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Chris Matthews stories: 27 news summaries

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Gun-Toting Protester at Obama Event Unrepentant

Tells Chris Matthews it's no big deal

Aug 11, 09 8:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man who showed up at President Obama's town hall today with a gun defended his right to do just that when grilled by Chris Matthews on his show tonight, reports the Huffington Post. When Matthews asked why he showed up with a weapon strapped to his leg, William Kostric... More »

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Chris Matthews • town hall meeting • protesters • guns • President Obama • William Kostric

(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... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • Richard Nixon • Hardball • Chris Matthews • Hawaii • G. Gordon Liddy • birther • after birth

(Newser) - The Obama-is-not-a-citizen chorus seems to be getting louder of late, thanks in part to a viral video of a woman berating a GOP congressman who defends the president. The theme continued tonight on MSNBC, where Chris Matthews clashed with one of the Republican sponsors of a bill requiring that presidential... More »

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Chris Matthews • citizen • President Obama • birth certificate • John Campbell • birther

(Newser) - Being honored at a Washington event last night skewering the liberal media made Samuel Wurzelbacher—better known as Joe the Plumber, of Campaign ’08 fame—“horny,” the Washington Post reports. “God, all this love and everything in the room—I’m horny,” the Republican everyman... More »

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Chris Matthews • Bill Maher • liberal media • Joe the Plumber • conservative media • Samuel Wurzelbacher • Media Research Center

OPINION

 Hill Grilled the Wrong AIG Guy 


Mar 19, 09 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Edward Liddy’s much-ballyhooed testimony yesterday—Chris Matthews billed it as “Watergate Redux”—didn’t wind up accomplishing much, “aside from revealing congressional ignorance of all things financial,” Daniel Gross writes in Slate. Yes, Liddy currently runs the reviled AIG, but he wasn’t running it... More »

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Congress • Chris Matthews • testimony • AIG • Hank Greenberg • Martin Sullivan • Edward Liddy • grandstanding

 Huckabee:  
 MSNBC? More 
 Like 'MSBS' 

Ex-guv slams network, Chris Matthews

Feb 27, 09 7:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Mike Huckabee took a swipe at MSNBC in a speech to fellow conservatives yesterday, calling the network “MSBS,” Politico reports. “It's not MSNBC, but the MSBS channel,” the former Arkansas governor said. He went on to rip Chris Matthews’ audible “oh God” before Bobby Jindal’... More »

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MSNBC • Mike Huckabee • Chris Matthews • Fox News

(Newser) - Chris Matthews was surprised by the “peculiar stagecraft” preceding Bobby Jindal’s speech last night, an NBC rep tells the Huffington Post, leading the MSNBC host to mutter, “Oh, God” as the Louisiana governor appeared on screen. Matthews plans to elaborate during today’s Hardball, the rep added.... More »

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MSNBC • Chris Matthews • Bobby Jindal

(Newser) - After Keith Olbermann introduced Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s rebuttal to President Obama’s congressional speech last night, MSNBC broadcast snickers and a hushed voice intoning “Oh, God,” Fox News reports. The voice is thought to have been Olbermann’s or that of co-host Chris Matthews. Both have... More »

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television • politics • MSNBC • Chris Matthews • Keith Olbermann • Bobby Jindal • President Obama • rebuttal • disapproval

OPINION

Matthews Takes Record for Hot Air at Chilly Inauguration

MSNBC host's 'sizzling free-associations' provided some hot air in chilly DC

Jan 22, 09 3:25 PM CST
(Newser) - It's a good thing Chris Matthews didn't run for the Senate after all, Jack Shafer writes for Slate, after listening to the MSNBC star let his mouth run wild Inauguration Day. "Drawing from a larder filled with old anecdotes, unreliable metaphors, wacky intuition, and superficial observations, the always-animated Matthews... More »

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television • John Roberts • MSNBC • Chris Matthews • Keith Olbermann • John Cusack • Muhammad Ali • Rachel Maddow • President Obama • Val Kilmer • Inauguration Day

(Newser) - Chris Matthews is keeping his night job. The host of MSNBC's Hardball told his staff today that he won't be running for the Senate in 2010, the Los Angeles Times reports. For months, Matthews had been not so quietly considering a run against the GOP's Arlen Specter in his home... More »

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Senate • MSNBC • Pennsylvania • Chris Matthews

Matthews May Quit MSNBC for Senate Run

Hardball host's flirtation with Pa. race could be negotiating ploy

Dec 4, 08 12:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Chris Matthews is seriously considering leaving MSNBC in preparation for a US Senate campaign, friends and NBC colleagues tell Politico. The Hardball host is dead set on making a run and has already picked out a home in his native Philadelphia to meet the residency requirement, according to one Democratic... More »

