Matthews: Newt a 'devil' sent to 'kill' Obama

The Washington Examiner ^ | December 13, 2011 | Joel Gehrke

[2ndDivisionVet]

Remember when liberals blamed Sarah Palin's rhetoric for the shooting Rep. Gabbie Giffords, D-Ariz.? Hold that thought, and consider that MSNBC's Chris Matthews developed a sustained allusion to Goethe's Faust in order to call Newt Gingrich a "false god of hatred" and a "devil" sent by the Republican primary voters to "kill" President Obama.

"Why are [Republicans] on the verge of enlisting in the Army of Newt?" Matthews asked rhetorically last night. "Because he voices in cold, nasty, deadly tones the words of their contempt. Because he an opportunist ready to seek any route to his opponent's heart and thereby kill it. He is a political killer, a gun for hire."

Republicans desire more than anything "the few minutes of national television in which the President and his wife stand before them in defeat," Matthews said, explaining that "that's why they're offering up their partisan souls, why they're ready to bow down before this false god of hatred. They will give their souls to Newt - their compact with the devil - to get what they most want - pain on their enemy."

To recap: Chris Matthews described Gingrich as a "devil" and a "false god" during a segment in which he criticized Republicans -- and the former Speaker chief among them -- for the "voic[ing] in cold, nasty, deadly tones the words of their contempt."

Matthews' use of such violent (metaphorical) imagery would be less notable if he hadn't faulted Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., for contributing to an atmosphere of weaponry in politics, and if he hadn't criticized the Tea Party for bringing weapons to Tea Party rallies, during a segment on Giffords, while deploring "the violent level of the right-wing in this country."

[2ndDivisionVet]

Another civil war, much worse than the last, seems more and more likely every day.

[Old Sarge]

FUCM...

[ronnie raygun]

Making Obama God like

[sagar]

Chrissy does not gets thrill up his panties anymore.

[beethovenfan]

Still got that leg tingle, Chrissie?

[outhousepatrol]

Bartender! Drinks for everybody!

[cricket]

Agree. ..these people are not unfortunately; ‘their own worst enemy’. They are ours, however. . .

[SnuffaBolshevik]

I’d like to cross paths with Tingles some day.

[Jukeman]

I’d like to see someone stick a needle in Matthews ass so we could watch him blast off to the moon. To the moon Chrissy, bap, zoom!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

[donhunt]

I guess he got his tingle back.

He should attend the looney bin for a while.

[choctaw man]

“Devil” “Kill” - those words are not the warmer, kinder, gentler rhetoric that we were reminded to adopt, soon after the Arizona shootings...lol

[Twotone]

Chris Mathews needs to ease up on the drugs. Either that or increase the meds.

[exPBRrat]

Cris is nutz, just let him babble on.

[Lazlo in PA]

What's the bet that there was a half drunk bottle of cheap Bankers Club vodka under Chrissy's seat during this mindless diatribe? I often wonder if PMSLSD is a news network or an insane asylum with their own broadcast facility to keep the inmates occupied.

[LibLieSlayer]

Do you remember when Zell Miller told pi$$y matthews that he was lucky... matthews asked why... Zell told him, “You are lucky that they outlawed dueling... I would call you out into that NY street and we would settle this like men”. New York... Republican Convention... the one where ahhnold called the dims “Girlymen”.

LLS

[Doogle]

[forgotten man]

I don’t understand why you people watch that a##&^*e. Why do you do that to yourselves? People who hate that a##&^*e must comprise a significant percentage of his audience. He is an obnoxious clown and lickspittle.

[no-to-illegals]

Given the political climate, would call this a ringing endorsement of Newt.

[GeronL]

Newt compromised and cosponsored more bills with Democrats while he was Speaker than any other GOP leader in modern history.

But of course he is a partisan hater. lol.