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Chris Matthews On ‘Nasty’ Looking Newt Gingrich: ‘Dogs Walk Away When They See Him’

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Chris Matthews chided Republican voters over Newt Gingrich‘s appearance on Wednesday’s Hardball, “Why does a guy with a diabolic grin — and I’m being completely objective here — a guy who doesn’t look like a presidential candidate, looks too nasty for one, why is the nasty guy doing the best of all the candidates right now? The one who is so obviously nasty?” “They want somebody who looks nasty like Jack Palance from Shane…some nasty guy that the dogs walk away when they see him. You know what I’m talking about?”

RELATED: Chris Matthews On GOP Field: How Did Party Of Lincoln, Reagan ‘Descend Into A Diabolic Clown Show?’

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  • 12voltman1

    Newt invented the nasty politics we have today!

  • Anonymous

    Chris Matthews On ‘Nasty’ Looking Newt Gingrich: ‘Dogs Walk Away When They See Him’

    …no comment from a socialist media stooge of the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist party is ever considered TOO STUPID, TOO SOPHOMORIC, TO INFANTILE, TOO INANE, TOO MINDLESS, TOO JUVENILE or TOO MORONIC for the lamestream media to repeat over and over and over like it’s a comment from the Almighty (in their case, from ALLAH/OBOZO).

  • Anonymous

    I love watching stupid people try to use the word SOCIALIST.  Hey, here’s a fun idea:   Can you name one socialist thing Barack Obama has done or tried to do?  Ever?

  • Anonymous

    Chris is way too kind.

  • Gloves F. Donahue

    “ Can you spot the similarities between Gingrich and Jack Palance below?”

    No, but Matthews looks a lot like a Morlock in The Time Machine as played by Gary Busey.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Nasty’ Looking Newt Gingrich: ‘Dogs Walk Away When They See Him’ Chris Matthews 

    …That’s mean. 

    Those poor dogs…

  • Anonymous

    You need to relax..

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/CpB4P7B.pZPCheHU1YhAzyxDlXk-#f5a38 Fleur

    A new low for Chris Matthews and MSNBC.

  • david r

    That’s a great image Matthews conjures up– the dog in Shane that shies away from Jack Palance.  Great movie.  I can’t imagine Gingrich calling anybody “sod-buster” though.

  • Anonymous

    MSNBC – Fair And Balanced !!

  • david r

    I wish people used their words with more precision on this site.  And certainly less gratuitous insults.  To read this site, you’d think it was the Tea Party that camped out all across the country and made a statement.  I haven’t heard of an organized Tea Party event in months.  And this “Rethuglican” business.  Republicans are not thugs.  They don’t want to get their clothes dirty.  They hire thugs.  And saying these people are “evil.”  This is thrown around like confetti. Most of you have yet to see the true face of evil.  Give it time.  It will be standing right in front of you.

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/CpB4P7B.pZPCheHU1YhAzyxDlXk-#f5a38 Fleur

    Why are you afraid of the word socialist ? Every progressive political party in the world but the Democrats belong to the Socialist International (including british Labour,…). Serious progressive political parties in Europe are members of the PES (Party of European Socialist). Why should the american left be afraid of this label ? Be proud to be socialists. And liberals. And progressives. Don’t let the conservative movement framing the very decent idea of a socialist society into something awful.

  • Anonymous

    SOCIALIST is a word Americans don’t understand, and it does not mean the same thing in Europe as it does here. Why would you insist on using a word that people don’t understand?

  • Anonymous

    I watched that just the other day.

  • Anonymous

    Uh hoh my god…
    Could Tingles possibly come across like a bigger fool….?
    He says he is being completely objective and is not attacking him and then launches in to a series of insults based on Newt’s looks.
    Then his guest vows to make sure the public knows what a horrible person Newt is.

    This message brought to you by the Committee to reelect Barack Obama.
    Also known as MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    chris can spout all the bile he wants!!!!!

    the good thing is,

  • Anonymous

    Ever read anything about the Jefferson vs. Adams campaign of 1800 ?  Apparently not.

