Veteran MSNBC host Chris Matthews resigned last week following allegations that he inappropriately flirted with women who appeared on his show and several high-profile, on-air blunders.
On Friday night, “Real Time” host Bill Maher defended the fallen anchor, calling the former host “a friend of mine.” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bill-maher-defends-chris-matthews-after-msnbc-departure-married-guys-want-to-flirt-for-2-seconds.amp">reported</a> that Maher opened his program with a monologue about Matthews.
&#8220;A friend of mine lost his job this week &#8212; Chris Matthews,&#8221; said. &#8220;Wanted to give him a shoutout because I will miss him and a lot of other people will too. &#8230; MSNBC used to run this thing, &#8216;This is who we are.&#8217; Well, I didn&#8217;t like who you were this week and I don&#8217;t think a lot of people who work there like this either and I think this cancel culture is a cancer on progressivism.&#8221;
Maher went on to list the “horrible things” that Matthews did wrong prior to his abrupt retirement, including his comparison of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) win in Nevada to Adolf Hitler taking over France and confusing Republican Sen. Tim Scott (SC) for the Democratic candidate looking to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jaime Harrison. In addition to claims that he traumatized women by complimenting their looks, Matthews was also accused of being too harsh on female Democratic candidates like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), even though he was hard on a lot of candidates, especially Sanders.
&#8220;I got fired for doing what I do on a show called &#8216;Politically Incorrect.&#8217; This show is called &#8216;Hardball&#8217;!&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;This sounds like every question Chris has asked. And I hated to be interviewed by Chris because he&#8217;d ask you a question, you&#8217;d start to answer, and he&#8217;d keep talking because he had so many thoughts. I&#8217;d like to have some more people on TV with thoughts. A lot of other people couldn&#8217;t interrupt themselves because they don&#8217;t have a thought that the producer isn&#8217;t putting in their ear!&#8221;
Maher then said Matthews did make “kind of creepy remarks” to women, but defended the former MSNBC host by saying “Guys are married for a million years … want to flirt for two seconds.”
Maher then poked fun at GQ writer Laura Bassett who claimed Matthews’ compliments about her looks “undermined my ability to do my job well.” Maher played on Bassett’s newfound “victim” status, since she tried to paint herself as a victim of sexual harassment due to Matthews’ comments.
&#8220;Thank you, Rosa Parks,&#8221; Maher said, sarcastically. &#8220;I guess my question is, &#8216;Do you understand why Democrats lose?&#8230; Is she a compliment victim or a compliment survivor?&#8221;
Matthews said goodbye to viewers on last Monday’s episode of “Hardball,” which he had hosted for 20 years.
&#8220;Let me start with my headline tonight: I&#8217;m retiring. This is the last &#8216;Hardball&#8217; on MSNBC,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;And obviously, this isn&#8217;t for the lack of interest in politics. As you can tell, I loved every minute of my 20 years as host of &#8216;Hardball.&#8217; Every morning I read the papers and I&#8217;m gung-ho to get to work. Not many people have had this privilege. I loved working with my producers and our discussions we&#8217;d have on how we report the news. And I love having this connection with you, the people who watch.&#8221;
&#8220;After conversations with NBC, I decided tonight will be my last &#8216;Hardball.&#8217; So let me tell you why. The younger generations out there are ready to take the reins. We see them in politics, in the media, and fighting for their causes,&#8221; he continued.

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Bill Maher Defends Chris Matthews: Married Guys ‘Want To Flirt For 2 Seconds’

