Chris Matthews Goes Off On Rancid Pubis

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 12:03pm

Chris Matthews Can Be A Bit Too Much Sometimes But Good For Him.

[artscallion]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 5:49pm

The best part of this is that the other "reasonables" there, like Mika and Brokaw, dismissed/disagreed with Chris. I know him (not personally, just from watching him) and I know he cannot tolerate when that happens. This will become the bone he chews on from now until the election trying to prove that he was not wrong. This should be glorious.

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 10:53pm

yeah, he s like a foaming rabid dog



Updated On: 8/28/12 at 10:53 PM

[javero]

Posted: 8/28/12 at 3:28pm

Yeah, Chris was a lil' over the top.

I'm still rotflmao @ the Rancid Pubis moniker.

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 8/28/12 at 3:49pm

Ifyou re-watch the vid, you will no doubt notice how Rancid Pubis" NEVER answers ONE of C. Matthews' Qs, except for closing down with "let's move on" - "I'm not going to argue"....blah, blah, blah. And Mika is such a wet dish rag, get some spine, lady..

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/28/12 at 3:59pm

The rules, unwritten but well understood by people in the interwoven media and political world, is that it’s all in good fun. Liberal and conservative talking heads perform their disagreements for the camera but don’t question their opponents’ basic decency. Journalists ask politicians questions politicians don’t want to be asked, but then, when offered an evasive answer or two, smile and move on. It’s like Olympic fencing. When your blade strikes the other competitor, it beeps, signifying that you’ve won a point. But it doesn’t cut.

Yesterday morning, Chris Matthews decided not to play by those rules. Matthews is an unusual TV pundit for two reasons. First, he’s a moralist, and not always in predictable ways. In the late 1990s, he was furious about Bill Clinton’s sex scandals. Now he’s enraged by the GOP’s efforts to make President Obama seem pro-welfare (read: pro-black) and un-American. Second, he’s a student of American political history, and thus refuses to be willfully naïve about the pedigree that race-soaked issues like welfare have in presidential campaigns.

Like Begala and Carlson in 2004, Priebus was unprepared to deal with Matthews’s brazen sincerity. “You got your monologue in, so congratulations,” he responded, thus implying that Matthews was just performing like everyone else. Constrained by his own role as chief Republican flack from really grappling with Matthews’s charge, Priebus uttered some well-worn and barely relevant talking points about Obama’s misdeeds. Then he simply demanded that the conversation end. “I’m not going to get into a shouting match with Chris, so you guys can move on,” he told host Joe Scarborough, essentially asking him to reimpose the rules that usually govern such discussions on air. It reminded me of Carlson’s plea to Stewart: “I thought you were going to be funny. Be funny.” Essentially: get back in character. Don’t you know we’re all just playing a game here?

Chris matthews breaks the rules

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/28/12 at 7:42pm

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 8/28/12 at 8:00pm

cool!

[mikey2573]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 8:04pm

That was Chris Mathews "Jumping the Shark" for the, I don't know, 400th time?
Chris Mathews makes Keith Olberman look like "the sane one".

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 8/30/12 at 8:16pm

Chris Matthews makes my skin crawl. Everything about him is grotesque. He is unbalanced. Nobody at NBC is concerned with him?