Chris Matthews is an asshole.

[Botany]

End of story. Who the hell is he to criticize Hillary's feelings that
the 2016 election was dirty?

[comradebillyboy]

1. Chris has always hated both Clintons.

And yes he is an asshole.

[madinmaryland]

18. Yes. He understands that both Hillary and Bill Clinton are far smarter than he is.

It pisses him off that he is a simple minded dolt compared to the Clintons.

[dhol82]

2. Donna Brazile is dead to me

[Botany]

4. I'm not a Donna fan but Matthews kept cutting her off and would not let her talk.

n/t

[dhol82]

5. He is an asshole

But, she is still dead to me.
She cannot explain away her calumny.

[Irish_Dem]

10. He bullies his guests and refuses to let them talk. nt

[apcalc]

29. Nothing new there... interrupts constantly, especially women

[milestogo]

44. He cuts off everyone.

[Irish_Dem]

3. I don't know why he still has a show.

He should have retired a long time ago.

[dhol82]

6. Yup

Agree

[Irish_Dem]

9. I thought for sure after the elections he would be spending more time with his family. nt

[dhol82]

11. Indeed, that is the usual excuse.

Either somebody at msnbc really likes him or he has one hell of a contract.
Not sure which it is but I do think his 15 minutes of fame are long over.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Maybe he has pictures of an msnbc exec. nt

[dhol82]

14. ........

Always a possibility.

[JHB]

15. They don't want to spend time with him, that's why he sticks to his hobby

I assume it's a hobby, because for as long as he's been doing it, if he has to keep doing it I guess he's really bad at managing money.

[Irish_Dem]

19. LOL "she who must be obeyed" wants him out of the house. Makes sense. nt

[SharonClark]

7. I thought Brazille did the best she could defending Hillary with Matthew's bullying her.

Yes, he"s an ass.

[dhol82]

12. Oh, so now shes defending Hillary.

Too little too late.

[TheMastersNemesis]

8. We Know Those States Were Rigged/Stolen. The Results Made No Sense Mathematically.

The election was fraudulent in those states. Voter suppression played a big role. Had people been allowed to vote Hillary would have won.

[Botany]

16. Florida should have been a mathematical impossibility

The early vote made it all but impossible for Trump to win not unless
he got > 80% of all the election day vote but you had some predominately
African American areas vote heavy that day and don't tell me they voted
for Trump.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/russian-breach-of-39-states-threatens-future-u-s-elections

Putin was just "looking around"

[Control-Z]

21. Yup. This.

I will never really get over the 2016 election unless they get around to fully addressing the vote count. It is the single most obvious thing that anyone with a brain would expect beginning that night. As far as I'm concerned, it is the biggest, stinkiest, elephant in the room.

[apcalc]

30. +1000

[WinstonSmith4740]

40. We've been screwed by "mathematical impossibility" since 2000.

It happened in Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004, and the entire damn country last year. I've been saying this since 2000...we need at least 2-3 election cycles with paper ballots. Not computers, or even cards read by computers. We need paper, markers, and bi-partisan, highly supervised vote counts, overseen by cameras, and possibly even an international team. We don't need the results 30 seconds after the polls close. We can wait. Democracy is worth it.

[maddiemom]

42. Strongly second this motion!

[Dem2]

17. I don't watch his show precisely for this reason

The days he explodes into devil's advocate mode are just too annoying.

[Brainstormy]

22. me either

he's a no talent, no brains hack. He spits. And he interrupts constantly. Can't stand him.

[TomSlick]

20. I do so wish that I was as smart as Matthews thinks he is.

He won't let anyone complete a sentence. He has to be the most arrogant person on television.

[Enoki33]

23. Perfect time slot for Joy Reid. Yes he is an asshole.

[Alpeduez21]

24. You're just figuring that out now?!?

I don't watch him anymore.

[Botany]

25. no

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2006/04/27/mission-accomplished-a-look-back-at-the-medias/135513

[Maven]

26. Matthews is a bubble-head who gets an inexplicable amount of credit for journalistic heft

I put him in the same category as a Chuck Todd or a Brian Williams. Mediocre talking heads who regurgitate pre-packaged narratives about politics and have straight-white-male-privileged their way into prestige jobs they don't deserve.

[Binkie The Clown]

27. Judging from DU reactions, Tweety is alternately a hero or an asshole, depending on the day. nt

[yortsed snacilbuper]

31. You got that right.

[melman]

35. There's a lot of that here

Joe and Mika, Bill Maher etc

[DonViejo]

28. That's not at all what he was saying...

He objected to Sec'y Clinton's description of the election as "illegitimate." He pushed Donna Brazile to say whether she agreed the election was "illegitimate." Brazile said she did agree. Matthews got all huffy, "that's what Trump was saying about Obama, 'he was illegitimate because he's from Kenya'". Brazile told him, "we can argue semantics or keep pushing to get to the bottom of this." They both agree Russian involvement was heavy but, Matthews questions if that involvement effected the vote tally. Brazile didn't say she believed the tally was effected, but she didn't deny it either; she just insisted "we have to get to the bottom of this investigation."

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Yes and your point is?

He's never liked the Clintons

[Blue Owl]

33. Bad tweety...

[PJMcK]

34. In other news, the sky is blue (n/t)

[question everything]

36. And this is news?

I really would like to have the address of whoever is in charge on MSNBC to send him to pasture.

We really don't watch him much now. He used to have interesting guests but not more. Who would like to start talking and have him shouting and shutting you off?

And his shameless promotion of his book!

[Honeycombe8]

37. I guess I missed that comment. But generally, I like Matthews.

He's an equal opportunity irritant to his guests, interrupting both genders, important and not so important people. It's irritating, but that's his style.

I don't always agree with him, but he is outspoken and doesn't hold back in his opinions. He was the first one I heard to call out birtherism as "crazy." He had a birther on as a guest, and he interrupted him constantly, and finally said, "That's just crazy. Crazy talk."

Yeah, he doesn't seem to be crazy about Hillary Clinton. I don't recall how he feels about Bill.

[kimbutgar]

38. I rarely ever watch Chris, he is really an asshole.

[mountain grammy]

39. And I defended him the other day

Dummy me enjoyed him talking about RFK when the other 99% of the time he’s an asshole.

[shanny]

41. This is news? He always has been.

[slumcamper]

43. WHO. THE. FUCK. EVEN. CARES.

He speaks to the increasingly finite muddled middle.

There was a (brief) time and place for such milquetoast and weasely commentary. He "had his day." But events have forced a palpable hardening of social, economic values and political ideologies which is rendering CM's brand of reporting obsolete.

Obama was possibly right when he proclaimed "there is no red America, or blue America..." While prescient--and in retrospect a plea--from my vantage that statement is as obsolete as CM's reporting.

The lines are drawn. The knives are sharpened and drawn. We are now in a battle for the soul of the nation and its future.