Matthews: Palin 'Talking About God,' is 'Troubling'

Newsbusters ^ | November 11, 2008 | Geoffrey Dickens

[St. Louis Conservative]

After airing an interview clip of Sarah Palin telling Fox News' Greta Van Susteren that she was looking for guidance from God about running for national office again, an appalled Chris Matthews called it "troubling," when he let loose this rant on Tuesday's "Hardball":

Is, is this commentary about theocracy and going to God for approval? We've been through that with President Bush who said he, "didn't take advice from his father, he got it from another father." And we've been through this sort of Joan of Arc period. Are we gonna get another piece of this where God's leading candidates to run for president? I mean that sort of keeps us out of the conversation doesn't it? I mean, seriously, I mean God is telling her to run? And she's saying it openly on a secular television show? This isn't the religious hour....Talking about God, in a political setting is troubling to a lot of people. If you're talking about a big tent, this looks more like the church tent, not the big tent.

Then a little later in the program, Matthews returned to Palin's expressions of faith and noted that kind of talk can be,"dangerous." And when his guest, former Dick Cheney aide Ron Christie, said he was tired of the media picking on Palin when, in fact, Joe Biden made a lot of blunders, Matthews let this howler fly: "Joe Biden took more hits from the media than anybody for the last 30 years!"

[pa_dweller]

I wonder if Matthews recalls how every president ends his State of the Union address.

Up to now, anyway. We'll see.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Matthews condones NO talk of God, no mention of His name.

Unless of course it is followed by ...."Damn America!" As in Reverend Wright.

[SwinneySwitch]

And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. 1 Samuel 8:7 NIV

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Matthews needs to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

Since he supports abortion he has already been excommunicated.

[BibChr]

BibChr: Matthews talking, period, is 'troubling'

[NYer]

Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.
But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father.
Matthew 10:32-33

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[timestax]

[tioga]

It sickens me to see such “Catholics”....where is their faith?

[MrB]

The left are the minions of Satan - either on purpose or just de facto.

[MrB]

1 John 4 talks about the prophets and the false prophets.

You can easily discern who is speaking from the Spirit of Truth (Holy Spirit) and who is speaking from the spirit of lies (Satan).

[GOYAKLA]

In Crissy’s case he hides it by sitting on it!

[is_is]

Matthews talking is troubling......

[stentorian conservative]

Mathews talking about Palin talking about God is troubling.

[tioga]

for a man who sends his children to Catholic schools...he is a huge phony. if he sat on it, it must have died.

[verga]

Matthews needs to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

Please tell me that this is a joke!

Chris Matthews is a Catholic?

No Freaking way!!!!!

[pctech]

Actually this brings to thought a very important point.

All this talk from the middle east, specifically Iran, is how God will help them defeat their enemies, specifically, us. Everyone has been conditioned to think they're nuts.

Well, guess what folks, the world is being conditioned to think of everyone who believes in God as being nuts, crazy, dangerous. This kind of mindset will spread until everyone who acknowledges God Almighty, and his Son Jesus, will be persecuted to death. It's coming....

[potlatch]

I can’t understand them either PKM. I have an uncle, who is Catholic, in Pennsylvania who blew up years ago when I sent him a political email in favor of Bush! He hated President Bush!

I didn’t write him for a long time and he made the first move, lol.

[PhiKapMom]

Too funny! I don’t understand it and cannot figure out how it ended up this way. It has been mind boggling for years how Catholics in MA can continue to elect Ted Kennedy. I haven’t met anyone who can figure it out either.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Galatians 6: 7 Be not deceived, God is not mocked. 8 For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. 9 And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. 10 Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

Chrissy Matthews is a disgrace to his names. Christopher: Christ Bearer. Matthew(s): Gift of God.

[Zack Attack]

Obama IS Chrissy’s god and he invokes him all the time into politics.