The MSNBC host loves Barack Obama and respects Jimmy Carter. What more need be said? His last independent thought occurred during the Clinton impeachment hearings.
Tell us we’re wrong. Tell us it’s not just a little creepy to hear Chris Matthews enthusing over Obama’s “cute, wonderful, boyish smile we all love.”
Want to hear something slightly disturbing? Something that sounds like it came from NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association?
Tell us we’re wrong. Tell us it’s not just a little creepy to hear Chris Matthews enthusing over Obama’s “cute, wonderful, boyish smile we all love.”
“You know, whatever you say, I want to talk about the subjective president, Gene, your reaction to this. Subjectively, in his heart, he’s a happy man this weekend. That smile, that cute smile we all love in that guy. That wonderful, boyish smile of his he gave us there after he made his little crack about the holiday spirit. I haven’t seen that in months.”
It may be December, but Spring is in the air. Chris is in love. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has been repealed and he is free to be himself.
Mike Huckabee, a former fat man himself, did not take kindly to Chris Matthews’ comments about Chris Christie being too fat to be President. Not kindly at all.
Mike Huckabee, a former fat man himself, did not take kindly to Chris Matthews’ comments about Chris Christie being too fat to be President. Not kindly at all.
“If Governor Christie somehow decides he wants to lose weight, he can. I’m thinking that talk show host — not matter how much he wants to — can’t change the meanness and the callousness of his own character.
So I’d rather be in Governor Christie’s shoes — an effective governor doing a good job, proving that solid, conservative governing principles really do work even in a state like New Jersey than I can a person whose talk show probably gets about as many viewers as Governor Christie will shake hands with on any given day in New Jersey.”
Huckabee exaggerates. Matthews’ show doesn’t get anywhere near that many viewers.
Don’t know if we’ve ever seen Neil Cavuto attack a host on another news network. Well, he made up for lost time with this one.
Don’t know if we’ve ever seen Neil Cavuto attack a host on another news network. Well, he made up for lost time with this one.
Matthews said Chris Christie couldn’t be president because he was too fat. Matthews points out that if we can have a black president and if both parties can put up creditable female candidates, then the concept of a guy who shops for his suits at Ed’s Big & Tall Shop shouldn’t surprise anyone.
OK, well, he didn’t exactly put it that way, but that’s what we heard.
He also didn’t say, “Chris Matthews is a pathetic schumuck,” but we heard that, too.
Considering the ratings of their respective networks, we assume more people heard Matthews’ comments on Cavuto’s Fox show than heard the original comments on MSNBC.
Liberals, especially those on MSNBC, constantly say conservatives are racists. Yet now we have another example of an MSNBC host who can’t tell one black man from another.
Liberals, especially those on MSNBC, constantly say conservatives are racists. Yet now we have another example of an MSNBC host who can’t tell one black man from another.
Last year, there was the incident where Contessa Brewer couldn’t tell Jesse Jackson from Al Shaprton. And now Chris Matthews has exhibited the same sort of racism (at least that’s what they’d call it if a conservative did it).
The Hardball host got a bit confused. While introducing Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Matthews called him “Congressman Clyburn,” thinking he was James Clyburn (D-SC).
You know what? We’re going to cut Matthews some slack here and say this wasn’t racism. Instead of thinking all black people look alike, he may just think all Democrats look alike.
On Monday night the tremors and hallucinations returned and he told his audience that Fair Game, the new movie about the Valerie Plame scandal, stacks up favorably against Casablanca.
There was a brief moment last week when it appeared that Chris Matthews had regained a bit of his sanity. Never mind. The moment passed.
On Monday night the tremors and hallucinations returned and he told his audience that Fair Game, the new movie about the Valerie Plame scandal, stacks up favorably against Casablanca.
Matthews: Let me finish tonight with a stirring movie I saw last night. I had heard of the first-rate script, the masterful performances by the leads, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. What I was not prepared for in Fair Game was the story itself, the wondrous dramatic courage of it all. This is one fine movie. While there will never be another Casablanca, Fair Game is perfect for our murky time.
