Some quick thoughts I had after I watched a little more of this interview: Chris Matthews descended into freakville Tuesday and shredded his already tattered reputation into oblivion after having the Republican spokesman— Ann Coulter—on for a full hour. A full hour! He surrounded himself with a crowd of fan-thugs and as Digby sez:
Matthews sank to a new low today — he’s incapable of handling someone like Coulter and ended up giving her and her little fan-thugs a very good time. It made me feel a little bit sick. Seriously…read on
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The video clip isn’t meant to be about Ann (You can read Rick Perstein’s article)—it’s all about the shame of Chris. Watch her gut him. Matthews was utterly steamrolled by Annie for the full show and I can’t even list the amount of lies she told that he had no answer for. Every insane talking point you can think of was on display: “YES, it’s a fact!,” she’d say…And Chris would move on to a new topic or poll…..Obviously, she shouldn’t be given this type of format, but what’s needed is for the host to jump in and correct the record. Have a backbone….
She claimed Saddam was working with al-Qaeda, we didn’t go to war with Iraq because of WMD’s, but Iraq had them anyway. It was just the whiny liberal press (Matthews included) who made those claims. They/she had “other reasons” to go to war with Iraq. Matthews tried to slow her down a bit, but she shouted at him with an over the top exuberance and he haplessly moved on…These conmen can see a mark a mile away and Annie found a nice one. You can see more video at MSNBC
ON FAUX NEWS—even Bill O’Reilly and Hannity and Colmes limit her air time. With H&C, she usually gets two segments, but the Factor Man usually does just one. Not Matthews, he had her all to himself…and the wind…and the fans that probably were sent down by Coulter’s PR firm.
Elizabeth Edwards called in and for a brief instant tried to bring some balance and rationality back to the show—someone who had been a victim of her hate speech got a chance to confront her. Coulter just cackled and laughed at her and Matthews let that moment die, switched topics to some “chubby legs” comment she made and never even said goodbye to Elizabeth Edwards as she hung up. OMG. It was like she never called the show….This was a perfect time to have Elizabeth Edwards confront her for another segment, but Chris just hung up on a Presidential candidate’s wife.
Mediabloodhound emailed Nicole and asked if this is the same fan-thug crowd that showed up for the last Coulter in the Square event that Matthews had for her. I haven’t had time to check, but I wouldn’t doubt it…
It was a grotesque display for a man who considers himself a serious journalist and opinion maker, but we know otherwise…I can’t tell you the amount of email I received that said they were going to stop watching Hardball. Since I cover the media, I’ll be around, but I know he angered quite a few viewers yesterday…Email Hardball here and tell them what you think…
Filed Under: Ann Coulter, Hardball/Chris Matthews, Pundits, Wingnuts
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I couldn’t agree more, tweetys ratings are in the dumper and sinks to the bottom by having her on. I guess HITLER wasn’t available.
Have you ever noticed how much Tweety looks like Tom Tomorrow’s “Conservative Jones, Boy Detective”?
CJ,BD happens to be the subject of this week’s This Modern World, so go look for yourselves…
Chris “Tweety” Matthews is a sick bastard for having Ann “The Man” Coulter on. God that woman makes me vomit. If there is a hell, the devil is definitly waiting for that cunt.
I hope someone recorded this morning’s Today Show. Tweety was on with Meredith Vieira to talk about last night’s show. He admitted that she “thinks that Saddam was responsible for 9/11 and that there were WMDs”, and essentially admitted that the only reason for her to be on his show was that “she sells lots of books”.
It was pretty sad.
And he does not clean up well early in the AM.
He’s obviously trying to take her away from Sean.
I’ll leave it there, except to say…eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww.
Now I’m gonna go wash out my brain with bleach.
I was giving him a break for a while with all the Clinton bashing because I don’t like her. More and more though I am starting to see his bias and just plain stupidity. His debate hosting was shameful and his banal questions gave no insight. He has this weird obsessions with the most idiotic things and thus would rather talk about how Thompson smells great rather than more serious issues.
The final straw was having this hack on. If you want to give someone a free hour of promotion let it be an intellectual or someone that can atleast give some insight. Have pat Buchanan or Noam Chomsky on for an hour to discuss the issues in debt. Having Coulter on proves what kind of “journalist” Matthews really is.
Right on. no way he should be taken seriously anymore, if he ever was……………
Why do people have that he-she on anyway? You’d have to be pretty hard up for guests or topics to have an old big-footed, racket-handed lesbian baba yaga with a bigger adam’s apple than me on your program. That hateful lesbo apparently has nothing better to do than whore herself out; the sad thing is that there’s no shortage of right-wing crackerbarrel yahoos who’ll put her on in the hopes of licensing the outrageous clips of her all to turn a dime. It is a good thing she’s a hermaphrodite, cause I have always wanted to tell her to go fuck herself.
Hardball? The only hard balls were Coulter’s stuffed into Matthews mouth. He’s the mouthpiece for a nazi with this tailor-made photo op for Coulter.
