Chris Matthews was angry — and this time, his target wasn’t President Donald Trump.
Instead, the MSNBC host took aim on Friday night at former Vice President Joe Biden, currently the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic omination.
Why? Because Biden wove a military story on the campaign trail the other day that has been widely questioned and even ridiculed.
Matthews said that had a reporter done what Biden had, the “reporter would be fired” for making mistakes of that kind.
“He never seems to hurt anybody, really, with these gaffes,” Matthews started out about Biden, during a panel discussion on Friday night.
“The trouble is you don’t know whether there ever was a conversation between the former vice president and the four-star general where he said, ‘We could lose a vice president.'”
Related: Biden Tells Moving War Story — Which Washington Post Says He Made Up
“I mean, he’s not Ernest Hemingway,” Matthews added.
“You don’t get to make it up based upon facts. You have to have the facts.”
The “Hardball” host praised reporting by The Washington Post, which point by point the other day took apart the tale Biden wove and showed how he repeatedly made errors in the telling of his tale.
Read the entire account of what Matthews said as Fox News detailed it.
And see more information and reaction in the tweets below:
From the article: “In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.” https://t.co/24TgTphqh8
— Brit Hume (@brithume) August 29, 2019
"It was 20 minutes before dawn on D-Day and this 9-star general says to me, 'Mr. President, it's too dangerous for you to go in there…'"@MarkSteynOnline mocks @JoeBiden on @TuckerCarlson after Biden was called out for false war story on the campaign trail. pic.twitter.com/KPBhKYMy66
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 30, 2019
Not in any way taking anything away from the reporters, who undoubtedly reported it out, but this reads like the product of a pretty sophisticated opposition research dump,https://t.co/fsml8AXB47
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) August 29, 2019
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