Former RNC Chair Steele Tells Chris Matthews He's 'A Good Sycophant' for Obama
We at NewsBusters have been calling MSNBC's Chris Matthews a sycophant for Barack Obama since at least February 2008 when the so-called journalist bragged on the air about getting a thrill up his leg at the sound of the former junior senator from Illinois' voice.
It was therefore quite pleasing to hear former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele tell the Hardball host that to his face Thursday during a contentious exchange about the current White House resident's economics policies and who should be blamed for their failure (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Well, you know, I guess the question is, Michael, whether he can win with the argument, I started in a hole, a real mess I was given here in `88 -- in 2008.
MICHAEL STEELE, FMR. RNC CHAIR, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Right.
MATTHEWS: This guy wants to basically rerun exactly the same policies of tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation of the financial sector, getting rid of Glass-Steagall, all that stuff.
STEELE: Right.
MATTHEWS: And my question to you, and it`s a tough one -- give me the profound differences between the presidential candidate Mitt Romney and former president George W. Bush when it comes to economic policy. What`s the difference between the two of them.
STEELE: Chris, that is an irrelevant comparison...
MATTHEWS: Well, not when it`s my question for you.
(LAUGHTER)
STEELE: But I`m not answering that question simply because...
MATTHEWS: I know why!
STEELE: ... it`s irrelevant...
MATTHEWS: And everybody watching knows why you won`t answer it.
STEELE: Well, I`m being very honest about it because, again, you`re doing exactly what Obama wants us to do, and you`re a good sycophant for it, and that`s looking backwards.
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s pretty rough!
STEELE: You want this -- you want this...
MATTHEWS: What do you call a guy that refuses to answer a question?
STEELE: Hold on!
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: Is he a sycophant for the other side?
Sycophant for the other side? He's the former RNC chairman. Is he supposed to be a sycophant for Democrats? His role is to present the Republican argument.
Surely at the age of 67 and with all of his years as a so-called journalist, Matthews must understand the way this game is played.
Of course, the mistake Matthews has been making since he dropped all pretense of impartiality after George W. Bush was elected in 2001 is that he no longer acts as a moderator in discussions about politics and the economy.
In my view, his goal since 2001 has been to be a full-time shill for the Left, and he was doing a very fine job of it Thursday:
STEELE: You gave the governor the time. Let me have the time.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but my question...
STEELE: This isn`t about...
MATTHEWS: I preceded his time with a question. I preceded your time with a question. My question to you is, give me the differences between W. and Romney.
STEELE: You give me the differences between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. That`s what this election is about. This is not about George Bush. Why are we talking about George Bush? We`re talking about Barack Obama and his policies that have not created the jobs, that has kept unemployment stagnant, that still has some 10 to 15 million people unemployed, looking for work, who have just given up.
What I heard today -- and the governor`s right. The first part of his speech sounded -- began to set the narrative, but then the latter half or even two thirds of it fell off...
MATTHEWS: OK...
STEELE: ... into this sort of defensive mode...
MATTHEWS: OK...
STEELE: ... and that`s what the people are going to focus on, that split vision between these two candidates running for the presidency of the United States.
MATTHEWS: Right.
STEELE: It has nothing to do with George Bush...
MATTHEWS: Well, here`s my...
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: Let me try one more time. If you bought a house and you discovered it had termites and you found out the electricity didn`t work, and every time you plugged the toaster in, you got a short, and by the way, there was a fire because of the bad electrical system.
STEELE: Right. Right.
MATTHEWS: And everything was wrong with that house. Wouldn`t you blame the guy you bought the house from?
STEELE: Well, yes, and the person...
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s what we`re doing!
STEELE: Right. No, no, no!
MATTHEWS: That`s what we`re doing here!
STEELE: Excuse me! Excuse me!
(CROSSTALK)
STEELE: Excuse me! Hold up! There`s a new owner in the house. His name is Barack Obama.
MATTHEWS: Yes...
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: ... buying a lemon. Let me go to the governor...
STEELE: I`m sorry!
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: ... I`m just moderating this.
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: I want to ask a question.
STEELE: Are you going to give this analogy...
