By Don Irvine ——Bio and Archives--December 10, 2010
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Today on Hardball, Chris Matthews discussed Time’s new cover story which featured an interview with Sarah Palin about her potential presidential campaign. After discussing the swipes she made at President Obama, he pinpointed the one thing that makes her so popular: “being a wise #” and being “good at it.” That quote came after Matthews grilled Time’s Jay Newton-Small on how she knew that the interview, done online, was actually done with the real Palin. “Because it went to her e-mail,” responded Newton-Small. Uh oh. We know that doesn’t necessarily prove anything, especially not with Palin and especially not now. Fortunately, Newton-Small said she could recognize Palin’s particular tone. So, the interviewee was definitely the former governor.Matthews may have unintentionally done Palin a favor with his description about her as there are plenty of well liked politicians and personalities that are “wise asses” in their own right and many people think that Chris belongs in that group as well for all the wisecracking he does.
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Don Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media and its sister organization Accuracy in Academia. As the son of Reed Irvine, who launched AIM in 1969, he developed an understanding of media bias at an early age, and has been actively involved with AIM for over 30 years.