Chris Matthews Lies In Boast About His 'Number One' Bestseller on JFK
By Tim Graham | January 17, 2012 | 19:15
Keith Morelli of the Tampa Tribune is not much of a fact-checker. His story on Chris Matthews on Tuesday began: "Veteran newsman and 'Hardball' host Chris Matthews will be in Tampa this weekend, touting his new book about John F. Kennedy."
The next sentence quoted Matthews from a Monday phone interview: "No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list for 10 weeks." The problem? Matthews lied. He has been on the best-seller list for 10 weeks with "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero." But it's never been number one on the NYT's Hardcover Nonfiction list. It debuted at number three on the November 20 list and sat at number 14 on the January 22 list.
Over the ten weeks, the Matthews book has been third, fourth, fourth, fifth, fifth, fifth, fourth, fifth, ninth, and 14th. The number one book of that entire period has been Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs.
In fact, Bill O'Reilly's book "Killing Lincoln" was number one for all four weeks in October and then was number two above Matthews for the first nine weeks of the Matthews book's distribution. He slipped to number three in the latest list, eleven slots above Matthews.
Matthews likes to lecture about politicians lying us into war. He must surely find lying his way into the number one slot is much more defensible.
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C'mon, you know Chris ain't good with cypherin'
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 7:49pm.
Just last week, Matthews told us that the number of Federal employees in 2009 was 4,430.
He has a numbers problem
Submitted by kg on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 12:07am.
He has a numbers problem along with many others. He's as big of an embarrassment as all the others they pay and have payed to show the viewers their ignorance. MSNBC and their viewers give meaning to the term "dumbing down".
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Matthews probably meant he
Submitted by HelloDare on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 7:58pm.
Matthews probably meant he was #1 on the NYT hardcover, nonfiction, fawning-history-about-one-of-the-Kennedy's Best Seller List. Simple mistake.
What's truly scary about Matthews
Submitted by 26CX on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 8:47pm.
is that he really believes what he's saying.
"Chris Matthews Lies"
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 8:49pm.
Agreed!
Matthews
Submitted by alberta43 on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 8:57pm.
All commentators lie. So, what's new? Can't believe any of them on any subject.
Seriously?
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 9:31pm.
That's all you've got to bring to the discussion?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Let's Face The Facts
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 9:01pm.
Matthews will never be Glenn Beck or have his talent, but hey Mathews' mediocrity is no crime either!!
Listen to him speak
Submitted by Tatfreak79 on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 9:11pm.
he doesnt swallow his saliva or something. you can hear it when he speaks. His words sound funny. Its gross. I wanna buy him one of those suction things from the dentist. Just wanted to point that out...imagine how bad the audio book is...
Draft dodger and a liar, who
Submitted by cristo on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:07pm.
Draft dodger and a liar, who woulda' thought, what with him being a "veteran newsman," and all.
Which JFK book would that be?
Submitted by JeffC... on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:13pm.
Is it the one with the premise that supposed right-wing racist Southern conservatives hated JFK so much that they came out to cheer him on his visit to Dallas and induced a Commie-symp Castroite to assassinate him?
Yeah, same guy:
Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:43pm.
Yeah, same guy:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/10/31/while-recounting-...
When I think of Matthews, I think of Number 2
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 6:07am.
Like polls, I believe the NYT bestseller list is deliberately skewed to the left.
Berlin 1961
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 10:42am.
I wonder what Chrissy thinks of Berlin 1961. Or, if he has, or ever will, interview Frederick Kempe about the book.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
lies
Submitted by angelann1 on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 11:48am.
mathews speaks, mathews lies!!