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Chris Matthews on Imus This Morning
hughhewitt.townhall.com ^ | July 25, 2006 | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 07/25/2006 10:03:21 PM PDT by Mo1

I confess, I like Chris Matthews. When I have appeared on his show he's always been charming, engaging, and full of energy even as his questioning wandered. His books are pretty good as well.

But Matthews went far off the rails in the course of a bizarre interview on Imus this morning. One excerpt is an example of the entire interview:

I don't know what this guy, the vice president, is. The vice president, you notice how he hides during difficult times? He's in his bunker, he's in his undisclosed location. Where's Cheney in all this? He just fades everytime something happens.

Matthews lays into Joseph Lieberman ('further to the right than the president,") asserts that nobody's vote matters anymore, and engages in what can only be described as one of the longest, most disjointed and simply hysterical rants I have ever heard from a major media figure. Another small bit:

What's the bigger picture? What do we need as a president? And part of it is a president who is more, you know, he needs a better response time, he doesn't come into these issues three, four days late, like Bush does. He's somewhere in the back, or on his ranch. God knows where he is when Katrina hits, or 9/11 even --he was off somehwere. We want a president without a ranch. I'm sorry, you own one. We want someone who's there on the beat. Who seems to be sharper about the issues, and moves quick and comes and speaks before he talks to somebody named Karl Rove or somebody like that.

The transcript and audio will be up at Radioblogger.com later tongiht.

When next the elders of the MSM tribe gather to moan the loss of civility in politics, I hope somebody brings along this tape. The fever swamp of the left is giving off vapors that have spread the contagion very far indeed.

And I haven't even quoted the Matthews commentary on Israel.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Humor; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: chrismatthews; hughhewitt; israel; talkradio; wot
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1 posted on 07/25/2006 10:03:22 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: pinz-n-needlez; onyx; ohioWfan; Texasforever; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; mrs tiggywinkle; Dog; ...

FYI ping - the audio link is up


2 posted on 07/25/2006 10:04:04 PM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: Mo1
Matthews bases his opinion on a President on some weird combination of traits I can't quite get down. If he likes your personality, then he ascribes great significance to meaningless qualities. His babbling above about Bush makes him sound exhausted--what is he talking about? Just a bunch of generalities. When did Clinton or any president ever act on something right away, like in an action movie? His favorite living ex-president is Jimmy Carter, a model of action who waited MONTHS to do something about the hostages in Iran and screwed that up, who spent ages futzing with Congress on details of bills so his is the biggest failure of all the living ex-presidents.

Matthews is People magazine-level political "insight".

3 posted on 07/25/2006 10:08:58 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (http://www.savethesoldiers.com/)
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To: Mo1
"I confess, I like Chris Matthews"

Hugh, Hugh, Hugh, how could you?
Chris Matthews is as mad as a cook. Certifiably insane, and probably drinks like a fish as well.
He has one of the most severe cases of BDS I have ever seen.
Like him?
Like a hole in the head!
4 posted on 07/25/2006 10:12:56 PM PDT by Jameison
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To: Jameison
Chris Matthews is as mad as a cook. Certifiably insane

Hugh pretty much called him nuts with this interview on Imus

5 posted on 07/25/2006 10:14:20 PM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: Mo1
"Hugh pretty much called him nuts with this interview on Imus"

And he's right.
I have watched the veins nearly pop out of Matthews head when he's ranting and spewing out rabid Bush hate.
He just can't be normal.
6 posted on 07/25/2006 10:17:18 PM PDT by Jameison
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To: Mo1
Two burn-outs appear together perhaps there combined energy will draw 60,000 viewers nationwide.
7 posted on 07/25/2006 10:19:35 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: Mo1

BDS claims another victim!


8 posted on 07/25/2006 11:17:52 PM PDT by WOSG
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To: Mo1

Wow. He's hit "Lawrence O'Donnell" on the insane charts.


