Chris Matthews led off his Thursday Hardball program with a monolog trashing the CPAC convention happening from Thurs.-Sat. of this week.

Matthews must have gotten his information from the short clips presented by the mainstream media, because very little of what he presented to the Hardball audience was true. Insteady, Matthews resorted to name calling more appropriate for a schoolyard than network TV.

Let's play "Hardball." good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Let me start tonight with this. Do you remember the bar scene in "Star Wars" with all the wild-eyed creatures from every part of the solar system? Today in Washington the whole tapestry of weirdness was reenacted at the annual convention of something called CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Committee. Well actually conservative doesn't quite capture this out of this world jamboree. At CPAC, it's the far-out sharing space with the further out, a place for the crazy card to fill up with the usual suspects, Cruz and Paul and Rubio and Bobby Jindal while gassing up with the craziest bunch of ideas since Rick oops Perry couldn't remember the list of government agencies he wanted to kill, and ended up yelling, as I said, oops. The leader of the lets torch this place pack today was Ted Cruz, the Joe McCarthy imitator who belted out a plan to kill the IRS a plan which the crowd applauded wildly, unaware of the small detail that Ted's plan would kill the very system of tax write-offs that finances happening like this CPAC convention in the first place. It turns out as I said, that just about every organization in the crazy room today, the Tea Party Patriots, the NRA, the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, the American Conservative Union, et cetera, et cetera; all benefit the tax write-offs and exemptions all courtesy of today's IRS system. The brilliant Ted Cruz promised those blithely unknowing folks that he could simply abolish. Having trashed the right wing group's financial base, Cruz then lit up the room by trashing nearly every Republican nominee of the last quarter century. He said they lacked principle which he made clear abolishing not just the IRS, but all kinds of right wing good east like any regulation of Wall Street and any health care program. Nothing, nothing must be done either to stand in the way of the rich or stand up for Americans who are struggling today. It was pure Koch Brothers populism being sold out there today. Words and phrases crafted to heat up the peanut gallery, translating to cold cash for the all patched billionaires who approved the script.

As a member of the media covering the convention for TruthRevolt, I can verify that much of what Matthews said was a misrepresentation of the actual proceedings.

CPAC stands for the Conservative Political Action Conference, not committee as Matthews called it. Most of the people attending are grassroots political activists, some who save up all year to be able to afford the transportation, hotel and tickets for CPAC. This is not the rich elite as described by MSNBC. Matthews suggests that the entire program is being run by the Koch Brothers. Koch Industries is one of the sponsors, but there are over 40 sponsors of CPAC, just as Hardball has a few dozen sponsors.

Cruz didn't say he wanted to remove all regulation of Wall Street; he said he wanted to get rid of the Dodd-Frank bill. He did say he wanted to get rid of Obamacare, but not all regulation of healthcare. Cruz called for the elimination of the IRS but also said instead of the IRS there should be a flat income tax rate and a user-friendly tax return that can be filed on a postcard.

If Matthews wants to keep bringing up the same gaffe made by Rick Perry during the 2012 primary season, does that mean he approves of people brining up his infamous "tingle down my leg" comment he made about Barack Obama in 2008?

Matthews does a disservice to his audience with his demagoguery described as news.