I AGREE WITH THE WINGNUTS

Boy, that was a little difficult to type. Chris "Leg" Matthews just helped confirmed the wingnut meme about the MSM being in the tank for Obama. Here's what he said (via Columbia Journalism Review):

MATTHEWS: You know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work.

SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about your being a journalist.

MATTHEWS: Yeah, that’s my job. My job is to help this country.

SCARBOROUGH: So your job as a journalist is to make this presidency work?

MATTHEWS: To make this work successfully, because this country needs a successful presidency, more than anything right now....

I agree that we need a successful Obama presidency but that is NOT Matthew's role. As Jake Tapper of ABC News observes:

There seems to me to be quite a difference between hoping the U.S. President succeeds in his endeavors -- "Let every American hope for the success of the new president and the country we all love," Karl Rove wrote today in the Wall Street Journal -- and a journalist thinking it's his job to help a new administration.

I think it's time for Matthews to do the right thing and retire.