Matthews: I Began as a WFB Conservative

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

In the course of offering a tribute to William F. Buckley, Jr. on this afternoon's Hardball, Chris Matthews made a surprising revelation: that he came to political consciousness as a WFB conservative.

You'll find the transcript of the Hardball host's remarks below, but I'd encourage you to view the video, here. See if, like me, you're struck by the heartfelt nature of his comments.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: If you want to influence someone, get to him or her in high school. It's my experience that people at that age are the most impressionable, the most searching for guidance, for example, for purposes. It was in high school that I came under the charm and the influence of William F. Buckley, Jr., the dashing, charismatic young conservative who wrote God and Man at Yale, McCarthy and His Enemies, and founded the wistful, precocious, companionable monthly, National Review. As a high schooler, I could tell you which drugstore got National Review first. I went to hear Bill Buckley at a meeting of the Montgomery County Young Republicans. It was from National Review that I gained my early affection and appetite for political philosophy and argument.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

WFB ping to Today show list.

[Thebaddog]

Chris is still a pussy.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I’ll cut you some slack.

That headline is its own barf alert.

[penelopesire]

I don’t believe him!!

[Bahbah]

Chris Mattews learned nothing from William F. Buckley. Buckley was a gentleman.

Matthews is a hack.

[pnh102]

Did he get a tingle in his leg?

[Fred]

Now it is confirmed... He is a sellout...

[geo40xyz]

Chris Matthews’s words DO NOT pass my ‘smell test’..

Plus he trying to ride on WFB’s coattail and that’s a damn shame:-)

[NonValueAdded]

Matthews: I Began as a WFB Conservative and then something went terribly, terribly wrong.

[IM2MAD]

I thought he meant a “White F’n B.....d”. That I would believe.

[coconutt2000]

Something about this “revelation” smells like week old fish.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Sorry, dont buy it.Chrissy,you have always been a pussy.

[popdonnelly]

What went wrong?

[SoldierDad]

Yep, that was my first thought.

[Calvin Locke]

And Cap’n Dan, the News Man was a Marine, HRC was a Goldwater gal....

[EDINVA]

and Hillary! started as a Goldwater Girl. Go figure.

[TexasCajun]

Can we say that?

Hardball w/ Spit’n Sissy Matthews is just one big Queef!!

[SE Mom]

Poor Chris.

Unlike many of us who were libs in our mis-guided youth and went on to GROW UP and become conservatives, Chris did it bass-ackwards.

[BilLies]

No need to figure...How do I get ahead (no bubba jokes)..what way is the wind blowing (no bubba jokes)..