Only One 'Chris Matthews Show' Regular Thinks Obama's Gay Marriage Flipflop Hurts Him Politically
As NewsBusters reported last week, eleven out of twelve regular contributors to the syndicated Chris Matthews Show thought Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won't be able to take control and drive the political debate in the next six months leading to Election Day.
On this weekend's program, only one of the twelve regulars thought President Obama's recent flipflop on same-sex marriage hurts him politically (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well let’s take a look at the Matthews Meter, because I think you've touched already on your position. Twelve of our regulars including Howard, Gloria and Andrew. Is President Obama’s gay marriage position now, which is firmly set, a net plus or a net minus politically? Well seven of you say it's a net plus, which is really positive I think for this group. One says a net minus but four say it's a wash.
For the record, these are the twelve regular contributors:
- David Brooks, New York Times
- Gloria Borger, CNN
- Helene Cooper, New York Times (not pictured)
- Howard Fineman, Huffington Post
- John Heilemann, New York magazine
- Katty Kay, BBC
- Joe Klein, Time magazine
- Andrea Mitchell, NBC News
- Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal (not pictured)
- Kelly O'Donnell, NBC News
- Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
- Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic
These folks really have a pulse of the American electorate, don't they?
*****Update: Gallup finds twice a many people are less likely than more likely to vote for Obama as a result of his same-sex marriage flipflop.
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no problem
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:16pm.
just up their meds.
Do They Have Their Fingers Crossed Behind Their Backs?
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:20pm.
Richard Trumpka needs to go give them a talking to and knock some sense into their heads.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Was this poll conducted before or after the new cover?
Submitted by Texndoc on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:20pm.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/newsweek-cover-the-first-gay...
This will be at every Walmart checkout. Maybe.
It was David Brooks who said
Submitted by Lakewood Ed on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:23pm.
It was David Brooks who said it was a minus . . . right? Right?
Repost- since the OT is off the page
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:26pm.
Has anyone seen the new Newsweek cover?
And look who wrote the story
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 1:28pm.
And look who wrote the story - li'l Tweedle Dumb/Tweedle Dee Randy Andy Sullivan!!!! Who'da thunk??? I guess that George Cloony look--alike that he was dating at the White House gay party wasn't hot enough for him.....................and he didn't want to wait until Thanksgiving to get his portion of dark meat.
Chris Matthews's Panel of Useful Idiots
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:39pm.
It's absolutely stunning how diverse THIS panel is, politically and racially. This topic is nothing but a red herring.......did you see the jobs report on 5/4/2012? Apparently the Conga Line of Morons at NBC were the only people that didn't.
What would you expect from 10
Submitted by hardrock01 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:40pm.
What would you expect from 10 kool-aid drinkers?
Showing my age
Submitted by ZuccoZoid on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 1:33pm.
When I was a kid, being called "gay" or "fag" was like being called a "fraidy cat" - you wouldn't take a dare, no matter how dumb it was. But once the term became political, the issue mutated into a humorless lose/lose battle.
Reminds me of the anticdote....
Submitted by dlwoltmann on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 1:35pm.
In 1972, when Nixon trounced McGovern, movie critic Pauline Kael supposedly said something like, "How can he have won? Nobody I know voted for him."
I see the same thing happening here. These people can't fathom that there are people out there who disagree with Obama and by proxy , them. They missed the 2010 Congressional Tsunami... and they are about to miss the 2012 Mega-Tsunami that is going to come crashing on their heads.
OK, da Killa is coming out of
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 1:36pm.
OK, da Killa is coming out of da closet!!! I've been evolvin', re-calibratin', thinkin', wishin', hopin', prayin', and evaluatin' this whole gay marriage issue, and my bold and courageous decision is this: I don't give a rat's ass about it!!! It has NOTHING to do with the REAL problems and issues facing this nation - NOTHING!!! It is of NO MORE importance, nor does it carry any more 'gravitas', than any of the countless other distractions and disguises and end-runs and cul-de-sacs and feigns and faints that the REGIME, and their willing accomplices in the StateRun Media, continue to throw at us.
And this is why it is important to them.
And, for once, I agree with Boy Baraka - it IS a states-rights issue - and if some state is so squared away, and has their act so together that they have the time, energy, and money to spend on the gay marriage issue, then let'um do it!!! But I don't think that there is ONE state that can claim that - not even here in Asia/Hawaii - and, believe me, this gay marriage issue is big-time over here in the People's Republic of Hawaii.
Hell, we even had a 'Republican' lesbian governor recently - although I don't remember her trying to make this part of the agenda.
For the first time in years,
Submitted by TE on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:00pm.
For the first time in years, I watched Bob Schieffer's show today. The people Schieffer had on to "discuss" same-sex so-called "marriage" were identical to the people that Tingles Matthews has on his unwatched leftist freakshow. Schieffer had on five people (i.e., Shieffer, Ted Olson (who Schieffer comically called "a conservative's conservative"), race-baiting leftist Duval Patrick, Clay Aiken, Mark McKinnon and some homosexual activist who runs some homosexual advocacy group) who militantly support the redefinition of marriage and one person (ONE PERSON!) who opposes redefining marriage. Tony Perkins was the only person on to defend marriage. Furthermore, although Tony Perkins is a fine and decent person, he does a horrible, horrible job of representing conservative positions. That must be the reason that all of the leftist super PACs (i.e., ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, et al.) always turn to Tony Perkins for a view that is contrary to their own, because Perkins does a terrible job of taking on leftists.
Defense of Marriage?
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:50pm.
I just wonder why I must provide people whose lifestyles and moralty I do not approve a defense of a cultural institution that has existed worldwide for over 4000 years and for which I believe in continuing.
America's First Gay President
Submitted by berlet98 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 3:08am.
America's First Gay President
We already knew Barack Hussein Obama was America’s first semi-black president. Now, according to Newsweek, he is apparently also our first gay president!
I don’t know whether the editors at the magazine were trying to out our commander-in-chief as a homosexual or whether Michelle Obama was aware all these years that her hubby had been living in a closet.
When the editors featured the president on the cover of their latest edition with his head crowned with a multi-colored halo, they may have been figuratively crowning him with the title of King of America’s gay community as an adjunct to his already well-earned titles of Nobel Peace Prize Winner, “the Anointed One,” “Master of the Universe,” etc.
Unless it’s related to the president’s sudden, truly-miraculous, election-year evolution from being an adversary of same-sex marriage to finally comprehending the moraI and legal rightness of men marrying other men and women wedding other women, I really don’t grasp the editorial rationale of declaring Obama “The First Gay President.”
Perhaps if I read the leftist rag that is Newsweek, I’d comprehend more.
I do know that the rainbow halo is a nice touch beautifully complementing all the other halos superimposed on his head by his mainstream media over the last four years. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=23839.)
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My idol may a spammer, but that is most certainly light years more satisfactory than worshiping at the feet of Slick Willie or kissing Obama's ass.
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