On this review, we give Chris two thumbs down. And one finger up.
Get ready to be surprised. Maybe even shocked. Back in 2005 Glenn Beck appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball to promote his book “The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland.” Matthews gushes over Beck. Repeatedly.
Get ready to be surprised. Maybe even shocked. Back in 2005 Glenn Beck appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball to promote his book “The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland.”
This was back in the days when Beck was still relatively unknown, long before his CNN TV show and when he still had relatively few affiliates in his radio network. It was also prior to MSNBC’s hard turn to the left.
The interesting thing about this interview is that Beck was still the same Beck we see today on Fox, but Matthews has changed completely.
You won’t believe it until you see it for yourself, and you may not even believe it then, but Matthews gushes over Beck. Repeatedly.
Going into a commercial break he says, “This guy’s a great guy, Glenn Beck. When I come to work really late I listen to the guy coming in to work. Glenn Beck.”
Later Matthews ends the interview by saying, “You’re great. I listen to your show all the time. I think you’re about 30 years older than you are. You’re amazingly smart for such a young guy.”
As Yid With Lid said, “The video below teaches us a little bit about who really has the courage of his convictions, versus who adapts his opinions to please management.”
We ran a story this week about a new Chinese-manufactured “Blow-Up Barack Presidential Love Doll” and one about another Obama Blow Up Doll back in August. So we’re starting a new campaign and calling on all conservatives to join us in sending as many of these love dolls to Chris Matthews as possible.
Give Chris Matthews the merriest Christmas ever. Send him an Obama sex doll.
When MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said Obama gave him a thrill up his leg, we didn’t realize initially that he meant his middle leg, but that’s become apparent over the course of the last two years.
So we’re starting a new campaign and calling on all conservatives to join us in sending as many of these love dolls to Chris Matthews as possible.
Just imagine the Hardball studio filled to the rafters with hundreds, maybe thousands of these things. That image alone is definitely worth $25.03 you’ll spend on the doll.
Click here. Order now to make sure Chris gets yours in time for Christmas. And make sure you include a note that says, “Merry Christmas from IHateTheMedia.com and (your name).
Here’s Chris’ address:
Chris Matthews
Hardball
MSNBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10112
C’mon, conservatives. Give Chris Matthews the Obama love he fantasizes about.
Order now!
Bonus Points: Record a video of yourself hand-delivering an inflated Obama Love Doll to Chris or his receptionist and we’ll give you your 15 minutes of fame on the internet.
Turns out Barry Obama was virtually indistinguishable from Barry Goldwater until those dastardly Republicans forced him – against his will, apparently – to become a lefty.
We were way off base in our analysis of President Obama’s political philosophy. Turns out Barry Obama was virtually indistinguishable from Barry Goldwater until those dastardly Republicans forced him – against his will, apparently – to become a lefty.
At least that’s Chris Matthews’ new theory:
Matthews: The Republican strategy over last two years has been to force Obama over to the left so that he could only pass left-wing legislation without the grace of bipartisan support, they won, they made him into a lefty.”
By the way, we love the way Townhall.com now tags all their videos with Will Smith’s ludicrous comment that “Obama as an idea marks an evolutionary flashpoint for humanity.”
Chris Matthews really is schizophrenic these days. One day he still feels that special tingle up his leg at the merest mention of Obama’s name and the next day he lurches into brief moments of clarity.
Chris Matthews really is schizophrenic these days. One day he still feels that special tingle up his leg at the merest mention of Obama’s name and the next day he lurches into brief moments of clarity.
Monday was a clarity day. He told Andrea Mitchell that America voted for the patriotic and inclusive Obama and now he’s become an elitist.
And Mitchell just sits there looking as if this liberal blasphemy is going to give her a major stroke.
Former President Jimmy Carter told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, “Ronald Reagan only had less than 51% of the vote, but he won because of a third-party candidate.”
Jimmy Carter and Hardball. Just reading those words is enough to let you know something odd is about to happen.
In this case, the former President told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, “Ronald Reagan only had less than 51% of the vote, but he won because of a third-party candidate.”
