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Year-End Awards: The Ku Klux Con Job Award

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 11:31 PM EST

Starting last week, NewsBusters has been revealing the winners and top runners-up for each category in the MRC’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Ku Klux Con Job Award,” for smearing conser ...

Year-End Awards: The Dopiest News Media Quotes of 2015

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 11:22 PM EST

Starting last week, NewsBusters has been revealing the winners and top runners-up for each category in the MRC’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Audacity of Dopes ” award, for the wackiest ...

Year-End Awards: The 'What Difference Does It Make?' Award, for Denying Hillary’s Scandals

By Rich Noyes | December 29, 2015, 12:34 AM EST

This week, NewsBusters is presenting the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ What Difference Does It Make? ” Award for denying Hillary’s scandals. (Thanks to our 39 jud ...

Chris Matthews Fears ‘Horror’ of Ted Cruz Presidency; Calls Him ‘Enemy of the State’

By Kyle Drennen | December 22, 2015, 7:58 PM EST

Appearing in the 3 p.m. ET hour of MSNBC Live on Tuesday, Hardball host Chris Matthews revealed how terrified he is at the prospect of Texas Senator Ted Cruz becoming president: “...Cruz is scarier than Trump and that will be a frightening prospect to rea ...

MSNBC's Russert Frets 'Hope and Change' Did Not 'Carry the Day,' Invokes George Wallace

By Brad Wilmouth | December 22, 2015, 5:08 PM EST

As MSNBC's Chris Matthews appeared on Tuesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports to promote his special on Donald Trump's life, substitute MSNBC host Luke Russert wondered why the "divisions that had ravaged the country" did not go away af ...

MSNBC’s Hardball Opens with Star Wars Credits Parody; ‘Period of Civil War’ in GOP

By Curtis Houck | December 22, 2015, 9:43 AM EST

Seeking to join in on the Star Wars: The Force Awakens hype, MSNBC’s Hardball kicked off Monday’s show with a spoof of the famous franchise’s opening credits that told of a “period of civil war within the Republican party” and “President Obama, Hillary Cl ...

The Five Dumbest Things Chris Matthews Said On Air In 2015

By Ken Shepherd | December 21, 2015, 2:52 PM EST

With the year swiftly coming to a close, I thought I'd take a look back at some of the stupidest comments that Hardball host Chris Matthews made on the air in 2015. These are ones I consider particularly stupid, not necessary or merely politically sl ...

Year-End Awards: The Biggest Obamagasms of 2015

By Rich Noyes | December 28, 2015, 1:11 AM EST

Last week, the Media Research Center announced our “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” with MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry “winning” Quote of the Year for objecting to the phrase “hard worker,” as somehow a violation of the rules of political corr ...

Matthews: Trump 'Playing to Racists,' Obama 'Not One of Us, He's Black' View

By Brad Wilmouth | December 21, 2015, 9:23 AM EST

Appearing as a guest before MSNBC's live coverage of President Barack Obama's Friday press conference, during a discussion of Donald Trump's history of promoting birtherism against the President, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews recalled ...

FBN’s Lou Dobbs Spotlights MRCTV’s Joseph Being Snapped at by Chris Matthews

By NB Staff | December 16, 2015, 9:53 PM EST

Near the end of his Fox Business Network (FBN) show on Wednesday night, host Lou Dobbs played and discussed with his panel video released on Tuesday that featured MRCTV’s Dan Joseph asking MSNBC’s Chris Matthews if he still has “the thrill” up his leg all ...

Matthews Grouses Rubio Is 'Cute' and Too Polished a Speaker

By Ken Shepherd | December 16, 2015, 9:47 PM EST

Chris Matthews has made no secret of how much he loves the "perfect" Barack Obama in everything from his speaking style on down to his family life. But far be it from the hyperpartisan Hardball host to see Rubio's good looks and polished sp ...

'Go To Hell': Chris Matthews Curses MRCTV for Asking If His Leg Is Still Thrilled for Obama

By NB Staff | December 17, 2015, 2:42 AM EST

MRCTV’s Dan Joseph wandered the spin room in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, and found MSNBC star Chris Matthews. “I asked him whether he was feeling the thrill or whether the thrill was gone after seven years of President Obama. As you will see, he was not a ...

Chris Matthews Thrills: Hillary Is ‘Probable' 2016 Winner, Speculates on 2020

By Scott Whitlock | December 16, 2015, 1:31 PM EST

During a live, post-debate edition of Hardball on Tuesday night, Chris Matthews declared Hillary Clinton the likely winner in 2016 and immediately moved on to 2020. Matthews, who famously had a “thrill" up his leg for Barack Obama, ended a segment on ...

GOP Strategist Pushes Back Against Chris Matthews's Simplistic Bush-Created-ISIS Talking Point

By Ken Shepherd | December 15, 2015, 9:06 PM EST

Former John McCain presidential campaign advisor Steve Schmidt pushed back against former Carter staffer Chris Matthews on tonight's Hardball when the latter whipped out his tired Bush-caused-ISIS talking point. Schmidt wondered why set the clock for ...

Chris Matthews Offended That Chris Christie Calls ISIS Jihadis 'Animals'

By Ken Shepherd | December 15, 2015, 1:42 AM EST

MSNBC's Chris Matthews seems to have a problem with those who would call the torturers, rapists, and murderers who populate the ranks of ISIS as "animals." The Hardball host made the complaint tonight to frequent contributor and left-wing j ...