Chris Matthews

Joe Klein: Obama Thinks State of the Union Is Stronger Because 'He's B
February 10th, 2013 12:00 PM
In today's "Gag Me With A Spoon" segment, Time's Joe Klein on Sunday uttered some sychophantic words about the current White House resident that will send many Americans to their medicine chests for relief.
Appearing on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Klein said with a huge smile on his face, "I think that the President really feels that the state of the union is stronger for several…

AP Uses Excerpts From Dorner's 'Manifesto' on Various Pols, Omits Effu
February 8th, 2013 10:45 AM
As of 9:47 ET this morning, according to the Associated Press, this is where the manhunt for Christopher Dorner stands: "Police spent all night searching the snowy mountains of Southern California but were unable to find the former Los Angeles police officer accused of carrying out a killing spree because he felt he was unfairly fired from his job.
We don't have to search very far for bias in…

Matthews Supplies Secret To Restoring Washington's Good Name: More Gov
February 8th, 2013 7:55 AM
Nowadays, our nation's capital is in such ill-repute that if George Washington were around, he might sue to have his name taken off it. But never fear: restoring Washington's good name is just a few trillion dollars away!
So Chris Matthews assures us in an MSNBC "Lean Forward" promo that is currently airing. After ticking off a number of big-government programs initated under past…

Chris Matthews: GOP Spent Months Trying To Prevent Blacks, Poor and Yo
February 5th, 2013 6:15 PM
I often wonder how MSNBC's Chris Matthews looks at himself in the mirror each morning when he shaves and brushes his teeth.
Seems impossible when he makes comments like he did on Tuesday's Hardball: "[The Republican Party] spent months in every state legislative capital trying to keep black people and poor people from voting, or young people" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

As Andrew Cuomo's Poll Numbers 'Crumble,' Chris Matthews Frets: 'Is An
February 4th, 2013 12:36 PM
An exasperated Chris Matthews on Sunday highlighted Governor Andrew Cuomo's plummeting poll numbers in the wake of New York's new gun control legislation. Singling out the National Rifle Association as the villain, he fretted "...Is anybody safe from the NRA?"
The host of the Chris Matthews Show lamented the inability of many states to pass gun control laws. Matthews told his guests that,…

Time's Michael Duffy: Hillary-Biden 'Dream Ticket' Could Make Joe Veep
February 3rd, 2013 2:55 PM
The media's gushing and fawning over Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016 knows no bounds.
On the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday, Time magazine's Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy cooed over a Clinton-Biden "dream ticket" that could make Joe vice president for sixteen straight years (video follows with commentary):

Chris Matthews: 'Does Obama Want Immigration Reform or More Hispanic V
February 3rd, 2013 2:13 PM
Chris Matthews - apparently absent the thrill up his leg - asked a question on his syndicated program Sunday that will shock people on both sides of the aisle.
"Does the president want immigration reform or does he want more Hispanic votes?" (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):

Disgraceful: Chris Matthews Smears John McCain as an 'Angry' Vietnam V
February 1st, 2013 5:33 PM
Liberal anchor Chris Matthews on Friday stooped to new low, smearing John McCain as an "angry" Vietnam veteran who is having a "flashback." Resorting to the cheapest of stereotypes, the Hardball host attempted to explain why McCain so aggressively opposed Chuck Hagel's nomination to be Secretary of Defense.
Matthews opened the show by sneering, "Why is John McCain so angry? Forty years after…

Chris Matthews, Who Has Compared His Opponents to Nazis, Whines About
January 31st, 2013 6:17 PM
MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday assailed John McCain, slamming the "boiling hatred" aimed at Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama's Defense Secretary nominee. Matthews sneered, "Hatred, pure and simple, seeped from the mouths of John McCain and Lindsay Graham as they slashed away at war hero Hagel." (McCain is also a war hero. Graham is a veteran. Are those with military experience only allowed to…

Kathleen Parker: Hillary Won't Run For President As 'Ultimate Revenge
January 27th, 2013 2:31 PM
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker made a couple of predictions on Sunday's syndicated Chris Matthews Show that are guaranteed to raise eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.
First, in a discussion about whether Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016, Parker said she wouldn't as "ultimate revenge" on husband Bill who "wants her to run more than anyone else" (video follows with…

Marching for Life in the Face of a Pro-Abortion Media
January 25th, 2013 6:56 AM
Today is the 40th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., a day that is likely to pass with limited, if any, notice from a national news media which is hostile to the pro-life cause. While the abortion issue has divided Americans for the past four decades, journalists have consistently come down on the pro-abortion side of this debate.
It’s a bias some reporters freely admit. “I think…

Wrong Again, Maddow - Several Groups Pulled Permits to Protest Obama I
January 23rd, 2013 7:46 PM
Ah, that obsessive devotion to facts remains rigorous and unshakable.
Anchoring her network's coverage of President Obama's second inauguration, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow describes an aspect of the event that few people notice, aside from keen observers like her. (video clip after page break)

Chris Matthews Calls Senator Johnson's Questioning of Hillary Clinton
January 23rd, 2013 6:17 PM
It was a metaphysical certitude that America's media were going to gush and fawn over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testimony before Congress Wednesday as they mercilessly attacked any Senator or Representative having the gall to ask her tough questions about what happend at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
Playing his part was MSNBC's Chris Matthews who on Hardball moments…

MSNBC Host Teasingly Asks Chris Matthews About ‘Chills’ During Oba
January 22nd, 2013 7:52 AM
Yesterday was a historic day. Sure we had presidential inauguration but it was also perhaps the first and only day when loudmouth MSNBC host Chris Matthews actually shut his yap for a few seconds.
The cat that got Matthews’s tongue was being reminded by fellow MSNBC host Martin Bashir of his inane 2008 remark that he gets a “thrill going up my leg” when hearing Barack Obama speak. Watch below…