Doh! Chris Matthews Finds a Terrorist Threat He Can Believe In « NewsReal Blog

Doh! Chris Matthews Finds a Terrorist Threat He Can Believe In « NewsReal Blog: "On my Comcast TV guide grid, Chris Mattews is described as “forever wired.” I assume they mean to the Washington scene as an insider, not his ultra-caffeinated personality.

Matthews once patterned himself a representative of Joe Lunchbucket Democrats and independents. Now, he’s such an insider that he is clueless about what’s going on out here in — what has become to him — flyover country.

Friday night, Matthews had a fevered discussion about former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s upcoming book, in which the incredible bombshell is dropped that Ridge “wonders” if politics was the reason he was urged to raise the threat level on the eve of the 2004 election.

Never mind that the argument among top Bush Administration security people followed a video warning of an attack from Osama bin Laden—and the alert level was not raised. Matthews and every guest he talked to that night, agreed this was proof positive that Bush, Rumsfeld — and especially Matthews’s object of obsession Dick Cheney — used the color-coded warning system to “scare people” into voting Republican."