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Chris Matthews: Herman Cain Isn’t A Serious Candidate, Nor A Newspaper Reader

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This afternoon, Martin Bashir invited MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews onto is program to discuss both the personal and policy-related issues surrounding GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain‘s campaign.

Where policy is concerned, asked Bashir, “is Herman Cain a serious candidate for president?” Matthews’ response was simple, and blunt:

No. And the reason he’s not is he is not prepared even to the point of being a newspaper reader. I can tell — we all can — when someone is unfamiliar with a term like “neoconservative,” which has been at the heart of the whole debate over the war with Iraq, with of course the neoconservatives fighting very hard to wage that war and others opposed to them for that reason.

To not know that the Chinese have had, the PRC has had nuclear weaponry since the 60s is ignorance. These are facts of our fundamental national and international situation.

Bashir followed up by asking whether it’s become “hip to be dumb,” with Matthews nodding that, yes, it certainly is, and that Sarah Palin looks downright genius when compared to Cain. (For those of you who are busy being very hip: Chris Matthews doesn’t view Palin as one of our nation’s most brilliant minds.)

Matthews added that, while he encourages rhetoric meant to take elitist attitudes to task, he can’t support anti-intellectualism or anti-academic prejudice.

Have a look at their discussion, from MSNBC:

RELATED: Herman Cain Seems To Reveal That He Was Unaware Of China’s Nuclear Capability

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  • Anonymous

    Lol….Cain is just failing and failing!

    I am begging all libs not to be goaded into the deflection and spin that right wing loons like michelle and pablo will try to do in order to apply damage limitation to Cain’s failures.

    They will try to;
    1) Push Solyndra themed arguments
    2) Use Clinton to make Cain’s sex problems seem smaller
    3) Claim that this is a racist smear campaign against Cain by the liberal media.

    Just tell them that Cain will never be president like Palin 

  • Anonymous

    Tingles has many qualifications…too bad journalism or a reporter isn’t one of them!!

  • Redleaf

    Making fun of Matthews instead of commenting on the substance of his remarks in 3, 2, 1…

  • Anonymous

    Bingo! Right on schedule!! (And extra points for “tingles”)

  • Anonymous

    C’mon — a blind man with two blind guide dogs could see that coming!

  • http://OsamaObamaBIDENbiNLAden.blogspot.com/ ObamaOsamaBIDENbiNLAden

    Everyone is being taken for a ride just the same as we were with Sarah Palin

  • Anonymous

    One thing Tingles is an authority on is lack of qualifications. I don’t know what Bashir is an authority on.

  • Anonymous

    Matthews is a third rate partisan hack. His comments have no substance. Discussing his comments is akin to discussing the comments of people who spend their lives in mental institutions. We don’t make fun of Tingles as a way of deflecting from his genius commentary. He long ago blew up his career. If we didn’t make fun of him we would have nothing else to do.

  • Busslug

    Who read newspapers anymore anyway?

  • Anonymous

    Matthews is highly regarded in Washington circles, worked as an advisor to a president, has two TV shows on air current and books. 

    And what are your credentials exactly? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    Exactly. Who watches MSNBC? Both are dead media. lol

  • Sean68

    I’d bet a hundred dollars Martin Bashir isn’t sure who Averil Harriman was. Just a hunch.

  • Anonymous

    Matthews is wrong. Cain is a serious candidate as indicated by his surprisingly high poll numbers. I said it a while ago that Cain has everything what the GOP-base loves. He´s not a professional politician, he is a business man, he wears his ignorance with pride. If Cain is able to manage the current crisis and stay alive politically,  he will become even a more serious candidate. If the con base is given the choice between Cain and Romney a huge surprise could easily happen. I don´t see anyone else besides the two of them being a serious contender for the candidacy. Yeah, Cain is clueless and his ideas are ridiculous and crazy, but that´s what brought him this far.

  • Jeff

    Would that be an adviser to Jimma Carta??? Wasn’t he the worst President ever until this retarded scumbag got elected exG????????? Highly regarded in Washington circles?????? Is that a good or bad thing exG??? Are/can you seriously be as ignorant as your posts or is it just a ploy??????? And by the way, what are your credentials exG???? Whatever they are, they ain’t working………because you’re a real idiot……………..just saying. Oh yeah, I forgot, you are FUNNY though…..and I thank you for that.

