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?

[Viennacon]

Should I see a therapist? I have a strange desire to murder Chris Matthews using a shovel. What a liberal shill POS.

[blueunicorn6]

Never forget that Chris Williams was successfully replaced by an orange traffic cone.

[jeffc]

Liberals know they can do things like this because the “news” media will not call them on it, and will cover for them if the “conservative” media try to show the hypocrisy.

[pallis]

If Chrissy were Ted Kennedy, and David Brooks were Dodd, they would squeeze Obama between them like a hot dog. Yummy, yummy, yummy, they have love in their tummies, and that’s not all.

[blueunicorn6]

Why, Chrissie.....I didn’t know you were a singer! Please sing us your theme song, WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES.

[Prov1322]

How much alcohol does this POC consume each day?

[Toespi]

One of the wealthiest clowns in the world.......net worth 16M, Annual salary 5M. This is what is made public, so you know his worth is much more.

[wvguy]

...Matthews insulted potential GOP voters, comparing them to the racist TV character Archie Bunker.

Lotsa folks loved Archie. He had a HUGE TV following. Chrissie - not so much.

Chrissie, you're a meathead - dead from the neck up!

[South40]

[jdsteel]

HE MAKES $5 MILLION A YEAR?!?!?!?!?!

[South40]

http://www.newser.com/story/79565/jon-stewart-mocks-chris-matthews.html

Jon Stewart begins his mockery of Chris Matthews at the 3:48 mark.

[wvguy]

HE MAKES $5 MILLION A YEAR?!?!?!?!?!

Drink, drool, drivel and drone. Nice gig if you can get it!

[tina07]

one sick ‘little’ man, very little...

[tina07]

nah, I’ll shine the shovel for ya

[Wings-n-Wind]

[ReaganÜberAlles]

Dear God,

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

Your humble servant,

REAGANÜBERALLES

[nicmarlo]

Chrissy, did you/do you sing this song whenever you talk about past wealthy presidents, senators, governors, like um.....

DEMOCRAT John F. Kennedy (the Kennedy family estate was worth nearly $1 billion dollars)

DEMOCRAT Ted "the swimmer" Kennedy ($163 million; and see above)

DEMOCRAT John Kerry (Estimated wealth: $193 million)

George Washington (Estimated net worth: $525 million)

DEMOCRAT LBJ (Estimated net worth: $98 million)

Fascist DEMOCRAT Michael Bloomberg (Estimated wealth: $22 billion)

DEMOCRAT Al Gore (Estimated wealth: $100 million)

DEMOCRAT Nelson Rockefeller (Estimated wealth: $1 billion)

DEMOCRAT Samuel Tilden, Gov. NY, Candidate of US President (Estimated wealth: $200 million)

DEMOCRAT James Cox: Gov. of Ohio, Candidate for US President (Estimated wealth $350 million)

DEMOCRAT Jon Corzine (Estimated wealth: $300 million)

Compared to the above, Romney barely competes!

Mitt Romney: Estimated wealth: $190-250 million

[DesertRhino]

As opposed to the pauper Obama? Who traveled the world by 18, went to a string of private schools culminating in some sort of free ride at Harvard. And then the wife with a 300k community relations job at a hospital. And now hes worth over 10 million, and buying a house worth 35 million in Hawaii?

That poor guy?

[catfish1957]

Uh , kind of showing my age, but I remember Rockefeller beng a Republican. A RINO one though