MATTHEWS: Why bring up W.?
Actually, Matthews' analogy was flawed for several reasons.
First off, the defects in the house were known to the buyer before he bought. They were not deceptively withheld by the previous owner. They were fully disclosed prior to the sale.
Obama spent 21 months telling the American people about all the problems in the economy and how he was going to fix them. It was therefore his job to do so and his failure if he didn't.
As such, the better analogy is a handyman comes to us as the owners of a house with a lot of problems saying that we ought to dump our current handyman and hire him. We fully disclose to him all the various defects and flaws in our residence, and he tells us exactly what he's going to do to fix them, and what it will cost.
So, we fire the old one and hire him.
Four years later, after we've spent far more than he promised we would, the problems still exist and there's a fire because of the shoddy electrical system he's failed to repair.
Are we going to allow him to blame it on the previous handyman? Of course not!
But that's what President Obama is doing now, and shills like Matthews are trying to convince the American people that all the problems that still exist in our "home" are the fault of the previous handyman despite the present one promising to fix them and taking a lot of our money to do so.
Sadder still, Matthews and the rest of the sycophants at MSNBC aren't alone in assisting the president with this shameful deception.
The other so-called news organizations are going to play the same chicanery on the public hoping they'll fall for it hook, line, and sinker.
(HT Mediaite)
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Seems like Mr. Steele has
Submitted by texastommy on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:13am.
Seems like Mr. Steele has grown a pair lately.
Where was this
Submitted by fadeinlight on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:46am.
I really wish Mr. Steele had spoken up like this when he was the RNC Chairman, because quite frankly I'm impressed now that I've heard him. He's brilliant, and well aware of these ham-handed traps these Obama ass-kissers in the media try to put out.
I've always admired Michael Steele
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 3:45pm.
And he was spot on dishing it out to Matthews, who got that "He's being an uppity Negro" smirk on his face.
Steele was correct. This is 2012, and if you're going to make a comparison, compare Romney's plan ot Obama's. That's what the election is about.
Matthews thought Steele's "sychophant" comment was harsh, but else do you call a self-described journalists who on Election Night 2008 declared, "I'm going to do everything I can to helpt this President succeed," and just this week asked Democratic senate challenger Elizabeth Warren, "How can I help you?" Steele called it like it is.
Steele is just a little less liberal than Prissy.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:13am.
I can't believe that they actually got into a bitch slapping contest!
As for you AND Romney, you're going to have to get a lot tougher if you want to win this thing.
Take off the mitts, Mitt, and bare fist the bastard. (PS. Don't use that expression around Prissy, or he misinterpret it and go into heat.)
Hah!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:38am.
Thanks for the much needed laugh, Bubba, that was a funny one!
Given the news this morning about the illegals, I could use one.
I hope the GOP will finally not use grow a pair but utilize them as well.....and not in the way Prissy might think....oooh that was bad.
-Jon
Thufferin' thuccotash! It'th a thycophant!
Submitted by lgeubank on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:17am.
"Sycophant" is good.
I like "toothless, slobbering moron." Don't get anywhere downwind when that juicy-talking, slobbering half-wit is spraying what he wants to spray.
Viagra Overdose...
Submitted by adamsmith on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:22am.
Chrissy always looks like he just popped 8 Viagra an hour before he goes on. I really don't want to know what kind of tingle is going on under the desk, but the drooling, the bug eyes, the aggressive-rapist jumpiness and speech. Yup, Viagra, gay men's magazines, gay porn and pictures of Barry. That explains it all.....
Meth, coke, or both.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:05am.
.
Ok, I'm Out of Touch
Submitted by JustAl on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:25am.
In today's social vernacular, is "sycophant" now a pseudonym for homosexual lover?
Actually, I think that would
Submitted by texastommy on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:43am.
Actually, I think that would be sucophant. I'm sure he was misquoted.
Hee, hee.
Submitted by lgeubank on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:03am.
Phunny.
This is getting good, now!!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:10am.
Getting hard to top.
Self Pleasuring
Submitted by JANDJ on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:57am.
It's actually a reference to an addiction to self pleasuring. An image of Obama appears and Matthews immediately takes his little friend in hand...
