Chris Matthews Actually Nails It

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Discussing the body language of McCain and Obama, Chris was talking to Nora O,Donnel and the other guy with the little beard.

At the end of the discussion he said, "It's like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Bugs just keeps smiling while getting Elmer Fudd all upset."
 
Discussing the body language of McCain and Obama, Chris was talking to Nora O,Donnel and the other guy with the little beard.

At the end of the discussion he said, "It's like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Bugs just keeps smiling while getting Elmer Fudd all upset."

I have zero respect for Chris Matthews ray and it surprises me he can even find the office in the morning. The man has lost all of his credentials in my mind wih his blatent support of Obama in this race. Watching him is rather like watching Hannity and calling it news. Now what would be good is to see a show with both of those two hacks on at the same time and then you might have something close to fair and balanced. I wonder if he is going to be able to still walk if Obama wins as that tingle in his leg might take over his whole body. Watching Chris Matthews is like watching Howard Dean telling me how fair and balanced he is. I will pass thank you as well as pass on the rest of the media hacks who's first job it is , is to support a cause then report then news.
 
I have zero respect for Chris Matthews ray and it surprises me he can even find the office in the morning. The man has lost all of his credentials in my mind wih his blatent support of Obama in this race. Watching him is rather like watching Hannity and calling it news. Now what would be good is to see a show with both of those two hacks on at the same time and then you might have something close to fair and balanced. I wonder if he is going to be able to still walk if Obama wins as that tingle in his leg might take over his whole body. Watching Chris Matthews is like watching Howard Dean telling me how fair and balanced he is. I will pass thank you as well as pass on the rest of the media hacks who's first job it is , is to support a cause then report then news.

Gee, maybe next time the debate moderator could be Rush Limbaugh. He is sooooo unbiased, isn't he?
 
Gee, maybe next time the debate moderator could be Rush Limbaugh. He is sooooo unbiased, isn't he?

What part of my posting gave you the impression that I had any more respect for Limbaugh as a newsman than Matthews? A Hack is a Hack no matter what agenda they are spewing out.
 
I have zero respect for Chris Matthews ray and it surprises me he can even find the office in the morning. The man has lost all of his credentials in my mind wih his blatent support of Obama in this race. Watching him is rather like watching Hannity and calling it news. Now what would be good is to see a show with both of those two hacks on at the same time and then you might have something close to fair and balanced. I wonder if he is going to be able to still walk if Obama wins as that tingle in his leg might take over his whole body. Watching Chris Matthews is like watching Howard Dean telling me how fair and balanced he is. I will pass thank you as well as pass on the rest of the media hacks who's first job it is , is to support a cause then report then news.

Mathews openly supported Bush against Gore in 2000. Did that bother you?

Mathews has never been a news analyst. He's a pundit. Republicans generally liked him when he was slamming the Clintons, and supporting Bush against Gore.

Oh well.
 
The whole body language thing has zero relevance when you're talking about a young dude with no physical ailments or disfigurements, and an old guy who is stove up and has many miles on his face.

Give it a rest. This is almost as stupid as the spastic defaming of the poor slob who happened to ask a question that showed Obama up for the socialist he is.
 
I have zero respect for Chris Matthews ray and it surprises me he can even find the office in the morning. The man has lost all of his credentials in my mind wih his blatent support of Obama in this race. Watching him is rather like watching Hannity and calling it news. Now what would be good is to see a show with both of those two hacks on at the same time and then you might have something close to fair and balanced. I wonder if he is going to be able to still walk if Obama wins as that tingle in his leg might take over his whole body. Watching Chris Matthews is like watching Howard Dean telling me how fair and balanced he is. I will pass thank you as well as pass on the rest of the media hacks who's first job it is , is to support a cause then report then news.

Chris Matthews worked for JFK. He makes absolutely no effort to pretend he doesn't have preferences. He doesn't moderate the debates. And I do think, to him, he's found the next JFK. Doesn't mean he's saying anything untrue, but it does mean that his observations are colored by that. Same as Joe Scarborough. Joe is clearly in McCain's camp. But he tries his best to not be offensive or rude to anyone else. Doesn't make me respect either of them less. In fact, I love watching Scarborough. Don't mind Matthews, though he's not my favorite. I like watching Rachel Maddow, especially when she and Pat Buchanan are facing off.
 
Mathews openly supported Bush against Gore in 2000. Did that bother you?

Mathews has never been a news analyst. He's a pundit. Republicans generally liked him when he was slamming the Clintons, and supporting Bush against Gore.

Oh well.

Let me put it to you this way, I have not had any illusion as to who and what Chris Matthews is and was. My issue with Matthews goes beyond just his general unprofessionalism it goes into the realm of what the News division at NBC has done to G.E. stock in general and how the higher-ups at G.E. have allowed this division amongst others to continually lose money. Chris Matthews is just systemic of the media in general and why they all feel the need now to editorialize instead of reporting the news. However when someone has a vested interest in G.E. and constantly see's this one division lose money year after year after year and NOTHING is done about it. One tends to NOT accept anything that is put up by those very same people.
 
Chris Matthews worked for JFK. He makes absolutely no effort to pretend he doesn't have preferences. He doesn't moderate the debates. And I do think, to him, he's found the next JFK. Doesn't mean he's saying anything untrue, but it does mean that his observations are colored by that. Same as Joe Scarborough. Joe is clearly in McCain's camp. But he tries his best to not be offensive or rude to anyone else. Doesn't make me respect either of them less. In fact, I love watching Scarborough. Don't mind Matthews, though he's not my favorite. I like watching Rachel Maddow, especially when she and Pat Buchanan are facing off.

