Everyone Hates Chris

Wow! Russert hates Matthews. I agree with him on something. Of course I also hate Russert, not for something petty like I'm sure he hates Matthews for, but because they both have a lot of sway over opinion in this country and both do such a lousy job. Russert didn't get his post a Cheney's favorite stoolie without a lot of work at it. Matthews can't get himself out of Clinton's panty drawer long enough to use Google to do some basic research.

Gee!! Russert is a toady for Darth Vader, and now we learn that he hates Tweety!!! Damn, the earth is gonna stop spinning on its axis. If nothing else, this trial is great just for those two tidbits. Timmeh!! just took a big hit. People will never look at him the same. He'll become the laughing stock of DC

"Exactly."

Exactly what, Petra?

Exactly what did Wilson and Plame know about Saddam's oil-for-Kofi's kid pogrom - and when did they choose to ignore it?

How many anti-American media mouths in Iraq survived the UN boycotts, simply for another chance to bash the West? Were the Wilson sisters on board with that too?

Being a McGovernite French mole in State does have pluses, to be sure (ranting as a career with no chance to be queried in an election, or in an open Q&A not at the campus of your Pell Grant choice), but does that really make amends for Wilson's lifer pandering to almost every viable entity that's confronted American influence in the 3rd world (never mind Old Europe)?

The Senate (remember the Senate, Bidenettes?) has already dismissed most of Wilson's pre-meditated "findings" as incomplete CRAP - the 911 Report itself goes into some detail on Saddam's nuke part plans, including contacts in Africa - but of course that never stopped Time from skipping the whole truth.

What IS is...

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction. ...without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. And now he has continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ... " “I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." SENATOR JOHN F KERRY (D, MA), in 2003

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."SENATOR TED KENNEDY (D, MA), in 2002

"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." – NANCY PELOSI, in 1998

"Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." – AL GORE, in 2002

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members .. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." - Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), in 2002

"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." - Madeline Albright, in 1998

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies." - Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, in 1999

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." - Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, in 1998

"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." – BILL CLINTON, in 1998

First off I would like to say your blog is not user friendly. It is unclear if I am suppose to be commenting on Everyone Hates Chris, Schooter Libby or Mary Matalin....but I will make my comments anyway!
I am disappointed...beyond disappointed, appalled that Karen Tumulty would totally ignor the possible campaign of Dr. Ron Paul. She considered thoses who have not even formed an exploratory committee, while ignoring Dr. Paul who has had such a committee for weeks. She might be surprised to find the percent of name recognition and support he has if she were to honestly investigate his potential. It is my suggestion that she do a follow up article and do just such a report on Dr. Paul if your magazine has any hopes of being considered unbiased!

Bob Somerby had some very AMC-style first hand dirt on Matthews...

Mataline thinks Wilson is snake

she is certainly familiar with reptilain behavior

Mathews and Russert are BOTH jerks. Those guys are as responsible as anyone for the appalling state of American political discourse.

"But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt" - Condoleeza Rice, July 2001

"And frankly they [the sanctions] have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq" - Colin Powell, February 2001

I totally heart how someone takes a comment about two media figures... and makes it about Hillary.

Go get your own blog, Mr/Ms. "Question Hillary". It's not that you're wrong, it's that you have no idea what the topic IS.

we're on the same team, but you need to breathe a little in between or you'll get an ulcer.

E! and nobody likes the USA very much. Veronica takes on hubby as the Italians march against expanding US Military Base with indictments of CIA agents still out there. Germany indicts 13 CIA operatives and what is the status of the war crimes charge against Rummy. The Brits investigate Blair's underling for Knighting for Cash scandal as Scotland mulls independence. Maliki grows a pair and says Iraq will not be home of the Iran-USA super bowl. W finds his real base on the floor of the NYSE as investigation go forward on Reconstruction Fraud.
Who does wear Prada? Don't ya just hate elevator music? But be there or be square.

posted QUESTION HILLARY | January 31, 2007

Oh. You know the "Forget the Main Topic, Let's Cut and Paste Game". That's getting kinda old. My playmates and I think you need to play a new game. Let's play "Word Salad". You play the game by choosing sentences that make no sense made by grown-ups in DC. I choose this one from President Bush. He said it during an interview by Juan williams of NPR and FoxNews

MR. WILLIAMS: So, some people would say, well, if you believe in spending restraint, why haven't you vetoed one bill, you know, one appropriations bill?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Because the United States Congress that was controlled by Republicans exercised spending restraint. Now, I didn't particularly like – the size of the pie was what I requested. It's some of the pieces of the pie that I didn't particularly care for, but that is why the president needs a line-item veto, and that is why Congress has got to reform the earmark process. What the American people need to understand is that sometimes special projects get put into bills without ever having seen the light of the day. In other words, they don't get voted on; they just show up, and we need transparency in the earmark process, and expose the process to hearings and votes so that the American people will know that any project was fully heard on the floor of the House and the Senate.

Your turn

Russert's presumed distaste for Matthews (so difficult not to speculate on its cause! Is it stylistic? Does someone hog the newsroom donuts?)

Catholic inverted snobbery: each considers himself more salt-of-the-earth than the other, while sitting in their respective x-million-dollar mansions. Each sees a little of himself in the other, or at least of his carefully-crafted image: just enough to resent it.

