Matthews: GOP Kept Their 'Crazies in the Closet' But Still Sounded Like N. Korean Commies

Newsbusters.org ^ | 2-26-10 | Geoffrey Dickens

[Justaham]

Chris Matthews, during a special post-health care summit two hour edition of Hardball on Thursday night, dissected the GOP strategy as one of keeping their "crazies" like Michele Bachman and Joe Wilson, "in the closet" and mocked that their "rehearsed" phrases made them sound like a "North Korean assembly" and exclaimed it was "an example of Pyongyang democracy, which is "What the Dear Leader told us to recite."

The following Matthews outbursts were aired during the February 25 edition of Hardball:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: The Republican strategy was "Don't show your ugly faces tonight." Today they kept all the crazies, all the crazies were in the closet. And I will go through the list without calling them necessarily crazies although I think it would apply in some cases. Michele Bachmann was not allowed to show up today. Joe Wilson from South Carolina was not there in evidence. I could go through the list. Eric Cantor was on good behavior today. John Boehner was on pretty good behavior. They weren't showing that angry, kind of truculent look they like to show when they are on C-SPAN.

[Carley]

There is no one in the dem party worthy of being an American. And for the most part, that includes LIEberman.

[American Constitutionalist]

" And just why is this show called ‘Lardball’ in the first place? "

There now, fixed...

[Lazamataz]

Not enough bad stuff can happen to this horrid little piece of smegma.