  • Hetoimasia

    I wasn’t either, but a quick browse of t’internet tells me you spelt his name wrong.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    The guy has 40 years of experience in washington, served on the staffs of several congressmen, speechwriter for Carter, top aide for  Tip Oneill and respected throughout Washington. And he’s actually more conservative than most people think. He voted for George W in 2000. You on the other hand, most likely have a cv comprised of  lesser accomplishments.

  • Anonymous

    Do you ever wonder who is totally IRRELEVANT….

    Greg Gutfeld’s 3 AM FOX show ‘Red Eye’ Ratings Beats prime-time Scarborough, Piers Morgan, John King, and Chris Matthews ratings !!!!

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Apparently not you. You don’t seem to know how to spell or spell-check.

  • Jeff

    I think it’s kind of cute, watching retards tell everyone how much smarter they are than everybody else!! It’s SOOOOO FUNNY, I get tingly all over, not just down my leg!! ” The Marty and Matthews Show” some of the funniest sh!t you’ll ever see on TV………….rated ‘R’ for Retarded!!!

  • Anonymous

    Maybe Matthews should pick up a dictionary once in a while. The word “develop” has close to twenty definitions and several of them are “to enlarge or expand” “to build up”  ” to grow” “to improve” “to strengthen” and so on.
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/develop
    It has even more synonyms.
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/develop?show=0&t=1320269848

    What sort of jackass do you have to be to try and claim that a former ballistics analyst for the U.S. Navy doesn’t know China has nukes…..?

  • Anonymous

    It will be Romney.
    .Romney will lose to Obama

  • Anonymous

    You sound real middle of the road.

  • Moosenuts99

    What sort of jackass do you have to be to say that an “agreement” is not the same
    As a “settlement”, when in fact the legal term is SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT?

    And what sort of jackass doesn’t know what Neoconservatism is?

  • Moosenuts99

    Hmmmm, the segment wasnt about THEIR intellectual prowess. Clearly you have interpretation and comprehension problems.

  • Anonymous

    That bad old soulless Jimmy Carter. Who doesn’t make many speaking tours for profit  and builds homes for the poor.He is such a bad mean person.
    Obama a retarted Scumbag? because he graduated from Harvard? 

    I believe you are the retarded scumbag . Just by reading your message. 

  • Moosenuts99

    8 years of prideful ignorance didn’t work under W

  • Anonymous

    Intelligent people.
    Sometimes online,

  • Anonymous

    If nobody watched.MSNBC would not be in business,.
    Or is that to complicated for you?

  • Rper

    Cain won’t make it till the end of the month before he is forced to quit in disgrace,

  • Lizton

    Cain’s reckless womanizing will be even too much for the Baggers.

  • Anonymous

    All that means is he is a Beltway insider. Not good.

  • Ark

    These preacher types are often the most horny.

  • Anonymous

    There are over 300 million people in this country. I guarantee you that the majority don’t know what a Neoconservative is.

  • Anonymous

    He’ll be fine. All those Clinton apologists will vote for him.

  • Jeff

    HmmmmmmmHmmmmmmmmm…………………….Moose, them nuts is screwing with your brain…..wear a helmet next time you get teabagged! Aren’t THEY, NuttyMoose, giving an opinion on someone elses intellectual prowess? I’m still trying to figure out how you idiots got so goddam stupid! It’s almost impossible to believe………but always good for some laughs!! And for that, I thank you Nuts……….

  • Moosenuts99

    Now tell me that anyone running for the head of the Republican party’s shouldnt have to know what a Neoconservative is. We’re not electing those 300 million other people.

    If the dude doesn’t even know the history of his own party, what makes you think he’s familiar with US history, let alone WORLD history.

  • Moosenuts99

    Exactly. They are giving their opinion on SOMEONE ELSE’S intelligence, not their own as you had claimed.

    Enjoy voting for Romney!! LOL

  • Anonymous

    Settlements happen in lawsuits.  They happen after litigation.   It implies that a legal battle occurred and the aggrieved party received an award for damages. It’s what happens when a judge is involved. If you are aware of any of that happening then please post the link.

    An in house employee separation could be called an agreement since it was handled internally to the satisfaction of both parties.

    P.S.
    Define “neocon” Einstein.