  • Anonymous

    If this kind of garbage were spewed at Obama, mediaite would be calling for his dismissal, firing, and putting him away ina white jacket. 

    COMCAST has got to be embarrassed by this asshole.  Clymer is too good a word when it comes to talking MSNBC and Chrissy the spitter.

    Pathetic.

  • 12voltman1

    More than Fox!

  • Anonymous

    I can’t believe I’m watching the MSM unravelling before our very eyes.  Matthew’s rant – is a grade school bullies attempts to belittle someone they are afraid of.  

    Seriously Chris, I can’t believe you are a grown-up.  This type of insane ranting indicates that you have a problem.

  • Anonymous

    Matthews is so obsessed with Gingrich’s physical appearance. He has called him ‘evil looking’ ‘nasty’ said he looks ‘like a car bomber’ What gives? 

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    Certainly, it’s not ideal, but Fox news, Breitbart, etc are way, way, way worse because they have no problem with twisting basic facts and outright lying. 

  • Anonymous

    Mathews is an Obama puppy, with his nose so far up Barry’s ass if he stops short Chrissy’s head will disappear.

  • Anonymous

    Liberals just don’t like a news station that reports ALL of the news.  Not just what they want to hear.  

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    You have to be kidding. Everyone on the Right I know tells me something like ‘I watch Fox, read Breitbart and (insert other right wing blogs) and listen to Rush. The rest is garbage. All liberal journo-list garbage. You can’t trust the NYT,” etc, etc.  

    Most people I know on the Left are the opposite. Personally, I read the Financial Times, WSJ, NYT, WaPo, Economist, Guardian, New Yorker, Harper’s, The Nation, Drudge, Fox, Bloomberg and even frivolous crap like the Daily Caller. You can’t call those biased decisions. I actually read a lot from pubs I don’t agree with about issues they think are a big deal and I come to my own conclusions. In the case of Fox & pals, they are often making crap up or distorting facts. Sure, MSNBC shows inject opinion in their talking heads shows, but at least the straight news reporting isn’t as sloppy and/or deceitful as Fox’s. CNN sucks too, I know. That’s why I read rather than listen to paid pundits. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in this when it comes to what I read and what I think of Fox “news.” 

  • Anonymous

    Its funny that you claim that,  because when I hear a liberal spouting about Fox news I ask them where they get their news.  After some stammering they try to think up some good answer but they just never can.  You will forgive me for not believing that the conservatives that you know listen to Fox and Rush………however, the liberals get their news from a wide variety.  Liberals just aren’t tolerant enough to listen to anything that doesn’t fit their agenda.  That’s just the way it is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    Have another bottle of cheap scotch, Quiff.

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    Erin Burnett runs from Chris Mathews especially after he has fallen off his bar stool.

  • Anonymous

    It’s the new tone.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, a lot of simple people were tricked into thinking private health insurance is somehow government health insurance.

  • Anonymous

    It’s difficult to believe this is what passes for serious political commentary these days.

  • Anonymous

    I guess because it’s 100% owned and operated by the private sector. Please try to understand that your mind has been polluted. I’m not taking a shot at you; I’m just letting you know.

  • http://twitter.com/particle_bored Adammm

    What Matthews didn’t mention about Gingrich is that dogs are attracted to his chair when he stands up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Baggers don’t have the cognitive skills to understand what ‘socialist’ really means but repeat it because Fox has told them it’s something bad. LOL

  • Anonymous

    You realize that “socialism” as in European socialism is the major reason they are all in the mess they are in.  Retiring at 50 and other lunacies that the rich cannot afford and the poor and middle class put very little into proves once again that the program cannot work – does not work because of fools like you who seem to think that the rich should work to support your sorry butts.

    At least you are honest in calling it what it is and what Obama is attempting to “transform” America into.

    p.s.  If you think it’s so grand – go where they practice it, and leave us the hell alone with your failed transformation attempts.

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    It’s true that you’ll find people on both sides of the aisle who either don’t have the time or inclination to spend much time getting their news from diverse resources. I do and some (not all) on the Left I know do too. My main point is that I see that much less on the Right. I’ve met some well informed Libertarians, but not many well formed Republicans who would, for example, support any of this year’s crop of candidates. Maybe that’s just my experience. 

