http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/chrismatthews/ en-us Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:35:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046076/posts I have my issues with Pat Buchanan. Anyone who writes a book arguing we should have found a modus vivendi with Hitler isn't necessarily high on my list. Still, when it comes to spot-on analysis of the political scene, Pat is without peer. But when Buchanan—his own opposition to the Iraq war notwithstanding—argued on this evening's Hardball that McCain's support for the surge is a winning issue for him, it drove Chris Matthews into a frenzy, so much so that he was reduced to a reality-defying scream that the surge hasn't worked. Air America's Mark Green was along for the... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046076/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:35:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042704/posts You'd think Chris Matthews might wish Howard Wolfson well on the news that the former top aide to Hillary Clinton has joined Fox News as a Dem analyst. Think again. The Hardball host has ungraciously predicted that the move to Fox could spell the end of Wolfson—and in doing so revealed his own pop-culture roots. Here was Matthews on this evening's Hardball: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Fox News loves presenting itself as the alternative to the other news networks. Roger Ailes, the guy behind the network, figures that the Hillary campaign needs a new home, now that she's out of the race... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042704/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 01:42:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028807/posts Vote Obama: it's a matter of life or death! It isn't much, if any, of an exaggeration to say that's how Chris Matthews characterized the choice confronting voters this November. Matthews not only described voting for Obama as something to be done to "save your life," he analogized voting for McCain to a decision to remain on the Titanic rather than man the lifeboats. The Hardball host was a guest on today's Morning Joe. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028807/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:31:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2028024/posts Chris Matthews may be an appeaser when it comes to confronting radical Islam; but he is tough as nails, apparently, when it comes to standing up to his own American TV news network. New York media industry insiders say the liberal MSNBC anchor and talk show host of Hardball and the Sunday morning program named for him has threatened to resign if the network is the first to air a rumored video recording of Michelle Obama ranting about "Whitey." In fact, the sources add, Matthews, who clearly supports Barack Obama, has threatened to resign if the network aggressively pursues the... China Confidential http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2028024/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:23:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2027954/posts Commentary OK. I'll acknowledge this. Tim Russert, the host of NBC's Meet the Press, has developed into a good journalist. But just a few years ago, it would be easy to say Russert's roots were showing and I'm not talking about hair color. You see, before suddenly becoming a journalist, Tim Russert worked as a political hack for the Democratic Party. Russert was a former counselor to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and New York Governor Mario Cuomo after that, before being hired by NBC in 1984. It's clear to anyone who watches Russert today he has come a long way.... RFFM.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2027954/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:20:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026257/posts Chris Matthews took to the air on MSNBC's "Hardball," just moments after former Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko was convicted on fraud and money laundering charges, but Matthews wasn't about to let that bit of breaking news ruin the moment, as he never mentioned the conviction once on the hour long program. However, he did find time, during the 5 PM EDT edition of Hardball, to gush about Obama's "magic moment" with his wife Michelle: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let's go now to Roger Simon. Again your thoughts on last night's magic moment for a lot of Americans, in fact, me included. I,... newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026257/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 03:00:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026183/posts Chris Matthews looked at Barack and Michelle last night, and saw Jack and Jacqueline. Opening this evening's Hardball, the host was almost overcome by emotion in describing the scene of Obama's victory speech last night in St. Paul, Minnesota. Here was Chris, discussing the matter with NBC's Andrea Mitchell, Roger Simon of Politico, and Ed Gordon of BET. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let's dwell for one moment at least on the man who won last night. I swear. I had no idea this would ever happen in America. I don't know if it will ever happen again. This is a trend, I... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026183/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:36:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026101/posts During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's Democratic primaries, co-anchor Chris Matthews poked fun at Larry Craig's bathroom arrest during an interview with Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar as he referred to Republican plans to hold their presidential convention in St. Paul, and joked that Craig would be starting his book tour at the airport. Moments later during an interview with Clinton campaign advisor Lisa Caputo, he joked about the Minnesota bridge collapse as an embarrassment Republicans would have to face when they come to the state: "We're having a little bit of fun here tonight with the opportunity of Republican... News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026101/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025747/posts If Joba Chamberlain's debut as a Yankee starter didn't go that well last night, Joe Scarborough wasted no time this morning in demonstrating that, after a stint on the DL, he still has his stuff. Within minutes of reassuming his host's role, Scarborough unleashed a high hard one in the direction of Chris Matthews's chin. Scarborough, back from an extended leave spent with his wife who's experiencing a difficult pregnancy, reported that the medical situation seems to have stabilized. Readers will surely join in wishing Joe and his family well. The opening segment was, naturally, devoted to a discussion of... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025747/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:25:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025509/posts CHRIS MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you Roger, thank you. What a night! I'm getting giggles! It's so exciting here -- Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell -- because there's news in the air. News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025509/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 22:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023229/posts "I'm not fit to be a Senator. I'm not fit to live. Expel me! Expel me! Not him. Every word that boy said is the truth! Every word about Taylor and me and graft and the rotten political corruption of our state. Every word of it is true. I'm not fit for office! I'm not fit for any place of honor or trust. Expel me!"—Claude Rains as the corrupt Sen. Joseph Paine in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" Chris Matthews has broken out a Jimmy Stewart/Mr. Smith Goes to Washington analogy to praise Scott McClellan's book and assess its impact.... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023229/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 22:44:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022672/posts I haven't seen Chris Matthews this excited since a Barack Obama speech sent that special sensation skyward. The Hardball host is in an absolute frenzy over Scott McClellan's allegations. So much so that guests on this evening's show are having a hard time expressing themselves as Matthews expounds at length. Ari Fleischer finally called Chris on it. And while David Gregory didn't express his ire in words, he made a facial expression that left little doubt as to his annoyance at being cut off in mid-sentence. The screencap shows Gregory's grimace. But be sure to view the video here to... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022672/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 22:38:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022410/posts MSNBC, which bills itself as "the place for politics," is being pummeled by political practitioners. "It's an organ of the Democratic National Committee," says Steve Schmidt, a senior strategist for John McCain's campaign. "It's a partisan advocacy organization that exists for the purpose of attacking John McCain." Ed Gillespie, President Bush's counselor, says there is an "increasing blurring" of the line between NBC News and MSNBC's "blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann." Terry McAuliffe, chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign, says Matthews has been "in the tank" for Barack Obama "from Day One" and is practically... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022410/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 13:00:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021806/posts If NewsBusters were ever to use in its promotional material a photo this unflattering of Hillary Clinton, we'd be accused of the worst kind of sexism, of unfairly attacking a candidate based on her looks rather than her views. Check out the image of Hillary that MSNBC used in its promo of tonight's Hardball with Chris Matthews that aired at 5:59 AM EDT today just before Morning Joe came on the air. Hillary in full wattle, lit like something in a horror flick about to emerge from a closet wielding an ax. If there's a less-becoming snap of Hillary in... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021806/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 10:57:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018959/posts Even before I heard Chris Matthews mention it, it struck me too . . . Among the visuals a big-time campaign carefully choreographs is the human backdrop when the candidate speaks—particularly when it's a matter of an important, nationally-televised speech. So it's very hard to imagine that it was coincidence that the crowd visible behind Hillary this evening as she gave her Kentucky primary victory speech . . . was comprised 100% of people of pallor. Kibitzing with co-anchor Keith Olbermann immediately after Clinton's comments, Matthews mentioned it. CHRIS MATTHEWS: I thought a giveaway line was "who is best positioned... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018959/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 01:33:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018319/posts Can it be coincidence that on the day it's reported that Keith Olbermann is feuding with Chris Matthews, the Hardball host goes out of his way to shine up the clown prince of Countdown? As NewsBuster Noel Sheppard has noted, the New York Post, in the course of reporting today that Olbermann has been "lashing out" at his network's talking heads, states that Olbermann's "feuding with 'Hardball' host Chris Matthews is nothing new." So on this evening's Hardball, how does Matthews promote tomorrow night's primary coverage that he will be co-anchoring with Olbermann? CHRIS MATTHEWS: Remember, tomorrow night with Keith... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018319/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 22:33:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016989/posts Maybe the Obama-inspired tremor that began in Chris Matthews’ leg has traveled up to his head and done some damage. Last night on Hardball, Matthews was discussing–what else?