  • Jeff

    12v…………I’m SHOCKED by your ignorance………….I think you need to pull the plug buddy……..you are certainly conFUSED…………..and stupid too! Sorry, it’s really gotta suck being you, you know, retarded and all…………..just sayin’.

  • Jason

    Ehhh, it will be Romney, but Romney will beat Obama. Obama doesn’t have indy support. Romney certainly does.

    Also, you two idiots can kiss the senate goodbye. Enjoy. TWINKLES DOWN!!!! 

  • Jason

    Serious question for you, exGOP… Why did you leave the GOP? I’ve seen you do nothing but call everyone to the right of Hitler, “crazy” and “stupid”, and your comments seem to come from the drug addled brain of an absoilute fringe moonbat leftwinger, so i’m just curious… why did you ever register as a Republican? As a party, they never represented the fringe left, where you seem to come from, so it just seems odd that you would have ever aligned yourself with an ideology you clearly hate to a point where you froth at the mouth like a rabid idiot.

  • Jason

    Making fun of Matthews and his Mooslim butt buddy is rather easy. Perhaps you shouldn’t get so attached to people in the color box who get paid to feed you talking points?

  • Jason

    Ho hum, one man’s “credentials” are another man’s “rabies”.  Maybe they can hire you to wipe his chin during commercial breaks.

  • Anonymous

    It’s going to be a very interesting GOP/Republican Debate next time around. 

    Who would have thought it, in these circumstances…

    …Any takers for Herman Cain in this climate?

  • Anonymous

    I maintain that YOU do not know what it means except that is usually refers to Republicans.
    For a second time I will ask you to define it.

    Define “neocon”

    You have your homework assignment now so go rush off to Google and bring me a cut and paste.

  • Jason

    Suicide bombs.

  • Jason

    Worked only slightly better than the first 3 under B

  • Jason

    Chris Matthews is a racist. There, I said it.

  • Anonymous

    Wow- it so easy  to make fun of you because you are such a retarded dullard. Get a new dental plan!

  • Anonymous

    Speech writer for Carter- the biggest loser president ever!?

    LMAO

    He should not brag about that!

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Nor did 3 years of ignorance of Barry!

  • Anonymous

    He had sex with your mother—- and father!

  • Anonymous

    ROMNEYCARE? Varmit hunter! Gay rights supporter while Governor.Pro choice as Governor. There is not an issue this wishy washy flip floping phoney has not changed his stance on. 

  • Anonymous

    That must be  why he has had  two TV shows for years.

  • Anonymous

    Yes and you are a fool for it.

  • Anonymous

    Do you duct tape your balls before you put you panties on?

  • http://twitter.com/BlueSaboteur Rob Leon

    Cain’s minstrel train is on fire–and he can’t stop it.   A third woman has emerged and Cain’s blaming Rick Perry for the leak.    Playing the race card has boomeranged on this clown.

  • Anonymous

    Why do they put the colonoscope down your throat?

  • Anonymous

    hey, if 5 more women come out, he will have to run as a lib Democrat!

  • Anonymous

    Only if your wife asks me to!

    BTW, I like it when your wife takes her teeth out – what a nasty suck!

  • Anonymous

    Only these thoughts could come out of a twisted hateful Drag Queen like yourself,

  • Anonymous

    Stone park  had sex with your farm animals and dog as well!

  • Anonymous

    Barry? You’re real tight with the prez? Huh?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    His critique stings you a bit hard eh?

  • Anonymous

    Climate wrong choice of a word, right wing Republicans do not believe in climate or science.
    lol

  • Rbandindy

    A very solid career.   His show is normally pretty good.

  • Anonymous

    Chris feels no tingle for Herman.  Lucky Herman!

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Not sure why exGOP left the Republican Party – but I left because it has been taken over by the extremely religious, right wing sect of the party.  I believe in limited government, no govt. interference in personal lives, low taxes, limited gun control, and the death penalty. However, they completely lose me due to the hatred they expel towards homosexuals, minorities, anyone non-white, anyone non-christian, the poor, etc.

  • OSux

    Chrissie Lewinsky is not a serious individual.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Buffoons have taken over the GOP. And the low IQ Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers are cheering them on.