Chris Matthews

Earlier this week, MSNBC host Chris Matthews resigned following a week of bad publicity, including claims of sexual harassment and his comparison of presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) win in Nevada to Adolf Hitler taking over France.
On Monday, Matthews left the network. GQ, the magazine that published an article by columnist Laura Bassett that claimed Matthews sexually harassed her by giving her compliments before her appearances, took a victory lap. The outlet posted an update to Bassett’s article stating that “On March 3rd, three days after this story was published, Chris Matthews retired from MSNBC on air.”
But Kyle Smith, writing at <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/the-real-reason-chris-matthews-was-fired-from-msnbc/amp/">The New York Post</a>, suggests Matthews wasn’t fired over the claims in the GQ article, but because he did his job by posing tough questions to Democrats running for the party presidential nomination. Smith wrote that Matthews’ job was to “represent the non-crazy, ‘No Kool-Aid for me, thanks’ Left on television, while being entertaining and pointed and wacky.” Yet the GQ article, Smith wrote, “artfully weaved” two different types of complaints against Matthews – that he complimented women and he was tough on two female presidential candidates – to claim he was a sexist:
<blockquote>One complaint was that Matthews <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/02/28/chris-matthews-accused-of-inappropriately-flirting-with-female-guest/?_ga=2.225706393.2029211440.1583173800-2047514065.1564425125">would compliment women’s looks</a>. He said of Sarah Palin that there was “something electric” and “very attractive” about her. He told Erin Burnett, “You’re a knockout.” All true. He made a couple of mild compliments to Bassett: “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” True, men shouldn’t talk this way around the office, and few guys under 50 have failed to get the message that this kind of thing makes (some) women uncomfortable. But Matthews is 70. Old guys flirt with young women as a way of telling themselves they’re still in the game. Young women used to be more forgiving, to recognize the pathos underlying the impulse and shrug it off. Now they exaggerate their emotional reaction, pretend that they’re “shaken” or “couldn’t breathe.” Bassett writes that a couple of flirty comments from Matthews “undermined my ability to do my job well.” That’s hard to believe.</blockquote>
In the age of #MeToo and “believe all women,” allegations like the ones Bassett made against Matthews have become routine. Women are now equating a man complimenting them, even in a weird way, with sexual harassment and acting as if they are the victim of some horrible event. It detracts from real victims of sexual harassment and assault.
Smith asked why “women pretend to be undone by a stray compliment?” and suggested Bassett’s real motive was that she didn’t like the way Matthews questioned Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren.
“Bassett is utterly blatant about her real motive: She wanted Matthews fired for the way he interviewed Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. She thinks Matthews damaged her political favorites, thinking (probably correctly) that when a prominent Democrat criticizes such candidates, he signals other moderate Democrats and centrists that it’s okay to vote for someone else,” Smith wrote.
Smith argued that Bassett was selective in her criticism, as Matthews has been antagonistic toward many male politicians as well. The Sanders-Hitler comparison was just one such example. Matthews, however, made his living off of “hysterical analogies” to drive viewership to his program, “Hardball.”

Writer Suggests Chris Matthews Was Fired For Being Tough On Democrat Candidates, Not Sexism

