Matthews Gives Harry Reid Platform to Bash GOP Senate Over SCOTUS Nomination, Lie About Democrats' Filibusters

Ken Shepherd | February 18, 2016
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Read more at NewsBusters | Chris Matthews gave guest Harry Reid (D-Nevada) a softball interview tonight wherein the Senate Minority Leader blamed Republicans on a lack of comity in the world's greatest deliberative body and insisted Democrats had always opposed extreme delay-and-deny tactics for presidential judicial nominations. Although this is patently false, Matthews didn't challege his assertions, even though Reid cited the case of Priscilla Owen, a Bush appointee who languished for four years before confirmation thanks to Democratic delay tactics.