    Cain, Perry, Bachmann and Palin are/were hoping to be the President of USA. These clowns are shockingly ignorant, uninformed and just plain stupid on all important matters.

    GOP can thank Fox News and the Tea Baggers for this malaise.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Today Cris Matthews was trying to convince Obama he’s always been more like JFK.  Matthews said Obama should be JFK. 
    Like many other historical figures having done so recently I’m sure JFK will roll over if Obama tries Astral Projection.

  • Anonymous

    Big fan of JFK are you?

  • clever

    You go girl We all know the real intelligent people like you are hanging out at wall street getting teabagged.By the way you just described obama and I would have went with this ass clown.

  • clever

    Only if he raped the last two if he would rape three he would be more than quailfied to be the next Dem Prez.

  • clever

    What sort of ass clown would troll with a name like moosenuts

  • Anonymous

    Sorry no. I have no respect for him and therefore his opinions mean absolutely nothing to me. I’m sure you want me to care but unfortunately Tingles is little more than comedy fodder to me. He is a clown and I get as worked up for him as I used to for Bozo when I was a kid.

  • Anonymous

    Tingles goes on tv and spews his crap for a living, I don’t. He doesn’t have the qualifications to do what I do for a living and I would welcome his critique if he wished to offer it.

  • OSux

    democrats haven’t been taken over by the low IQ blowjobbers but rather they have always been low IQ blowjobbers.  Just read gadfly for proof of a liberal with an IQ below 50 and someone who has written several times before that he gives blowjobs every morning and every night.

  • Anonymous

    The same as yours genius. As for Tingles’ “accomplishments”, I wouldn’t put “Advisor to Jimmy Carter” on my resume and the qualifications to work at MSNBC are, shall we say, not stringent.

  • Ark

    or what Palestine ‘right of return’ means. Cain is Mr Know–nothing.

  • Yukon Jack

    Chris Matthews is about as qualified to be called a “journalist” as his idol, the One Who Sends A Tingle Up His Leg, 0bama is qualified to be called president.  

  • Anonymous

    Bashir running a clip of a Herman Cain malapropism, the bit about “defending our enemies,” is Mediaite commentator level political analysis as serious as if he were to make the case that because Obama said 57 states he was disqualified to be president.

    Such is emblematic of their coverage.  It’s shameful what is passed off as intellectualism on that network.

    To further illustrate the point, as if one needed more evidence, for several minutes Bashir and Matthews proceed to rehash a series of talking points – as a soundly unfair interpretation of Cain speaking about the neoconservative movement as one in which he wasn’t aware of it rather than him attempting to identify himself instead as related to a more traditional style of conservatism.  Additionally, they cover the Chinese weapons flap – 24 hour in its deceitful framing – in which a Cain quote is falsely reported to mean he said China was seeking nuclear weapons and wasn’t referring to their seeking nuclear-powered aircraft-carriers, the context, provided immediate after, which by necessity is excerpted from their analysis – even if they run the full quote.  With these pieces of “evidence,” their lying interpretations, in hand, they continue the usual narrative building game of painting those who don’t “speak” professionally or glibly (and more criminally, don’t think as they do) as being dumb.

    I, for one, don’t think Cain is the most prepared candidate, nor even the most versed one.  Yet the level of insult Matthews and Bashir attribute to his intelligence is insulting to the viewer.  Not that many would notice, however; in that those who know better don’t watch and those who do regularly will probably not notice.  The rest of us have become sick to death of leftist media’s lying game to attempt to define what’s acceptable “speech.”  They pushed on the country “the most intelligent being alive” (as Valerie Jarrett would have us believe) and matters in the country could hardly be worse.

    Speaking of anti-intellectualism, Chris Matthews is continually proving, as I’ve more than once made the point, not to be a serious intellectual.  His entire repertoires of late is demeaning people who differ with him and focusing inordinately on appearances over substance.  Once he pushes his lies and gets into the meat of his characterizations based on them, this is no exception. It’s just insult after insult.

  • Yukon Jack

    Both “shows” are on a network that is the biggest water-carrier of the Democratic Party. He hardly EVER has anyone on either of his shows who is not a slobbering 0bama fan, like him.He has nothing but contempt for everyone he disagrees with and nothing but blind and slavish adoration for those who are in his camp.

