An Aug. 16 Media Research Center CyberAlert item (and matching NewsBusters entry) implied that MSNBC’s Chris Matthews’ tossed only softball questions during an interview with Cindy Sheehan. Author Brent Baker cited only a portion “from the end of the two segments with Sheehan” in which Matthews asked Sheehan if she was interested in running for Congress.
In fact, Matthews asked about other family members who opposed Sheehan’s protest, about her estranged husband, asked, “If your son had been killed in Afghanistan, would you have a different feeling?” and also presented President Bush’s case for U.S. involvement in Iraq and asked Sheehan, “You disagree?”
Matthews also followed up the interview with Sheehan with an interview of two women, one an Iraqi national, who disagreed with Sheehan’s protest.
Did the MRC’s TiVo somehow fail to record these other less-than-softball questions, or is it programmed to retain only the “liberal” stuff?