CHRIS MATTHEWS ON MSNBC YESTERDAY – MARK LEVIN CAUSED THE AZ SHOOTING
"E. Steven I have to tell you, I'll mention a couple of names without getting into too many fights.
People like Mark Levin, Michael Savage, for example who every time you listen to them are furious, furious at the left with anger that's just builds and builds in their voice and by the time they go to commercial, they're just in some rage, every night, with ugly talk. Ugly sounding talk. And it never changes. It never modulates. They must have an audience. I looked at the numbers today. They have big audiences! And I guess that's the question. Why and is it ever going to stop if it keeps working?"
CHRIS MATTHEWS SEPTEMBER 2008 – PALIN IS A PITCHFORK SECESSIONIST
"This question of her politics, back in the 90’s she was aligned with Buchannan. She was one of the Buchanan brigades, the pitchfork people she was part of the independence movement that party…you have a guy up there who runs the Alaska Independence party and by the way the word independence is not used the way we normally use independence party, its Alaska wants independence form the US, she was part of a secessionist movement. "
CHRIS MATTHEWS ON HARDBALL FEBRUARY – 100,000 PEOPLE ARE DEAD B/C OF CHENEY
"Well 100,000 people are dead now because he got it wrong about nuclear weapons before…back in 2001. We have to remember that Dick Cheney was wrong in a way that was lethal. 100,000 people dead including 4,000 Americans are dead, something like 15,000 wounded because he was wrong. There was no nuclear weapons in the hands of Saddam Hussein and he said there was."
CHRIS MATTHEWS ON MSNBC OCTOBER 2009 – I WANT TO WATCH RUSH’S HEAD EXPLODE
"You guys see Live and Let Die, the great Bond film with Yaphet Kotto as the bad guy, Mr. Big? In the end they jam a big CO2 pellet in his face and he blew up. I have to tell you, Rush Limbaugh is looking more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come."
CHRIS MATTHEWS ON MSNBC OCTOBER 2009 - RELIGIOUS RIGHT RESEMBLES THE TALIBAN
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Gentlemen, one of the great ironies of American politics is the group in this country
FRANK GAFFNEY, CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY: Your father would be ashamed of you.
RON REAGAN JR: Oh, Frank, you better watch your mouth about that Frank.
MATTHEWS: That's not fair. The group in this country that most resembles the Taliban, ironically, is the religious rightThank you
GAFFNEY: Rubbish
CHRIS MATTHEWS JANUARY 2010 – A VOTE FOR SCOTT BROWN IS ‘PREMEDITATED MURDER FOR HEALTH CARE
"It's that rare election where voters know exactly what they're voting on. If they're with Democrat Martha Coakley they get health care reform. If they go for Republican Scott Brown it's deliberate, premeditated murder for health care"
OBAMA SEPTEMBER 2008 – ‘I WANT YOU TO ARGUE W/ THEM, GET IN THEIR FACE’
"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face"
OBAMA ON AIG BONUSES APRIL 1, 2009 – ‘I THINK PEOPLE ARE RIGHT TO BE ANGRY’
"I don't want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry. I'm angry.What I want us to do, though, is channel our anger in a constructive way."
OBAMA W/ UNIVISION OCTOBER 25, 2010 - TO LATINO VOTERS: PUNISH YOUR ENEMIES
"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us."
OBAMA ON MSNBC W/ RACHEL MADDOW OCTOBER 31, 2008 - GOP HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY BUSH ADMIN
"I think there are a lot of Republican voters out there, self-identified, who actually think that what the Bush administration has done has been damaging to the country...If I can describe it as not a blank indictment of the Rep Party but instead describe it as - the Rep. Party having been kidnapped by a incompetent highly ideological sub set of the Rep Party. "
OBAMA IN THE ROSE GARDEN JULY 27, 2010 – GOP IS HOLDING AMERICANS HOSTAGE TO POLITICS
"We shouldn’t let America’s small businesses be held hostage to partisan politics and certainly not at this critical time"
That’s OK, nobody pays any attention to BSNBC anyway.
I looked at the numbers today. They have big audiences!
You bet they do Chris, and you wish yours were that big, don’t you.
Chris was front and center in the MSNBC studio set up at CES I was sorely tempted to yell something snarkey but I held my tongue.
Captain Schultz and company will never admit that one man’s lie is another man’s weapon.