Commentary by Jim Spence - Chris Matthews of MSNBC was furious at Barack Obama last night. “What was he doing?” he asked repeatedly. Matthews was clearly exasperated at the performance by Obama in the debate with Mitt Romney.
“He should watch MSNBC,” Matthews suggested. “We’ve got our knives out,” the MSNBC host conceded, openly admitting that his network is nothing more than a hatchet crew with a mission of attacking Mitt Romney at every turn.
The problem for Obama is not which network he watches. MSNBC is not the only network providing unprecedented support for the mess Obama is making. If you surf through your television guide you will find at least eleven networks providing news coverage and ten of them are overwhelmingly supportive to Obama. They are: ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Free Speech Television, PBS, Link Television, Current , Bloomberg, and CNBC. Only Fox News provides a viewpoint that shines the light on the results of the Obama policies.
No Chris Matthews, the problem for Mr. Obama isn’t that he is not surrounded by enough people who agree with him. And the problem certainly isn't that there are now ten different national news organizations that adore him. The problem for Obama is the facts. It is hard for him to defend these ten indisputable facts: 1) Gasoline prices have doubled since he took the oath of office, 2) the growth of GDP has declined for the last three years of his term, 3) 23 million Americans are either unemployed or under-employed, 4) American flags are being burned all over the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring he thought was a good thing, 5) his administration gave guns to Mexican drug cartels and they used them to slaughter people, 6) his embassy in Libya begged for security help in the days prior to the murder of diplomats there and his administration did nothing, 7) he has thrown billions of taxpayer dollars at alternative energy schemes that went bankrupt, 8) he has added almost six trillion dollars in debt after promising to cut the deficit in half, 9) the tax increases that will be imposed in Americans to pay for the federal government takeover of health care are looming, 10) fifteen million more people are on food stamps since Obama took the oath of office.
With a strain in his voice, Chris Matthews kept asking what Obama was doing last night? It is pretty simple really. He was on the stage with someone who kept bringing up the facts. Obama looked like a deer in the headlights because the facts are embarrassing. He was doing exactly what anyone would do when their record is indefensible. Obama shouldn't start watching MSNBC because it won’t change the facts that are so devastating.
The fact that the national polls are close and Obama is leading in New Mexico tells you exactly how uninformed the public is about the facts.
Matthews at MSNBC: "What was he doing?"