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'Hardball' Accused of Going Soft: GOP Advised to Boycott at Convention
NY Post ^

Posted on 08/23/2004 3:28:37 PM PDT by GulliverSwift

August 23, 2004 -- REPUBLICAN insiders are giving cable-TV political host Chris Matthews the cold shoulder — believing that he has gone over to the Kerry camp — according to a published report.

U.S. News and World Report says Matthews protested too sharply about the Bush campaign's editing of an MSNBC "Hardball" interview with Kerry posted on the party's negative site, www.kerryoniraq.com.

As a result, GOP officials are quietly advising Republicans not to go on his show.

" 'Hardball' may seem more like badminton during the Republican National Convention," the magazine quoted one GOP insider as saying.

"Hardball" executive producer Tammy Haddad didn't know her show was being blackballed, she said.

"We beat everybody up," she told the magazine.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: dreadhead13

Hope you have fire-retardent hair!


22 posted on 08/23/2004 3:52:30 PM PDT by Hayzo
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To: dreadhead13

The proof was in the book they were discussing which he ADMITTEDLY HAD NOT READ.


23 posted on 08/23/2004 3:53:36 PM PDT by somemoreequalthanothers (When the government seeks to give the people all they want, it will soon take all they have.)
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To: dreadhead13
He may have been a little terse, but I suspect he would do the same thing to a left wing shill.

A little terse? Either you're very niaive or a troll.
dreadhead13 - Since Aug 18, 2004
24 posted on 08/23/2004 3:54:47 PM PDT by oh8eleven
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To: dreadhead13
Since Aug 18, 2004

At least you lurkers are doing a little bit better job and not getting banned immediately. Five days and counting.

25 posted on 08/23/2004 3:54:56 PM PDT by GulliverSwift (John Fitzgerald Kerry-- Dream on Ketchup Boy)
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To: Petronski

WHY WAS THAT ATTACK ON MS. MALKIN NOT A HATE CRIME????
HAS ANY DISTRICT ATTORNEY CONSIDERED CHRIS MATHEWS FOR THIS POSSIBLE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY


26 posted on 08/23/2004 3:58:55 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: dreadhead13
she was making some pretty serious accusations with seemingly no proof.

Go back to MoveOn.org and tell them you infiltration attempt has failed.

27 posted on 08/23/2004 3:59:00 PM PDT by GulliverSwift (John Fitzgerald Kerry-- Dream on Ketchup Boy)
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To: Soylent Democrats
Uh oh, she seems "too young," don't you think?

For Hardball, of course, you have to be mature, and at least beyond the third grade level.

28 posted on 08/23/2004 4:02:20 PM PDT by GulliverSwift (John Fitzgerald Kerry-- Dream on Ketchup Boy)
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To: GulliverSwift

Who's the woman standing between Chris & Andy Rooney?


29 posted on 08/23/2004 4:02:46 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: GulliverSwift

I don't think he should be forgiven for his LAZINESS in not even reading the book before trying to slam it -- or for the fact that he was TOO STUPID to realize that "self-inflicted wound" does not mean that it was done intentionally.


30 posted on 08/23/2004 4:03:01 PM PDT by Ed_in_NJ
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To: dreadhead13
Matthews may have been a little short with Malkin,

Yeah, well he was a downright bully with the swift vet who came on before her. He looked like a jackass, which is another way of saying Democratic party hack.

31 posted on 08/23/2004 4:03:18 PM PDT by old and tired
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To: dreadhead13
he was doing his job as a reporter by making her support her argument

He did nothing of the sort. He not even once gave her more than 2 seconds to explain her position. On top of that, the conversation was about a subject of which he was completely ignorant. Not only did he neglect to read the book, he stole Michelle's from the green room.

32 posted on 08/23/2004 4:03:25 PM PDT by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
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To: dreadhead13

Speaking of left wing shills, welcome to FreeRepublic.


33 posted on 08/23/2004 4:03:28 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: GulliverSwift
Matthews: Are you saying the wounds were self inflicted?

Malkin: Well, I...

Matthews: What's your favorite planet? Mine's the sun 'cause its the biggest.

34 posted on 08/23/2004 4:04:33 PM PDT by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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To: Petronski

There is no fair shake for Bush coming from ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN,MSNBC or any of the so called "Mainstream Media". Bush is fighting the largest corrupt political machine in the history of American politics.


35 posted on 08/23/2004 4:05:15 PM PDT by gunnedah
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To: dreadhead13

Bullshit. He wouldn't let her get a word in edgewise. He's a OBVIOUS partisan hack/shill for Kerry. He's on my boycott/blackball list forEVER.


36 posted on 08/23/2004 4:05:55 PM PDT by Capricam
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To: GulliverSwift

Every Republican should go on Hardball.

And talk non-stop about their favorite Michelle Malkin columns.


37 posted on 08/23/2004 4:06:30 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: GulliverSwift

I used to like Chris, but he seems to have become much more partisan -- just like the MSNBC web site. The way he treated John O'Neill and Malkin was beyond the pale. Hardball and MSNBC seem to have completely lost all objectivity in their drive to get Kerry elected. BTW, even if you're watching other shows on MSNBC, your still adding viewers to MSNBC, thus helping to keep the current blatantly pro-Democrat version of MSNBC viable...

On the Swift Boat / Kerry issue, the MSNBC web site has been so slanted, it's laughable...


38 posted on 08/23/2004 4:06:41 PM PDT by white_wolf
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To: oh8eleven; Admin Moderator

Troll; ZOT® him! Call the AdminModerator...


39 posted on 08/23/2004 4:07:11 PM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm (• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

Silly.


40 posted on 08/23/2004 4:09:12 PM PDT by Bluntpoint
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