Unhinged Chris Matthews Shrieks: 'Deadly,' Satanic Newt Gingrich Is a 'Political Killer'
By Scott Whitlock | December 12, 2011 | 18:39
Hardball's Chris Matthews on Monday spewed hatred for Newt Gingrich, excoriating him as voicing "deadly" contempt for Barack Obama. Matthews trashed, "He's a political killer, a gun for hire."
The unhinged Matthews compared Republicans who support the former Speaker to those who would make a deal with the devil. Using violent rhetoric, the MSNBC anchor constructed reasons why conservatives embrace Gingrich: "Because he voices in cold, nasty, deadly tones the words of their contempt, because he's an opportunist ready to seek any route to his opponent's heart and thereby kill it." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
Using demonic references, Matthews bombarded, "[Republicans are] about to begin the nomination for President of a figure who represents the Mephistopheles of what they preach. He is nasty, brutal, ready to fight and kill politically."
Oddly, the host summed up the GOP's reasons as nothing more than wanting to take back the White House:
MATTHEWS: This is the Faustian deal at hand: Newt Gingrich's promise of a vision of which they on the right have set their hearts, the few minutes of national television in which the President and his wife stand before them in defeat. That's why they're offering up their partisan souls, why they're ready to bow down before this false god of hatred
Does trying to win a presidential election really equal supporting the "false god of hatred"?
A transcript of the December 12 segment can be found below:
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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this. The Republican Party is about to seal a Faustian deal with the devil. Every observer from left to farthest right knows what's going on here. The Republicans, led by the angriest among them, are about to give away their partisan souls for one all-consuming political purpose, the destruction of Barack Obama. They're about to begin the nomination for President of a figure who represents the Mephistopheles of what they preach. He is nasty, brutal, ready to fight and kill politically, a man of no discernible commitments or values, who has nothing to offer but a sharp-as-hell intellect and a wicked rapier of words. For the right price and a presidential nomination is his [sic], Newt is ready to jump on a dime and hit any opponent where he shows weakness. Why are they on the verge of enlisting in the army of Newt? Because he voices in cold, nasty, deadly tones the words of their contempt, because he's an opportunist ready to seek any route to his opponent's heart and thereby kill it. He's a political killer, a gun for hire. But he offers a prize so precious, he cannot be resisted.
This. This is the Faustian deal at hand: Newt Gingrich's promise of a vision of which they on the right have set their hearts, the few minutes of national television in which the President and his wife stand before them in defeat. That's why they're offering up their partisan souls, why they're ready to bow down before this false god of hatred. They will give their souls to Newt, their compact with the devil to get what they most want: Pain on their enemy. They want it more than yet another tax cut, more than another wild, unwarranted war, more than love or freedom or joy. They want the President's head. And they've cut a deal with Mephistopheles to get it. What they're doing isn't good. They know it as well as we know it. Deep down, it is wrong to run someone who is so different from what you value. They know it's wrong and they're doing it still. They're willing to give up all the values and hopes and claims to goodness they've ever professed. They're willing to strike this deal with the devil because they want to hurt Obama, because the most enticing prospect of this entire campaign is the chance to bring down this President. And in the prospect and act of doing so, they imagine how damn good it will feel.
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Isn't there anyone out there
Submitted by Chaitealover on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 6:43pm.
who can help this poor, sick man?
Chai
Bill O'Reilly
Submitted by Fredy on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 12:05am.
Bill pretty much AGREED with Mathews assessment on his show tonight!
Looks like msnbc and Fox are finally comming together on something!
I could
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 12:54pm.
But my treatment isn't legal, and would give the gun-control crown more to fight with...
Gingrich: "Because he voices
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 6:48pm.
Gingrich: "Because he voices in cold, nasty, deadly tone the words of their contempt, because he's an opportunist ready to seek any route to his opponent's heart and thereby kill it."
Exactly right Chris, everytime I see or hear Newt those are my thoughts... NOT!!
Actually, I want to get out a teddy bear and tear his ears off.
quick!!!
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 6:54pm.
Someone get this man a hinge...because he has become unhinged!
Exactly
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:22pm.
I was listening to this on XM as I was driving home, and the first thought in my head was "He's definitely unhinged."
MATTHEWS: ". . . They want the President's head. And they've cut a deal with Mephistopheles to get it. . . ."
Who writes this crap for him? It's like the C- paper in an 8th Grade creative writing test.
