Posted on 06/04/2008 3:51:50 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's Democratic primaries, co-anchor Chris Matthews poked fun at Larry Craig's bathroom arrest during an interview with Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar as he referred to Republican plans to hold their presidential convention in St. Paul, and joked that Craig would be starting his book tour at the airport. Moments later during an interview with Clinton campaign advisor Lisa Caputo, he joked about the Minnesota bridge collapse as an embarrassment Republicans would have to face when they come to the state: "We're having a little bit of fun here tonight with the opportunity of Republican conventioneers to arrive at the airport out there and immediately go to the Larry Craig Memorial Bathroom and check in and let everybody know they know some history. Then go to the bridge that fell down in St. Paul. There's a lot to celebrate for the Republican conventioneers as they get together." (Transcript follows)
Below is a transcript of the relevant comments from Matthews, which aired at about 8:09 p.m. during MSNBC's Tuesday coverage of the presidential primaries:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, TO MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: I hear, Senator, that Larry Craig is going to start his book tour out at the airport out there, at the Republican Convention this summer. Is that true? Ha! ...MATTHEWS, TO CLINTON CAMPAIGN ADVISOR LISA CAPUTO: Well, we're having a little bit of fun here tonight with the opportunity of Republican conventioneers to arrive at the airport out there and immediately go to the Larry Craig Memorial Bathroom and check in and let everybody know they know some history. Then go to the bridge that fell down in St. Paul. There's a lot to celebrate for the Republican conventioneers as they get together.
Can anyone tell me what is so funny about 13 people dying as a bridge collapses?
And how that is the Republicans fault?
Amy Klobuchar should be ashamed of her magnum opus “Uncovering the Dome”.
I was forced to read that Liberal piece of trash when I was in college.
Gag!
Larry Craig is Fair Game.
The Bridge Collapse is not.
True and if he was a Democrat, they would have supported him, as they do with Bath house Barney.
He’s just a barrel of laughs, ain’t he?
I can’t believe that Rush ever let this moron fill in for him.
MSM whores have no ethics. But MSM whores do make enemies and if only Zell Miller’s ramblings could come true.
Matthews shouldn’t quit his day job...whatever that is.
leftists always seem to turn lemons into lemonade — someone else’s lemons, of course, their lemonade.
Apparently that tingle has run clear up his leg & settled in his occipital lobe.
Apparently, Republicans have been depriving municipalities of desperately needed highway funds in order to fund their mad War for Oil.
Or so Democrat scripture tells us. ;)
The bridge was doomed when they put an extra 4 inches of concrete on the deck. I’m not sure but I thing that happened on Ventura’s watch.
Now that's funny!!
No word as yet on the possibility of McCain apologizing for this heinous deed.
Wasn't Ventura an independent?
Matthews is just utterly stupid. The guy will say anything. He doesn’t know, and doesn’t care, who was responsible for that bridge.
Cheney gave an order stopping maintenance of the bridge.
I really shouldn’t commit that bit of sarcasm to writing. It might be all over the internet as truth.
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