By Selwyn Duke
Liberal pundit and host of "Hardball," Chris Matthews, has actually run afoul of the politically-correct thought police. I have no use for Matthews' commentary and generally don't watch his show, but, not surprisingly, this is one of the few times I agree with him.
What happened was that Matthews rendered an opinion on Hillary Clinton's success and said,
"Let’s not forget, and I’ll be brutal, the reason she’s a US Senator, the reason she’s a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front runner, is that her husband messed around."
For this he's being called a "sexist" in certain quarters, which, of course, is the usual game. As George Orwell said,
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
My definition of political correctness has long been: The suppression of Truth for the purposes of promoting a left-wing agenda. When the left can't refute opposing viewpoints (which is virtually always), they resort to other tactics. This is because their emotion-based positions have no foundation in reality; thus, they can't debate within the context of Truth (i.e., facts and reason) and prevail. So instead they divert the issue, obfuscate, engage in personal attacks and hurl names. Hence the sexist-racist-homophobe schtick. And this is all designed to either prevent the Truth from being revealed or to suppress it.
Given that Matthews is complicit in advancing political correctness, he's just being hoisted on his own petards, so I won't feel too sorry for him. But the fact remains that he was right in this instance. Yet even Bill O'Reilly expressed disfavor with his remark.
Matthews committed the unpardonable sin of speaking the Truth. He'll probably remain on the air, however, as this isn't an offense he commits very often.
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