Matthews claimed "Clinton people ... trying to intimidate" Blitzer -- after Blitzer had denied it

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MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews began his November 13 show by asserting that "the Clinton people" are "trying to intimidate" CNN host Wolf Blitzer, who is scheduled to moderate a November 15 Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas. But less than an hour earlier, Blitzer had said on CNN's The Situation Room, "No one has pressured me. No one has threatened me. No one is trying to intimidate me. ... No one has even called me to try to pressure me or anything like that. ... I have not felt any pressure whatsoever." Later during the same edition of Hardball, Matthews referred to Blitzer's denial but misrepresented it.

Matthews' claim echoed an anonymously sourced blurb on the Drudge Report homepage, which asserted that "Blitzer has been warned not to focus Thursday's Dem debate on" Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and quoted an anonymous "top Clinton insider" saying, "This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy. ... Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull 'a Russert,' " referring to NBC News Washington bureau chief Tim Russert who moderated the October 30 Democratic debate in Philadelphia.

Keith Olbermann is the only Honest newscaster.

All the rest are Hype & SPIN.

I can't believe ANYONE from DU still watches a MORON like Matthews.

he way too wishy washy for me

is how many people watch that bubble of anal wind popping and winking in the mortal buff. Everyone here says they hate him but they keep watching, keeping him on the air even longer.

Us Dems are weird people. :)

when he meant Bush. He does have the Clintons on his brain.

he would have 60 minutes of dead air.