–President Bush’s unconscionable Obama attack in the Knesset. The conversation with conservative radio host Kevin James wended round to the career of Neville Chamberlain, and Matthews began to excoriate James for being ignorant of history. Things got very heated, and James fired back, recounting recent historical examples of America’s failure to counter terrorist acts against the U.S. When James mentioned Bill Clinton’s lackadaisical response to the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in... contentions http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016989/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 18:41:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016697/posts Curious what Chris Matthews' brother thinks about the Hardball host entertaining a run for Senate? Ponder no more. "I think it is great," Republican Jim Matthews, a Montgomery County Commissioner, said in an interview Thursday. "We are all surrounded by dead people who just plod along and don't even investigate their dreams. It is kind of neat to see a guy at the top of his game contemplating a complete change in direction," brother Matthews said. The prospect of a Chris Matthews run for Senate has come up before, and a 2010 challenge of Republican U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has... Baltimore Sun's The Swamp blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016697/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 03:54:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016545/posts A Hardball epic . . . Message to Chris Matthews: when ripping a guest for his lack of historical knowledge, try to avoid making a history mistake of your own in the same segment. It happened on this afternoon's Hardball. After lambasting a guest for not knowing his Neville Chamberlain history, Matthews surmised that the attack on the USS Cole in October, 2000 happened under . . . President Bush. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016545/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 22:37:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013769/posts Heavens to Murgatroyd! Chris Matthews has reduced Hillary Clinton to a cartoon character. Snagglepuss to be precise. "Exit stage left" was one of the Hanna-Barbera animation's catchphrases, and Matthews used it to wonder whether Hillary was prepared to leave the presidential race, given her flagging political fortunes. Here's how Matthews put it at the top of today's Hardball: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Meanwhile, listen carefully. That sound you hear is the slow falling of electoral delegates, of superdelegates, to Barack Obama. Seven more came aboard today. So with Obama way ahead in elected delegates, now trails Hillary Clinton by only four-and-a-half superdelegates.... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013769/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 21:41:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013286/posts Was it Hardball—or the World Series of Poker? Interviewing Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson today, Chris Matthews accused the Clinton campaign of playing the white race card. Just minutes later, when Wolfson accused Matthews of discriminating against Puerto Rican voters, Chris protested "don't play that card on me." Matthews began the showdown by rolling tape of Hillary repeatedly telling USA Today that she had stronger support than Obama among "white" voters. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013286/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 22:37:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012119/posts Now no longer the center ring for the traveling Democratic presidential nomination circus, Pennsylvania's inventive political community has discovered a new favorite political parlor game to while away the brisk springtime evenings: will Chris Matthews, the irrepressible host of MSNBC's Hardball, step down from his pundits perch to run for the US Senate against Arlen Specter in 2010? To a remarkable degree, speculation abounds over this possibility in the Keystone State. The indications that Matthews will run are abundant. His MSNBC contract runs out next summer, and both he and the network show signs they might be ready for a... RCP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012119/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2008 20:28:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008395/posts Newsflash: look for Chris Matthews to endorse John McCain any time now. After all, the Hardball host apparently believes that only veterans have the right to call for military action. How else can you read Matthews's mocking mention of Bill Kristol today? Here's the entirety of the Hardball host's discussion, on this evening's show, of Kristol's NY Times column of today. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Is Republican Bill Kristol showing the Republican strategy for the next few months? Here's what he writes in today's New York Times as one of their regular columnists. Quote, "we see the liberal media failing to give... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008395/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:44:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007109/posts You're a member of the MSM, and you're a Barack Obama supporter. But I repeat myself. More specifically, you're Chris Matthews. What better way to promote your guy's candidacy than to claim that Republicans would really rather run against Hillary? That's just what the Hardball host did on this afternoon's show. Here's his exchange with the–in my opinion–very impressive Republican strategist Todd Harris, who worked for McCain in 2000, and with Dem strategist Michael Feldman. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007109/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:06:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006601/posts During MSNBC's live coverage of Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary, co-anchor Chris Matthews brought up the possibility that the North Carolina Republican Party would run an "overtly racist" campaign against Barack Obama ... Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the April 22 MSNBC coverage of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary from 11:21 P.M.: ... News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006601/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:43:18 GMT