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Chris Matthews Asks Guest: ‘You Think I’m On The Far Left, When Did That Start?’

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Chris Matthews wanted to summarize the differences between President Obama’s plan to reduce the deficit versus the budget plan put forth by Republican Congressman Paul Ryan. The discussion was going along smoothly until Matthews became flabbergasted that one of his guests thought, for even a moment, that he was on the “far left” of the political spectrum.

Matthews began talking about the “two extreme views” of government, comparing Ayn Rand‘s philosophy to Marxism. When Matthews described the tenets of Marxism, The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore asked “you don’t believe that?” Matthews responded in disbelief, “what do you think I’m on the far left, when did that start?” At the end of the conversation at least Moore had no confusion about where he is on the spectrum, proudly declaring “I love rich people.”

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  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Mr. Schneider,
    You and Mediaite are on fire tonght…
    Great job!!!

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Wait, is it April Fool’s day!?

  • cjd ohio 1

    poor matthews, he is so dense

  • jdubbellu

    that commie thinks bill gates only came about from the internet? wow libs really are stupid…

  • Davo

    Priss Matthews would have to move a mile to the right just to get to the left. That he doesn’t notice gives the perfect example of being a Dim.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Is S Moore doing more MSNBC than FOXN lately?

  • ChrisNH

    Someone ought to remind Mr. Tingles that perception is reality. He can battle it all he wants, but ultimately to absolutely no avail. Ever since his ‘Tingles’ comment, Matthews has been pouring wet cement on his ‘Far Left’ label every single night. Now he wants to wish the label away.

    Good luck on that!

  • Barack Must Go

    What a moron this guy is.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Chris Matthews Asks Guest: ‘You Think I’m On The Far Left, When Did That Start?’

    Joe Biden just woke up when he heard this .

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Chris is Left, not Far left.
    If he were Far Left he would beat Obama up a lot more.

    Rachel and Cenk are Far Left.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    “You think I’m all wet? When did that start?” — Aquaman

  • Garth

    Barack Must Go said:
    What a moron this guy is.

    You don’t get back to the asylum on time and you forfeit a chocolate chip cookie.

  • cjd ohio 1

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Chris is Left, not Far left.If he were Far Left he would beat Obama up a lot more. Rachel and Cenk are Far Left.

    chris is left, rachel and cenk far left, odonnel and schultz ?

  • felixw

    Good question….when did Chris Matthews move the Far Left? Hard to identify the exact moment, but that is definitely where he operates nowadays. Those who only know Matthews today might find it hard to believe that there was a time when he wasn’t 100% predictable in his opinions and — even more surprising, given his current approach — when he engaged in dialogue on big issues. Nowadays, he is just another mud-slinging ideologue no different from the rest of the MSNBC cadre of true believers.

  • TerryDo

    ‘You Think I’m On The Far Left, When Did That Start?’

    It started Matthew when you father deliberately dropped you on your head and you land on the left side of you head.

  • timzank

    “You Think I’m On The Far Left, When Did That Start?”

    Right about the time you started tossing Barry’s salad you slobbering spittleflecked spooge receptacle.

    O/T but Just for laughs, watch Sheriff Joe catch some zzzzzz’s while Teh One revs up the crowd today:

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/04/13/video-biden-taking-obamas-deficit-speech-about-as-seriously-as-the-rest-of-us/

  • jo hoochie

    Crissy was just joking. Oh wait…… he is a joke!

  • felixw

    Let’s give Mediaite some credit. The site has now published 9 articles in a row without mentioning the President’s birth certificate. I am keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for double digits. But I fear a relapse.

  • timzank

    Garth said:
    You don’t get back to the asylum on time and you forfeit a chocolate chip cookie.

    You already make tonights liquor run?

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    felixw said:
    Let’s give Mediaite some credit. The site has now published 9 articles in a row without mentioning the President’s birth certificate. I am keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for double digits. But I fear a relapse.

    Yet you mention it constantly…

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    felixw said:
    But I fear a relapse.

    Go look at the new Arizona Birther Law thread and blame that on Media hype.

  • Bill Huggins

    Dude likes the president, so he is FAR LEFT.

    yeeeeaahhhhh, whatever.

    So by that rationale, everyone who doesn’t liKe the president is FAR RIGHT.

    To quote a famous democrat (can you name him?); “there ain’t gonna be any middle anymore”

  • andthehorseyourodeinon

    Matthews fried his brain and his liver bar tending for Tip O’Neil.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    chris is left, rachel and cenk far left, odonnel and schultz ?

