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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Matthews lent Sandra Fluke his office to talk to President Obama.
Chris and Sandra talking about that in the opening of his show made me tear up a bit.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)_ed_
(1,734 posts)Chris Matthews is a Bush voter and a misogynistic pig:
On MSNBC's Hardball, during a discussion with Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley of the effects on President Bush and his administration of the investigation into the leak of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame, Matthews said "ometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility."
Insulting the majority of Americans who hold an unfavorable opinion of President Bush, Matthews exclaimed on Hardball: "Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left," adding, "I mean, like him personally."
After Clinton won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, Matthews asserted: "he reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around."
"MATTHEWS: We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like (former President Bill) Clinton or even like (former Democratic presidential candidates Michael) Dukakis or (Walter) Mondale, all those guys, (George) McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president."
On April 24, Matthews attacked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) by referring to her as a "sort of a Madame Defarge of the left." On May 30, Matthews questioned Clinton's ability to lead, expressing surprise that retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, an NBC military analyst, wasn't "chuckling a little bit" at the idea of Clinton giving orders to the troops as commander in chief. On July 11, Matthews said Sen. Clinton "looked more witchy" because she criticized the Bush administration's homeland security spending priorities on July 8, a day after the London bombings. On July 27, Matthews asked Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) if he thought Sen. Clinton is a "big-government socialist." [Hardball, 5/30/05; The Chris Matthews Show, 4/24/05; Hardball, 7/11/05; Hardball, 7/27/05]
Chris Matthews is a sexist, Catholic conservative Bush voter working to further Comcast's media goals. He's much more like Limbaugh than not.
jillan
(39,451 posts)I will give him kudos for letting Fluke use his office tho.
_ed_
(1,734 posts)makes me tear up a bit. Chris Matthews is the worst of the worst Beltway insider.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)To prove it, we have his op eds appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle in the lead-up to the war in which he strongly condemned the Bush administration. He was one of the few people in the media with the guts to oppose the Chimp's ego trip.