Chris Matthews' In-Law Arrested In Multimillion Dollar Pot Bust

And yutz describes you to a T.

I ask you again, what is your hostility and rejection of HP's efforts to describe or define the connection about? 

Is it an effort to protect Chris Matthews from embarrassm­ent, someone with whom you share no personal relationsh­ip?  Are you afraid that people will think that Sarah Palin is in the drug business because her daughter's baby daddy's mother is?  Notice how a term has been invented for males who impregnate girls that they aren't married to?

I don't understand what your problem is with this.  Unless, of course, it's you who is the yenta, the busybody sticking her nose into others' business, deciding what it is they should and shouldn't know.  Where do you draw the line on what is news, i.e., informatio­n that people use to form opinions about the public's business, and what isn't news?  

In the two cases you're concerned about (Matthews and Palin), both are public figures who have influence over millions of Americans' opinions.  Both support policies that don't afford you and me the same kind of rights of privacy you want extended to Matthews. 

Those who would like to see the drug war ended, and marijuana legalized (or if you'd like to see the Patriot Act ended because it's being used for prosecutin­g drug crimes, not terr0r!sm)­, the surest and quickest way is to personaliz­e it.  It's easy for those who have no stake in it to shrug it off (e.g. Chris Matthews because he's had no one close to him facing prison time for drugs and isn't aware of the effect on the entire family).  But when enough of the 'establish­ment elites' lives have been touched, a critical mass, that is when laws change.  
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