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Chris Matthews Rants: Anybody Who Puts Newt Gingrich In The White House ‘Has This On Their Conscience’

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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews isn’t doing a good job of hiding any biases he might have against Newt Gingrich. On Tuesday night, he went off on the GOP front-runner, slamming Gingrich for his excuses for infidelity and calling comments he made to The National Review last year, “complete racist crap.”

Matthews aired what he deemed to be Gingrich’s five most-despicable moments in a reverse countdown with Nia-Malika Henderson and Dana Milbank, both of The Washington Post. At one point, he managed to slam both Gingrich and website commenters, touching on remarks Gingrich made at a church this year about his grandchildren growing up in a, “secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists”:

“You go down below the surface of the earth, the ground level — you meet people down there, bloggers — way down in the sub-basements. They talk like this. This is the kind of comments you get on a column when you write in the comment list.”

Some other choice quotes from Matthews:

-”I think it’s absolute B.S. It’s B.S.” — on Gingrich saying his adultery, in an interpretation of comments by Matthews, was a result of his patriotism.
-”Anybody who defends this has a problem with this country.” — on Gingrich’s comments to The National Review in 2010, suggesting President Obama played a wonderful con on the American people, and intimating that he had a Kenyan anti-colonial mindset.
-”You are not really American yourself” — to Gingrich, on his comments about both President Obama and earlier comments on Susan Smith‘s early-90s murder of her children.

Matthews eventually wrapped up the segment by raising his voice and passionately blasting Gingrich:

“How many nuclear weapons would you put in this guy’s hands? It’s not common sense, it’s not even American. I don’t know what it is. And you’ve got to add these up. And, by the way, those who vote for this, guys, are responsible for him. You can’t just say I was angry that day, or I didn’t like Obama. Anybody who puts this guy in the White House has this on their conscience… He scares me.”

Watch the full clip of Matthews’ anti-Gingrich rant below, courtesy of MSNBC:

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  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Memory is an essential component of conscience. If one votes for the Newt, one certainly has no memory.

  • Anonymous

    Hardball is a clown show.
    Matthews makes Alec Baldwin look like a right-winger.
    Honestly….who seriously wants to watch Matthews having his on air nightly pee party where he whines about scary Republicans….?
    He comes across as a guy who can’t sleep unless his body guard is sitting outside his bedroom door after he checks under the bed for Dick Cheney.

  • Anonymous

    Matthews is a clown but on this I agree with him.  Gingrich will bring down the entire GOP.  If the tea people and the far right nominate him, say hello to another obama term.  I cannot watch Hannity anymore because he actually believes gingrich can win.  That puts him in the doofus category for sure.

  • Gloves E. Donahue

    The media is doing their job vetting the Rep. candidates.
     
    Now do the same with the Dem candidate(s) , just for a change.
     
    “Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama’s New Solyndra”
     
    “SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending. The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous $16 per gallon.”
     
    It’s part of the White House’s “we can’t wait for Congress” strategy as the 2012 election year looms. But JP-5 typically costs less than $4 a gallon. If a family on a budget started filling up with $16-a-gallon gas, it might want to adopt the motto, “we can’t wait to go broke.”
     
    http://news.investors.com/Article/594703/201112131858/navy-biofuel-gate-latest-obama-green-scam.htm

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EOTQDJK7LUU43OZGQDCXABKJQM patrick m

    Suicide watch for Chrissy ?

  • Anonymous

    Any neutral person that stumbled into this very segment without prior knowledge of the names and respective occupations of the three individuals present, would have thought this was a heated debate among 3 members of the Democratic Party Caucus. Little would he or she know or even imagine that all 3 individuals are employees of purported “news organizations”, and one of them being even a “national reporter” for the said news organization.

    My warmest sympathy goes out to members of the public(sadly a majority of Americans) who base their own individual opinions on what they learn from the “news media.”

    R.I.P. Journalistic objectivity. Adieu †

  • Mo Fokker

    Says one of Rush Limbaugh’s Dittoheads.

  • Anonymous

    Shut up, Chris! We libs want Newt to win this nomination. For God’s sake, can you just shut your trap?

  • Anonymous

    Your comment is so over the top and ridiculous…ya nut!!

  • Anonymous

    And Chris is right.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I want the Newt to get the nomination as well. He is strong on all issues, foreign policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, the economy, domestic policy. He is a good and decent man who always supports the family. He is a brilliant historian. He is a great leader. Newt 2012, I say “Newt 2012!”.

