Chris Matthews last night:
“I watched the cadets, they were young kids, men and women who were committed to serving their country professionally it must be said, as officers. And, I didn’t see much excitement. But among the older people there, I saw, if not resentment, skepticism. I didn’t see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there, the president chose to address tonight. And I thought it was interesting. He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case.”
Before we get to that “enemy camp” remark, I suppose Chris Matthews expected our military cadets and their senior officers to be screaming and throwing their undergarments at their Commander in Chief during a formal address. It was a somber speech, deserving of a somber audience. Indeed, it was so serious that I personally thought it should have been an Oval Office address rather than a speech before an audience. But regardless of the venue, no matter if you are supportive of the new policy or not, how can anyone sane be excited during the speech last night. The only people wanting or expecting excitement are those who love perpetual war (and it turns out they were disappointed) and I guess, Chris Matthews.
Now, Chris Matthews, the supposedly liberal blowhard host of Harball on the Fox News of the Left, MSNBC, thinks that a military school like West Point is “enemy” territory to a Democratic President. That is a lie straight from the right wing, created I suppose because Democratic Presidents are not as wild about war and death as their Republican counterparts. Or I suppose it is a left over idea that all Democrats are unpatriotic traitors and thus any military institution would be enemy territory.
Either way, you just gotta love your “liberal media.”