Chris Matthews: White House Pressured MSNBC To Tame Hardball

[babsbunny]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/05/chris-matthews-white-house-pressured-msnbc-to-tame-hardball/


Don’t you just love these truth tellers in American journalism like Katie Couric and Chris Matthews who are suddenly here to complain that the Bush administration has manipulated Big Media like them, and they’re not going to take it anymore? At least not now that George W. Bush and Congress have a record-low approval rating, and after 3,809 U.S. troops have died in Iraq.

Here is MSNBC “Hardball” host Matthews:

[LakeSamish706]

1. I only hope that they start coming out in droves.... It's long overdue..

If this begins to happen on a large scale basis, we might begin to gain some justice in this unjust world. Maybe get some of these evil doers behind bars where they belong... ie: This Administration!

[still_one]

2. These are the ultimate cowards, who towed the line for the administration

rather than do their job

They also share in the blame for deaths that have been caused by this administration

accessory to murder in my view, because they took an active part in covering up information that led us to war

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. AMEN!

Too little too late, IMO.

[Botany]

3. Sure Chris you have been so "out there" in being tough on the un-elected one

On bush's "Fly Boy" stunt

MATTHEWS: What's the importance of the president's amazing display of leadership tonight?

<...>

MATTHEWS: What do you make of the actual visual that people will see on TV and probably, as you know, as well as I, will remember a lot longer than words spoken tonight? And that's the president looking very much like a jet, you know, a high-flying jet star. A guy who is a jet pilot. Has been in the past when he was younger, obviously. What does that image mean to the American people, a guy who can actually get into a supersonic plane and actually fly in an unpressurized cabin like an actual jet pilot?

<...>

MATTHEWS: Do you think this role, and I want to talk politically <...>, the president deserves everything he's doing tonight in terms of his leadership. He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics. Do you think he is defining the office of the presidency, at least for this time, as basically that of commander in chief? That <...> if you're going to run against him, you'd better be ready to take away from him.

<...>

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, Bob Dornan, you were a congressman all those years. Here's a president who's really nonverbal. He's like Eisenhower. He looks great in a military uniform. He looks great in that cowboy costume he wears when he goes West. I remember him standing at that fence with Colin Powell. Was the best picture in the 2000 campaign?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604270005

[MannyGoldstein]

4. I Wached Matthews On The Daily Show Last Night

Had it on the TiVo. Stewart ripped Matthews a new orifice - it was amazing.

Matthews admitted - and was even proud that - his entire life was a low-rent fraud designed purely for money and fame. Very disturbing.

[EST]

14. What I found, achingly, embarrassingly true wasn't so much that

Jon tore him up; it seemed to me more like Jon just made a couple of astute, informed comments, indicating that he had, indeed, read the book (that rascal must work twenty there hours a day) and had thought enough about it to have formed a calm, not rabid or knee-jerk, impression of it. .

Then Teweety tore himself a new, double-sized potty puddler. That slobbering fat head was totally convinced that, since he had written a book and thrown himself a "hot dog me" party, Jon would give him the customary pat on the ass and some kind of congratulatory humma-humma, noblesse oblige, like the rest of the hypocritical major media had been doing. It became painful to watch.

Imagine that! That soulless jerk actually expected to get friggin hypocrisy from Jon!
Add to that the fact that Tweety had never--as mentioned by Stewart, later--actually watched TDS.
He actually thought TDS was just a comedy show and a "puff up the budding celebrity" session.

[MannyGoldstein]

18. Well Said! nt

[Hepburn]

5. Soooooooo......

.....why didn't Matthews speak out when this was going on? Hmmmm???

[Totally Committed]

6. Better yet... why is he speaking out now?

Did that "interview" with Jon Stewart the other night finally wake him out of his cynical, Corporate-friendly stupor.

OR IS HE JUST TRYING TO SELL HIS BOOK TO LIBERALS WHO WILL NO LONGER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIM?

I wonder.......

TC

[Hepburn]

15. Yep....

...you completed the thoughts I had. If this is a sincere bitch and "expose'" from Tweety...why now? With book sales pending?? Seems a bit too co-inkie-dinkle for me!

:hi:

[Hepburn]

17. Bartcop on Tweety...

:applause:

[havocmom]

7. All that shredding of the Bill of Rights didn't ruffle Tweety's feathers

but finding out they put pressure on him in his workplace gets all this anger? Hell, who in America has real freedom of speech IN THE WORKPLACE?

Tweety didn't care about OUR freedom of speech on public streets or our privacy in our homes and in our papers.

He is such a self-centered whore.

[bahrbearian]

8. "Oh the women love his manly strutt"

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. WTF was he in 2003? 2002? 2001?

This just pisses me off beyond words. So it's now trendy to criticize the worst president ever and we have a flood of 'journalists' telling all their little secrets.

FUCK YOU Chris Matthews and all the rest of you. You are complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the illegal war and occupation by the bush administration. Where the fuck were you 5 years ago? 6 years ago following 9/11 - why didn't you DEMAND an investigation of the worst attack on American soil? Why did you jump on bush's war wagon and cheer him on as he waged an illegal war? So now you feel guilty or see the popular thing to do is to come clean and admit you knew this monstrosity in the White House was wrong all along?

Publish the Downing Street Minutes if you really feel this sudden urge to tell the truth. Tell your readers and viewers about the overwhelming evidence supporting impeachment. APOLOGIZE TO THE FAMILIES OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS! Then maybe you will have some credibility. Maybe.

[bahrbearian]

11. Life is a Campaign? Huh

Chris is a Lap Dog, Sit, Stay, Lie Down, Good Boy now Play Dead.

[MasonJar]

12. Isn't Tweety trying to sell a book? Even he can read the numbers

of who is pro-cabal and who is anti-cabal. Also he probably is mad that the administration tried to squelch him after he has been so loyal.

[spanone]

13. they are the facilitators

[jwirr]

16. BooHoo! If only he had a brain like KO he might have realized it takes

a courageous person to earn respect.

[Evergreen Emerald]

19. I remember the last unbiased show he aired

And he stated that he was threatened with no more guests by the republicans if he did not tow the line.

So, he towed the line. It is a shame that he chose to sell his soul to cheney.