Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, displayed some faux modesty Monday night when Freedomworks CEO Matt Kibbe suggested the recent drop in Tea Party opinion polls just may have resulted from the excessive bias permeating throughout MSNBC and the mainstream media itself. Matthews immediately fired back:

I don't control the polls, Matt. C'mon, you know that! We effect some people, perhaps in their thinking, perhaps. But the idea that the main body of the American people is affected in its thinking by one or two T.V stations is wrong. I don't believe people are that moved by an opinion I express. They have their own thinking...

This probably would've been a good time for Kibbe to suggest that Matthews head down to his local bookstore to pick up a copy of Left Turn by Tim Groseclose. Indeed, the book's studies reveal the heavy sway media bias (left leaning) has on the average American -- 25 points on a scale of 100 to be exact. With numbers like those, Matthews should be taking pride in the results that he and his colleagues worked so hard for, but a little modesty never hurt anyone. Though, he could be referring to the low ratings MSNBC's received in recent months.