First it was Juan Williams. In the other South Carolina debate, Gingrich actually had the audacity and indecency to address Mr. Williams by the name Williams’ parents gave him.
Obviously, Gingrich’s insensitive remark towards Juan Williams showed signs of subtly racist language. Just ask former one term president, Jimma Carta.
Next is Chris Mathews. Sure he cackles like an old lady, come to think of it, kind of looks like one too, but when it comes to calling out conservatives for being evil and racists, well his ears and intuition are to Mathews as built in sonar is to bats.
You can read the entirety of the comment and judge for yourself:
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Not convinced? OK. In case you missed last night’s debate, Gingrich “subtly” struck again. This time it was with last night’s CNN debate moderator, John King.
Earlier today, Mark Allen, who is a contributor to the New York Times and National Public Radio, compared Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum to Dan White, the man who assassinated Harvey Milk, San Francisco’s first openly gay member of the Board of Supervisors, in 1978.
Allen’s comments reflect a continued trend in Democrat-friendly media to compare Republican candidates to notorious criminals. Recently, for example, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews declared that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich “looks like a car bomber.” (more…)
Chris Matthews looks as though he’s broadcasting his show out of a bar which is apropos, as it takes a few to before the average sane American can tolerate it. Matthews and the panel deliver the top-notch political punditry for which MSNBC is known: calling candidates (in this instance Rick Perry) in the party opposite them stupid.
One should always be careful, when criticizing and making fun of others, to not be guilty of the same offense. We try to be very careful, with a name like Accuracy in Media. It can come back to bite you. That is unless you’re some hotshot left-wing “news” person on MSNBC. Then it doesn’t matter. But let’s pretend it does.
Chris Matthews was on “The Tonight Show” earlier this month plugging his new book about John F. Kennedy. But he started out with a good laugh at Governor Rick Perry, who Matthews said was “gone” from the race. Perry had just the night before had his 53 second brain-freeze in the GOP presidential debate in which he forgot the third item on a list of three government agencies that he said he would work to eliminate if he becomes president.
A bit later in the conversation, Jay Leno asked Matthews if that was “the worst faux pas” he had seen “in modern debate history.” Matthews said it’s “a hell of list.” He then cited Dan Quayle for his spelling of the word potato. It’s true, Quayle did tell the boy in the classroom to add an “e” to his correct spelling of the word. It is also true that Quayle made the error when he relied on a list prepared for him by a teacher in the classroom. But, as Leno pointed out to Matthews, it didn’t take place during a presidential debate.
Any others? Matthews came up with another Quayle anecdote as “the best one.” Here is what Matthews said: “The best one, I guess, was Dan Quayle, comparing himself to Jack Kennedy. And Lloyd Bentsen said, ‘you’re no Jack Kennedy.’ That was a home run for that guy. He was never heard of again, by the way. I think he was teaching at Thunderbird University somewhere out in the desert.”
All Quayle had said was that he had as much experience in Congress as Jack Kennedy had when he won the presidency in 1960. Vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen, who was running with Walter Mondale in 1988, came back with his famous line. You can see that exchange here.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Tonight, President Barack Obama. Let’s play Hardball.
OBAMA: Hello, Chris. Hey, you ever see someone about your ADHD problem?
MATTHEWS: Too busy. Sir, recently I criticized you pretty harshly. You came on anyway. I’d like to kiss and make up.
[from off screen]
MICHELLE: You keep your distance, buddy boy. I’m watching.
MATTHEWS: Yes’m. Sir, rumor is you cut the Asia trip short for clandestine meetings with the Supercommittee.
OBAMA: Not true, Chris. I returned earlier, but for a more important reason than rescuing our economy: I wanted to save the NBA season, and in so doing show the world I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
MATTHEWS: You’re involved in the negotiations?
