Dear Chris Matthews

I guess I had forgotten about it, but apparently it wouldn't let me go. The other day on your show you confronted a birther as to how he could explain a hospital birth announcement for President Obama in Hawaii if he wasn't born there. That would have been fine, but then you blathered on about there had been no newspaper birth announcement for you since apparently your family wasn't affluent or influential enough** to warrant one. Well Chris, that has nothing to do with it.

Checked your Wiki out and you were born in Philly in '45, big city right smack dab in the middle of the Baby Boom. I'm guessing if you had a researcher check into it, you probably did have a birth announcement in the paper (they usually go by hospital), and if not, I'd credit the probable hike in births during that period as to why it wasn't.

In my local Michigan paper when I was born in '61 (same year as the Prez) there was an announcement, and as to influence or affluence, my folks were first year off the boat immigrants. When my brother was born 8 years later, not only did he get a birth announcement, they even tossed in a hospital bassinet picture. (Some areas also showed the pictures of newborns in their local newscasts back in those days.)

Today, on the nearby Elkhart Truth paper website and in their dead tree version, you can see the birth announcements for the past week.

So, you were wrong. Money, affluence or whatever the word you used had nothing to do with it. It's just something some places did, and others didn't.

Oh, and by the way, exactly where did you think this edge of poverty college student interracial couple got this affluence you supposed?

**Video isn't up yet of the segment so I'm not sure what word he used, but that was the intent.

Audio- Rush Limbaugh: "I don't believe anybody in this country is dying because of a lack of health insurance"

Lack of health insurance leads to 45,000 excess deaths annually Via MM.

Glenn Beck: We've never had a president not sworn in on the Bible.

It never ceases to amaze me that big media yapping heads can pull "facts" out of their butts, yet bloggers are the ones that get smeared with the "unsubstantiated" meme. Try making a mistake on a blog and see how long you get away with it! (at least a blog that has comments) Wonder if Beck got a big raise when he moved to Fox?

Looks like the reporters at WaPo understand how to use teh google. Think Progress for vid.

Obama Isn't the First President to Retake Oath -- or Forgo Bible