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Matthews: Don’t Trust “Jamboree” Of Bachmann, Palin, Beck and Savage Without Verifying

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With more and more people discussing Chris Matthews and his verbal attacks on Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, today Matthews continued with a slightly more respectful assault on Bachmann, this time trying to just focus on discrediting her statements rather than personally attacking her. Matthews listed all the American presidents who owned slaves in an attempt to finally disprove Bachmann’s claim that the founders worked tirelessly to end slavery in their lifetime.

Although Matthews introduced the segment by telling Bachmann she should be happy literacy tests are no longer required in America, Matthews then focused on correcting the factual record by saying the founders and many American presidents since the founders, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James Polk, Andrew Johnson and many other presidents, all had slaves and in fact did not work tirelessly to end slavery. From there Matthews offered an indictment of many of his frequent targets:

If you want to get your history from the Congresswoman from Minnesota, that’s of course an option. Or you can check it out yourself. I recommend in this and in so many other cases, you do some work yourself. President Reagan used to say trust, but verify. When it comes to people like Bachmann and Beck and Savage and Palin and the rest of this jamboree, I think the smart move is to start with the verify.

This seems to be the final hurrah for Matthews on the Bachmann slavery comment, so unless Glenn Beck or Michael Savage respond, Matthews’ exciting fascination with Bachmann might be over, but likely only until she next has something to say.

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  • The Lantern of Truth

    The left has often attacked and denigrated women .

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/stanley_ann_dunham_and_the_lef.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 GJPinks

    Has Tingles Matthews moved the Panama Canal from Egypt back to Panama yet?

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Matthews, what a joke!

    He used to be a reasonably objective host, until he bet his integrity on the wrong politic, and the wrong station.
    Now he’s just a fair-haired Olbermann wanna-be on his way out the door, with most of the other prime-timers at MSNBC soon to follow.

  • tatboy

    He will never give up his hate hard-on for conservative women.

  • Nacho

    Savage is the prettiest of the bunch.

  • nice_thought

    Matthews thinks we are just a bunch of sheep or what? Of course, we know true from false. We don’t need u to remind us that for the sake of your ratings. Pompous Chris.

  • Obeezy

    MSNBC should really wrap their whole station around him.. Commercials, direct mailers, telethons, maybe even an action figure. He is the best thing to happen to republicans since Nanny Pelosi…Rock on Chrissy!!!

  • BFD

    “Matthews’ exciting fascination”

    LOL at you going from “bizarre obsession” to “exciting fascination”.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

    Chris “there is an Obama shaped tingle running up my leg” Matthews.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Wow Noland is a Tingles lover! I did not see that coming!

  • The Tea Weasel

    Good point Matthews. But its hard to verify the unverifiable. “The Fair and Balanced” tagline has a subtitle:

    “Baffle’em with BS”

  • Burby

    I have never understood, “we report you decide” or “fair & balanced” when it comes to the news. I listen to the news to hear news, not to want to then go figure out if what I just watched is true or not, makes little sense to me.
    Fox leans to the right, others lean to the left, what happened to reporting what actually is, without favoring either side.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Burby says;

    Fox leans to the right, others lean to the left, what happened to reporting what actually is, without favoring either side.

    I agree that Fox’s commentary leans right, but I disagree that their NEWS does. I think their News shows are down the middle.

  • BFD

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    I agree that Fox’s commentary leans right, but I disagree that their NEWS does. I think their News shows are down the middle.

    From the half hour point of Brett Baier’s show it starts leaning right, culminating in the very unbalanced (3 to 1) All Star Panel.

    Megyn’s show is certainly not fair. Only an idiot would think that.

    Shep is the only show that is fair.

  • Obeezy

    BFD said:
    From the half hour point of Brett Baier’s show it starts leaning right, culminating in the very unbalanced (3 to 1) All Star Panel.

    Megyn’s show is certainly not fair. Only an idiot would think that.

    Shep is the only show that is fair.

    YOu should watch O’Reilly more than, Hell, he agrees with Obama more than some liberals.

  • BFD

    Obeezy said:
    YOu should watch O’Reilly more than, Hell, he agrees with Obama more than some liberals.

    Umm…why are you bringing up O’Reilly when I was replying to a post about straight news.

    Try and keep up, mkay?

  • Obeezy

    BFD said:
    Umm…why are you bringing up O’Reilly when I was replying to a post about straight news.

    Try and keep up, mkay?

    O’Relly does more news than MSNBC stright news from 5.00 to 11;00

  • BFD

    Obeezy said:
    O’Relly does more news than MSNBC stright news from 5.00 to 11;00

    That’s nice dear.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Matthews: Don’t Trust “Jamboree” Of Bachmann, Palin, Beck and Savage Without Verifying

    LOL Like we are suppose to trust anything this Kool-Aid drinker has to say….

  • WildMan

    Chris Matthews, just STFU already. You Elementary school juvenile, NOBODY watches your crappy show. Look at your daily ratings you idjit. You never allow your guests a chance to answer your stupid questions and idiotic commentaries. Nobody can even understand you the way you never move your upper lip (bad dentures for the OLD man), you put 3-4 thoughts into one sentnece and none of them make any sense as you spew spittle all over the TV camera. You are horrible at reading from your teleprompter. You never blink and instead of looking into the camera (your audience) you are staring above the point of the camera. Not only are you losing it mentally and emotionally, Chris, today you looked like you had been drinking. Seriously….either that or you are on some kind of medications/drugs and didn’t get any sleep this weekend.

