Matthews is crazy. He changed since his bout with malaria. I think the disease devoured part of his brain.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any
man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

-Unknown

In order for a candidate to do what you want (and NB's agenda, while laudable, isn't any candidate's agenda too unless it helps him to get elected!) he'd have to do one of 2 things as I see it.

1. Take some of his own speech time to bitch about the moderator, or

2. Find a way during supposedly answering a question to bitch about the moderator. I suspect candidates will want to do this one.

I'm wondering what people here think Republican candidates should say to Matthews about his bias? Should they wait for a biased question, or go on the attack first, even if it's on their own time? He's pretty slick, so Chris won't be easy to bust for this, and I'm not sure how much discrediting Matthews will do in the primary for any candidate who finds a way to do it.
JMR

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I've always insisted that GOPers should challenge the objectivity of anyone in the MSM they come in contact with...even to the point of calling them Democrat shills and mocking their pretended objectivity.

If the unFairness Doctrine ever gets passed, the GOP should demand a national broadcast to counteract every MSM news/entertainment broadcast.   If they don't, I will.

The debatees need to get under Mathew's skin. They should all enter the stage with George Bush masks on.

Then when Mathews starts going postal, they should don yellow raincoats and umbrellas to protect themselves from all the spittle that will be flying across the stage from mathew's pie hole.

Republican voters would be far more confident of the party leadership if said leaders reacted more aggressively to partisan media attacks.  Any Republican candidate who uses the upcoming debate as an opportunity to sort out that hack Chris Matthews live on stage will score big points with the base...and bring new energy to the Republican '08 bid.  He/they will certainly go up in my estimation. 

The candidates can accomplish the task of smacking down liberal reporters without making a scene.  Liberal reporters always premise their questions from the left.  The conservative candidates simply need to repeatedly challenge these premises as being from the left and consequently wrong.  If this happens enough the public will catch on that the reporter is exhibiting bias.  For example, when Christ Matthews asks, "What will you do as President to help minorities with health care?"  (this question is from the left because it assumes that the job of the President is to provide these benefits) the answer should challenge the premise and state that they are best served by getting out of their way through less government regulation and intrusion.  That this is what America was founded on and why America is the greatest nation on the planet.  End of story.

Zell Miller with a baseball bat.  That would calm the questions down.  Also the badgering and interruptions.

We have too many debates already. The way to answer Little Chrissy's bias is to boycott. What do we need with yet another debate on a sixth-rate network with a loser like Little Chrissy pulling the strings?

I'm sorry, but why on earth would they go? Have they no BALLS?  Gee, here's a perfect opportunity to force a liberal sleazebag off the air. All the Republican candidates have to do is REFUSE TO BE MODERATED BY MATTHEWS. Sound too much like common sense? The stink that this would make would then allow Republicans to PLASTER THE INTERNET and EVERY INTERVIEW THEY GIVE, with some biased stupid liberal remark that Matthews made. In a week he'll be FIRED because the wealth of information would be just too much. This is how the democrats are going after YOU! As Sean Connery asked Kevin Costner in "The Untouchables", "WHAT ARE YE PREPARED TO DO?"'

Save you breath, I'll answer.. The feckless, useless, fake Christian ( Guiliani, McCain, Romney), cult belonging to( Romney), abortion supporting (Romney, Guiliani), HOMOSEXUAL PROTECTING ( Romney, Guiliani), will SAY NOTHING and DO NOTHING and show up like the stupid morons they are. When they FAIL to TAKE THIS MATTHEWS TURD OUT...You will understand why I resigned from the Republican Party and became an independant, after "Dubai" and Grandma Meyers.

Don't get your hopes up and have a nice day.

 I think they should take him on.  When he asks, one of his patently biased questions, point out just what it is and put everything in perspective.  If the questions is full of distortions, point out the distortions, don't try to answer it.  It won't take too long to get the point across.

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