'Thrilled' Matthews Toasts with Ellen: 'To Barack Obama!'

Newsbusters ^ | November 20, 2008 | Geoffrey Dickens

[St. Louis Conservative]

After much mocking by Ellen Degeneres about Chris Matthews' dancing abilities on his last appearance on her syndicated show, the "Hardball" host chatted with Degeneres, on Thursday's show, about the election of Barack Obama and actually grabbed a shot glass to toast his win with Ellen (audio excerpt here):

ELLEN DEGENERES: Amazing! And you must be thrilled? I mean what, what a moment.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well I am thrilled!

DEGENERES: Yeah.

MATTHEWS, picking up shot glass: To Barack Obama!

DEGENERES, toasting: Yeah. To Barack Obama!

A little later in his interview segment, Matthews also took a different kind of shot, the verbal kind, against the outgoing administration:

MATTHEWS: And I'm watching Hillary and I'm watching McCain I think, I think Hillary is gonna be Secretary of State. I think it's gonna happen.

DEGENERES: I think both of them are great and, and I love that he's meeting with both of them. It says something about him already. So-

MATTHEWS: Well it's not the old politics of Karl Rove and mean, and get even, and divide, and vengeance and all that stuff. I think the country is in a mood for no more mean. No more mean.

DEGENERES: I'm in the mood for no more mean. No more hiding goodness.

[SkyDancer]

It is going to be soooo neat to watch these people eat crow in a couple of years ....

[snowrip]

So when is Matthews coming out of the closet?

[skeeter]

What children. Its unbelievable.

"No more mean". Like tagging your brother and then calling "quitsies".

[A_perfect_lady]

Would it be inappropriate to observe that liberals gush over Obama in a manner that reminds me of groupies offering sexual services of the oral persuasion to a sleazy rock star? Would that be uncalled for?

[secret garden]

Hiding goodness? When has that ever been tried? Unless it’s to keep good news about GWB from getting out in the MSM.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Better check that ‘tingle’, Matthews. It’s probably RLS. There’s medication for that sort of thing. If that’s not it......I think a urologist is in order. ;-)

[basil]

Not at all (IMHO) of course.

Would it be rude to label these people "bastids"?

[skeeter]

Seriously, I think Matthews is losing his marbles.

[Argus]

What a gay-off.

[Old Sarge]

They aren’t even trying to pretend anymore. They know they’ve won.

[ETL]

From MSNBC Hardball with Chris Matthews (transcript)
March. 21, 2006:

KRISTINN, FREEREPUBLIC.COM: We have kids that wear Che Guevara shirts here in the United States.

MATTHEWS: Yes, but they're kind of cute at this point, aren't they? They're not about somebody out to get us now. I think there's a difference. I mean, that's kind of camp almost, isn't it?...is Che Guevara the symbol of hate in the United States anymore?

KRISTINN: Yes.

MATTHEWS: I don't think so. I mean, a lot of our kids wear them. I see kids wearing them all the time, even my kids wear them. It's like a Robert Marley T-shirt at this point.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11943459/

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Matthews: Obama Speech Caused 'Thrill Going Up My Leg'
"During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's presidential primary elections, after the speeches of Barack Obama and John McCain had aired, Chris Matthews expressed his latest over the top admiration for Obama's speaking skills as the MSNBC anchor admitted that Obama's speech created a 'thrill' in his leg"
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/02/13/matthews-obama-speech-caused-thrill-going-my-leg

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Che flag sends 'disturbing' message about Obama
Candidate attracts 'people who think mass murderers are romantic revolutionaries'
February 13, 2008
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

The Fox TV affiliate in Houston has captured images of a volunteer in a campaign office for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama working in front of a flag featuring the image of Che Guevara, the South American revolutionary who became Fidel Castro's executioner after the communist takeover in Cuba.

And while the Obama campaign has issued a statement placing a modest distance between the campaign and its "volunteers," the issue of such an image on display in an office operating on behalf of a man hoping to be commander in chief of the world's last remaining superpower is raising alarms.

Even Obama supporters have been forced into corners because of the issue, with one likening the Texas state Republican Party to Guevara, to whom have been attributed hundreds of executions of anti-Castro leaders.

Under the heading "Barack Guevara," Investor's Business Daily raised some of the more pointed questions, to which the campaign responded only with a statement: "The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign. ..."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56293
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http://store.che-lives.com/t-shirts.php
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[Bahbah]

Well it's not the old politics of Karl Rove and mean, and get even, and divide, and vengeance and all that stuff. I think the country is in a mood for no more mean. No more mean.

How many times I prayed for a little "getting even," for just a tiny bit of "vengence." It could have been done for very good reason, but it never happened. They make up their own reality. The real one never intrudes.

[bray]

Here’s hoping MSDNC goes bankrupt.
He is one of the meanest nastiest people on the planet.

Pray for W, Palin and Our Troops

[B-Chan]

His journalistic integrity ran down his leg years ago.

[gimme1ibertee]

Oh my damn.
Where’s the projectile barf alert???

[skeeter]

They make up their own reality. The real one never intrudes.

To these control freaks and fascists, raising a hand to fend off a blow is considered "mean".

[pookie18]

[Texas Eagle]

He had another on-air Obasm?

The man needs help.

[St. Louis Conservative]

LOL!

I’m sending this cartoon out on my email chain.