Matthews and Coulter: No Shame, a Blog by Robert Borosage

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Matthews and Coulter: No Shame
Submitted by Robert Borosage on June 27, 2007 - 5:56pm.

Desperate TV producers, caught in a competition for ratings, are clearly without shame.

Chris Matthews, a knowledgeable and experienced commentator, is under ratings pressure at MSNBC. The result is a descent into the foulest gutter available – inviting on Tuesday the ignorant, vile, garbage-mouthed Ann Coulter for an interview.

Ann Coulter offers nothing – no insight, no knowledge, no wit – except vapid invective. She’s a political Brittney Spears without the glimmer of talent – an unhinged spectacle. When it comes to former Sen. John Edwards, she’s simply deranged. She calls him a “faggot.” She once said, “I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.” The tragic death of Edwards' teenage son elicits Coulter's scornful claim that he parades the death on a bumper sticker.

Matthews got the attention he craves. Elizabeth Edwards called in to challenge Coulter’s “language of hate.”

“I’m the mother of that boy who died,” she said. “These young people behind you, you’re asking them to participate in a dialogue that is based on hatefulness and ugliness instead of on the issues, and I don’t think that’s serving them or this country very well.”

Great stuff. But Coulter is a windup defecating doll. The disservice to the country is done by those who give her a public stage to parade her infamies. Need a ratings boost? Focus on Paris Hilton, she’s out of control. Ship in Ann Coulter, she’s likely to say something obscene. There are no limits, no shame. OK. But lie in the bed you make.

Think of Chris Mathews and Ann Coulter as inextricably linked. And don’t call it "Hardball." Hardball is played hard to win, but has rules and style. Call it Animal House or Garbage Dump. At least, viewers would know what they are getting.

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TC

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. If Matthews would simply hold firm to his promo promise

not to let things get by...to hold them accountable and ask the tough questions, then he'd be in much better shape.

Too many times I've watched him let the Cons come on and repeat the talking points without any rebuttle. Too many times, his *cough*admiration*cough* for the Cons shows like a hollywood spotlight while his disdain for Democrats is expressed outright.

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2. chris matthews went from the

gutter to the grave.

And participated with coulter in a stellar fundraiser for the Edwards campaign.

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4. I have to say, I didn't see it.

I never watch Hardball (or, as it is called in this house: Slimeball), but I did see the YouTube of Mrs. Edwards' call to Coulter, and I was really appalled at Cooulter's behavior in response. It was beyond the pale. (And disgusting as hell!) I think Matthews has lost all credibility. ALL of it.

TC

[DeepModem Mom]

3. K&R

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5. kick

TC

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6. Kick!

chris matthews should be ashamed of himself. Somewhere, somehow, a line has to be drawn against hate-spew.

Is stirring things up just for the sake of stirring things up really the way to go anymore? REALLY???

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7. "Is stirring things up just for the sake of stirring things up really the way to go anymore?...

... REALLY?"

Like I said, in my house, we call it "Slimeball" not "Hardball", and we never watch it at all anymore. We stopped for good during the last Presidential Primaries. I know if anything happens on it that I should know about it, I will be able to read about it here.

He and his "ilk" disgust me.

TC

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8. all Tweety knows is superficial...the gutter is as much substance as you'll see