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Chris Matthews Wants Dick Cheney “Under The Lights And Under Oath” Over Oil Spill

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It’s hard to find a target in the search to lay blame on someone for the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil spill that threatens to wipe out some of the richest American ecosystems. BP is taking most of it, though, as the reason for the oil tanker explosion that caused the spill is still unknown, they aren’t making it easy to pin them down. Yesterday, Chris Matthews went a bit further back in time to find a villain in the story, proclaiming that former Vice President Dick Cheney should testify about this current oil spill.

Matthews cited a string of what he considered suspicious activity by the former Vice President and former Halliburton CEO, such as a transaction where “he received some kind of bonus or whatever” when he left Halliburton for the White House, and the lack of meaningful oversight on oil companies. The oil companies and their regulators, Matthews continued, have an “incredibly incestuous little set-up” that makes it nearly impossible to keep the companies in check. “We’ve got the VP of our country, fresh from his job as CEO of the oil company, holding secret meetings with the oil companies in the White House,” he argued. Yes, we did– 16 months ago. Matthews insisted, however, on calling the current relationship with the oil companies a product of “the government Obama inherited” and concluded that Cheney needed to testify “under the lights and under oath” about the Gulf oil spill.

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  • m

    Matthews segment name is a reference to the Kanye West-meme.

    Well…I wish it was.

  • MichelleF

    If I were Dick and Rush, I would look into getting restraining orders.

    Cheney\Beck 2012!!

  • Moderate

    “Cheney needed to testify “under the lights and under oath” about the Gulf oil spill.”

    Give it up MSNBC, you guys are starting to sound psychotic.

  • http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

    I feel like I need to take a shower after watching that. Next time, I’ll know better.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    Thanks Tweedy Bird Matthews, I’m sure Congress will get right on that! You are a laughing stock, I seriously think you need to get your sick fetish of Cheney checked out! Also I think MSNBC executives need to testify to Comcast their new owner, the business model their going for that shows progress liberalism sells.??!! Your ratings are horrid!!Krank Goobermann , Roach Maddcow and the rest of the klowns, have such a small audience cause mainstream America is Centrist not whacky ultra left!   MSNBC jokers & posers all day, the American Left needs to commit themselves back to the LOONEY BIN , Due to their Bush/Cheney derangement syndrome!!! Trolls!!!!!!

  • ImNotBlue

    Look… Matthews is just trying to keep his job. KO doesn’t like him, and made that clear during the election. So now, when KO says something insane, Matthews just takes a few days, and then regurgitates it all over his audience. It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t make any sense… it doesn’t matter that it’s out of touch, out of date, and out of its mind… he’ just trying to keep a pay check.

    10 bucks says after he finally leaves MSNBC… he writes a “memoir” blasting Olbermann, and suggesting that saying really dumb things like this was all “management’s” idea.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    Tweedy, has white guilt syndrome, and Krank Goobermann’s is a spineless disgraced joke, who sleeps with rodeo clowns.

  • MichelleF

    I caught the beginning of his show yesterday where he laid out the show and one segment was again on how NO repubs will come on and trash limbaugh. Hey Chris, it’s because you are irrelevant. If they actually wanted to do that, they would at least find someone with an audience. I’m actually starting to feel a little sorry for him.

  • Penguin60

    Tingles an investigative reporter? What a joke. Only if it’s against the Republicans. Too bad this is so psychotic, I’m suprised the guys with the butterfly nets aren’t right behind him. His hate for Cheney and Palin is pathologic. He loves tossing softballs to leftie buddies. Last time he put somebody that disagreed with him on his show he got schooled, so that won’t happen anytime soon.

  • BowenIsland

    I think that they should give Chris Mathews , Chris Hansens job and let him chase pedophiles around in houses ! That would be good television !

  • writer

    If you ‘inherit’ an old house, and eighteen months later the house is still in disrepair, is it still the original owner’s fault?

  • felixw

    Memo to Chris Matthews: If the best you can do is score points against Dick Cheney, you are hurtin’ for a news angle. Maybe you should try to take on Calvin Coolidge while you are at it.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    I love how the left looney bin freaks complain about lack of solutions on the ” right” but constantly blame bush/Cheney for everything, your people are jokers!!!

  • MichelleF

    Ok, I’ve changed my mind. I just heard a clip of Chris Christy rip a member of the media, so I now say Christy/Beck 2012, with Dick the secretary of defense and chief terrorist interrogator!

