Chris Matthews Gushes On Real Time:“Real” Michele Bachmann Is “My Hero"..She’s Going All The Way

mediaite ^ | Friday June 17, 2011 | Glenn Davis

[Bigtigermike]

Chris Matthews stopped by Real Time with Bill Maher tonight to serve on the show’s panel, and he really likes Michele Bachmann. Her name came up and Matthews immediately referred to her as “my hero,” predicted she’d beat Mitt Romney in the New Hampshire primary, and praised her for being “real.” This is probably where we make a “thrill up my leg” reference.

Fellow panelist Ross Douthat strongly disagreed on the New Hapshire point, but Matthews wasn’t getting swayed. He talked about how Bachmann “stands for something.”

[Kirkwood]

“Any other oldsters remember that? “

Yes. And getting old sucks.

[Bigtigermike]

Please! Dean was reasonable even for Howard Dean and did not say that he wanted Palin to win the nomination! He actually said that he didn't expect her to get the nomination.

All he said was “Any time you have a contest — particularly when unemployment is as high as it is — nobody gets a walkover,” “Whoever the Republicans nominate, including people like Sarah Palin, whom the inside-the-Beltway crowd dismisses — my view is if you get the nomination of a major party, you can win the presidency, I don’t care what people write about you inside the Beltway,

Take your talking points and go home!

[blasater1960]

Note to Michelle B: if Crissy thinks highly of you, something’s wrong. Something’s terribly wrong.

Sheesh...you cant be serious. Crissy is joking! He and that idiot Maher think so little of Bachmann...they think she is easily beatable by Hussein. Hence the pumping up of what they consider to be a weak candidate.

[Sea Parrot]

Methinks Crissy is touting MB in hope she discourages SP from entering the fray.

Sorry Tingle leg, fail, big time.

[re_nortex]

And getting old sucks.

Old? Well, let's just say, I'm old enough to recall when this young whippersnapper first arrived on the radio in McKeesport, PA playing all that new-fangled rock and roll music:

Note that the word "REMEMBER?" appears on the WIXZ banner. It's pretty obvious who this is, I think.

[meadsjn]

Who would you like to see jump into the GOP presidential race?

Sarah Palin
Chris Christie
Rick Perry

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/index.html

Poll is on the right side of the page, half-way down.

[rawhide]

Matthews wants Bachmann to win, because she would be beat by obamma very easily, he thinks. Remember how he has gushed all over McCain the last few years? Matthews is trying to help obamma while promoting a weak Pub candidate.

[Rashputin]

"Romney is a pathetic RINO; a complete fake, pro-abortion, pro-global warming freakshow."

Now, Now, to be fair, Romney may not be a fake, he may really be as superficial and shallow as he seems. Not need to exaggerate. /sarc

[miss marmelstein]

I can totally relate to you getting fed up with fundraising calls. I had to slam the phone down on a few people after willingly donating to some good candidates. After a while, it’s pure greed on their part.

As for Chris Matthews, I have a different take on this. Chris Matthews is one of the most uncentered people I have ever seen in the public eye. He constantly switches his views, veers left or right during the course of one program.
In other words, he’s nuts!

[wardaddy]

Bashing Bachmann here is despicable

The FR cult of personality wolf pack behavior appears to flourish yet even though the harpies are long gone mostly
Amazing the nature of humans behind the curtain of anonymity with a sounding board

Im with Levin..

[Diogenesis]

Bashing?

Any focus on Ms. Bachmann is secondary
to her OWN backstabbing or RINO behavior.

Ms. Bachmann COULD have fired Rollins and apologized.
Like her sweetheart-hero, Mitt Romney, also a backstabber,
she did not.
Therefore, not ‘bashing’, just deserved criticism.

[AFreeBird]

Of course that’s his objective. Now, if he’d have gotten a tinkle down his leg like he did with ZerØ, then we’d be in big trouble.

[Covenantor]

Romney is a pale version of Obama.

Romney=Obama-white

[Recovering_Democrat]

He doesn’t like her. He is trying to be cute.

[Lakeshark]

After all their knitpicking nastiness for a year on the Palin threads, they won't come on and answer simple questions about Bachmann.

I find that telling, they can't defend their own candidate after whining for a year on the Palin threads.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Hey, tell Poly to go home but leave the charts.

We'll put in good data. The charts look good.

[Friendofgeorge]

This is why the MB supporters even here at FR, are so utterly pathetic.

She is a spoiler at best, with endorsements from the entire MSNBC/CNN,ABC,CBS,NBC networks, not to mention NY Times,Wash Post,USA Today, and even Larry Flynt I read earlier.

[rob777]

"Note to Michelle B: if Crissy thinks highly of you, something’s wrong. Something’s terribly wrong."


Nonsense! If liberal media figures want to praise an articulate conservative, I say let's see more of it! Such praise should not cause conservative to support her more, but it should not cause them to support her less either. The criteria for support should be the substance that the candidates runs on. If she can win grudging support from her critics, then all the more power to her. Is our criteria for supporting conservatives an inability to win such respect from their opponents?

[pallis]

Yeah, you might be right. I haven’t kept up with Michele’s staff. Maybe she is trying to find an honest person in Washington. It can’t be easy.

[Friendofgeorge]

This is not the first time they have been thrilled with her. Quite a few months ago all the MSM tv hosts were excited because of fake reports that MB had replaced Palin as the darling of the Tea Party movement..as I said all lies.

Not that many weeks ago Matthews spent a week bashing MB, playing clips from SNL showing her looking in the wrong camera, mocking her for not knowing what state the famous battles took place in.

On the camera thing, he would not even buy the argument that the mistake was all the fault of a tech guy.

He went on to say that MB was even nuttier than Palin.

So I am deeply ashamed/embarrassed for the people that are supporting MB at the expense of Sarah Palin and our grand children.

MB is a spoiler at best