Last night Chris Matthews aired his heavily promoted hit piece, “The Rise of the New Right” on his MSNBC show. For anyone who has been following Matthews and his MSNBC colleagues Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, this faux-documentary broke no new ground and offered no surprises.

It was the same-old-same-old: Tea Parties plus Michele Bachmann plus Dick Armey plus Sarah Palin plus Rush Limbaugh plus militias plus etc., etc. equals — TAH-TAH! — Timothy McVeigh! Yes, the hour-long special concluded with this grave warning:

What’s scary today is the language being thrown about. Words have consequences. You cannot call a President’s policy “unAmerican”, as Sarah Palin has done, or refer to the elected government as a “regime”, as Rush Limbaugh persists in doing, or the President as a foreign usurper as the birthers do without giving license on some day to real trouble. This April was the 15th anniversary of Oklahoma City…

Get it? Somewhere another Timothy McVeigh is listening to Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh and is just waiting in the shadows for the right time to act. Read more »