So I’m going to expand the idea “new directions in progressive media” (our tag line above) to implicitly include, “bad directions for the right wing media.” Because a) it’s fun! and b) it’s important to see where the right wing media is cracking.

In light of this, I’m going to give Chris Matthews a virtual high five (never thought I’d do that!) for calling out Kevin James, a crazy right wing radio host on yesterday’s edition of Hardball.  BTW–when I asked myself “just who is this Kevin James?” Wikipedia had already been updated with the incident.  Love it! 

I first saw the video on Talking Points Memo yesterday, and as one poster on The Houston Chronicle’s citizen journalism/member blog noted today:

In a very funny, yet sad exchange on Hardball yesterday, host Chris Matthews humiliated right wingnut radio jabber Kevin James over the “appeasement” uproar stupidly started by GWB in Israel yesterday.  This guy looks about 16 years old and is like a giant Chatty Kathy - just pull the string and he repeats the same talking points in order ad infinitum.  Chris couldn’t control the conversation, or this guy’s mouth, so he tried to quizz him on appeasement by Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of Britain in the ’30s, and the Munich Agreement where Britain ceded part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler.  This guy didn’t even know who Chamberlain was, how he got tagged with the appeaser label, or what he did.After making a complete fool of himself, Kevin just started repeating “appeasement; faster and faster linking the accusation to Obama.

But you know what? Words can not do justice. Just watch the video. Enjoy.