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Sexual Harassment

Chris Matthews abruptly announced his retirement on Monday night during his show &#8220;Hardball&#8221; on MSNBC. Then, he was gone.
&#8220;I’m retiring. This is the last &#8216;Hardball&#8217; on MSNBC, and obviously this isn&#8217;t for lack of interest in politics,&#8221; said Matthews, 74. &#8220;As you can tell, I&#8217;ve loved every minute of my 20 years as host of &#8216;Hardball.&#8217; Every morning, I read the papers and I&#8217;m gung-ho to get to work. Not many people have had this privilege.&#8221;
In his defense, Matthews said: &#8220;A lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other. Compliments on a woman’s appearance, that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay. Not then and certainly not today.&#8221;
The network went to commercial, and when they came back, Matthews had disappeared. POOF.
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> veteran &quot;Hardball&quot; anchor Chris Matthews abruptly resigned from the network tonight, leaving his colleagues shocked after he announced his resignation and did not return after the commercial break. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BreakingNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BreakingNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChrisMatthews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChrisMatthews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hardball</a> <a href="https://t.co/tNz93vHLqe">pic.twitter.com/tNz93vHLqe</a>
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The surprise announcement came just three days after the longtime anchor was accused of sexual harassment by GQ columnist Laura Bassett.
In a <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience">GQ </a><a href="https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience">piece</a> Friday headlined, &#8220;Like Warren, I Had My Own Sexist Run-In with Chris Matthews,&#8221; Bassett claimed Matthews had used sexist language several times when she appeared on his show as a guest.
Basset wrote that Matthews had sexually harassed her in 2016, saying, &#8220;Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?&#8221; while she was getting her makeup done for an appearance,
<blockquote>The number of on-air incidents is long, exhausting, and creepy, including commenting to Erin Burnett, for example, “You’re a knockout&#8230; it’s all right getting bad news from you,” while telling her to move closer to the camera. Behind the scenes, one of Matthews’s former producers told The Daily Caller in 2017 that he allegedly rated his female guests on a numerical scale and would name a “hottest of the week,” like a “teenage boy.” In 1999, an assistant producer accused Matthews of sexual harassment, which CNBC, the show&#8217;s network at the time, investigated. They concluded that the comments were &#8220;inappropriate,&#8221; and Matthews received a “stern reprimand,” according to an MSNBC spokesperson.
This tendency to objectify women in his orbit has bled into his treatment of female politicians and candidates. He has repeatedly lusted over women in politics on air, including remarking in 2011 that there’s “something electric” and “very attractive” about the way former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin walks and moves, and noting in 2017 that acting attorney general Sally Yates is “attractive, obviously.” But he has reserved a particular contempt for the woman who made it closest to ascending the heights of American political power, Hillary Clinton, calling her “witchy,” “anti-male,” and “She-Devil.”</blockquote>
Not surprisingly, liberals came out of the woodwork to defend Matthews (so much for the #MeToo movement). And not one of them said, &#8220;I believe her.&#8221;
&#8220;Chris Matthews is a friend of mine. He and I have flirted unabashedly for 20 years. This is an atrocious end to a noble, happy-warrior career. I will continue to be his friend. Angry column to follow,&#8221; Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist at The Washington Post, wrote on Twitter.
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Chris Matthews is a friend of mine. He and I have flirted unabashedly for 20 years. This is an atrocious end to a noble, happy-warrior career. I will continue to be his friend. Angry column to follow. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChrisMatthews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChrisMatthews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoCryingInBaseball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoCryingInBaseball</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hardball</a>
&mdash; kathleenparker (@kathleenparker) <a href="https://twitter.com/kathleenparker/status/1234633204482613248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; with Mika Brzezinski, also got Matthews&#8217; back.
&#8220;Mika and I were deeply moved by @SteveKornacki’s tribute to Chris Matthews. Actually, we are wiping tears from our eyes. We love Chris and will miss him every night in our home at 7pm. As Steve said, Chris was the most human TV guy and &#8216;I say that as the highest compliment,'&#8221; he wrote.
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Mika and I were deeply moved by <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKornacki?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SteveKornacki</a>’s tribute to Chris Matthews. Actually, we are wiping tears from our eyes. We love Chris and will miss him every night in our home at 7pm. As Steve said, Chris was the most human TV guy and “I say that as the highest compliment.” <a href="https://t.co/M7uGj61kAB">pic.twitter.com/M7uGj61kAB</a>
&mdash; Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1234647388117196801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Mike Barnicle, a journalist and regular guest on MSNBC shows, said: &#8220;Chris Matthews resigned from MSNBC tonight. He is an honest, honorable, kind and compassionate human being and we wish him only the best in his career which is far from over.&#8221;
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Chris Matthews resigned from MSNBC tonight. He is an honest, honorable, kind and compassionate human being and we wish him only the best in his career which is far from over.
&mdash; Mike Barnicle (@mikebarnicle) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikebarnicle/status/1234655266920071174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Robby Soave, senior editor at Reason magazine, said: &#8220;A question: Why does Christ Matthews have to retire, but Joy Reid can get away with lying about her past homophobia and getting hacking? She&#8217;s woke, he&#8217;s not, is that the difference?&#8221;
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A question: Why does Christ Matthews have to retire, but Joy Reid can get away with lying about her past homophobia and getting hacking? She&#39;s woke, he&#39;s not, is that the difference? <a href="https://t.co/VYMoTTjbie">https://t.co/VYMoTTjbie</a>
&mdash; Robby Soave (@robbysoave) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1234666941475778560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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For her part, Bassett, the author of the GQ story, wrote: &#8220;All I gotta say is&#8230; it’s about time.&#8221;
Then she added: &#8220;No, I have more to say than that. Since calling out Chris Matthews, this week has been really rough. The harassment has been invasive, cruel and personal. And it’s all worth it if he will never have the platform to demean and objectify us again.&#8221;
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No, I have more to say than that. Since calling out Chris Matthews, this week has been really rough. The harassment has been invasive, cruel and personal. And it’s all worth it if he will never have the platform to demean and objectify us again. <a href="https://t.co/YS1FxW25zt">https://t.co/YS1FxW25zt</a>
&mdash; Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) <a href="https://twitter.com/LEBassett/status/1234632845911560197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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DON’T BELIEVE HER: Liberals Race To Defend MSNBC’s Chris Matthews

