Now the RNC Went and Done it - They Pissed Off Matthews

Looks like the RNC got caught playing fast and loose with Hardball videos - and Chris Matthews is not pleased. Sent along by Joe Trippi...

August 16, 2004 | 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight on Hardball, Chris wanted to set the record straight about a sound bite from a Hardball show that aired on January 6, 2004. The soundbite in question was used in an RNC web-video recently to claim that Kerry had 'flip-flopped' on his Iraq war position and that he was the "anti-war" candidate.

In addition, President Bush seemed to make reference to this Hardball bite when he claimed in Sioux City on Saturday that John Kerry "declare[d] himself the anti-war candidate."

Chris felt the interview back in January with Kerry was taken out of context. He posed this issue to Bush-Cheney '04 Sr. Strategist Matthew Dowd and Sr. Advisor to the Kerry-Edwards campaign, Tad Devine.

They have links there to see all this mess. Nice Work, RNC. Getting Chris all angry and stuff. And thanks.