CHRIS? – AT 7:14 A.M. ET:  Dearies, do you remember when Chris Matthews revealed that a tingle went up his leg when he heard Barack Obama speak.  Apparently, the tingle is gone, the leg is numb, and Chris is speaking in ways we'd never expected.   It's significant because we've seen some real movement in journalism recently as Obama's failures become too obvious to ignore.  From Mediaite: 

The ISIS slaughter of Egyptian Christians moved Chris Matthews to say tonight that the United States is being “morally humiliated” by this terrorist group. Matthews said the clear goal of capturing the beheadings on video is to stir anger, and admitted the U.S. really has no choice but to act.

After all, he said, doing nothing and moving on with our lives without taking strong action is not an option, because “the alternative is too sick, too un-American, too inhuman.”

Matthews also said that we can’t “act like America… is not being morally humiliated, because it is.” And America, he concluded, like it or not, has a responsibility and a moral authority to act.

COMMENT:  Maybe some people are starting to realize how they misled us in 2008.  I hope so.  A Fox News reporter said yesterday that the questions at White House news conferences were becoming tougher.  And some of Obama's defenders are not standing up for him, as before.

February 17,  2015