Get Me Chris Matthews' Primary Opponent on Line One!

Last night on the Tonight Show, Chris Matthews announced that he was in the tank for one candidate while ostensibly "covering" the race for President. Tonight on his MSNBC show, Matthews admitted that he has opposed Bill and Hillary Clinton "for 20 years." Then he launched into yet another attack - so clearly trying whatever last ditch tactics and selective quoting he could find to block Barack Obama's nomination of Senator Clinton as Secretary of State.

My question is this: Who else is likely to run for  the Democratic nomination for that Senate seat in Pennsylvania - and how can we help that person?

The always observant Bob Somerby nails the latest derangement from the Clinton-hating camp, behavior as predictable as that of animals under a full moon:

As noted, we have no particular view on Hillary Clinton as Sec of State. But we do have a reaction to the pundit corps’ renewed Clinton/Gore-loathing: Things have reached the point where these sad life-forms are “objectively anti-American.” The nation is in a set of major messes; a new president is trying to pick the people he thinks will serve him best in a difficult time. But so what? Even in such a perilous time, the loonier members of the Dowd-Matthews axis can’t quit their Clinton-loathing. Nothing will keep them from this vast pleasure, the one pleasure of their sad lives.

It’s almost like they loathe the country itself. In the past, they’ve done astounding harm to that country through their aggressive Clinton/Gore-trashing—especially when they worked so hard to put George Bush where he is. But even now, they refuse to abandon their childish games. Nothing will ever make them stop. They care about little else.

Dean Broder was polite today, as befits a high-minded man. But Chris Matthews has been actively clowning on Hardball—and does anyone really doubt this report? These palace dwellers have done vast harm to this country in the past sixteen years. Their Clinton/Gore-loathing remains their great joy—and it could be a national problem again if Obama and Clinton combine.

What's really appalling is the utter lack of public respect Matthews and his ilk have for President-Elect Obama, a man whose candidacy the hateful MSNBC hyena once claimed sent a thrill up his leg.