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It’s understandable that a man who gets sexually aroused when President Obama speaks would quickly rise to defend him from even the most minor of criticisms.

But is it too much to ask that this defense not be hypocritical?

This afternoon on his MSNBC show Hardball, Chris Matthews nearly busted a blood vessel because Rush Limbaugh ¹ referred to the Obama administration as – heaven help us all – a regime.

According to the Washington Examiner, here’s what Limbaugh said (emphasis added):

Never in my life have I seen a regime like this, governing against the will of the people, purposely. I have never seen the media so supportive of a regime amassing so much power.

Merriam-Websters online dictionary defines the word “regime” as follows: 

a : mode of rule or management b : a form of government c : a government in power d : a period of rule

In spite of the definition and Mr. Limbaugh’s apt usage of the word, Mr. Matthews still managed to get offended:

The use of the word “regime” in American political parlance is unacceptable and someone should tell the walrus to stop using it… I don’t even think Joe McCarthy called this government a regime.

Let me see if I got this straight: The word regime when used by Rush Limbaugh in reference to the Obama administration (undeniably the government in power) offended the hypersensitive Mr. Matthews. The same Mr. Matthews who, during the Bush regime, used the following words to describe President George Bush, Vice President Cheney and their administration:

• Criminal
• Dracula
• Enemy camp
• Bath tub ring

In the bizarro world of Chris Matthews, then, referring to a Democrat ² administration as a regime (i.e. a  government in power) is worse than referring to a Republican administration as “criminal”, “Dracula”, the “enemy camp”, and a “bath tub ring.”

Today, thanks to the Internet, it’s incredibly easy to catch hypocrites like Chris Matthews in action. But for more than a half century – before cable television and the Internet - left-wing shills disguised as impartial journalists got away with this very thing.

By now, you’d think mainstream media dinosaurs like Matthews would have caught on and learned to be more careful. I mean, if he were half as smart ³ as he regularly tells us he is, he would have had someone research his own malignant statements before proceeding to demonize the benign statements of others.

Footnotes:

¹  For some reason Matthews refers to Limbaugh as “the walrus.” Apparently Chris is not a Beatles fan. If he were, he’d know that the walrus was Paul.

²  Matthews regularly gets bent out of shape when Republicans refrain from using the word “democratic” when referring to the Democrat party, yet he continues to refer to Dick Cheney as “Cheeny.” He has been corrected many times on air as well as in print but continues to mispronounce the Vice President’s name. Folks, where I come from this is called hypocrisy.

³  Although Matthews is obviously a tool, it is unlikely that anyone will accuse him of being the sharpest one in the shed.

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