As most people did while watching “The Daily Show” last night, Noel Sheppard had a nice laugh at the expense of bad predictions by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.
In a short August 13 write-up, the Associate Editor at NewsBusters couldn’t keep his joy to himself when reporting on a segment by John Oliver, guest-hosting for Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show“, who mocked MSNBC host Chris Matthews (emphasis mine):
On Monday, John Oliver while substitute-hosting Comedy Central’s Daily Show marvelously illustrated Matthews’ propensity to make horribly wrong predictions concluding, “Chris Matthews doesn’t just routinely have egg on his face – he has a chicken copping a squat onto his face”
While the segment (which I watched) was hilarious, and showed several clips of the liberal host making political predictions that turned out to be way off-base, Sheppard documenting an MSNBC host being wrong about something in politics is ironic, considering how mum him and his organization was when basically every single prominent conservative pundit on television. This includes everyone on and not on Fox News, Republican politicians and several polling organizations who were completely and utterly wrong with their predictions of Mitt Romney winning the presidency.
Here is the laundry list of examples for the worst predictions of the 2012 election:
- Mainstream pundits
– George Will
– Ari Fleischer
– Joe Scarborough (Politico Op-Ed)
– David Brooks
– Peggy Noonan (WSJ)
– Larry Kudlow
- Fox News
– Karl Rove (WSJ/Fox News)
– Fred Barnes (Weekly Standard)
– John Bolton
– Newt Gingrich
– Dick Morris
– Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard)
– Steve Forbes
- Other Commentators
– Rush Limbaugh
– Glenn Beck
– Wayne Allen Root
– Ben Domenech (RedState.com)
– Dean Chambers (UnskewedPolls.com)
– Michael Barone (Washington Examiner)
– Jay Cost (Weekly Standard)
– Ronald Kessler (Newsmax)
- Politicians
– Sen. Pat Toomey
– Gov. John Kasich
– Gov. Bob McDonnell
– House Speaker John Boehner
– Former Gov. Tom Ridge
– Former Gov. Jeb Bush
– Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor
- Polls
– Mason Dixon
– Suffolk
If it wasn’t bad enough how wrong the right-wing was predicting Romney to win, a few supposed well-known liberals people also went down that route, as well:
- “Liberals“
– Dylan Byers (Politico)
– Dave Weigel (Slate)
– Dan Rather
As we said, not a peep from Brent Bozell, MRC or NewsBusters on calling out these dead wrong predictions, though.
And even more coincidental, guess who had one of the most accurate predictions… not only was Daily Kos/SEIU/PPP number two out of 28 other polling outfits, but NYT’s FiveThirtyEight blog, run by Nate Silver, that so many pundits discarded (a few of which are listed above), accurately predicted the results for all 50 states.
Considering how all the pundits that NewsBusters usually drools over were so wrong, Chris Matthews being wrong is definitely not the consensus of his fellow liberal pundits. Right-wingers can hate him all they want, and bring up his infamous “leg tingling” about Obama to mock him, but there is nothing better to mock than when so many conservatives were wrong all at the same time.
Don’t expect Noel Sheppard to make that distinction, though. All he knows is one liberal at MSNBC has been wrong many times before, so, considering his hatred of the network, Sheppard only sees red and goes into full attack mode.
Demonizing the other side is all NewsBusters knows to do, anyway,
(h/t to DailyKos)
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