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Chris Matthews Congratulates Rush Limbaugh On Controlling The GOP ‘With His Left Hand’

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The Chris Matthews/Rush Limbaugh mostly one-sided feud continued today on Hardball, where Matthews revisited his interview with Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, who refused to contradict Limbaugh’s defense of Rep. Joe Barton. In attacking the Republicans for refusing to denounce him, Matthews put the fight aside for a second to “salute” Limbaugh for his influence in the media world.

The strangest thing about it is that Matthews, despite his long-term campaign against Limbaugh, seems genuinely impressed with his chosen adversary:

“I’ve got to salute Rush, I’ve never seen a guy on the radio– he doesn’t do television, he has one medium of expression– the voice, he doesn’t put on guests, he has a good golf game, I figure, he’s kept up his tan, he’s got a good lifestyle, congratulations on his marriage, he enjoys his life and with, like, his left hand, he runs the entire Republican Party. Congratulations, until somebody dethrones you, Rushbo, congratulations on ruling an entire political party of dittoheads.”

He concluded by once against requesting that any Republicans willing to openly attack Limbaugh give his producers a call.

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  • notsofast

    Chris, sometime in your life, try not to be the loser that you are!

  • Ted

    notsomush – I think you are bitching for the sake of bitching. Limbaugh is the de facto leader of the GOP. So please, stop your insipid whining; its boorish.

  • murf

    Well Chris .. I would like to salute the Democratic Party for decades now of controlling the black/ minority voting block in this country. Yet your party has done little to nothing to better the urban inner cities with jobs , education etc. I guess keeping them on govt handouts does the job .. So congrats on brainwashing that voting block , which your party has done nothing but keep down to ensure the democratic vote .

  • MichelleF

    Chris, face it, you will never be as influential as Rush. I know that kills you, but it’s time you accept it and move on. Your stalking is getting down right creepy now.

  • lonestar77

    Poor Tingles, such a creepy obsession with someone who barely knows his name. Oh well. By the way Tingles, why don’t you ever ask your dem guests to denounce the nutjob bomb-throwers at your own network, Schultz & Bathtub Boy.

  • TfT

    The poor spitter — no matter how hard he tries, he just doesn’t have it, never will have it, never did have it. His level of jealousy for Rush is just too funny. Day 40what and county on his Rush obsession. The more he does it the more listeners Rush gets. Kind of like how FNC’s numbers skyrocketed. The attacks from the left just get more folks interested in what the right has to say. Thanks Chrissy.

  • nwjw

    Chris knows what it’s like to be a dittohead. Chris seems to have a few mancrushes going on. Maybe he’s using his right hand…

  • Bootleghaircut

    HEHEHEHEHE

  • http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

    Chris, you failed miserably in your attempt to ride the coat tails of El Rushbo. You will never be half the intellect or social consciousness of a man who can run circles around your spittle. Thank you Rush for all you do.

  • notsofast

    When Matthews gets a colonoscopy, they put the tube dowm his throat.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Matthews knows that all rethugs must go to RUSH on bended knee, Look how 8 out of nine posters are prostituting themselves for a known liar and drug addict.

    Stay on your knees rethug slaves, drink the KOOL AID JUST AS YOUR REQUIRED TO DO, be all you can be as BPs useful idiots just as you have been for the GOP, or did you slaves to the Rush Whale forget the topic AGAIN.

    Notice how i was able to include a reference to the POINT of the article and the underlying story.

  • missly12

    Who cares!!! My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He- is a black man, lol. We met online at an interracial dating site[_www. B L A C K W H I T E C U P I D d o t c o m_]—a nice and free place for singles- black & white, to interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

    “That sort of tribalist, right-wing news you get from Beck…”

    Tribalist. Lol!

    If any view is tribalist, it must be the left-wing view that you should spend yourself out of a crisis which comes from too much borrowing…

  • sarainitaly

    Could Matthews BE any more jealous?

