Chris Matthews should keep his evening job. Appearing on this morning's "Today," the Hardball host was manifestly bleary-eyed [see screencap below] and off his game.Posted on 06/27/2007 5:26:23 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Chris Matthews should keep his evening job. Appearing on this morning's "Today," the Hardball host was manifestly bleary-eyed [see screencap below] and off his game.
Matthews was in, at 7:12 am EDT, to discuss with "Today" co-host Meredith Vieira the dust-up on last night's "Hardball," reported here by NewsBuster Geoffrey Dickens, between Ann Coulter and Elizabeth Edwards. Matthews couldn't keep his names straight. He first referred to Coulter as "Ann Edwards," then recycled the "Ann Edwards" moniker in referring to Elizabeth Edwards.
HARDBALL HOST CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well that was a pretty tough crowd, and if you think Ann Edwards is over the top, she had a lot of people behind her last night who agreed with her.
And later . . .
MATTHEWS: Unfortunately, you're dealing with a real-life situation with Ann Edwards' medical challenges, which we all know about, and the fact that they did lose their son Wade, and you don't make jokes about that.
View video here.
Hear that, Ann Edwards? Stop taking those shots at Ann Edwards and her husband, John Obama.
Speaking of shots, Matthews took one at the readers of Ann's [Coulter, in this case] books.
MATTHEWS: She's an agent provocateur, she sells huge numbers of books, because I think a lot of relatively boring guys like to walk around carrying her books, to be honest with you.
JOURNALISTIC ASIDE: Note that Vieira never put the journalistic question to Matthews as to the propriety of the Hardball host apparently having blind-sided Coulter with the Edwards call-in. Matthews referred obliquely to the sand-bagging, stating that "Elizabeth Edwards wanted to call in yesterday when she knew that Ann Coulter was going to be on the program." During the 6 am EDT hour of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough criticized that kind of gotcha tactic, saying he certainly hoped that Ann had been given advance notice of the Edwards call.
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Coulter-Edwards-Matthews mix-up ping to Today show list.
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here’s a programming suggestion: get Monica on the phone when “Billary” are on.
Mathews is a dope.
“Unfortunately, you’re dealing with a real-life situation with Ann Edwards’ [meaning Elizabeth Edwards] medical challenges, which we all know about, and the fact that they did lose their son Wade, and you don’t make jokes about that.”
That’s almost right, Chrissy. EE participated with your hit job BECAUSE she knows she has the sympathies of the public — which, unto itself, she should. But not after using it for political showmanship as she did did when Silky Pony used it as an excuse to announce he would NOT drop out of the race. After that kind of revolting display all bets are off.
And by the way, Ann did NOT make jokes about the Edwards’s loss of their son. She made a joke about the former Sen. ExLax using his son’s death as a ploy to garner sympathy and votes. Anyone who does that DESERVES to be made fun. The only thing Ann left out was the shameful use of their living kids as photo ops for the campaign.
Sorry, Chrissy, it is the Breck Girl and his wife who are disgusting, not Ann, who simply draws attention to their disgusting behavior.
Mathews insinuated that Ann made fun of Edwards’ having cancer. What did I miss, or was that Mathews being his disingenuous self?
Mathews looks like he hit the sauce last night celebrating his gotcha moment that got his moribund show in the news.
Spitboy was probably fumbling with his frazzle all night...
I caught part of this—as much as I could stomach. Chrissie and his host were properly shocked at Ann’s comments. Then they moved on to Fred Thompson. I don’t know how Chrissie keeps his job. He’s about as mediocre as it gets.
And gets ratings for the guy with the worst ratings in all of cable news, now even trailing CNN Headline News.
Better yet, Juanita Broadrick. Do you think Wussy Matthews would enable that setup?
Matthews may be getting too “Kennedy-esque” in his drinking.
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I guess not.
Ouch! Well done.
Chris—there’s no one more boring in the world than a liberal man walking around with your book tucked under his arm.
We need a poll.....who do we wanrt to see next on with Chrissie..Ann Coulter or Zell Miller?
Actually, King’s reaction was something like, “Well. Look who’s here on the the phone. It’s Bill Clinton’s Chief of staff.”
Surprise, surprise.
Shouldn’t Ann Edwards have called Ann Coulter herself, out of the limelight? If I ever in my wildest dreams would have thought about voting for John Edwards, after this coward’s stunt, I wouldn’t. And Chrissy Matthews is the scum of the pond.
All for of those people are pretty disgusting.
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