[pop-psychologist fee waived]

I notice Mondaynight on Hardball, the NBC reporter kept referring to Libbby's conversation with "this reporter" and "the reporter" but I never once heard Timmeh Russert's lil pumpkin name mentioned. Like "Hardball" went all limp on the key player in the day's testimony. Poor Timmeh, bought and paid for by Jack Welch, jacked around by Bushco, now feeling the heat. But before we get sympathetic, can Media Matters trace how many times Timmeh used the rethug talking point "cut in run", especially when questioning Democrats?

Russert is such a pompous ass, it's great that he is shown to be a chump. Ha fuckin Ha.

and Matthews is a twat.

Oh, bum: no HTML styles?

Anyway, Timmeh and Tweety are in a fight to the death to be the most faux-blue-collar rich Papist bastard in DC.

"...we're on the same team, but you need to breathe a little in between or you'll get an ulcer. .."

Thanks for the feedback, but no more free press passes on Wilson's lefty history and total hypocrisy, sorry.

Exactly what did Wilson and Plame know about Saddam's oil-for-Kofi's kid pogrom - and when did they choose to ignore it?

And there you have it: a snapshot of the wingnut mind at work. "Damn Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame for not putting an end to the UN Oil-For-Food Program!"

Thanks for not censoring, guys. My hat's off to you. Absolutely crazy.

Lemme guess. Chris told Ahnah Marie how much she sucked on last weekend's Chris Matthews Show, so she wasn't going to be invited back anyway. I wonder if Sully got chastized for saying Sen. Clinton has COOTIES.

Are we sure, I mean, absolutely sure, who "he" is in that context?

I mean, the Heathers getting their panties in an uproar is amusing and all, but what if "he" were Darth Cheney, who is known not to care much for Matthews.

"Thanks for the feedback"

Stop spamming, fuckwit.

Tim hates Chris. Pass it on. Oh, but Chris loves George, especially when he's wearing a flight suit or jeans. And Mary is a twat.

Every time I think the DC asswipes can't get any more childish and frivolous, I get proven wrong.

So what if the note is "prejudicial?" That's not the same thing as "inadmissible."

The rule is that the prejudicial IMPACT of piece of evidence must outweigh it's probative value.

technically, any piece of evidence that hurts the defense is "prejudicial." In a warcrimes trial fro Nazis, producing notes about a meeting where the defendant uttered mutiple religious epithets toward the Jews is highly prejudicial. It is also extremely probative, given the nature of the trial, and would probably be allowed.

Photo, after, photo, after photo, of emaciated, dead bodies at a concentration camp might cross the line, however. The object would, of course,m be to so disgust the jury as to cause it to override it's detached weighing of the evidence with outrage and emotion.

Two things:

1) Why should we care what Kerry, Kennedy, et al had to say about Iraq, when it's clear that Question Hillary only chooses to agree with them when it suits his agenda

2) Mary Matalin is a total cunt.

Some questions for Ana Marie Cox, Editor of Time.com:

This past weekend one of your writers, Andrew Sullivan, expressed a personal, visceral dislike for Sen. Hillary Clinton:

"But when I see her again, all my--all the cootie vibes sort of resurrect themselves ... I just can't stand her."

http://www.thechrismatthewsshow.com/transcripts/01282007.shtml

1) Given Sullivan's personal animus toward Sen. Clinton will you, as Editor of Time.com, require that he recuse himself from posting about her in Time.com's blog "The Daily Dish?" If not, why?

2) If you will not require recusal, will you require Sullivan post a disclaimer or notice of his bias on any Clinton post? If not, why?

3) Will Sullivan be subject to any discipline and/or reprimand for these comments?

4) Do you believe Time.com has any journalist or ethical obligation to notify or protect its readers from the personal bias of its writers?

These are important questions and I hope you'll address them publically in the near future.

Thank you.

Oh come off it folks. This is just blather. More things to make you hate the "liberal" media.

It's the corporate controlled media, stupid.

If those guys weren't there, they'd find another lackey to take their place. Those guys are nothing but street level players in a much bigger game.

I Taut I Taw A Punkin Haid!

I did! I did! I did tee a Punkin Haid!

Indict Plame and Wison!

Steve in Sacto

raises an interesting point - one which Ms.Cox should indeed address.

What's the deal, Ana?

"Mr/Ms. "Question Hillary". It's not that you're wrong, it's that you have no idea what the topic IS.

we're on the same team, but you need to breathe a little in between or you'll get an ulcer.
Posted by: Anonymous"

What are you? Fucking nutz!

The problem with the two of you is that after the teams got picked, both teams kicked the crap outta both of you and used you bases.

Steve FYI, I think that Sullivan has moved on to a greener blog space. Probably, to make room for The Kristol who will impart totally hand selected 'bits and pieces' to support his erudite conclusions.

Hmm.. which side to choose...

Russert- the wimp who's a complete tool of the Bush Adminisrtation.

Matthews- The right-wing douche bag who drools over the Clinton's Penis...

I'm so glad I gave up on both of their gawd-aweful shows.

If this she-said he-said isn't enough to bring back a special prime-time Claymation Celebrity Death Match, nothing is. Imagine the pay-per-view totals just within the Beltway.

Mary Matalin said Timmeh don't like Tweety?

What did Russert actually say?

Oh so phuckin what!

question Hillary, you really must purchase some tinfoil that doesn't shrink and push your brains out your ears. Your hyperventiation is all made-up shit, with no proof of anything except 1) Bush lies to everyone, always, and 2) senators unfortunately listen to him. Joe Wilson stood up to Saddam Hussein at the risk of his own life, and your baseless attacks show your trajectory into sheer lunacy. Up your meds.

Yeah, Andrew is moving to Atlantic.com.

The Beltway used to be such a moral, decent place filled with honorable public servants...Now look at it...