    O”Donnell and Schultz- on a day pass from the sanatorium.

  • kvon

    If You Repeat A Lie Often Enough . . . You Become Breitbart

  • 434343

    OMG, you guys are funny, and I agree with almost every single one of you…..Where are the Chris Matthews admirers?….They even know how bad he is, embarrassing .

  • Dem4Ever

    “what you think the sun rises in the east and sets in the west when did that start?”

  • BadGenome

    Self awareness fail.

  • jo hoochie

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    O”Donnell and Schultz- on a day pass from the sanatorium.

    Oh, so that is where Garth hangs out??

  • notsofast

    “You Think I’m On The Far Left, When Did That Start?”

    Right after you said it was “your job” to see that this presidency succeeds.

  • Garth

    jo hoochie said:
    Oh, so that is where Garth hangs out??

    I thought I recognized as a patient. ECT at least 3 times a day for you? Sounds about right.

  • notsofast

    Garth said:
    I thought I recognized as a patient.

    Say it in English next time, son!

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Tingles is still confused about his politicuality!

    He doesn’t even understand that he is already out of the closet!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Steven Moore, the corporate whore.
    Rupert’s butt-boy from Wall Street.

  • Garth

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    Tingles is still confused about his politicuality!

    He doesn’t even understand that he is already out of the closet!

    WTF!! LMAO!!

  • Colorado_Conservative

    “When did that happen” ~ Tingles

    The moment you heard the “God like” Messiah speak?

  • cjd ohio 1

    Garth said:
    I thought I recognized as a patient. ECT at least 3 times a day for you? Sounds about right.

    down to 3 times a week now……keep your fingers crossed

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Garth said:
    WTF!! LMAO!!

    haha…I win the post of the day…I got Garth to laugh ; ) thumbs up

  • SmartAlec

    When did it start? It started with a “Tingle” and continues with “Obama’s boyish smile”. Carry on Chrissy.

  • Garth

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    haha…I win the post of the day…I got Garth to laugh ; ) thumbs up

    You really are easily entertained. No shame in that.

  • Garth

    BadGenome said:

    I mean like wow, self awareness and stuff like.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    434343 said:
    OMG, you guys are funny, and I agree with almost every single one of you…..Where are the Chris Matthews admirers?….They even know how bad he is, embarrassing .

    Where are the Steven Moore, (rhymes with whore) fans?
    You clowns must LUV your BJ’s.
    He has been sucking up to the wealthy for twenty years.

  • illusive man

    434343 said:
    Where are the Chris Matthews admirers?P>

    By the way it look’s, I’d say they don’t exist.
    http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/04/13/cable-news-ratings-for-tuesday-april-12-2011/89299

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    Joseph Glackin said:
    Rupert’s butt-boy from Wall Street.

    Can you please explain… what is a “butt-boy,” and how is that not a gay slur.

    THX

  • azgrandma

    Oh yes Mr. tingley, tingley. Always looks like he is slobbering all over the place. I think some of those tingles continued right on up through his brain.

  • tatboy

    To answer Matthews question: I think it started while you were a speach writer for Carter.

  • Pablo

    Is there a pool going on this? I’ll take December 17, 1945. And as a Sagittarius, I’ll hang my head.

  • Pablo

    Joseph Glackin said:
    Where are the Steven Moore, (rhymes with whore) fans?
    You clowns must LUV your BJ’s.
    He has been sucking up to the wealthy for twenty years.

    That’s a better plan that sucking up to Big Government. Unless you prefer thieves to producers.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Matthews is not far left. He is the LOONY left.

  • OxyCon
  • WildMan

    Chrissy, you are so goofy and so far out in left field you make center field and first base look like they are both home plate. More than anything is the fact that you are way out of touch with reality. Get yourself an education, boy and then we’ll talk.

    BTW…you really need to do something about those tingles and thrills Obama keeps giving you. That is just too gay.

  • WaterLoo

    You Think I’m On The Far Left, When Did That Start?

    The day you began omitting real news stories of Obama policies which were lockstep with the Bush policies you vehemently opposed.

    But Chris, that’s alright, always remember everytime Obama sends a “tingle up your leg” or you see his “boyish” smile, it’s “your job” to see that this presidency succeeds.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    chris is left, rachel and cenk far left, odonnel and schultz ?

    O’Donnell is a socialist. Schultz is left but he carries Obama’s water a bit too much for me … so not far left. But a union man through and through.

  • mediadoubt

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Chris is Left, not Far left.
    If he were Far Left he would beat Obama up a lot more.