This is our Liberal Media? WTF? You’ll never see a liberal or a left winger be given a venue like this by Matthews. Much less to give a full hour to any progressive at all.
Coulter should be rotting in jail for voting illegally.
Ann Coulter is human trash, and Chris Matthews has erased any doubts that he is a pathetic joke.
Fade @ 9:
There’s an image.
Not going to watch it.
Seen enough.
I have sent this message to MSNBC:
I saw Mr. Matthews speak on the Today Show and MSNBC about Ann Coulter’s appearance yesterday on Hardball. He said that Ms. Coulter is
i) a provocateur
(ii) believes that Saddam had WMD
(iii) Saddam was involved in 9/11
All this makes me ask the following question: Why give Ms Coulter air time and not a fool like Fred Phelps of “god hates fags” fame? He is a provocateur, who has equally false beliefs as Ms. Coulter, and frequently gets mentioned on the news?
I have seen a critique of Coulter’s views and Mrs Edwards’ phone call on MSNBC today, but I have yet to see any critique on your network about whether or not you should give Ms. Coulter a venue to express her inflammatory views.
If your reason for the different treatment of Coulter and Phelps is that Ms. Coulter sells many books and gets ratings for her appearance, then shouldn’t you be honest and admit that your show is not about political dialogue, but instead about ratings?
I expect you to act as a news organization, not as the Jerry Springer Show.
*I encourage other C&L readers to send letters to MSNBC*
The guy with the “Marry Me, Ann” sign was hilarious.
CandL should send a guy next time with a sign that says, “Ann Breed My Pit Bull.”
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At least Hitler had someone as slick and fluent as Rudolph Hess.
The Incredible Falcon of the Adirondacks @ 14:
The pit bull would bury Ann in the backyard.
Whatever credibility he had is quickly heading down the toilet…..see ya Chris….it’s been real but not fun
a whole hour of lies and chris just sits there and takes it even though he knew what was going on? looks like cheney is in charge of hardball and msnbc…
Its the Chroulthews show with Chris and Ann!
We’d be better off watching a couple of Myna birds learning to speak Mandarin.
See if you can get a clip of MSNBC’s morning interview of Matthews and Joe Scarbrough. Matthews basically defends Ann as well as his decision to give her airtime against an unlikely foe - Scarbough who basically clowns Matthews for letting her use him to sell books and then ends the debate saying Matthews made good TV…to which he didn’t really take as a compliment.
Having her on was many things but I think the rest of MSNBC thinks it was just a cheap stunt for ratings.
I stoped watching Hardball more than a year ago. Tweety sure earns his nicknames.
How about the sign that said…Hey Annis…….what I saw was hey Annus……..pretty appropriate to me.
I don’t think that Ann is the one they should put out there to try to change the history of this fiasco. How can these kids applaud her when she just put out a shitfull of misinformation? I know that Jesse from Billos show is far brighter than any of these kids at Tweety’s stupid show.
I PRAY for the day she has the balls to go on The Daily Show or Colbert Report and try this nonsense! Watching Jon Stewart expose her as a total FRAUD would be infinitely gratifying.
Now it’s up to Olberman to destroy Matthews and the stanky black dress wearing adam’s apple! If he doesn’t, and he’s the perfect balance to bring to this lunacy, then Matthews will have just given Coulter a huge landslide of book sales..which is, in the end, all that crack whore wants..money..at the cost of truth and decency. Where’s the “pie” guys with their bricks and IEDs?
ysbaddaden @ 16:
Well, one of em would be “burying a bone”…I’m just not sure which one.
I’m not going to watch the video either. I saw enough yesterday. It made me sick. I am not going to watch Matthews any more for a while also. I can get that kind of crap on O’Shithead or Hannity. I don’t need to watch a pretender. Hannity and O’Shithead are professionals as far as Coulter is concerned. They really know how to rub her. I emailed Tweety/the show/MSNBC and told them this so you don’t have to tell them for me when you email them. :lol:
Me thinks that CM is going to be out of a job soon……just not soon enough
Let’s give matthews a little of his own treatment. His wife is a local correspondent for the ABC (Disney) affiliate in DC. Here’s her bio:
http://news.wjla.com/talent/kathleenmatthews.html
I’m sure she’d like to hear what kind of asshole she’s married to.
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/2258.html
Any “journalist” “Madhatter” that will allow Ann Coulter to spew the lie of 9-11 and Iraq and al Qaeda and Iraq are complicit in the crimes committed by the Bush regime and al Qaeda. What a complete waste of space are Mathews and Coulter on the same stage. And the fools watching this live cheering as if either of them had made a valid argument or stated something that was new are complicit in the crimes of both as well.
george @ 24:
Stewart’s show isn’t LONG enough to unleash the full fury of hell she deserves. But nonetheless, the 10 minutes he’d have to destroy her would be outstanding. Every time she’d snicker (her indicator that she’s scared and clueless of how to respond) or laugh, he’d be right there to hurry her along in exposing her lunacy.
