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Matthews Hypes Former GOP Congressman Who Called for Carbon Tax

April 22nd, 2015 8:32 PM
Tonight with his interview of former South Carolina Republican Congressman Bob Inglis, MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews worked a trifecta of Matthewsian tropes into one segment: adulation of all things Kennedy, bashing the GOP as "anti-science," and praising a renegade Republican for taking a liberal position on a policy issue, in this case a so-called carbon tax.

Chris Matthews: Do Republicans Oppose Obama Because of His Race

August 6th, 2010 10:11 PM
Chris Matthews on Friday actually asked a GOP Congressman if Republicans oppose President Obama because of his race.On the 5PM installment of MSNBC's "Hardball," Matthews brought on Rep. Bob Inglis, the Congressman from South Carolina who easily lost his primary fight in June to Tea Party candidate Trey Gowdy and has been badmouthing his Party ever since.Early in the conversation, Matthews asked…

CNN's Rick Sanchez: Obsessed With Fox News, Beck, and Limbaugh

August 5th, 2010 10:28 PM
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez revisited his vendetta against Fox News, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh on Thursday's Rick's List. Sanchez brought on outgoing Representative Bob Inglis, who lost a primary challenge to a Tea Party-backed Republican candidate, and when he harped about "flamethrowers" on TV and radio, the anchor pressed him on whether he meant the two radio hosts and his network's competitor…

Perplexed Matthews: How Can South Carolina GOPers Vote for Indian-Amer

July 14th, 2010 6:43 PM
Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, invited on recently defeated Republican Representative Bob Inglis to slam Matthews' favorite targets, namely the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin and after he got the requisite criticisms out of the South Carolina congressman of those entities asked him if he could explain how primary voters from his own party could nominate an Indian-American like…

For AP, Heated Conservative Rhetoric Is 'Poisonous,' But Obama's 'Shar

July 9th, 2010 3:06 PM
The Associated Press gave voice to a Repuiblican Congressman today to bemoan what he sees as "poisonous 'demagoguery'" from the usual suspects, including, by the AP's own account, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., who lost in a primary for the GOP nomination last month, went so far as to claim that heated political rhetoric is "dividing the country into partisan camps that…

GOP Congressman Booed for Telling People to Turn Off Glenn Beck

August 8th, 2009 6:21 PM
The media would like folks to believe that only Democrats are hearing it from constituents at town hall meetings this August, but given what happened to Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) Thursday evening, nothing could be further from the truth.As he spoke to a group of 350 citizens at the Upstate Family Resource Center in Boiling Springs, he asked an outspoken attendee why she was afraid of Barack Obama.…