Dear Dan

Chris Matthews, known to some as Tweety, has seen his Puddy Tat and it is Bill Clinton.

I sent the following to Dan Abrams, allegedly news director at MSNBC:

Since you are in charge of NEWS at MSNBC, don't you think it is time to eassign Chris Matthews to something besides the news? Maybe he needs the practice with facts he would get reporting the weather.

I have no great brief for either of the Clintons. In fact, until Dodd and Biden fell by the wayside, Senator Clinton was my fifth choice for president. Their withdrawal moved her up to third behind Edwards and Obama. Matthews' hostility to both Clintons, by his comments on the air, is simply palpable and has annoyed me for several months. This morning he crossed the line. To ascribe Clinton's win in New Hampshire to racism and to a Clinton effort to make the contest about race is absolute fantasy and has to be powered by virulent hate.

Chris Matthews today joined Lou Dobbs in my pantheon of those who abuse their access to public air waves to pursue personal vendettas. No one at CNN seems willing or able to do anything about Dobbs. Will you do anything about Matthews? Isn't he more suited to cover Hollywood starlets?