    He worships the record holder of spineless and gutless and cowardly “PRESENT” votes in both the Illinois State Senate and the Unites States Senate, both of which this record holder quit for personal gratification.

    The only person Matthews adores more than 0bama is the former president who holds another record: tomcatting and philandering, who would have died by STD or a bullet of a jealous husband, if had not been for Lee Harvey Oswald.

  • Yukon Jack

    Your pathetic ilk never missed any opportunity to call George W. Bush far worse names than “scumbag”.
    Because he graduated from Yale. With – presumably – better grades than 0bama, because 0bama makes it a priority to keep his grades secret, but I am sure it’s not because he is ashamed of them or he got them courtesy of affirmative action.

    I DID work on one Habitat For Humanity project, where Jimmy Carter made an appearance. And that is EXACTLY what it was. For about half an hour. Swang the hammer about six times. It was about as impressive as the way he handled the economy and the hostages in Iran.  

  • Anonymous

    Turns out Matthews might be right.

  • Anonymous

    In other words, you’ve been corrupted by leftist identity politics.  Bhye bye!  Don’t need your types in the rightest party.

    Don’t need it in the leftist one either, but that’s a recipe for destruction.  So may as well collect all of them under one banner.

  • Anonymous

    Consider that Megan McCain is a republican – only nobody outside the McCain household takes the claim seriously..  But we’re agreed; exGOPer must seriously have not understood politics when he identified himself as former GOP material.  He still doesn’t, but that’s neither here nor there.

  • cdnhawk

    Might? He is definitely right.

  • Anonymous

    Matthews is wrong. Cain is a serious candidate as indicated by his surprisingly high poll numbers. I said it a while ago that Cain has everything what the GOP-base loves. He´s not a professional politician, he is a business man

    Should’ve ended it right there.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, actually, it was; when all you do is claim another dumb (and that’s all they did – supported by lying narratives and misquotes), you implicitly elevate the perception of your own intelligence. Therefore the entirety of the segment was braggadocio.

    This was a startling piece of anti-intellectualism masquerading as insight.

  • Yukon Jack

    Kennedy’s reckless womanizing did NOT end his career, unless of course, unbeknown to the world – but not to Lee Harvey – he fooled around with Mrs. Oswald.

    Clinton’s reckless womanizing did not end his career, because Hillary realized that if she had had pride and spine and kick his sorry ass out she could have never been a Presidential contender and a Secretary of State.

    Democratic philandering is quite OK with the liberal media.

    One single accusation of a Republican of the same is equivalent of one conviction.

  • Darr247

    Hmmm…  why do you keep clicking the Like button on Jeff’s messages, 12v?

    Could it be you’re actually the same person, hired by mediaite to post arguments creating controversy and an illusion of interest when there really is neither?

  • Yukon Jack

    Kennedy’s reckless womanizing did NOT end his career, unless of course, unbeknown to the world – but not to Lee Harvey – he fooled around with Mrs. Oswald.

    Clinton’s reckless womanizing did not end his career, because Hillary realized that if she had had pride and spine and kick his sorry ass out she could have never been a Presidential contender and a Secretary of State.

    John

  • Anonymous

    Watch the clip again.  He follows the comment about their developing nuclear capability with a discussion of their naval expansion with regards to carriers.  He’s talking of their carrier program, expected to produce indigenous designed nuclear powered supercarriers by 2020 to give meat to a burgeoning blue-water navy.  In consideration that China within the last year has been antagonistic and confrontational with every one of their immediate sea-sharing neighbors – Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines – with mere fishing boats and cutters, this rightly ought to be a topic of serious future consideration.

    But the press is too lazy to listen to and/or parse an entire sentence for that to be clear.  Or they’re outright lying about it.

  • Yukon Jack

    Seeing how he treats Michael Steele and Ron Christie – on the one-in-a-hundred occasion when he has the guts to invite a conservative – he is DEFINITELY a RACIST.

    Not to mention the way he talks about Herman Cain. Or the way he always talked about Condoleza Rice or Colin Powell. 

  • Sean68

    Well, at least now you know who Averell Harriman was. ;)

  • Jason

    I really don’t think Obama can run against ANYONE by using the “flip flopper” thing.

    Romney is a flip flopper, but so is literally every politician who walks the earth.

