Ken Shepherd | January 20, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | "By the way, I do believe in [slavery] reparations if you could figure out what it would be," Hardball host Chris Matthews admitted to his panel during the "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" segment on the January 20 program. Matthews's comment came on the heels of syndicated columnist Clarence Page informing Matthews that Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie…
Ken Shepherd | January 20, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Perhaps hesitant to let a local government mismanagement crisis in Michigan go to waste, the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman sought to tie the Flint water crisis as an albatross around the necks of both Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and GOP primary frontrunner Donald Trump. Fineman made his remarks during a brief appearance on the January 20 edition of MSNBC's Hardball.
Ken Shepherd | January 20, 2016
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Ken Shepherd | January 19, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | In the "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" segment of Tuesday's edition of Hardball, Mother Jones magazine's David Corn informed MSNBC host Chris Matthews that the Democratic National Committee was wracked with a "tremendous amount of regret in the high ranks of the" party organization that they had limited the primary debates so much. "Yes!" interjected Matthews, adding…
Ken Shepherd | January 19, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters |  Donald Trump, for all his bluster and controversy, could actually win over the suburban vote in blue Northeastern states, Hardball host Chris Matthews argued on tonight's program. It's just too bad for him, he added, that throwing his arms around the Sarah Palin endorsement could kill those chances since "thoughtful" "pro-choice" women in those New England suburbs…
Ken Shepherd | January 15, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | "Uh, OK, control room, I'm going to need that picture of Ted Cruz in the duck makeup for every segment we do about Ted Cruz for the rest of his career," MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell quipped about Ted Cruz's campaign ad featuring the Texas senator duck hunting with Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson.  
Ken Shepherd | January 14, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | "Governor Kasich, Hillary Clinton is getting some serious competition from Senator Bernie Sanders.He's now at 41 percent in the latest CBS/New York Times poll. Vice president Biden sang his praises saying "Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real and he has credibility on it." "So what does it say about our country that a candidate who is a self-avowed…
Ken Shepherd | January 14, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | After testing out his latest loony Cruz-birtherism talking point on Wednesday night's Hardball, Chris Matthews appeared as a guest on the January 14 edition of MSNBC Live with Kate Snow to repeat it for a different audience. Essentially Matthews was lecturing conservatives who revere the Constitution that either they have to sacrifice their love of original intent…
Ken Shepherd | January 14, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Chris Matthews was, if possible, smugger than usual last night as he gleefully lambasted "Canadian anchor baby" Sen. Ted Cruz and the "homeschooling" Iowa Republicans who plan on voting for him.
Ken Shepherd | January 13, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | On Wednesday's Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews made perfectly clear he is incensed at Republican outrage over the Islamic Republic of Iran's capture of 10 U.S. Navy sailors. In his mind, they need to chill out.They "pounced on it with doom and gloom. You'd have thought that the guys were never coming home," Matthews – who once served as an aide to expert Iran…