We’re not even quite sure what that means, but since Carter is in the middle of his 30th Annual Carter Presidency Rehabilitation Tour, you knew he’d say something stupid.
For a few years people were saying, “Jimmy Carter is the best former president we’ve ever had.” Now they’re just saying, “Who is that crazy old coot?”
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is, in horrible jerks and starts, coming to terms with the mortality of the Democratic majority.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is, in horrible jerks and starts, coming to terms with the mortality of the Democratic majority.
One day he’s giving the Republicans, conservatives and the Tea Party hell. The next day, he’s realistic about what the political landscape is going to look like on Wednesday, November 3.
This time it was the latter. And we don’t feel at all bad about taking pleasure in his pain.
Salon Editor Joan Walsh guested on Hardball, where despite video proof offered by host Chris Matthews that senate candidate Richard Blumenthal blatantly lied about serving in Vietnam, she said, “They’re distorting his words.”
Salon editor Joan Walsh should get down on her knees and say a prayer of thanks to whatever God she worships, for He, in his wisdom, endowed her with a blessed ignorance that protects her from seeing what a moron she is. Surely, if she had any degree of self-awareness she would never venture beyond the confines of her own home again, much less attempt to speak in public.
Walsh guested on Hardball, where despite video proof offered by host Chris Matthews that senate candidate Richard Blumenthal blatantly lied about serving in Vietnam, she said, “They’re distorting his words. It’s very difficult to say he lied.” In addition to being ignorant, she also made herself asinine by making those little finger quote motions around the word “lied.”
Save yourself the trouble of watching the entire clip. Go straight to the 6:58 mark of the video. (You owe us one.)
It gets even better at the 7:29 mark when Mathews, painful as it must have been for him, had no choice but to point out that Walsh was wrong, causing her to revert to an expression that one imagines monopolizes most of her face time – the confused dog/tilted head look.
Of course the true depth of Walsh’s “intelligence” was forever memorialized in an earlier video that went viral – her classic exchange with Mika Mxyzptlk, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe show.
Mika, the very model of vapidity, openly mocks Walsh right to her face. And let’s face it, when someone as dense as Mika finds you mockworthy, you must begin to realize just how low you reside on the evolutionary scale.
Do you think maybe it’s possible that Chris Matthews sometimes says stupid crap just so he’ll get a little attention from bloggers?
Do you think maybe it’s possible that Chris Matthews sometimes says stupid crap (highly-technical economist terminology with which you rank amateurs may not be familiar) just so he’ll get a little attention from bloggers?
Seriously. No one smart enough to get a national cable TV show could possibly be stupid enough to say some of the stuff he says.
We would like to enter the following quote into evidence:
Matthews: You know, a great question, Charles, that wasn’t on my list to ask, but I’m going to ask you because you seem like a sophisticated guy of many parts. You think business can sit on those billions and trillions of dollars for two more years after they screw Obama this time? Are they going to keep sitting on their money so they don’t invest and help the economy for two long years to get Mr. Excitement Mitt Romney elected president? Will they do that to the country?
Sorry, Chris. There’s only one guy intentionally screwing the economy. Hint: His middle name is Hussein.
Chris Matthews implores President Obama to (a) get rid of his trusty Teleprompter, (b) try being less scripted, (c) try getting in touch with the common man, and (d) start talking plainly.
Poor Chris Matthews is nearly apoplectic. The man he loves is disappointing him again.
In this clip, he again implores President Obama to (a) get rid of his trusty Teleprompter, (b) try being less scripted, (c) try getting in touch with the common man, and (d) start talking plainly.
“I think the teleprompter ought to be sent to, I don’t know where, let’s send it to the furthest place from America, get rid of all the Teleprompters and make him talk to people.”
Watching Chris Matthews these days is like watching a soap opera. You know you’d be embarrassed to have your friends find out you watch, but you do it anyway.
Chris Matthews obviously needs help. He goes from rabid raging one night to being completely lucid the next night.
Chris Matthews obviously needs help. He goes from rabid raging one night to being completely lucid the next night.