Woe is me....

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Why don't these bloggers at Time.com ever respond?

Ana - I completely agree with Steve in Sacto:

"1) Given Sullivan's personal animus toward Sen. Clinton will you, as Editor of Time.com, require that he recuse himself from posting about her in Time.com's blog "The Daily Dish?" If not, why?"

And please address the other questions as well. Then have his bosses address these questions.

People hate the MSM because biased reporters produce hit-job journalism. All the blogs want to do is keep the editors accountable.

Yeah, Andrew is moving to Atlantic.com.

Posted by: Jason | January 31, 2007

~~~

Well, so he is. Looks like Ana Marie's off the hook; look's like I'll have to take my questions over to "The Atlantic"...

I hope Sully will have a comments section on his new blog.

During the State of the Union coverage I also noticed there wasn't much warmth beetween Matthews and Keith Olberman, who sat next to each other for the coverage.

KO is clearly the man and perhaps Chris doesn't like this "sports guy" scoring increased ratings for his terrific coverage of politics.

What's with Matthews outright hatred of anything Clinton? That's the top story of the week, Hillary's joke?
As much as he tries to make it happen, McCain and Rudy are not going to make it no matter how much Chris kisses their ass.
McCain is a phoney and Rudy is known for one thing and that's not going to carry him to the nomination.
Doesn't really matter, the Dem's are going to kick some "Red" butt again.

What a fluffy post, I couldn’t give a flying fig how Matthews feels about about Russert. We still have to contend with this from the White House;

"I'm the commander — see, I don't need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." —as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War

And this….

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." —State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003, making a claim that administration officials knew at the time to be false

Lets not forget why this trail is taking place….

Pop goes the weasel..

RE: QuestionHillary's comment "Thanks for the feedback, but no more free press passes on Wilson's lefty history and total hypocrisy, sorry."

You mean this lefty history?

"As acting ambassador to Iraq in the run-up to the first Gulf War, he was the last US diplomat to meet with Saddam Hussein, in 1991.

He very publicly defied the Iraqi strongman by giving refuge to more than 100 US citizens at the embassy and in the homes of US diplomats - at a time when Saddam Hussein was threatening to execute anyone who harboured foreigners.

He then addressed journalists wearing a hangman's noose instead of a necktie.

He later told the Washington Post newspaper that the message to Saddam Hussein was: "If you want to execute me, I'll bring my own [expletive] rope."

Source-BBC

It was those actions that compelled President George HW Bush to say ""Your courageous leadership during this period of great danger for American interests and American citizens has my admiration and respect. I salute, too, your skillful conduct of our tense dealings with the government of Iraq....The courage and tenacity you have exhibited throughout this ordeal prove that you are the right person for the job."

So lefties protect the USA and righties out our CIA assets.

Thanks for the history reminder.

Watching Chris Matthews reminds me of seeing a dog or a horse with a huge hard-on. You're totally embarrassed and disgusted by it yet the bearer of the hard-on doesn't seem to notice that his priapism is completely turning off his audience. CM's obsession with Hillary is clinical. Sick, sick, sick.

Russert and Mathews both do a very good job at asking tough, relevant questions, and not accepting non-answers.

Matthews and Russert going at it is like 2 heels in pro wrestling going at it, except wrestling is more believable and truthful than Matthews and Russert ever will be.

Is this high school...you beltway people make me sick...cmon

Maybe Tim is mad that Chris gets more attention from the likes of Media Matters and Daily Howler. But both of them are too stupid to realize that Media Matters and Daily Howler are simply pointing out how incredibly stupid Tim Russert and Chris Matthews really are. I guess they actually think they are in the running for Brad DeLong's Stupidest Man Alive contest!

I have no use for Tim Russert as a journalist. He is just another GOP shill in General Electric payroll. His panels heavily tilt to the right. I remember reading somewhere that in the run up to the Iraq war it his guests were 11 to 1 in favor of the war.

That said if he hates Chris Matthews it certainly speaks well of him. It tells me that he was some standards.

Chris Matthews has to be the most revolting, odious, repulsive person on TV. If I watch him 5 minutes I get the urge to wipe his spit off my TV screen. He is obsessed with the Clintons. The guy is unhinged.

I would like to hear Tim's side of this first. Did he actually tell Mary, "I hate Chris"? Or was he taken out of context???

Speaking as a possessor of that happy orifice, I resent calling Tweety a twat! He's a prick, a dickhead, a wanker, but doesn't have what it takes to be a twat. Mary Matalin, on the other hand, is a total cunt.

Chris Matthews is so old he slobbers and spits on his guests and have you noticed how watery his mouth and eyes are all the time? It's disgusting. Matthews is an opportunist and doesn't have his heart in any debate; he just enjoys his 260-word statements disguised as questions.

This is the first thing i've heard in Russert's favor--he hates Matthews too.

Too bad he's a stooge and way too easily used. You might want to posts about what Welch said and did and was proud of regarding Russert and Matthews: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/8/13191/83603

===I am personal a long-time, committed fan of Matthew's eccentric approach to political chat===

Yeah, as are the rest of your fatuous cohort - after all, the paychecks get bigger when you get invited on TV!!!

As for those of us who won't ever profit from Chris Matthews Hardballs, we're more apt to look at his show as the dumbassification of America - the kind that results in a president like the one we have now. Its not funny or amusing to us.

But you keep workin' that angle and you'll get there buttsex girl! Soon, you can join the rest of the Millionaire Pundit Class in assfucking the entire country all at once!

Chris Matthews gets all homoerotic talking about GOP politicians.