    Rachel and Cenk are Far Left.

    Your statement highlights that there’s no center left (and we all know what Yeats said about that — see below).

    Far left is Marxists and Trotskyites. There’s no one of any influence who’s genuinely “far left” to be found in the US today. Mathews, Maddow, Uygur are liberal-to-progressive. A chunk of the Democratic Party clusters ideologically around them and their fellows. Then there’s a yawning gulf populated by a scattering of moderate dems (aka “liberal republicans”), a small handful of moderate Republicans (those not already taken out to the alley and shot by the zealots) and then . . . nothing . . . until you get to the nutbags and whackadoodles of the libertarian-anarchist-xtian persuasion. To the right of that you have Ahmadinejad and Bin Laden.

    ” . . . Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.”

    It’s hard to be optimistic.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    “It is my job to make sure this President succeeds”
    -Matthews
    At what price Mr. Matthews?

  • writer

    Matthews is the media’s version of Steve Urkel. “Did I do that?”

  • Sean68

    writer said:
    Matthews is the media’s version of Steve Urkel. “Did I do that?”

    Matthews is either a liar or an idiot. I’ve been watching his show since the late 90′s (and read him the SF Chronicle for years before that) and his politics have definitely turned sharply to the partisan left. A few months ago he had Howard Fineman and former McCain media advisor Mark McKinnon on his show, and at the end of the discussion Matthews characterized McKinnon as a man of the “center right” (this guy who refused to offer his services in opposition to Obama) and then Fineman as “…well, I’m not really sure where you stand on the political spectrum.” Even Fineman looked embarressed.

  • Sean68

    Sean68 said:
    Matthews is either a liar or an idiot. I’ve been watching his show since the late 90’s (and read him the SF Chronicle for years before that) and his politics have definitely turned sharply to the partisan left. A few months ago he had Howard Fineman and former McCain media advisor Mark McKinnon on his show, and at the end of the discussion Matthews characterized McKinnon as a man of the “center right” (this guy who refused to offer his services in opposition to Obama) and then Fineman as “…well, I’m not really sure where you stand on the political spectrum.” Even Fineman looked embarressed.

    Also, I don’t think you can underestimate the pressure the left puts on people in the media. I think Mika Brzinzski is a good example. As you, writer, have pointed out: unless you are completely in line with them, you are a considered either a dupe or traitor. The left takes its politics very seriously and there are no friends to the right.

  • felixw

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Yet you mention it constantly…

    Once again, when I try to dismiss the birther issue, I get attacked by a liberal. They don’t want to let go of it because it’s the only political argument they can win. They can’t defend the huge economic mess created by Obama. They can’t defend the out-of-control budget deficits. They can’t defend the failed stimulus package. They can’t defend the incoherent foreign policy of this administration. They can’t defend the ugly unemployment picture. They can’t defend the non-existent Obama border policy. They can’t defend the desperately unpopular health care bill that even their supporters need waivers from. They can’t defend any of the Obama disaster unfolding before our eyes.

    But they can defend the President’s place of birth, and will keep this issue in the news for as long as possible.

  • Tedderman

    Steve Moore is the ultimate tool, this guy laughs like a B-movie madman>

  • george L

    Years ago, Newsweek pointed out that people (real people) hold a mix of liberal and conservative beliefs/attitudes. The best example of this is that even the most liberal of people understand and support the idea of a balanced budget. They are also sold on capitalism as the most natural and efficient way of DISTRIBUTING wealth. (Distributing is in caps because that word sounds socialist, but it isn’t.) No one tells you that because it makes liberals human, and reasonable.

    Conservatives can be atheists, but don’t tell the Christian right that. Conservatives can also be gay, or black, or Hispanic, but don’t tell an extreme liberal that. Meanwhile, just about everyone now agrees that during the Bush administration, Republicans only pretended to be conservative at budget time.

    Our problem is that politicians are driven to the extremes by the voters who demand purity at primary time. This winnows out the more reasonable potential politicians who have mixed views about abortion, God in government, and a minimum social safety net.

    Back to Chris Matthews. I cannot stand to watch his program because he is so full of his own ideas that he won’t let his guests finish a sentence. Even someone who supports his ideas gets drowned out by Matthews’ constant interruptions. It gets to the point that he drowns himself out.

    I conclude that his enthusiasm for his own ideas is extreme.

  • Snidely

    Y’ think somebody might have gotten a clue where Matthews stands on the political spectrum when he got chills listening to Obama speak?

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