Last week the MSNBC host demonstrated one of his more lucid moments when he delivered this rational and impassioned message during his “Let Me Finish” segment:
This one’s a classic. Matthews loses it – really loses it – when MSNBC Analyst David Weigel chuckled while answering Matthews’ interminably long question.
The worse the polls get, the crazier Chris Matthews gets. Now he’s even attacking his own network’s political analysts.
This one’s a classic. Matthews loses it – really loses it – when MSNBC Analyst David Weigel (well known extreme leftist David Weigel) chuckled while answering Matthews’ interminably long question.
Near as we can tell, Weigel didn’t show the proper level of Obama adoration that the MSNBC host expected, so Matthews reamed him. He was seriously pissed. Or crazy. Take your choice.
The closer we get to November, the loonier Matthews is going to get. This should make for some good TV.
The thrill that was once limited to Chris Matthews’ leg is spreading like one of those deadly flesh-eating diseases and now encompasses his whole body.
The thrill that was once limited to Chris Matthews’ leg is spreading like one of those deadly flesh-eating diseases and now encompasses his whole body.
Matthews: You know, I get the same thrill up my leg, all over me, every time I hear those words. I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, that’s me. He’s talking about my country. And nobody does it better than President Obama … It seems to me that what thrilled me and I’ve admitted it so many times, was when he talked about America. He wasn’t saying, “I’m gonna do this because I’m a big shot and I’m a brain.” He said, “You know, I was lucky and I was fortunate to live in this country and we can do this without a lot of help from government, on our own….”
A little unsolicited advice for Chris: Call Rush Limbaugh and get the name of his ear doctor. Because your hearing is clearly failing if you heard Barack Obama say, “We can do this without a lot of help from the government.”
Fascinating. Intriguing. Compelling. Engrossing. Mesmerizing. Spellbinding. Tantalizing. Oh, sorry. We were just suggesting a few words other than “interesting” for Chris Matthews to use next time one of his guests makes a blatantly racist statement.
Oh, sorry. We were just suggesting a few words other than “interesting” for Chris Matthews to use next time one of his guests makes a blatantly racist statement.
In this case, it was Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Tucker: Well I think it may help the Democrats in some races this time, Chris, because some of the Tea Party candidates are so extreme. But there is another issue. There is, as Norah said, a whole lot of voter anger, discontent out there. We haven’t talked about the elephant in the room, and I don’t mean the Republicans: race. Changing demographics. Fear of a white minority.
Matthews: That’s so interesting.
Tucker: Obama’s election has suddenly made many white Americans aware of the loss of a white majority.
According to Chris Matthews, Obama could solve all his problems if he would just dump his trusty Teleprompter. That’s the key to communicating with the American people and selling his message.
According to Chris Matthews, Obama could solve all his problems if he would just dump his trusty Teleprompter. That’s the key to communicating with the American people and selling his message.
“I really support the President on a lot of his views, in fact all of them almost,” Matthews complained, “but I got to tell you something, Michael, if he doesn’t get rid of that damn Teleprompter, it’s like an eye test. He’s just reading words now. It’s separating him from us.”
“You got to a meeting with him I’m told, if businessmen are invited to meet him at the White House, he hauls out the damn Teleprompter and he reads to them. Well, why even bring people into the room? Just have the damn Teleprompter. I sense it’s getting between him and us. And I thought that speech last night was a terrible, well, a great example rather of him using the Teleprompter instead of his heart and his mind.”
You’re right, Chris. It’s all the Teleprompter’s fault. Obama’s not a socialist, the Teleprompter’s a socialist. Either that or the Teleprompter is a Republican plant. It’s forcing him to read its words. He’s a helpless victim of the Teleprompter, damn it. It’s not his fault.
Good Lord. What a day. First we find ourselves defending CNN’s Rick Sanchez and now we find ourselves agreeing with Howard Fineman and Chris Matthews.
Good Lord. What a day. First we find ourselves defending CNN’s Rick Sanchez and now we find ourselves agreeing with Howard Fineman and Chris Matthews.
Does anyone have any smelling salts handy? We’re feeling a little faint right now.