OBAMA: Hush-hush summit at Camp David. Reverend Jackson and Secretary of State Clinton were my lead mediators. Kobe Bryant and David Stern agreed to represent their constituents. (more…)
Cue the Righteous Brothers: Chris Matthews sounds like a man falling out of love.
“There’s nothing to root for. What are we trying to do in this administration? Why does he want a second term what’s he gonna do with a second term? More of this? This is it?”
- A Gaga Thanksgiving: bets on whether or not she wears the turkey as a costume?
- So apparently this counts as a for-real editorial now days:
Why do progressives love saying “black” so much? Let’s try to fix obtuseness and correct Mr. Pierce:
The tea party protested, in order:
1) Big spending, which began during the Bush term
2) Continued big spending under his sucessor
3) Continued bigger spending and crappy, nationalized health care under said President
4) Continued mammoth spending, crappy nationalized health care, and job-killing new regulations under aforementioned President
5) Continued gigantor spending, crappy nationalized health care, job killing regulations, and massive Fast and Furious/Solyndra/IG corruption under said aforementioned President
But Charles Pierce, obsessed with race, can only see BLACK. Sad. Someone inform him that it’s 2011. Oh, and also share with him that the Democrats started the Kenya/birther thing. Thanks!
I find that out the hard way. We’re talking about his new book, “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero” — it’s currently No. 4 on Amazon, by the way — when the subject turn to “Profiles in Courage.” Kennedy won a Pulitzer for the book even though he farmed out most of the actual writing to an uncredited co-author, his aide Ted Sorensen. Did Matthews have a Sorensen of his own, I wonder?
Matthews’ genial, boyish face darkens. “Forget you,” he says.
(Only he doesn’t say “forget you.” Both Matthews and my editor asked me not to print what he actually said, so I rely here on my readers’ familiarity with both the original and radio versions of a certain Cee-Lo Green song.)
Yesterday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews exhorted his viewers to boycott major restaurant chains because, in his words, the National Restaurant Association is “protecting the secrets” of GOP presidential frontrunner Herman Cain.
O’Donnell also asked Occupy DC activists to break the law and occupy the NRA’s headquarters in the nation’s capital, even given them the building’s address as well as directions from the Occupy DC protest site.
Which invites the question: why is Lawrence O’Donnell protecting the secrets of Chris Matthews?
After all, Matthews is known to have a record of “misogyny,” is he not?
I cite the estimable Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America, MSNBC’s favorite show-prep source:
In fact, in Matthews’ case, the sexist outbursts have helped propel his career. That’s how he landed on the cover of the Times magazine…
So if Matthews doesn’t display any actual journalism skills in terms of unearthing scoops or edifying the race, and if his ratings are just so-so, what explains Matthews’ Hot Journalist status?
Be it known: Chris Matthews does not use a ghostwriter. The “Hardball” host does all his own writing, and he resents the idea that anyone would ever think otherwise. Strongly.
I find that out the hard way. We’re talking about his new book, “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero” — it’s currently No. 4 on Amazon, by the way — when the subject turn to “Profiles in Courage.” Kennedy won a Pulitzer for the book even though he farmed out most of the actual writing to an uncredited co-author, his aide Ted Sorensen. Did Matthews have a Sorensen of his own, I wonder?
Matthews’ genial, boyish face darkens. “Forget you,” he says.
(Only he doesn’t say “forget you.” Both Matthews and my editor asked me not to print what he actually said, so I rely here on my readers’ familiarity with both the original and radio versions of a certain Cee-Lo Green song.)
The talk show hosted by Greg Gutfeld averaged the largest audience in its five-year history (446,000) as well as 177,000 in adults 25-54. In the demo, it edged Piers Morgan (176,000) at 9 PM as well as a slew of other cable news programs in way more trafficked time slots: CNN’s Erin Burnett Outfront (146,000) at 7 PM, MSNBC’s Morning Joe (141,000) from 6-9 AM, MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews (163,000) at 5 PM and 7 PM, HLN’s Nancy Grace (157,000) at 8 PM, and CNN’s John King USA (121,000) at 6 PM.
