Chris Matthews
Kellyanne Conway's "Bowling Green Massacre" Was a Lie, and Her Apology for It Is an Even Bigger Lie
Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist whose self-obsession is so profound and unrelenting that he can tell lie after lie without even knowing he's doing it. It's entirely possible he truly believes the bullshit that regularly comes out of his mouth. Kellyanne Conway is a ...read more
Gary Johnson's Town Hall Performance Should Disqualify Him From This Election
On Wednesday evening, during a MSNBC Town Hall meeting hosted by Chris Matthews, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson was asked to name his favorite foreign leader and he couldn't name a single one. The candidate began stuttering after the question was asked and ...read more
Hey Chris Matthews, Here's Video of That Ku Klux Klan Wizard Endorsing Trump. Can Hillary Expect Your Apology Now?
So, we all knew Chris Matthews was a dumbfuck, but he confirmed it last night when he threw a fit at Hillary Clinton for being "nasty" enough to call Donald Trump out for the racist piece of garbage he is. TO BE CLEAR, that is dumb shit all on its own. What's even dumber, though, ...read more
Watch Chris Matthews Ejaculate All Over Mike Pence's VP Acceptance Speech
Donald Trump held a press conference Saturday morning at which he talked about other shit for 30 minutes, then introduced Mike Pence. Pence then delivered a short snoozer of an acceptance speech that had Chris Matthews tingling in his jeans, apparently. Right after the speech, ...read more
Chris Matthews Asked John Lewis if Certain Words 'Mean Something Different' to Black People
It will surprise no one who frequents these pages that Chris Matthews is a total shitshow, but he manage to outdo even himself during MSNBC's Super Tuesday coverage, first with this super-weird question to Rep. John Lewis: Congressman, when people in the african-American ...read more
You Will Want to Punch Chris Matthews in the Face When You See How He Treated Bernie Sanders
Readers of this site have a pretty good idea where we all stand on pretty much everything, but in case you're new, I have consistently written that I believe Hillary Clinton to be the better Democratic candidate for president, although I have great admiration, affection, and ...read more
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Hillary Clinton Surrogate Generously Allows That 'Bernie Sanders Isn't an Evil Man'
As the stakes in the 2016 election get higher, the campaigns get weirder. On Monday, for example, there were a pair of moments during MSNBC's non-stop coverage of the upcoming New Hampshire primary. Weirdest was former Senator and Hillary Clinton backer David Pryor (D-AR), ...read more
Shameless MSNBC to Air Donald Trump ‘Documentary’ Hosted by Chris Matthews
Once known for its forward-leaning and diverse political journalism, MSNBC has increasingly become a network ruled entirely by a desperation to keep what viewers it has from changing the channel. In a perfect intersection of the network's breakneck sprint away from its non-white ...read more
Chris Matthews Was Against the Iraq War While He Was Tingling Over It
MSNBC host Chris Matthews put on a good show Friday night as a panelist on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, as anyone on a panel that consisted of George Pataki and Mark Cuban would. Â He helped Maher push back against Jeb Bush's garbage assertion that brother Dubya "kept us ...read more
Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz Need to Take a F*cking Pill
Things with ISIS just keep going from worse to terrifying, but this weekend's news seems to have rattled even President Obama's most ardent supporters in the so-called liberal media. ISIS released a video of an affiliated group in Libya beheading 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians on ...read more
Who Else Is Sick To Death Of Chris Matthews?
If you're anything like me, you are likely sick to death of listening to Chris Matthews lamenting, for the millionth time, about how Barack Obama can't do deals like Reagan and Tip O'Neil did, because the fucking Reagan years were so great. Since the Democrats' midterm ...read more
Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes Are Confused About What To Do With ISIS. I Am Not
As a political reporter and commentator, you get used to a certain baseline level of dumbshit, and when a foreign policy issue arises, that dumbshit spreads exponentially like it's been thrown into a jet engine. It's one of the reasons I resist writing about that stuff, because ...read more
The Stand Against Rand: Why the GOP Is Attacking One Of Its Own
If you want to know who has the edge right now in the unofficial race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, just take a look at who's being attacked by other presumptive candidates and party establishment types. Right now, that whipping boy is Rand Paul, who's not ...read more
Liberal Media Helps Smear Hillary Clinton Over 1975 Rape Trial
For several weeks now, the right-wing media has been flogging something it calls "The Hillary Tapes," a recording in which Hillary Clinton discusses her work as a defense lawyer for an accused rapist. Since then, though, the story has made the species jump to the mainstream ...read more
You Want Bulls**t? Talk To a General, You Want Reality? Talk To a Grunt
There are a lot of things HBO's The Newsroom gets right about national TV news production. It's rare that one show does all of its own research and general digging for facts, as the fictional "Newsnight" seems to do, since you have to keep in mind that you've got the ...read more
Andrew Sullivan on Obama's Debate Performance: "Bloody Elated"
I'm not sure what was more nerve wracking last night, the debate between Obama and Romney, or Andrew Sullivan's mental state. Having taken the first debate rather badly, Sullivan had been close to the edge, writing off Obama's chance at re-election and readying himself for the ...read more
Mitt Romney Won the First Debate. But Why and How?
By Bob Cesca: Mitt Romney won the debate last night but only if you judge the "winner" of a debate as the most hyperkinetic, oftentimes aggressive and condescending participant who used his rehearsed delivery to spackle over his lies, mistakes, generalities and misleading ...read more
Southern Strategy Race-Baiting By Another Name...
By Bob Cesca: Yesterday on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Chris Matthews was utterly relentless against Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus regarding Mitt Romney's unapologetic and obvious use of the Southern Strategy. Although Matthews didn't use the specific name of ...read more
Tom Brokaw Shilling for Rick Santorum?
By Ben Cohen: Here's Tom Brokaw gushing about Rick Santorum's 'tenacity' in the Presidential campaign: He's like a character in a Bruce Willis movie. He just knows how to stay alive. He's running through the jungle, fighting back, shooting from the hip, takes a lot of hits, ...read more
VIDEO: Chris Matthews On Michelle Bachmann's Amazing Ignorance Of History
I'm no big fan of Tweety, but this is hilarious. ...read more
Chris Matthews: Blacks, College Grads Not "Regular" People
Really? Really. ...read more
Chris Matthews Thinks You Are Stupid
It's like he doesn't know the camera is actually recording what he says. ...read more