    Another point is that Fox news, Breitbart, etc, are clearly not  very accurate or trustworthy. I’ve spent way more time than I want to admit listening to Rush, Hannity, Michael Savage, etc and they are–every single one of them–demagogues who pretend to give you facts but instead give distortions. I’m not saying the left wing pundits and politicians don’t distort or exaggerate, but in my opinion, they do so less on the balance. 

    In any case, I honestly think the best sources are mainstream newspapers, quality magazines and academic books. The stuff on cable news or the radio or on blogs is almost entirely crap, right wing or left wing.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    I agree whit Chris as far as his insider statis go’s. But af far as looks go. Chris should not say anything. Chris reminds me of that seice in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where there in the cave looking for the holy grail.

    And the bad guy drinks out nof the wrong cup. And start’s growing old  really fast, Then turns into dust.

    That’s what chris looks like to me in a nutshell.

  • Cecelia

    Lord knows there’s plenty to criticize Newt Gingrich over and those things SHOULD be aired about him.  However, this sort of demonization is just over the top.

    “Dogs turn away from him”. “Diabolical grin.” 

    This is precisely the sort of dehumanization that MSNBC spent the entire spring and summer condemning.

  • Anonymous

    Unchecked capitalism is the major reason.

  • Anonymous

    Yes – including fabricated news.

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

    He’s not running for president, brain-trust.

  • Anonymous

    This just another attempt for Matthews to draw attention. It NEVER works for him. He has always been a loser.

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    You can’t reply because you don’t know what you’re talking about. You just repeat the talking points Fox and right wing radio feed you and you don’t bother to fact check anything. 

  • Anonymous

    MSNBC Would Never Twist Facts And Outright Lie !!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvBQDHqdCck

  • Anonymous

    Wasn’t Matthews obviously joking? He was simply making the point that Newt is no Romney. Newt is tied with Guiliani for most likely to play a bad guy in a Dick Tracy movie.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    chris may not be running but it is true. go watch the movie and tell me he does not look like him.

    And who cares what they look like. As long as there good peolpe and are smart and can do the job.

    Newt past’s and his action’s say he’s not the right guy to run the counrty. Chris is right about his looks. But i’m saying that as far as looks. chris should not talk.

  • Anonymous

    Couldn’t agree with you more.

  • us995

    italy and greece showed them it’s something bad

  • Anonymous

    John, you are not the only Lib, nor am I the only conservative, to read  publications or watch other channels other than what some think are in line with our political beliefs.  Millions do.  But, regardless of what you think about Fox, please tell me you are just kidding about MSNBC’s shows shooting straight.  Fox “distorts facts”, but MSNBC “Injects opinions”????  This is truly what worries me in this day and age.  How different we all hear.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Gordon, a man known by the patrons of the local Quaker Steak & Lube (where he dines of fried pickle nightly) is known to garner attention by display of his well chiseled form.  He is a paragon of sound thought and action… a truth reflected by his superior physical shape..  

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Chris dislikes Newt.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, Newt aint attractive…but his Tiffany account is…. Hell look at Rush’s stable.  Think he would have that if the EIB network was throwing him multimillions?

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    I don’t have time to answer you now but if you’re slightly interested, I can give you a rundown tomorrow of things Fox has either intentionally misled viewers on or screwed up out of sheer incompetency. Two things that come to mind right now are the fact that Fox has been claiming that Justice Kagan must recuse herself from the healthcare case. For days, they post a “factoid” citing the constitutional article that backs this argument up. The only problem is: it’s not in the constitution at all. They are mis-citing a U.S. regulation passed many decades after the constitution was signed and they are spinning the meaning of it, considering legal experts of every ilk say it’s not applicable to Kagan. So why would Fox continually show this on their “news” shows? I can run through easily a dozen other examples tomorrow when I’m not about to go to sleep. Let me know if you’re interested and I will. I’m not being sarcastic. 