  • david r

    I would vote for Newt’s little bimbo wife Callista before I’d vote for Obama.  And Chris now has a job for the rest of his career:  Obama apologist.  He’ll have trouble getting that off his conscience.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Do you remember how expensive telephones once were? How expensive electronic equipment of an sort was? How much it cost to fly? Innovation almost always comes with a front-loaded cost.

  • Gloves E. Donahue

    Read the article, Robert. Obama is having the Navy buy jet fuel at 4 times the price from a supporter. A lot like the Siga scam with Obama’s friend Ron Perelman. The scandals are coming out fast and furiously.

  • Anonymous

    Is that a Pay Per View event?

  • 12voltman1

    My first VCR cost $1200.00 in 1978! It came with a wired remote control.

  • Anonymous

    I find it funny that all of Newts fans didn’t try to defend these 5 statements.  Maybe because defence of these statements are indefensible.

  • Anonymous

    It took his promotion of Newt to turn you off? You have a high tolerance for buffoonery my friend to have lasted that long.  The next intelligent thought Hannity has will be his first.

  • 12voltman1

    LOL

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    She resembles Cindy McCain in a slight, but deeply troubling way.

    Bimbo? How so? Because she is an accomplished home wrecker?

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like ‘Thrill Up His Leg’ Matthews has OBAMO on his conscience, too. He helped put the fool there.

  • 12voltman1

    Trump says he might run as a independent. That will help the GOP!

  • Anonymous

     I second that.

  • Anonymous

    Obams is the best thing that has happened to this sorry country for a generation

  • Anonymous

    “Anybody who puts this guy in the White House has this on their conscience”

    At Least They Don’t Have Anything Running Up Their Leg !!

  • http://twitter.com/jtanglewood76 realist

    Must be great to be so perfect huh Chris?  I can’t stand these holier than thou pundits who probably have a graveyard of their own in their closet.  People aren’t perfect and the parsing of others words in order to paint them as evil or somehow not equal to the rest of us is stupid.  Matthews and the rest of the “news media deserve what they are getting – replaced by the internet.

  • Anonymous

    ObamaGasm !!

  • Anonymous

    Obama in the White House represents more than 69 million people without a conscience.

  • Anonymous

    Wow. Chris Matthews. The pariah of journalism. The man with a tingle for Obama. What a schmuck.

  • Anonymous

    Matthews and the rest of M.S.N.B.C.are Obama toadies and are mentally and emotionally disturbed.

  • Anonymous

    If the GOP runs with NEWT, President Obama will win 57 states.

  • david r

    Because she is an accomplished home wrecker?

    Pretty much. I always hated the way Newt hounded Bill Clinton.  He’s a total gas bag.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “Because he voices in cold, nasty, deadly tones the words of their contempt, because he’s an opportunist ready to seek any route to his opponent’s heart and thereby kill it. 

    Newt is ready to jump on a dime and hit any opponent where he shows weakness. Why are they on the verge of enlisting in the army of Newt? Because he voices in cold, nasty, deadly tones the words of their contempt, because he’s an opportunist ready to seek any route to his opponent’s heart and thereby kill it.

    He’s a political killer, a gun for hire. But he offers a prize so precious, he cannot be resisted. 

    They will give their souls to Newt, their compact with the devil to get what they most want: Pain on their enemy. They want it more than yet another tax cut, more than another wild, unwarranted war, more than love or freedom or joy. They want the President’s head.

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/12/12/unhinged-chris-matthews-shrieks-deadly-satanic-newt-gingrich-politic#ixzz1gXFrrkRJ 

    Nice violent rhetoric there, Tingles… dude is unhinged.

  • Anonymous

    Geeeezzzzzz guy.   Gas aint nothing new.  Its been around for what,  100 years?  So dont go giving us that sort of cover up crap.   What this is, if true is pure and simple Chicago corruption which is what defines Obama.

  • Anonymous

    And if you use the logic you propose, your next one would cost you 12,000.00.   We didnt just invent gas, its been here.  What you have is pandering to the EPA, AND pure and simple corruption on Obama’s part.

  • Anonymous

    No its Cheeeeeny…….spit spaddle spit……….

  • Anonymous

    Matthews is back on the bottle, Matthews meanspirited, flamethrowing remarks has done more to take the media in the toilet, he has caused more hate in this country with his remarks, than any other pundit. It is amazing he is still on TV his ratings are always at the bottom of the cable ratings, GE must be subsidising him to keep this hatemonger on the air.