He is practically orgasmic every time he mentions Bush, Ahnuld, Rudy and McCain, especially McCain. He can't get over how manly they are. The guy is a classic closet case.

Gee, I must have stumbled into a left-wing blog by mistake because it looks like most of the posters here get their vocabulary from the restroom wall at the local junior high school. I have never before read so many ignorant,juvenile foul- mouthed rants. Surely, if your points are so important to make, you could find a more intelligent way to express them. I thought liberals were supposed to be the smartest people in the room. I could not tell it by reading this blog.

By the way, did anyone notice Tweety wearing eye makeup on Monday's show? He was in Vegas to judge Miss America (now I know we're in an alternate universe) and his brows were much darker than normal. Truly a girlie-man!

The Daily Kos link nails Russert and all the pseudo journalists working for NBC/GE.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/8/13191/83603

Following the conversation with Rove, Welch instructed a subordinate to impress on senior NBC executives that the news division would now be expected to show the same unqualified devotion to General Electric that was required of every other unit. He was unusually circumspect because he realized that Clinton appointees in the Federal Communications Commission would have taken a dim view of his activities. Welch knew from his company's countless run-ins with the law that the authorities could be outmaneuvered if things were handled with finesse.

He quietly began to dramatically change the way that things were done at NBC News. A link was established between the producers of the Sunday morning program Meet The Press and the opposition research team of the Republican Party. Delighted G.O.P. operatives were soon boasting that Tim Russert would go on the air just minutes after receiving their allegations of wrongdoing by Al Gore, and would repeat their charges verbatim. Russert was not functioning as a journalist; he had crossed the Rubicon and was acting as a mouthpiece for General Electric's favorite political party.

Welch greatly appreciated Russert, whose multi-million dollar contract he personally negotiated. The message circulated throughout NBC News that Russert was an excellent role model for reporters who wanted to succeed in the organization. Reporters at NBC News did not have to be verbally instructed on how to get ahead; they clearly saw that the Russert approach was handsomely rewarded by top management.

Matthews isn't partisan, he just loves "the game." We take politics more seriously than he does and that might annoy us. But the fun he has with it can be infectious, too.

And L., don't let these foul-mouthed slobs represent the left wing for you. I'm convinced it's a coincidence that so many people with so little class congregated here.

Joe Klein is still dumb. So are Matthews and Russert.

Further confirmation that Russert is the OVP's hoar.

Wow, what a well-"reported" "article" on Jack Welch. Is that on the Trilateral Commission imprint?

Gee, I must have stumbled into a left-wing blog by mistake because it looks like most of the posters here get their vocabulary from the restroom wall at the local junior high school. I have never before read so many ignorant,juvenile foul- mouthed rants. Surely, if your points are so important to make, you could find a more intelligent way to express them. I thought liberals were supposed to be the smartest people in the room. I could not tell it by reading this blog.

Posted by: L. | January 31, 200

This is truly important and this poster certainly must be congratulated on his/her massively germane discovery that most people prefer to live with their britches loosened whenever they can.

"I just think there's something kind of awesome about "Everyone Hates Chris" being a show on the CW network."

Matthews cannot be happy Hillary recently gave a coveted extended interview to Olberman but he dug the hole himself with the one sided, hate filled coverage going back, from my knowledge anyway, when she was running for Senator in New York the first time around.

Matthews called John Boehner a "great man". That's enough to make any sensible person hate him.

Plus, he's spent the past year bragging about how smart he was to object to the war in Iraq from the beginning...

When in reality after the fall of Baghdad he stated, "today we are all Neo-cons" and later said, "I wonder how foolish all those liberal and leftie pundits who predicted the war would be a disaster must feel about now?"

Supposedly Matthews is pretty thin-skinned. He banned Howard Fineman from his shows for months after hearing Fineman comment elsewhere that the reason the ratings are so much higher on "The Chris Matthews Show" than "Hardball" is because he doesn't interrupt his guests on the former.

But, Timmy is no better with his grab the lube, then grab the ankles "interviews" with Cheney.

Saw Ana and Andrew on CMS when he did his usual routine. Ana was all giggly and Andrew did his anti-Clinton number. Switched off. Did I get up at 7.20 to watch this juvenile rubbish? These people are so self-centred that it is not funny anymore. US political commentary is an exercise in fatuous commentary made by pig-ignorant pundits who have a minimal grasp of the subjects on which they offer comments (I would not give them any credit by calling it opinion. An opinion require some knowledge in depth about the subject.)

>UPDATE: Just to be clear, not everyone hates Chris Matthews

Names please.

The only person I can think of is Tom DeLay and isn't he serving time in jail already.

I hate Matthews and Russert and I don't like you very much.

Hello everyone,

I'd like to point out a basic fact that I think we're all forgetting....

my cunt is a total cunt.

most men want cunt

therefore calling MaryM a cunt is only playing into her hands (cunt).

Note that Wankette felt compelled to add a Matthews-licking update to assure everyone (but especially Tweety) that she isn't one of his legion of haters. Wanky just doesn't want to be dropped from the roster of frequent bloviators on The Tweety Show, even if she has to put up with Mrs. Greenspan as host instead of the drooling freak who usually does the honors. Heaven forfend her unintentional honesty about Tweety's status as Washington hate-object prevent her from getting more face time on his stultifying weekly blab fest.

This trial is better than Page Six!

http://patrickjfitzgerald.blogspot.com

I very much like Matthews, don't like Russert - can't we go back to when a panel of journalists asked guests questions on MTP? the Timmy show is tiring.

