I saw a bit of the Today Show on NBC this morning. A fun show, but one which leans constantly left.

I have no problem with that, by the way. It gives me things to write about.

Periodically, they will invite Chris Matthews of “Hardball” fame on MSNBC to come on the show and discuss political topics. Now Chris Matthews is a funny and intelligent guy. At the same time, he’s as much a liberal partisan as Rush is a conservative, but you never hear that on the Today Show.

They’ll introduce conservative commentators and columnists as “conservative,” but they never use the “L” word when liberals come on the show. Why?

Because they all lean left to one degree or another.

So, this morning, listening to Chris and Katie discussing Rove, Cheney, Plame, and Wilson, I learned something valuable…

When libs like Matthews go to bed at night, this is what they do; they get down on their knees and utter a prayer like this one (as you read this, think Ben Stiller during the prayer scene in “Meet the Parents”):

Oh great deity… thing… Who or whatever you might be. Please, oh great deity… Can I call you that by the way?

Anyway, who or whatever the hell you are… Or think you are for that matter.

I was wondering, and I’m not begging here by any means but, obviously I’m hoping that you and I are of the same mind on this…

If you are, then what I’m hoping, what so many of us are hoping, is that you’ll basically give us Karl Rove and Dick Cheney’s political heads on a platter, so to speak.

And if it helps convince you at all of my sincerity then I’ll also say ‘pretty please with sugar on top.’

Okay? Well… This is me, you know who, signing off for the evening… Whoever you are.

I’m afraid that libs like Matthews are going to wind up being disappointed yet again. Fitzpatrick, the special prosecutor, is not going to come back with any indictments because no crime was committed, as even the New York Times has underscored on several occasions. The first person to out Valerie Plame was, of course, Joe Wilson, Valerie’s husband.

But, of course, as even Joe Wilson knows, you can’t “out” someone who is not under cover. Ms. Plame had been back in the states at a desk job for almost five years, had been to many social functions with her husband, and was even interviewed with her husband by US Magazine! You can see their picture, both of them together, right on the cover of the magazine no less. It’s laughable, not indictible.

And most people know it. But it doesn’t stop, or even slow, all the wishful thinking that is going on in the media right now.

Oh well. I think that Matthews has gotten used to disappointment by now. This won’t be all that unfamiliar a feeling.

David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com