But back to the story. Fineman made one of his regular appearances on Hardball and made the point that Obama caused his own “Is Obama a Muslim” problem by not going to church.
Fineman: Can I say something here that’ll probably get me in trouble? But I’m going to say it anyway. Barack Obama probably should have joined a church here. OK? Now, I’m not excusing any of the hatred or nasty language or any of the dirty strategy that we’re talking about. But some things in politics you have to do at least for the symbolism. Matthews: Yes. Fineman: Now, he quit the Jeremiah Wright church. OK? But he hasn’t joined any other. Matthews: Yes. Fineman: And had he done so and if he’d done so, but especially if he’d done so… Matthews: Yes. Fineman: … after he came to town, a lot of this stuff would never have arisen, in my view. Matthews: Yes.
So there you have it. Fineman and Matthews making sense and us agreeing with them.
Chris Matthews completely loses control of his own show while he’s discussing the Ground Zero mosque with former New York Governor George Pataki and columnist Eugene Robinson. Pataki takes over.
Chris Matthews completely loses control of his own show while he’s discussing the Ground Zero mosque with former New York Governor George Pataki and columnist Eugene Robinson. Pataki takes over.
Hey, here’s a question for Chris Matthews. Why are you against people boycotting any company that builds the mosque? Can we assume you’re equally opposed to the leftists who boycott Glenn Beck’s advertisers.
Mitch McConnel’s words, “take him at his word,” sent Chris Matthews over the edge on Monday’s Hardball. He apparently got his hands on a birther decoder ring, because he informed his viewers that the words “take him at his word,” when translated, provide a “Pitch perfect dog whistle to the haters.”
Why? Why would you take Barack Obama at his word when he’s lied about everything – and we mean everything – since the day he took office. Even before.
Republican Senate Minority Leader MitchMcConnell appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press. MSNBC’s increasingly-wacky Chris Matthews accused McConnell of using super secret code language to send messages to birthers when he said, “The President says he’s a Christian. I take him at his word.”
The words “take him at his word” sent Matthews over the edge on Monday’s Hardball. He apparently got his hands on a birther decoder ring, because he informed his viewers that the words “take him at his word,” when translated, provide a “Pitch perfect dog whistle to the haters.”
And Matthews was just getting warmed up. He then came up with a grand conspiracy McConnell, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Rev. Franklin Graham to scare the bejeebers out of voters with a “message of fear.” They’re the ringleaders of “The right wing’s attempt to de-Americanize the President.”
Is it just us or is the left starting to sound increasingly desperate?
Chris Matthews trembles with fear at the mere thought of “President Sarah Palin.” In fact, he says they’re the three scariest words in the English language.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews may get a thrill up his leg when Barack Obama speaks, but he trembles with fear at the mere thought of “President Sarah Palin.” In fact, he says they’re the three scariest words in the English language.
“For tens of millions of Americans, not just Democrats, the scariest three words in the English language are: ‘President Sarah Palin.’”
We’re still not sure where we stand on Sarah Palin, but conceptually, we think she’s probably far more effective as a gadfly than she would be as a president.
Nevertheless, we can think of three other words that should be far more frightening for Chris Matthews than “President Sarah Palin.” Those three words are “the latest ratings.”
Did we see a little quiver in Chris Matthews upper lip? A little tear forming at the corner of his eye? Maybe it was just our imagination. But maybe not.
Did we see a little quiver in Chris Matthews upper lip? A little tear forming at the corner of his eye? Maybe it was just our imagination. But maybe not.
Rather: Look, there’s, there are a lot of angry people out there, and a lot of scared people. People vote their pocketbooks. That’s number one. Number two, overnight’s a long time in politics. A week is forever. We still have a long time to go and a lot of things can happen between now and November. As we sit here today, odds on the Republicans take the House – I know Democrats don’t want to hear it – retake the house.
Matthews: (glumly) I agree with that.
Rather: And the Democrats, because of the figures that have so many in the Senate, probably hold on to the Senate. And it will change the center of gravity in American politics unless something dramatic happens between now and November.
