We like Chris Hayes. Whip-smart and a good interviewer.
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He is so gross!
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It might have been that Rich Lowry guy from The National Review.
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Will this finally be enough for MSNBC to sideline Matthews? He clearly isn’t up to the rigors of covering the rest of the campaign. Shut him down before he does even more damage to the network’s credibility.
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This is the second or maybe third time Matthews has done something cringe worthy in the last few days. I think he is having a serious series of senior moments.
Trivia coming at you. It was Lowrey who was with a bunch of other conservatives including Billy Kristol who went to Alaska on a vacation, met the governor while they were there. Lowrey said she was a cross between Joan of Arc and Annie Oakley and wouldn’t she be fabuloso as Veep to McCain and eventually sold Steve Schmidt on the idea
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#MeToo needs to take a look at him.
Writing in GQ journalist Laura Bassett described a 2016 encounter with Matthews while sitting in a makeup chair to appear on “Hardball,” the program he has anchored for many years. She writes: “Matthews looked over at me in the makeup chair next to him and said, ‘Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?’ When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the makeup artist. ‘Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her.'”
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I’m wondering if something is wrong with him. I mean like a brain tumor or something like that. He’s just way over the line lately.
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Yes, please get rid of upchuck.
Time to put the old fool out to pasture. Matthews is long past his sell-by date.
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A little background on Chris Matthews.
Back in the 1980s, Tweetie Bird was House Speaker Tip O’Neill’s press secretary. A Democrat of my acquaintance who was close to the House Democratic leadership in those days told me that after Matthews left the Hill to make more money as a pundit, Tip told my friend that he, Tip, didn’t know where Matthews got this nonsense about O’Neill and Reagan drinking bourbon and branch water together after hours. It never happened. Reagan and O’Neill were not close at all, and the Speaker did not even like Reagan or particularly want to socialize with him.
My conclusion is that by trying to humanize Reagan and make him a more bipartisan figure, Matthews was demonstrating his own reflex towards conservatism, and using his Democratic career cred to do so. After all, Matthews has said he voted for Bush in 2000, and I’m sure many of you remember him practically creaming in his jeans when Dubbya landed on the aircraft carrier in 2003 in a publicity stunt to declare “mission accomplished.” (Maybe the most premature victory declaration in recorded history).
So make of it what you will.
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Fire him already. He has been a very questionable commentator for far too long.
He is not an NBC anchor, giving stability, but a dead weight pulling them down.
After cancer and additional chemo or radiation, there is something called chemo brain. It’s like a fog. It goes away eventually. But, I don’t think Matthews has changed much since his surgery–he’s completely insensitive and a blockhead. He’s clearly more tired, though. Should never do night commentary or debates. He’s just not “present” at all.
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Back in the day Matthews was a pretty talented writer and I enjoyed reading his work. Nowadays, he has been most perfectly described as a “gasbag”.
Matthews was probably distracted: has harassment allegations on his mind.
Tweety is essentially a reality show “celebrity” like Trump. And equally as dumb.
often wrong; never in doubt.
Way, way, waaaay past time. For someone who is supposedly so smart and with it and razor sharp analyst of national politics, he is either an easily duped fool, senile, or a complicit serial abuser of his position. Or all three!!
Daymn. I didn’t realize that. Makes a lot of sense. I just don’t watch msnbc enough now to have seen the difference but makes sense. I had mixed feelings about him but no more than nearly every cable news anchor.
It was time for him to retire and his farewell tonight was classy. I wish him well.
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