    Now MSNBC–I’m not a big supporter, but the difference I’m pointing out is that Ed or O’Donnell will simplify things and show only one side of the story, but in most cases their facts are actually verifiable and correct. It’s opinion, certainly, and they may even only give half the story, but at least their half is truthful. I don’t like them because they are fine with “spinning” stories for political reasons, which I think is wrong. 

    I never said I was the only person to read broadly. I think I even said a lot of people do. But Fox is simply not trustworthy. 

  • david r

    He didn’t invent it–  Kennedy and Biden did it in the Bork hearings– but he sure stoked the fire big time going after Clinton for base political reasons.  I did not vote for Clinton the first time, but he convinced my ass when he ran for re-election.  He had the economy going great guns. No wonder that guy had a perpetual boner.

  • david r

    Hatchet job, I recall.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    I guess your idea of ‘mature’ media is when Hannity agrees with Trump’s wingnutty, lunatic theories that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s book, as he did yesterday.
    Also, when YOU randomly capitalize WORDS, it MAKES you look EVEN more INSANE!!!

  • Anonymous

    That was nothing compared to the Jackson-Quincy Adams campaign in the late 1820s.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    says the part of Ann “Dickweed” Coulter.

  • us995

    nice to you pratice civility

  • Anonymous

    seriously, you’re attempting to be serious?  Has absolutely nothing to do with capitalism.  Has to do with huge salaries, ridiculous retirement plans and out of control unions.  

  • Anonymous

    give it a rest sam.  We all know what socialism is and it’s not working in Europe – never worked in the U.S.S.R. and it has never worked anywhere in any form - 

  • Anonymous

    Chris Matthews should maybe look in the mirror before he goes calling other people ugly. He ain’t no Brad Pitt, either. Both are fat and white haired and fairly hard to look at, and Matthews is even harder to listen to. I could put both of them in the same room and ask 100 people to tell me which is which and more than half of them wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, until they opened their fat mouths.

  • Anonymous

    I would rather have a leader that dogs run from than one that loves for dogs to hump his leg, like Obama, and even Mathews loves to be dog humped now and then!

  • Porphyry

    But–but he said himself, “I’m being completely objective here.” It must be true!

  • Porphyry

    But–but he said himself, “I’m being completely objective here.” It must be true!

  • http://twitter.com/boobassandfaces christopher

    James my man!

  • Anonymous

    Nasty Nancy is a dog loving bitch, who relishes threats against Newt.

    Speaks highly of her, right “tingles”?

  • Anonymous

    The more important issue the fisters should be concerned with is that Mathews is the first leftist to voice  the concern that 0bama’s got nothing to run on. He correctly notes that 0bama’s going to look even dumber than he does now if all he’s got is “it could’ve been worse”.

    http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m70/hugh_jardohn/ObamaMarxBrother.jpg

  • http://www.facebook.com/Liz.Barry.Ernst Liz Ernst

    To read @teaparty’s post and think he (or she) is calling anyone else a stooge is akin to Newt Gingrich actively participating in Bill Clinton’s impeachment based on his moral failings (see infidelity). Also, I never saw a tea partier use the word “too” appropriately so many times, but the telltale CAPS ARE JUST TOO MORONIC to be anyone but a tp’er. And, the requisite reference to Allah because every dem is really a Muslim. So, I guess tp’s point is what – Newt Gingrich isn’t ugly?

  • http://www.facebook.com/Liz.Barry.Ernst Liz Ernst

    You couldn’t be more wrong, @seek456, socialism is not cookie cutter – the Scandanavian model works well in Sweden and other countries, and Canadian socialism is quite successful when it comes to maintaining the dignity of human existence, discredit it all you like. Canada and Sweden are extremely civilized and affluent countries. In the U.S., our socialist programs like social security and medicare are American institutions. Unemployment, disability – socialist programs are integral to a successful democracy. Stop watching Fox News and do just a little bit of research on what socialism is, and what the benefits are to America and other democracies.

  • Anonymous

    are you insane?

    Canada socialist????????

    It’s freaking progressive conservative (republican) – how stupid are you?

  • Anonymous

    Selective outrage from the left.

