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Fury of ISIS Victim's Family With White House Buried Deep in NY Times Article

By Randy Hall | September 4, 2014, 11:43 AM EDT

The family of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist beheaded in the past two weeks by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-- or ISIS-- is reportedly “outraged” at President Barack Obama and his staff for making “deliberate leaks,” which ...

Chris Matthews Eager for Biden Challenge to Hillary: 'I'm Dyin' for a Race Like This'

By Ken Shepherd | September 4, 2014, 11:43 AM EDT

Here at NewsBusters, we've documented how Chris Matthews has gushed about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and how she could be a "truly great president." We've also noted how Matthews did his best to spin Mrs. Clinton's ...

Chris Matthews Forgets To Fact Check (Again)

By Laura Flint | July 15, 2014, 10:29 AM EDT

On the July 14 edition of Hardball With Chris Matthews, the left-wing MSNBC host continued his pattern of spewing convenient yet historically inaccurate facts. After playing an amusing, if not crude, clip of John Oliver poking fun at the recently unearthe ...

'Dark... Spectral' Dick Cheney Still Living Rent-free in Chris Matthews's Head

By Ken Shepherd | July 14, 2014, 10:25 PM EDT

Although more subdued compared to his June 18 anti-Dick Cheney diatribe, MSNBC's Chris Matthews returned on his Monday, July 14 program once again to his unhealthy, creepy obsession with the former vice president. The relevant news hook was what Matt ...

Matthews: Tea Party Treats Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' 'Like It's the Little Red Book of Mao'

By Matthew Balan | July 13, 2014, 7:36 AM EDT

On Friday's Hardball, Chris Matthews and Howard Dean slammed the supposedly " lunatic " Republican Party for opposing President Obama's $3.7 billion request to deal with the ongoing crisis at the U.S-Mexico border. Dean likened the pol ...

MSNBC's Matthews Actually Poses Tough Questions to Left-wing Critic of Hobby Lobby Ruling

By Ken Shepherd | July 9, 2014, 10:05 PM EDT

Miracles do happen.  On his July 9 Hardball program, MSNBC's Chris Matthews actually pressed abortion-rights absolutist Stephanie Schriock about the implications of her support for Democratic legislation to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling in ...

Chris Matthews Proclaims Marco Rubio Is ‘The Republicans' John Edwards’

By Jeffrey Meyer | July 9, 2014, 7:47 AM EDT

Hardball host Chris Matthews made some bizarre comments about the potential Republican candidates for president in 2016 on Tuesday night.  Speaking to Jeanne Cummings of Bloomberg News and Republican strategist John Feehery, Matthews took a swipe at Senat ...

Salon's Joan Walsh Defends Hillary's Rapist Defense: 'I'm Sure She Would Take That Laughter Back'

By Ken Shepherd | July 8, 2014, 8:44 PM EDT

As my colleague Clay Waters noted, the New York Times finally caught up with the Washington Free Beacon's month-old scoop about an audiotape recording of Hillary Clinton chuckling as she recalled her successful 1975 defense of a man accused of raping ...

Chris Matthews: Republicans Violate 26th Amendment And 'Abridge' Youth Voting Rights In NC

By Laura Flint | July 8, 2014, 1:53 PM EDT

Chris Matthews was on a roll last night. Beyond erroneously describing how Nixon ‘signed the 26th Amendment into law,’ and outrageously claiming that the Boehner lawsuit occurs ‘in third world countries before they have a coup,” the Hardball host spent ov ...

Hardball's Matthews Erroneously Relays How Nixon 'Signed the 26th Amendment Into Law'

By Ken Shepherd | July 8, 2014, 9:16 AM EDT

According to MSNBC's Chris Matthews, "in July of 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the 26th Amendment into law, making 18 the [minimum] age to vote." The Hardball host made this pronouncement as he introduced a segment attacking new legi ...

Chris Matthews Proclaims Boehner Lawsuit Occurs ‘In Third World Countries Before They Have A Coup’

By Jeffrey Meyer | July 7, 2014, 9:25 PM EDT

Chris Matthews’ disdain for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and his decision to sue President Obama over his use of executive orders reached a fever pitch on his Hardball program Monday night.  Speaking to David Corn of the liberal Mother Jones and Howa ...

Hardball's Matthews: President Needs 'Morning In America'-Style TV Ads Selling the Obama Economy

By Ken Shepherd | July 7, 2014, 9:42 PM EDT

The economy is going gangbusters but Americans are not psyched about it like they should be because President Obama isn't doing a great sales job. That and Republican businessmen are sitting around in their boardrooms conspiring how they can "ta ...

Chris Matthews: Tea Party In Miss. Used 'Jim Crow-Era Law' to Intimidate Black Voters

By Laura Flint | June 25, 2014, 3:30 PM EDT

On the June 24 edition of Hardball With Chris Matthews, the MSNBC anchor invited Adam Brandon of the Tea Party organization FreedomWorks onto the show in an attempt to portray the Tea Party as targeting black voters in the Republican Mississippi primary r ...

The Same Chris Matthews Who Defended Tea Partiers Assailed 'Racist,' 'Nazi' Conservatives

By Scott Whitlock | June 24, 2014, 11:24 AM EDT

Want to see the hypocrisy of Chris Matthews exposed? The Media Research Center has done just that with a must-see montage. [Video below.  MP3 audio  here.]   Americans across the country were shocked on June 11 as Matthews defended the Tea Party and lashe ...

MRC's Notable Quotables: Journalists Plead with Hillary to Run: 'If Not You, Who?'

By Rich Noyes | June 23, 2014, 8:55 AM EDT

Now online: the June 23 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, as Hillary Clinton embarks on a book tour, feminist journalists urge her to run for President. “If not you, ...