I wrote an e-mail, as i watched, telling of my disgust of the so called ‘news’ show he put on yesterday. I don’t normally write to the likes of MSNBC but i felt compelled. This type of so called journalism was performed by Geraldo and Donoghue et al in the ’80’s and is just the pits. The unfortunate thing is the laze faire attitude of the American people towards anything happening outside of their immediate sphere of reality and Main stream media has catered for the 30 second sound byte just like McDonalds catered for the 30 second heartburn.
Of course personal attacks are inappropriate and they bring the political and moral discourse down to the level of the republican gutter. I am shocked that this is even being debated! It reminds me of the argument over torture, i mean, it is extremely worrying when a people must debate as to the merits or otherwise of torture. Torture is wrong, end of discussion. Society has but a thin veneer and it only takes the constant chipping away of civility before we become as base as animals. America is in one deep hole and i do not see it ever getting out of it, at least in my lifetime.
M$NBC had Pat Buchanan on this morning discussing the Edwards v Coulter bash. He behaved like the apologist he always was (he didn’t believe Nixon was bad either) and claimed that she meant it all in a JOKE. Give me a break but i wasn’t laughing. Since when does base crude insults form a comedy routine? Ask Imus about that one. This warped sense of “it’s just for fun, get over it” is the fall of the American empire right there people.
Maybe he should have OJ on to help him sell some books.
This damn liberal media is getting harder and harder to figure out.
Drudge posted ratings have shown Matthews at the bottom on the cable news race. How long until MSNBC takes him down? Oh, but we know about them as what they did to phil Donahue during the start of the Iraq war still sickens me.
Bony Annie [Deleted. Please don’t use transexualism as a put down. They’ve done nothing to deserve unflattering comparisons to Ms Coulter-Sitemonitor]
Tranny Annie and the pit bull…and “Dr.” Frist and the cat.
Sounds like the perfect conservative double date.
I wish he would have used my question. What does rush’s d*&k taste like?
Hardball Plaza
- Coulter Plays Hardball
The tone of the american media is embarrassing.
I’m beggining to think Ann’s closet looks like Ernest P. Worrell’s closet filled only this http://www.flickr.com/photos/willotoons/322359868/
She sells books is as dishonest a defense as Mathews could think up.
OJ can sell books. So can Micheal Jackson. So can Scott Peterson. So can Howard K. Stern. So can Jimmy Swaggert. So can Ted Haggard. So can Louis Farakon.
Will they too be getting a 1 hour show with Matthews?
Ten two one Tweety went to bed that night and had a Coulter wet dream…
I agree with you she is awful. Here’s my suggestion. Would like to see some reliable numbers on who is actually tuning in, bet Hardball’s producers know, and I’ll bet we would be surprised…
Please people…DO NOT WATCH THESE SHOWS!!! The only reason Coulter is on is because those who hate her drive the ratings up. Believe me, its US who perpetuate this…stop being suckers. Don’t watch her and she’ll go away.
Hardball is pulling the professional wrestling scam on us.
Newspapers all over the country are dropping Coulter’s column and as she gets more desperate, she’ll get more outrageous, kind of like the bad guy of the week in Wrestling.
Forget her!!
Anyone noticed that little Coulterbot nodding her head behind Coulter? Holy crap where do these people come from? No matter what Coulter said she nodded her head like a robot. She couldn’t have been more than 12.
Is a news show (I use the term loosely) supposed to be an avenue for the likes of her to sell books? Can anyone tell me if there was anything newsworthy of his program?
Chris Matthews is a total pussy. he let the bitchman ann walk all over him. a true journalist would have corrected the lies being told, but Chris Matthews just aided and abetted one more of the rightwingnut neocon bastards/bitches to spew lies.
shame shame shame
goatsage @ 42:
Coulter is trying to kid us about her age. A colt is a young filly, not a horse faced nag.
I was paying for DISH 120 because it included MSBC. After yesterday, I swiched to DISH 100 and I no more have MSNBC. There is no reason to pay 10 bucks more to see Ann Coulter and her Lapdog Chris Mathews together. I will not even watch it for free.
It’s amazing and pathetic what a bunch of suckers many of you are.
You take every single piece of bait Ann Coulter puts in front you. She and her millions wouldn’t exist without your and the blogs constant promotion of her. You cover her every move, like the media cover Paris Hilton. You should just ignore her scamming.
You bitch and moan about Chris Matthews, but still watch his show. So, he wins. He got you to watch. Sucker.
And Elizabeth Edwards calling her is just another way to get you to send John Edwards money. It’s a clever move, and only suckers would actually fall for it. The Edwards know what Coulter’s game is, and they are using her just like she uses them.
The only real way to have an impact on this trash is to hit the sponsors where it counts, in their bank accounts. Call/email each and every adverstiser on the program and cc it to Abrams at msnbc. Let them know you won’t have anything to do with a company that supports hate and lies.
Laughing my ass off!