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Chris Matthews: Press should cover Red America as a "Foreign Country".
Hardball | 11/5/04

Posted on 11/05/2004 5:21:26 PM PST by Timeout

Chris Matthews was discussing the "moral values" impact on the election with Jim Van der Hei (WaPo) and Jim ______ (Chicago Tribune). The two Jim's actually seemed to get it...they specifically said it was demeaning to attribute it merely to evangelism, gay marriage and abortion. They agreed that the press does NOT understand heartland America.

Chris had not really agreed with them, simply asked the questions. And then, at the very end of the segment, he said:

"Maybe we have to start covering 'America' as a separate beat...like our foreign correspondents".

Amazing! The entire media elite MISSED the most important issue in an election that had gone on for 2 full years. How? By living in the center of blue country where they rarely interact with church-going "folk". And Chris' solution is that they should start covering a vast swath of the country as if WE are foreigners. Funny, coming from the guy who went in the tank for the French looking candidate.


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To: Timeout

Not a bad idea, as long as the red states get to accredit their journalists and issue them visas.
Prissy Matthews need not apply.


21 posted on 11/05/2004 5:34:14 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: Timeout

But ... it's 90% of the US ...


22 posted on 11/05/2004 5:34:45 PM PST by Mr. Buzzcut
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To: Timeout
"Maybe we have to start covering 'America' as a separate beat...like our foreign correspondents"

Maybe we have to start treating the MSM reporters as foreign agents, agents of a hostile power, enemy agents.

Maybe we need to start treating them as the enemy spies and saboteurs that they are.

And you know what the Geneva Convention says you can do to spys and saboteurs in time of war.

Chris Matthews last words: "I regret that I have but one life to give for my show's ratings."

23 posted on 11/05/2004 5:35:16 PM PST by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Timeout

We lived for a while in the San Francisco Bay area. I remember remarking to my wife, "These people dress like us and speak English just as we do--even using the same idioms. But it's as if they live in an entirely different country." It's true. They're aliens.


24 posted on 11/05/2004 5:35:45 PM PST by madprof98
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To: paudio

The Old Media. I sort of like that.


25 posted on 11/05/2004 5:36:21 PM PST by ladylib
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To: Temple Owl
Chrissie's brother is a Full Blow Repub in PA. I'll bet that's a Family dinner that never happens.
27 posted on 11/05/2004 5:38:11 PM PST by tubebender (If I had know I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself...)
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To: Timeout

Chris Mathews was interviewing Senator elect Thune over the phone and was aghast at Thune mentioning he was going pheasant hunting! wanted to know if he killed the birds and ate them.


28 posted on 11/05/2004 5:38:33 PM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: madprof98
We lived for a while in the San Francisco Bay area. I remember remarking to my wife, "These people dress like us and speak English just as we do--even using the same idioms. But it's as if they live in an entirely different country." It's true. They're aliens.

Powerful...and true

thx madprof98

weenie

29 posted on 11/05/2004 5:38:33 PM PST by weenie
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To: Timeout
'WE' are the majority....it is time to start using our majority weight and pressure to confront the Media , and especially all networks , both cable and standard , to get rid of people like Rather and Matthews who subliminally (and not so) salt their reporter and commentator duties with left-Liberal
values and spin. In so doing they attack 'we' the majority
on a daily basis.
I've had it with this stuff. It is time to FIGHT BACK !
Never a better time than here and now. Flood them with indignant e-mail and hard copy . How dare they continue to force this crap in our face? Threaten and institute boycotts.
Make it hurt. Let's make it real and take this great victory
as an opportunity to force media reform. It is time to kick these people right off their soapboxes , once and for all.
30 posted on 11/05/2004 5:39:37 PM PST by injin
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To: Timeout

Chris Matthews is a mental case!

Thanks for watching and reporting. I count on other FReepers to keep me informed concerning his rantings.


31 posted on 11/05/2004 5:40:03 PM PST by Radix (Yasser Arafat finally gets his own State. It is called Comatose!)
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To: injin

But as Martin Buber said, "we must call the demon by its name to have power over it."

The question is "who is the enemy?"


32 posted on 11/05/2004 5:41:20 PM PST by weenie
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To: Timeout
In line with that, when are true Americans living in Kommiefornia going to get our own state? We need to split Cal into two: Kal and Cal. Let the commies have the coast, all the way to LA.

I'm tired of all our electoral votes automatically going to the filth that contaminates this great state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

33 posted on 11/05/2004 5:44:47 PM PST by LouAvul
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To: Zhangliqun

"Two word, Mr. Matthew: Sexual nihilism."

Are you saying - in a round about way - that everyone who voted for President Bush never engages in sex for pleasure?


34 posted on 11/05/2004 5:45:24 PM PST by NCPAC (Social Darwinists Unite!)
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To: weenie; Trust but Verify

These guys just do not understand that one does not need to be "religious" NOT to want the government to sanction and approve the idea of gay marriage. How many folks want their kids taught in school that 2 guys "marrying" each other is the same as a true marriage?


35 posted on 11/05/2004 5:45:40 PM PST by schu
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To: Timeout

Matthews is irrelevant. I deprogrammed MSNBC from my dish after watching Ron Jr. before the election. Never again.

To Olbermann: You don't get it, do you? Dan Patrick was the talent on the ESPN team, bud, not you. How many channels have you worked for now?


36 posted on 11/05/2004 5:45:52 PM PST by RabidBartender
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To: BCrago66

Half of an admission is still dodging. I think you are reaching way to far to call this an admission. Its closer to the 10 year old boy telling the judge "I am sorry I broke the window and narrowly missed the old lady in the rocker".


37 posted on 11/05/2004 5:47:04 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (We won. We don't need to be forgiving. Let the heads roll!!!!!!!!!)
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To: schu

True...but religion is not as it has been defined...it is that thing at the bottom of your heart and soul. It is yours...and it is you.


38 posted on 11/05/2004 5:47:39 PM PST by weenie
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To: Lizarde
See those little tiny blue bubbles on the map...that's where they live.
39 posted on 11/05/2004 5:48:26 PM PST by kempster
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To: Timeout

You mean Sissie Matthews still has some viewers?


40 posted on 11/05/2004 5:48:29 PM PST by Rockpile
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