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Hey, Kettle, Mr. Pot would like a word with you

August 23, 2009 1:33 pm ET by Jamison Foser

So, Chris Matthews is concerned that bloggers (supposedly) don't fact-check their work.  That's odd, since Chris Matthews is the poster child for the punditocracy's habit of endlessly repeating falsehoods that happen to mesh with their worldview.

Here's an example.  And another.  And another.

There is a virtually endless supply of examples we could include, but let's stop on that last one.  Is a television reporter who is wrong so often he has to admit "I keep saying it, and I keep being wrong on this" really in any position to complain about anyone else's fact-checking?

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    • Author by phredicles (August 23, 2009 3:12 pm ET)
         
      And don't forget, "Women love this war!"
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    • Author by williaminny (August 23, 2009 3:43 pm ET)
         
      According to this same "pot and kettle," meme, Keith Olbermann,
      could never call anyone else, "the worst person in the world."
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      • Author by Übermensch (August 23, 2009 6:38 pm ET)
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        KO's segment "Worst Person in the World" is about as hyperbolical as it can get.
        as quoted"
        "It was Carlin who startled me decades ago by the simple but irrefutable argument—the astonishing observation hidden inside the safety of a joke—that by the process of ranking, there truly had to be, somewhere, the worst doctor in the world. More terrifying still, he noted, “somebody has an appointment to see him tomorrow!"


        And now you know.
        [http://palmgoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/the_more_you_know2.jpg]
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (August 23, 2009 11:34 pm ET)
           
        Another wingnut, another unsupported opinion. They seem to go together.
        Y'know you can actually find somethings about Kieth that don't show him in the best of lights. Excersize those magic fingers and try again.
        I don't see him very often myself. I'm usually appreciative of what he says when I do. Which puts him way ahead of say 95% of the rest of the coorporate media's pet talking heads.
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    • Author by steeve (August 23, 2009 7:59 pm ET)
         
      Chris Matthews may be the only living person who knows nothing about his own passions. (Now that Tim "social security" Russert is gone.)
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    • Author by twseattle (August 24, 2009 8:59 am ET)
         
      Sure Chris, bloggers have the internet at their fingertips, but they have nothing like the staff your network provides for you.
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