Chris Matthews Sacks Up

The man's been on fire the past few days. Last night, he eviscerated Larry Thurlow (figuratively, the other way would have been too messy), and essentially go Thurlow to admit that he had no evidence whatsoever for any of his allegations against John Kerry. Later Michelle "I'm an intellectual" Malkin accused John Kerry of deliberately wounding himself in order to get out of Vietnam; only she didn't directly accuse him, relying instead on weasel phrases, "it's been suggested," "some have said," "a book suggests"---you know, protect plausible deniability and all that. Matthews absolutely destroyed Malkin on this point. Read the transcript here. Keith Olbermann blogs about the incident here.

What really set all this off was that the Bush campaign released a video about a week ago that distorted footage of John Kerry from Hardball (at least as dishonest an editing job as anything Michael Moore has ever done). Since then, Matthews, understandably pissed, has been fighting rambo-like against every right-wing hack to appear on his show. I am digging the new Chris Matthews.