REPUBLICAN insiders are giving cable-TV political host Chris Matthews the cold shoulder – believing that he has gone over to the Kerry camp – according to a published report.
U.S. News and World Report says Matthews protested too sharply about the Bush campaign’s editing of an MSNBC “Hardball” interview with Kerry posted on the party’s negative site, http://www.kerryoniraq.com.
As a result, GOP officials are quietly advising Republicans not to go on his show.
” ‘Hardball’ may seem more like badminton during the Republican National Convention,” the magazine quoted one GOP insider as saying.
“Hardball” executive producer Tammy Haddad didn’t know her show was being blackballed, she said.
“We beat everybody up,” she told the magazine.