Cartoon Chris Matthews: GOP Wants to 'Get Rid' of Cops, 'Cause Cruel Pain'
MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Tuesday reiterated his cartoon view of the Republican Party as a political organization that wants to cause "cruel pain on people" and intends to "get rid" of cops and firefighters.
Highlighting a couple of isolated outbursts at GOP debates, Matthews frothed, "They want more people to fry. They love executions. They want people that don't have insurance to die on the gurney in the hospital bed." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
The Hardball anchor continued, "If you're a teacher, fireman or a cop, get rid of the guy! I mean, this attitude of causing cruel pain on people and getting cheers for it, what's that about?..."
Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman seemed stumped, but agreed with Matthews' thesis: "Well, I'm not sure of the answer, except so say that attitude of mean resentment is very much out there in the country."
It's bizarre to paint an entire political party based on a few outbursts, but the cable anchor wasn't finished. He insisted, "But not liking firefighters, teachers, not liking people who are sick without insurance. Really hating people who are condemned on death row. Fine. They're going to be executed. Do you have to boo them on the way out?"
A transcript of the October 25 exchange can be found below:
Story Continues Below Ad ↓
CHRIS MATTHEWS: All the producers and I were trying to figure out, why do you want to be known as a guy that's just towel snapping at the president of the United States? Just taunting with him, just playing with him, as he put it, as a joke. "I'm just taunting with him. I'm just playing." Here's a party that- I'm just keeping the list. They want more people to fry. They love executions. They want people that don't have insurance to die on the gurney in the hospital bed. They want that to happen. They want- forget about illegal aliens. Gay soldiers, forget about them. They're not- they're to be booed. If you're homeless, foreclose- if you have a home, foreclose on the people. If you're a teacher, fireman or a cop, get rid of the guy! I mean, this attitude of causing cruel pain on people and getting cheers for it, what's that about, Howard? You're giving me that look. They're in my head with this. I want to know where these candidates are heading with this.
HOWARD FINEMAN: No, no. Well, I'm not sure of the answer, except so say that attitude of mean resentment is very much out there in the country.
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
FINEMAN: And it's all over the place. I wouldn't say it's just confined to the nether reaches of the Republican Party.
MATTHEWS: But not big government, which they said was a proper enemy for all Americans. Love to love to bitch about the government. That's normal. But not liking firefighters, teachers, not liking people who are sick without insurance. Really hating people who are condemned on death row. Fine. They're going to be executed. Do you have to boo them on the way out?
FINEMAN: Chris, people are at the point, we're in a revolution of declining expectations about their own future and their family's future and they're looking for people to lash out at.
MATTHEWS: Schadenfreude.
FINEMAN: And by the way, Barack Obama is so despised by the base of the Republican Party that anything Rick Perry or Herman Cain says is acceptable to them.
- Scott Whitlock's blog
- Login to post comments
Comments
The man is a born liar.
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:08pm.
The man is a born liar. There's no way he actually believes this crap.
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
You'd be surprised...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:22pm.
...at how stupid people can be.
I am still waiting for Good 'Ole Pap Matthews (full of smear)
Submitted by djwolf12 on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 7:31pm.
to retract and apologize on air to the false statement he made on the air that Rush Limbaugh said that he wanted to desegregate the US armed forces.
Actually, Tingles is partially right
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 10:20am.
Let's look at his accusations: They want more people to fry. They love executions. They want people that don't have insurance to die on the gurney in the hospital bed. They want that to happen. They want- forget about illegal aliens. Speaking for myself, I DO want convicted murderers to fry. And not after 20-30 years on death row. Give them an automatic appellate review and ONE appeal. Then send them to the chair or chamber or gallows (don't care which, as long as I can stop paying for their upkeep while they're getting college educations and making appeal after appeal). As for people who have no insurance dying on the gurney - this is the same BS the Obamessiah spouted to get his healthcare law passed. Hate to break it to you Crissy, but NOBODY with a life-threatening condition is refused emergency treatment in this country. IT. DOESN'T. HAPPEN. So you're a LIAR! And illegal aliens - I give you credit for calling them what they are, but no Crissy, I won't forget about them. In another cruel conservative move, I would deport them as I caught them. And I would step up catching them. If they had committed a crime in the U.S., they would be tried, convicted, and serve out the time sentenced. THEN I would deport them. Yeah, I'm just a cruel meany...
Oh yeah and I want to drink
Submitted by ricklail on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:08pm.
Oh yeah and I want to drink dirty water, breathe dirty air, throw grandmaw off the cliff, starve kids, and I don't want any government. That should cover it. Get it right next time Tingles.
