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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Tree/Forest/Hear
Spoken like a true Stalinist
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Pray for W and Our Troops
I LOVE IT!!!!!
Yep if an individuals political and conservative worldview were worthy of worship.....it would certainly be ann’s.
;-)
I guess when one is a dim light, a talk show host doesn’t want a bright light on the show.
Mathews is delusional.
Banned by Sissy Matthews. That's got to be a little like being banned from Mexico. How will she survive?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’ve heard Ann’s boobs are real. No telling about Chris’.
Hard ball: it isn’t the former, and Chris has none of the latter.
CM has been a Dem shill since he worked for Tip(sy) O’Neill in the 70s. He can not by any stretch be called a journalist.
She’s the only reason I ever considered watching his irrelevant show. Now I have none.
What next, he gonna ban Rush??
Pray for W and Our Troops
I’d say that when she did appear, there were three boobs on camera.
She can ring my bell anytime she chooses :-)
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
Ann's got more b*lls and testosterone than the entire MSNBC on-air roster combined!
ann vavoom! coulter.
(what a woman. beauty, brains, intelligence, intestinal fortitude...such a combination!)
Say it, Don’t spray it, Chris.
Mathews cuts off nose to spite face!
How have his ratings compared with and without Ann?? Hmmmm?
Matthews just wants the attention that comes with banning Coulter. He has one of the lowest ranking shows on the news networks.
An interesting analogy, since it was Bligh and the crew that went with him in Bounty's launch that actually made it back to civilization.
“Chris probably has more people “in the boat” than viewers.”
You’re right, he currently has three in the boat.
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