Poor Chris Matthews has apparently decided that people aren’t watching his show because he’s not extreme enough. In Las Vegas, they’d call this doubling down.
The MSNBC host interviewed Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman and got schooled by the Repubican lawmaker:
Matthews: Let me go to the Republican, Senator Grothman. My question of course is why does the Governor pick on the unions that didn’t endorse him in the last campaign but give a free ride to the firefighters and the cops who did and the localities? Why did they get off and are allowed to continue to negotiate collectively?
Grothman: Well one more time you’re completely uninformed. The firemen’s union around this state have campaigned against Republicans, and the statewide police have repeatedly campaigned against Republicans. Governor Walker is doing this out of financial necessity. And out of financial necessity the state with a $3 billion budget deficit has to do something. Governor Walker as well as the cities, counties and schools which all rely on state money can either lay people off or have everybody take a mild reduction in take home pay. Myself with a mild reduction in take home pay is part of that. Now we understand…
Matthews: Okay, you just said I’m wildly, once again I’m wildly out of, out of, wrong on the facts.
Grothman: Absolutely.
Matthews: You’re telling me that there aren’t local affiliates, there aren’t local union organizations at the county level, municipal level that didn’t endorse your governor candidate when he ran. Are you saying they didn’t endorse him, the firefighters and the cops?
Grothman: I can think of two small locals. The vast majority, the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, the vast majority of firemen’s unions worked against Walker in this campaign and to say otherwise is completely to mislead your listening audience.
MSNBC mislead its audience, Senator Grothman? This is a gross distortion of the truth, sir, because everyone knows MSNBC doesn’t have an audience.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/02/21/wisconsin-state-senator-smacks-down-chris-matthews-youre-completely-u#ixzz1Ee8knAqE