Considering NBC as a collective is ignoring Operation Fast and Furious, I think each show on NBC and MSNBC needs to be examined and called out. The MSNBC website is a complete mess and difficult to navigate. Most websites allow you to sort the results by date or relevance and a certain time period. Not MSNBC! You’re only allowed a keyword. And, for some reason, each article is listed by its latest update rather than its original publishing timestamp (but when you click on the article the date of the last update doesn’t match) so they’re completely out of order. It’s a NIGHTMARE navigating their website, worse than navigating MMfA.
I began with ‘Hardball With Chris Matthews’ because his coverage of Alberto Gonzales was far superior to his lack of Operation Fast and Furious coverage. Since he did a great job keeping his viewers informed on Mr. Gonzales’ scanda,l I would think he would want to keep his viewers informed on Fast and Furious. No one died in Mr. Gonzales’ scandal. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry did die as a result of Fast and Furious, but I guess that’s not as big of a deal as a few people losing their jobs.
I sent Mr. Matthews this email the other morning.
Dear Chris Matthews:
I have a very serious complaint because you have not talked about Operation Fast and Furious this year. How come?
I made a timeline for Fast and Furious and highlighted major dates. CBS News broke the story February 23, 2011. I reviewed your show’s transcript for that week and saw no mention of the operation On April 1, 2011 the Oversight Committee issued subpoenas to Eric Holder & the Department of Justice. Your transcripts from that week show no mention of the subpoenas. Mr. Holder testified on May 3, 2011 and once again your transcripts show absolutely no mention of his testimony.
I’ll answer that myself. As long as you are a media leftist, you will always have credibility and have a seat at the table of activist, old media types.
Dan Rather, he of the 2004 fake documents scandal that attempted to get John Kerry elected over George W. Bush, is still called upon for his opinion by certain cable news networks. Seriously? Are there any “deal-breakers” that disqualify you at some point on the left? Guess not.
Rather was hanging out with four other leftists on “The Chris Matthews Show” this weekend (this is can’t-miss TV, if you count watching groupthink and close-mindedness as entertaining). Rather is doing some sort of “special” on the Occupy Wall Street protests, telling us what they are really all about and getting to the bottom of the story. He will try to tell us the truth this time. Honest.
I hope Rather’s report doesn’t miss this strange group chant. The masses refer to themselves as “the Block” and they must all speak in unison, the type of group-speak that Stalin would be proud of. Watch this entire video and you’ll find humor in how this small, homogenized group cannot decide on a simple question of whether one of their ideological own, Congressman John Lewis, should speak. You wanna see gridlock, this is is gridlock at its finest–big government in a microcosm. What if they had to decide a serious issue, like who should use the toilet and when? Were “Saturday Night Live” impartial, they could kill with a parody of this. My favorite part is about eight minutes in when the guy with a megaphone (hey, that’s unfair that less than 1% of the crowd gets the megaphone!) does a series of mic checks and the crowd yells “mic check” every time he does a mic check. You can’t make this stuff up. (more…)
This is from last Friday, but I just came across it. Here we have a supposedly respectable commentator on MSNBC suggesting it’s time for “radical solutions” to our current economic crisis. It may be that Matthews is talking about a new CWA type stimulus program, but listen as he compares our current situation to the Revolutionary War and the abolition of slavery which of course led to the Civil War:
Here’s the full text:
Radical. Normally, we don’t like that word. Normally, we like our politics somewhere near the center – somewhere between progressive and conservative. You get beyond that and people consider you troubling, at best, dangerous, at worst.
Radical positions. Radical solutions. Radical politics. Normally, as I said, not the stuff most people are comfortable with.But there comes a time when the positions, solutions and politics of normal times don’t seem to be working, or to be more exact: aren’t working!