  • Anonymous

    Racist moron. What other reason would you have for voting for an excuse of a human like Newt?

  • http://twitter.com/Nietzschean John Smith

    Why is it again that liberals dislike Matthews?

  • http://twitter.com/Nietzschean John Smith

    He’s just protecting Obama.

  • Anonymous

    From whom? The American people…

  • Anonymous

    “this sorry country”Maybe it would behoove you to move to Syria,Iran,anywhere in Africa….I would pay to ship those like you and crissy tingles off shore,preferably where freedom does not exist…How long would those like you last…..Remember you have michelle O on your side,she was never proud of this Country until that damn fool partner of hers stole the election…….this Coutry is destroying itself from inside and as Lincoln wrote.”a house divided against itself cannot stand”
    Well folks,its happening….Sad to say

  • Anonymous

    Newts a smarty,no doubt but will not win the nomination….he will,if he does,reelect O,God forbid.

  • Anonymous

    Judging by his ratings its both parties that don’t enjoy Matthews. The show has been dead last or next to dead last in time slot for over 5 years. If Matthews was fired from MSNBC not one station would even offer him a deal.

  • http://twitter.com/Rschrim Rschrim

    The article from the Mediaite sub-basement and the resulting comments from those of us who read from the blogs written below the surface of the earth, will probably give poor Chris the drizzles. No thrill running UP his leg, it’ll be all down hill. 

    Chris, you shouldn’t sit there scared. Perhaps we should pass the hat around for Chris. I bet he’d like one of those Hoodie-Footie’s from Pajamagram. Anything to calm his nerves. 

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

    Matthews is correct.

  • Joan Kelly

    Newt: “I see evil around me every day….” 

    Isn’t that paranoid behavior according to the dictionary?

  • Joan Kelly

    Dang, you think Callista’s worthy of a vote?????

    You blow my mind!

  • Joan Kelly

    Thank you!

  • Joan Kelly

    I thin you’d better rethink:  “a good and decent man who always supports the family.”

    Which family, his first, second or third?

  • Anonymous

    And I suppose you and barabu will be voting for him?

  • Joan Kelly

    LOL!  Good one.

  • Anonymous

    Will Matthews leave the country if Newt gets elected? Nothing could get me to vote for him more than that.

  • 12voltman1

    I like Chris………..HA!……… He does come from a Republican family and background before join the Peace Corp. Matthews was a presidential speechwriter during the Carter administration, and later worked for six years as a top aide to long-time Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O’Neill, .I believe him to be fair and is only slighty left of center.But he is no where near left of anyone else on MSNBC besides Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist.Chuck Todd would be in the middle.(Chuck is not very opinionated on his show). This is from my point of view. a liberal.

  • Anonymous

    Yes!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4MGB7XXHNJVZMQJKLG36A2UDUI Ann

    Huge difference between paranoid and reality, Joan.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4MGB7XXHNJVZMQJKLG36A2UDUI Ann

    Mr. Hardball is the nut.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4MGB7XXHNJVZMQJKLG36A2UDUI Ann

    Exactly.  Heck since Mr. Hardball dislikes Newt, maybe Newt is the way to go.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4MGB7XXHNJVZMQJKLG36A2UDUI Ann

    Ha!  You just made the blogger’s point.

  • david r

    What other reason would you have for voting for an excuse of a human like Newt?
    Because Obama is incompetent and rose to power through smearing Hillary and Ferraro as racists.  Oh, and that’s what you are now calling me.  You Obama pukes are disgusting.

  • david r

    . . . defence of these statements is indefensible.  Vous parlez Francais?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H6I4PE37GZXPQYY3M2GZ4WCGDE Handoverfest

    So is Gingrich…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-A-Kirkland/1082430232 Brian A. Kirkland

    The problem is Matthews has been in love with both Palin and Bachmann, as candidates; radiating an ear to ear grin; waxing poetic about their, not ability, by demeanor, I guess. He smilingly predicted they would both go far, when their poll number were high.

    How can he do that and then rail against this particulat loon, Gingrich? Matthews is a nitwit.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks Chris –

    You were the only one who has the guts to call it like it is.  Your colleagues act like it’s unfair to take this guy at his word.  Making them almost as despicable as Newt. 

    You’re right too — this guy doesn’t have the temperament to have his finger on the button.

    Like you, just the thought of that, really scares me.

  • Joan Kelly

    ???  I’m really not so sure about that.  Seems to me we get what we see.  Life is a mirror.

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