Overlooking his own complicity, Matthews criticized "mainstream media" for "continu[ing] to act as if most people support the war"

MSNBC's Chris Matthews criticized the "mainstream media" for "continu[ing] to act as if most people support the war, and it's the outside weirdoes that oppose it," when "[t]hat's not true." However, Matthews himself falsely asserted just two days earlier on Hardball that a CBS News/New York Times poll released May 9 showed "for the first time" that Americans "really have a majority view that we were wrong to go to Iraq." In fact, eight CBS/Times polls dating back to July 2004 have shown that a majority of respondents believe the United States should have "stayed out" of Iraq. Read more