Matthews: No one in the media has ‘laid a glove’ on McCain in ‘10 years.’
By on Jun 4th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Matthews: No one in the media has ‘laid a glove’ on McCain in ‘10 years.’
During MSNBC’s coverage of the South Dakota and Montana primaries last night, host Chris Matthews noted how Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) criticized the media’s coverage of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in his speech last night, saying that “Pundits and party elders have declared that Senator Obama will be my opponent.” “What is his beef with the media, I’d like to know that” said Matthews, adding “I mean, after ten years of covering this guy, I have yet to see anybody lay a glove on him.” Watch it:
Tim Russert added, “Well, he used to call it his base.”
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“What is his beef with the media, I’d like to know that” said Matthews, adding “I mean, after ten years of covering this guy, I have yet to see anybody lay a glove on him.”
Tim Russert added, “Well, he used to call it his base.”
Wow, dumb and dumber both get something right, and on the same day. Are the planets aligned?
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June 4th, 2008 at 7:48 pmWhat’s the beef? Where’s the beef? McBush is a hollow man. He is always flipping and flopping and can never get his facts straight. And he wants to distance himself from George W Bush. Won’t happen. Way too many pictures of the two of them together a huggin’ and a kissin’.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pmThis was not an attack on the press. It was an attack on the legitimacy of Obama’s presumptive nominee. McCain is using Clinton’s tortured “I have the greatest popular vote” meme to imply that Clinton was cheated out of her rightful spot on the ticket. McCain will consistently use this meme to woo Clinton voters to cross over. This is one of the left over problems of the Clinton strategy. Now, of course, it is not that McCain has anything against the press. He is just willing to use them to his own ends.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:50 pmCan’t wait until the next time McCain is on Hardball so Tweety can finally lay a glove on him. Oh wait, that won’t happen?
June 4th, 2008 at 7:50 pm“Pundits and party elders have declared the Senator Obama will be my opponent.”
Yeah, it’s not like the voters had anything to say about it, Grampy.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:02 pmOkay, yes, Chris and Tim, you got that one right. So now what are you going to do to fix it? Ask McCain some real questions? Call him out on being evasive? Play video montages of his repeated flips, flops and flips again?
If not you, who will? Lead by example and do your jobs!
PEACE
June 4th, 2008 at 8:10 pm“Matthews: No one in the media has ‘laid a glove’ on McCain in ‘10 years.’”
From the 21th century knucklehead pundits: Dumb and Dumber. Pass the popcorn please….
June 4th, 2008 at 8:10 pmhis beef is worn-out wh talking points. but he’s nothing like his mentor.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:16 pmsatirev that information is readily available with Google and Wiki searches. I’d like to hear some stories about his exploits between NAS Jax and Mayport NAS. Cruising down 3rd Street through Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach in a Corvette while the wife is across the river in Orange Park can be fun and dangerous. Of course enlisted shore patrol would never remember having to deal with the drunken son of an Admiral.
I wonder if any of his fellow pilots have any stories to tell. I know there must be a couple women who remember the guy who would let them play with his joystick. Oh wait, all the fly boys were proud to show off their joysticks.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:21 pmFrom the 21th century knucklehead pundits: Dumb and Dumber. Pass the popcorn please….
“Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?”
June 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pmA unified message between McCain and Hillary. Almost as if they want one or the other of them to win.
Hillary, you have lost, go cry and get over it. Obama is the nominee now. Anything more you do at this point just demonstrates how on the side of the neocons you are.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:33 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
And Obama has no idea what a free ride the media has given him with their attacks focused almost entirely on Clinton.
I don’t know what the hell you are watching, but all I have seen is nothing but Rev Wright clips and comments of Obama being an elitist. Saying someone lost the election because they don’t have enough delegates is not an attack, its called the truth.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:37 pmprogress thought, I think RHF had a shock to the senses and has veered off to the right, even claiming he will vote for McSame rather than Obama.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:43 pmWere people discussing this yesterday, whether RHF is a Manchurian Troll that had come alive at Hillery’s demise to support McInsane, or was I dreaming that? I wasn’t stoned yesterday either!
June 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pmHey Tweety & Russert, you’re part of the media. Why haven’t you touched McCain in the last 10 years?
Just sayin’…
June 4th, 2008 at 9:08 pmSaint Augustine Says:
June 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
rhf was working his “magic” on the Hummer thread last night.
**eyes rolling**
:-D
June 4th, 2008 at 9:09 pmGloves off now b!tches!
June 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pmTruth — as if…
June 4th, 2008 at 9:25 pmRHF has amply demonstrated by it’s vitriol, and ignorance of the facts, that he/she is, indeed, a Republican.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:28 pmNevar, I guess we’re supposed feel bad that rhf will not be voting in November. Whatever — it’s his choice.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:31 pmI’m certain the local poll workers in RHF’s district are breathing easier.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:34 pmNo restraining orders this year!
June 4th, 2008 at 9:36 pmthe gift that keeps on giving…
June 4th, 2008 at 9:40 pm(McCain) saying that “Pundits and party elders have declared the Senator Obama will be my opponent.”
Pundits would be, like, those nice folks you had over for the cookout? (Party elders would, of course, be yourself…)
June 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pmWhen’s the next party, Pork Chop?
What about all those people who voted? Remember them, Grampy?
June 4th, 2008 at 10:06 pmIt would be interesting if Matt Groenig might allow some of the many excellent “grampa Simpson clips be used by a legal organization to cut with McCain clips to produce a line of campaign commercials for national distribution. Eeepa Eeepa Eeepa
June 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pmObama needs to conduct “connecting-the-dots” lessons to these idiots. If I can see what we are dealing with here (media beholden to multi-national corporations), every voter can see what we are dealing with here (media beholden to multi-national corporations)–it’s called a landslide. And Chris Matthews needs to be kept after class.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:23 pmNo time like the present, Chris.
June 5th, 2008 at 12:27 amMatthews is a liar. CNN and MSNBC have both had stories about how corrupt and weak McCain is. Matthews is not to be trusted, he is sooo biased in spite of some glimmers of fairness.
June 5th, 2008 at 12:37 amI didn’t read this article because I can’t stand Matthews and Russert separately, much less together.
However, know the odds are very good that Russert, at some time, must have made a reference to Buffalo, his town town. He speaks of Buffalo as though he had survived the assault on Iwo Jima. Hard knocks, street wise guys on meth. Is Buffalo that tough? Like Brooklyn or someplace like that? I’m glad I’m not from Buffalo.
Poor guy. I wish he was from Cleveland.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:43 amCan we ‘freebase’ these boys?
June 5th, 2008 at 9:56 am