Chris Matthews: Lawyers Who Helped Overturn Prop 8 Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Are ‘My Heroes’

connor.williams | June 24, 2014
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Chris Matthews found yet another opportunity to cheerlead in the push for same-sex marriage by promoting HBO’s The Case Against 8 and recommending a book by lawyers David Boies and Ted Olson titled Redeeming the Dream. The Hardball host took every opportunity to compliment the two men and in their successful effort to overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state of California.

Rejecting any hint of impartiality, Matthews declared Boies and Olson to be “my heroes and I think heroes to the country.” Later on in the conversation, Matthews could not conceive why a conservative–or anyone–might ever oppose gay marriage aside from it being a “cultural thing,” explaining in a mocking voice:

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