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MSNBC President Apologizes after Matthews Calls Koch Brothers ‘Pigs’
Free Beacon ^ | 11/2/12 | staff

Posted on 11/02/2012 3:41:37 PM PDT by Nachum

MSNBC president Phil Griffin apologized Thursday after host Chris Matthews called Charles and David Koch “pigs” in a segment with Rep. Ed Markey Wednesday.

Griffin apologized for Matthews’ “crass language” to Mark Holden, general counsel for Koch Industries, Inc., according to Newsbusters. Griffin said that Matthews would not be required to apologize to the Kochs.

In the exchange Wednesday, Matthews called the Kochs “pigs,” and said he is in the “business of name calling,” after Princeton professor Michael Oppenheimer declined to join Matthews:

MARKEY: The Koch brothers want Romney, and Romney has promised, to roll back those fuel economy incentives. It endangers the planet. And it’s going to endanger young men and women who have to go to the Middle East to import the oil from there rather than backing it (ph).

MATTHEWS: Well, Professor Oppenheimer, back in the ‘60s, we called such people pigs. Pigs. No, really, they don’t care about the planet, they don’t care about the destruction of war. All they want is what they got, their stuff. And they want more of it. Is that what we’re facing here, just greed? I’m not talking about the guy working in the coalmine. That’s hard work. I’m talking about people who won’t listen to you, won’t listen to science because they want more stuff.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agwagitprop; apologizes; globalwarming; libliars; matthews; msnbc; partisanmediashills; president
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Guess it doesn't tingle so much
1 posted on 11/02/2012 3:41:47 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Phil, please don’t fire that crazy bastard.


2 posted on 11/02/2012 3:42:57 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Nachum

Why won’t his family have him committed?


3 posted on 11/02/2012 3:44:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Nachum
Alcoholism is a progressive illness.
4 posted on 11/02/2012 3:45:11 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: TangoLimaSierra

I wonder what choice words this rapidly aging (and rapidly fading) cable commentator will have Tuesday night?


5 posted on 11/02/2012 3:45:50 PM PDT by laconic
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To: TangoLimaSierra

At least don’t fire him until after the election. We need to see him cry.


6 posted on 11/02/2012 3:47:05 PM PDT by beandog (All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
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To: Nachum

Here’s what’s wrong with Democrats: When you are okay with baby killing, anything goes...


7 posted on 11/02/2012 3:47:10 PM PDT by Calpublican
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Tuesday night is going to be fun watching Chrissy meltdown before our eyes.

I’m Melting!


8 posted on 11/02/2012 3:47:43 PM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: Nachum

Matthews has gone complete nuthouse.

I can’t wait until Tuesday night to watch Fox with PMSNBC in
PIP. To see the contrast between the two will be total
hilarious.


9 posted on 11/02/2012 3:48:06 PM PDT by NeverForgetBataan (I am become Barry... destroyer of wealth)
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To: Nachum

Chrissy has gone down the same road Olbermann went down to Loonytoonville.


10 posted on 11/02/2012 3:48:19 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Osama bin Laden is dead, Chrysler moved to Italy and China.)
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To: Nachum

Why not fire the pantie waste?


11 posted on 11/02/2012 3:49:21 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (I advocate indentured servitude for the 47% until the national debt is eliminated.)
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To: Nachum

An apology from that pig Chrissy Mathews wouldn’t mean a thing anyway.


12 posted on 11/02/2012 3:50:50 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Nachum

Mathews and the rest of the fanatical left are showing their true colors as being crude and vulgar. It will get worse over the next 4 days until Romney is elected on Tuesday. At that point they will self implode and curl up in a fetal position, claiming vote fraud. Mathews sold his soul for the low cost bidder MSNBC.....


13 posted on 11/02/2012 3:51:28 PM PDT by 2010Freeper
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To: Nachum

Matthews and Olbermann may be able to share a room at the sanitarium under Obamacare.


14 posted on 11/02/2012 3:52:13 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady ("When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Nachum

Matthews and Olbermann may be able to share a room at the sanitarium under Obamacare.


15 posted on 11/02/2012 3:52:13 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady ("When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

FIRE that lunatic piece of human debris.


16 posted on 11/02/2012 3:52:40 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: hinckley buzzard
Alcoholism is a progressive illness.

I have speculated here for some time that Matthews' problems are the result of early onset dementia. If he is also an alcoholic, he won't be on the air too much longer, because he will become progressively (snort) more and more incoherent until he becomes an embarrassing freak show. Even shameless MSNBC lives and dies by ratings.

17 posted on 11/02/2012 3:54:01 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Nachum

Speaking of pigs, how ‘bout those lavish White House dinners?


18 posted on 11/02/2012 3:54:44 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Nachum

Chrissy lost his sanity long, long ago...it is the eventual demise of all hard core socialists, assuming they ever had sanity to begin with.


19 posted on 11/02/2012 3:54:44 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: hinckley buzzard

It goes beyond alcoholism, probably to dementia. He is one sick dude. The whole left wing in America is unhinged. Long time friends of the liberal persuasion are off the charts nuts over this election. I am keeping my cool and will decide after the election is over whether they are ‘friends’ or just ‘people I know.’


20 posted on 11/02/2012 3:55:09 PM PDT by EDINVA (I)
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