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Chris Matthews, host of the MSNBC program "Hardball," (a venue which rivals "Air America in popularity) was on his high horse last week castigating conservatives who followed Rush Limbaugh's directive to cross party lines and vote for Hillary Clinton in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. According to Matthews, they should be "ashamed of themselves" for ostensibly sullying the alabaster institution of American democracy which, he reminded us, was bought by "the Founding Fathers and all of the soldiers who fought for this country's freedom" etc. and should not be thus trivialized.

In truth, it is Matthews and his kind who ought to be ashamed, first for his sanctimony, but even more so for his hypocrisy. Matthews is able to conduct his program as he does because those same "Founding Fathers and soldiers" secured for the citizens of this Republic the rights of a free press. The Founders well understood the critical importance of information in the hands of the public as the ultimate check on government action.

Yet Matthews, perhaps more than any other modern pundit, thoroughly trivializes this great institution by supplanting any serious consideration and discussion of the current issues with his rapid-fire rudeness.

Moreover, the value of the press to a free people is contingent upon the dissemination of truth. However, the modern liberal media relentlessly seeks to suppress truth in order to present the "news" in a manner that might promote its inarguably leftist agenda. In so doing, it becomes little more than a willing propaganda wing for the Democrat Party. So much for a worthy embodiment of the founding principles of the country.

Nevertheless, all of the sanctimony and phony outrage from Matthews and his kind is understandable, given their intense frustration with Rush Limbaugh's advocacy of Republican crossover voting which he dubs "Operation Chaos." That the effort has continued to date is proof of the disintegration of the nation's governing principles, as evidenced chiefly among the Democrats.

Free speech, even from so powerful an individual as Limbaugh, could do little to upset a well defined and established political movement. And the current discord among the Democrats merely confirms that they can hardly claim to be such.

Against Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and their consuming ambition, the increasingly frantic calls for "reason" and devotion to the Party above their individual interests, even when voiced by party chairman Howard Dean, are exercises in futility.

Rush Limbaugh clearly identified and seized the opportunity to fan the flames of the current Democrat Party havoc as a result of his insight and genius for analyzing the political landscape. Ultimately however, it is the very nature of liberalism itself that created the sordid tinderbox for him to ignite. And with each passing day that it continues, "Operation Chaos" provides the nation with a excruciating glimpse into the realities of liberalism and the mindset of the American left.

Hardly anything new, this liberal "crack up" has been coming for quite some time. But to put it into proper perspective, "democracy" or our representative republic, should be considered as it was originally intended, and then as it has degraded at the hands of corrupt politicians in general, and the current crop of liberals permeating government and the media in recent years.

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