9 posted on 07/25/2006 11:24:30 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Mo1; YaYa123

YaYa123 happened to be at the keyboard as Matthews went off the rails and I thought she captured the feeling of the "interview" pretty well. Her comments:

"Matthews on Imus:

Oops, Chris Matthews seemed sort of defensive about not being over in the war zone like Tucker Carlson, didn't he? Oooeeyuk! imagining Matthews in shorts! UGH!

Imus asks Matthews what he thinks: Hizzoblah is winning just by fighting, kids in the Arab street are rooting for them, just by fighting they win. 2000 year old war, blah blah, everytime we get involved, they add notches on their guns. Jimmy Carter took Egypt away as an enemy, Yeah, Jimmah!!
You have to wonder if it's our fault Israel has more enemies, Matthews says.

Matthews says Clinton did a pretty good job, you gotta say that, of wearing two hats, but under Bush we've lost our role as power broker. Condi went over there and it's a joke...they know she's a friend of Israel. A real failure of this administrration that we can't play referee.
The only way out of it, "an election". This president is so committed to his right wing position, we won't talk to anyone who disagrees with us, we have more enemies, Israel has more enemies, we aren't going to deal with Sryia or Iran, blah, blah, blah.

Bush didn'nt have a philosophy of his own, so he bought whatever the pencil-necks told him to do after 9-ll. Lord have mercy, Matthews is even going after they way we torture people!! He calls Bush administration "this crowd", he calls the president uneducated on the history of the area.

"Are you going to take a breath Chris?", Imus asked.

Chris Matthews Exposed = Everything is Bush's fault! And he, of course, manages to throw in a Karl Rove mention too.

The problem with Joe Lieberman is if you vote for him, you are voting for the war, says Chris. LORD! even Imus calls Matthews ridiculous. Now Matthews says if Lieberman gets a big turn-out, it will mean people are saying he's a sweet man, not because they support the war. Imus is right, Matthews needs a vacation."

2,531 posted on 07/25/2006 6:57:28 AM CDT by YaYa123


10 posted on 07/26/2006 1:38:10 AM PDT by Bahbah (Beat them into the ground, IDF. G_d bless Israel)
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To: Darkwolf377

Matthews is People magazine-level political "insight".



Don't put down People Magazine. lol.


11 posted on 07/26/2006 1:45:59 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Mo1

The Spitter went off his meds again I see.


12 posted on 07/26/2006 4:00:27 AM PDT by Peach (Prayers for our dear friends in Israel.)
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To: Mo1
Hey Chris,


13 posted on 07/26/2006 4:58:01 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (I am a proud friend of Israel. We're all Jews now.)
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To: Mo1

I was hoping someone covered this. Matthews was practically hyperventilating.


14 posted on 07/26/2006 6:45:49 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Bahbah; YaYa123

"YaYa123 happened to be at the keyboard as Matthews went off the rails and I thought she captured the feeling of the "interview" pretty well. Her comments: "

You're right .. she nailed it pretty well


15 posted on 07/26/2006 7:12:39 AM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Wow. He's hit "Lawrence O'Donnell" on the insane charts

Well .. he didn't scream .. but you're right, it's up there on the charts

16 posted on 07/26/2006 7:30:50 AM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: Mo1
No way can I,or will I,trust anyone who worked for both Carter (a thoroughly loathsome individual) *and* Tip O'Neil (the typical Massachusetts leftist hack politician).
17 posted on 07/26/2006 9:08:30 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Peach
The Spitter went off his meds again I see.

Was he ever on them??

18 posted on 07/26/2006 9:13:28 AM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: Bahbah
Yeah, but he forgot to mention Diebold.
19 posted on 07/26/2006 9:19:07 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (The Right must repudiate Durka-Durka Buchanan Jihad.)
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To: Mo1
he didn't scream

A part of me wish he had.

20 posted on 07/26/2006 12:53:03 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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