This isn't what Maitlin said.Cheney hates Matthew's,that's why the plan was to go on MTP not Hardball.Matthew's would have pushed Cheney,"He wants to know it all"as Maitlin said.

Looks like Timmy Russert is Cheney's sock puppet!

Matthews has been an almost solitary mainstream media voice against the madness in Iraq since 2002. When Karl Rove called him declaring Plame "fair game", Matthews immediately called Ambassador Wilson with the heads up (unlike others). And his determined pushing on the SOTU Niger questions is what pushed the administration into going nuclear thereby giving us the Libby trial today.

For me, that cuts him a lot of slack on other things where I disagree, like his Clintons hangup for example. Many of those bashing him have that hangup also.
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The possessive of Matthews is Matthews' not Matthew's.

Something that is Matthew's is something owned by someone named Matthew not Matthews.

Rather, that should be Matthews's not Matthews' (unless you're talking about more than one of them).

A capital U.S. ship is going to the bottom in the Persian Gulf very soon and Iran will be blamed. So much expensive and fruity evidence will be carefully displayed by Condi. That's the only way we can get the Congress to declare world war and vindicate G.W.B. We will of course need the capable assistance of Israel. Merry Christmas.

I loath Matthews too, and have been astounded that almost 100% of his focus lately has been on Hillary and Obama.

There's no subject so far afield that the conversation can't be brought back to Hillary and her shortcomings...

If media stalking were illegal, Chris would be in for hard time!

Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, Mike Barnicle, and Jack Welch all go to Nantucket in the summer and all four of them and their families are despised by the people who have been summering their for generations. The local people hate them and find them obnoxious and rude. Please do all of us a favor who truly love our little island, move to the Hamptons where you will be right at home with the other phonies of the world.

Mary Matalin and James Carville are best friends with Timmeh and his hideous wife Maureen Orth. They all deserve each other.

The only one who is so in awe of these clowns are themselves. Asshats all.

The origins of Russert's dislike is as obvious as it is ancient-it is the relationship between vertebrate predators like Matthews and invertebrate prey like Russert. Birds have always eaten worms and I can understand why the worms would feel some resentment.

Bob Somerby nails the GE media whores.

BTW, notice Mike Barnicle who is a regular on MSNBC is never asked to explain his numerous ethical violations which caused him to be fired from his previous jobs.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/

"Let’s face it; Jack Welch knew a live one when he saw Matthews! Years back, he went out and hired this visible crackpot, this guy who can make Archie Bunker seem mainstream."

It's about time Russert was exposed as the GOP tool he is, whether that's intentional on his part or if he's easily manipulated- who knows, who cares. MTP is as irrelevent as FAUX News.

Mathews has his moments when he seems to have done his homework, but can be so easily derailed. His obsession with Clinton's dick is his achilese heel. He can't seem to get past his sophmoric penile-envy. And geeze is he afraid of a female Pres! I've never seen a "profesional" come so unglued! He starts spitting and stuttrering all over himself when the subject of Hillary comes up. LOL

QuentinCompson wrote:
"Matthews has been an almost solitary mainstream media voice against the madness in Iraq since 2002. "

This is totally false. While Matthews, as a policy wonk, has been fascinated by the process by which Joe Wilson came to go to Niger, he himself was a cheerleader leading up to the war.

As I noted above, while he's spent the past year trying to rehabilitate his image on the subject (telling Don Imus he was "against this BS war from the beginning), in reality after the fall of Baghdad he stated, "today we are all Neo-cons" and later said, "I wonder how foolish all those liberal and leftie pundits who predicted the war would be a disaster must feel about now?"

There WERE two courageous voices at MSNBC in the early days of the war, Peter Arnett and Ashleigh Banfield, and both were fired by MSNBC for their temerity in implying there would be more to the process than toppling a statue of Sadaam.

They were the sole media voices in this country to point out that the US military was dispersing information that news agencies abroad had proven was dishonest. After Jessica Lynch and Pat Tilman, even CNN was forced to wake up.

Fact: The night the invasion of Iraq began, Wolf Blitzer breathlessly parroted the Pentagon's claim that the Iraqi state radio station had been jammed by US forces and was no longer on the air.

Wolf was giddy at our technical abilities. Anything the Pentagon issued, Wolf reported as fact.

At the same time, when the BBC received the same report, their correspondent in Baghdad did an unusual thing (by US standards). He actually remembered what good journalism is all about.

He got out his radio and turned it on to check, and there was the Iraqi radio station broadcasting as usual.

Arnett and Banfield used their heads, remembered what journalism is all about, and were shitcanned by MSNBC for not being Pentagon propagandists.

As Olbermann's ratings grew, he too found the courage to speak truth to power.

But, don't even imply Matthews has ever shown such courage. He jumped on the bandwagon only when he realized he had been too preoccupied being snarky to the Left that opposed the war, and joined the masses only when it was safe enough to do so.

Chris Matthews, no profile in courage.

Filmex is correct, and does us all a service, to point out Matthews' strong initial support of the war -- which is easy to forget. Matthews' current position appears to be principled (Matthews often highlights the fact that history shows all occupiers to be hated and strongly resisted, complaining that the neocons have ignored the clear lessons of history) but it is wholly (and obviously)inconsistent with the principle behind the 'we are all neocons now' comment. His current position is simply based on the inept execution of the war rather than the principle of the thing. If the war had gone smoothly he would be a supporter of unprovoked invasion of another country and we would be hearing nothing about the lessons of history for occupiers. Matthews can be insighful and interesting about politics but as far as substance goes there is a lot of hypocrisy there.