JFK made it to the presidency using stolen votes, too. Maybe he and Obama are alike, after all.
 
Perhaps I am a bit jaded and long for the days of just a news broadcaster that gives your the news without the need for commentary or snide remarks. It seems that the media these days generally believes that the audience they are speaking to is stupid and it's their job to decide who and what we should know and not know. With a a traditional news broadcast with no editorializing, you the viewer make up YOUR mind as to what it is you believe or not as it should be. This tendancy to over editorialize is reflected in NBC's ratings as they are constantly the number three network by far in news and cable news. If you think this is somehow my legitimizing Rupert Murdochs little outfit or Ted Turner's former little outfit then your wrong, they to have fallen into this same trap. It is my belief that more and more people will seek their news from the internet all the while looking to be the ones in control of the decision making process.
 
You're projecting. And Obama doesn't have his "hunting buddy" on the supreme court to install him as president.

What on earth am I projecting, dingbat? I've never been a Dem nominee, therefore have never considered stealing an election.
 
Perhaps I am a bit jaded and long for the days of just a news broadcaster that gives your the news without the need for commentary or snide remarks. It seems that the media these days generally believes that the audience they are speaking to is stupid and it's their job to decide who and what we should know and not know. With a a traditional news broadcast with no editorializing, you the viewer make up YOUR mind as to what it is you believe or not as it should be. This tendancy to over editorialize is reflected in NBC's ratings as they are constantly the number three network by far in news and cable news. If you think this is somehow my legitimizing Rupert Murdochs little outfit or Ted Turner's former little outfit then your wrong, they to have fallen into this same trap. It is my belief that more and more people will seek their news from the internet all the while looking to be the ones in control of the decision making process.

I'm not sure there was ever such a thing as broadcasters who gave you "just the facts". I'm not sure there's such a thing as "just the facts", actually. When Edward R. Murrow saw the disgusting things the HUAC was doing, he made it his project. When Cronkite saw the error of the Vietnam War, he showed body counts every day. And when Cronkite turned on the War, Richard Nixon said "if we've lost Cronkite, we've lost the war' or something to that effect. (sorry, I don't recall the exact quote).

I think perhaps "pundits" now are just so numerous and some are so headsplittingly pathetic, that we've lost faith in the people who speak to us. That was the beauty of a Tim Russert and, to be fair, Tom Brokaw is in that league, too (notwithstanding the horrible job he did as moderator of the town hall debate).
 
Perhaps I am a bit jaded and long for the days of just a news broadcaster that gives your the news without the need for commentary or snide remarks. It seems that the media these days generally believes that the audience they are speaking to is stupid and it's their job to decide who and what we should know and not know. With a a traditional news broadcast with no editorializing, you the viewer make up YOUR mind as to what it is you believe or not as it should be. This tendancy to over editorialize is reflected in NBC's ratings as they are constantly the number three network by far in news and cable news. If you think this is somehow my legitimizing Rupert Murdochs little outfit or Ted Turner's former little outfit then your wrong, they to have fallen into this same trap. It is my belief that more and more people will seek their news from the internet all the while looking to be the ones in control of the decision making process.

With a a traditional news broadcast with no editorializing, you the viewer make up YOUR mind as to what it is you believe or not as it should be.

The job of the fourth estate is not to just report what someone said. They're not government stenographers. There job is indeed to report the facts, but also to sort out the lies and the spin from the truth.

I don't want a media that just parrots what the government said. That's how we got into the iraq war. There weren't enough questions asked, and too few people had the balls to call a lie a lie.

Knight-Ridder newspapers were one of the few that didn't act like government stenographers. I don't have time in my life to investigate government lies. Knight-Ridder did, and they called bullshit on the BushCo lies about iraq before we invaded. And thanks to them, I knew before bush even invaded that the war was based on bullshit.
 
I'm not sure there was ever such a thing as broadcasters who gave you "just the facts". I'm not sure there's such a thing as "just the facts", actually. When Edward R. Murrow saw the disgusting things the HUAC was doing, he made it his project. When Cronkite saw the error of the Vietnam War, he showed body counts every day. And when Cronkite turned on the War, Richard Nixon said "if we've lost Cronkite, we've lost the war' or something to that effect. (sorry, I don't recall the exact quote).

I think perhaps "pundits" now are just so numerous and some are so headsplittingly pathetic, that we've lost faith in the people who speak to us. That was the beauty of a Tim Russert and, to be fair, Tom Brokaw is in that league, too (notwithstanding the horrible job he did as moderator of the town hall debate).

Perhaps your right on the money on the lost faith part and thats really too bad too at one time it was an honorable profession to be in the media. However now, I am not sure it's held in such high esteem as these numerous pundits have seen to it that the profession itself has somehow been diminished.
 
I'm not sure there was ever such a thing as broadcasters who gave you "just the facts". I'm not sure there's such a thing as "just the facts", actually. When Edward R. Murrow saw the disgusting things the HUAC was doing, he made it his project. When Cronkite saw the error of the Vietnam War, he showed body counts every day. And when Cronkite turned on the War, Richard Nixon said "if we've lost Cronkite, we've lost the war' or something to that effect. (sorry, I don't recall the exact quote).

I think perhaps "pundits" now are just so numerous and some are so headsplittingly pathetic, that we've lost faith in the people who speak to us. That was the beauty of a Tim Russert and, to be fair, Tom Brokaw is in that league, too (notwithstanding the horrible job he did as moderator of the town hall debate).


I really really miss Tim Russert! :(
 

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