That analogy
Submitted by 46Blitz on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:25am.
Bush and Obama agreed on bailouts. Years before, Bush's admin shot many distress flairs in the air about the housing crisis to come.. It was ignored by Obama types.
Steele played on Matthews court of obfuscation and failed to point any of that out.
Chris . lets take your house
Submitted by inquiringmind on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:31am.
Chris . lets take your house analogy further. The new owner, instead of fixing the problems, spends $300,000, money that he has to borrow, on a brand new pool that no one uses as well as expensive new china for the dining room. After that he decided to go further in debt and puts solar pannels on the roof but fails to even connect them.
Tell me Chris, which is to blame for the problems in the house, the previous owner from 3 + years ago or the new owner who is going further in debt and not fixing the original problems?
Chris is nothing but a dumb
Submitted by rbosque on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:32am.
Chris is nothing but a dumb foot soldier for the DNC, that's what he's paid to do.
He was visibly agitated when Steele said this isn't about
Submitted by Lipton on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:33am.
Bush vs. Romney it is about Obama vs. Romney. Noel's analysis is really helpful. I wish more of our talking heads would get a look at that.
Obama and his supporters' constant complaing that he didn't inherit a perfect world has tranisitioned to being downright annoying. It seems so childish. After all Obama has had in terms of advantages to push his view of the world on our country for him to sit here and consistently blame Bush he looks imature and limp. this whole dialogue reminds me of the gyrations people go through to move up a child that has failed the 3rd grade.
To pass Obamacare:
Mass. changed state law
nebraska, LA, and florida were bribed
Pharmaceutical companies were bribed (is that how they got Evan Bayh on board?)
The law passed in Senate on Christmas Eve session
Accounting tricks were done with CBO
A referendum election on MA to defeat Obamacare was nullified by the gimmick of budget reconciliation.
Numerous democrat legislators sacrificed their careers.
All of that was done to pass a health care law that 60% of the people don't like. why didn't they put some of this power behind actually fixing the economy?
Lipton, Bambi's whining is getting really old.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:14am.
Romney needs to paraphrase President Lincoln and ask, "President Obama, since you're not going to fix the problems, can we have the country back, please?"
Sycophant is putting is
Submitted by clancie on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:33am.
Sycophant is putting is nicely. There are much more descriptive terms to described the political bigotry of Chris Matthews.
Matthews response to Steele
Submitted by inquiringmind on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:19am.
Matthews response to Steele calling him a sycophant was to say the Steele was a syncophant for the Republicans.
Chris, he's supposed to be, he is head of the RNC you bone head! You are ( Ahem) a journalist!
I have said the exact same
Submitted by Breanna on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:41am.
I have said the exact same thing many many times over the years. That obama knew the problems that the house had when he bought it but he wanted the house anyway, he knew what the problems were because he told us what the problems were and continues to remind us of the problems but he refuses to take responsibility for the fact that he bought a lemone and has no clue as to how to fix it. its not bushs fault that obama doesnt know how to fix the electrical poroblem or the leak in the roof and its not bushs fault that obama doesnt know how to hire the right kind of people to fix these problems. it was well known prior to the election that obama had no experience with fixing broken houses but people voted for him anyway believing that his "coolness" would be enough to fix the problems. so for him to blame bush even now tells me that he has no clue how to fix/repair the house and he refuses to take responsibility for his decision to buy a lemon. i say the republicans should do an ad that shows a man buying a house even after being told about all the problems and then the man says no problem i can fix anything im barach obama. pan to now and show him paying off "workers" to fix things and show the shoddy work and the continued problems and him saying well it was just worse than i thought. yea right.
Good job Michael Steele
Submitted by DaMav on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:50am.
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A fawning parasite
Submitted by JANDJ on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:51am.
The only thing left is the amend the definition to include a reference to Chris Matthews:
syc•o•phant (noun) A self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
Synonyms: toady, yes man, flunky, fawner, flatterer.
Good job Michael Steele
Submitted by DaMav on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:51am.
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Steele should've said: "the
Submitted by okie-pastor on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:56am.
