By SnifflesOh, boo hoo. The ever-smirking Craig Crawford is leaving MSNBC. Our little feline hearts are broken. (NOT!)
Among other reasons — such as citing a distaste for "lefty games" (??!) — Mr. Crawford said he was leaving the network because he objected to being called a racist last year by Chris Matthews. "Probably should have resigned then and there, but better late than never," he posted at CQ Politics. And claimed to be bolting to FOX.
Hm. We cats fail to recall the "racist" incident, which allegedly occurred on air after the West Virginia primary. But as Craig Crawford got his start in politics as a hatchet boy for Ed Gurney, we pause before we condemn Mr. Matthews.
Nobody today remembers Ed Gurney, of course — at least, none of the children currently in journalism. He was a corrupt Republican Representative, and then U.S. Senator, from Florida. His one claim to fame, which he didn't really relish because he just loooooooooved Richard Nixon, was his service on the Senate Watergate Committee. (We cats well remember Mr. Gurney complaining that the Nixon Administration was being "harassed." What a jerk.)
Anyway, the bottom line is this: No Republican got elected to Congress from (at the time) yellow-dog Central Florida in the early '60s without being a friend of the Klan. No Republican got elected Senator in 1968 on Richard Nixon's coattails without being someone white racists would be very comfortable supporting.
Craig, we cats think you doth protest too much. If we were a smirking Republican-lover like you, we'd be grateful for any paying gig on a network that still attempts to actually report and cover news — thus giving a small measure of quasi-respectability. Good riddance — and have fun with Sarah and the other "journalists" in the litter box that Murdoch and Ailes have built.
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