The Dumbing Down of the Media; Part Two.

From HardBalls TV:

This exchange, for example, is just mindless, ignorant drivel, offered by media figures who presumably know better. Here’s MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Time magazine assistant managing editor Michael Duffy:

MATTHEWS: Joe Biden…said the other day, yesterday, that the people like Al Gore and John Kerry, the last two Democratic candidates for president, said — created an image that they were somehow — we’re looking at it right now — that if they were — as he put it, when they’re sitting next to the pew, that maybe he really doesn’t respect your view. In other words, they’re not really religious people. They don’t share your evangelical views and your deeply religious views. They’re too secular.

DUFFY: Yeah. Well, I think, for the last 25 years, Democrats have done everything they can to alienate religious voters, faith-minded voters, and the –

MATTHEWS: Not a smart move politically.

DUFFY: Oh, no. And it seemed to be part of the program. They did it to woo a secular left that they thought didn’t want to have anything to do with that.