Yet, no doubt that some time later this week, he'll have guests on to discuss just how ugly and nasty the political dialogue has gotten thanks to conservatives and talk radio, and wouldn't it be great if, over the Christmas season, the conservatives would stop throwing flames.
Soooo true. They will bemoan
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 9:03pm.
Soooo true. They will bemoan the good ol' days of civility when liberals in the MSM had credibility with a large audience
"they want to hurt Obama,
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 6:54pm.
"they want to hurt Obama, because the most enticing prospect of this entire campaign is the chance to bring down this President. And in the prospect and act of doing so, they imagine how damn good it will feel."
His rant is so rife with gems. All I can say is: AND YOUR POINT IS!?!
Thanks Chrissy,
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:00pm.
For helping me make up my mind.
Go Newt!
There goes Chrissie...
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:10pm.
running around with his skirt up over his head again......
LOL!
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:22pm.
thanks mb!
MB, don't forget,
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 8:15pm.
"The sky is falling".
If there were any Karma in the world, Chrissy would run into a wall,while running with his skirt over his head, and knock himself senseless. Oh, wait, never mind.
Whoda guessed it?
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:15pm.
He's a political killer, a gun for hire. But he offers a price so precious, he cannot be resisted.
Wow! Who would have guessed pudgy little newt as the Terminator?
I guess Newt won't be sending any thrills . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:41pm.
. . . up Matthews' leg anytime soon.
If he's the nominee, can't wait to see Gingrich humiliate Obama
Submitted by krendler on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:46pm.
...in the debates. Not merely destroy. Humiliate.
It will be fun watching all the heads exploding at NBC.
MATTHEWS: This is the
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 8:00pm.
MATTHEWS: This is the Faustian deal at hand: Newt Gingrich's promise of a vision of which they on the right have set their hearts, the few minutes of national television in which the President and his wife stand before them in defeat.
The Republicans, led by the angriest among them, are about to give away their partisan souls for one all-consuming political purpose, the destruction of Barack Obama.
They want the President's head.
It occurred to me Chris has left the Racial defense and now is channeling the French Revolution. But you know, the idea of an out of touch King with a luxury loving wife isn't too far off the mark. Now the angry Republican mob is getting ready to storm the Whitehouse and depose the King and send him and his wife into exile. We'll skip the use of the guillotine.
delete double
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 8:23pm.
delete double
The Republicans, led by the
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 8:12pm.
The Republicans, led by the angriest among them, are about to give away their partisan souls for one all-consuming political purpose, the destruction of Barack Obama.
And Matthews says that as if it were a BAD thing.....
I'm only half joking, because the defeat of the Obama agenda will be a great day for America, no matter at whose hands.
Not destruction, Chris; just defeat. And one wants his head. Not even figuratively.
It's not personal, as much as you'd like to believe it is.
It's business.
Good 'Ole Pap Matthews (full of smear) at it again
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 8:04pm.
This (Matthews) is the same guy that said that Mark Levin's show is nothing but "Ugly Talk"? This is the same guy (Matthews) that said Republicans operate and use violent rhetoric so full of vitriol that it is tearing the country apart? THIS IS THE SAME GUY?
Wow. M.S.S.R. is ALL IN to destroy any opposition to Chairman Obama. I still think that when Obama gets his ass handed to him on a bent dinner tray on 11/6/2012, Good 'Ole Pap Matthews (full of smear) will beg Chairman Obama to sign an executive order to reverse the election returns on 11/7/2012.
It seemed as if
Submitted by ronber on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 8:36pm.
It seemed as Chris was about to stroke out. I wonder, does MSNBC, out of an abundance of caution, have men in white coats standing by just in case?
I have just the thing for
Submitted by poseA on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 8:50pm.
I have just the thing for him.
Ding, ding, ding
Submitted by Kansasgirl on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 9:12pm.
sounds like old Chrissy knows for whom the bell tolls.
I'd love to see O debate Gingrich, wouldn't you? Hehe.
Deadly? Satanic? like killing
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 9:25pm.
Deadly? Satanic? like killing children Matthews? Isn't that what your party stands for and doesn't your party profit from the deaths of millions on babies? 25% of pregnancies end up destroyed; the Aztecs who practiced child sacrifice killed 20%. So who is more savage and blood-thirsty Matthews? You people sacrifice those innocents to the devil, may God's justice be on your head and on your friends in the DNC.
Yet there you sit casting aspersions, judging everyone else who DOESN"T sacrifice at the altar of political correctness. It's you and your party that's Satanic.
