Multi-Millionaire Chris Matthews Mocks Mitt Romney By Singing 'If I Were a Rich Man'

NewsBusters.org ^ | September 18, 2012 | Scott Whitlock

[Kaslin]

In a bizarre display, Chris Matthews began his show on Tuesday by singing "If I Were a Rich Man" as a way of mocking Mitt Romney for being wealthy. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Chris Matthews makes an annual salary of $5 million dollars.

Matthews opened the program by announcing, "Let me start tonight" by singing a selection from Fiddler on the Roof. Highlighting a leaked video of Romney at a private fund-raiser, he then derided, "It's one thing to be rich and have the majority of voters convinced you're out to help the rich. Is there anything dumber to be caught pandering to your fellow rich?" Later, while talking to journalist Joe Klein, Matthews insulted potential GOP voters, comparing them to the racist TV character Archie Bunker.

Chris Matthews Turns To Song To Slam Romney

The Hardball host slimed, "Will Thurston Howell talk like we've been getting from the elite talking to the other elite, will that sell with Archie Bunker?"

It was "conservative" New York Times columnist David Brooks who on Tuesday began calling Romney Thurston Howell.

Using liberal logic, what does the very rich Matthews know about the working man?

A transcript of the September 18 show open can be found below:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me start tonight with, [starts singing] 'If I were a rich man.' Dumb. It's one thing to be rich and have the majority of voters convinced you're out to help the rich. Is there anything dumber to be caught pandering to your fellow rich? "Hey, buddy, give me $50,000. I'll give you dinner and tell you what I really think." And what does Mitt Romney really think about that 47 percent out there, that ones who will never-- you will never catch at a party like this? He called them a bunch of free loaders who want breakfast in bed, who want the people at the $50k dinners to foot the bill. Well, tonight the morning after, and yes, we've got more tapes of that infamous dinner to remember. That tony get together where the Republican nominee for president of the United States shared his deepest beliefs about the two kinds of people in this country, those who give, like him, and those who take and loaf and vote for Obama.

5:20

MATTHEWS: Will Thurston Howell talk like we've been getting from the elite talking to the other elite, will that sell with Archie Bunker? Will that sell with a guy making 20 or 30, killing himself with two jobs to get the income. Is he going to like that talk that everybody who isn't making a lot of money is a bum?

[SnuffaBolshevik]

"Please let me meet Chrissy Mathews in an airport hallway someday soon. Please."

Or on an Acela to or from D.C. or NYC.

Beating the stuffing out of the speed bag even as we speak.

[kreitzer]

I think it’s time to ignore Chrissy completely.

[Paperdoll]

C.M. One of the chief Scum Bums!

[popdonnelly]

There’s no news on that frickin’ show, Matthews is just there to re-elect the leftists in Washington.

[Terry Mross]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Chrissy knows the words to lots of musicals.

[popdonnelly]

Maybe they could tell you the significance of the shovel.;)

[popdonnelly]

In fact, I get a picture of the therapist handing you a shovel.

[workerbee]

Oh geez.... thanks for THAT mental picture!

Seriously though -- am I misremembering, or wasn't Matthews one of the semi-coherent, partially critical journalistos during the Clinton impeachment? One of those you'd say, "yeah he's a lib, but...."

What the heck happened to this guy? Did the leg tingle really get that far into his brain?

[a fool in paradise]

This summer Joe Biden told an audience that he’s middle class (he said something along the lines of “middle class, like ‘us’!”).

It’s an Orwellian nightmare as the pigs claim to be just like all the other barnyard worker animals they lead in revolt.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Chrissy would do so much better singing "When I Put My Mascara On!" from "La Cage aux Folles"

[ILS21R]

Chris Matthews.... hmmm that reminds me. I need to put toilet paper on my shopping list.

[nicmarlo]

you’re right, I got carried away. But, like you said, he was less a republican in his policies and ambitions than he was a democrat. :)

[freedomrings69]

Who pays Chris Matthews $5 mil. What a waste of money.

[timestax]

bump

[Red in Blue PA]

A song more apt for this libtard: ‘If I Were a Man’

[timestax]

[jimfree]

Did this moron sing Mississippi Mud with its original lyrics when Obama was elected?

[reg45]

If I were a moron
I could get a job on Em Es N Bee Cee
Let's all see how stupid we can be
Here on em Es N Bee Cee.

[Pollster1]

Keep in mind that Obama made $1.7 million last year. The far left fringe doesn’t mind rich, they just mind rich people who disagree with them on whether socialism is good.

[ETL]

I had a close up encounter with “Chrissy” several months ago in Manhattan. I was stopped at a red light in my classic Cadillac and he was crossing the street. He stopped and bent over to look closely at the grill to see what make the car was. He acted like a real wuss, all giggly.