We have a 9-plus percent jobless rate. People are not getting hired, not being put to work the way they need to. The normal forces are not solving their problems. Corporations are not hiring; they’re investing overseas or finding automated ways to get work done.
We’ve got a housing situation today that isn’t getting fixed. Older people are unable to sell homes they don’t need. Young people are having a very rough time getting mortgages and finding a house they can afford. Here again, the normal forces of supply and demand are not getting houses priced to sell, which mean priced to be bought.
Not everyone is getting hurt by all this, certainly not equally. The oil companies have made huge profits. So have many in the financial community.
And millions have been hurt. They’re hurting more each month as the hunt for work grows into years, as the corporations – who we’re told by one Republican presidential nominee are “really just people like us” – continue to find ways to make profits without offering people in this country real full-time jobs.
So people with brains, and a sense of history, begin to think about solutions to our problems, that arise beyond the normal list of progressive or conservative tools we’ve used to fix problems.
So we have to listen to the arguments being made down there on Wall Street. Radical solutions are sometimes the right solutions. Think of American independence. Thomas Paine was right. We had to cut off our ties with England pure and simple. Think of abolition. The only right way to deal with American slavery was to ban it outright – not negotiate with the slavers.
How long, exactly, should we continue with policies that leave so many out of work, without the dignity and vitality of a job to go to? How long do we let our economy shrink right there in front of us?
We may, as a society, have to take direct action to put people to work. If the corporations aren’t coming to our rescue, why “isn’t” the government?
All of this is playing off the protests in the street where organizers are calling for what? Revolution. Again, Matthews isn’t saying he wants violence in the streets, but the two examples he cites as precedent both happen to have involved major wars, i.e. the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. If all Matthews had in mind was a new CWA, why not say that. Why bring up these bloody examples as precedent?
While speaking during his “Hardball” show earlier this week, Chris “Thrill Up His Leg” Matthews waxed poetic about how wonderful the universe would be if only Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012. Well, almost — what he really said was how lousy things he would be if a Republican were elected. He created a paranoid litany of inevitable consequences to a Republican electoral victory:
Tea Partiers and neocons… celebrating the death penalty, elevating torture, ending environmental protection as we know it, breaking unions, punishing gays, starting more wars, and enacting one more giant tax cut for the rich – or worse.
Maybe Matthews has a point. While the list of horrors he mentioned are close to our agenda, Matthews is a bit off on every item he listed, but he has spurred me think maybe it’s time for the tea partying neocons like me to admit what we really have in store for this country should our candidates get elected in 2012. Since no one else is willing to do it, I guess it will be up to me to let the world know. Below is the secret Tea Partier’s list of what we will get done in the first year after we take over.
The Death Penalty- Matthews is wrong to insinuate conservatives celebrate death; we celebrate life and those who believe in a death penalty feel it is a necessary evil. That being said, we plan to add two crimes to the Capital Punishment list:
–Wearing too much perfume. You know those people who always plop down next to you on a train or bus who smell like they’ve basted themselves is “aire de cheapo perfume?” Sorry ladies (and fellows with cologne), but that is a crime against humanity.
–Cell phone abusers. You’re on the 6 a.m. train into Manhattan catching a precious few extra moments of sleep when suddenly, two rows in front of you a guy disturbs your slumber by talking loudly into his cell phone about his “conquest” the night before. Under a GOP/Tea Party administration, DHS agents will be on each and every bus and train car with orders to shoot and kill the loud public phone talker.
No, but we’ll take more of what Hank Williams offers up below the headline, if you don’t mind.
“Every time the media brings up the tea party it’s painted as racist and extremists — but there’s never a backlash — no outrage to those comparisons,” Williams said. “Working class people are hurting — and it doesn’t seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job – it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.”
- If Williams ever returns to ESPN, perhaps he should stick with male-on-male rape jokes. That would be even more inclusive, than some of their past low-lights that went without a hint of serious attention from major media.
