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- tryclarity, on 10/12/2007, -22/+46Eh. Matthews sticks his finger in the wind and tries being all things to all people far too often for my tastes. He can verbally fellate Tom DeLay one moment, then say something like this the next. He's the embodiment of the kiss-ass inside the beltway 'journalist'.
- tryclarity, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27MediaMatters does a fairly decent job catching Matthews at that thing he does - which should not be confused for 'journalism'.
http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=chris+matthews
He's a mediawhore wannabe opinion-maker and that's all he is.
Having said that, what he now says about the Iraq War is correct, of course. - LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -17/+33leobaby
Chris Matthews is just another republican chasing polls to get better ratings...
Are you high? - jav1231, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18"Chris Matthews is just another republican chasing polls to get better ratings..."
You really don't know who Chris Matthews is, do you!? - CharlieInCO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Children, please. I hate to crush your little dreams, but Chris Matthews is a hard-core Massachusetts Party Democrat. He was Tip O'Neill's Chief of Staff:
"Prior to that, Matthews spent 15 years in politics and government, working in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a Presidential speechwriter and on the President’s Reorganization Project, in the U.S. Senate for five years on the staffs of Senator Frank Moss (Utah) and Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine), and as the top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. for six years."
That's from Matthews' MSNBC bio. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080432/
Contrary to popular belief, "not as far left as I am" does not equal "Republican." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17Is more moderate than anything, with some Rep leanings. However its a shame in this country that moderate logical thinkers are looked down on because they don't think in terms of Us and Them and left and right.
- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Did Diggers come up with WMD's or the 9/11 iraq link?
Damn they're smart! - FlaG8r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Matthews saying that he has spoken out against this war from the beginning is flat-out verifiable *****. I was a regular Matthews viewer in 2003 and he did NOT speak out against the Iraq war.
- youareretarded, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@elebrio
Being against the war doesn't mean you are liberal you ***** tool! - naponx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7exactly ... they just presented the primary GW mentality. Against the War = Unpatriotic
- Flump5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6you should care. its the truth.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I don't think anyone can argue with what is being said, so the argument then moves on to the motive of who's saying it.
Regardless of what side of the fence you are on, it's pretty apparent that this war has been a complete mess on all fronts except perhaps for those who have gained from this misery. - TubaTechno, on 10/12/2007, -14/+20With as much left bias has ThinkProgress has, its very surprising that the Democrats still use it....considering how much they hate the right wing bias on Fox News...
- wundie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5“You can please some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time”
Or, my take on it…
Agree with everyone, end up with no one. - chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -14/+18Hey Chris, how about continuing to cover the Plame story, which you did for 2 years, after the facts no longer support your hopes and wishes that it was some combination of Rove/Cheney/Bush that was responsible.
***** hypocrite. - ShiN3R, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's all just politics as usual. The left blames the right, the right blames the left, and whoever is in charge at the time never looks good. The media spins stories to get good ratings, we believe the media blindly, we vote what we believe, then when the opposite party wins, they already start to lose because any bad news sells. Then they lose, and the cycle starts over. Isn't it great!
- youareretarded, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'm sure had he known and all the other people that voted for the war had known that the intelligence they received was faulty, none of them would have been for it.
- brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Wait, now I think you might actually just be a robot. You've look for a key word or phrase, in this case "thinkprogress" and then make a predetermined comment.
You've made this same pointless inflammatory comment on previous items. - GoodBrain, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10snipehack: Matthews writing speeches for Carter doesn't mean much of anything. Clinton hired a republican speechwriter. Plus, how long ago did Matthews write for Carter? 30 years ago? People's politics can change a lot in 30 years.
Take for example, the neocons. Many of whom were originally far-left Trotskites before swinging sharply right (they are still Authoritarian ***** though). (BTW, Wofowitz and Abrahms both worked for a Democratic Senator, once upon a time). - allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5leobaby --
I have many republican/conservative friends, but that doesn't make me republican/conservative.
I like Chris Matthews because he seems like a reasonable humanist rather than a cult/party member. He asks good questions that don't seem to have partisanship to them.
That's it. Reasonable. In my opinion. - takehiro12, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I like Chris Matthews but 'Hardball' it's not. He asks some really idiotic questions that make me want to throw something at the TV. Norah O'Donnell should have his job permanently. She's always on the ball and asks tough, smart questions. Plus she's a hell of a lot cuter than Matthews.
- deanmeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Mathews is just another left leaning MSM ex-Clintonite who hates Bush and has "Bush derangement syndrome." I don't mind both sides having opinions, but he tries to hide his disdain for this administration. I do admire that he is starting to show his true colors now.
- ryansasteroid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It amazes me that people still get bent out of shape upon learning that journalists have opinions and biases. People research and present the news. People have opinions and biases. These debates over who is biased is inane. Just make sure to get your news from more than one source.
- allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4naponx --
You are exactly right. I don't give a rat's tiddly-ass about AnnaNicole Smith or JeanBenet Ramsey or who is cheating on whom or who is blowing whom when I have family and friends being slaughtered in this stupid war that is unjustified by my standards.