Now that's just silly. You
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 12:38pm.
Now that's just silly. You know we force children to labor in our diamond mines.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:15pm.
Beware flying spittle.
the cruel pain
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:24pm.
is hearing this buffoon trying to talk. It is to the point, everything he says, makes no sense, what so ever
Hey Fineman, you little jackass:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:32pm.
It's not just "the base of the Republican party" that despises Obama. And Tingles has gone so completely off the rails, he's not even worthy of analysis or comment at this point... it's just gibberish.
Hey BTW, is Sharpton the only one with any balls over there at MSNBC? At least that miscreant showed up in person at OWS. Maybe Tingles and Howie could plan an on-location live broadcast. I'm sure all the hippies would know who they are.
sarco
The drunken diabetic is ....
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:52pm.
.....in rare form again. He was punched one too many times in the playground. http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2009/03/25/6131/msnbcs-chris-matthews...
What I want to know is why
Submitted by StCroix64 on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 7:06pm.
What I want to know is why someone doesn't call Matthews out...to his face. He loves to sit on in fat ass and preach about how bad republicans are, tell us how Fox lies about the news,....then he acts like this?? I'm sick of the punk. He reminds me of the kid on the play ground with the BIG talk til you get in his face. Someone needs to kick his ass.
Chrissy needs to start his own "game show..."
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 7:09pm.
Chrissy needs to start his own "game show." He can name it: How Obnoxious Can You Be?
Hay, Chrissy, character isn't measured in how obnoxious you are, but how civil you are.
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.
the sad decline of Chris Matthews.
Submitted by kata on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 7:17pm.
My dear Chris... It's not that we don't like these people... it's just that we prefer to give our money straight to them not through the US Government Charity.
Not to even cover all those other perpetuated Lies he managed to vomit in that one paragraph...
I think this draft dodger is
Submitted by cristo on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 7:51pm.
I think this draft dodger is finally losing his mind
can't cha just feel the tingle?
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 8:27pm.
matthews will be feeling quite a bit of emotional pain when his object of desire is voted out of office in 2012.
Another obsessive devotion of Chrissy
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 9:16pm.
He'll just move to Atlanta and chase the other. Hope she's got a restraining order...
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Federal vs Unitary
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 9:14pm.
Chris Matthews, a guy who I imagine is an educated individual, is yet another Leftist who cannot distinguish between a federal and a unitary government.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Desperate
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:11pm.
His words of accusation are the words of a desperate individual. He knows that his vision of a socialistic America is vanishing with every Obama poll that he reads.
Chris Mathews was Brain Damaged When?
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:12pm.
When he was Tip O'Neils flunk he did much to keep the "flyover contry" from recovering from the Carter Depression and get the Community reinvestment act to divert new money to the two coasts. Because of that he had his hand in the two trillion dollar loss we had in 2007 and should be held criminally libel.
There is...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:22pm.
...a critical flaw in your post. In order for someone to be brain damaged, said person must be in possession of a brain in the first place.
Chris Matthews
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:13pm.
is officially a parody of himself.
Matthews is just a pathetic
Submitted by forest on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:32pm.
Matthews is just a pathetic idiot. I feel sorry for him.
Maybe Chris can get Joe Biden to co-host with him in 2013 so he can look less idiotic in comparison.
Same old, same old
Submitted by needle on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:39pm.
It seems as if Chris Matthews is positioning himself to be a speechwriter for Joe Biden.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Kinnock
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:48pm.
I thought Neil Kinnock had that gig permanently.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
new top three
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:20am.
chrissy wet legs, MIKA nobody home, and Joe Biden the next star of Pinnochio,
Shows what alcohol can do
Submitted by greydawg on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:29am.
Mathews is an admitted alcoholic (recovering, he claims) and what he spews every night may just be evidence of an alcohol-damaged brain. What else could account for such venom-filled crap?
Matthews continues to decline
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 11:14am.
More and more, his rants resemble those of a small child. Every issue is hyperbolized to extremes. If we want to enforce immigration laws, then we are racists and cruel. If we want to reduce the size of government, then we like crime and house fires.
Matthews has become a cartoon character.
They really need to give this
Submitted by ParalegalGoddess on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 11:26am.
They really need to give this guy a field sobriety test and breathalyzer before going on the air...he slurs his words, mispronounces American as "Amuricun", spit flying all over the place. And yells crazy stuff at a pitch that just grates on the nerves. Oy.
Tabloid media
Submitted by TerryWest on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 1:17pm.
Listening to this guy is no different then reading the tabloid headlines in the grocery store check out line.