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Chris Matthews Scoffs at 'Irrelevant' Rush Limbaugh
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Posted on 02/21/2008 12:19:51 PM PST by RatherBiased.com

Appearing on Thursday's 1pm hour of MSNBC News Live, "Hardball" host Chris Matthews couldn't resist taking a few swipes at Rush Limbaugh. After anchor Peter Alexander played a clip of the conservative talk show host discussing the New York Times story on John McCain, Matthews irritably claimed, "Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant here. Irrelevant. He doesn't know anything more than what he read in the New York Times."

The radio clip, from todays edition of Limbaugh's program, featured the host urging the presidential candidate to learn a lesson from the front-page New York Times story speculating about a improper relationship with a D.C. lobbyist. In the clip, Limbaugh argued that Republicans should learn never to trust the liberal-leaning news media as they will always turn to help Democrats.

Matthews's apparent annoyance at Limbaugh might have something to do with being mentioned in the clip. At one point during the monologue, Limbaugh asserted, "[McCain] has thought Chris Matthews and these other people in the drive-by media, are his friends. They aren't."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chrismatthews; msnbc; rushlimbaugh; talkradio
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To: RatherBiased.com
"Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant here. Irrelevant. He doesn't know anything more than what he read in the New York Times."

He doesn't know about love! He doesn't know about that feeling that spreads up his leg in the aura of god-man brought to earth!"


81 posted on 02/21/2008 1:57:14 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: RatherBiased.com

More people hear the irelevant Prissy Chrissy when Rush plays a clip than ever hear him on DNC TV


82 posted on 02/21/2008 2:00:00 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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To: RatherBiased.com

Chris Matthews is a self-pimping media whore who’s no more than a turd stain on the bottom of Rush Limbaugh’s shoe.


83 posted on 02/21/2008 2:00:45 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Obama and Hillary - it's right there in black and white)
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To: RatherBiased.com

Chrissy should talk...he is the lightweight among talk show hosts.


84 posted on 02/21/2008 2:03:23 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: RatherBiased.com

Chris Matthews is a moronic, tiresome, juvenile horse’s ass with no audience and no intellect who only reaches the outside world with his fifth rate garbage out of an act of charity and political bias by NBC and Bill Gates’ news dabbling who pays for this colossal waste of time.


85 posted on 02/21/2008 2:07:54 PM PST by Imperial Warrior
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To: RatherBiased.com

Irrelevant??? Doesn’t Rush have the largest audience in the history of radio? I couldn’t even tell you the station or time Chris Matthews comes on. He’s a sorry excuse if I ever saw one.


86 posted on 02/21/2008 2:11:51 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: RatherBiased.com

I think Rush and Chrissy Poo should do 5 rounds in a UFC fight, with the lose being bannished forver from radio, tv, or print media.


87 posted on 02/21/2008 2:22:26 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: RatherBiased.com

Tomorrows New York Times headline:

‘Sources: Lobbyist was Surrogate
Mom for McCain-Alien Baby!’


88 posted on 02/21/2008 2:24:41 PM PST by DGHoodini (Happy Leap Month!)
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To: Miss Didi
Jorge, Rush never “urged” us to vote for or against any candidate.

Right. If you say so.

89 posted on 02/21/2008 2:30:01 PM PST by Jorge
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To: SkyDancer
"Anybody watch Hardball?????"

Is this "Hardball" some kind of baseball show?
90 posted on 02/21/2008 2:32:48 PM PST by FortWorthPatriot (No better friend, no worse enemy)
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To: LucyJo
No, he has always encouraged everyone to vote as they please, but to make it an informed vote.

No kidding...but this is after he railed on McCain endlessly as being the nominee who would destroy the Republican party.

91 posted on 02/21/2008 2:33:57 PM PST by Jorge
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To: ari-freedom
Your mistake is confusing polling data for an electoral strategy. You are arrogantly assuming your base will automatically turn out for you. Not necessarily. They did not turn out for Repbos in 2006.

Elections are not won in opinions polls, they are won in the Electoral College. Being popular in an opinion poll 8 months before an election does not necessarily translate into winning enough state to win a National Election

92 posted on 02/21/2008 2:39:16 PM PST by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: RatherBiased.com

The green eyed monster got hold of Chris.


93 posted on 02/21/2008 2:39:25 PM PST by Jane Austen
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To: Jorge
Actually Rush said that McCain and the Huckster would ruin the party. Just informing his audience, that's all.
94 posted on 02/21/2008 2:44:51 PM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: RatherBiased.com
RUSH: They played almost the full monologue, at least two or three minutes of it, from the first hour of this program, and now they are discussing, Chris Matthews, "Why are we listening to Limbaugh?" (laughing) The network is playing these sound bites of me. (laughing) It's surreal. It is surreal. (cont.)



The Love Affair Is Over

McCain & Gray Lady: Love Story | Shanklin
95 posted on 02/21/2008 2:45:55 PM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Miss Didi

RUSH: "It's as predictable as Ted Kennedy finding a bar at happy hour, that the Drive-By Media would turn on a Republican candidate."

The Story Is the Drive-By Media Turning on Its Favorite Maverick
96 posted on 02/21/2008 2:47:40 PM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Jorge

No. Get your facts right. Rush simply laid out the facts, as he sees them, concerning the Republican candidates and how their nomination would impact the general elections and the Republican Party as a whole. The fact that a McCain nomination has so many negatives isn’t Rush’s fault. The fact that Rush discusses the McCain negatives logically and intelligently is not an “attack” or some kind of bashing of McCain - it is what it is - the truth.


97 posted on 02/21/2008 2:58:37 PM PST by GLH3IL (This so called 're-deployment' is really a vote catching program. General Patton - 1944)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; AlexW

MSNBC

Chris Matthews
FNC

Ann Coulter


98 posted on 02/21/2008 3:00:47 PM PST by devolve (------- --------Bob Dole without the honesty? ---------------That`s a tired old idea!)
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To: MNJohnnie

the GOP really didn’t have a strategy in 2006. they thought they could just spend $ on pork and that would be the ticket to victory
McCain will probably come up with a national agenda, like the contract with america. Balance the budget, overhaul the tax code, reform entitlements. Those are big things conservatives want.


99 posted on 02/21/2008 3:16:18 PM PST by ari-freedom (Never a dude like this one! Obama's got a plan to stick it to The Man!)
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To: RatherBiased.com

Hey, Chrissy. Hillary’s got your nads in a vise. Who’s irrelevant? And what are your numbers compared to Rush?


100 posted on 02/21/2008 3:18:37 PM PST by aruanan
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