http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/12/10/msnbc-savaged-thatcher-when-she-died-now-matthews-insists-it-s-not-nMSNBC Savaged Thatcher When She Died, But Now Matthews Insists It’s ‘Not Nice’ to Attack Dead Leaders
By Scott Whitlock | December 10, 2013 | 09:46
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An indignant Chris Matthews on Monday took internet attacks on the late Nelson Mandela, allegedly from conservative commenters, and slammed the right for a lack of respect towards the South African leader:
“Don’t they know that it’s not nice to make fun of a person so recently deceased, much less the world’s most honored champion of human freedom?”Yet,
how did the journalists at MSNBC and NBC respond to the death of Margaret Thatcher, someone who championed freedom in the struggle against communism? On the day she died,
Richard Wolffe, a regular on Matthews’s show and network, seethed, “She had an attitude to her domestic enemies that frankly was the antithesis of freedom.” Another Matthews colleague, Brian Williams offered up an even more vicious attack.In the days leading up to Thatcher’s funeral, Williams lectured that it was “sad but necessary” to report that
those who hated the former leader were celebrating her death by playing “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead.”To quote Matthews, don’t NBC and MSNBC journalist know “it’s not nice to make fun of a person so recently deceased, much less the world’s most honored champion of human freedom"?
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