On Thursday’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews doubled down on his admission that the liberal media would “be rooting for Bernie” Sanders in a possible debate with Donald Trump because Sanders is “a true believer” and dreamed that the socialist candidate would use it to “give a wonderful soliloquy” about the need for universal health care.
Upon hearing a soundbite from Trump promising that the money raised for the debate would go to “women’s health issues,” Matthews murmured about Trump being “crazy” and surmised that he could “write the headlines now” as “Bernie Sanders beats him in debate.”
Matthews further bolstered his predictions by noting that “the media will be rooting for Bernie” since he’s “[t]he older guy” and “true believer” of the far-left.
“They’ll be rooting for him, a true believer. I just can see it coming. Why would he want to walk into a situation where they’re not going to say he beats Bernie Sanders,” he added.
A minute later, Matthews offered only his latest bizarre comment as he oozed with hope that Sanders would offer “that thing in Shakespeare where the guy gives the long speech” before Mother Jones’s David Corn corrected him that it’s called a soliloquy:
Soliloquy and at some point during it, Bernie will give a wonderful soliloquy about people in need, young people or old people or something about health care and everybody’s going to cheer and there will be no such Trump moment and I just think he’ll lose.
The relevant portions of the transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on May 27 can be found below.
MSNBC’s Hardball
May 26, 2016
7:10 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think he’s crazy. I — I can write the headlines now. Bernie Sanders beats him in debate. You can just tell that’s the way it’s going to go —
HEIDI PRZYBYLA: There’s no way —
MATTHEWS: — and cause the media will be rooting for Bernie. The older guy. They’ll be rooting for him, a true believer. I just can see it coming. Why would he want to walk into a situation where they’re not going to say he beats Bernie Sanders? And it’s never going to be a headline like that.
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7:11 p.m. Eastern
MATTHEWS: I just think — I just think of a debate between those two would feature — what’s that thing in Shakespeare where the guy gives the long speech? It’s not —
DAVID CORN: A monologue?
MATTHEWS: No —
CORN: Soliloquy?
MATTHEWS: Soliloquy and at some point during it, Bernie will give a wonderful soliloquy about people in need, young people or old people or something about health care and everybody’s going to cheer and there will be no such Trump moment and I just think he’ll lose.