  • Jason

    You believe in limited government, and you align yourself with the left? low taxes, and you belong to the socialist party usa? limited gun control, and vote for gun grabbers? believe in the death penalty, and side with the idiots who piss and moan everytime we lawfully put to death a piece of shit like Tookie Williams?

    and really, you think the poor are served best by more government handouts? Are you also of the mindset that giving drug addicts more access to crack cocaine is the best way to curb their drug habbit?

    The way you described yourself, you have a party.. it’s called the Libertarian Party… Not the Democrat party. You may want to open your fucking eyes, chap.  

  • Jason

    I agree with you 100%, but usually people who just sign up with a party without knowing anything about the issues, do so with the Democratic Party… mostly due to pop culture and media hammering the idea that Democrats are cool, and Republicans are evil. I really think exGOP is just one of these moonbats who think that pretending to be a former Republicans, while espousing far left views, lends them more credibility. As if people are going to say, “hey, he must be moderate and reasonable, and if he left the GOP, then the GOP must really be extreme”. It’s a childish tactic, but it works sometimes.

  • Jason

    Why do you like my comment and then complain about it?

  • shonangreg

    It was a terrible lead-in. No one thinks Cain actually wants to defend our enemies. Matthews’ follow-up, however, was spot-on. Cain did not misspeak when he said he didn’t know the term “neoconservative”. He just doesn’t know basic politics. We’d be doomed to repeat decades of mistakes if Cain were to become President.

    I’ve always had mixed feeling about Matthews. He is intelligent and very knowledgeable, but as an interviewer he is a counter-productive chatterbox. My opinion of Bashir has been eroded from this exchange . . . He seems willing to say anything.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve thought that myself and posted as much but today I’m in a generous mood.  He’s as hard left as they come around here so if anyone is bought off by such a tactic they’ve probably already been captured by the left anyway.

  • Stop Diversity Now

    Why in the fu ck do mentally ill liberals always accuse sane heterosexual people of “not reading newspapers”?
    They are so fu cking deranged and stupid that they can’t comprehend that the NY Times is contributing to their fu cking white guilt derangement. And when is this closeted homosexual gonna come out?

  • NudeBoyLover11

    “I am begging all libs” to commit suicide.

  • Gueat

    “To not know that the Chinese have had, the PRC has had nuclear weaponry since the 60s is ignorance ”

    Which, Chrissy, shows the total ignorance on your part. He never said
    that the Chinese didn’t have nuclear weapons. He said that they were trying to develop nuclear capability. Capability and weapons are two different things. He said it in the context of them developing aircraft carriers. China is currentlyworking on a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and new
    generations of nuclear subs that will give them nuclear capabilities
    they haven’t had before. And to Bashir  about his statement ” Is it hip to be dumb” If it is, then you must be the hippest man in America. It would take a total ignoramus to believe that a man who was a former Navy missile ballistics employee  wouldn’t know about China’s nukes . During the Vietnam War, he examined the test launches of the Dongfeng I and Donfeng II  missles and plotted out the trajectories and capabiliities of its delivery of nuclear warheads. So Chrissy and Bashir, it seems the two of you are the most ignorant of all.

  • Anonymous

    Hardball is on MSNBC. The Chris Mathews Show is syndicated.
    Not a fan of JFK Huh?

  • Anonymous

    I guess you are unaware that someone is “hacking in” or creating ghost accounts and clicking on the “like button” using my name and avatar. This has happened to other on the left as well. The righties are always up to dirty tricks.
    Nothing personal. I didn’t like your post.

  • Anonymous

    Does Herman give you a tingle?

  • Anonymous

    “It’s just insult after insult”………….Please cite.I watch daily. 

    BTW- You write well. To bad it is based on assumption and half truths without conformity with fact or reality

  • Yukon Jack

    Chris Matthews is not a serious Human Being, based on his shows, and his book on the greatest philanderer since Caligula.

  • Anonymous

    For me to cite would necessitate me watching Chris Matthews again. Been there; done that.  I used to respect him as a partisan, though a fair and reasonable thinker and the saving grace of MSNBC.  I’ve since revised my opinion to excise all but the first characterization.

    I’ll give you a few of my Matthews related observations, however.  For such insights, I even subject myself to watching the clips posted here to be able to critique the content.  Not just attack the man, as most from the left do towards their opponents, but the subject of the man’s analysis.  It’s not like I don’t know the guy.

