During his complaining about Chris Matthews’ criticism of Michelle Bachmann, Media Research Center chief Brent Bozell said on the July 1 edition of “Fox & Friends”: “He would do that to Hillary Clinton. He would never in a million years wage that kind of insulting attack on Hillary Clinton.”
Of course, Matthews has insultingly attacked Hillary Clinton — which Bozell would have known if he had read his own website.
A January 2008 NewsBusters post by Geoffrey Dickens notes that “Matthews spent the first five minutes of Thursday night’s ‘Hardball’ personally apologizing to Hillary Clinton for insinuating that she owed her political success to sympathy derived from having endured Bill Clinton’s unfaithfulness.” And a November 2008 post by P.J. Gladnick highlighted how Matthews, during a train trip, complained about President Obamaselecting Clinton as his secretary of state: “Why would he pick her? I thought we were done with the Clintons. She’ll just use it to build her power base. It’s Machiavellian. And then we’ll have Bill Clinton, too. I thought Obama didn’t want drama. … She’s just a soap opera. If he doesn’t pick her, everyone will say she’s been dissed again, we’ll have to live through that again.”
Bozell’s false statement about Matthews, needless to say, wasn’t noted in the NewsBusters post about Bozell’s appearance. Then again, given that he hates Hillary even more than Matthews, maybe Bozell didn’t consider Matthews’ remarks to be insulting.