Chris Matthews Excuses Newt Gingrich’s Tears: Politics ‘Is A Brutal Business’

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by Frances Martel | 5:47 pm, December 30th, 2011

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With the Iowa caucuses on the horizon for Tuesday, the strain started to show today on some of the few people in America putting in 100% at work today: the Republican presidential candidates. This is particularly true for Newt Gingrich, who started crying during a talk when prompted to talk about his mother, but his breaking up was excused today on Hardball, where Chris Matthews broke down the “brutal” dynamics of the political game and gave Gingrich the benefit of the doubt.

Matthews repeated the moment and added a warm analysis to the bit, noting that “politicians when they lose elections or have trouble, cry,” and that it was a phenomenon that crossed party lines. He argued that this was due to the nature of the business. “Politics is the only business where you ask everybody to like you, and you get a verdict from everybody. And they all tell you, in most cases, ‘we don’t like you,’” Matthews explained. “And every once in a while, they say they like you, and then they tell them they don’t like them… it’s a brutal business,” he concluded. Matthews has certainly not been easy on Gingrich in the past, but he refused to go after him for the tears.

Howard Fineman was not as sympathetic as Matthews, however, and instead took Gingrich on for being “in terrible shape” and too old for the race. “He looked like he’d taken on more than he could handle,” he argued, and “thinks he can go like he went thirty years ago.”

The segment via MSNBC below:

2012 elections, Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, msnbc, newt gingrich, Republican

Anonymous

Tears of a clown.
Anonymous

Tears of a Kunt.
http://twitter.com/twztid13 Shane Swift

Matthews is such a wonderful guy! If Newt got a thrill up his leg, would that be more appropriate, lol?
Anonymous

If someone asks you about your dead Mother and to recall their impact on your life and you don’t show any emotions then I truly feel really sorry for you. Obama, Newt, Jon Stewart, Reagan, Al Sharpton, Gen, Patreus, or Peyton Manning, it makes no difference, they should all get a pass. Losing a parent is a non-partisan issue and tears of emotion do not make a male any less of a man.
OSTL

democrat tears= great, justified, feel sorry
republicans tears= fake, clownish, etc.

Loon logic.
Anonymous

Do not tell me that liberals are not hate mongers. This is pure hate for a man that is running for an office.
Anonymous

Hate monger, what is the matter with you. vulgar hate comment.
Anonymous

The comment here have proven my thesis that liberals are non caring hate mongers. What further proof, A candidate breaks down thinking of his mother and then is called names. No more telling me that liberals are the caring people, its a lie.
Anonymous

They don’t cheer about record executions and scream let him die to someone who has no health insurance.
OSTL

you commit a crime you pay the price…no insurance, not our problem
Anonymous

Are you kidding me? You are not going to defend the liberals on compassionate grounds. Do you know who started the Nam war? John F Kennedy, Do you know who ended it, Richard Nixon.The democrats and liberals treat our Afro brothers as chattel to be fed and clothe the minimum that our nation has to offer and then buses them off the chain gang to vote. This is cruelty not compassion.

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Yoda002 wrote, in response to without_hate:
They don’t cheer about record executions and scream let him die to someone who has no health insurance. Link to comment
The Real Royal Emperor

You are going to force me to go into the whole Juanita thing, and I’m pretty sure you don’t want that, Jeff.
OSTL

kinda hard to defend the defenseless, huh, bosquey?
Anonymous

That’s very Christian of you.
Anonymous

You first need to get your facts right. I recommend opening up a history book.
Anonymous

Not sure to whom this is attributed but someone pointed out that when conservatives cry in public, it’s self-centered in that it’s an expression of bemoaning their own misfortune & lot in life at some point such as physical suffering or a personal loss.

But when liberals cry in public it’s usually in expressing sorrow at the state of a general segment in society not remotely close to them, such as scenes from wars, natural disasters, or victims of the current state of racism and discrimination in this society… something they are not directly impacted by
Anonymous

The Vietnam War (1955-75) was a military conflict where South Vietnam fought against unification with communist North Vietnam. The war resulted from the First Indochina War, where Vietnam was divided to separate the warring parties until free elections could take place. However, in 1955 the leader of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, refused to hold the elections, and war ensued. North Vietnam was supported by its communist allies inclduing the Soviet Union and North Korea. South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries including South Korea and Australia. The picture below shows some of the first US marines boarding a helicopter on an aircraft to be carried into action in 1965. John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year. I think you should take your own advice.
15 May 62 – President Kennedy orders an immediate build-up of US troops in Thailand to a total of 5,000 due to Communist attacks in Laos and movement toward the Thailand border8 Mar 65 – “Two US Marine battalions arrived on the beach at DaNang in full battle gear. . . They were met not by enemy fire, but by curious onlookers. . . One soldier said, “The war was nowhere in sight.”
When you want to insult someone do your home work. Eisenhower had a handful of advisers in Nam. Kennedy sent the first combat troops. They must not teach history in public school.

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Yoda002 wrote, in response to without_hate:
You first need to get your facts right. I recommend opening up a history book. Link to comment
Anonymous

For instance Herman Cain talking about his overcoming cancer
Gingrich, his suffering at the loss of his mother
Boener talking about his sweeping the floors growing up or wining the speakership

It’s the ‘me’ party. In fact Rush spends hours on his show proudly touting the merits of selfishness and worthlessness of charity and combating poverty
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Anonymous

Separation of church and state right?
Anonymous

I’m glad he took the high road. What’s the harm in giving the guy the benefit of the doubt, on this? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like him, and I understand it could be an act. What if it isn’t, though? Then that just makes me a d*ck for laughing at the guy crying over his dead mother.
12voltman1

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12voltman1

I’m the troll?
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
12voltman1

Newt is a Kunt? I guess.
12voltman1

Running away from office, you mean. Quickly!
12voltman1

Have a Happy New Year psycho!
Anonymous

Those aren’t tears; they’re weeping sores. You should see your gynecologist about them.
Anonymous

C’mon Chrissy. It’s nothing more than another Gingrich ploy. The geek has a heart of stone - with a soul to match.
Larry Linn

But the hate for Gingrich is justified!
Anonymous

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Anonymous

There is no justification for hate. You may disagree with a man politics as I do with Obama. I do not hate him.

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Anonymous

Ike did not put combat troops into viet nam. He put 100 advisers. Then the democrats took over and we were in a war and the politicians ran the war from Washington.

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