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

What is the 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?  

Or those who think that Sarah Palin's name shouldn't have come up in Sherri Johnston's arrest.  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?

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 both cases, Matthews and Palin, these are public figures who have influence over millions of Americans' opinions.  Both actively project images where this doesn't happen in their families.  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, thatis when laws change.
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