Tomorrow Chris Matthews will have an interview with Rand Paul, and in the last couple of days he’s been saying nice things about the Kentucky senator and using him to bash the neoconservatives. I’m sufficiently experienced to know cultivation of a journalistic subject when I see it, but Matthews has also been resonating sincerely with Paul’s anti-war fervor, and doubting Hillary Clinton’s.

Last night Matthews aired Paul’s argument that the neoconservatives helped create ISIS by starting the tragic Iraq war; and Matthews said that Paul was doing a better job of discrediting the neocons than Clinton is: