Chris Matthews couldn’t help himself from stoking the flames of fear against firearms Thursday night after the contentious Democrat debate on CNN. “Everybody walks the streets afraid of getting knocked off. Let’s face it, there's still a lot of violence on the streets even in New York, which is pretty safe,” he exclaimed on MSNBC.
The Hardball host brought a conversation about Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches to Wall Street to a screeching halt to praise how she handled the gun convocation. “And when she went through the number of people killed by guns or suicides or murder, and she went through all that, and then he [Bernie Sanders] tried that chuckle, aggressive chuckle, like she does and I think he got caught off base like that. Don't laugh about violence,” stated Matthews being critical of Sanders.
While prefacing his comment about people’s fear of guns, Matthews affirmed that he felt the viewers could follow the gun topic better because they couldn’t understand the policy heavy topics. “I think a lot of people were lost up in the mumbo-jumbo of how to deal with the banks and Dodd frank, whatever that is to most people. They weren’t following that. But they were following guns.”
USA Today’s Heidi Przybyla also managed to get a few barbs in Sanders of her own. “He doesn't have a good answer, Chris. That’s why if he wants to stand by his vote, in terms of the immunity vote that he took-- this is exactly the wrong time that you want to be doing that.” Przybyla went on say that since a judge said they can move forward with the case, he can’t walk back his position on immunity.
Besides being misleading on the fact that gun violence is at historic lows, do these pundits also believe that fast food chains should be held liable for obesity deaths?
Transcript below:
MSNBC
Special Edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews
April 14, 2016
11:11 PM EasternCHRIS MATTHEWS: But by the way, I thought there was a women's moment there tonight. I know, of course Hillary Clinton’s a woman. But I thought there was a moment there where the majority voter, which are women, was a tag opportunity.
When he started to laugh about the gun violence and she said it's not a laughing matter. I think a lot of people were lost up in the mumbo-jumbo of how to deal with the banks and Dodd frank, whatever that is to most people. They weren’t following that. But they were following guns because everybody walks the streets afraid of getting knocked off. Let’s face it, there's still a lot of violence on the streets even in New York, which is pretty safe.
And when she went through the number of people killed by guns or suicides or murder, and she went through all that, and then he tried that chuckle, aggressive chuckle, like she does and I think he got caught off base like that. Don't laugh about violence.
HEIDI PRZYBYLA: He doesn't have a good answer, Chris. That’s why if he wants to stand by his vote, in terms of the immunity vote that he took-- this is exactly the wrong time that you want to be doing that. When this lawsuit up in Connecticut, that the sandy hook families are pursuing has just now-- that the judge has decided this should go forward. And he is days before on the record saying that he doesn't support exactly that type of legal case.
