'Hardball' Accused of Going Soft: GOP Advised to Boycott at Convention

NY Post ^

[GulliverSwift]

August 23, 2004 -- REPUBLICAN insiders are giving cable-TV political host Chris Matthews the cold shoulder — believing that he has gone over to the Kerry camp — according to a published report.

U.S. News and World Report says Matthews protested too sharply about the Bush campaign's editing of an MSNBC "Hardball" interview with Kerry posted on the party's negative site, www.kerryoniraq.com.

As a result, GOP officials are quietly advising Republicans not to go on his show.

" 'Hardball' may seem more like badminton during the Republican National Convention," the magazine quoted one GOP insider as saying.

"Hardball" executive producer Tammy Haddad didn't know her show was being blackballed, she said.

"We beat everybody up," she told the magazine.

[perfect stranger]

She did not misspeak. She clearly said "self-inflicted" nowhere did she mention a "gun" or even say the word "shot".

Matthews is a moron and a shill. Malkin was on his show to talk about her book, not that one. She was being exceedingly professional by all accounts.

Matthews could have had her back for the second part, the part of the show about her book, but his behavior prevented that from happening, not hers.

[Bluntpoint]

Matthews tripped Malking up. But, reading the last line posted below, it does seem she is stating that there are a few veterans who think Kerry shot himself on purpose.


MATTHEWS: You're saying there are -- he shot himself on purpose, that's a criminal act?

MALKIN: I'm saying that I've read the book and some of the...

[crosstalk]


MATTHEWS: I want an answer yes or no, Michelle.

MALKIN: Some of the veterans say...

MATTHEWS: No. No one has every accused him of shooting himself on purpose.

MALKIN: Yes. Some of them say that.

[smonk]

I used to like matthews because he DID seem to steam hammer everyone, and didn't even try to hide his personal disgust for bill clinton in the late 90's. but he has lost it this year, and malkin was the last straw in my book, too. beating up on a girl is just cowardly, even when you are right. and HE was WRONG on the "self-infliction" issue.