Hardball's Chris Matthews tied to Jack Abramoff.

So we have a sleazy lobbyist in bed with a lot of sleazy politicians, all of which are from the GOP. They use a fake charity to provide themselves with junkets around the world such as golfing at St. Andrews in Scotland. This is where Chris Matthews comes in. On March 5, 2003, Matthews helped put on a charity event for the purpose of raising $300,000 for the Capital Athletic Foundation. According to sourcewatch.com:

“Fox News Channel's Tony Snow is master of ceremonies, and Fox's Brit Hume and MSNBC's Chris Matthews are aboard. Opera great Placido Domingo is an event committee member. But, this being Washington, the event will be mostly populated by powerful lawmakers, including Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas; Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.; and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.”

As The Daily Kos correctly points out, there are two problems with Matthews’ involvement. The first is what in the world is Chris Matthews doing cavorting with Jack Abramoff and helping him generate money into his fake charity? The second problem and more unseemly, is what is Matthews doing at such a blatantly partisan event? A man who plays the role of impartial journalist is now exposed as being a darling of the Republican Party? Certainly no one would be surprised at Tony Snow’s involvement, since he works for Fox News, but Chris Matthews?

Oh shit! I used to love Chris Matthews until I started noticing him devolving into a barely concealed partisan attack dog for the Bush administration. This, however, is a complete surprise. I have been able to stomach Mr. Matthews for a few minutes when he has topics on that I am interested in and I know that he has been very wishy washy about the Abramoff scandal. At one point he asked if this is not just politics as usual. Now his ambiguity is completely understandable. Chris needs to close up shop immediately! His journalistic integrity has ceased to exist.

Maybe he can do a show with Robert Novack over at FOX. I believe that is where all journalists who drink the administration Kool-aid eventually end up.

FOX News! We don't even pretend to be impartial anymore!