided to attack the Populist on new grounds; that he is occasionally tardy for speeches. This qualifies as a small background news story at the New York Times, but it qualifies as huge news shaped into a weapon at GE/NBC. Chris Matthews didn’t just ‘cover’ this small new item today, he turned it into his Waterloo. He introduced the ‘Edwards is Tardy’ story with an lengthy and well-written homage to the greatness of the Iowa voters, they wait in long lines to hear speeches, meet candidates, etc.. It sounded great as I watched it live.... Then, at the close of this homage, Matthews essentially said: ‘but there is ONE candidate that doesn’t respect these people: John Edwards’. I looked back at the screen in quiet disbelief. What did I just hear?