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Mitchell and Matthews Fear Dem ‘Chaos’ if Sanders Wins
January 27th, 2016 4:37 PM
On her MSNBC show on Wednesday, host Andrea Mitchell fretted over the possibility of Bernie Sanders winning Democratic contests in Iowa and New Hampshire: “And after two primary victories, you're gonna see chaos on the Democratic side, you're gonna see Uncle Joe Biden saying, ‘Well, maybe I should get back in.’ You're gonna see a lot of stuff.”
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MSNBC Gives Planned Parenthood Platform to Rejoice at 'Justice' Served
January 26th, 2016 8:30 PM
Worrying that "young women [don't] appreciate that [Planned Parenthood] exist[s]," MSNBC host Chris Matthews treated Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards to a softball interview in which she celebrated "justice" being served with the indictment of two pro-life activists who exposed Planned Parenthood's fetal-tissue sales.
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Matthews: Who'll Watch 'The Two Cuban Guys' If Trump Doesn't Debate?
January 26th, 2016 7:58 PM
Imagine that in some future presidential election, two Mexican-American candidates are vying for the Dem nomination. The Dem frontrunner announces he won't participate in the next debate. And a conservative pundit sneeringly says "who's going to watch a debate between the two Mexican guys?" Now imagine all hell descending on that hapless conservative for his breach of political correctness.
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Chris Matthews Hails the Real Liberals, The Ones Who 'Cry Sometimes'
January 26th, 2016 5:26 PM
Viewers of Tuesday’s MSNBC Live were treated to a lovely rant by Hardball host Chris Matthews denouncing the tone of politics today, and about his ‘favorite kind of liberal.’ “There are real liberals and there are people who look and talk like liberals. Liberals to me, the good ones, are people who really do care about individual people.”
Notable Quotables: Oozing Over Obama's 'Keen, Analytical Intelligence'
January 25th, 2016 9:11 AM
This week, as President Obama delivers his final State of the Union address, PBS's panel oozes over his "keen, analytical intelligence," with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin saying Obama's speech "reminded me of George Washington's Farewell Address." Meanwhile, PBS's Tavis Smiley slams GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as a "racial arsonist," CNN's Erin Burnett thinks today's Republicans are so…
Matthews Lectures NR Writer on Trump and Iraq War, Gets It Wrong
January 23rd, 2016 2:57 PM
On Friday night’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews unleashed a harangue on National Review writer Eliana Johnson, theorizing that the “Against Trump” symposium was pretty much all about Trump’s opposition to the Iraq war.
When Johnson insisted this isn’t single-issue thing, Matthews kept berating her: “Can you answer me? Which is not a hawk in that group?” Johnson didn’t offer a name, but could…
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Matthews: 'One-Time Canadian' Cruz 'Tobogganing to a Halt In Iowa'
January 21st, 2016 7:51 PM
A gleeful Chris Matthews opened up his Thursday edition of MSNBC's Hardball exulting that "one-time Canadian" Ted Cruz was "tobogganing to a halt in Iowa" while Donald Trump surges forward in the polls. Matthews, who seethed with rage every time a Republican so much as joked about birtherism against President Obama, has no qualms in relishing the overhyped controversy as regards the Texas senator…
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Chris Matthews Expresses Support for Racial 'Reparations'
January 20th, 2016 10:59 PM
"By the way, I do believe in [slavery] reparations if you could figure out what it would be," Hardball host Chris Matthews admitted to his panel during the "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" segment on the January 20 program.
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Omarosa Owns Chris Matthews' Pitiful Palin Attack
January 20th, 2016 8:35 PM
Hey Chris Matthews: is GloZell qualified to be President of the United States? How about John Travolta or Joy Behar?
On his MSNBC show this evening, Matthews attacked Sarah Palin's legitimacy as a Trump endorser by questioning her presidential qualifications. GloZell, Travolta and Behar are all Hillary endorsers. So how about it Chris: which of them could you imagine in the Oval Office? Trump…
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HuffPost's Fineman Associates Cruz, Trump with Flint Water Crisis
January 20th, 2016 8:24 PM
Perhaps hesitant to let a local government mismanagement crisis in Michigan go to waste, the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman sought to tie the Flint water crisis as an albatross around the necks of both Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and GOP primary frontrunner Donald Trump. Fineman made his remarks during a brief appearance on the January 20 edition of MSNBC's Hardball.
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David Corn: DNC Has 'Tremendous Amount of Regret' for Limiting Debates
January 19th, 2016 10:00 PM
In the "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" segment of Tuesday's edition of Hardball, Mother Jones magazine's David Corn informed MSNBC host Chris Matthews that the Democratic National Committee was wracked with a "tremendous amount of regret in the high ranks of the" party organization that they had limited the primary debates so much.
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Matthews: Palin Will Turn Off 'Thoughtful' Suburban Women From Trump
January 19th, 2016 8:28 PM
Donald Trump, for all his bluster and controversy, could actually win over the suburban vote in blue Northeastern states, Hardball host Chris Matthews argued on tonight's program. It's just too bad for him, he added, that throwing his arms around the Sarah Palin endorsement could kill those chances since "thoughtful" "pro-choice" women in those New England suburbs would see Palin's embrace as a…
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Matthews on Levin: 'One of Most Distasteful Human Beings Out There'
January 18th, 2016 7:45 PM
Mark Levin is American media's most knowledgeable, passionate proponent of constitutional conservatism. No wonder Chris Matthews hates him. On his MSNBC show Monday evening, Matthews slurred Levin as "one of the most distasteful human beings out there." Matthews' attack came in the context of commenting on the defense that Levin and Rush Limbaugh have mounted against Donald Trump's claim that Ted…
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Matthews on Cruz's NYC Hit; He's Like ‘The Music Man’ Playing to Hicks
January 15th, 2016 2:49 AM
Multiple times throughout the two hours of post-GOP debate edition of MSNBC’s Hardball late Thursday and early Friday, Chris Matthews expressed confusion at Ted Cruz’s attack on Donald Trump and “New York values” by wondering if it’s like accusing all San Francisco Democrats of being gay or playing Harold Hill in The Music Man by “playing to the hicks” in Iowa.
