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"I always try to remind myself of Saul Alinsky when I get confused," Matthews said on his "Hardball" show, speaking to guest Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, on the topic of President Obama's health care plan.

MSNBC’s Hardball is slowing down – as 2009 is coming to a close, the program is seeing some of its worst ratings of the year. Chris Matthews has been a mainstay of the MSNBC line-up for years, but December is shaping up to be one his worst months compared to the rest of the cable news landscape.

Here is video of Chris Matthews and a panel naming what they think are the worst "plagues" of 2009...(Video)Howard Fineman was on the panel and said "it is hard not to name Glenn Beck as the plague of the year" because of his "shameless name-calling and stirring up of the worst in our society." Chris Matthews also attacked Palin, saying that during the campaign Palin said she "wished they had done more of the Rev. Wright stuff, more of that ethnic stuff, the racial stuff, to John McCain's lasting credit he refused to play the racial card which is easy...

Here is video of Pat Buchanan telling Chris Matthews that it was his party that was opposed to ending slavery...(Video)Chris Matthews asked Pat Buchanan "where are you on the slavery issue to start with, you're pretty much against that now right? You've stopped your foot dragging on that one right?" Pat Buchanan responded "on that one Chris, I'm with the radical Republicans who passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. It was your party Chris that was the opposition."

Here is video of Chris Matthews talking with USA Today's Susan Page and Politico's Jonathan Martin about Sarah Palin's book and speeches...(Video)Matthews asked Susan Page "does it bother the press that somebody comes in there who's book was written for them?" Susan answered "no." Matthews said "when somebody claims to be an intellectual leader that's going to lead this country with big ideas and lead us in the right direction and puts their name on the cover of the book, shouldn't they have written it?" Matthews said Sarah Palin "campaigned on her antipathy to the press, trashing Katie Couric for...

Insults against West Point by MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews are part of a pattern of left-wing denigrations against Americans serving in uniform. It's a motif indicative of an anti-military mind-set that is as dangerous as it is rude. Discussing the West Point audience's response to President Obama's speech about Afghanistan, Mr. Matthews quipped on Tuesday: "I saw a lot of, if not resentment, skepticism. I didn't see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there that the president chose to address tonight. And I thought that was interesting: He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his...

Here is video of Chris Matthews "deeply apologizing" for saying that Obama "went maybe to the enemy camp" last night about West Point. (Video) Here is the video of him calling West Point the "enemy camp" last night.

Matthews showed this clip on tonight's episode of Hardball. The show used Matthews voice and dialogue from a previous episode of Hardball and created an exchange between Harry Reid and Matthews. Matthews comment after showing the clip, "am I really that bad?" Watch the clip and you will see why Matthews was not flattered by the portrayal, though he never seems to mind the attention:

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: FORT HOOD NEVER HAPPENED!November 25, 2009It's been weeks since eyewitnesses reported that Maj. Nidal Hasan shouted "Allahu akbar" before spraying Fort Hood with gunfire, killing 13 people. Since then we also learned that Hasan gave a medical lecture on beheading infidels and pouring burning oil down their throats (unfortunately not covered under the Senate health care bill). Some wondered if perhaps a pattern was beginning to emerge but were promptly dismissed as racist cranks. We also found out Hasan had business cards printed up with the jihadist abbreviation "SOA" for "Soldier of Allah." Was that enough to conclude...

At the top of Friday’s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews discovered the reason for President Obama’s political difficulties in recent months: “President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there....He’s exposed and vulnerable. His poll numbers are dropping. Is he just too darned intellectual? Too much the egg head?” Later in the show, Matthews talked to Atlantic Media’s Ron Brownstein and USA Today’s Susan Page about Obama’s great flaw. He began by wondering: “I’m not attacking intellectuals because I do appreciate their contribution – but when politicians begin to get a little too intellectual,...

Believe it or not, he’s not just spinning here. He’s sincerely criticizing Obama for some of his dopier decisions lately; he just can’t help letting his admiration for The One get in the way and filter it as a matter of excess virtue. None of the problems he cites are necessarily — or actually — the product of too much deep thinkin’. Obama’s bow to Akihito was, in fact, stupid since it had the opposite intended effect. His deliberations on Afghanistan are fine, but should have been conducted six months ago given McChrystal’s warning that the war would be lost...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s dispute with Rhode Island Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin attracted national attention on Sunday when Kennedy said that Tobin had asked him to refrain from receiving communion because of his pro-abortion views. MSNBC television talk show host Chris Matthews debated Bishop Tobin today about abortion, law and Rep. Kennedy’s Holy Communion:

MSNBC host Chris Matthews, MSNBC reporter Norah O’Donnell, and MSNBC guest Joan Walsh shamelessly played the race card against Sarah Palin and her book-buying audience last week. In Michigan, O’Donnell smugly noted that Palin’s fans were “largely white — almost no minorities in this crowd.” Matthews parroted the line, assailing the “white crowd.” Walsh likened the gathering to a “paranoid tea party.” Matthews hammered away at the “monochromatic” scene. Ahem. Check out the masthead of MSNBC TV, “The Place for Politics.” Wear sunglasses and SPF 30 lotion. You’ll need protection from the blinding white glare:

"I think there's a tribal aspect to this thing, in other words, white vs. other people."

Clueless Chris Matthews: "See - we have a problem," Matthews said. "How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al Qaeda. Is that the point at which you say, ‘This guy is dangerous?' That's not a crime to call up al Qaeda, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?" [VIDEO AT SITE]I love it how Dr. Jasser is trying to...

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman, Michael Steele inadvertently flipped the light on for Obama faithful, Chris Matthews host of MSNBC Hardball. Although it was on, it was too dim for Matthews to see the entire picture. Matthews’ started his interview with Steele by peppering his questions with insulting statements, calling conservatives “wing-nuts.” It didn’t take long for Steele to stop the questions and address the statement, asking why Matthews kept calling his people “wing-nut?” Then Steele turned the “wing-nut” to the far left. Steele: “What about all the left-wing-nuts who won’t let the president get his agenda through? What about...

The Dems are spinning so hard after Tuesday’s elections that the earth may be in danger of flying off its axis. Some of the intellectual chaos they have generated was on display Wednesday afternoon on Chris Matthews’ “Hardball.” Admittedly, being on the Matthews’ show is a challenge for guests, who have to struggle to get a word in edgewise as the hyperkinetic host asks questions and immediately answers them himself and generally acts less like an interviewer than someone on sodium pentatol.

Here is video of Michael Steele on MSNBC's "Hardball" telling Chris Matthews to stop "calling my people wingnuts" after Matthews kept blaming "wingnuts" for the NY-23 loss....(Video)

Here is video of "Tea Party Express" organizer Mark Williams telling Chris Matthews "you're making my leg tingle." He said this at about 4:40 into the video. Williams made the comment after Chris Matthews wouldn't let him speak and told him "you don't even know who you're talking about." (Video)

Here is video of Newsweek's Howard Fineman this weekend telling host Chris Matthews, "Of course he is," referring to President Obama being "smarter than us." Chris Matthews had asked Fineman, "Is he smarter than us?" Fineman's immediate response was "Of course he is, much smarter!" Fineman had been waxing eloquent about how "patient" Obama is, and that he is just waiting for the right time and the right way to get his agenda adopted. Just another example of the fawning, biased "mainstream media." . . . (VIDEO)

No amount of controversy will keep Oath Keepers from educating people about what it means to support and defend the Constitution. SNIP Started earlier this year by Las Vegas resident Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers is a nonprofit organization made up primarily of current and former police and military personnel who renew their oaths to the Constitution. Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale University Law School graduate, opened the conference at Texas Station with a warning that Washington politicians cannot be trusted to uphold their oaths to the Constitution. "That's why we have a civic duty to keep our oaths,"...

THE GRATING COMMUNICATOR October 21, 2009 The Obama administration has attacked Fox News in order to prevent government corruption stories broken on Fox from bleeding into the other media, which are all-consumed with daily updates on Levi Johnston's Playgirl spread and Carrie Prejean's breast implants. That's understandable. But I think the administration should have picked someone other than David Axelrod to deliver the claim that Fox News is "not really news," inasmuch as Axelrod was behind the leak of scurrilous allegations in Jack Ryan's sealed divorce papers when he was running for a Senate seat against Obama. Talk about vicious...

Right on.

Skip ahead to 2:04. I believe him, actually. The uncanny sense one has listening to Matthews is that his mouth moves faster than his brain. When you’re saddled with that handicap, you’re bound to talk your way into analogies that come out … the wrong way. Besides, I think we have to grade him on the curve. By MSNBC’s standards of violent imagery over the past 24 hours, this was pretty tame.

Good.

What some guys won't say to get attention . . . Analogizing Rush Limbaugh to a James Bond villian, Chris Matthews today fantasized: "at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp." View video here.

The thrill is gone.

Does Michelle Malkin's book send PAIN up his leg?

The year 2005 is ending as it began, with another successful election in Iraq and a liberal media still flapping around trying to find other controversies to submerge it. It does not matter to them that a Gallup poll found that 74 percent of Americans express confidence in their military, but only 28 percent express confidence in their newspapers or TV news outlets. The "mainstream" media excels in excoriating the performance of nearly everyone else, but acts as if nothing they do should be held up as ineffective, inaccurate or just plain absurd. That's why the Media Research Center and...

MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared three times on Wednesday’s Today show to lionize Sen. Ted Kennedy, and twice he promoted Barack Obama as the "last brother" of the Kennedy political dynasty. He tried to clarify a little in his appearance in the 10am hour: "I don’t mean that in an ethnic sense or a black sense. I mean a brother of the Kennedy tradition. And I think he’s the new brother, not that last brother."

Chris Matthews has used the passing of Ted Kennedy to paint opponents of Pres. Obama as a pool of potential assassins. Participating in a panel discussion on Morning Joe today, Matthews asserted that there was a hateful environment in the Dallas of 1963 in which President Kennedy was assassinated that is "like the mood we're in now." View video here.

<p>Flipping the channels, I landed on the 'Cris Matthews Show', Larry "the angry quueer" O'Donnel was in for Matthews, and was rabidly abusing some Republican Congressman he had on as a guest, and yelling all over the Congressmans words any time he talked, and eventually the Congressman said: "And you wonder why nobody wathes MSNBC anymore!" :This is why nobody wathes MSNBC anymore!" and this just made O'Donnel more diaretic in the mouth, but the Conrgessman kwept saying it, as O'Donnell kept interupting him...Till O'Donnell finally said just answer this one question and I'll let you talk your way through the rest of the seggment!..But then when the Congressman answered tghe question, O'Donnell went back to interuptiong ang verbally ragging on the Congressman..but then, I guess he ran out of steam because he finally let the Congressman talk till the segment ended. It was a delight..I was expecting the Congressman to get up at several different points and walk out on the rabid pig O;'Donnell, but after it was oover, I'm glad he shoved O'Donnells shit bqack down his throat!</p>

Blowhard Chris "Tingley Leg" Matthews interviews William Kostric, the protester who brought a handgun to the Obama town hall in Portsmouth, NH.

Others on this blog have described how Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-TX, demeaned his constituents for having the audacity to oppose socialized medicine at a public meeting. (Doggett called their self-expression a “real desperation tactic.”) However, it’s worth memorializing the way the host of MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews, views those who reject ObamaCare: they’re jihadists. (Snip) Matthews began: “Everytime a member of Congress or Senate calls a town meeting now, the people show up, and it’s like, I don’t know, it’s like Iran, it’s like the streets of Tehran.”

Here is video from MSNBC's Hardball tonight, where Chris Matthews had an extensive debate with conservative talk show host G. Gordon Liddy about the Obama Birth Certificate Controversy. Liddy said Obama can put the whole thing to rest by simply showing his "Original Birth Certificate." Matthews produced a copy of his "Certificate of Live Birth" saying he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. It does not say what hospital he was born in. Liddy claims there is a sworn statement from Obama's step-grandmother saying she witnessed him being born in Mombasa, Kenya. Liddy maintained the "Certificate of Live Birth" is not...

Associated Press editors last week updated employee guidelines to include new rules for social media sites such as Twitter: "When tweeting, remember that's there [sic] a big difference between providing an observation ("I nearly bumped into Chris Matthews outside Penn Station") and an opinion ("I nearly bumped into the loudmouthed and obnoxious Chris Matthews")." So remember, if you work for the AP and want to call Chris Matthews loudmouthed and obnoxious, don't do it on Twitter. Write a set of "guidelines" instead.