    I do agree with a point that was said earlier though.  Sean Hannity is as far right as you can get and he absolutely twists facts to fit his agenda.  It was ok when he shared a show with Colmes because at least you got to hear both views.  But to the people that say Fox is worse….as far right as Hannity is he is the only one.  MSNBC is filled with people who are as far left as Hannity is right.  No one should get their news from only one source.

  • Anonymous

    How about ted Kennedy or Bawny Fwank?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PSWW6DP23Z4GS2DGPDXIZFABHY Joy

    Chris Matthew looks like something my cat spit up!

  • Anonymous

    Chris wants a candidate that’ll give him a tingle up his leg, so he can have some wood.

  • Anonymous

    Boy you really miss communist east Germany huh? nein, nien, nien, god forbid newt
    ” earns money ” and then spends it on himself / family, I guess you’d rather he give it to the government so Owebumbles can give it to you. I say nien.

  • Anonymous

    The most disgusting guttersnipe met karma in November 2010. So, instead of spreading his hate in the House, Alan Grayson is doing it on the official network of the Democratic Party, MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    Can you or any progressive, including the President, define “FAIR SHARE”?

    Use numbers, please.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    Hey Chris,

    How are your ratings these days? It appears the American people are rejecting you.
    BTW: Aren’t you a bit overweight?

  • Charleston Voice

    When a candidate’s morals & character don’t matter to you:

    Newt Gingrich’s Skeleton Closet
    http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1438/969/Gingrichs_Skeleton_Closet.html

    Anne Manning claims she performed a sex act on him in his Washington D.C. hotel room while he was still married to his first wife Jackie in 1977.
    http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1481/688/Newt_Gingrich_is_a_hypocrite,_claims_ex-staffer_who_had_affair_with_thrice-married_GOP_candidate.html

    R. L. Borosage: Huffington Post’s Radical Marxist Blogger on Staff
    http://cgi.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/members/forum.cgi?read=30868

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    Charleston Voice,

    Would you be talking about a Lewinsky?

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    Charleston Voice,

    Don’t you recall the lib talking point of that time?

    Oral sex is not sex.

  • Anonymous

    As my next-door neighbor, I can assure you that Newt is one ugly SOB.  Nor does my dog like him.  For a long time now, I completely ignore Newt – only stare at him.  (Not easy to do.) It drives him nuts & he used to register complaints.  About being…”fearful.”  Also used to have a 4’11″ “bodyguard who always walked about 15 feet behind Newt.  No, am not kidding.  It exists.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    Great_1,

    Sounds like Newt had an unfriendly neighbor.

  • Anonymous

    The cowardly Rat-Wing gargoyles are off their perches again today.  Rat, A_V?  Rat chew r.

  • Anonymous

    You’re a mean one, Newt Gingrich……

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gyRnwtscPA

  • Anonymous

    He also sounds like your cat probably does just before spitting up.

  • 11Steve11

    I remember when the whores that came out from the democrat party around election time,were pretty girls.

  • Anonymous

    Matthews:  “Why does a guy with a diabolic grin — and I’m being completely objective here — a guy who doesn’t look like a presidential candidate, looks too nasty for one, why is the nasty guy doing the best of all the candidates right now?

    “[A]nd I’m being completely objective here….”  Too funny for words, when has Matthews ever been “objective”?

    M moonbats
    S spouting
    N nothing
    B but
    C crap

    Christ Matthews:  MSNBC’s fountain of objectivity!  LOL!

  • Anonymous

    Last I checked, Kennedy was respected by members of both parties in the Senate. Want quotes? Barney was “nominated” as most partisan, but also, as most bipartisan by the Repukes in the House. Let’s just say, your theory has holes.

  • Anonymous

    Grayson pales in comparison to Gingrich. Also, Grayson was only a backbencher congressman who served for 1 term. Gingrich was the Speaker Of The House. Much bigger influence and imprint on policy.

  • Anonymous

    I would much rather listen to someone that dogs run from than one that dogs love to hump their leg, like Matthews.  That was the tingle he was talking about, he had a dog humping his leg when he made that comment.  He loves it!  What a sick faggoty lisp boy!

  • Anonymous

    Now tell me again….What kind of healthcare do Senators and Representatives get……Government controlled or private?…..Just asking…..

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