It took Dave Brat’s shocking victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) for Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd to understand that the Tea Party movement is a state of mind and not a fad or a flash-in-the-pan movement. A
MSNBC host Chris Matthews defended the Tea Party and praised Virginia’s 7th Republican primary victor Dave Brat in an appearance on “Ronan Farrow Daily” on Wednesday. He said Brat is “very sophisticated for a politician. He’s certainly up to the
On Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on HBO, Chris Matthews was mocked for his repeated claims of having worked as a speechwriter for former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill…
Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Rep.Chris Van Holland (D-MD) discussed the EPA announcement earlier in the day of new regulations that will force approximately 600 existing coal-fired power plants to reduce their carbon pollution 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.
HOUSTON, Texas–The Republican National Committee (RNC) has proposed major changes for the upcoming 2016 Presidential Primary Debates. The changes include reducing the number of debates and getting rid of the left-of-center moderators like George Stephanopoulos and Chris Matthews. The proposal
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews’ ratings collapsed last week, falling behind even Headline News’s (HLN) Jane Velez-Mitchell. On May 1, Matthews’ Hardball earned a sparse 83,000 viewers, a distant fourth place, in the important 24-54 demographic. In his 7PM slot, Matthews fell
Monday night on his MSNBC show “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews discussed racism in America. Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Breaking from its more collaborative selection process, Ohio State University’s provost invited MSNBC host Chris Matthews to be the school’s next commencement speaker. This choice has not garnered student approval. In its announcement, OSU called Matthews a man “with remarkable depth
A ranking of 24 news personalities found CBS’ Scott Pelley the most likable anchor while MSNBC’s Chris Matthews ran dead last just behind fellow MSNBC host Alex Wagner. The ranking is based on Q scores, a numerical value based on
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews went into a tirade attacking Breitbart’s “Uninvited” CPAC 2104 event. Matthews and his panelist Dana Milbank and Jonathan Capehart offered little else then a list of nasty names calling the participants everything from un-american, crazy, loons, fullmooners
MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews had a harsh prediction for Senate Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” panel segment…
Earlier this week, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews played the role of concern police in an interview with former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is once again a candidate for governor. Partial transcript as follows: MATTHEWS: Let me talk about this thing here.
In response to The Most Clueless Person on the Internet: Well, since @richardwolffedc and @msnbc have this new found sensitivity to “dumb and offensive” race-baiting, I’m sure vigilant conservatives on Twitter will be happy (eager really) to inform them of
Richard Wolffe is the executive editor of MSNBC’s website. Presumably that means he knows something about what goes on at the network. Last night after someone at MSNBC tweeted the suggestion that the “rightwing” would hate a Cheerios ad featuring
Predictably, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews attacked the Republican response to the President Barack Obama’s State of The Union address by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), because it was much like one of the speech’s Vice President Joe Biden gives at the
The Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday: “A president in his sixth year with a 43 percent approval rating isn’t taken seriously by anyone around town.”
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews with guests David Corn and Joy Reid on Friday’s “Hardball” find humor in the mentioning of Benghazi and “Fast and Furious”…
Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”on Friday…
MSNBC “Hardball” anchor Chris Matthews commenting on the U.S. Senate passing the Ryan-Murray Budget deal…
Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel noted on Friday that Barack Obama and the IRS have a new plan to target Tea Party groups in advance of the 2014 elections. During Thanksgiving week, the Treasury Department announced a proposal to
In response to POTUS Subverted DOJ Investigation During Chris Matthews Interview : The San Diego Union Tribune editorial board is one of the few in the country willing to hold Obama responsible for the damage he’s doing to the country.
On his MSNBC show “Hardball” host Chris Matthews slammed GOP senators…
In his interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews last week, President Barack Obama said that one of the problems with the federal government is the size of it and what it takes to change course when problems arise. On this weekend’s
Mark Levin “To hear this pathetic liberal know-nothing to go on and on and on at that pathetic, nothing cable network is disgusting… This clown, Chris Matthews, he doesn’t understand this country, he doesn’t understand our system, he doesn’t understand
In his attempt to downplay the IRS scandal during his soft-ball interview with Chris Matthews, Thursday, the President of the United States subverted the ongoing DOJ investigation of the scandal. Obama declared that the IRS office in Cincinnati was merely trying
Coming off of his interview with President Barack Obama, MSNBC “Hardball” anchor Chris Matthews drew a comparison between the modern Republican Party and F.W. de Klerk, the last apartheid leader of South Africa. According to Matthews, de Klerk handled the
On Thursday night, MSNBC aired its sycophantic interview between Obama-worshipper Chris Matthews and President Obama. During that interview, Matthews asked President Obama about his governing style. After suggesting that his management style was not to blame for his administration’s problems,
Immediately after his interview with President Barack Obama on Thursday, MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews showed he was clearly mesmerized by Obama by saying the president “came amongst us.” Partial transcript as follows: DAVID CORN: I saw a president who
The president’s approval rating has taken a nosedive in recent weeks due to the rocky start of his “signature achievement”. America has not been sufficiently thankful to him for his herculean efforts on their behalf. So what better remedy can
With President Obama’s approval ratings sinking thanks to the failing Obamacare rollout and the unpopular nuclear deal with Iran, Obama broke the media emergency glass to access the MSNBC host Chris Matthews. Matthews, who has compared Obama to Jesus and
On Thursday evening, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews–a noted Barack Obama fan–will be interviewing the 44th president at one of the lowest points in his presidency. Mockery of Matthews has already ensued, especially after he promised to include some “easy” questions. Yet
Wednesday night, MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews announced that his interview with the president, which is scheduled for today, gave him “the Christmas Eve excitement.” Outside the left-wing fever swamp of MSNBC, Matthews is perhaps most famous to the American
On Thursday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who infamously claimed that President Obama gave him a “thrill” up his leg, will be interviewing Obama at American University in Washington, D.C. Obama will also answer questions from the student audience, as well
For the New York Times Sunday book review, historian David Greenberg of Rutgers University writes a devastating review of MSNBC host Chris Matthews’ new book about Ronald Reagan and Reagan era Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O’Neill. Greenberg’s
As President Obama’s approval ratings plummet thanks to the unpopularity of his signature legislation, Obamacare, even MSNBC’s official Obama sycophant Chris Matthews said that Obama could hit the 20s. “If you can hit Obama on character,” he said, “you can
Huff Post got the audio of an appearance Chris Matthews made in Philadelphia from a local blogger. In the clip, Matthews makes a fat joke about Christie which involves his wife. As you’ll hear, there was complete silence when Matthews
The Huffington Post reports that NBC’s Chris Matthews, longtime host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” took the opportunity at an event Thursday to publicly insult New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Responding to a question with a joke, Matthews said he felt bad
As John Nolte reported Thursday, Time Magazine has published an insulting, demeaning cover story on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) with the headline “The Elephant in the Room,” an obvious smack at Christie’s girth. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews had Time
In his unending quest to find reasons to call Republicans racist, Chris Matthews of MSNBC stumbled Monday night onto yet another example of GOP bigotry: Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), a Hispanic, returning to Texas and stating, “Gee, it’s great to
Appearing on Now with Alex Wagner on MSNBC, primetime host Chris Matthews explained that Tea Party use of the word “we” was racist, and that Tea Partiers presumably still counted black people as “three-fifths” of a person. The leg-tingling host
