Posted on 11/03/2007 2:38:55 AM PDT by tlb
Looks like Hardball is playing hardball with Ann Coulter.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews says it will be "a while" before the incendiary conservative pundit is invited back to the show.
The turning point, Matthews says, was Coulter's controversial remarks which many perceived as anti-Semitic on CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" Oct. 8.
"To me, it has to do with how many people are really offended; who tell me to my face when I bump into them," Matthews said in an interview before Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia. "I'm affected by that."
Coulter "can be funny and clever with her sarcasm, or she can be hurtful," he says. "She doesn't just do evil as her number. You never know what bell she's going to ring. She doesn't know what bell she's going to ring."
Asked to respond to Matthews' comments, Coulter said, through her publicist: "Who?"
At Hardball, an unwelcome guest is "in the boat." As in, sent into exile at sea like Mutiny on the Bounty's Captain Bligh. (Matthews won't say if Coulter's in the boat.)
"Some are in the boat, some get out of the boat," he says. "We change our minds. We don't actually advertise who's in the boat." Dick Morris, now with Fox News, has been waterlogged for 10 years, Matthews says, because of a "blasphemous" remark on the show.
"I'm not going to dignify my punishment schedule. I'm not the high priest of deciding."
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Just another example of how a liberal Chrissy (girly man) is unable to handle himself when Ann gives him answers he is incapable of responding to because his questions and arguments have no substance.
Nobody watches Hardball.
If the power goes out in Chris Matthew’s house, he loses half his audience.
I think its one of these guys.
Anybody have change for a dollar so Hissy Crissy can call all of his viewers? ROTFLMAO ! What a jerk he is.
Why would Coulter want to appear on Hardball?
Anyone know what Dick Morris blasphemous remark that got him in the boat?...”Hillary is a big, fat, dumb cankle infested lesbian.” or something like that.
Ann Coulter has the *best* hair.
He is a frenetic anyway. The times I've watched him I saw a hectoring pain in the neck.
Ann Coulter offends and doesn’t care. That’s because she knows who not to offend and who to care about.
She said and I don’t quote but paraphrase: “When those who criticize me for offending, being skinny and being blond are in Hell, I will be in Heaven dieting and coloring my hair, because i don’t offend God.”.
“Hillary can scream Fn Jew Bast@rds and still be on his show at the drop of a chinamans checkbook.”
Well spoken, and very, VERY true!
Matthews is such a silly smuck...who loves the sound of his own voice. Reading Hardball transcripts, you discover how frequently he cuts off his guests in order to answer his own questions.
But banning Coulter? LOL I remember he banned his favorite echo man, Howard Fineman because of something Fineman said about him on the IMUS show.
Not sure I see what the hubbub is all about. I have heard worse things said.
ROTFLMAO
Thanks man. I don't see the point. Sounds like Matthews posturing. Like he gives a damn. Like he isn't an abortion lover. Talk about offensive. Sheesh.
Regards
In reality, Matthews banned Morris NOT because of that remark, I believe, but because everyone knew (in 1997) that Morris by then had 'turned' on Bill Clinton, and that Morris and Hillary hated each other.
Like other "offensive" remarks, the crucified comment was smarmy but not THAT awful.
Morris obviously was trying to say that Gov. Weld was trying to become a martyr for the moderate Republican cause. Weld wanted to be crucified by Jesse Helms.
Language like that is used in every day parlance.
Matthews is so much a shill for the lib-Dem-Hillary sycophants .... I want to wretch.
I believe Dick Morris was still a Democrat ten years ago, so there must be other reasons why he hasn’t been allowed on since. And Didn’t Chris Matthews confiscated a book Michelle Malkin brought to the show, a few years back? What a male chauvinist pig.
If he [matthews] did ban Ann, she should consider it an honor.Each time she appears on his show, she raises the content 1000%.But in my opinion, the show content has no direction to go but up.
Was I Ann,should he invite me back I would tell him to go fornicate with himself.
She never said that. Joel Stein said that. Read the column He says he sent her an email asking her to fill in certain blanks as sort of a mutal joke. The phrase above is Stein's words.
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