Steele should've said:
"the more relevant question is not what are the differences on the economy between George Bush and Mitt Romney but what are the economic differences between Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama? I can tell you their similarities! They are both ONE TERM presidents"
Why can't the republicans turn it around on these lazy, tax payer soaking deadbeats?
I can feel Steels
Submitted by Semus on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 10:58am.
I can feel Steels frustration I respect his courage. I can't stand listening to Matthews but I know the theory is you have to go into the belly of the beast. Matthews is a disgracefully dishonest left wing bully who's lost all sense of proportion. We can take heart in the knowledge that the only people nodding their heads with glee at Matthews actions are Useful Idiots, idiots, left wing traitors, haters, and frauds. Their numbers are dwindling "Remember Wisconsin" and Mathews knows this and he's scared.
I think RNC Chair Steel should appear on a program that lets him speak, just to blow off the pent up rage he must feel, because I feel it too.
Obama knew going in about the issues
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:14am.
He even agreed with the previous 'owner' about one of the fixes (TARP) that would be used to prop up the rickety shed in the backyard, but not actually fix it's problems of having some rotted out beams that needed to be replaced.
Then as another poster pointed out, he proceeded to borrow more money that we couldn't afford to add cometic features (Obamacare) and paint over the termite damage (Auto Bailout), etc. Now he want's more time to try and fix the real issues (that he's ignored for 3 years) but also won't even ackowledge that some of them are actually issues that need fixing. For instance, instead of trying to ballance the budget so that we don't have to borrow anymore, he wants to spend a fortune to re-sod the front lawn but doesn't want to trun on the sprinkler system (Keystone Pipeline) that will solve the lawn problem cheaply and easily.
In short the guy is an idiot who is addicted to spending and borrowing but doesn't want to fix any of the problems that need fixing, only make "improvements" that he wants and no one can afford.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
To follow Little Chrissy's
Submitted by chiefpayne on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:25am.
analogy,
If you buy a house with problems...and then in the process of trying to fix it yourself instead of hiring someone who KNOWS what they are doing, are you going to blame the damage YOU did on the guy you bought the house from?
Of COURSE NOT! You are responsible for the damage YOU did.
MSNBC is the
Submitted by fivestring_assassin on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:33am.
propaganda arm of the Obama White House
Their orders are to deflect any bad news and scandals
That is true ...
Submitted by WilliamW on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 12:08pm.
MSNBC, and Chris Matthews as a host at MSNBC, IS a propaganda arm of leftist, radical, pro-abortion, anti-US, anti-Constitution, pro-Obama, pro-sexual deviancy, pro-Democrat party propaganda. MSNBC as demonstrated that again, and again.
Claque and Flunky cheerleader for the left ...
Submitted by WilliamW on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:56am.
Chris Matthews.
Chris Matthews does not stop to take a breath, or allow himself to be breathed naturally. He hyperventilates, and also hypo ventilates. He cannot push words out of his mouth rapidly enough, and, consequently, they often run together, or run over one another.
Chris Matthews also spits, like Daffy Duck, while he speaks, and he even appears to slobber.
He has proven himself to be a dishonest man, and not a neutral, or objective "journalist" at all.
Matthews was wrong, and Michael Steele was right, this election is not about Bush v Obama, but about leftist radical Fascist/Socialist/Islamicist/Baby butcher/anti-Prosperity Obama, v freedom, liberty, achievement, free society, honor, integrity, security, free enterprise, Constitutional Conservative values, and the Republican Candidate, Mitt Romney.
If this were an election between Bush and Obama, Bush should win by a landslide, for Obama is the worst, while, although somewhat statist, and although he failed to veto many of the Dominant Democrat Congress spending bills, Bush is a far more honorable person, and better President than Obama.
The house analogy by Matthews was idiotic, and demonstrates Matthews’s lack of intelligence, lack of wisdom, and overwhelming underwhelming talent.
