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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
NewsBusters Goes Mind-Reading
Topic: NewsBusters

In a Jan. 11 NewsBusters post, Geoffrey Dickens purported to know the contents of the minds of Chris Matthews and his guests on "Hardball."

Dickens titled his post, "Jealous Liberal Radio Hosts Join Chris Matthews in Blaming Conservative Talkers for Giffords Shooting." He then asserted that Matthews was "envious" of conservative radio hosts, presumably because of his noting that the "have big audiences." 

At no point does Dickens explain why Matthews and his guests are "jealous" and "envious" -- indeed, in the transcript he supplies, there's no talk whatsoever of jealousy or envy. 

In other words, Dickens is just making stuff up -- par for the course of MRC "research." The MRC does this regularly.

UPDATE: Matthews' larger point -- that right-wing radio hosts with a large audience like Michael Savage and Mark Levin -- who are "furious at the left with anger" and engage in "ugly talk" -- is correct. Dickens seems uninterested in talking about that.

 


Posted by Terry K. at 1:55 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 6:47 PM EST

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