Chris Matthews Blames Egypt Riots on George W. Bush and Iraq War

Good to see with Crazy Keith gone Chrissy-poo is picking up the BDS slack over at MSNBC:

It's a metaphysical certitude that whenever anything happens in the Middle East, the media will quickly blame former President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.


Not missing the opportunity to do so, Chris Matthews began the 5PM installment of "Hardball" Friday connecting the riots in Egypt to a man that has been out of office for two years


CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Trouble on the Nile.


Let`s play HARDBALL.


Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews in Washington.


Leading off tonight: Unrest in Egypt. Proving the Iraq war wasn`t needed, these protests in Egypt, as well as in Yemen and Tunisia, are all aimed at dictators supported by the U.S. The demonstrations have not yet turned anti-American, but they could. These are the events the Bush administration hoped to encourage by lying about weapons of mass destruction and invading Iraq. A live report from Richard Engel at the scene coming up. And we`ll stay on this story throughout the hour as events warrant.


Riots and a potential revolution in Egypt prove the Iraq war wasn't needed?


How does one come to that conclusion? Who on Matthews' staff decided that the perfect way to lead off Friday's program was by linking the unrest in Egypt to Bush and Iraq?


Didn't these folks learn anything from their rush to judgment over this month's shootings in Tucson?


This seems especially important as Matthews' guest through much of the program - NBC's Richard Engel reporting from Cairo - didn't say anything about these riots being in any way related to Iraq, anti-Americanism, or Bush.


From what Engel could tell, this is all about the high poverty and unemployment rates in Egypt along with continued disgust with the corruption of the government.


Matthews himself said, "The demonstrations have not yet turned anti-American."