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Matthews: 'I'm Smiling Because I Think It's Going To Be a Wipe-Out'
Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/06/2006 5:08:44 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Chris Matthews just couldn't wipe that grin off his face. Interviewing him on this morning's 'Today,' Meredith Vieira began by suggesting that despite the tough electoral environment for Republicans, polls over the weekend were showing movement in their direction. She started to pose a question, but so distracting was Matthews' mugging that she couldn't continue, asking instead "why are you smiling?"

Replied Matthews:

"Because I think it's going to be a wipe-out. I think the Democrats are going to carry the House by 20-some, high-20s and I think the Senate seats are perhaps not six, but five, and I can see a big victory for the Democrats."

Video here.

Matthews went on to sound a cautionary note to Dems about not dancing in the end zone. And no doubt he would seek to explain his smile and response as reflecting his amusement at the suggestion that the election might be close, not his satisfaction with the anticipated outcome. But does anyone believe he would have been equally gleeful had he been convinced Republicans were heading toward a big victory?


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2006midterms; chrismatthews; mediabias; meredithvieira; nbc; todayshow
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To: RandallFlagg

Get
Out
The
Vote


121 posted on 11/06/2006 7:30:13 AM PST by RockinRight (Maintaining a Republican majority is MORE IMPORTANT than your temper tantrum.)
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To: RockinRight

A-HAA!!
What about a hacking, though? I'll try to find that thread.


122 posted on 11/06/2006 7:32:19 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: RockinRight

Found it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1732983/posts


123 posted on 11/06/2006 7:33:05 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: RandallFlagg

He would be partially correct. The picture of the troops responding to Kerry appeared on Freerepublic.com within 30 minutes of first being posting on 620wtmj.com, my hometown local talk radio station in milwaukee. I did not post the picture on Freerepublic.com that morning, but I was listening to the radio show and thought Drudge might be interested so I sent it to him. Within 13 minutes of my sending it to Drudge, it was at the top of his site, and the rest is history. Just like in 'Memogate', Freepers have made an impact on the political process in the last two elections, and we should all be thankful for that.


124 posted on 11/06/2006 7:41:55 AM PST by milwguy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
When Maestro Rove kicks him in the goolies tomorrow night, will he sing high enough to join the Vienna Boys' Choir?

Stay tuned.

Regards, Ivan

125 posted on 11/06/2006 7:42:53 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: milwguy

It also makes a great bumper sticker. check them all out here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1732358/posts


126 posted on 11/06/2006 7:48:01 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: Air Gap

French media do not report on what is happening in their own country. The recent bus burning in Marseilles was given more coverage than the daily car and bus-burnings in Paris, Lyons and other large towns, because a 26 year old woman, a graduate student in science, was burned over 70% of her body and is presently fighting for her life in hospital.

The young woman is black, but as the young man who came to her aid said, "She looked white; her skin had peeled off from the flames."

Matthews on a show a few months back seemed to relish the idea of defeat in Iraq. He mused openly, dreamily, of our troops "gonna have to shoot their way out Iraq," and appeared immensely satisfied at the prospect.

Matthews went into the Peace Corps to avoid the draft, and like many of his type, considered the fall of Saigon a vindication for their cowardice and rerfusal to serve.

The picture of people scrambling to get on the helicopter as it lifted off the embassy roof is iconic for the Left.

Though our military never lost a battle in Vietnam our political class insured defeat, and that picture, blown up to poster size hung on the office walls, and may still hang there of many of our politicians in Washington. It was and is a favorite poster of the journo-political-professariat hate-America class.

Matthews longs to see our troops ordered away from Iraq and have to fight their way out. It is a yearning so strong he cannot temper his speech out of a decent regard for their safety.

To have a new poster of an American defeat would be for Matthews' a personal coup.



127 posted on 11/06/2006 8:04:53 AM PST by Barset
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To: meema

FYI, GLGB is going to Iraq this week! He'll sending updates.


128 posted on 11/06/2006 8:11:46 AM PST by poobear (Political Left, continually accusing their foes of what THEY themselves do every day.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mark, good work, as usual.

See my post #127 on this thread.

The Detroit News shows, front page, the reaction of the Iraqis in Dearborn, Michigan to the news of Saddam's death sentence.

They flooded the streets, cars honking, people dancing in the streets, shopkeepers tossing candy to the children, music blaring; they waved American flags and the flag of the new democratic country of Iraq, its freedom purchased with the blood of Americans, Englishmen, Poles, Italians, and many others in the coalition, as well as many, many Iraqi citizens.

Have you seen any of this jubilation on American TV? Did anyone on the Today Show happen to mention it? Did Chris Matthews mention it?

Thanks for all your good work. b.


129 posted on 11/06/2006 8:23:55 AM PST by Barset
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I'm glad he is smiling now, because this moron will have a stunned look on his face in about 36 hours. He and his ilk will suffer one more setback, one more wising-up moment, and of course will have to marshal all their resources to figure out how to explain it and who to blame it on.


130 posted on 11/06/2006 8:37:53 AM PST by supremedoctrine ("Talent hits a target no one else can hit , genius hits a target no one else can see"---Schopenhauer)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sounds like George Tenet's "It's a slam dunk!"


131 posted on 11/06/2006 8:43:16 AM PST by rushfreedom
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"I have this poop-eating grin on my face 'cuz Nanny Pelosi is squeezing my cahonies as hard as she can."


132 posted on 11/06/2006 10:20:01 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... Aloha!!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"Matthews: I'm smiling because I'm a RETARD!"


133 posted on 11/06/2006 10:21:19 AM PST by Babu
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Mary Matlin is a Republican. She worked for W's dad when he was the president, and she is no liberal. she must however be blind or suffer from masochism.....


134 posted on 11/06/2006 10:45:05 AM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is this the same guy that went into therapy after the last election?

I wonder if his hospital room is reserved in advance.


135 posted on 11/06/2006 10:46:42 AM PST by Prost1 (Fair and Unbiased as always!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Let's make Chrissy Matthews cry!

GET OUT AND VOTE!!!

136 posted on 11/06/2006 10:46:46 AM PST by kcvl
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Did he have his Pom Poms with him??

Pray for W and The Election


137 posted on 11/06/2006 10:47:12 AM PST by bray (Voting for the Rats is a Death Wish)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I'm confused. According to Chrissy, the Dems took the Senate in 2002, so how can they take back what they already control? But then, I also never figured out how Kerry could win in 2004 when Gore won in 2000.
138 posted on 11/06/2006 10:48:31 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: beyond the sea

"Where's Soupy Sales when you need him?"

Old, retired and forgetful.
I heard him on a call-in call a year or two ago when some entertainer passed away. It was difficult to listen. Aging is not kind to many.



139 posted on 11/06/2006 10:49:40 AM PST by Prost1 (Fair and Unbiased as always!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Who cares? Why would any sane person watch this biased jerk?


140 posted on 11/06/2006 10:51:20 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Mainstream media: the publishing division of the democratic party)
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