Chris Matthews Scoffs at 'Irrelevant' Rush Limbaugh

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[RatherBiased.com]

Appearing on Thursday's 1pm hour of MSNBC News Live, "Hardball" host Chris Matthews couldn't resist taking a few swipes at Rush Limbaugh. After anchor Peter Alexander played a clip of the conservative talk show host discussing the New York Times story on John McCain, Matthews irritably claimed, "Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant here. Irrelevant. He doesn't know anything more than what he read in the New York Times."

The radio clip, from todays edition of Limbaugh's program, featured the host urging the presidential candidate to learn a lesson from the front-page New York Times story speculating about a improper relationship with a D.C. lobbyist. In the clip, Limbaugh argued that Republicans should learn never to trust the liberal-leaning news media as they will always turn to help Democrats.

Matthews's apparent annoyance at Limbaugh might have something to do with being mentioned in the clip. At one point during the monologue, Limbaugh asserted, "[McCain] has thought Chris Matthews and these other people in the drive-by media, are his friends. They aren't."

[ozzymandus]

Poor Chrissy wishes he was the irrelevant one, after all the screw-ups he’s been busted on lately. Chrissy and Olberboy have really screwed the pooch with their left-wing cheerleading. They leapt to spread the McCain smear even as the rest of the MSM saw it was an obvious hit and were running from it. Now they’re even fighting each other, which would be great entertainment if either one of them was man enough to throw a punch.

[DoughtyOne]

I tried to look it up. About all I could find was second hand information making it look like the 800k figure was probably a good number. For all I know, you may be correct though.

[Uncle Hal]

Chris Mathews is irrelevant.

[rockrr]

I love Rush, but he urged the GOP faithful to vote against John McCain

Link please...

[Miss Didi]

Jorge, Rush never “urged” us to vote for or against any candidate.

[The_Republican]

Personal for both.

[cubreporter]

Then I would ask why you even comment on it crisssy?

[avacado]

Has Chrissy quit tingling yet?

[longtermmemmory]

actually Rush NAILED the current act of the NYT months ago and repeatedly in other circumstances.

Mathews is of course part of the fake but accurate school of journalism. (or is this “journalism”?)

[ari-freedom]

you can’t really compare a radio show with a cable tv show. Also, Chris (and this is also true of Bill O’) is able to reach a demographic that can make or break any election: the middle.

[threeleftsmakearight]

Don’t think you’re too far from the truth.
I’ve seen this guy on quite a few occasions and heard him a few times on the radio as a guest. I say this with all seriousness...I believe the dude is mildly retarded.

[MNJohnnie]

Lets us think about this. Rush has an audience of 20 million listeners. Matthews is lucky to reach 250,000 people with his show.

Seems Chris has his view of what constitutes relevance completely out of wack

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Hey, weegee. Stops stealin' mah thunder.

[puppypusher]

The only one that’s irrelevant is Chris Matthews and MSNBC. Rush has more listeners in his three hours than MSNBC has all week.

I may be exaggerating but I doubt it.

[MNJohnnie]

Well maybe the people who want to claim Rush is irrelevent should look at who nominated McCain. McCain won with Independents and “Moderates” he lost 2-1 over those who describled themselves as “Conservative” or Republican. So McCain won on non party member votes. The only reason he got the nod was the Conservative split there vote too many other ways thus letting a minority canidate like McCain win.

[Vision]

I’m working on it.

[Eva]

Rush has mentioned Chissy and his spitting speech many times, not just in this one clip.

[Antoninus]

Here we have a Pinto calling a Hummer dangerous...

[Greg F]

Conservatives need to make sure that EVERY Veep choice is a conservative . . . every time . . . scream bloody murder for it . . . whether the candidate is conservative or moderate. Bush I, and a dead in the water as far as future prospects Dan Quayle gave us 20 straight years of RINO candidates. Just picture what would have happened if Quayle had been an articulate conservative (that candidate or his Veep choice would have potentially been the been the leader in ‘96 and/or ‘00 . . . and no Bush). Better yet, picture a conservative Veep being elected as a follow up to Reagan. A real revolution.

[MNJohnnie]

Pretty tough for a guy like Chrissy who reaches maybe 250,000 viewers on a good night to make or break a national election.

You McCainacs are going to get an abject lesson on where elections are won in Nov. It base plus. Elections are not decided in the middle, they are decided by who best mobilizes their base. You can get all the "moderate" votes you want and still lose if the 10 of millions of self described Conservatives stay home.

This is a 40-40-20 Country. 40R 40L 20I, spitting on the 40% to suck up to the 20% is moronic. But then you McCainbots are too busy screaming your arrogant McCainbot Cult of Personality drivel to actually listen to anyone who know politics.

You all should take a lesson from Karl Rove in 2004. Losing in the latter half of Oct he had Bush move hard right to fire up the Evangelical vote. That won him an election he was losing by trying to be "moderate"