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Chris Matthews: "I Speak For The Media; The Left, Right And Center"

“Well you must know Sue, that here in the media, and I speak for the media generally — left, right and center, there is a tremendous interest in Newt Gingrich because he is the most lively candidate we’ve come across in years, perhaps more so than President Obama in terms of ideas, in terms of electricity as a candidate,” Chris Matthews said during MSNBC's election night coverage of Nevada. “Sometimes he says things that make people hold their mouth in a gasp almost. Other things he says occasionally brilliant things.’ Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | Hardball - Sunday February 5th, 2012 | Send to a Friend

Fineman: Romney's "Tin Ear And Lack Of Ideology" Are Mechanical For Him

Chris Matthews, Susan Page and Howard Fineman discuss Mitt Romney's "very poor" comments and how they will impact the Romney's campaign. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | Hardball - Thursday February 2nd, 2012 | Send to a Friend

Corn: Gingrich's "Spite and Bile" Prevent Him From Dropping Out

Chris Matthews, Dee Dee Myers and David Corn talk about Newt Gingrich's staying power in the GOP race. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | Hardball - Wednesday February 1st, 2012 | Send to a Friend

Matthews Goes On Rant Against Romney: "You Are One Of The Bad Guys"

MSNBC's Chris Matthews went on an intense rant against GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney during his network's coverage of the Florida primary. Matthews says Romney has "a very, very difficult time identifying with the yearnings of the American people." He also ccused Romney of "hiding" his money from the "tax collectors." "I think he has a very, very difficult time identifying with the yearnings of the American people for a better country and he’s earned that problem. He has not identified with the revolutionary struggle of this country for its last 200 years. It is not anywhere in his bones. A revolutionary, anywhere in his bones, is he dissatisfied with the America he was born to. He was born to that weird small portion of America that had it happened to him. He says he did not inherit it. He inherited everything. His education, his status, governor, father head of an auto company. Everything about him basically happened to him," Chris Matthews ranted. "I don't think Mitt Romney shares that, nothing in this guy's face, nothing in his background that suggests a yearning. An immigrant's aspiration, full, for a better society. He has got all he wants. His family has all you wants, they gotten their take. When you are hiding your money from the tax collector, sheltering it overseas, so you can have a farther life, you don't identify with the person trying to scrabble along making it in our society, who is a true patriot, left, right or center. Why are you hiding your money oversea it is you are a patriot? Seems like you are part of the problem. In fact, you are one of the bad guys," Matthews said. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Matthews: "National Hatred Of The President That I Haven't Seen Before"

Why do you think we have a Secret Service?," Chris Matthews said about "hatred" for President Obama on WMAL-AM with hosts Mary Katherine Ham and Bryan Nehman. "If you don't think there was an honest fear of violence in that very hot period of around 2010, it was real. I think there was a real fear on the part of security people that it might get out of hand," he added. "There is a real level of national hatred of the president that I hadn't seen before, certainly not under Clinton, or under Dubya," he said. "The hatred, the Hitler mustaches, all that stuff. I haven't seen that before," he insisted. When WMAL hosts Mary Katherine Ham and Bryan Nehman challenged Matthews, asking him if President George W. Bush had not faced a similar level of rancor, Matthews stood his ground. "You guys have a point of view," said Matthews, "and I'm trying to look at this objectively." Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | Hardball - Tuesday January 31st, 2012 | Send to a Friend

Fineman: Newt Believes "Ideological Fight" Needs To Be Waged For "Soul" Of Party

Chris Matthews, Michael Steele and Howard Fineman discuss the Florida primary and the GOP presidential race. Fineman said that some of Gingrich's friends "strongly advised him to go all the way to the convention, and they didn't have to do a lot of convincing. He wants to do it, but they also want to do it because they want to keep raising money, and they want to raise money based on the idea that there's an ideological fight that needs to be waged for the good of the soul of the party in the conservative movement all the way to the convention." Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | Hardball - Monday January 30th, 2012 | Send to a Friend

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