Chris Matthews Forced to Cover Topics Against His Will

See last week Chris took the middle of his show Hardball and gave a soliloquy on how terrible it was that the media was spending all it's time talking about lipstick, when they should be talking about "issues". He had just spent the first half hour teaming up with another Democrat to try to get Republican talking heads to admit that John McCain really believed that Obama called Sarah Palin a pig.

There is at least one online ad that makes the claim, and in fact the ad pretty much implies Obama called her a pig. The ad has appeared over and over on TV, being played for free by shows like Hardball. But Mathews wants to read their lips.... hear them admit that McCain really believes this. Both Republicans he dragged into the arena talked around the question, refusing to actually speak for McCain... and that really set off Matthews., he's yelling at them to confess!

So after that ordeal and then his denouncement of the coverage of lipstick, he brings on friends so they can spend the last half hour talking about lipstick, and whining... "when are we ever going to get to talk about the issues."

He is oblivious to his own irony.... it's his show! He can talk about anything he wants, but he cannot get off lipstick! He MUST talk about lipstick. It's not his decision you see, it's all the republicans' fault for making the accusation. Now he has no choice, and they have poisoned the conversation. I admit I was just watching because I was hoping to glimpse some of the msnbc Lord of the Fly's action Jon Stewart has covered. No such luck, but what I caught was equally bizaar. One entire hour about lipstick from a guy who decries the media talking about lipstick.

Oh by the way.... there is no doubt that the audience knew what Obama meant... they squealed like... well, you know.