Huh? Chris Matthews to Top McCain '08 Aide: 'We Were All Rooting for You'

newsbusters.org ^ | 9/29/11 | Scott Whitlock

[SanFranDan]

Does Chris Matthews listen to himself talk? On Thursday's Hardball, the MSNBC anchor told top McCain '08 aide Steve Schmidt, "We were all rooting for you, by the way. And a lot of us in this business like John McCain a lot."

The cable anchor who famously informed America that Barack Obama gave him a "thrill" up his leg, added, "He didn't think we did and we were tough on him last time. I liked Obama. But I tell you, I've always liked McCain."

Not pausing in this unprompted admission, Matthews added, "[McCain's] still mad at me. Fine. That's the way it is...He ought to be mad at me."

He ought to be mad at me?

Offering a compliment to McCain '08 campaign manager Steve Schmidt, Matthews asserted, "I think you did a good job last time. I mean it."

[rokkitapps]

I usually flip past msnbc in the evenings just for the laughs.

[hometoroost]

Chris needs to up his meds.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I think Matthews has some serious mental issues (besides being a liberal on MSNBC). That malaria he got appears to have put him even further over the edge the past few years.

[RichInOC]

For them to win, or for Schmidt to sandbag Palin?

[DustyMoment]

You can alsways count on Krissy ‘the-teenaged-girl’ Matthews to say something stupid!!

[stormhill]

All this apparently incoherent nonsense is actually not as irrational as it at first appears.
From a left wing perspective, Mac is the ideal candidate: first off he won the primary which the dems and media rooted for.
Then, he completed his task by losing the general.

What's not to love?

[GOPJ]

I’ll bet those liberal journalists would love to help pick anther RINO to run against the most liberal person they can find. Almost like running liberal and liberalLite...

[jla]

To 4 - No, he’s just an unscrupulous feck who does and says what he believes will keep him in a job making far, far, far more money than he could ever dream of if he did honest work. Bill O’Reilly resides in the same pod.

[Keith in Iowa]

Chrissy is a lying bag of bovine processed feed grains. They were rooting for McNutly to LOSE if they were rooting at all.

[Pollster1]

That’s the truth. Chrissy Matthews and his like in the media were rooting for McCain in the primaries so they could install their hand-picked choice in the general election. They really did like McCain because they knew he was personally uninspiring, despite his military service, and completely beatable even by an anti-American and possibly un-American candidate with no qualifications at all.

[353FMG]

>I liked Obama. But I tell you, I’ve always liked McCain.<

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Why not? Birds of a feather.

[The Shrew]

I like the fact that Steve Schmidt has found a kindred spirit in Chris Matthews. They seem ideally matched.

Regards,

TS

[gorush]

So what was that tingly leg thing all about. As if we needed another piece of evidence to prove his psychosis.

[gorush]

So what was that tingly leg thing all about. As if we needed another piece of evidence to prove his psychosis.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Rooting for McCain to lose.

[SarahPalin2012]

Steve Schmidt has done more to damage conservatives and the country than even that p*ssy Chris Matthews.