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Bobby Jindal walked through the vast corridors of his mansion Tuesday night to deliver the Republican Party's rebuttal to the president's budget speech. At exactly that time, Chris Matthews was thinking, "Oh God."
And Matthews, the longtime Hardball host on MSNBC, unwittingly let the world know. "Oh God," he muttered into his microphone that he thought was off. The clip lit up online, and bloggers speculated that the editorialized utterance was from either Matthews or his cohort, Keith Olbermann, both of whom repeatedly bashed the Republican ticket during the campaign.
MSNBC eventually revealed that the culprit was in fact Matthews, a former aide for high-profile Democratic members of Congress who also lost Pennsylvania's Democratic primary race for a House seat in 1974. On his subsequent Hardball show, Matthews offered a New York Post-like apology for his jeer. Apparently he was mocking Jindal's house for resembling the White House. At no point during his apology did Matthews mention his own comments.
"Governor Bobby Jindal walking from somewhere in the back of this narrow hall, this winding staircase looming there, the odd, antebellum look of the scene," Matthews carefully navigated. "Some people heard my reaction at the time. What was the message of all this? Was this some mimicking of a president walking along the state floor to the East Room? At the same time that the Republicans are so far from Washington, they can't be blamed for anything?"
That's it.
It certainly was no "I'm sorry," or "I'm sorry if I offended," or even "I'm sorry, but ...." It was more of a justification of his off-camera moment. Yet it shouldn't be very surprising. Matthews and Olbermann were relieved of their anchoring duties during the campaign after the Republicans' convention, when they made some Democratic-friendly remarks. Matthews has even hinted to Stephen Colbert that he may run for the Senate in Pennsylvania.
Haters of Fox News like to point out that MSNBC is the liberal alternative, while CNN remains in the objective middle. It's tough to argue that MSNBC is equally fair to both political ideologies, seeing as its prime-time news shows run from the Democratic Matthews to the John McCain-hating Olbermann, topped off by ultra-liberal Rachel Maddow.
Certainly Fox News programming favors the politically conservative. Yet the responsible response to a network with a clear ideology is not to counter with equally partisan talking heads. The best thing to do is what journalists, not commentators, do best: report the truth. It can be funny or witty, but as soon as it becomes slanted, it's no longer a solution.
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le r wilhelm
11:13PM 11:13PM Feb 26th 2009
All is well, but had it been the other way, before an Obama address, Matthews would be squeeling like a pig, grabbing your peepee and whimpering "racist"
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mcl449
5:19PM 5:19PM Feb 27th 2009
Matthews wouldn't have had to because Obama would not have walked into the room like a scared kid.
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mayabelle1107
11:20PM 11:20PM Feb 26th 2009
These zombies arent' leaning left they're bent over as left as they can go. Too far for a reach around. They can't stop themselves. It's like watching a room full of drunk frat boys, frothing over some stripper who plans on slippin' em' all a mickey and robbing everyone blind. Just wait until the hangover, you won't be able to look at yourself in the mirror for a Long time...
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moderate
1:39AM 1:39AM Feb 27th 2009
I tend to be liberal, but no way do I think MSNBC is fair coverage. Then again I also believe Fox leans the opposite of them. Stop calling the kettle black fox and friends. You guys are as balanced as Msnbc
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mcl449
5:17PM 5:17PM Feb 27th 2009
Fox isn't nearly as objective as MSNBC. All of their questions are phrased in a negative way, and they try to direct their guests' answers so they will correspond with what they think. If a guest tends to think for himself, they stop asking him questions.
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rccleveland001
5:16AM 5:16AM Feb 28th 2009
after 12 years of losing elections the extreme left wing in the socialist party of america (i.e. democrat) its no wonder chris mathews and crowd are hysterical about finally winning an election....G.W. is laughing every day at these clowns on msnbc along with millions of other patriots.....i wonder what kind of suicide he will use in 2010 .....i can hardly wait......
