Matthews: Sarah Palin issued a Facebook "fatwa" against Peeping Joe

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Not only has all the cheese slid off of Chris Matthews' saltine, but the salt went with it. NewsBusters managing editor Ken Shepherd reports;

Calling your political opponents Nazis can get old after a while.

That's why one needs to mix it up, perhaps by suggesting that they're akin to the radical Islamic clerics that inspire terrorism.

Just ask MSNBC's Chris Matthews.

During the "Political Sideshow" segment of his June 1 program, the "Hardball" host compared Sarah Palin's Facebook page posting about author Joe McGinniss renting the house next door to a "fatwa" aimed at "rev[ving] up anger at the author" from amongst her "mob" of followers...

Fatwa? Strange, we read her Facebook posts on the matter, and we didn't see any call by the governor for her followers to bring her the head of Joe McGinnis on a platter. In fact, Gov. Palin didn't even tell her Facebook friends, Obama style, to "get in his face."

PMSNBC should change the name of Tweety Matthews' program from "Hardball" to something which more closely matches his thinking. We suggest "Screwball."

- JP