Both the Bush Regime and the sensationalist media are to blame for polarizing the country. I'm embarrassed to be an American at times like this. - catfish182, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just keep this in mind. ALL sites are opinion based. There is little to no way to just tell facts.
The person that is writing it will write it as that person sees it.
So you ether want to know what the person is thinking so you can get news that interests you OR live in a dream world thinking that there is anything out there reporting any news that is "fair and balanced"
Knowing what Matthews views are is a important thing.
I know what Olbermann thinks so i like him. - cmw72, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6You people don't watch Hardball do you?
Matthews job is to call people on thier *****. That's why it's called Hardball. Half the time he's playing devil's advocate to whomever is on his panel. It's called being a good moderator. He tries to get politicians to actually take a stand, not make some half-assed comment they can weasel out of later on when the polls change.
Sure ... the dude has his own opinions, but he is neither a tool for the Right or the Left. He's kinda conservative, but not in a hawkish sort of way. He used to be a speech-writer for Jimmy Carter (who was also pretty conservative, for a Democrat). - allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was happy to see the statue come down, and thought at least the Iraqis would have a great opportunity coming out of oppression. That was the high point of the whole thing; now it's gone down the toilet, with the worst commanding decisions being made by the brass and the commando-in-chief.
It's sad and tragic. There's not much hope for those people now. Or for us. - jlowe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well, at least we can trust mainstream television media as having no bias except for Fox news.
Oh, wait... - dootisterhans, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11I'm going to be Ghouliani for Halloween
- steinbeckgirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@lastvisibledog please post all positive Republican links then. "Digg Democrats?" Most people I know are moderates. Just because YOU don't understand that doesn't mean you have to label people. Your true colors/common sense is shining through
- krewemaynard, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6People still watch Chris Matthews?
- youareretarded, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm sorry you have better hindsight than everyone else.
- allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2FlaG8r --
Chris Matthews said, "Every column I have written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it."
Although he did say he was a "voice" against the war, but apparently he meant through his columns. - chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -10/+11No, don't you see, ThinkProgress is "mainstream." LOL
- elebrio, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7but its too complicated now.... ;P
- forseti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I seem to remember Mathews saying he'd come around to the war after seeing footage of cheering Iraqis after the fall of Saddam's regime. I think it was on Jay Leno, just after the Saddam statue came down in Baghdad.
- steinbeckgirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@catfish182. I believe those type of people are called egocentrist
- xpaladin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Internets.™ Serious Business.
- appidydafoo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Like rats from a sinking ship, they flee from the bows of the once championed Bush cabinet... GG, you spineless *****! Someone fire this assclown!
- appidydafoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Funny, because in my world a spineless ***** is a spineless ***** no matter which side of the fence you throw it on.
- SwordofKahless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree with you about Mathews but Norah who is sometimes his sidekick seems to lean the same politically with perhaps more of a liberal marxist slant rather than being an unbiased commentator.
I thought MSNBC could not be any worse with Mathews but she pisses me off more than Mathews. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Poor ole "Chrissy". . . still having a "Hissy".
Once a rectum, always a rectum! - cyclescott, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Wow, what a bold thing to say for a guy who had no hand it any decision regarding the war. Next he'll say he was "totally against" Nazi Germany since day one.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Doesn't matter. Speaking as a Republican, McCain doesn't have a chance. The only reason he won a couple primaries in 2000 was because Democrats were crossing parties to vote for McCain. They were doing this because they knew Gore couldn't beat Bush but he could beat McCain.
McCain has angered WAY too many of the Republican base to ever win Republican nomination, and if he changes parties to Democrat he'll get the same treatment the racist liberals gave to Leiberman, because McCain voted for the war.
In short, there is no way McCain is going to be president and Mathews knows it. He only strokes McCain for the same reason other liberals in the media do so. Because he causes trouble in the Republican party. The minute McCain is no longer useful, the media will treat him the same way they did Senator Packwood.
McCain is a fool for thinking the media loves him for any other reason than he is their pawn. - LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0dshPls
Did Diggers come up with WMD's
No, that was Bill Clinton.
Remember on the day of Clinton's impeachment he bombed Iraq - all the Democrats went on record about Iraq's WMD (to cover for Billy-Joe-Bob Clinton). This was three years before Bush was president. - omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2If only Matthews had been this outspoken when the war was gearing up – when it mattered. But he was probably too afraid of losing his job.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3"chris mathews:dumb liberals::bill o'reilly:dumb conservatives"
I heeeeard that. Is it any wonder why people get sick of both sides? - LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0appidydafoo
"Like rats from a sinking ship, they flee from the bows of the once championed Bush cabinet."
That is a very stupid statement - clearly you have no idea what you are talking about. - jlowe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Wow, you are a complete idiot.
- SwordofKahless, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Mathews, formerly of the Carter administration has proved himself time and time again as partisan hack for his party or political candidates of his choice rather than being an unbiased commentator. It is pathetic that NBC continues to provide him such a platform.
Despite being a liberal Democrat, Mathews is a huge John McCain fan. Expect him to defend and push McCain for the 2008 Republican primary as he pushed for Kerry for the Dems. Once the nomination is made I expect he will push for whoever the Democratic candidate will be. -
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