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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews announced on Monday that he was retiring effective immediately following controversy surrounding recent remarks that he had made on air.
&#8220;Let me start with my headline tonight. I&#8217;m retiring,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;This is the last &#8216;Hardball&#8217; on MSNBC, and obviously this isn&#8217;t for lack of interest in politics. As you can tell I have loved every minute of my 20 years as host as &#8216;Hardball.&#8217; Every morning I read the papers and I&#8217;m gung ho to get to work. Many many people have had this privilege.&#8221;
&#8220;I love working with the producers and the discussions we have over how to report the news,&#8221; Matthew continued. &#8220;I love having the connection with you the good people who watch. I&#8217;ve learned who you are, bumping into you on the sidewalk or waiting in an airport and saying hello. You&#8217;re like me. I hear from your kids and grandchildren. My dad loves you, my grandmother loves you. We watched it till the end. &#8221;
&#8220;After conversation with NBC, I decided tonight will be my last &#8216;Hardball,'&#8221; Matthews continued. &#8220;So let me tell you why: The younger generations are ready to take the reigns. We see them in politics, the media, and fighting for their causes. &#8230; They grew up with better standards, fair standards. A lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other, compliments on a woman&#8217;s appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay. Certainly not today.&#8221;
&#8220;For making such comments in the past, I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; Matthews continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m very proud of the work I&#8217;ve done here. Long before I went on television, I worked for years in politics, was a newspaper columnist and author. I&#8217;m working on another book. I&#8217;ll continue to write and talk about politics and cheer on my producers and crew here in Washington and New York and my MSNBC colleagues. They will continue to produce great journalism in the years ahead. For those who have gotten in the habit of watching &#8216;Hardball&#8217; every night I hope you&#8217;re going to miss me because I&#8217;ll missing you.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Chris Matthews announces — on a Monday — he’s retiring and that today’s “Hardball” will be the last. 
&quot;After my conversation with NBC, I decided tonight will be my last Hardball. I’ll tell you why. The younger generations are ready to take the reigns.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Y3HV9Qy35l">pic.twitter.com/Y3HV9Qy35l</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1234631433072844801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Matthews&#8217; resignation comes after he received intense backlash over his criticisms of Bernie Sanders&#8217; socialism, mistaking a black Democrat for a black Republican, comparing Sanders&#8217; wins to Nazi Germany taking over France, and was accused of sexual harassment.
&#8220;But executives at MSNBC had been discussing a potential retirement plan for Mr. Matthews for months, according to two people familiar with internal network discussions,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/business/media/chris-matthews-resigns-steps-down-msnbc.html">reported</a>. &#8220;There was talk of shifting &#8216;Hardball&#8217; to a less prominent time of day, during MSNBC’s afternoon lineup.&#8221;
&#8220;Sources close to Matthews bill this as mutual decision&#8230;which it is on paper,&#8221; Journalist Yashar Ali tweeted late on Monday night following Matthews&#8217; announcement. &#8220;But he was told it was time to move on by NBC News management They didn’t want to deal with his inappropriate/offensive comments, gaffes, &amp; more stories about his past conduct during election year.&#8221;
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5. Sources close to Matthews bill this as mutual decision&#8230;which it is on paper. But he was told it was time to move on by NBC News management
They didn’t want to deal with his inappropriate/offensive comments, gaffes, &amp; more stories about his past conduct during election year
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1234648238285701121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This report has been updated to include additional information.