Oops..sorry, I thought I was on an intelligent site that had commentators that used good english and no foul words. I'll go "discuss" important things with folks that have brains.

RF, Filmex is incorrect, and if you read the record fairly I think you will temper your view. Check Matthews from 2002 and 2003 before the war:

September 1, 2002
... I remember Sen. Ed Muskie the night he won his last election back in 1976. He'd had some vodka, which I sensed he'd drunk fast -- like a Russian against the winter. He said:

"The only reason to be in politics is to be out there all alone and then be proven right."

That goes for good columnists, too.

So I'll say it: I hate this war that's coming in Iraq. I don't think we'll be proud of it. Oppose this war because it will create a millennium of hatred and the suicidal terrorism that comes with it. You talk about Bush trying to avenge his father. What about the tens of millions of Arab sons who will want to finish a fight we start next spring in Baghdad?

Well, that's it for now. You know where I stand.

February 14, 2003
... And then what? On to Iran, on to Syria? If you talk to the conservatives who come on my show, they want to squeeze Iran and Syria, maybe Lebanon too. And I don't know how much of this is the president's policy himself. You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East. I mean, they contend we're going to be received as liberators, not aggressors or colonizers. Well, how do they know? I mean, somebody honest like Ken Pollack will say, "You know, we don't really know." We're taking on a billion people. A battle for Baghdad could ignite a war with Islam. I think people in the Muslim world are going to see this as the Second Crusades. Every geography book in the world is going to say "American-occupied Iraq" over the map of Iraq. That's going to be the most glaring indignity the Arabs have ever faced. Every school in the Arab world will be a madrass school. ...

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida. Why don't we just go set up the card tables ourselves, right now? Sign them up to commit suicide. And you never hear anybody talking about this. It would be helpful if there were someone telling the president, well, yes, there is this danger from Iraq, but there's almost a certitude of inflaming the world against us if we intervene.

For a few weeks during the initial '03 invasion, Matthews, like some other war critics, held back the bashing and, I agree, even cheerled for a bit. For me, that is understandable since I, too, piped down somewhat until we were in Baghdad. I think that was simply good form, and his returning to critical mode was not really hypocritical. I do not know a more qualified and trenchant detractor of Bush's Folly than Wesley Clark, and even he saluted the flag in articles and appearances during Operation Cobra II.
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I guess everybody must be a "regular" on ana marie's page. Where do you get these nicknames for tim and chris? I watch MTP and Hardball regularly and I think I'm disappointed they are not the good guys I thought they were.

Matthews was more than a temporary cheerleader. Maybe it was because of his guilt for having voted for Bush in 2000, which he admitted on air. Maybe it was because of his comment before the invasion, "if Bush succeeds in bringing democracy to Iraq, he deserves to be on Mount Rushmore".

Matthews has derived a huge portion of his income over the past five years by doing speaking engagements for conservative trade groups such as the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference, the Log Cabin Republicans' National Convention, the National Venture Capitalists Association, the Mortgage Bankers Association, the Credit Union National Association and more, where fees run between $5-50 grand a pop.

No records have been turned up indicating that Matthews has spoken before any Democratic-leaning organizations. You don't get asked to speak to conservatives because you're known as a Bush basher.

This is the same Chris Matthews that "reviewed" 'Good Night and Good Luck' by making a stirring defense of Joe McCarthy. The same Chris Matthews who speculated (without reason) that perhaps "liberals or gays" were behind the spate of church burnings down South a while back.

The same Chris Matthews who stated in 2005, that President Bush sometimes "glimmers" with a "kind of sunny nobility."

The same Chris Matthews that Media Matters,after documenting dozens of examples of Matthews proffering conservative misinformation on Hardball, crowned him "Misinformer of the Year" -- succeeding Bill O'Reilly.

The same Chris Matthews that said in 2005 that "Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left".

The same Chris Matthews who likened Michael Moore to Osama Bin Laden.

The same Chris Matthews that referred to Bush's Nov. 30, 2005 speech at the Naval Academy as "brilliant" (twice), while deriding Democratic critics of the Iraq war as "carpers and complainers."

One could go on and on...

Please fix Matthew'ses. It is Matthews and Matthews's or simply Matthews'.

Thanks

Call them GE rentboys or Republican shills if you will, but Matthews and Russert, in my mind, will forever be, Reagan Democrats.

Chris Matthews is dead to me. One Hillary put down too many made me realize how ill the man is.

He and Russert + O'Reilly are very destructive people. Russert promoted Bush into the White House; and who did not know that?

im so happy to see that others recognize matthews obsession with the clintons...something in his past..perhaps his father ignored him...he keeps dissing hillary and cant stop drooling over rudy..his hero...poor chris

We are living inside the matrix.The money men control the machines.Chris and Tim are just one of the many gate keepers.Disconnect the tv and go outside.Yes,outside and don't be afraid.You will be surprised at the world outside the matrix.

Ahh.I see you can't do it.It so hard.This box has been in front of your face since.....well for ever

Who knows why someone hates someone else especially in the fantastically competitive news broadcast journalistic media where everyone is jealous of everybody else because they fear maybe just maybe they are not as good as the other guy.

I for one like them both. They do different things. I love Hardball and envy Chris Matthews's ability for hard-hitting fast-paced questions. He takes politicians and others to the mat and verbally forces them to respond to his questions.

