Softball with Chris Matthews (I guess this is a cheerleader alert)

MSNBC News ^ | 4/28/04 | tomder55

[tomder55]

Check out this question the hard probing interviewer Chris Matthews asked John Kerry last night on his show ;'Hard Ball with Chris Matthews':

MATTHEWS: Do you think this administration and its political handlers like Karl Rove are capable of realizing they can‘t beat you on the jobs issue, they can‘t beat you on foreign policy, so they are going to drop this nonsensical stuff?

Don Evans, the secretary of commerce and the president‘s good friend, said you look French the other day. Are they going to after Teresa because she was born in Mozambique? Are they going to try to build the idea that you‘re like Mike Dukakis or you‘re like Al Gore, a little different than most people? You know what they did the last couple times.

KERRY: Chris...

MATTHEWS: Are they going to do that?

KERRY: Anything‘s possible with this crowd because they don‘t have a record to run on. They have got a record to run away from. I think the American people can see through it.

Maybe they ought to get really nervous in the White House, because I understand Karen Hughes was born in Paris.

MATTHEWS: Oh.

KERRY: They better worry about it.

(LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS: Hah! Tit for tat.

[tomder55]

As one person commented on another site : Let the American people see exactly how all these 'hard-hitting interviewers' are busy bashing Bush rather than really getting to the issues. Let them see how Matthews and Kerry are throwing one-liners at each other like a couple of frat boys with nothing better to do. Because the more they see this, the better it is for Bush.

[AngieGOP]

Chris Matthews probably believes that John F. Kerry is "really Irish".

[bcoffey]

Who is Chris Matthews?

For that matter, who is John Kerry?

[AngieGOP]

Just a couple a wanna-bees who think they are more important than they really are.

[Ole Okie]

Well, Chrissie probably titillated the entire dozen or so poor souls watching Dumbocrapic Softball.

Tit for tat, indeed!

No further comment lest I get in trouble.

[Blzbba]

I clicked this story, fully expecting to see pics of cheerleaders. Obviously, I was left dismayed...

[colorado tanker]

Let the coverage be of the "attacks" on Kerry and let him keep defending himself. He sounds whiny and defensive. Most important, he's not giving the voters any reason to vote for him, he's not getting a message out. So what if Bush has spent 70 million in ads attacking Kerry's record - that's no reason to vote for Kerry. Kerry doesn't get that because he thinks it's all about him, and not about the country and the voters.

[Darkwolf377]

I thought this was a report about a rerun/ They can't beat Kerry on jobs? Has Chris looked at the economic news? (If not, that's understandable...notice how that subject has vanished from the media in large part.) The "Fremch" comments are JOKES, and since Chris behaves as one who knows everything there is to know about politics, he should put these wisecracks in context.

This whole piece comes off like a couple of elites sitting around chuckling over how great it would be if everyone just let THEM run things. Too bad these "silly" Americans don't see them as God's gift to us.

[tomder55]

sorry about that , posting the text alone was a challenge . In time I'll figure out all the capabilities .

[Cicero]

Better looking than Chrissie or Jean, eh?

[Darkwolf377]

I thought this was a report about a rerun, a show from ages ago when the "French" crack was first made. But they're still whining it, these same folks who've been making personal attacks on Bush for four years. Matthews says they can't beat Kerry on jobs? Has Chris looked at the economic news? (If not, that's understandable...notice how that subject has vanished from the media in large part.) The "French" comments are JOKES, and since CMatthews thinks he knows everything there is to know about politics, he should put these wisecracks in context, instead of doing the Dukakis "Are you questioning my integrity?" pose. I thought he was one of these "rough and tumble" political fighters.

This whole piece comes off like a couple of elites sitting around chuckling over how great it would be if everyone just let THEM run things. Too bad these "silly" Americans don't see them as God's gift to us.

[TC Rider]

On any given night there are maybe, 250,000 viewers of Hardboiled. I believe the majority of those are conservatives like Freepers. Most of the lefties are in bars somewhere, or have the set tuned to the McLaughlin group.

I believe Hardboiled exists primarily to trip up pols so that there is a 10 second clip for the next days lamestream news.

[Darkwolf377]

Whoops, same with me, sorry for double posting--will get used to the technology the longer I'm here.

[Blzbba]

much better -thanks

[Shermy]

KERRY: ...So the fact is that, as you peeled away, I think it comes down to this larger ideological, neo-con concept of fundamental change in the region and who knows whether there are other motives with respect to Saddam Hussein.

But they did it because they thought they could. Because they misjudged exactly what the reaction would be and what they could get away with.

And they did it, that misjudgment, against the warnings of countless numbers of people, including General Shinseki, who they then isolated and tarnished. They did it against the warnings of Brent Scowcroft, Jim Baker, others.

They did it against the warnings of his father in his book about why they didn‘t go in. And they did it against the warnings of many of us who said winning the war is not the complicated part. It‘s winning the peace that‘s complicated.

And I think presidents need to be held accountable for those kinds of decisions.

Joseph Wilson's argumentation arises in the mouth of Kerry.