Open Letter to MSNBC News Executive Phil Griffin

(12/20/07): Is Hillary Clinton trying to kill Obama in his crib? Are we watching a dark campaign carried out by surrogates to stop Barack before he catches fire? Let`s play Hardball! Good evening. I’m Chris Matthews. The Hot Topic tonight: Is the Hillary Clinton campaign trying to obliterate Obama`s candidacy, not just beat it but strangle it in the crib before there`s any chance he catches on? That`s our Hot Topic tonight.

Dear Phil:

Please fire Chris Matthews. Please fire him today. Don’t skewer the fewer viewers that remain. Like our patience, your ratings are wearing thin.

This is no idle rant. Matthews has tested and tormented us for years now, but his coverage of the New Hampshire primaries went beyond anything in terms of ego, pomposity, prejudice, stupidity and error. Here’s a catalog of the Matthews horrors and miscues in New Hampshire. Even his colleagues Brokaw, Olbermann and Maddow demonstrably had had enough.

If you had the misfortune to watch any of this, you’ll remember the exchanges with Tom Brokaw, wherein the sage of NBC admonished Matthews to quit complaining about the lack of good polling data and start covering real election issues, real-time.

Chris Matthews has been abusing subjects, colleagues and interviewees for years now. We have put up with his misogyny, homophilia, leering, lying, drooling, fawning, interrupting and drunken behavior. No one on the right or left can stand him. Enough, I say.

If MSNBC is to avoid cloning itself on the Fox News model or following CNN over the cliff, get rid of this scumbag.

Comments

[jason goodman]

Yes, Matthews is an ass and needs to go.

There are two other assholes that need to go:

1. Dan Abrams. Total ass.

2. Tucker Carlson. Complete and Utter Ass. Worse than any of the others. Not because of his right-hawk politics, but because, simply, he is a Complete and Utter Fucking Asshole.

I'm sure partly a product of his environment. Thie pretentious preppy went to St Georges with an entire outfit of Asses (like Billy Bush).

Funny, how this entire Ass Group represents an elitist view on the world. And they all enjoy the spotlight on Soap TV News.

Maybe it's the network that needs to go.

Jason

[Alex]

I guess you'll be pleased to know that Tucker's show will officially be given the axe today.

[Alex]

I guess you'll be pleased to know that Tucker's show was officially given the axe today.