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Chris Matthews Asks Independent Voters How They Can Be “Heartless” And Abandon Dems

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Chris MatthewsChris Matthews, that master of the understatement, was at it again on last night’s edition of Hardball. Here’s what he had to say when introducing a segment about independent voters in the midterm elections:

“How can people be so heartless? The American independent voters on a tear. A new political battleground state poll shows independent voters inclined to be even nastier to the Democrats next Tuesday. Whether Democrats can stop the surge among independents will determine whether they either cut their losses next Tuesday, or drown in a Republican tsunami.”

All of the above is as close to verbatim as possible—so if you, like me, think it kind of doesn’t make sense, blame Matthews. Watch the host hyperbolize in the clip below. (h/t The Blaze):

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  • Seeing November From My Window

    I guess the Dem’s don’t give them that tingly feeling.

  • The Real Royal King

    Michelle-in-Utah: Another name. Same Kartload o’ Krap.

    Matthews was going for a bit of irony which he clumsily missed with sarcasm.

  • JimBob

    If a tree falls in a forest etc ect

  • Kird

    The Real Royal King said:
    Matthews was going for a bit of irony which he clumsily missed with sarcasm.

    er, what?

  • timzank

    JimBob said:
    If a tree falls in a forest etc ect

    Exactly, all 7 viewers reportedly nodded in agreement.

  • writer

    Well that settles it. If you don’t vote for the Democrats, you’re ‘nasty’.

  • Moderate

    The day that people would vote for the Democrats even if there was a yellow dog on the ticket are long gone. Poor people living in the inner-cities are the only ones they can depend on to be faithful.

  • Harry Flashman

    Chris Matthews – causing Democrats everywhere to cringe and say, “Um, thanks for the help Chris but, um, stop it now. Please.”

    Keep it up, Chrissie. We conservatives love it when you shoot off your big mouth.

  • tigerprez

    Aw, Mr. Tingles has a sad. Still, he’s handling this all much better than Joy Behar, who is about one bad poll away from the padded room. (Does she read polls? Can she read?)

  • disenlightened

    The Democrats declared war on the American Way of Life, and Matthews wonders how independents can abandon them? Next he’ll be calling them Nazis and racists.

  • The Real Royal Knig

    Brother Matthews, they haven’t abandoned us . . . we abandoned them.

    As planned.

    Now to shame them into following.

  • Dave Richards

    Does Phil Griffin know that Matthews is shilling for the Democrats?

    Oh, wait, never mind.

  • NeoKong

    Scream forward.
    I predict that on Nov. 2nd all the MSNBC anchors will all be drunk by ten P.M. to kill the pain.
    I can’t wait to watch.
    Watching them having to spit out the words “Sharon Angle has defeated Harry Reid “ will be the highlight of the night.

  • Rusty Shackelford

    Just a suggestion….MSNBC may want to think about having a couple therapist,a priest,rabbi,minister and a big bottle of Valium available for the night of Nov.2nd..

  • NORBIT

    Don’t worry Matthews, I’m sure Hugo’s got an open channel for you in Venezuela – after Ugghh takes over your time-slot.

  • timzank

    The Real Royal Knig said:
    Brother Matthews, they haven’t abandoned us . . . we abandoned them. As planned. Now to shame them into following.

    Good luck with that one, you socialists don’t have nearly as big a following as you imagine.

  • felixw

    I don’t blame Chris for trying an emotional appeal. He’s at least wise enough to know that running on the Democrats’ track record is not an option.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    So, where is the liberal indignation at a so called journalist campaigning for Democrats on the air?

    Oh wait, its another liberal so its ok. My mistake!

  • Cecelia

    Sometime in 2008, Chris Mathew left his sanity under the seat of his car, or sitting on a men’s room sink, and he hasn’t found it since.

  • notsofast

    How?

    maybe because this Mr. Tingle Legs:

    President Obama Heads into Midterms at Lowest Approval Rating of Presidency
    Two-thirds of Americans believe country going off on the wrong track

    NEW YORK , N.Y. – October 25, 2010 – President Obama is spending the next week crisscrossing the country in support of Democratic candidates before this year’s midterm elections. While the president may do a great job of energizing the base, he may not be able to convert any Independents who have yet to decide for whom they will vote. Currently, two-thirds of Americans (67%) have a negative opinion of the job President Obama is doing while just over one-third (37%) have a positive opinion. This continues the president’s downward trend and he is now at the lowest job approval rating of his presidency.

    These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 3,084 adults surveyed online between October 11 and 18, 2010 by Harris Interactive.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Inboca/1829370356 Dave Inboca

    The Tingle doesn’t hit us mere mortals the way it affects MessNBC’s Matthews, a clueless moron who wonders who “ghosted”Palin’s book…! this from a clown who supposedly “wrote” a book himself on Jefferson because he wanted to run for Senator in his native Pennsylvania…?!?

    Tweety obviously was at the end of the queue when gray matter was being handed out…!

  • Rusty Shackelford

    MSNBC brass is asking their on air “talent” to walk the sidewalks in NY and WA wearing sandwich boards begging people to vote for democrats…..my god its getting sad.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Chris Matthews Asks Independent Voters How They Can Be “Heartless” And Abandon Dems

    Well, I never abandoned them. They just up a moved away. An’t the party Mom and Dad were part of, thats for sure… Back then being a Conservative Democrat was the thing. All the Conservatives left and the progressives moved in. You can have em Tingles..

  • WildMan

    Chris Tingle is nothing more than a hired clown for MSNBC. I have never seen anyone so clueless. To me he is much more suited for a radio talk show where he can talk the whole hour and not say anything important.

  • CAconservative

    Shouldn’t some tell this pinhead that this is not about Party-politics? This is about cleaning up the mess both inept political parties have made.

  • Snidely

    Does anyone really pay attention to Chris Matthews? Why is he still on TV? Does anyone watch him?

  • rshaw

    heartless .. hmm .. well at least we aren’t BRAINLESS, Obama and the democrats over reached with their big spending liberal agenda at a time when the nation can least afford it. “Never let a good crisis go to waste” …. “You can’t fix the economy without fixing healthcare first” OK you got healthcare passed, the stimulus giveaway to your union supporters. The economy continues to stagnate and i don’t hear a Plan B. If your Plan A. was to make America a more difficult place to do business .. then maybe i don’t want to hear about a Plan B. This is not the change independant voters were looking for a few years ago, if the democrats had moved towards the center after the 2008 elections they probably could of held power for 20 years. They got greedy, they over reached, and they are about to get their hands rightfully slapped.

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