ESPN was fine when their Las Vegas radio affiliate joked about, and seemingly advocated for, the rape of Sarah Palin just a few weeks ago.
New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.
- Somehow Chris Matthews gives me the impression the GOP doesn’t send tingles down his leg. Who is the hater when there’s noting much good to say about Obama, so this is all he has for content these days?
“Republicans are searching for a candidate that “fits their campaign of heat and hate.”
- The media loves to push the notion that military members are poor, dumb, or otherwise lack options. It’s not true. Why do they get away with insulting them so?
It only took a few days for NBC News’ newest star Al Sharpton to insult his colleagues and further undermine the already diminished journalistic credibility of MSNBC.
In an interview with The Daily Beast the controversial activist turned TV news anchor defended himself against criticism from the National Association of Black Journalists. (emphasis mine)
“To be fair about it, the NABJ understood that if I didn’t get it, it wouldn’t have gone to a journalist,” Sharpton tells me. “It’s a moot point. There are no journalists [as hosts] after 5 p.m. on MSNBC. Everyone after 5 deals with opinions. So the argument is kind of apples and oranges.”
In an effort to defend himself from the obvious observation that there are many more qualified journalists (of any color) to fill a nightly anchor spot at MSNBC, Sharpton has inadvertently “outed” Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Ed Schultz as mere commentators voicing opinions rather than legitimate journalists presenting news as well as ideas and opinions to their audience. For the sake of this column, let’s forget O’Donnell and Schultz for a moment because their shows do border on the brink of pot and pan banging temper tantrums, let’s just focus on Matthews and Maddow.
One has to wonder how Chris Matthews feels about his new workmate telling the world that he isn’t a journalist. Matthews spent fifteen years writing for the San Francisco Examiner. He’s covered politics for decades on behalf of newspapers and television news bureaus. I bet if you asked him, he’d say he was a journalist.
And Rhodes Scholar Maddow (a title Sharpton could never dream of acquiring) also has her share of opinions on her show, but she also prides herself on her excellent team of researchers who painstakingly dig for stories and facts to present news to their viewers. Look how she presented herself in her first “Lean Forward” ad. Surely you can see that she considers herself a journalist obsessed with details and facts, not opinion:
Chris Matthews has always been somewhat of an enigma. He’s not a good anchor, which is why he can’t draw an audience, yet he remains on the air, which is why I asked long ago whether someone was subsidizing him.
On a similar note, John McCain’s re-election to the Senate in 2010 was nearly inexplicable (unless you take into account the fact that he, Mister “get the money out of politics,” dumped $20,000,000.00 into his re-election campaign). To be honest, all that money is the only feasible explanation for how he secured another term during an election cycle that witnessed Tea Party candidates wiping the floor with nearly everyone else.
Speaking of the Tea Party, that reminds me that Matthews and McCain have something else in common – they both hate the Tea Party. Matthews hates it because it’s full of people who don’t care about what he thinks and who can’t be intimidated into shutting up and acting like good RINOS (Republicans-In-Name-Only). McCain hates it for the same reasons, plus the fact that they see right through his “Maverick” façade.
In a word, the tea party poses a political impediment to both men insomuch as it literally stands to undo the big government that Matthew and McCain have fought so hard to preserve.
This is why it really was no shock to see Matthews throw a love fest for McCain on Thursday, July 28, because McCain stood on the Senate floor and referred to tea party candidates from 2008 as “hobbits.” (McCain did this because that little temper of his got the best of him again, and he simply couldn’t handle knowing a small group of Tea Party conservatives in the House of Representatives managed to stall debt ceiling talks to the point of almost ending them altogether.)
On my Twitter account, I follow a few hundred mainstream media-types (keep the enemy closer, right?), and unless I've missed it (and I hope I have), not a single one has spoken out in defense of Roland Martin. Not one. How scary is that. The politically correct Groupthink...
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