Chris Matthews won’t say anything bad about Martin Bashir because he’s a colleague. Oh, and Matthews says he’s not a “media critic.” Via today’s Washington Post:

EWB: Do you have any comments about the trouble that Martin Bashir got himself in?
Matthews: Not really. I work in that company. I don’t have any comment on it. I can understand that you’d ask the question, but I work for MSNBC.
EWB: Well, it’s just a question, though. I mean, he’s a colleague, he said something. You have opinions. You’d have an opinion if someone else worked at another network…
Matthews: I’m not a media critic.
EWB: Oh, yes you are.
Matthews: No, I’m not…He’s a colleague of mine.

Yeah. Not a “media critic” except for the bajillion times he criticizes Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, or anybody else in the conservative media he disagrees with.