Hitler Donnybrook Rocks Hardball

MSNBC host slammed for State of the Union gaffe

(NEWSER) - Chris Matthews is taking heat for a gaffe on live TV after President Obama's State of the Union address last night. The Hardball host told Keith Olbermann that he "forgot the president was black." The remark came while Matthews was discussing race and the presidency, and the line quickly spread on Twitter and the Internet, along with plenty of criticism of the MSNBC host, Politico reports. More»

Dean says bill does 'more bad things than good things'

(NEWSER) - Howard Dean took the gloves off on Hardball yesterday, mixing it up with first Chris Matthews and then Mary Landrieu over the health care bill. Dean defended his desire to kill the bill, declaring that the bill was an insurance industry handout. Matthews vehemently disagreed, accusing Dean of “demagoguery.” But things really got heated when Mary Landrieu came on. More»

(NEWSER) - Nixon henchman G. Gordon Liddy branded Barack Obama an "illegal alien" on Hardball yesterday, dodging a barrage of evidence and documents cited by Chris Matthews that the US president was born in Hawaii. Liddy insisted that Obama's "invalid" birth certificate couldn't be used to get a passport or even "to register your son for Little League," despite Matthews' observation that it has been used for just those things. More»

Hails victory as 'tremendous signal' against racism

(NEWSER) - The congresswoman who suggested in a national television interview that Barack Obama has anti-American views is changing her tune. Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann tells Politico she’s "extremely grateful that we have an African-American who has won this year," calling Obama’s victory ”a tremendous signal we sent.” Bachmann also expressed hope that the media won’t mistake “disagreement with Obama’s policy positions” for racism. More»

No good can come when statesmen of any stripe invoke the Third Reich

(NEWSER) - Politicians just can’t stop invoking Hitler to make their points, complains Anne Applebaum on Slate. President Bush did it last week, saying negotiating with “terrorists and radicals” was tantamount to 1930s Nazi appeasement. It was a ridiculous statement, “giving tactical choices a phony moral grounding.” But that’s par for the course for such analogies, which never fail to cheapen debate. More»