Matthews: Obama's Speech 'Like a Fox Commercial' - 'Fair and Balanced...Over and Over Again'
MSNBC's Chris Matthews appears to have a serious case of Fox News envy.
In a special installment of "The Last Word" following Barack Obama's debt ceiling address to the nation Monday, the "Hardball" host said, "I thought the President used a couple of words we’re familiar with: 'Fair and balanced.' It was like a Fox commercial" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, HOST: Chris, you’re reaction to first the President’s speech.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well, I thought the President used a couple of words we’re familiar with: “Fair and balanced.” It was like a Fox commercial there. I thought that was interesting. Fair then balanced then fair again then balanced again, over and over again to make a case for his position.
For the record, Obama said the word "fair" three times, and "balanced" seven times, but never in the same sentence.
Is Matthews now so fixated on Fox that any use of those words - no matter how separated - makes him uncomfortable?
I wonder what the going rate is for curing Foxphobia.
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Worshipping at the foot of the king.
Submitted by Texndoc on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:49am.
Two things from Tingles: I laughed my behind off that the Republicans calling the "Cut Cap and Balance" vote "bipartisan" (5 Dem votes) is a direct slap-back at the MSM and Tingles calling the Obama-Care House vote "bipartisan" because it had ONE (R) vote. Reap what you sow, moron. Don't whine and cry.
And his grrrr-grrrr-grrrr that Boehner stood at a podium with the American flag behind him. "Who does he think he is?!" wondered Tingles, and how dare he!
blaming
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:50am.
The speech started right out by blaming Bush and never stopped blaming everybody except himself. Just another whiny, poor me, speech. Am anxious to hear what Rush says about it
Me too, since I can't stand watching the guy. I DVR...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 4:14am.
O'Reilly and Hannity so therefore, I caught his speech at the beginning of Hannity. I fast forwarded the thing, but caught a wierd expression of his as he ended his speech and was turning around. It looked like he was saying to himself, "Well, here's hoping that one worked!". I wonder if the "body language" gal on O'Reilly will have anything to say about it?
Before I turned the speech on....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 10:59am.
I yelled to the wife, "I'm gonna see how long it takes him to blame Bush."
12 seconds from the time I heard his first word.
Atta boy, Barry. You never fail to deliver!
If Matthews is comparing
Submitted by Van Halen on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:54am.
If Matthews is comparing Obama's speech to Fox, he must be seriously pissed off at Obama. Good time to be pissed off because everyone else is pissed off at Obama too. Why?
Three years of Obama - the VERY BEST the Democrats have ever had to offer - has given us:
- $14 trillion deficit
- ruined economy
- ignores the War Powers Act
- gas/food/clothing prices skyrocketing
- 5 wars, one with a record death toll
- foreign policy disasters
- raiding the public pension fund to avoid the debt ceiling
- lost 800+ seats for his own party
- poll numbers in the toilet
- 44 million Americans on food stamps
- Over half the states suing to get out of Obamacare.
- 1 in 4 mortgages under water
- ATF gunrunning scandal unfolding
ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!
You're off
Submitted by Russian55 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:25am.
Try a 14 TRILLION dollar DEBT. At Obama's current rate, 14 Billion is about 3.1 DAYS of deficit.
Remember -- Deficit is the ANNUAL borrowing. DEBT is the total of all we owe!
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who kept their swords in the first place!
Chris?
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:00am.
Did you sprout wood again? Or in your case . . . sprout splinter?
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
Obama is what?
Submitted by Russian55 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:29am.
Today I heard an Obama defender say that he was "the most attacked president, ever!"
Uh, I think probably that record would go to Lincoln -- it went to far as to LITERALLY divide the country.
And Nixon was far more attacked by the Press than Obama. As was George W.
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who kept their swords in the first place!
I don't think that Boy
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 2:48am.
I don't think that Boy Blah-Blah is the most attacked president............but I can tell you that he SHOULD BE!!! This guy is the most pathetic excuse for a human being (if he even IS ONE!!!) that has EVER occupied the office that he holds, much less many other ones as well!!!
The guy is sooooooooooooo out of his league..........yet he's the damn President!!!! And he is dangerous as hell!!!!
My sentiments...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 4:02am.
exactly! Over 300 million people in this country and he is the one that gets elected president? Lord have mercy!
"Fair and balenced" versus
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:32am.
"Lean Forward and Grab Your Ankles"
Millionaires and Billionaires paying their fair share
Submitted by shakyeagle on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 2:58am.
When is someone from the MSM going to press Obama on his trusted Economic Advisor Jeffrey Imelt and GE paying either zero or very minimal Federal taxes while brow beating Small Business and $250,000 millionaires to pay as much as possible? This should be a constant drumbeat until the question is answered and then the hypocrisy would not be any more clear for anyone who is paying attention to this disaster that is this administration.
And the latest Imelt move
Submitted by Bodini on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 9:21am.
And the latest Imelt move is the $2.0 B GE x-ray business investment to ...China! Communist ba$tard ... just like his Commie Cousin Barry O!
o'bama's groundhog day speech:
Submitted by ThisnThat on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 7:07am.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
"Shared Sacrifice"
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:03am.
To Obamugabe means he's going to take more of my money but give less of it to those on welfare and unemployment.
Socialism = equal misery
Saying to Once Here!!
Submitted by scottyusmc on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 7:24am.
I could post the same text into all the related stories today.. Liberal Progressive media (all of them) put out the spin that BOB has the high ground and the GOP is the problem... Problem for them (the media pundits) is that nobody gives them an ounce of credibility any longer. They've "shot their wad" all over BOB and it shows as they enjoy their cigarettes...
Chrissy doesn't understand
Submitted by JayVee on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 7:58am.
Neither Chrissy nor the Whiner in Chief understand the meaning of the words "Fair and Balanced."