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By Noel Sheppard | February 09, 2012 | 23:13

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Something extraordinarily rare happened on MSNBC Thursday.

One of the network's admittedly liberal anchors, Hardball's Chris Matthews, scolded a liberal guest, New York magazine's John Heilemann, for echoing Obama administration talking points (video follows with transcript and commentary):

JOHN HEILEMANN, NEW YORK MAGAZINE: It’s amazing to me that it took them two or three days to point out that this is the law of the land in 28 states already.

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: It’s not the law of the land. The law, those requirements are not the same as this. I’ve gone through this. That’s what the White House is putting out. Get that established independently of the White House. Just do that, because there’s co-pays involved and it’s different.

As can be seen in the photo to the right, Heilemann looked a bit embarrassed.

But Matthews wasn’t done, for seconds later before going to a commercial break he added, “Anyway, thank you, John Heilemann. We all have different sources.”

Kudos to the Hardball host, but wouldn't it be nice if nobody on MSNBC was ever allowed to echo Obama administration talking points?

A media analyst can dream, can't he?

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Chrissie trying to lose his

Submitted by Pinetree3 on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 12:38am.

Chrissie trying to lose his job? MSNBC won't hesitate to replace him if he doesn't watch out.

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Father Matthew's is fighting back!

Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 12:58pm.

Matthews was a huge supporter of Obamacare, readily dismissing critics who warned that there were likely all sorts of little minefields buried in it.

Well, now he and the RCC are in one of those minefields, and he's is aggressively fighting his bobble-head colleagues over the alleged facts.

I'm waiting for the dust to settle on all this to see if Matthews can revert back to the Obama Cult, or if he has been changed by this episode to question White House policy.

Just when MSNBC was celebrating what they defined as disunity and 'civil war' within the GOP, their own hosts are turning on the Almighty President over its lies.

To paraphrase Flounder (Animal House): "Oh, boy, this is great!"

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He's Off His Meds

Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 8:47am.

He ran out of his progressivium prescription and had a momentary lucidity attack. Liberal medics were called and he was immediately put on an IV progressivium drip. He's okay now and will suffer no lasting lasting harm (per news release from MSLSD)...

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MUSLIM

Submitted by jpalm32 on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 9:07am.

Are they going to force MUSLIMs to comply!

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Chrissy made a lucid comment?

Submitted by KyWriter on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 11:34am.

Well, as Gomer would say: "Gollleee!" Larry O'Donnell came to the same conclusion. Apparently, the MSNBC producers are compelled to toss in a bit of truth every now and then to avoid the complete discrediting of the network. Now if Sharpton and Maddow come on board, that would be something to write home about, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Submitted by jbspry on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 12:31pm.

I suspect that Chris is looking at Bill O'Reilly's numbers and figuring out that being a hardline partisan unwilling to criticize your own doesn't pull in the viewers.

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Looks Like Tingles is More of a Catholic than a Liberal?

Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 2:13pm.

That is the only logical conclusion. 

Give him time.. he'll have those tingles running up his leg before long.

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