Tee hee, Chrissie
Submitted by SaguaroJack on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 10:04pm.
Matthews would be a laughingstock were he not so embarrassing. Mouth drooling, leg tingling, spewing spittle while he talks, screeching, voice cracking, breathing hard, manic eyes -- he's so far gone in dementia that he's not even good for comic relief.
.
So if Gingrich is the false
Submitted by kareling on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 10:20pm.
So if Gingrich is the false god of hatred, then who's the true god of hatred?
Dick Cheney.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 8:03am.
Or in Tinglese, Cheeeeney.
We're gonna need a spit shield...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 10:21pm.
This Matthews guy has serious mental problems. How did he end up on tv?
to
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 11:09pm.
bad fatso ed didn't follow through and torch msdnc. Hey tingles, do you ever listen to your BS? And you have the ba--s to talk about hate involving any-one-else? Go get some Prosac
Chris Matthewstopheles.
Submitted by big.league.slider on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 11:25pm.
Thus far Newt has only gone after other Republican primary candidates. And what Newt has said about the other GOP candidates is mild compared to what Matthews himself has said about those very same people. He's become Chris Matthewstopheles.
Isn't Mephistopheles A Registered Card Carryng Democrat?
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 12:08am.
Is Chris Matthew asking for a payoff? Does he know that Hussein is the term that Arabs us in place of Berserker? Hussein was a crazy warrior in Mohammad’s band of thieves. Barack was Mohammad’s horse. In some ways the translation from the Arabic of our Presidents name is Crazy Horse Obama.
Chris
Submitted by oldfart on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 4:46am.
If Chris wants to be taken seriously he needs to back off a little. No change that - he needs to back off a whole lot. His unprofessional antics get in the way of anything he is trying to communicate. And the whole act (don't go to Hollywood Chris) comes accross has a 'chicken little'.
If the mere thought of Newt Gingrich
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 6:10am.
as POTUS makes Chris Matthews shriek like a scared little girl, he has my vote.
I don't understand
Submitted by John21 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 7:45am.
Your headline makes the statement as if this is something new, I don't understand. Christy "Tinglelegs" "Manlove" Matthews has always been on the edge of insane, He has consumed so much of the koolaid over the years that brain rot set in a long time ago. He would be unable to conduct a conversation without the DNC talking points in front of him. The reason he only has quest from the left or at best RINOs is because he can't begin to justify his comments and beliefs with anything close to facts.
Liberals are like Christmas lights, half of them don't work and the rest aren't very bright.
⇒ North American Man-Barack Love Assoc.
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 7:48am.
I think I saw an episode of Law & Order about this.
OMO!
Submitted by stratman on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 8:56am.
That requires a beverage alert and a LIKE button. You touché-d their tushies totally.
Hereby nominated for best post of the year.
I seem to remember Obama's
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 8:12am.
I seem to remember Obama's career is littered with opponents whom he offed with the most vicious personal attacks. That doesnt seem to trouble Chrissy at all. Talk about cold hearted.
Unhinged? Of course, but...
Submitted by KyWriter on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 9:56am.
...we're going to have to come up with a whole new class of adjectives to describe Matthews's dementia.
Apparantly Newt is ahead in the Polls.
Submitted by sniffles09 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 11:20am.
As the liberal media always attacks whoever is in the lead of the GOP field.
Expecially now that dumbozo has a track record to defend,
he can't have the last 3 years sealed like his life history before 2004.
Incompetence, arrogance, class warfare, bigger govt, excessive spending
like slick willie said
"its the economy stupid".
obama had his shot, he made it worse, he has to go . .
Question: why does this man still have a job?
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 11:26am.
Howard "The Scream" Dean screamed in public on national TV and was forced to drop out of the 2004 Democratic primaries, paving the way for John "Lurch" Kerry, the dullest man to ever be nominated for President. But Chris "Tinkles" Matthews does something similar and still has a job this morning! The cheese slipped off this man's (censored) years ago, but MSDNC tolerates him anyway...
No standards at all
Submitted by Callawyn on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 11:52am.
How is this raving maniac still on the air?
Enough is Enough!
Submitted by DaMama on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 1:06pm.
I've had it with these knee-jerk leftist liberal newscasters. They can say whatever they want about Republicans, Christians, conservatives and Tea Party Patriots, no matter how false, slanderous or ridiculous. But if anyone says word one against Obama, they are branded a racist, bigoted, Islamophobic, homophobic hater.
This has to stop. I've had enough of Matthews and his imbecilic comrades.