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
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…
