Chris Matthews

'Hardball' Panel Doesn't Seem Upset Biden May Have Exploited Son's Death to Put Out Presidential Feelers
By Ken Shepherd | October 6, 2015 | 9:08 PM EDT

Politico reported today that numerous sources are pointing to Vice President Joe Biden himself as the anonymous source who told the New York Times's Maureen Dowd about Beau Biden's dying wish that his father run for the presidency.

While the Biden camp is strongly denying that there was any political motivation for effectively putting feelers out for a presidential campaign via a friendly columnist, it certainly does look bad. Even so, tonight's Hardball panel seemed to think it was no big deal if Mr. Biden effectively politicized his son's untimely death due to brain cancer.

'Hardball' Hits Sen. Bernie Sanders From Left On Gun-Rights Issues
By Ken Shepherd | October 5, 2015 | 9:23 PM EDT

On his Monday edition of Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews, along with panelists Eugene Robinson, Howard Fineman, and Joan Walsh hit socialist Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) from the left for his voting record on gun rights, particularly a 2005 bill that granted civil immunity from gun manufacturers. At one point, Matthews even oddly compared Sanders to the late liberal-but-racist segregationist Sen. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), suggesting his vote on the gun immunity bill was unforgivable much like Fulbright's defense of Jim Crow.
 

Flying Pigs Alert: Chris Matthews Praises Trump as 'Genius'
By P.J. Gladnick | October 2, 2015 | 2:33 PM EDT

Admit it. When you read the title of this story you probably thought Chris Matthews was being sarcastic in his praise of Donald Trump. However when you view the video below of Matthews speaking at the Ideas Forum in Washington, D.C. yesterday, you can see he is absolutely sincere. Of course, to maintain his liberal bonafides he quickly tosses something in about supposed Trump nonsense but the rest of the clip sounds like it could be used in a Trump campaign commercial. In fact Matthews was so effusive in his praise of Trump in contrast to the political class that you might have to play the video twice to make sure you heard what you thought you heard the first time.

Chris Matthews Rants: Pro-Life Forces Deceived Fiorina, Used Stillborn Child
By Michael McKinney | October 1, 2015 | 5:03 PM EDT

Chris Matthews on Thursday, filling in for Andrea Mitchell on Andrea Mitchell Reports, interviewed Congressman Jason Chaffetz. Rather than discussing the current investigation, which the Congressman leads, into Planned Parenthood's finances, Matthews grilled Chaffetz on his opinion of the stillborn footage included in a Center for Medical Progress video. He also lectured Chaffetz to watch more Hardball. 

Chris Matthews: Biden Could Shift Focus from Hillary’s ‘Termite Bites of Benghazi and E-Mail’
By Curtis Houck | September 29, 2015 | 6:18 PM EDT

In the rarely fruitless world of MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews groaned at the top of Monday’s show about the ongoing Benghazi and e-mail scandals enveloping Hillary Clinton that have become “termite bites” for the Democratic presidential candidate as Vice President Joe Biden could still join the 2016 race.

Tactless Williams, Matthews Knock Catholic Dogma During Papal Mass
By Matthew Balan | September 28, 2015 | 5:09 PM EDT

Brian Williams and Chris Matthews couldn't resist the opportunity to harp on the lack of married and women priests in the Catholic Church, as MSNBC provided live coverage of Pope Francis's open-air Mass in Philadelphia on Sunday. Williams pointed out that one of the archbishops at the Mass is "from a family, [but] he cannot go home to one. He cannot have one, and be...of service to the Catholic Church. And it is still that thing that differentiates and separates the religion from so many others."

Chris Matthews Cheers Obama's UN Speech: He’s Going to Be a 'Post-Presidential Mandela'
By Jeffrey Meyer | September 28, 2015 | 12:51 PM EDT

On Monday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews swooned over President Obama’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly and called it evidence that he was a “presidential figure who's become a global leader.” The MSNBC host proclaimed that Obama’s speech shows he “is he going to be a post-presidential Nelson Mandela. He is going to be a man of the world selling democracy, claiming credit for climate change initiatives with opening to Cuba, with trade deals.” 

Matthews, Tomasky Lament ‘Revolutionary’ GOP Dethroned ‘Rock-Ribbed Conservative’ Boehner
By Curtis Houck | September 26, 2015 | 11:45 AM EDT

Speaking with fill-in host Alex Wagner on the Friday edition of MSNBC’s All In, Hardball host Chris Matthews and Daily Beast columnist Michael Tomasky continued the liberal media’s narrative of sudden respect for the soon-to-be resigning House Speaker John Boehner, lamenting that the “revolutionary” wing of the Republican Party had carried out a “mutiny” against “a rock-ribbed conservative.”

Matthews Harps On 'How Bad It Was' in Catholic Church's Recent Past
By Matthew Balan | September 26, 2015 | 11:00 AM EDT

MSNBC's Chris Matthews revealed his loathing for a part of his Catholic upbringing on Wednesday's Hardball, and ended up mangling the theology behind a beautiful and ancient Church ritual for new mothers. Matthews turned to Catholic dissident Sister Simone Campbell for her take on Pope Francis's visit. Sister Campbell touted her liberal "Nuns on the Bus" campaign as a supposed way to "take the Gospel to where it wouldn't be otherwise, and all the other people that we meet along the road – so many of them are not churched...but that we can be in touch with them."

MSNBC: Boehner Forced Out by ‘Radical Conservative Members’ in Congress; GOP ‘Fragmenting’
By Kyle Drennen | September 25, 2015 | 4:57 PM EDT

As news broke of House Speaker John Boehner planning to resign from Congress, MSNBC’s hosts and correspondents used the opportunity to bash conservatives in the House of Representatives. Late in the 10 a.m. ET hour, Andrea Mitchell worried: “...he's stepping down under the threat of the caucus...and it remains to be seen whether the more radical conservative members who wanted to shut down the government can actually gain control of the caucus...”

Chris Matthews: Modern GOP Is ‘Pro-White,’ ‘Mormon and Conservative’
By Scott Whitlock | September 25, 2015 | 12:50 PM EDT

Reacting to the resignation of John Boehner, MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Friday assessed the state of the modern Republican Party. After Brian Williams wondered, “who is the Republican establishment,” the cable host insisted that the GOP has been supplanted “by the sun belt because of the civil rights passage in ‘64.” He sneered, “Now, we have a Solid South which is pro-white in the South and we have a Western party in the Mountain states, which is Mormon and conservative.” 

Brian Williams on Boehner Resignation: He Had to ‘Put Up’ With Tea Party
By Scott Whitlock | September 25, 2015 | 10:41 AM EDT

Brian Williams, now demoted to breaking news anchor for MSNBC, on Friday lamented that John Boehner had to “put up” with the Tea Party as Speaker of the House. His colleague Chris Matthews cheered, “Everybody likes John Boehner. I can tell you the media like him.” Talking to NBC political editor Mark Murray, Williams blurted, “Talk about what John Boehner has had to put up that is unique to his Speakership. I guess I'm mostly thinking of the Tea Party revolution.”