the same chris mathews after this, praises roberts as bold, defiant, and a hero who upheld obamacare.> yes, i'm beginning to feel that thrill up my thigh. and look, here is a bias, so obvious. chief justice roberts agrees with the liberals and upholds the president's signature legislation and suddenly he's a hero, but that's not the way the legal immediate yar covering t the immediate media see his as specious and about-face and jeffrey smith on a legal scholar who was a first amendment scholar, jeff stone, forgive me, said, you know, justice ginsburg took him apart and called his reasoning horrible broccoli or broccoli horrible. and i think that ultimately, when people step back and look at what he has done, a great many media analysts are now going to have to focus on the fact that he switched rationals to do a very political thing. he did not want the supreme court to knock down this signature piece of legislation. but some conservative media say he just narrowly reads the constitution and said that, essentially, if the congress and the administration want to pass bad law it's not

. >>> elsewhere in washington msnbc's chris mathews will host this year's gerald r. ford journalism award. winners are honored for coverage of the presidency and national defense issues. >> and happy birthday to angelina jolie and russell brand, born the exact same day 37 years ago. >>> all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." >>> finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. soccer superstar david beckham opens up in an exclusive interview about his new baby and his plans for the olympics, and celine dion shares her thoughts on motherhood and kate winslet's critique on her signature song. >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. have a good one. hey, your high speed internet here at home... and on the go... ...with some really big news

chris mathews on hardball. would think that chris matthews on hardball would ask her a hard-ball question. instead, hard-ball chris matthews says, how can i hymn you win? >> sean: he can't help himself. i gave the keynote speech the talkers convention, new media seminar, great group. i try to go every year. i gave the keynote speech. i talked about three issues that problems that confront the radio industry. the last one was that the media matters of the world that write the scripts for nbc news every night, that when they go after conservatives that there is a big red button, that they are going to be vulnerable. after i spoke...: big eddy schultz spoke. he seemed to agree with me. listen to this. >> we start attacking advertisers because of what somebody said, it's the wrong thing to do. i made a phone call that was not off the record. i called david brock at media matters and said, david, this is ed schultz. i need you to know what's happening. this is what's happening. there is a lot of people getting hurt.