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liberals have more fun
3:19AM 3:19AM Feb 27th 2009
we were all thinking it anyway. he's well within his rights of saying it out loud :]
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Carolyn Krivit
11:14PM 11:14PM Feb 27th 2009
thats right......we were all saying it Matthews was just faster
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CK
12:01PM 12:01PM Mar 1st 2009
I said the same thing. I thought the whole set up was ridiculous. This was not the Jindal you normally see. That is what happens when you let the conservatives try and mold you into the faux personality they want you to be. Pathetic. As for Matthews - I agree - he said it a nano second before I uttered the same words.
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BELLCORD
4:00AM 4:00AM Feb 27th 2009
'BOUT 5 MINUTES INTO JINDAL'S ROUTINE MOST OF AMERICA WAS SAYING "OH, GAWD"...'
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Theresa
7:06AM 7:06AM Feb 27th 2009
I absolutely believe that MSNBC is the most liberal news hannel. I think CNN clearly leans that way as well. On the flip side, Fox is the conservative channel;but interestingly, while Fox's ratings have gone up, CNN and MSNBC have seen their's drop dramatically.
I used to laugh at the fact that Fox calls itself the "fair and balanced" channel, but, while they clearly lean to the right, it does seem that since the primaries last year they are more "fair and balanced" than the others.
On another note too...people seem to have forgotten that Jindal, being the governor of Louisiana, gave his speech from the Governor's Mansion, not his personal residence.
Mathews, in my opinion at least, made himself look worse by intimating more than was the reality there. Did he forget the stage setup that Obama built for himself at the Convention? Or how about the "Office of the President Elect" with a seal and everything that he created for himself? These guys, liberal, or conservative, all need to remember that both sides do this stuff, and that people on both sides watch the news channels.
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tynetyne38
7:45AM 7:45AM Feb 27th 2009
Chris Matthews probably wasn't saying anything about Jindal, he most probably had an orgasm after hearing Obama speak. The thrill up his leg surely didn't stop with Bamies election.
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mcl449
5:21PM 5:21PM Feb 27th 2009
I sure had one after Obama spoke.
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gojo
9:58AM 9:58AM Feb 27th 2009
Sports commentators aren't as opinionated as these "news commentator" shmucks. Even John Madden gives a good and fair assessment of a given situation. Could you imagine a sports commentator calling another team a bunch of whining blowhards? Doesn't the news media know that what they are doing is creating a hatefull atmosphere among its own citizens in order to just sell more Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo? You have turned the news into a biased reality tv show. You are all just a big joke. The only reporting I can stand to watch anymore is Brian Williams.
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BonBon
10:51AM 10:51AM Feb 27th 2009
anyone defending Matthews would have to be an idiot, everyone knows what he was doing and he is tabloid, he is not a journalist, he probably was having some kind of orgasm after Obamas speech....he is so weird, that is why MSNBC is like 25th in ratings, no one wants to hear his drivel any longer
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mahalapril
11:14AM 11:14AM Feb 27th 2009
Michelle Obama is ugly.
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mcl449
5:12PM 5:12PM Feb 27th 2009
You made this comment on another blog. Can't you come up with something new?
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mcl449
5:39PM 5:39PM Feb 27th 2009
You made this same comment on another blog. Can't you come up with something new? Furthermore, this does more to classify you as inferior than it does to damage anyone else. No matter what you say, Michelle is somebody you will never be - The First Lady of the United States of America.
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Pat
11:38AM 11:38AM Feb 27th 2009
Michelle Obama is ugly.
This is a useful comment. No wonder you guys get a bad name. Anyone who thinks Fox is fair is not listening. MSNC also has its basis. I think that Rachel is one smart person. I find outside of Oberman most are not yellers. They have different views. They don't invite folks on their programs to discredit them or yell over them. MSNBC and CNN ratings are holding their own in their news slots. Some folks here are manufacturing their own views. Let us remember the real journalist are gone from our TV sets. Most all on all channels are talking heads. They live and die by the news cycle. Truth is often the victim on both sides.
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Pat
12:09PM 12:09PM Feb 27th 2009
That is kinda mean but typical . Racism I hope is finally dying in this country. I am white but I am so so tired of this kind of small mindedness that goes on every day still in this country. The color of the world is changing. The white anglo saxon male is on his way out as predominant race and culture. I know this makes many angry in this country but those are the facts.
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