MSNBC eats its own.

Introducing Howard Dean, on Wednesday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews indirectly compared Barack Obama to Jesus Christ as he introduced the former head of the DNC and 2004 presidential candidate as "the man who really laid out the path for Barack Obama. He was the St. John the Baptist...leading for that fellow." In the Christian faith St. John the Baptist is considered to be the precursor to Jesus Christ, so in Matthews' metaphor of Democratic presidential politics that would have to make Obama, Jesus. For his part Dean, justifiably, appeared uncomfortable with the comparison, as he appreciated Matthews' promise to "not...

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Salon.com Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh, on Wednesday night's "Hardball," cited "conservatives" like Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and Bill O’Reilly for "whipping up" a climate that sparks the likes of alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn and "Hardball" host Chris Matthews wondered if access to guns were to blame for the tragedy as he cried, "It's easier to get your hands on a gun than to get somebody to make you a waffle." Blaming Limbaugh while insisting she was not, Walsh charged: There is a very disturbing and disturbed element of political discourse. And I would, I would throw in Rush...

"Oddball" with Chris Matthews really lived up to its name - the sarcastic, pejorative name I call it - when he and Newsweek's Evan Thomas decided to take a moment to, while reviewing Obama's Cairo speech, reflect upon his (His?) divinity above us all....

"Oddball" with Chris Matthews really lived up to its name - the sarcastic, pejorative name I call it - when he and Newsweek's Evan Thomas decided to take a moment to, while reviewing Obama's Cairo speech, reflect upon his (His?) divinity above us all....

In May, I made an appearance on "Hardball with Chris Matthews," one of MSNBC's political shows. The segment's main focus was the current state of the Republican Party. When the segment ended and I walked off the set, I knew that that would likely be my last appearance on "Hardball." I had decided that I would not accept another invitation to appear on the program, should one come. --snip-- During the show on which I appeared, Matthews referred more than once to Republicans as "Luddites" and took every opportunity imaginable to portray them as crackpots. The show's topics inevitably pander...

He's pretty hard on the guy.

While waiting for America's publishers to find their nerve, I had put my research into the authorship of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father on the back shelf.  But then I heard Chris Matthews. The Hardball host was weighing in on the subject of Sarah Palin's new book deal.  "Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book," sneered Matthews. "Not just reading a book, writing a book." "Actually in the word of the publisher she's "collaborating" on a book," Matthews continued.  "What an embarrassment! It's one of these ‘I told you,' books that jocks do....

When examination of the science is too much work for show preparation and taking a position that falls in line with like-minded ideologues is part of your shtick, you can always resort to ad hominem attacks if needed. In a May 19 segment on his "Hardball" program about global warming, MSNBC's Chris Matthews interviewed Reps. Jim Moran, D-Va., and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who had opposing views on the issue. However, Matthews attacked Rohrabacher, a global warming skeptic, as someone ignorant of science. "Congressman Rohrabacher, are you a Luddite, a troglodyte? Are you a part of ‘The Planet of the Apes'...

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RUSH: Now, I got some sound bites here with Chris Matthews and Mike Pence last night.  I want to play these for you because it's very instructive about what the liberal media is attempting to do to Republicans: portray Republicans as anti-science; portray Republicans as not believing in evolution, only believe in creationism; blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  I play this Matthews stuff for you because I don't think it's just Matthews.  Normally I won't give a hoot, but I think this is a template that the left has come up with and that they're going to be...

Chris Matthews used a gotcha question about evolution to ambush a GOPer off his game yesterday, and gloated about it today. Now here's a way conservative reporters can get prominent Dem. leaders and other liberals to cross a line, hem and haw, or look stupid: "Sir or Madam, are you an ape? Are you a great ape? Answer this question directly, yes or no."

Here is video of Chris Matthews yesterday continuing his inquisition of Republicans on the question of, "Do you believe in evolution?" This time it was Tom Tancredo's turn. Yesterday, he did the same thing to GOP Congressman Mike Pence. Matthews should ask the question differently. He should be asking, "Do you reject the Biblical account of Creation?" That's what he seems to be trying to get Republicans to say. Matthews is trying to make a distorted argument that people who believe in the truth of the Bible reject all science. He kept trying to make the link to "Climate Change"...