an article by LEONARD PITTS JR.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...ION02/805240321

"Don't read this column yet.
First, I want you to do something. Google "Chris Matthews + Kevin James." This will bring up video of the latter, a conservative L.A. radio pundit, being questioned by the former last week on MSNBC's "Hardball." You must see this video."

The long version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK0d8ENS__c

The short version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMMklhX74_w

"For the Internet-deprived, here's a recap: James goes on "Hardball" to comment on a speech President George W. Bush gave before the Israeli Knesset in which he accused unnamed politicians -- read: Sen. Barack Obama -- of a policy of appeasement toward terrorists. Bush evoked the memory of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister whose attempted appeasement of Adolf Hitler made him one of the more thoroughly discredited figures of the 20th Century.

James goes off like fireworks, blasting Obama's willingness to talk to the nation's enemies and accusing him of policies detrimental to Israel. And Matthews asks him a simple question: What did Chamberlain do? You're defending a speech that equates Obama with him, so what was his sin?

James couldn't answer. He could bluster, sputter and spread fertilizer like a gardener, but he couldn't answer. This became painfully obvious each time Matthews doggedly repeated the question.

What Chamberlain did -- he gave Hitler a chunk of Czechoslovakia in exchange for what he thought was "peace in our time" -- is not some "Jeopardy!" obscurity. It is, rather, a pivot on which turned perhaps the bloodiest tragedy in human history. Yet Kevin James knows nothing about it.

If anything more aptly symbolizes the regression of conservatism since the age of Reagan, I am not aware of it.

Some will say it's unfair to paint thoughtful conservatives with the same brush one uses to tar this blowhard. I would suggest the very need to use that modifier speaks volumes.

There was once a day when conservatism was driven by principles: smaller government, less-intrusive government, strong national defense, fiscal sobriety. But in the years since that day, the putative heirs to Reagan have trampled not just those principles, but also principle itself.

The ideology that wanted small government now presides over expanded government; the one that wanted less intrusion now seeks to regulate bedroom behavior; the one that demanded strong national defense has run the military into the ground; the one that championed fiscal sobriety turned a $236-billion budget surplus into a $400-billion deficit...................."

Modern day conservatism all image no substance

saw mathews pimp slap him live (all he needed was his pimp powder)

it was awesome

That was the first time I ever saw Chris look intelligent. His laugh needs to go!