    Stop picking on women, Chrissy “Tingles & Thrills’ Matthews. Be a man and not the little sissified girlieboy you’ve been the past 3 or so months. In other words, Chrissy, Grow The ‘F’ Up!!! Start acting like an adult. Presently, your damn Softball is terrible. The worst on TV. No wonder you have the lowest ratings & viewers on PMSnbc.

  • rocky road

    I was waiting for Matthews to mock, insult and slam Chuck Shumer for not knowing the 3 branches of govt. My guess is he didn’t. Why?

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Matthews has all the sense of the 12 year old BFD .

  • david r

    All MSNBC does is knock any possible GOP contenders. Maddow last week was trying to link Romney with porn in an obvious pander-to-the-idiot-vote move. Matthews goes after Palin and Bachmann. And they are not politcal, don’t you see? They are just a news operation.

  • Mr B

    And fortunately, the left has Keith Olbermann at MSNBC to help debunk all the lies of the formentioned.

    Oh wait….

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Chris and Biden both learned about the three branches of government from Obama when he taught them about the 57 states.

  • Pablo

    Matthews listed all the American presidents who owned slaves in an attempt to finally disprove Bachmann’s claim that the founders worked tirelessly to end slavery in their lifetime.

    “I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.” – George Washington

    Nuance.

  • WildMan

    rocky road said:
    I was waiting for Matthews to mock, insult and slam Chuck Shumer for not knowing the 3 branches of govt. My guess is he didn’t. Why?

    And it took Jay Leno to do it just now. Chris Matthews is a hypocritical idiot.

  • WildMan

    I seriously doubt that Chris Matthews will be on TV in 6 months or less. He gets laughed AT by most of the networks, cable or otherwise. Nobody has any respect for the guy. None of his guests agree with him on anything and it is frustrating the hell out of the OLD guy. He needs to retire before Comcast fires his sorry rear.

  • Pablo

    rocky road said:
    I was waiting for Matthews to mock, insult and slam Chuck Shumer for not knowing the 3 branches of govt. My guess is he didn’t. Why?

    Because he’s in the tank, of course.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    I have to read about the stupid shit he keeps
    putting ou! I can’t stand that squeaky ass shrill voice.
    I can’t believe COMCAST can watch MSNBC shoes and NOT
    be planning some MAJOR changes in near future.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    WildMan said:
    And it took Jay Leno to do it just now. Chris Matthews is a hypocritical idiot.

    Can you imagine Fat Eddie or Chink if any Repub made that Gaffe!!!!
    They would have been shiting their pants!!

  • TfT

    where is mediaite’s headline about stupid Schumer? Oh yeah, Chuck is a dem, he gets a pass.

    As for the spitter – he is on his way out the door. He has an upcoming special about “Clinton – President of the World” while his bosses continue to tell us MSNBC is not political and tells the truth.

    bwahahahaha

    Stupid schumer.

  • Pablo

    When it comes to people like Bachmann and Beck and Savage and Palin and the rest of this jamboree, I think the smart move is to start with the verify.

    It looks like Maddow doesn’t watch Hardball.

    Maddow Falls for FAKE Story About Conservatives & Sarah Palin

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Don’t trust, verify. If you actually do that, Jon Bershad, maybe you’ll start calling out more of Beck’s false claims. It’s so weird: when my wife listens to Beck, she gets “an overwhelming feeling of evil” too. I asked her why, and she said that she could tell that he is a liar by HOW he speaks.

    I’m more empirical and philosophically trained. Beck lies and we prove this day after day. I have a long list of posts detailing Beck’s false claims, and I don’t post nearly all the ones I know about. I have a large unused file detailing many of Beck’s lies.

    Beck is on the wrong side of history again, but — not surprising — he was on the side of democracy in the Middle East in support of Bush’s war of choice against Iraq. He hasn’t changed his mind: Glenn Beck is a hypocrite through and through. I prove this with facts and logic over and over again. And this begs the question: why does Beck has such a large following?

    Yes, he’s persuasive and cunning and gifted. He’s also highly skilled at manipulating his viewers; Beck is a master manipulator. Why else would more of his followers not hear the lies I could detect before starting The Glenn Beck Review. He programs his viewers to dismiss any and all criticism of him, no matter how factual and unbiased, no matter how honest. This has led me to a recent re-evaluation of his intellect as of late. He’s still ignorant about the world, but he’s very bright, clever, gifted, persuasive and intelligent. It’s taken a while to see that, but the link about his manipulation skills forced me into rethinking just how smart he is.

    It’s still all about Glenn Beck. His motivations, according to Beck’s biographer, Alex Zaitchik, “are, and have always been, money and fame. If Beck has a true religion, it’s not Patriotism. It’s not Mormonism. It’s cross-platform self-marketing.” Those who do not grasp this about him, can not hear his lies or hypocrisies, do not recognize that this uneducated, ignorant man is a charlatan and yellow propagandist, are victims more than they are supporters. They are to be pitied, not respected.

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