    1, 2  though not really about Chris, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  • Anonymous

    For me to cite would necessitate me watching Chris Matthews again. Been there; done that.  I used to respect him as a partisan, though a fair and reasonable thinker and the saving grace of MSNBC.  I’ve since revised my opinion to excise all but the first characterization.

    I’ll give you a few of my Matthews related observations, however.  For such insights, I even subject myself to watching the clips posted here to be able to critique the content.  Not just attack the man, as most from the left do towards their opponents, but the subject of the man’s analysis.  It’s not like I don’t know the guy.

    1
    2  though not really about Chris
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7

    There was a stemwinder I once put together I can’t find.  Had something to do with the switch that’s on the back on the man’s neck.  That’s the main thing about Matthews.  Management tells him what the format is, and Matthews changes his entire personality to suit it, his analysis, so forth.  Such is why he’s lasted there so long.

  • Anonymous

    You sound very reasonable. I don’t mind when someone has a different point of view.
    Just without the BS is all.ie “insult after insult”
    I’m just saying he is not a Glenn Beck or a Keith O’bermann

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain needs to adopt one of the “tried and tested” sexual misconduct templates:  There’s the:

    John Kennedy one (keep quiet and let the press cover for you — wait, that won’t work)
    Edward Kennedy one (let the media hold their breath and “swim” under water)
    John Edwards one (have the media ignore it — wait, that won’t work the Nat Enquire is still publishing)
    Eliot Spitzer one (hold out for a CNN show — it won’t last)
    Anthony Weiner one (start posting those pictures)
    Jesse Jackson one (pray in public)
    Bill Clinton one (order pizza and get someone under your desk to “raise your stature”)

    All of these have worked in the past, so one of these templates should work if you’re a democrat. 

    Oh, wait…you’re not, nevermind!

  • Anonymous

    All three are committed partisans, yet that by itself doesn’t discount them as valued resources.  One can go to them to see where the argument is on the other side of the aisle.  As I said, I used to consider Matthews as semi-relevant before his current iteration.  I don’t suppose his core beliefs have changed with the wind – nor do I say that -  just in how they’re presented.  Currently, for a conservative, they’re virtually unwatchable unless one is seeking to increase ones blood flow.  Beck, on the other hand, while partisan, still makes a case.  What about him makes him unwatchable to the left?  I’m out of the Olbermann game since I don’t get Current.

    Take this clip.  What do you find relevant in it?  Given that the two bits of supportive talking points are skewed well away from reality (as I contend), what else is there besides over-the-top negative characterization?

    Cain doesn’t speak well.  We all know that.  We also know a lefty isn’t going to speak well of him in general.  But is that, glibness, the sole basis on which we ought to choose our leaders?

    BTW, check your link.

  • Anonymous

    Chris Mathews isn’t a serious NEWS BROADCASTER. He’s just a SHAM puppet for O’Bummer.

  • Anonymous

    Just like your not a Real Journalist, Tingle Up My Leg Chrissy?  I have never wasted my time watching such a sick person at Matthews, only saw him on other shows and he turned my stomach!  Is he one of the so many Gay Guy and Gals at MSNBC?  Just wondering.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VFQSLJBGIKXCO4IDL4URXW2AQA Wilkby

    Or, like Diaper Dave Vitter, you can pray to Jeebus for forgiveness and your party will look the other way.
    Or, like Larry Craig, you could  try to toe tap, (with a wide stance, of course) your way through airport toilet stalls.
    Or, like Mark Foley, you could send racy text messages to underage House Pages.
    Or, like Herman Cain, you could just lie about not remembering a payout over a sexual harassment claim.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VFQSLJBGIKXCO4IDL4URXW2AQA Wilkby

    Don’t try to spin this to imply that Cain knew diddly about China’s nuclear capabilities. Or Uzebeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan’s for that matter, either.

  • Porphyry

    Just what I was going to say in response to “isn’t a serious candidate”: Matthews isn’t a serious journalist. As the next Mediaite headline says, he admits to being a “media bogeyman!”

  • Bbltd2

    A significant piece of information has been bypassed by the newscasters: the Race of the accusers of Cain.

  • Bbltd2

    When and why was Herman Cain separated from the National Restaurant Association? 

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