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Senate • MSNBC • Pennsylvania • Chris Matthews • Philadelphia

ANALYSIS

 In Franken's Run, 
 Cautionary Tale for Matthews 

MSNBC host's celebrity isn't all that, and Franken didn't exactly win, either

Dec 1, 08 1:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Chris Matthews seems determined to run for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania in 2010, but beating Republican Arlen Specter isn’t his only problem, Steve Kornacki writes in the New York Observer. The MSNBC host is a cipher to 60% of the electorate, and there are other qualified, ambitious Democrats... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Congress • Senate • Bill Clinton • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Chris Matthews • Minnesota • Al Franken • Election 2010

Matthews Rounds Up Staff
for Senate Run

MSNBC host denies deals with Obama aides for 2010

Nov 28, 08 5:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Chris Matthews is lining up a top-notch staff to manage his campaign for the Pennsylvania Senate seat held by Arlen Specter, FiveThirtyEight reports. Multiple sources say the MSNBC host has made deals with seasoned Obama aides to run the 2010 campaign. Polls already show that Matthews, running as a Democrat,... More »

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Senate • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Chris Matthews • campaign staff • Obama campaign • Election 2010

 Bachmann Celebrates
 Obama Win

Hails victory as 'tremendous signal' against racism

Nov 7, 08 12:42 AM CST
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hardball • Chris Matthews • racism • anti-Americanism • Michele Bachmann • President Obama

OPINION

Maddow Is Sharp, But Still Just Another Partisan Pundit

Host only shines in clashes with the right

Sep 25, 08 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite all the hype and the glowing blogosphere reviews since she got her own MSNBC slot Sept. 8, Rachel Maddow’s program has turned out to be a clone of the Keith Olbermann vehicle that precedes her: “less a show than an annex,” Alessandra Stanley writes in the... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • Chris Matthews • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • Pat Buchanan • Rachel Maddow

OPINION

It's Not Too
Late, MSNBC: 'Stay Crazy'

Blogger calls for Matthews, Olbermann to keep their jobs

Sep 8, 08 5:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - David Gregory will be the face of MSNBC's election coverage, and the ouster of "loud shouty people" Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews isn't sitting well with at least one viewer. "It's a stupid, stupid idea, for many reasons," Alex Pareene writes on Gawker of NBC Universal's decision.... More »

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NBC • MSNBC • NBC Universal • Chris Matthews • Keith Olbermann • NBC News • Brian Williams • Election 2008 • David Gregory • Phil Griffin

MSNBC Boots Olbermann, Matthews From Anchor Chairs

David Gregory will host election coverage

Sep 8, 08 5:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - After months of criticism and pointed derision at the Republican convention, MSNBC will yank Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from the anchor seats during this fall's debates and election. NBC News correspondent David Gregory will host election coverage, while Olbermann and Matthews remain as commentators. Ratings at the struggling network... More »

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MSNBC • Chris Matthews • Keith Olbermann • news anchor • David Gregory

McCain Video Mocks Media Coverage of Obama

Montage offers snippets of glowing coverage

Jul 22, 08 7:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The McCain campaign debuted an Internet video today it says documents the press corps’ one-sided swoon over Barack Obama, ABC News reports. Set to music, the video features on-air personalities—MSNBC's Chris Matthews is among those featured prominently—offering adoring sentiments about Obama. It also airs Democratic-primary complaints from top... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Chris Matthews • media bias • campaign press corps

Cable Guys Won't Likely Fill Russert's Seat

Execs don't want pundits messing with 'pristine' NBC News

Jun 16, 08 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Early word on Tim Russert's Meet the Press successor focused on in-house candidates, like Chris Matthews, David Gregory, or Joe Scarborough. But one insider now tells Variety that there’s “no way” a cable personality will land the gig. NBC’s broadcast division would rather stay “pristine”—... More »

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cable TV • MSNBC • Chris Matthews • Tim Russert • NBC News • pundits • Meet the Press • Joe Scarborough • network news • David Gregory

 Who Will Replace Him? 

A battle between Chris Matthews and David Gregory may be looming

Jun 14, 08 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - It will be hard to replace Tim Russert, who led the top-rated Meet the Press for 17 years—but insiders are already guessing who will sit in his chair, the Los Angeles Times reports. Three on-air NBC personalities are reportedly possible: Race for the White House host David Gregory, Hardball's... More »

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Katie Couric • Chris Matthews • Tim Russert • George Stephanopoulos • Meet the Press • Joe Scarborough

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