The news cycle is slower between the holidays, but there’s still something ridiculous. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday, former Hardball host Chris Matthews compared “rural rage” at the liberal elites to….terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq who hate the U.S. military. He’s still throwing hardballs.
Let’s guess the farmers and the ranchers and the small-town bankers and barbers in rural America are not going to appreciate being lumped in with Islamic State and the Taliban. They’re the austere religious scholars of the MAGA-churches, apparently? There were a few notable arguments on the Sunday network shows:
Robert Costa on CBS’s Face the Nation: Host Margaret Brennan asked what special counsel Jack Smith’s office was thinking. This must be the internal leak Costa received: Oh, Mr. Smith went to Washington and probed so much deeper than the January…