Russert is a different type of journalist perhaps not as hard hitting as I would like. Nonetheless both are good. They wouldn't be where they are if they weren't. If Russert is indeed in Cheney's hip pocket then shame on him. So far I don't think I have seen much evidence of that. Until I do, I will watch them both!

i bet big russ would be so proud. maybe that idiot should be spending more time preparing for meet the press and less time making money off his dead dad

I used to respect "Meet the Press". Now that I know Cheney is Russert's free pass, I'll never watch again.

Here is a dialogue that gives us every reason to dislike, if not hate, Matthews and his cronies:

Mr. BROOKS: Yeah, to win the general so I don't think the party needs to do that. Second, I've heard no evidence that Al Gore wants to run for office, and unless there's a sharp increase in sales of Slim-Fast...

MATTHEWS: That's what I say. That's what I say. Can a black man win the presidency? Can a woman win the presidency? Can a fat white man win the presidency is the other question.

Mr. BROOKS: I'm not one to talk, of course.

MATTHEWS: You're not overweight, not compared to him.

Mr. BROOKS: And finally, you know, they've got stars running for office. They've got three real stars.

MATTHEWS: OK. If we see a plummeting in the scales of Al Gore this summer, a super Slim-Fast diet, does that say this guy's getting back in there?

Mr. FINEMAN: It will be front-page news. Al Gore buys a package of Slim-Fast. But, you know, I don't know...

MATTHEWS: Norah, what do you think? Are we going to watch the scales here to see how it's going?

Ms. O'DONNELL: I think that's unfair. But I think...

MATTHEWS: There's always somebody to put me in the position of bad guy. I'm going for the white guy. You're talking about the black guy.

Chris Matthews is fearful of powerful women and treats them with no respect. All his female guests are nothing but a nuisance to him. If they are rep they have a better chance. Seemed so ironic that he was a judge at Miss America. He was the only man in America that thought Katherine Harris was a beauty and they picked HIM to judge??? He slams Hillary one more time and I'm gone....

We've now reached a point where to be an informed individual one must first seek to NOT be mis-informed and to do that, one cannot, under any circumstances watch either the cable or broadcast news outlets. Also, I gave up on these idiots after their performance prior to the war but have been watching again recently. How long has Matthews been coughing a drooling like he has lately? Methinks he might not be around much longer.

Chris is also in love with Sharpton,as he said the other night,he must have forgotten how Sharpton destroyed a man here in New York over Tawana and it was all a lie. Chris has him on about once a week because he is so articulate and smart. He has got to be kidding,he is a con man. Look Sharpton up in back papers here in New York. He is just jelious of the Clintons because he is a so call reporter and they made it big and that is also his problem with Gore.

Russert is Cheney's 'buttboy'. Is Matthews jealous of That?

Hmmm

MSM whores having a cat fight is as funny and as petty as it gets.

The pot calling the kettle black: That's NEWS!

Pat is right about Chris' fetish for Al Sharpton. We've often thought because Matthews is so contemptuous of the Left, he has Sharpton on as the most regularly scheduled guest representing the Left in order to discredit them.

Every liberal I know detests Sharpton because he did lose all standing with the Tawana Brawley fiasco, in which he ultimately was sued and lost. Long after it was obvious to all he had jumped on the wrong bandwagon, he remained as stubborn as Bush in admitting his fault.

You can't believe Falwell and Robertson are clowns for their past history of idiocy and claim Sharpton is exempt.

Jude is also right about Matthews contempt for powerful women. Whenever he has multiple guests on, he asks the women for responses about 1/4 of the time he asks men questions. And even then, after they've waited seven minutes to talk, he'll cut them off more often than not by interrupting to ask a man another question.

That's why when he could have Katrina vanden Heuvel on regularly to represent the liberal point of view, he's too intimidated by her, she's too smart, she represents far too well, which is why he always goes to the Sharpton selection.

He pretends he is being balanced while he knows perfectly well Sharpton devalues the liberal cause, which serves his own contempt for liberalism.

He certainly made a fool of himself tonite...spent first half hour about who and why Hillary said about going into the war or whatever. Then he showed no respect at all with Ann Lewis , just kept making jokes about Bill Clinton behaving himself and she was trying so hard to be serious. When Kareem came on he was so serious and was fully captivated. Go figure!! oh yes I noticed the drool on his chin and his weird eyebrows when he was in Vegas.
He is so disgusting and wish we could do something about this female problem.Yes he is terrible when Katrina is on and I can't figure why she keeps coming back for more

Everything said here about Matthews is true.He was a major supporter of the Iraq war.In fact he drove Phil Donahue of the air while doing so.He looked like an absolute fool the other night when he could not get ANY of his guests in 2 different segments to agree with his silly notion that the Hillary "evil men" joke was a bad idea. All of his guests felt,properly,that she handled it beautifully.He hates the Clintons because they are what he always wanted to be.He wanted to be a big-time politician but the Clintons beat him to it. They're all of the same generation and he's so bitter, he keeps asking himself: why them and not him.Maybe he's angry because he applied for and didn't get the White House press secretary's job that ultimately went to Joe Lockhart.Did he really believe that the Clintons would hire him after he spent the previous six months trashing them.It is true he does not allow female guests to speak.Why does he have them. He interviewed the new Senator Claire Mckaskill right after she was declared the winner in Missouri and she barely got a word in edgewise.He would ask a question and she would get 2 words out and he would interrupt with another question.It was appalling.I cannot imagine what the transcripts looked like. I too noticed his long drool the other day. It was an embarrasment.

Russert likes softball, and Matthews plays hardball. Is that why Russert hates Matthews?

Because Russert can't pitch hardballs at the establishment?

