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Chris Matthews’ Deep Unfairness to the Tea Party

By on 10.9.11 @ 2:48PM

I tuned in to the Washington Ideas Forum on C-Span recently to see Chris Matthews talking about Mitt Romney and the tea partiers. Matthews described Romney as a happy robot who has never had a bad day and who doesn’t hate anyone. He contrasted the tea partiers to Romney. Unlike him, according to Matthews, the tea partiers are continuing to fight the Civil War and have a problem with black people getting ahead in America.

What movement is Chris Matthews watching? And if he is right, then how can it be that Herman Cain is the candidate rising in the polls as tea partiers seek an alternative to Mitt Romney?

There was a time when Chris Matthews was one of the fairest commentators out there. He was a favored moderator for Reagan legacy events. Though Matthews could be counted on to oppose the conservative agenda, he did so in a cheerful and reasonably charitable way.

Chris Matthews wrote some great books. Interesting books. Thoughtful books. Kennedy & Nixon was one of them. Hardball was another.

You’ll get a lot more out of reading those than from listening to him these days.

View all comments (50) |

RJ| 10.9.11 @ 3:34PM

Chris Matthews has spent the last several years proving that he is not worth listening to, along with much of the established mass media. His "tingle up his leg" confirmed his place in the Media Clown Hall of Fame, along with Dan Rather, Evan Thomas (Obama stands there like God), David Brooks who evaluates presidential qualities based on the crease of their pants, and many others.

These "commentators" are not newsmen; they are silly propagandists for the statists. Only a fool would take them seriously. Don't waste your time on them. They aren't even entertaining. Anyone who thinks they are informed by watched MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, et. al. is sadly mistaken.

A healthy democracy requires an objective, questioning press; unfortunately we don't have it in much of today's media.

Bob K.| 10.9.11 @ 11:49PM

Forget it!

These are television shows! They are all about publicity, celebrity, causing controversy, increasing their ratings and selling advertising.

Why do you think our country has campaigns for a 4 year term as President of the United States that last almost 2 years? What else could television do that would keep the viewers interest that long?

RJ| 10.10.11 @ 1:02AM

Hi Bob - Yes, TV "news" is all about ratings and propaganda. Who would have guessed that the motion picture "Network" would represent the future of television news? However, sometimes, as one of our friends said recently, they stumble across random acts of journalism.

Occam's Tool| 10.10.11 @ 3:10AM

Matthews was interesting going after Clinton. Now, like Olbermann, he's an annoying worthless git. I prefer AmSpec, even with some of the more annoying bloggers, with their fascination for face stepping.

Liberalism's problem is that it disintegrates into soppy soporific cliches when the going gets tough.

mike onell| 10.9.11 @ 3:53PM

i love chris matthews.

Bob K.| 10.9.11 @ 11:50PM

See what I mean!

BD57| 10.9.11 @ 3:56PM

You're right that Matthews used to be more or less fair to conservatives; RJ's right that that hasn't been the case for several years now.

Matthews is now just another MSNBC buffoon.

Mike| 10.9.11 @ 8:25PM

BD57

You mean Matthews has become like the editorial page of the WSJ, Fox News and AmSpec?

Bob K.| 10.9.11 @ 11:53PM

No, he is causing controversy and making money for the network.

By the way, where is the editorial page of the AmSpec and Fox News?

Spambalaya| 10.10.11 @ 2:29PM

"By the way, where is the editorial page of the AmSpec and Fox News?"

Where did Mike ever claim that Fox News and AmSpec had editorial pages? He said "like the editorial page (singular) of the WSJ, Fox News and AmSpec." I guess if you're so poor in your reading comprehension skills we can all rewrite our comments just for you. Here: "You mean Matthews has become like Fox News, AmSpec and the editorial page of the WSJ?" Understand now?

Kenny| 10.10.11 @ 6:51AM

"There was a time when Chris Matthews was one of the fairest commentators out there."

I guess I miss that. I've always found Matthews to be a shallow Democrat operative posing as a journalist

kzat| 10.9.11 @ 5:02PM

You gotta be joking. Sticking up for Chrissy Mathews? He's an alcoholic limp-wrist. Does that convey my opinion of him well enough?

I forget, which NBC anchor bowed to Obama, early in a 2009 interview?

Mike| 10.9.11 @ 8:27PM

Convey your opinion? Yes. convey your ignorance? Yes.

Clint| 10.9.11 @ 5:02PM

Matthews is one more Liberal Media Propagandist.

"( Matthews ) served on the staffs of four Democratic members of Congress, including Senators Frank Moss and Edmund Muskie. In 1974, he mounted an unsuccessful campaign for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he received about 24% of the vote in the primary.Matthews was a presidential speechwriter during the Carter administration, and later worked for six years as a top aide to long-time Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill, playing a direct role in many key political battles with the Reagan administration."

