MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Monday night and returned to a familiar refrain when trying to explain Republican opposition to President Obama’s deficit spending policies and the Affordable Care Act. “I think it’s hatred, I
It has become convenient, as of late, for media talking heads and pundits to dismiss legitimate criticism of Obamacare, and other Obama-preferred policies, as simply an extension of racism. Opposition to these programs, it is claimed, must be the result
Chris Matthews: “I’ve had members, they know who they are, who say, ‘I really can’t say with my lips that this man, Barack Obama, was legitimately elected president.’ They choke on that. How many are there in Congress on your
On Sunday’s “Meet the Press” panel, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews goes all Raising Arizona on Republicans, and then some.
When it comes to our media, some everyday people hurt by the federal government are a lot more equal than others. As I write this, millions have already been negatively affected by ObamaCare. Heaven only knows how many among the
On Morning Joe, Chris Matthews made a stunning admission. At the conclusion of a discussion about the Cruz “filibuster”, Matthews said that Cruz was playing to his crowd. He went on to say: We all know this country is balkanized..and
MSNBC host Chris Matthews responds to Sarah Palin’s op-ed at Breitbart News supporting Ted Cruz’s stand against Obamacare–by bringing on her former campaign manager to talk trash. Steve Schmidt, the man behind John McCain’s failed 2008 presidential campaign, accuses Palin,
Chris Matthews appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday morning to analyze the political ramifications of the congressional debate to support President Obama’s call for a military strike against Syria. Matthews said the President had put the Democrats in congress in
Following up on Ace’s post here is Biden telling Chris Matthews back in 2007 that he is deadly serious about attempting to impeach Bush if he goes to war in Iran without congressional authorization: Matthews: You said that if the
Cable news network MSNBC is changing things up a bit for “Hardball” host Chris Matthews. Until now, “Hardball” has aired at 5 PM and repeated at 7 PM, but weekend host Ed Schultz will soon get a weekday show airing
Seattle — One man was left trembling after another pulled a loaded firearm on him and reportedly demanded that he apologize to black people for all the wrongs white people have done to them. Police arrested the suspect, finding the
Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York who resigned after he was found to be frequenting escort agency Emperors Club VIP, has now risen above such shenanigans. Sptizer says he thinks Anthony Weiner, AKA Carlos Danger, should not be
What if I told you I could solve the issue of racism in America? Bigotry, blind hate, and ignorance constitute part of the human condition. I cannot fight human nature. But what if the cure for real racism in America
On the final episode of The Chris Matthews Show with Andrew Sullivan: Chris Matthews “I don’t even like it very much. The ‘lone superpower.’ Are we going to be that 20 years from now?” Sullivan “With any luck we won’t
I couldn’t help but take notice of Chris Matthews speaking on “behalf of all white people” the other day when foaming at the mouth over the last faux racial injustice that fuels the left-wing media establishment’s drive to polarize this
In the wake of the “not guilty” verdict in the Florida trial of George Zimmerman for the self-defense shooting of Trayvon Martin, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews felt the need to apologize for “all white people.” During the July 18 broadcast of
Format: Mr. Sharpton and Ms. Jeantel will take turns bewildering each other. First person to seven points wins (win by two). MSNBC Normally: A bus accident MSNBC Tonight: A train derailment into the scene of a bus accident, and also,
MSNBC’s number one Obama fanboy, Chris Matthews, was obviously disappointed with President Obama’s letdown of a speech in Germany Tuesday. Rather than place the blame where it belonged — on the empty rhetoric, hypocritical platitudes, and a crowd 95% smaller
Red State’s Erick Erickson and the Media Research Center’s Tim Graham joined Bill O’Reilly for an entertaining look at how a 20% ratings collapse has affected MSNBC’s approach to programming. Chris Matthews, specifically, has gone even further off the rails
CHRIS MATTHEWS: “This guy goes pretty far. I think he fits in the tradition of Father Coughlin and McCarthy and, of course, maybe to a lesser extent, Pat Buchanan and, of course, O’Reilly. These guys are hard right-wing guys. They
On MSNBC’s Hardball Friday, host Chris Matthews revealed he didn’t know that there are currently two African-American US Senators serving in Congress. “We don’t have any African Americans in the United States Senate, which I think is a disgrace,” he
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about the President’s way of running the government. In this case, your legal office was informed generally of some sort of IG report a couple weeks ago. You weren’t informed at all what was
This won’t last. Chris Matthews is in love with Barack Obama. I’m not being hyperbolic, either. This isn’t about a a man-crush or even partisan worship. What Matthews feels is way beyond that. The “Hardball” anchor is deeply in love
While waiting for the President to address the ongoing IRS scandal, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Al Sharpton say that many conservatives want Obama’s scandals to add an “asterisk” to his presidency–questioning its legitimacy to reinforce the idea that “the white
Just throwing this out there. Photo: According to armchair body-language expert Ezra Dulis, either MSNBC host Chris Matthews or MSNBC host Al Sharpton is fall-down drunk before entering the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD) Saturday evening. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews appeared on the Martin Bashir Show Thursday to discuss the root cause of terror attacks on Americans, because, you know, who better to discuss that topic? He told Bashir that wars waged by America in Arab nations
LESLEY STAHL, CBS: Can we go back to what Bob [Woodward] had mentioned about privacy? Because, yes, we have something brilliant happened here, but it happened because the tools that they are using are the tools that deprive us of
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward to Chris Matthews: The Boston event was, “not necessarily that big an event.”
JOE KLEIN, TIME: Well, we’ve become a lot more wimpy country because, you know, these gun advocates at the NRA want these semi-automatic weapons. I mean, you see Marshall Dillon only used one shot. You know, what do they need
Larry Pratt NRA on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews Thursday Night…
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has made a new pronouncement, this time that Hillary Clinton is in the most “commanding position” to be anointed president since the general of all the U.S. Armies in WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower, ran for President in
This morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough called Texas Senator Ted Cruz ignorant four times for asking Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calf.) a question about her gun control proposals. However, the venom spewed at the Senator from Texas didn’t begin with Scarborough. Last
MSNBC host Chris Matthews said if former Vice President Dick Cheney was water-boarded he would admit that we went to war in Iraq under false weapons of mass destruction claims…
Chris Matthews has announced that he is already in the tank for Hillary two years before the race for the White House in 2016 even begins. Matthews was discussing Hillary on his MSNBC show with frequent guests David Corn and
On the Feb. 14 airing of Hardball, Chris Matthews and former PA Gov. Ed Rendell got so worked up over Wayne LaPierre’s “Stand and Fight” speech that they played the race card against the NRA. Rendell said LaPierre’s reference to
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was yet another opportunity to demand a new laundry list of big government programs and massive spending, but MSNBC’s Chris Matthews seemed to have some trouble seeing anything “liberal” in it. As he