MSNBC Boss Calls Chris Matthews a 'Statesman,'

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[chessplayer]

The AP gets it right with this headline: “Chris Matthews now the broadcaster that conservatives love to hate.” AP reporter David Bauder begins: “To his boss, Chris Matthews has become a statesman. His critics probably have other words.”

MRC assistant research director Geoff Dickens had other words in this piece, but get a load of MSNBC president Phil Griffin on this “statesman” business:

"He's as good as he's ever been," said Phil Griffin, MSNBC president. "He's at a place in his life where he's really comfortable in his own skin. He's a statesman. He has so much knowledge and I think he understands it better. He's always been great, but I really think he's been at the peak of his game."...

"He is sort of the model figure for who we are," Griffin said. "He doesn't stick out loving politics and being passionate about politics. It comes across in everything we do ... And that's Chris."

[Freestate316]

Hope I can make it to the bathroom in time!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Come on chief! Shouldn’t that be “statesperson”? It’s a metrosexual world.

[Doogle]

[From The Deer Stand]

I always enjoy a good laugh to start off the day.

[JustaCowgirl]

Well, if John Quisling Kerry is a statesman, I guess Chris Matthews is, too.

[JustaCowgirl]

Well, if John Quisling Kerry is a statesman, I guess Chris Matthews is, too.

[BenLurkin]

As much as Professor Irwin Corey was.....

[BenLurkin]

[presently no screen name]

but I really think he's been at the peak of his game.

Wonder how many bottles of booze Griffin gives him to keep him there?

[tumblindice]

DEMOCRAT Statesman. Here's another one:

[tbpiper]

I guess that makes him the perfect broadcaster for the perfect American.

[corlorde]

A statesman of Libtopia. A general in the Progressive Army. A Captain in Marx’s crime family.

That’s Chris.

But more like a useful idiot.

[MrB]

“State’s man”

yep, a man who worships the State, that’s him.

[PLD]

[layman]

Apparently Mathews isn’t the only drunk at MSNBC.

[puppypusher]

MSNBC would’nt know a Statesman if he walked up to them and slapped their President in the face.What an unlikeable bunch of clowns running a fourth rate network.

[Lazamataz]

Phil Griffin has stated openly that MSNBC is the "the place to go for progressives". Contrast that with Fox, who only presents all viewpoints, and "You decide". Griffin lives in the political echo chamber called Manhattan, NY.

Frankly, I'm surprised. I would have thought that the ad-hominum-loving, fact-challenged, on-the-verge-of-shouting-at-all-times, tossed-out-of-his-home-country British wanker Piers Morgan would have been Griffin's first choice, over that sputtering, spittle-flecked half-drunk Matthews.

[Gene Eric]

LOL, I wonder if the Comcast execs also think that race baiting jackwagon is a “statesman”.

[Fireone]

“He’s as good as he’s ever been”

At least, they got that part of the story correct!