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Matthews, Guest Argue WH Tension Warrants ‘Impeachment Territory’

Curtis Houck
October 10th, 2017 11:03 PM
MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg dredged up the drumbeat of presidential impeachment on Tuesday night, declaring that the contents of a Washington Post about tension within the Trump White House warrants “near-edge impeachment territory” if it weren’t for the “unbelievable cowardice” by Republicans.
 
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Today’s Trump Bashing Media Thought It Was Awful to Bash Obama in 2009

Rich Noyes
October 9th, 2017 9:07 AM
Over the past several months, journalists have had no qualms about attacking President Trump on a deeply personal level, calling him an “embarrassing” “unhinged” “liar,” a “sociopath” and a “madman” presiding over a “malignant presidency.” But eight years ago, many of these same reporters were offended at criticism of Barack Obama and his policies, scorning the “mean,” “ugly,” “offensive” “…
 
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Pants-on-Fire Matthews: GOPers Think ‘Any’ Gun Is 'God-Given...Right'

Curtis Houck
October 6th, 2017 12:51 PM
On Thursday’s Hardball, the MSNBC panel showcased how the left will never be interested in compromise on gun control and will move the goal posts toward gun confiscation, all the while pushing fake news about Second Amendment advocates. As usual, host Chris Matthews was at the center of it all, falsely smearing Republicans as “a fanatic party on guns” who believe “[i]t’s a God-given, sort of…
 
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‘Hardball’ Defends Media 'Standards,' Claims Trump 'Hates Facts'

Curtis Houck
October 5th, 2017 9:41 PM
A number of establishment, liberal journalists responded with smugness on Thursday’s Hardball to President Trump’s tweet earlier in the day that the Senate Intelligence Committee should investigate news organizations for spreading “Fake News.” As expected, they touted their supposedly strict standards and brushed aside claims of media bias as being aimed at undermining the Russia investigations.
 
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Chris Matthews Compares Gun Rights Advocates to North Vietnamese

Curtis Houck
October 4th, 2017 6:54 PM
Leading off Tuesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews seemed to insinuate a comparison between pro-gun advocates and the communist North Vietnam in a segment about gun control in the wake of Sunday night’s Las Vegas shooting. All the while, Matthews’s two assembled guests/so-called journalists mocked certain gun owners and bewailed the “gun culture” in America that they wished was the…
 
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Matthews Mocks GOPers As 'Ballsy Bastards,' Ban 'Semi-Automatic' Guns

Brad Wilmouth
October 3rd, 2017 11:13 PM

On Tuesday's Hardball, during a discussion of how Republicans are responding to calls for more gun laws in the aftermath of the Las Vegas attack, host Chris Matthews mocked several GOP U.S. Senators as "ballsy bastards" after playing a clip of them recommending against debating new gun laws.

 
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Matthews Gushes Over Sally Quinn Putting 'Hexes' of Death on People

Brad Wilmouth
October 1st, 2017 11:58 PM
On Friday's Hardball on MSNBC, during an interview with former Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn, host Chris Matthews oddly gushed over his liberal guest's claims in her book that she had put "hexes" on people and possibly caused their early demise. She even made a crack about how her friends keep trying to get her to put a hex on President Donald Trump.  
 
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Shocker: ‘Hardball’ Segment Makes Trump Tax Plan All About Trump

Curtis Houck
September 29th, 2017 1:01 PM
Following the lead of Thursday’s White House press briefing, MSNBC’s Hardball decided to not discuss how the Trump tax reform plan could help millions of Americans by unleashing massive economic growth, but instead how President Trump would benefit from it.
 
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Seriously? Matthews Compares Fake News Trolls to 9/11 Hijackers

Curtis Houck
September 28th, 2017 8:04 PM
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, you’re shown otherwise. During Thursday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews compared the Russian-backed social media trolls during the 2016 election to the 9/11 hijackers who murdered thousands of Americans in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
 
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Stephens: Conservatives Should Back Protest, U.S. Flag Isn’t ‘A Totem'

Curtis Houck
September 26th, 2017 8:39 PM
On Tuesday’s Hardball, New York Times columnist and Never Trump diehard Bret Stephens pigeon-holed conservatives opposed to the NFL protests, declaring that the American flag isn’t a monumental “totem like it's the obelisk that descends on planet Earth in 2001: A Space Odyssey” while demanding conservatives get in line behind National Anthem protesters.
 
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Media Wrongly Claim Trump Ad Pushed to Execute 'Innocent Children'

Brad Wilmouth
September 17th, 2017 9:13 PM

Since Donald Trump began his run for President in June 2015, parts of the dominant liberal media have repeatedly parroted the incorrect claim that, in 1989, Trump ran a newspaper ad in which he urged the execution of a group of young black and Hispanic teens who ended up eventually being proven "innocent" in spite of confessing to the infamous rape and beating of a Central Park jogger that…

 
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Matthews Hails ‘Profound and Candid’ Book by ‘Moderate’ Hillary

Curtis Houck
September 12th, 2017 9:02 PM
Seemingly everyone has an opinion about Hillary Clinton’s pity party/book What Happened and so, it was Hardball’s turn on Tuesday. Host Chris Matthews proclaimed it to be “a very profound and candid book” by “moderate” Hillary despite the fact that he hasn’t read the whole book yet.  
 
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‘Hardball’: Trump Is Mentally Unstable, Hillary Book Is 'Remarkable'

Curtis Houck
August 24th, 2017 4:38 PM
Not exactly the top authority when it comes to sober analysis, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews teamed up with panelists on Wednesday night to deem President Trump as mentally unstable while a guest hailed Hillary Clinton’s book excerpt about debating Trump as “remarkable.”
 
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Matthews Does Hulk Impression, Hints Trump Rally Could Be Violent

Curtis Houck
August 22nd, 2017 8:28 PM
MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews left viewers on Tuesday night with a rather disturbing image of Matthews grunting and stretching while giving his best Incredible Hulk impression ahead of a Phoenix Trump rally that he insinuated could turn violent. The Atlantic’s Rosie Gray was noting the difference between Trump with a Teleprompter versus without when Matthews interjected that the latter is…