If you happen to be an avid or even casual viewer of MSNBC's Hardball, you understand that Chris Matthews, aka Tweety, exudes nonsensencical frothiness on a regular basis. However, tonight Hardball is airing a documentary that may, for once, contain informative insights into the reality-challenged world of right wing beliefs.
Tonight MSNBC airs "The Rise of the New Right" at 7 pm eastern time. The one hour program has been billed, by Chris Matthews himself, as a view into the world of right wings beliefs, spoken by the people who hold these beliefs.
The link to the documentary preview is here.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
If you allow the video to run, it should continue on through several segments.
Now, color me skeptical. Doubting the nature of this documentary, my expectation is that Matthews, in an attempt to appear objective, airs a program that glosses over the incendiary rhetoric and well proven dangerous threat posed by the so-called "new right", which, by the way, is not the new right at all. Its just a rebranding of the old, diseased, fetid, rotting corpse known as the grand old party (or my fav, gang of perverts).
Tuesday evening, in a promo for tonights documentary, Matthews hosted MSNBC's resident bigot and all-around political troglodyte, Pat Buchanan, and, from the left (kinda), David Korn. In discussing the documentary, Buchanan apparently forgets his talking points. Pat disentrigates into babbling and mumbling while Matthews doggedly harasses Pat about recent right wing violence, birthers and Holocaust Museum security guard murderers. Faced with the evidence posed by Matthews, Pat brings up, of all things, Lee Harvey Oswald as an example of left wing violence, then downshifts into the popularity, early on in his one-man-commie-witchhunt, of Joe McCarthy. Pat looks and sounds out of touch these days. A metaphor for the gop for certain.
What is interesting in the preview is that Matthews in nowehere to be seen or heard, until the final segment. The interviews are presented straight up. Militia members are interviewed at their campsite. Alex Jones is interviewed extensively in his studio. Video of the anti-HCR rallies is presented as is.
My concern, after having viewed the preview in full, is there appears to be little in the way of challenges to the right wing claims. Participants are allowed to come across as just normal, everyday folk who live next door and work along side us.
It is not normal to hang out in the woods, in the snow, wearing camo, firing weapons and talking of the emminent destruction of America's core values by tyrannical forces.
So, if you care to, view the video. Then comment on your perceptions.