Not a Joke: Chris Matthews Compares Donald Trump to Johnny Carson

NewsBusters.org ^ | February 24, 2016 | Curtis Houck

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I’m surprised that Matthews would be sober enough to be able to focus on a tv show and actually understand what was being said.

Plus his spittle would cover the screen and make things look out of focus, like his little brain.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

In the year Twenty Sixteen, Trump will be President. In the year Twenty Seventeen, America will be great again.

[Neu Pragmatist]

never ...but we will win ...deal with it

[nitzy]

I am 100% positive, without any shadow of a doubt that Mathews will be as complementary to Trump 6 weeks from now.

[DoughtyOne]

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[Samwell Tarly]

Cancel cable and you’ll get a station that runs Carson re-runs every night. The other night was Eddie Murphy’s first appearance.

It's Antenna TV. Two weeks ago one of the reruns was the very first time that Carson mentioned Ronald Reagan running for president in 1980.

So odd now, looking back on Johnny Carson making his very first jokes about Reagan as president, no way of knowing the greatness that was still to come.

[EDINVA]

that was a gift Reagan had ...talking right over the heads of the media, pundits, et al. and going right thru to the people.

[Luircin]

Wish I had photoshop skills.

I’d slap Trump’s head on Jack Nicholson’s body on one side and Hillary on the other with an axe and a door in between.

HEEEEEEERE’S TRUMPY!

[Tamatoa]

I think what Mathew said was a complement on how well the Trump can connect with the average person. It’s hard to teach someone to master the art of free flow speaking while your mind is traveling at a 1000 miles per second and able to connect everything you said with a statement that sums up how everyone you are speaking too feel and envision at the same time. At the same time fun and entertaining. Why listen to a boring speech.

[Does so]

There is a lot of truth to what Mathews was saying. I have long marveled at Trumps ability to hold an audience armed with nothing but free flowing sentiment, spiced up with jokes or condemnations as per the occasion. Interaction with and acknowledgement of his audience is key.

Occasionally, I hear some Jackie Mason thrown in. (Back when I could understand Jackie Mason's words).

Mason regularly assailed Progressives with logic.

[MUDDOG]

How great would it be if Ed McMahon could’ve been Trump’s VP.

Trump: “Isn’t that right, Ed?”

Ed: “You are correct sir.”