Posted on 07/10/2010 3:38:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Chris Matthews on Friday called George W. Bush and Sarah Palin know-nothings.
Chatting with California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown on "Hardball," the MSNBC host also called the Republican candidate for governor in that state Meg Whitman a know-nothing.
"What is it in the American psyche or character that says, if you don`t know anything, you`re somehow an average person or average guy and you have horse sense?" asked Matthews.
"What is it about people that keep picking people like George W. Bush to be president? And you see these people like Sarah Palin out there with fans."
It seems in Matthews' view, governing Texas, Alaska, or running one of America's leading Internet companies requires zero intellectual capacity (video follows with transcript and commentary, h/t Weekly Political Review via Twitter's @ndgc12dx):
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Former California governor Jerry Brown is currently the state`s attorney general. Governor Brown, it`s great to have you on. I just want to ask you, do you think the last seven years have been good for California with Schwarzenegger? Here`s a business guy and movie star, a business guy, who said, I can take business sense, like Meg Whitman, and make government work. It hasn`t -- well, has it worked? I`ll leave it as an open question. Has he been a net plus or a net negative?
JERRY BROWN (D-CA), ATTORNEY GENERAL, FMR. GOV., CANDIDATE FOR GOV.: Well, certainly in terms of the budget, blowing up the boxes, reorganizing government, it hasn`t. Now, Arnold Schwarzenegger has pioneered the environment and climate change legislation that is really path-breaking, so I give him full credit for that.
But in terms of the crisis we`re in now, the idea that not knowing anything, not even caring enough to vote for 28 years, gives you the equipment, the skill, to wrestle those 120 legislators to the ground, get them on your team and deal with this deepening crisis -- I doubt that. And if these surveys are any indication, Ms. Whitman has hit a wall for the last -- probably since March, not moved forward. And I think we`re in a very strong position to win the confidence of the people and get down to brass tacks here of solving the problem.
MATTHEWS: What is it in the American psyche or character that says, if you don`t know anything, you`re somehow an average person or average guy and you have horse sense? What is it about people that keep picking people like George W. Bush to be president? And you see these people like Sarah Palin out there with fans. Why would anybody like somebody who the campaign manager for John McCain said, "She doesn`t know anything?" Why is not knowing anything -- why does the know-nothing candidate, like Meg Whitman, a person who doesn`t have any government experience, have the appeal to be even with you in the polls? The know -- the person that doesn`t know anything about government!
How disgusting.
It's one thing to make such comments about a former President and a former governor, but to similarly disparage the Republican gubernatorial candidate while interviewing her Democrat opponent demonstrates absolutely NO journalistic impartiality by Matthews.
Maybe he should just endorse Brown so that his few viewers would fully understand why he's so hostile to Whitman.
Come to think of it, that's not a bad idea: maybe EVERY MSNBC host should be required to publicly state which candidates they support in November so that those still foolish enough to watch this abomination will be cognizant of the biases at play.
Of course, readers are advised to not hold their breath as this pathetic excuse for a news outlet wants to hide behind a dishonest veil of objectivity.
Yeah right!
Go for it DC, let's see your "better".
Matthews is what the donkey leaves behind.
Because that is what Ted Turner is.
The rest is history..
Let’s face it, Matthews is a fast talking, loud mouth Carnival Barker, and the product of the Media who believe people like him matter. He doesn’t and they don’t either. What is fading faster than media and honest government in this country?
W Bush knew enough to keep unemployment below 5% for most of his presidency... which blows the doors off his tingle up the leg idols performance to date.
You’re way too kind.
George Soros probably has a lot to do keeping the likes of Chris and Keith on the air. Also, I think the guys that still live in their mother’s basement and have access to TV and the internet still watch them.
Everytime he opens his mouth he pisses us off so much it just angers us into supporitng our candidates even more!!
So as far as I am concerned let him keep getting tingled.
I really don’t care what Chrissie says anymore since the only thing he hopes to accomplish with his inflammatory rhetoric is outrage from the right. That is the only thing keeping his boat afloat because that’s the only way he generates any interest at all. Ignore him.
Brilliant post!
Apparently if you aren’t a leftist marxist hack like Matthews you are a “know-nothing.”
True, but Mostly Stupid NBC is actually very necessary.
It lets us keep tabs on the left. We always know what they are up to.
What we have in the WH is the real know-nothing....don’t even have a clue.
Wood has no brains.
Pathetic Mutthews shills for wood. sigh
“”What is it in the American psyche or character that says, if you don`t know anything, you`re somehow an average person or average guy and you have horse sense?””
Does he mean like TV hosts?
Is that the “best” you can do?
Go for it DC, let’s see your “better”.
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Let’s call it even and just agree that Chris Matthews is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
Chrissy is the biggest know nothing there is and totally devoid of common sense. He belongs to an equally snide group of journalists who also rate high on the know - nothing loser scale.
Well, in all fairness, Chrissy is an expert on knowing nothing.
“What is fading faster than media and honest government in this country?”
Could it be jobs?
Chris Matthews - a liberal turd that won’t flush...
All those self-righteous so called journalists (news-reading-persons)have a very high opinion of their own intelligence. But, when put to the test, as one was on Jeopardy, they are epic fail! I’d like to see Chrissy prove just how not smart he is so we could all laugh at him.
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