I've been a fan of Matthews for a long time until this past year. As Hillary got closer and closer to announcing her presidential candidacy his deep rooted misogyny emerged front and center and he has become a caricature of himself. He was right regarding his recent comment about Darryl Hammond making him look better. This guy not only hates women he is terrified of them. After Hillary won her second term as senator and made her victory speech all he could do was comment on her yellow pantsuit saying that she looked like a school bus. He certainly reached new levels (depths?) of professional journalism. On the Saturday morning that she announced her presidential candidacy via a web posting all he could do was bash her from all angles when he was on the phone with Andrea Mitchell. Several days later when he was on camera he changed his point of view by saying that it was brilliant. What a schmuck. Yeah, the spittle was forming on the inside of my tv screen when he was broadcasting from Las Vegas. Wow. What a badge of honor to be hosting the Miss America contest.

Following the Libby trial, with every new detail being reveeled, convinces me that the next trial of a wider variety of "players", should be a RICO action. It's becomming clear that everyone involved participated in the ongoing coverup. They conspired to prevent the truth from seeing the light of day for thier own self economic interets. Tim Russert gave Chaney an unchallenged platform to spread his prewar lies concerning Iraq's WMD and tighs with terrorists. While on the show, he qoutes an article by Judith Miller just planted by Libby giving more false evidence of Iraq's WMD programs. The lies the Bush Administration is spreading via these self serving, so called journalists, whose ratings increase with every Cheney lying appearence has just been debunked by the intelligence agencies and Administration ignores the truth. The media companies line thier pockets with ad revenue and Chaney get's closer to his prize of war. He knows that if the public thinks that Saddam is responsible for 911 and they think they need to worry about mushroom clouds over Cincinnati, he will be one step closer to the billions of US treasury he can loot through lucritive war contracts. The neat part of his plan when war is declared, is Donny will send a minimal force. Just enough to easily hold thier position as the plan for total chaos forments. Chaney knows that if we can get all the different factions warring with us and each other, the gravy train could go on foreverm it was all anylyzed back in 1991. He might not only be able to loot a few billion, but he may be able to engineer a situation where he can loot it all. Because a small amount of real soldiers will be sent, and changes made to the military requiring outsourced contractors for support, he knows that we will end up with a contractor force of about 100,000 strong, that the monthly bill will be eye popping.

I watched matthews attempts to get anne lewis to say "bill will behave"...anne should have answered..bills' doing better than rudy, john and newt etc etc and add the long list of men who strayed ..i think this clinton bashing ..re hashing will only help hillary..i remember that debate when her opponent (whats his name?)rushed over to her podium and tried to get her to sign something...he looked like a bully and women united and helped her get elected

Little Russ hates Tweety? Tweety does let his mouth outrun his brain--saying Shit on the air the other nite (oopsie), admitting he voted for Bush once, etc. And he makes SO MUCH of these offhand comments--like Obama is clean in thought, word, and deed or whatever Biden tried to say. News cycle after news cycle. But Little Russ is equally tiresome--his constant harping on his very typical 50s Dad (who comes off as crabby), etc. Now, Olbermann--that's new blood! He could let up on the Fox feud, though--it's been said and is getting old.

surprise surprise surprise! russert is bushco's bitch and matthews envys slick willie's willie; who knew? anyone with an i.q. 4 points above ambient room temp. russert and matthews should be hogtied to each other in hell for helping an administration to

start and sustain an irrational and immoral war,

ravage the planet past the point of any return,

screw all of the peasants out of a decent life and healthcare,

cheat the less affluent boomers (a burgeoining group) out of any hope of retirement, and

other crimes against humanity too numerous to mention.

they have disgraced the fourth estate the both of them. they should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but wait, that would be masochism -- they ARE the comfortable.

those two hypocritical peckerwoods live cushy lives and want the republicans to stay in office so they don't have to pay their fair share in taxes. who says just congress is for sale? they can both go to hell.

Do you all think matthews would read these blogs??? Pretty hard on his ego !! C'mon chris give us a hint or a sign. Think he can type as fast as he talks?

Jude-Tweey said on his show (before I quit watching) that he "googled" himself every day. He is a low rent phony who has no breeding or class--but a $5 million dollar plus contract that he signed last year for 5 more years with NBC.

He may have money and a HUGE MOTORMOUTH, but he is trash.

I say to all of them, "He's Keith Olbermann and you're not." Choke on that.

Chris Matthews is fearful of powerful women and treats them with no respect. All his female guests are nothing but a nuisance to him.

However, he thinks Anne Coulter "is great." Of course, he can go on for days about Hillary uttering the word "plantation" or her "joke" and the like.

as fascinated as i am by the interesting matthews-russert back-and-forth, i keep wondering the same thing: How did Ana Marie Cox go from bossomy blogosphere celebutante to soggy-looking pundette-hack-skank so damn quickly?

such boring shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

who gives a dame anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

such borig shit?

Chris Matthews is the best newsman on the air, bar none. Too bad so many right wing nut jobs posting here~!!

How Liberal does a network have to be?
So liberal that they give a show to a draft dodging, Tip O'Neill loving, hate spewing, elitist front man for the Dems. Chris just can't get over the facg that Saddam had to go. Well guess what, the current leaders in Iran will have to go as well. Get ready for Chris to squeal like a pig.

Chris Matthew's is gorgeous. He's married to a wonderful and smart woman. Every girl wants to sleep with him. He's the ideal man..incredibly smart, genuinely funny, speaks his mind..and guess what..really tall!

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