Chris Matthews

Chris Matthews is an American TV News anchor, a talking head flannelmouth, and host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and NBC's The Chris Matthews Show. Hardball was originally presented as the quasi-liberal counter to such shows as Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor. In promotions before the show aired, his connections to the Democratic party were hyped, but the minute he opened his mouth, it was apparent he was left...compared to O'Reilly or Rush). As in, generally right-of-center in many of his comments and views. He dramatically retired from Hardball by walking off the program on March 2, 2020, leaving a shocked Steve Kornacki to take over and finish the hour-long show. He had been recently accused of sexual harassment and sexual bias by a reporter in an article in GQ magazine.
==Hardball==
Hardball with Chris Matthews, a daily talking-heads panel "news"Matthews' news is usually presented with somewhat of a liberal slant but his guests come from across the political spectrum show, first aired on America's TalkingMSNBC's short-lived ancestor as Politics with Chris Matthews in 1994it's the only surviving show of that network. Its content (and obviously, title) is supposedly based on Matthews' 1988 book, Hardball: How Politics is Played, Told By One Who Knows the Game. Matthews frequently gets his view across by interrupting and talking over his guests.
Recurring guests on Hardball have included: 
* Pat Buchanan, notable commie lover religious pundit and white supremacist famous for bashing gays, atheists, and damned women who don't stay at home pregnant, and the occasional holocaust diminution and associated World War II revisionism. 
* Howard Fineman 
* Christopher Hitchens
* and his wifeOk, so she's a news anchor in her own right, but still
A sad, notable moment: Hardball was one of the first shows to give Michele Bachmann a forum for her opinions. In effect Hardball was responsible for launching her political career. When on October 17, 2008 she was asked how many people she believed were "Anti-American", she replied:
Matthews said nothing about the very unAmerican position she held, advocating that the media investigate our government to insure that they are "thinking right". And history showed that while this offended the left, it was the single comment that made Bachmann's ascension to the new "Right Wing Darling".
==Controversies==
Sometimes it's best to just let the pundit speak for himself...
===Hillary Clinton===
===Obama===
===Islam===
===Hurricane Sandy===
He drew fire from conservatives. Matthews denied he was talking about the storm's destructionMatthews, C. (November 7, 2012). "Obviously I wasn't talking about the horror of the storm. I grew up on the Jersey shore." Twitter. Retrieved November 7, 2018. and later tried clarifying, saying "I was thrilled at the cooperation between the President and state officials that made the country proud. Great bipartisanship."Matthews, C. (November 7, 2012). "To clarify - I was thrilled at the cooperation between the President and state officials that made the country proud. Great bipartisanship." Twitter. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
===Bernie Sanders===
He has utilized his overwhelmingly large brain to produce prophecies such as predicting Bernie Sanders “will lose 49 states”Haynes, T. (February 2020)“Chris Matthews: Bernie Sanders Is "Full Of It," Would Lose 49 States To Trump Like McGovern In 1972”. He has also started being reactionary in advance, claiming there would be mass executions in Central Park if Bernie won and that he would be amongst those killed. Fearnow, B. (February 2020) “MSNBC HOST CHRIS MATTHEWS TIES BERNIE SANDERS TO FEARS OF SOCIALIST 'EXECUTIONS IN CENTRAL PARK,' FIDEL CASTRO” 
Which begs the questions... Who the fuck does he think he is? And... what the hell has he been up to?
In early 2020, Matthews red-baited Sanders' campaign, going as far as comparing his win in Nevada to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.Keep in mind Sanders had several relatives killed in the Holocaust Yeah, Hitler totally was a socialist. This drew ire from Jewish groups, demanding that Matthews resign from his show on MSNBC.https://www.newsweek.com/chris-matthews-sanders-nazi-france-1488613 He was forced to apologize for this statement, which he did several days later.
==Lightning rod==
As you may have noticed Matthews has, at times, been more of a detriment to liberal causes than an aid to them. This is mainly because his stupid comments end up giving ammunition to wingnuts and feed their already severe persecution complex. Certain pundits will often conflate Matthews with liberals in order to generalize them and knock them down. Though Matthews is definitely a Democrat, he has described himself as being fairly conservative, to the point where he voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and earned the scorn of Media Matters for praising Bush repeatedly in 2005.http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/12/23/chris-matthews-2005s-misinformer-of-the-year/134530 He has generally been more liberal since then but described himself as a "centrist" in 2012. He also strongly supported both the Iraq War and the Keystone XL pipeline. However, this probably won't stop right-wing pundits from using him to bash liberals over the head, since most of their audience probably thinks anyone to the left of Newt Gingrich is a liberal.
==See also==
*DINO - The sort of Democrats he represents.
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