We Tea Party Patriots don't allow agendists to " Define" us.

The Tea Party Rebellion Steps On Chrissy's Chubby Face.

Mike| 10.9.11 @ 8:34PM

Tea Party "Patriots" don't allow agendist (sic) to "define"us.

Don't have to. You defines yourselves duing the GOP debates, in the actions of Eric Cantor that nearly led our country to default and your embrace of the bigoted Values Voters.

BD57| 10.9.11 @ 8:53PM

Yeah, that's right - Cantor alone "almost" caused a default ... because, you know, only Republicans are obliged to "compromise."

Mike| 10.9.11 @ 9:35PM

BD57

I assume you speak in jest.

The word "fuck" doesn't come close to describing what Cantor did to Boehner.

Merlin| 10.10.11 @ 7:28AM

Mike,

Have you noticed that the US government is 16 trillion in debt? Did that have anything to do with the near default? What will happen with this debt?

Tim the Enchanter| 10.10.11 @ 10:17AM

Mike: my sincerest apologies for your grossly undersized manhood and your feeble attempts to compensate. It's tough being you, I guess.

Clint| 10.9.11 @ 10:16PM

Duuuuuuhhhhh !

We Already "Defined" Ourselves ObamaBoy Micky.

Tea Party Patriots Mission Statement and Core Values

Mission Statement
The impetus for the Tea Party movement is excessive government spending and taxation. Our mission is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets.

Core Values

Fiscal Responsibility
Constitutionally Limited Government
Free Markets


Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must subject its citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restrict the liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Such runaway deficit spending as we now see in Washington D.C. compels us to take action as the increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and the personal and economic liberty of future generations.

Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Tea Party Patriots, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the rule of law.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government's interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.

Our Philosophy
Tea Party Patriots, Inc. as an organization believes in the Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets. Tea Party Patriots, Inc. is a non-partisan grassroots organization of individuals united by our core values derived from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, the Bill Of Rights as explained in the Federalist Papers. We recognize and support the strength of grassroots organization powered by activism and civic responsibility at a local level. We hold that the United States is a republic conceived by its architects as a nation whose people were granted "unalienable rights" by our Creator. Chiefly among these are the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The Tea Party Patriots stand with our founders, as heirs to the republic, to claim our rights and duties which preserve their legacy and our own. We hold, as did the founders, that there exists an inherent benefit to our country when private property and prosperity are secured by natural law and the rights of the individual. As an organization we do not take stances on social issues. We urge members to engage fully on the social issues they consider important and aligned with their beliefs.

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

linda| 10.9.11 @ 5:04PM

mathews has become obsessive on race. No matter what the subject under discussion he suspects deep racial motives underline the view of his opponents.
He stopped thinking years ago although sometimes he is a hoot to watch. I guess that's worth something.

Mike| 10.9.11 @ 9:40PM

Heard of the " birthers" Linda?

I assume that you are not so naive as to believe that it was really about a birth certificate.

Solo| 10.9.11 @ 10:29PM

What Birth Certificate?

Oh...and if the Obamessiah is such a genius, why isn't he trotting out his college records? Why are they sealed?
Where are his travel records for the last 40 years? Why are they sealed?

Why does his Social Security number indicate that he was born in Connecticut when he has never even lived there?

???????????

Mike| 10.9.11 @ 11:11PM

I see you are an inhabitant of Murdochistan and an idiot.

I mean, Solo, are you really that fucking stupid?

LC JB | 10.10.11 @ 12:32AM

Mike-

Non-Sequitur much?

Occam's Tool| 10.10.11 @ 3:16AM

Dear Mike:

I went to Maine TWP HS East in Park Ridge, IL. I graduated 8th in my class of 821. My SAT was 1420, My ACT was 33, my PSAT was 215. I took my Chancellor Scholarship from TCU and held it for all 4 years, 1980-1984.

I went to TCU for undergrad (B.S. Biology, Magna Cum Laude, UTMB for Med school (MD 1988), UCLA San Fernando Valley for Residency after doing a Pediatric internship at Kaiser Permanente.

I was boarded in Psychiatry in 1995 by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. I took my reboard in 2005, with a score of 92% on the reboard---I missed 16 questions out of 200. No curve or anything on that.

My question is this: why can't we get data like that out of Obama? OK?

Occam's Tool| 10.10.11 @ 3:18AM

Sorry, the Magna Cum Laude should have the parenthesis after it. Oops.

