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Hail and farewell - "This is my last column", Chris Matthews
SF Chronicle ^
| 9-1-02
| Chris Matthews
Posted on 09/01/2002 4:03:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Washington -- For 15 years, I have been among the grand and lucky few to write a newspaper column. It's something I had wanted for a long time, something I owe to one bloke: Larry Kramer.
He asked if I wanted to write a column. I said, as if kneeling at the altar of my life, "I do," and it has made all the difference.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chrismatthews; farewell; iraq
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Dear Chris,
Just go AWAY !
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posted on
09/01/2002 4:07:00 AM PDT
by
tet68
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, how very interesting. Could it be that this is timed to coincide with the elections? What a coincidence!
Great catch!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Good. Now if we can get him off the TV too..
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posted on
09/01/2002 4:08:51 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
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To: ovrtaxt
Notice the last sentence - Chrissy is getting his own Sunday morning TV show on NBC.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Summary: I suck as a writer because I'm wrong most of the time.
To: Pistolshot
But, what, pray tell, would he sit on if he did this? Good point. He can't sit, and rest, on his laurels for he has none. Perhaps he could sit on an egg and hatch a new idea. What do you think?
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posted on
09/01/2002 4:25:38 AM PDT
by
Movemout
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I seems pepople are so gleeful that his column is disappearing they are missing that last little sentence.
Is he going to be on in the Today Show time frame? Before or after Meet the Press? What is this show about? And how come Drudge hasn't scooped this?
I am quite curious.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I remember having dinner in Belfast on the eve of the Good Friday peace referendum. Maureen Dowd [The Ditz] of the New York Times, Mary McGrory [The Crone] of the Washington Post, Mike Barnicle [The Liar] of the Boston Globe and I all sat around the table. We all had our roots in Ireland, and I loved it...But I can't kid myself. I never made their world. They were the best writers in the business.To shoot that low ... and miss.
Chris Matthews gives hubris a good name.
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posted on
09/01/2002 4:26:31 AM PDT
by
logos
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Everyone knows old Bolsheviks don't die, they're cancelled.
To: Miss Marple
'Zactly! With a Sunday morning chat show on NBC, a lot more people will hear his "neo-lib" drivel than ever read his pathetic "neo-lib" columns.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I remember Sen. Ed Muskie the night he won his last election back in 1976. Oh. So we go back to the roots of his demise.
Actually I like Matthews. Don't agree with him....but he is sometimes willing to cross party lines when it comes to critism.
To: Movemout
I was making a sarcastic remark on WHERE Chris Matthews brain was located along with his head. But you do have a point.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Matthews:I hate this war that's coming in Iraq. I don't think we'll be proud of it. Oppose this war because it will create a millennium of hatred and the suicidal terrorism that comes with it. You talk about Bush trying to avenge his father. What about the tens of millions of Arab sons who will want to finish a fight we start next spring in Baghdad? Um, the hatred and suicidal terrorism was created when the Koran was written, Chris.
What about the tens of millions of Arab sons who will be enjoying the fruits of FREEDOM next spring you idiot!!
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posted on
09/01/2002 4:32:38 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The wisdom of middle age has taught me I can't have -- or do -- it all.
Uh huh, but since I can make $200,000 a year writing columns versus $3 million a year on TV, guess what folks, momma didn't raise a dummy. Why can't he just come out and be honest about it?
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posted on
09/01/2002 4:34:01 AM PDT
by
doosee
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Old Peace Corps commandos never die, they just get Sunday morning TV shows.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hopefully the exhuberant, sweating Chrissy will discover that his television audience has shrunk to the size of Williamsburg, Virginia and he'll be forced to go back into political service.
Surely he'll be able to find another old broken down, alcoholic, Irish-American for whom he can again carry water.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hard to hide "blame America first" liberlalism in a column...such as this tombstone just penned. Hopefully your television ratings will plummet as quickly as your fast-talking gibberish.
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posted on
09/01/2002 5:02:49 AM PDT
by
PGalt
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