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Chris Matthews Beaned

4.29.04 @ 12:01AM

A CHRIS ON KERRY
Re: David Hogberg's Let's Play Softball!:

It was so pleasant to read a re-affirmation of a so-called "Hardball" program that so shocked me that I was narrating the Chris Matthew's show to my husband as it was happening before my lying eyes.

Lately Chris Matthews has gone so far off the liberal deep end that I was moved to actually write him an email asking him what the heck he was doing.

Now I know Matthews is a liberal, his former Peace Corps self. But his show used to have some hard-hitting commentary and most times there were punditspresenting both sides of the issues. In the last month he gave Richard Clarke an entire hour and he paraded those 9/11 widows in front of us until I wanted to scream.

Tomorrow night his special guest is.....Bill Maher! I can't wait.

I think one of two things is going on with Matthews, take your pick. First, Matthews' show is in trouble and he's trying to become the Rush Limbaugh of the liberals. Why else, as Hogberg said in his column, all the hoopla over seven years on the air, complete with liberal politicians sending in their congrats. Seven years is such an odd number, but when you're in trouble you pull out the big guns.

OR....Chris is auditioning each and every night for a slot on the new Air America liberal talk radio network.

Matthews thinks he could be another Tim Russert but ain't never gonna happen.

The man is self-destructing in front of my eyes.
-- Pat Fish

Softball?? More like Puffball. My wife and I watched the cough "Hardball" cough interview with our mouths open. I have never been a fan of Matthews anyway, but this was way beyond the pale. Was this scripted by Kerry's campaign? If it wasn't, they need to put Matthews on the payroll, if he isn't already. That was without question the most appallingly partisan "interview" I have ever seen. Matthews has no business calling himself a journalist after that.
-- Bill Deady
Manchester, New Hampshire

I just read "Let's Play Softball" by David Hogberg. I don't know when I've ever read anything by any journalist that was so very akin to what I contemplated as I watched -- with angst and repulsion -- the orgy between Matthews and Kerry last night. But then I've been saying for some days now that Matthews should rename his show. He has been, of late, disgustingly soft and simple-minded. His bias has been damned obvious.

Thanks for letting me blow steam.
-- B. R. Townley
De Leon, Texas

All this love fest will do for John F. Kerry is boost his ego. I doubt this T-Ball game played to one one-hundredth the audience of the GMA mugging or the number of political junkies that have heard about it.
-- Steve Cushman

When is someone going to have the courage to say that many other people served longer than whatever time John Kerry served in Vietnam and that does not qualify them to be President and Commander in Chief? Since when does a wound qualify you for the highest office in the land? I had a great deal of respect for Max Cleland until he allowed his great sacrifice to be used this way. It would be interesting to run the comments being made about the President's and Vice President's service or lack of against the comments made by Democrats defending candidate Clinton.
-- Denise Turek

Kerry is dreaming if he thinks his current line regarding medals and ribbons being interchangeable is going to hold with vets. I have never heard anyone call it "The Congressional Ribbon of Honor" Matthews is a windbag and so obviously partisan democrat that at times it makes you squirm.

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