KennesawJack| 10.10.11 @ 11:18AM

Occam, I applaud your life of accomplishement. Can't wait to see Mike's bona fides......

sjccoach| 10.9.11 @ 6:13PM

Why do you praise the enemy. Chris Matthews started life working for Tip O'Neill. He is, was and always will be a liberal appartchick that has no use for conservatives or conservative ideas. We need to stop praising and compromising with
the enemy. You CINOs, aka the Republican establishment believe if you do this that eventually they will like you. They will not.

Sean Shapira| 10.9.11 @ 7:05PM

You need to immediately end the involvement of Assistant Editor Patrick Howley in your organization. His actions show he does not represent your journalism values.
http://my.firedoglake.com/cgra.....-c-museum/

Mike| 10.9.11 @ 8:35PM

Censorship?

Spambalaya| 10.10.11 @ 2:31PM

He may not represent journalism, but he could make a great Iranian plainclothes policeman.

bluecollarbytes| 10.9.11 @ 8:07PM

Chris just makes things up now. He doesn't deserve the assumption that 'his heart is in the right place'.

He used to be the partisan who would confront his own side, on occasion. I think 'the new media' might have him scrambling for relevancy and his career.

These left wing blowhards have tried to mimic the likes of Limbaugh, but Limbaugh does not sling blind hate about. Limbaugh also offers substance- entertaining partisan insight. Limbaugh is heartland while Chris is irishcatholicuniondemocratwhatever.

Chris is the caricature of what he thinks Limbaugh is, revealing his lack of understanding.

Mike| 10.9.11 @ 8:36PM

Chris Matthews just makes things up. You men he has become like Fox News?

Solo| 10.9.11 @ 10:20PM

No...he means that he makes things up.

Paul McGrath| 10.9.11 @ 10:18PM

Hi Mike,

I have an idea. How about picking a subject, citing some facts, and stating an opinion. Then, people can either agree or disagree with you; hopefully, using logic, and again, facts. You can then respond, using reason and persuasion. That might be an interesting exercise!

Paul

Mike| 10.9.11 @ 11:15PM

Paul,
I have an idea. You lead the way, if you can, and I will follow.

Let's start with GDP. Which sector will lead us out of recession and why? Consumers, business, government or net exports?

axbucxdu| 10.9.11 @ 11:47PM

We're out of the recession. Haven't you heard? So what sector was it that led the way? Never mind. The expansion has run its course and we're about to enter another.

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batman| 10.10.11 @ 2:07AM

why did you guys delete Standoff in D.C. by
Patrick Howley

Spambalaya| 10.10.11 @ 2:33PM

It' still up. But it looks like the lawyers made him rewrite it to minimize AmSpec's legal liability when he gets the pants sued off him.

Spambalaya| 10.10.11 @ 2:37PM

And the editors still haven't fixed "altar ego."

Edward Hussien Murrow| 10.10.11 @ 11:19AM

Why I even care what that maniac even says anymore I don't know, he's become a living joke along with Butch Maddow and that girly-man Vanderbilt kid. I guess he has to denigrate the tea party in order to maintain his man-crush on The One. Incidentally, I'd like to see the tax return of every employee at CNN and MSNBC and see just what they're deducting, and make them defend it.

Spambalaya| 10.10.11 @ 3:02PM

Ronald C. Machen Jr. is the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. His number is 202-252-7566. Since Howley's activities occurred on federal property, his office is responsible for investigating and prosecuting Howley. If you feel strongly that our nation's capital is not the place for dangerous stunts such as Howley's, you should call and make your feelings known.

Spambalaya| 10.10.11 @ 3:11PM

Let's see now... Howley, while "pursuing" a story for The American Spectator, admitted in his article that he

1) attended an event with the express purpose of undermining its organizers

2) committed criminal trespass on federal property

3) deliberately resisted arrest

4) alarmed "hundreds of stunned khaki-clad tourists" and "a circle of gawking old housewives" (as well as dozens of museum employees, no doubt) in a city where terrorism is always a possibility and one museum had suffered a terrorist shooting by a right-wing fanatic only two summers ago, and

5) forced the early closure of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum as a result of his headlong flight through the museum, inconveniencing or even ruining the plans of untold hundreds if not thousands of tourists and locals.

And those are just the things he openly admits to. You could add the fact that he probably caused the pepper-spraying of several other protesters as a result of his successful attempt to slip past security guards, as well as putting the guards' safety at risk (acceptable losses, right?) from possible violent escalation (which thankfully did not occur).

If AmSpec was a publicly traded stock, I'd be shorting the crap out of it today. Several security guards, dozens of protesters, hundreds if not thousands of museum attendees and employees, and the October 2011 organization all have an excellent civil damages case here against Howley and AmSpec if they choose to pursue it.

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