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Michelle Obama to go on Leno show Friday

NEW YORK - First Lady Michelle Obama will be a guest on “The Jay Leno Show” on Friday night.

Matthews says he won't run for Pa. Senate seat

MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews has told his colleagues he won't be leaving television to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania.

St. Bonaventure beats Maryland Eastern Shore 75-60

Chris Matthews scored 16 points and hit five 3-pointers, leading St. Bonaventure to a 75-60 win over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday.

Specter: 'I'll be prepared' for 2010 race

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says he's ready for a tough re-election race in 2010, whether it's against MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews or someone else.

What happens to cable news without a campaign?

Chris Matthews refused to be drawn in to a debate last week when fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough talked on "Morning Joe" about whether President-elect Obama had fumbled the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as his White House chief of staff.

MSNBC says Olbermann, Matthews won't anchor

MSNBC is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators.

Chris Matthews a Target for Clinton Fans

He's become the target for critics who think a backlash against the media played a part in Hillary Clinton's surprise win in New Hampshire. Chris Matthews laughs off that idea, and insists he has a lot of respect for her.

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Chris Matthews Sneezes, and Proves He Is Not a Kook (always): Do the Government and MSNBC Know Matthews Is Spreading Swine Flu and Undermining Their Propaganda?

Chris Matthews, of MSNBC, is fresh off of winning the coveted/dreaded Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate. He richly deserved The Finger (statuette of pointing INDEX finger) for saying this about Major Hassan's (Ft.

President Obama, Chris Matthews, and MSNBC: The Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate Points at YOU! (Terrorist Edition)

It is again time for the Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate: my unauthorized reincarnation of the old "Laugh In" award for outstanding STUPIDITY in the previous week.

To MSNBC the Least Important Thing about Killer Army Doctor is He was a Muslim Who Compared Suicide Bombers to Soldiers who Throw Themselves on Grenades to Protect Others: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 14
Source: http://newsrealblog.com

"While every other news channel at the top of the hour led with the mass murders committed by Army psychiatrist Major Malik Nadal Hasan, Keith Olbermann led Countdown with a hysterical rant about the health care demonstration at the Capitol, implying it was treasonous, seditious  …

Hardball: GOP Russian-Like 'Purge' of RINOs Leading to 'Crack Cocaine of Reduced Republicanism'
Source: newsbusters.org

Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, claimed the GOP is purging moderates from the party like it was 1930s Russia, and Newsweek's Howard Fineman said the dumping of RINOs like Dede Scozzafava in New York was leading to "the crack cocaine of reduced Republicanism." Yes indeed it  …

Chris Matthews' Litmus Test

Have you ever heard Chris ask, "Sir, do you believe in evolution? Do you believe in climate change?" Its his republican litmus test.

Chris Matthews muses on killing Rush Limbaugh
Source: Hot Air

Call this the opposite of a tingle up one's leg. No surprise here from the classiest cable network to drag anchor in the ratings, but consider if someone on Fox had offered this kind of fantasy musing on air about a liberal show host — say, Keith Olbermann or Matthews himself.

Olympics and Chicago--Or Any American City: What About 2020? (Continuation of my two previous articles)

Chicago was LAST in the first round of the 20016 Olympic vote, with only 16 votes. See my previous two articles on this subject. Madrid and Tokyo were ahead of Chicago in that first round vote. Madrid eventually finished a distant second to Rio.

Does Chris Matthews remember his own interviews?
Source: Media Matters for America

excerpt: ""But in dismissing Clinton's comments about the "vast right-wing conspiracy" working against him in the 1990s, Matthews ignored a key part of what Clinton said.

Does hateful rhetoric really lead to violence? History gives us the clear answer: yes
Source: Crooks and Liars

Chris Matthews decided to take seriously Nancy Pelosi's choked-up discussion of concern about the violent undertone of recent right-wing rhetoric -- which of course has the right-wing a-holosphere chortling in blithe dismissal -- on Hardball earlier this week.

Chuck Grassley Condone Guns On Stoop Of White House
Source: http://leftwingbias.wordpress.com/

Senator Chuck Grassley didn't speak up against the man who say he would bring a gun to the White House if others follow. Chuck Grassley condone the man action by not speaking up against the man. This kind of talk is ludicrous and should never come out of a man talk.

