Chris Matthews admits 'media will try to destroy' Gov. Palin in 2012 race (Updated)

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On the DNC's favorite network MSNBC, "Hardball" host Chris Matthews appeared on "Morning Joe" and predicted that Sarah Palin would run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination and outlined how she could win. Matthews also admitted that "the media will try to destroy her, of course":



NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein comments:

Note Matthews' blase "of course" appended to his observation that the MSM will try to destroy Palin. He takes it as a given that everyone knows the liberal media have it out for her.

Question: does Matthews envision himself participating in the media effort to "destroy" Palin?

Tweety has been doing his part to destroy Sarah Palin for the better part of two years, Mark. Why would the next two years be any different?

Updates...

Ed Morrissey weighs in:

"Notice that no one objects to this characterization of the media on this panel of, er, media personalities. No one questions whether that is actually the media’s job, to intentionally try to destroy political candidates. It’s all just a given. Palin runs, media will attempt to destroy her — and it serves as an implicit admission that the media did exactly that in 2008."

As does DaTechguy:

"Matthews and Barnicle are assuming that the nation won’t accept a Sarah Palin, they assume she is some kind of dunce that people will see right through. However what people see right through are the media types who think this."

"2010 may be 2004 redux but 2012 has the potential to be 1980 all over again. A Carter like president facing crises that he can’t cope with, a republican field with one or more established faces (Romney, Huck) and an outsider, a former governor who is considered by the intelligentsia just a lightweight celeb. The left was delighted when Reagan was the front runner, convinced that he couldn’t win, remember how that turned out?"

- JP