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BREAKING: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Announces Retirement During TV Segment

Chris Matthews was noticeably missing from MSNBC&#8217;s coverage of the South Carolina primary on Saturday, just a day after the longtime anchor of &#8220;Fastball&#8221; was accused of “sexist” behavior by a former network contributor.
Matthews is a regular on every election night, offering his high octane take on the goings on.  That made his absence Saturday night all the more glaring.
In a <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience">GQ </a><a href="https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience">piece</a> Friday headlined, &#8220;Like Warren, I Had My Own Sexist Run-In with Chris Matthews,&#8221; journalist Laura Bassett claimed that Matthews had used sexist language several times when she appeared on his show as a guest.
Matthews had pressed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) after the Democrats&#8217; latest debate on Tuesday about why she harangued former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg over accusations of sexist behavior in his past, including a charge that he once told a pregnant employee to “kill it.”
“Why would he lie?” Matthews said of Bloomberg’s denial. “Because just to protect himself?”
&#8220;You believe he&#8217;s lying,&#8221; Matthews told Warren. When Warren said she believed the woman, Matthews asked why Bloomberg would lie.
Warren responded: &#8220;Yeah, and why would she lie? I mean, that&#8217;s the question, Chris.&#8221;
Basset wrote that Matthews had sexually harassed her in 2016, saying, “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” while she was getting her makeup done for an appearance,
<blockquote>The number of on-air incidents is long, exhausting, and creepy, including commenting to Erin Burnett, for example, “You’re a knockout&#8230; it’s all right getting bad news from you,” while telling her to move closer to the camera. Behind the scenes, one of Matthews’s former producers told The Daily Caller in 2017 that he allegedly rated his female guests on a numerical scale and would name a “hottest of the week,” like a “teenage boy.” In 1999, an assistant producer accused Matthews of sexual harassment, which CNBC, the show&#8217;s network at the time, investigated. They concluded that the comments were &#8220;inappropriate,&#8221; and Matthews received a “stern reprimand,” according to an MSNBC spokesperson.
This tendency to objectify women in his orbit has bled into his treatment of female politicians and candidates. He has repeatedly lusted over women in politics on air, including remarking in 2011 that there’s “something electric” and “very attractive” about the way former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin walks and moves, and noting in 2017 that acting attorney general Sally Yates is “attractive, obviously.” But he has reserved a particular contempt for the woman who made it closest to ascending the heights of American political power, Hillary Clinton, calling her “witchy,” “anti-male,” and “She-Devil.”
The Cut obtained footage of him joking in early 2016, just before a live interview with then candidate Clinton, “where’s that Bill Cosby pill,” referring to the date-rape drug. In 2005, he openly wondered whether the troops would “take the orders” from a female president; after another interview, he pinched Clinton’s cheek; and in another, he suggested that she had only had so much political success because her husband had “messed around.” This evening anchor, in addition to everything else, has repeatedly challenged whether women are legitimate politicians or could be president at all. &#8220;I was thinking how hard it is for a woman to take on a job that&#8217;s always been held by men,&#8221; he said of Clinton in 2006.</blockquote>
Matthews&#8217; disappearing act comes as MSNBC faces calls from a feminist organization to fire the anchor over the sexism and sexual misconduct allegations.
“MSNBC needs to fire Chris Matthews. Today,” UltraViolet President Shaunna Thomas said in a statement, which she posted on <a href="https://twitter.com/SLThomas/status/1232684310974603264" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a>. &#8220;Matthews’ refusal to believe women, and history of sexual harassment, make it clear that he is not fit to continue to cover this election. MSNBC can and must do better, and they can start by firing Chris Matthews.”
Matthews has had a bad run lately. He was blasted after he said Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) decisive victory in Nevada last weekend was like the Nazi invasion of France during World War II. He later apologized for the remark.
On Friday, Matthews mistook South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison for another black politician, Tim Scott (R-SC), <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chris-matthews-absent-from-msnbcs-primary-coverage-after-sexism-allegations-on-air-slip-up">Fox News</a> reported.
<blockquote>&#8220;Jaime, I see you standing next to the guy you&#8217;re going to beat right there, maybe,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Maybe? Maybe, maybe? Lindsey Graham?&#8221;
Soon Matthews realized his error and apologized to Harrison.
&#8220;What am I saying? Big mistake. Mistaken identity, sir. Sorry,&#8221; Matthews said.
Harrison appeared to roll his eyes and looked shocked, but kept a smile on his face and answered Matthews&#8217; question.</blockquote>

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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Disappears After Allegations Of Sexism