  • TfT

    The spitter needs to be taken away in a straight jacket and locked up. I can’t believe MSNBC allows this garbage on the air.

    MSNBC=Meltdown

  • SteveMG

    Joe McCarthy would watch this and be embarassed.

    McCarthy engaged in smears through guilt-by-association. This is smears by guilt-by-perhaps there is sometime type of-association.

    Amazing.

    We’ve got nuts on one side like Beck and Limbaugh making wild connections and then nuts like Matthews and Olbermann on the other doing the same thing.

    Cable news is really a joke sometimes.

    Yeah, there’s some legitimate questions about this disaster especially about the alleged failures of safety regulations on the rig. Why didn’t the shutdown backup equipment work? Was there a connection between campaign donations and the lack of adequate failsafes?

    But those questions won’t be asked on these crummy talk shows.

  • silkworm

    It is not surprising that Matthews, Olbermann and Maddow are all on the same cable channel. Only the lonely, psychotic and those from KOS and Media Matters are left to watch this network drift off to doomsday. It does, however, provide some great comedy from its 3 “preachers from the left”.

  • silkworm

    Maddow wants to know why Palin wont’ come on her show. Well, one has to find where it even exists, and one wants to be on a show where one can be SEEN.

  • drex94

    Hey don’t get Cheny started again….he didnt say a word during the Bush 8 year catastrophe but he’s been talking lately.
    Palin wont go on the Maddow show because Pay-lin is still working on her GED (general education degree-in case she’s reading this)

  • drex94

    Who called Rush Windbag A nut? I resent the accuracy of that statement!!!!

  • MichelleF

    Why should palin go on maddow, she doesn’t have an audience. She’ll just go on Fox where people will actually see her.

  • akrimediaite

    If Matthews wants to skewer former administration officials, perhaps he should start with whomever ran NOAA from 1994 to present. Nineteen Ninety-Four is when NOAA got pre-approval to stash multiple booms to conduct a burn-off immediately for just such a spill as has occurred. Why didn’t it happen? Because despite their “Emergency Response Plan” for a Gulf spill, the booms were never purchased/organized to be in the area. When this Administration got the word about the BP spill, there was only 1 boom available, and even that one took a while to reach the Gulf. So, really, Matthews needs to talk to former and present heads of NOAA, they may point to Congress as not giving them the money for the booms required the plan, and then who do we blame? Even if it’s an oil industry responsibility, NOAA clearly recognized that forethought needed to be done, and certainly, I wouldn’t have any objection to Congress’ authorizing the expenditure and then handing a bill to whichever oil companies operate in the Gulf, but hey, someone dropped the ball on the only plan that would’ve made sense.

  • Sunnyr

    Chrissie Matthews, a LOSER on a LOSER network rambling and drooling like a madman. Good Grief, No wonder you people are in the ditch. Rest in Peace, and just go away!

  • Rogue-Comic

    Odd, only one left leaning commenter (drex94) here whose thoughts focus on, guess what, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh with the obvious ill informed thought that Cheney stood mute during the Bush II years thrown in probably because said poster has only lived a maximum of 16 years, judging by the user name.

    Mediate predominantly caters to liberals but it seems only one teenager cares enough to comment on a Chris Matthews topic. Is that because Matthews flip-flopped politically when it was popular or is it that his target audience just doesn’t care about his thoughts.

  • http://none pyrope

    WHAT A FOOL! Ol’ Chris’ lousy ratings are getting to him. He would sell his soul to outdo FOX. Wait! He already sold his soul…to Mr. -0bama.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    His fetish with Cheney, and how he makes sure we know how to pronounce it .. ( Cheeeeney) is nausating. Poor Tweedy Bird. It’s common knowledge his colleagues, and guests are embarrassed after every show.

  • reallyfair

    The Bush Cheney connection goes back to Enron as well as to the closed door hearings where the energy policy was developed. It’s about time people finally start to realize that this earth is God’s creation that needs to be protected, we can’t live without it.
    BYW – why do some states seem to rely entirely on the federal gov’t to protect them while other states seem more self reliant? Is that how some states are able to keep taxes lower? If so, it doesn’t seem fair that we all need to pay for services in other states just because they want to keep their taxes lower.
    Chris Matthews really is fair and balanced, thank goodness he’s not one of those Fixed News idiots.

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