Obama did not buy a house from an owner who hid defects. Obama ran for an election, and proclaimed what he thought was wrong with the nation, blaming it on the previous president, George W. Bush, all to make the election, not about opposing John McCain, but to oppose George W. Bush, who was not even running. Obama's surrogates also made the election of 2008 about Sarah Palin, who actually has more integrity, more experience, and more skill, than Obama, but the idiots, Marxist-Leninist-Maoists-Stalinists-Mussoliniists-Inglesists products of the leftist education and Hollywood-Entertainment industry indoctrination, fell for it and went for the Messiah, as phony as he was, and as phony as he is, Barack Hussein Obama II - Barry Soetoro, who, according to the promotional information for Obama's book, was born in Kenya - but birthers are supposed to be stupid.
So, Obama is not a person who bought a house from an owner who hid defects. Before an interested buyer purchases a home, they hire a certified, experienced home inspector to evaluate the building. If they purchase the house and decide to sell it, they, the new owner who is now selling the house, is responsible for all defects and repairs before the prospective buyer purchases the house, unless that new, prospective buyer gives a waiver on such defects. In some cases, the new buyer might get the seller to reduce the price for such defects, in order to make the price fairer, adapting the price for such defects.
Obama has actually created the defects which exist today. If we evaluate the problems related to government in the USA today, related to, or caused by the President and his decisions, or lack thereof, he has caused more problems, with a deficit which is larger than all previous 43 presidents combined.
Obama has disgraced our nation world wide, disintegrating respect and trust in the USA throughout the world. He has further advanced the attack, violence, and abuse of women and babies in the USA by his sick, perverted, malicious support of elective, induced abortion, and support of late term abortion, as well as supporting the withholding of medical care for babies who survive abortion, even more proof of Obama's, the left's, and abortion lovers' hatred, cruelty, and war against women and babies.
Matthews is a disgrace, and it is amazing that a person like him, with such wretched values, or lack thereof, a person who proudly mocks others, especially Conservatives, and people, such as Sarah Palin, as being idiots, dolts, stupid, morons, etc., while he demonstrates, again and again, his own lack of knowledge, and raises suspicions that he might not be so intelligent, as he revealed on the celebrity Jeopardy program, and as he reveals on his diatribe spewing, biased, hate filled, attack against Conservatives, Christians, etc., filled program.
If a person wishes to use their time wisely, and efficiently, while avoiding lies, dishonesty, hatred, and a vile, malevolent, hate filled atmosphere, a person would do well to avoid viewing "Hardball," with Chris Matthews.
Matthews the claque and leftist flunky ... more
Submitted by WilliamW on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 12:03pm.
I'd like to amend the statement that this is not about Bush v Obama, to the context stated by Matthews, comparisons between, or differences between Bush and Romney.
No, Chris Matthews, this is not about Bush and Romney. It is about choosing between a leftist, radical amateur, Obama, who is a huge failure, and not qualified even after 4 years of on-the-job training, and an experienced, gentleman, former governor, Mitt Romney, to act as our new Commander-in-Chief and Chief executive.
Hey Matthews
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 12:22pm.
Call the wwwwaaaaaahhhhhhmublance. Save a seat for your whiny, flunky boss...er...president, too.
Analogy failure
Submitted by sanergononlib on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 12:38pm.
The true analogy would be that the house was not owned by W alone but a consortium made up of him and congress.
Dem strategery
Submitted by Nemesisesq on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 12:41pm.
Lib: Here's a loaded question using an incongrous analogy, based on a false premise, your asnser sir.
Con: Ye.....
Lib: I Win! I Win!, I Win! LALALALALLALALALALALALALALALLALALALALALALA I can't hear you LALALALALALALALLALALALALALA.
Re: Dem Strategy
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 12:52pm.
......actually had that happen to me! Very, very funny. Thanks!!
Chrissie Tingles Head Would Explode....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 12:59pm.
...if someone were to ask him to "Compare and Contrast" the presidencys of Baracko and "The Peanut Farmer from Georgia"....
"Based on your experience Chris, which president was the most incompetant,etc...?"
The Sycophant.
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 2:04pm.
There's no stranger bird than the Sycophant.
Their nose is as long as an Elephant's
They shove them in holes
Where no one should go
And think of it as an accomplishment.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
MATTHEWS: What do you call a guy that refuses to answer a questi
Submitted by Robersire on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 5:46pm.
MATTHEWS: What do you call a guy that refuses to answer a question?
Answer: A Democrat!