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Matthews: FDR Didn't Pin Mussolini on Catholics, Don't Blame Islam Now
November 16th, 2015 8:49 PM
2015 is drawing to a close, so unless some dark horse comes out of absolutely nowhere, Chris Matthews is a mortal lock for the DisHonor award for the year's worst analogy. On this evening's Hardball, Matthews argued that we shouldn't blame Islam for ISIS terrorist attacks since, after all, FDR, despite despising Mussolini, "never declared war on the Catholics."
Just a little difference: Italian…
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Matthews Not Sure If Cruz, Rubio Are Really 'Hispanic'
November 11th, 2015 9:10 PM
According to Chris Matthews, it's uncertain whether the term Hispanic can properly be used to describe GOP presidential aspirants Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Florida). It's better to say they are "Cuban nationals," offered the Hardball host on his Nov. 11 program.
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Lib West Wing Actor Hypes Kasich: ‘Brings the Clown Car Under Control'
November 11th, 2015 12:55 AM
Liberal West Wing actor Bradley Whitford appeared on a special post-debate edition of Hardball, Tuesday, to trash the Republican candidates. However, he singled out one person for praise, cheering, “[John] Kasich was certainly agitated and seemed to try and, you know, bring the clown car under control, I thought.” Overall, however, the actor sneered: “Generally this field I feel...makes Ronald…
Matthews, Michele Bachmann Exchange Notes On Photographic Media Bias
November 10th, 2015 8:55 PM
At the end of an interview segment tonight on Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and former Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) traded stories about their brushes with journalists who used goofy-looking photos of them as cover art to adorn magazine profiles.
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Matthews Thinks Blockbuster Around, Intros Woman as 'Haley Barbour'
November 10th, 2015 8:18 PM
You'd think that back in April when, as Ken Shepherd noted, Chris Matthews talked about Blockbuster being about all that's left in Rust Belt towns, one of his assistants would have gently taken him aside and explained that Blockbuster shuttered its stores some time ago. But on this evening's Hardball, there was Chris committing the exact same gaffe.
And in the very next segment, Matthews…
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New 'Hardball' Promo Celebrates 'Lion' Ted Kennedy
November 10th, 2015 4:44 PM
Chris Matthews has voiced over a new MSNBC Hardball promo which, among other things, hails the late Ted Kennedy as a paragon of statesmanship, a "great" "leader" a "lion" who "keep[s] me going non-stop."
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Matthews Berates Kornacki for Failing to Denounce Carson Fast Enough
November 10th, 2015 8:30 AM
Ken Shepherd pointed out Monday that Chris Matthews marched a hard line on Ben Carson’s memoir and the charge stories in it aren’t true: “you better damn well know they're true. Now, maybe you know you can't substantiate them right away. But they'd better be damn true, not sort of true.”
Soopermexican at The Right Scoop found Matthews jumped all over his MSNBC colleague Steve Kornacki before…
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Chris Matthews Lectures About Accuracy In Memoirs
November 9th, 2015 10:06 PM
Discussing media scrutiny over unsubstantiated claims that Dr. Ben Carson has made in his memoirs, Hardball host Chris Matthews pontificated about the importance of fact-checking one's own book to make sure everything is kosher. But where was he when the veracity of President Obama's memoirs was brought up in 2012?
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Chris Matthews: Obama Plans to be 'Next Mandela'
November 9th, 2015 8:42 PM
Gag me with a vuvuzela . . . You say, Obama and Mandela. I say, Obama taking flirty selfies at Mandela's memorial service with the Danish PM, much to Michelle's displeasure.
But not Chris Matthews. On this evening's Hardball, Matthews said that Obama's post-presidential goal is to be "the next Mandela." You've got to be [insert unprintable modifier] kidding me.
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Notable Quotables: CNBC's Deplorable Debate Debacle
November 9th, 2015 9:12 AM
This week, after CNBC's moderators assault the GOP candidates with a barrage of offensive attack questions, liberal reporters decry Republican complaints about the debacle: "This got a little revolting tonight," MSNBC's Chris Matthews sneered, while ABC daytime host Whoopi Goldberg advised the candidates: "Grow some nuts." And: CBS and PBS host Charlie Rose tells socialist candidate Bernie…
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MRC Crashes MSNBC's Democratic Presidential Candidates' Forum
November 6th, 2015 11:12 PM
One of the Media Research Center's famous "Don't Believe the Liberal Media" signs made a live appearance on MSNBC on Friday — minutes after Rachel Maddow completed a forum with the three remaining Democratic presidential candidates. Chris Matthews got Maddow's take on the how the forum went and the candidates' answers/reactions. The sign appeared right between the two liberal TV personalities…
WaPo: Gun Control Push Helped Va. GOP Win; Chris Matthews Mum
November 5th, 2015 8:05 PM
As I blogged Monday night, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews gave Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe a platform to urge liberal viewers at home who live in the Old Dominion to vote pro-gun control by voting for Democrats the following day. Of course, that didn't pan out like either hoped. Republicans retained control of the both houses of the state legislature, while Democrats had hoped to…
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Hardball's Matthews Ignores Bad News for Dems in 2015 Elections
November 4th, 2015 8:35 PM
"Under President Obama, Democrats have lost 900+ state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats. That's some legacy," tweeted Purple Strategies managing director Rory Cooper, a former Eric Cantor staffer and alumnus of the conservative Heritage Foundation. Of course, if you relied on the Nov. 4 edition of MSNBC's Hardball for your political analysis, you wouldn't have a…
The Obvious Question Matthews Should Have Asked O'Malley But Didn't
November 3rd, 2015 9:34 PM
Tomorrow marks one year to the day when Larry Hogan soundly defeated Martin O'Malley protege Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown in the Maryland gubernatorial contest. Yet with O'Malley in the hot seat on the November 3 edition of Hardball, host Chris Matthews failed to ask him how this embarrassing defeat -- and Gov. Hogan's healthy job-approval ratings to this day -- might be a signal to his fellow…
