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Matthews Stunned to Learn Obama Hamstrung Screening of S.B. Terrorist
December 14th, 2015 8:51 PM
On tonight's Tell Me Something I Don't Know"" segment wherein Hardball host Chris Matthews challenged his roundtable panelists to break some news, panelist Michelle Bernard succeeded when she informed the MSNBC anchor that Obama administration policy forbade visa-application screeners from looking at social media accounts for applicants like Tashfeen Malik, the female jihadi in the San Bernardino…
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Chris Matthews Praises Donald Trump for a Change
December 10th, 2015 9:01 PM
What does it take to get both Chris Matthews and Joan Walsh to say something kind about Donald Trump? Just make sure the target is the Hardball host's favorite archnemesis, Dick "it's pronounced CHEE-knee, by the way!" Cheney.
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Matthews: Mass Shootings Don't Happen 'All Over Europe'
December 1st, 2015 8:20 PM
In an interview with GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on the December 1 edition of Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews insisted that mass shootings don't happen "all over Europe." When an incredulous Santorum reminded Matthews about the November 13 Paris terrorist attacks, Matthews shot back that the Paris perpetrators were terrorists and not "locals."
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Matthews Hints Cruz, Fiorina 'Enjoy' Fatal Abortion Clinic Shooting
November 30th, 2015 9:12 PM
Republicans like Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina seem to "enjoy" it when an abortion clinic is attacked by a crazed gunman because it opens another opportunity for them to attack the liberal media, Hardball host Chris Matthews bizarrely theorized on his November 30 program.
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Notable Quotables: Blasting 'Ugly' 'Fear Talk' on Syria
November 23rd, 2015 8:57 AM
This week, journalists echo the Obama line on Syrian refugees, blasting Republicans for their "ugly" "fear talk," even as FNC anchor Shepard Smith scolds the "collective freak-out....We cannot resort to the tactics of the barbarians." Meanwhile, ABC's Jon Karl confronts GOP candidate Ted Cruz: "You don't think it's un-American to say, only Christians, no Muslims?" And Scott Pelley scolds new…
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Matthews: NRA Wants Terrorists to Have Guns
November 20th, 2015 12:36 PM
During an interview with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) regarding his efforts to ensure New York City remains safe during heightened security in the wake of ISIS terrorist attacks, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews insisted "the NRA is nondiscriminatory when it comes to who gets guns. They're for everybody getting them, including terrorists."
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Matthews Compares Ryan to Luke Skywalker In Attempt to Deride Him
November 19th, 2015 8:15 PM
Back in the mid-1980s, a hero of Chris Matthews's, Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy (D-Mass.), attempted to mock Ronald Reagan's anti-ballistic missile shield program, the Strategic Defense Initiative, by tagging it as a "Star Wars" program. But rather than catching on as a derisive term, most Americans thought it absolutely cool the idea that the U.S. could defense a way to blow up incoming nuclear…
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Muscular Matthews? Chris Calls Obama Terror Response 'Dainty'
November 18th, 2015 9:35 PM
I took some flak awhile back for saying that--his liberalism notwithstanding--Chris Matthews had a patriotic streak.
More evidence for that notion on this evening's Hardball, as Matthews twice derided President Obama's response to ISIS as "dainty," and kvetched that "I don't see us doing anything."
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Matthews Objects to 'Snarky' Obama Re: GOP Criticism of Refugee Policy
November 18th, 2015 9:33 PM
When your most worshipful devotee in the liberal media thinks you're acting in an unpresidential manner, you know you've gone too far.
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Matthews Ignores Kerry Seeing 'Rationale' In Charlie Hebdo Murders
November 17th, 2015 8:50 PM
As Politico reported earlier today, Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to see a "rationale" in the deadly terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office back in January, unlike target pattern in Friday's coordinated terror strikes in Paris. Reporter Eliza Collins posted her story at 4:14 p.m. Eastern, about 3 hours prior to MSNBC's Hardball went live on the air. That's plenty of time…
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Matthews: FDR Didn't Pin Mussolini on Catholics, Don't Blame Islam Now
November 16th, 2015 8:49 PM
2015 is drawing to a close, so unless some dark horse comes out of absolutely nowhere, Chris Matthews is a mortal lock for the DisHonor award for the year's worst analogy. On this evening's Hardball, Matthews argued that we shouldn't blame Islam for ISIS terrorist attacks since, after all, FDR, despite despising Mussolini, "never declared war on the Catholics."
Just a little difference: Italian…
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Matthews Not Sure If Cruz, Rubio Are Really 'Hispanic'
November 11th, 2015 9:10 PM
According to Chris Matthews, it's uncertain whether the term Hispanic can properly be used to describe GOP presidential aspirants Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Florida). It's better to say they are "Cuban nationals," offered the Hardball host on his Nov. 11 program.
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Lib West Wing Actor Hypes Kasich: ‘Brings the Clown Car Under Control'
November 11th, 2015 12:55 AM
Liberal West Wing actor Bradley Whitford appeared on a special post-debate edition of Hardball, Tuesday, to trash the Republican candidates. However, he singled out one person for praise, cheering, “[John] Kasich was certainly agitated and seemed to try and, you know, bring the clown car under control, I thought.” Overall, however, the actor sneered: “Generally this field I feel...makes Ronald…
Matthews, Michele Bachmann Exchange Notes On Photographic Media Bias
November 10th, 2015 8:55 PM
At the end of an interview segment tonight on Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and former Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) traded stories about their brushes with journalists who used goofy-looking photos of them as cover art to adorn magazine profiles.
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