    Thomas G Williams said:
    Thomas G Williams says:

    Matthews knows that all rethugs must go to RUSH on bended knee, Look how 8 out of nine posters are prostituting themselves for a known liar and drug addict.

    Drug addict? gee, what liberal views you have towards someone who had an addiction to pain killers. Do you know how many people in America find themselves in the same position? So, according to you, people who have/had an addiction to drugs are worthless human beings?

  • MichelleF

    Hey Thomas, I contemplated a lengthy response to your rant, but settled on , You’re a moron!

  • Penguin60

    Matthews obsession is bordering on pathologic. Is this really a story, or a vendetta? Where is the discussion of ideas vs who “controls” whom, seems trite and silly. I’ve listened to Rush, but don’t make a habit of it. He is an entertainer that comes up with some interesting takes on subjects, but as any talking head can get thrown off course. The Matthews stalking seems like another case of “find the boogeyman” strategy of the Dems.
    And Thomas, if Reps are “drinking the koolaid” you are taking it intravenously. Very lucent commentary (joke).

  • MichelleF

    Hey Chris,
    Congrats on being able to control NOTHING, including your dog to make.

  • Pablo

    Thomas G Williams said:
    Matthews knows that all rethugs must go to RUSH on bended knee, Look how 8 out of nine posters are prostituting themselves for a known liar and drug addict.

    Stay on your knees rethug slaves, drink the KOOL AID JUST AS YOUR REQUIRED TO DO, be all you can be as BPs useful idiots just as you have been for the GOP, or did you slaves to the Rush Whale forget the topic AGAIN.

    Notice how i was able to include a reference to the POINT of the article and the underlying story.

    Now if you could JUST construct AN argument that consists of something MORE than “Booga booga!” you’ll BE well on your WAY to…something.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kam-Fet/572005492 Kam Fet

    This Jokers are one of the groups keeping Rush in the news to begin with. he thrives on the attention given to him, when he doesn’t get these attention he says outrageous things and these bunch automatically talks about him. Memo to MSNBC, Stop talking about him, move on.

  • Rusty Shackelford

    The MSNB twits are watching their ratings circle the drain and feel they can reverse the trend by starting fights,Chris with Rush and Olbermann with O’Reilly. One problem Rush and O’reilly act as if neither one is even breathing.,its like they brush them off like a bug.

  • ImNotBlue

    Let’s call this what it is… it’s another attempt by Matthews to be KO. As we’ve discussed before, Matthews desperately wants to keep his job. He doesn’t get along with KO, but he’s tried to do everything in his power to be enough like him, to keep his gig. That’s why over the past few years, he’s move much more solidly and rabidly to the left.

    Now, all that said… the rationale for this is simply: KO made it “big” (relatively speaking) by picking a fight with O’Reilly. Matthews wants to pick a fight with someone so that he can get “big” too. He can’t hit FNC personalities because that’s KO’s bag, and he only shares with his friends. So he tries to go after Limbaugh… but that isn’t/doesn’t work because Limbaugh is too popular and Matthews is too insignificant.

    It’s just a stunt. A really obvious and pathetic stunt.

  • DrFunke

    I love the right-wing talking about Rush

    They constantly talk about him and agree with him yet refuse to publicly love him when people bring up that he controls their party

    Politicians apologize to him whenever he gets mad

  • jmonteith

    DrFunke—-Your suppose to prescribe Meds for your patients. NOT take them yourself.

  • http://none pyrope

    Mouthewes has been on this same idiotic rant all week. The boy is OBSESSED with the fact that Rush Limbaugh is famous and he’s still a nobody. While history will remember Mr. Limbaugh as a giant in the broadcast world, Mouthewes will be a mere footnote. Mouthewes is a bitter little pipsqueak of and excuse for a man…and the world knows it.

  • http://none pyrope

    Thomas G Williams? Who the hell is Thomas G Williams? Never heard of him/her/it.

  • writer

    Poor lefties. Still pining for Air America.

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