Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>I like Matthews. I think he's a fair journalist -- in an "unfair and unbalanced" journalistic world.<<<


He's pretty fair now but he suffers a lot from his behavior in years past. Too many viewers remember how he turned the Hardball studio into a republican convention 5 days a week leading up to the 2000 and 2004 election. Pretty disgusting to watch him sit there and brag about fairness and balance while breaking bread all week with GOP senators and strategists and crack up over old Clinton jokes. The Daily Kos crowd wouldn't tune him in if he was the last political show on TV.


"What's he going to talk about a year from now, the fact that the war went too well and it's over? I mean, don't these things sort of lose their--Isn't there a fresh date on some of these debate points?"
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, speaking about Howard Dean--4/9/03)

"We're all neo-cons now."
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 4/9/03)

"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits."
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 5/1/03)

"Why don't the damn Democrats give the president his day? He won today. He did well today."
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 4/9/03)

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