"I think people ought to know this," he says. "There's a lot going on among our producers, our young bookers, now that I never noticed before. There is an almost menacing call that you get whenever someone hears something they don't like -- their people call up and threaten, or challenge, and get very nasty. That's now become the norm. I told people, 'Just tell me this from now on.'
Well, well, well. Guess who said that.
According to Tim Grieve at Salon: "At a 10th anniversary party for 'Hardball' last week, Chris Matthews said that Bush White House officials -- especially some in Dick Cheney's office -- had tried to 'silence' him by putting pressure on executives at MSNBC. Matthews' comments were a little cryptic, but now he's elaborating in an interview with TV Guide. Matthews says that there was a 'concerted effort' -- carried out by three people linked to Cheney -- to kill discussion of the role Cheney's office played in trumpeting a supposed nuclear threat from Iraq."
Hat tip to War and Piece.