Chris Matthews Unloads On Protester Who Brought a Loaded Gun To President Obama's Healthcare Town Halls
Source: YouTube

"You're carrying a god damned gun at a Presidential event," Matthews says to protester William Kostric, appearing on "Hardball" to explain why he carried a gun to a health care town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire hosted by President Obama.

Matthews Calls Joan Walsh's Observations on Divide and Conquer Strategies "Marxist"
Source: Crooks and Liars

excerpt: ""This was another gem from Hardball yesterday besides Matthews' "deather" rant where bad Tweety was rearing his ugly head again.

Chris Matthews Attacked Cambridge 911 Caller
Source: newsbusters.org

MSNBC's Chris Matthews could not wait for the audio release of the 911 call made by Harvard employee Lucia Whalen. If he did, he would have discovered she never inserted the race of the individuals she was describing during her conversation with the 911 dispatcher,  while she r …

Chris Matthews is lying about Barack Obama
Source: Media Matters for America

excerpt: ""Chris Matthews just said on Hardball that Barack Obama's initial comments about the Gates arrest was a case of "profiling":

Hardball: Joan Walsh on Liz Cheney Feeding the Birther Crazies - video
Source: Crooks and Liars

Chris Matthews asks Joan Walsh about her article at Salon where she weighed in on Liz Cheney's appearance on Larry King Live, and refused to put some distance between herself and the crazy birthers.

Chris Matthews Takes On The Lunatic Birther Movement
Source: Crooks and Liars

Chris Matthews highlighted this nutcase birther at a town hall with Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE), questioning Obama's citizenship and forcing a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. It's unfiltered crazy in action.

Okay MSNBC, Listen Up. Barnicle, Matthews -- Front & Center.

I recently listened to Chris Matthews lose it over the possibility (probably remote, but I digress) that the Northern states might have to participate in a reparations for slavery program.

Chris Matthews and Obama's birth: 'Appeasing the nut-cases': The Swamp
Source: swamppolitics.com

Listen to the cheers for the woman holding up her birth certificate and asking why the president won't share his.

GOP congressman has birther meltdown on Hardball
Source: Daily Kos

excerpt: ""It takes Chris Matthews two full minutes to finally get Congressman John Campbell (R-CA) to definitively admit that he believes President Obama was born in the United States.""

Obama abroad; media conservatives on tour from reality
Source: Media Matters for America

excerpt: ""President Obama's trip to the Middle East and subsequent speech in Cairo were a predictable source of fodder for media conservatives.

Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC: Cheney Speech 'Sleazy,' 'An Abomination'. By Kyle Drennen. May 21, 2009 - 17:22 ET
Source: newsbusters.org

Immediately following a speech by former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday, MSNBC assembled it's usual panel of left-wing pundits to tear him down, including political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell, who proclaimed: "Well, he came today to -- obviously to do nothing much oth …

Tom Ridge says the GOP needs to me more inclusive, less shrill and Specter should be Davey Crockett
Source: Crooks and Liars

excerpt: ""Ridge says the GOP is much too shrill and should not be a party made of teabaggers alone. Then they got into Arlen Specter switching parties and the conversation turned into a surreal Villager comic strip.

Orrin Hatch: Just say "NO" to empathy (video)
Source: Crooks and Liars

Who knew the word "empathy" was such an evil word? I certainly didn't. But apparently the King of Vitamin Supplements, Orrin Hatch, was completely offended when President Obama used it when he discussed his attributes in a Supreme Court judge.

White House Loves MSNBC
Source: The L.A. Times

For some inexplicable reason having to do with who knows what, a widespread impression has grown among many politics fans that MSNBC and its crowd of talkers -- including Chris "Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews, Norah "The GOP Is Doomed to Die" O'Donnell and Ed "It's Time to Grind Them …

Did Chris Matthews guess Arlen Specter would switch parties?
Source: Slate

What did Chris Matthews know, and when did he know it? His MSNBC rival Keith Olbermann asked him on the April 29 Countdown:

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