Scalito, Mobs, And Why Chris Matthews Is A Right Wing Shill

Yesterday, on Hardball with Chris Matthews, Matthews breathlessly reported on a "disgusting" and "racist" document that was being circulated by Democrats:

Matthews: "In Other Words, They Nail Him On Not Putting Some Italian Mobsters In Jail From The Family. Why Would They Bring Up This Ethnically Charged Issue As The First Item They Raise Against Judge Alito?" (MSNBC's "MSNBC Live," 10/31/05)

Matthews: "This Is Either A Very Bad Coincidence Or Very Bad Politics. Either Way Its Gonna Hurt Them. This Document: Not Abortion Rights, Not Civil Rights But That He Failed To Nail Some Mobsters In 1988. This Is The Top Of Their List Of What They've Got Against This Guy. Amazingly Bad Politics." (MSNBC's "MSNBC Live," 10/31/05

Maybe Tweety was blinded by the "glittering nobility" of Bush, but the document itself does no such racial baiting. The right-wing has its talking point down: paint the Democrats as anti-Italian. No surprise there, is there? If it has been a women, we would be wife-beaters. If it was a Hispanic, we would be anti-hispanic. What the Democrats need to do is emulate Fitzgerald on this: "that talking point won't fly.'

And here's is why the "so, Alito let off some mobsters 20 years ago" talking point sinks like a ton of lead.

Read how Alito screwed up the case and let 20 mobsters walk over at PoliticalCortex.com.

The information is also on Crooksandliars and on Dailykos. Matthews made a boo-boo.

Wasn't Matthews the first to use the talking point that Wilson lied by
claiming that he had been sent to Niger by Cheney?