Chris Matthews
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Biography from the MSNBC News website of Harball with Chris Matthews at MSNBC.COM
"Matthews spent 15 years in politics and government: he worked in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a Presidential speechwriter and on the Government Reorganization Project, in the U.S. Senate for five years on the staffs of Senator Frank Moss (Utah) and Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine), and was the top aide for Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. for six years."
MSNBC News Biography- Chris Matthews
http://www.msnbc.com/news/330815.asp
Seconds after President George W. Bush completed his speech Thursday evening,
MSNBC's Countdown featured a diatribe from Chris Matthews ridiculing Bush
for picking up, “almost in the way a hermit crab does,” some “scary” notions
from the nefarious “neo-conservatives.”
The condescending Matthews raged:
He was a rich kid driving his father's car. He got
to be President because of his father, let's face it, the same way he
got into school and everything else, the same way he got his car probably.
But the scary thing about Bush is somewhere he came to meet people like
Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby and Paul Wolfowitz and Feith and the rest
of them...
The scary thing about Bush is he picked up on -- almost in the way that a hermit crab does -- another identity in becoming President....He became this new scholar of freedom, and he's going to spend the rest of his life selling this stuff. This stuff cost the lives of 100,000 Iraqis, it cost the lives of 4,000 U.S. service people....
The idea that we have some brand new neo-conservative ideology of freedom that's going to bring peace over in that part of the world is not true, and he's still selling it, and that's the tragedy of the last eight years.
By Brent Baker (Bio | Archive) January 15, 2009 - 20:57
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/01/15/msnbc-follows-bush-bush-bashing-diatribe-matthews
“When I watched him [former President Bill Clinton] at
Mrs. King’s funeral, I just have never seen anything like it....There
are times when he sounds like Jesus in the temple. I mean, amazing ability
to transcend ethnicity — race, we call it, it’s really ethnicity — in
this country and, and speak to us all in this amazingly primordial way.”
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Hardball, February 28, 2007.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor/08/category/adoreclintongore.asp
“He’s come from a white family and a black family, and he’s married to
a black woman, and they’re cool people. They are really cool. They are
Jack and Jackie Kennedy when you see them together. They are cool. And
they’re great-looking, and they’re cool and they’re young, and they’re
— everything seems to be great....He may not win this thing because everybody
in America is not going to be in a room with him somewhere. And it doesn’t
quite -- It worked with you on TV, but I tell you when you’re in the room,
it’s just like one of those things like Hillary Clinton, if you’re in
the room you understand what a likable person she is. If you’re in with
Obama, you feel the spirit. Moving.”
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews talking about Democratic candidate
Barack Obama on NBC’s Tonight Show, January 16, 2008 http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor/08/category/obamathrill.asp
Appearing as a guest on the same network's "Imus in the Morning" show today, Matthews said that the Democratic primary race "sucks" now that Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts has taken the lead over former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. He said Dean was the only candidate with the "balls" to stand up to President Bush and say the Iraq war was "wrong." Meanwhile, Kerry and Sen. John Edwards of South Carolina "hid in the closet on the issue," Matthews steamed on the Imus show in front of a live audience of New Hampshire voters on the eve of their primary election. But Matthews wasn't finished venting. He argued the "frogs were right" to oppose the war, referring to the French government's refusal to join the U.S.-led coalition. He cited resigning U.S. weapons inspector David Kay's latest conclusion that Iraqi stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction – the administration's key reason for going to war – don't exist. Matthews previously had expressed support for the war and been critical of the French position. He also said Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was right when he warned that the invasion and occupation of predominantly Muslim Iraq would "create a hundred (Osama) bin Ladens." "We declared war on Islam, and it was a big mistake," Matthews said of the administration's pre-emptive strike on Iraq.
Chris Matthews: 'The French were right'
Posted: January 26, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36781
