Chris Matthews: Does Tea Party Want America Where 'There Are No Gays

March 21st, 2013 11:37 AM
Two days after Chris Matthews and fellow MSNBCer Joy-Ann Reid suggested that participants at the annual CPAC supported segregation, the liberal host was back at it on March 20.  Matthews brought on two liberal guests to slam the Tea Party for its “racist” and “xenophobic” mentality.     Speaking with his guests on Wednesday’s Hardball, Matthews asked:

MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid Disgustingly Argues CPAC Attendees Sympathize W

March 19th, 2013 11:12 AM
Once again, MSNBC shows it has no sense of decency when it comes to its political contributors making extreme statements on its network.  The latest example comes from contributor Joy-Ann Reid, managing editor of TheGrio.com, who asserted that attendees of the annual CPAC conference sympathized with pro-segregationist comments made by one extreme individual attending the three-day conference…

Guilt By Association: Chris Matthews Links Ted Cruz in Story on 'Sandy

March 18th, 2013 6:22 PM
Chris Matthews on Monday offensively connected Senator Ted Cruz with the actions of disturbed conspiracy theorists who believe the Sandy Hook massacre was a government plot. Talking to Connecticut Governor Daniel Malloy, the Hardball host lectured, "While the world has viewed last December's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school as an unspeakable tragedy, some gun rights dead-enders have…

Chris Matthews: 'No Chance Anyone’s Looking for a Nekkid Picture of

March 11th, 2013 6:48 PM
"No chance anyone’s looking for a nekkid picture of Mitch McConnell.” As amazing as it might seem, such was actually said by MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Hardball Monday (video follows with transcript and commentary):

No Joke: Chris Matthews Asks GOP to Credit Obama for ‘Amazing Econom

March 11th, 2013 1:20 PM
In case you missed it, the February jobs report on Friday contained some encouraging news. National Journal’s Michael Hirsh wrote that the BLS numbers gave President Obama “what he’s wanted for four years: an unemployment rate that’s below where he started as president, 7.7 percent.” But Hirsh was guarded in his optimism, also acknowledging that “things are not really as good as the numbers…

Chris Matthews Worries That a 'Right-Wing Politician' 'Like Dick Chene

March 7th, 2013 6:12 PM
MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday worried that a future "right-wing" politician "like Dick Cheney" might one day use drone strikes against his political enemies. The Hardball host was discussing Senator Rand Paul's filibuster on Wednesday and the subject that prompted it: Whether the U.S. has the right to use drones on Americans in a non-war situation. Matthews wondered if "there is a…

Matthews Screams: Who Do Hate Groups Root For? They Must 'Love' Rand P

March 6th, 2013 6:11 PM
At the same time that rising Republican Senate stars Rand Paul and Ted Cruz were making history with a filibuster Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, insisted Paul and Cruz must be heroes to hate groups. During a segment on the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center's new study about an increase of anti-government hate groups, Matthews demanded which politicians they supported: "Who do they…

MSNBC: Stocks Didn't Really Hit An All-Time High Today

March 5th, 2013 6:51 PM
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time high on Tuesday. But you wouldn't know that if you watched MSNBC's Hardball where two guests actually made the case that this really isn't an all-time high due to inflation (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Wash Post's Eugene Robinson Appears on MSNBC to Praise 'Quick,' 'Popul

March 5th, 2013 6:12 PM
Within minutes of the death of death of repressive socialist Hugo Chavez on Tuesday, MSNBC featured ex-Washington Post managing editor Eugene Robinson to fawn over the "quick," "popular" leader. Though Robinson allowed that "freedom of speech suffered greatly" under Chavez, he praised, "He provided medical attention that the poor of Venezuela hadn't received before, and, and, frankly, it was…

Chris Matthews: Support Gun Control or an American President Could Be

February 27th, 2013 6:25 PM
In a closing commentary on Wednesday, Hardball's Chris Matthews ranted that  opposing gun control could lead to the assassination of a future American president or politician. Matthews fumed that he supports new restrictions because "the next mass shooter could well emerge out of this pack" of the "politically nutty."   He lobbied, "Check the shooters of John F. Kennedy and Jerry Ford, who…

Out On Limb: Matthews's 'Rising Star' Says No Right To Gun Down Classr

February 26th, 2013 7:09 PM
Chris Matthews featured her as a "Rising Star," someone who with more seasoning might someday entertain a presidential run.  But newly-elected Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane came across as more of a not-ready-for-prime-time-deer-in-the-headlights. Appearing on today's Hardball, Kane came out with this mind-boggler: "I think the people of Pennsylvania would accept a limit on the…

MSNBC's Alex Wagner: Oscars Wouldn't Have Greeted Laura Bush As Warmly

February 25th, 2013 6:51 PM
You've surely heard by now that Michelle Obama presented the Academy Award for Best Picture last evening. On Monday, MSNBC host Alex Wagner, appearing on Hardball, said, "Could Laura Bush have done it? No. If she'd appeared at the Oscars, I don't think she would have been greeted with the same amount of warmth" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Chris Matthews Offers To Help Hillary’s 2016 Campaign: ‘We’ll Ge

February 25th, 2013 5:54 PM
According to TV critic David Zurawik, MSNBC's hiring of ex-Obama officials David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs makes the so-callend news network almost "a bona fide organ of state propaganda." Hours after this was published Monday, Hardball's Chris Matthews offered his services to Hillary Clinton - along with those of MSNBC contributors Howard Fineman and Joan Walsh - in order to get her elected…

Chris Matthews, Who Previously Whined About Too Much 'Hate' in Politic

February 20th, 2013 6:02 PM
On Wednesday's Hardball, Chris Matthews, who previously ranted about too much "hate" in politics, sneeringly compared the House GOP to Hamas. Talking to Jonathan Allen of Politico, Matthews snarled at Barack Obama's congressional opponents: "Who is the President talking to? Is it just a clique of a bunch of right-wingers who don't want to talk to anybody? Are they Hamas?" [See video below. MP3…