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Had a Fox News host done this, he or she would instantly have been called a racist, but because MSNBC host Chris Matthews is a liberal, he will get a complete pass from the left-leaning media.
Jaime Harrison is a Democrat running to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). On Friday night he appeared on MSNBC to discuss his candidacy with Matthews, but when the network showed a video of Graham attending a Trump campaign rally in the state, the host confused Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) for Harrison.
“Jaime, I see you standing next to the guy you’re going to beat right there maybe, maybe, Lindsey Graham,” Matthews said.
The camera then shows Matthews and Harrison, who appears a little perplexed by the mistake, though he maintains a smile throughout Matthews’ blunder.
After Matthews makes the mistake, two people off camera tell him that the man next to Graham is actually “Tim Scott.” Matthews appears to be in a loud room, as he doesn’t seem to hear what everyone is telling him.
“Who’s that? I’m sorry,” he says as he struggles to hear his producer correct him. “Oh! It’s the other senator. What am I saying? Big mistake. Mistaken identity there, sorry.”
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Chris Matthews confused <a href="https://twitter.com/harrisonjaime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@harrisonjaime</a>, who is a black Democrat running against Lindsey Graham, for Tim Scott, the black Republican US Senator from South Carolina
This is very awkward <a href="https://t.co/kMFITMjU4A">pic.twitter.com/kMFITMjU4A</a>
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1233560953431547905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Journalist Yashar Ali, who posted the clip of Matthews mistaking a Black Democrat for a Black Republican, had previously posted Friday night that, “The question none of my sources at NBC and MSNBC can answer&#8230;what value does Chris Matthews bring to the network?”
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The question none of my sources at NBC and MSNBC can answer&#8230;what value does Chris Matthews bring to the network?
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1233524091321110528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Just last week, Matthews found himself embroiled in controversy when he compared Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) win in the Nevada caucus to Adolf Hitler taking over France. As The Daily Wire’s Paul Bois <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-matthews-faces-rebuke-calls-for-resignation-after-comparing-sanders-win-to-nazi-invasion">reported</a>, some on social media, including Sanders’ communication director Mike Casca, began calling for Matthews to resign.
“Never thought part of my job would be pleading with a national news network to stop likening the campaign of a Jewish presidential candidate whose family was wiped out by the Nazis to the Third Reich,” Casca tweeted.
Investigative reporter Alex Kotch joined in, saying he was “dead serious” about being “really, really insulted by a major pundit on an allegedly liberal news network comparing a Jewish candidate&#8217;s overwhelming caucus victory to the French losing a battle with the Nazis.”
“Get this lunatic off the air,” Kotch added.
Matthews has made no secret of his disdain for Sanders, and began the segment simple enough.
“It looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat right now,” Matthews said. “I’m with [James] Carville all the way in terms of the dangers of what lurks, what lies ahead in November. I’m very much aware that they’re sitting on so much oppo research on Bernie, what he said in the past about world affairs, how far-left he is … they are going to make the most of that in terms of world politics. They’re going to kill him.”
But it was what he said next that sent even liberals into a frenzy.
“I was reading last night, Brian [Williams], I know you’re a history guy too, I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940, and the general, Renault, calls up Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says ‘How can it be? You’ve got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over,’” Matthews said. “So I have that suppressed feeling. I can’t be as wild as Carville, but he is damn smart, and I think he’s damn right on this one.”

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After taking a beating on social media as activists called for his resignation or firing, MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews apologized on Monday for comparing Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) Nevada caucus victory to the Nazi invasion of France.
“As I watched the one-sided results of Saturday&#8217;s Democratic caucus in Nevada, I reached for a historic analogy and used a bad one,” Matthews said on MSNBC, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/484435-chris-matthews-apologizes-to-sanders-for-comparing-victory-to-nazi-invasion">The Hill</a>. “I was wrong to refer to an event from the last days, or actually the first days, of World War II.”
Matthews then apologized to Bernie Sanders, a Jew, for comparing his &#8220;well-deserved&#8221; victory to Nazi power.
&#8220;I’m sorry for comparing anything from that tragic era in which so many suffered, especially the Jewish people, to an electorate result in which you were the well-deserved winner,&#8221; he said, adding that he will “strive to do a better job myself” as the primary election unfolds.
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Chris Matthews apologizes to Bernie Sanders and his supporters for comparing Bernies NV win to Nazis taking France in WWII <a href="https://t.co/gMq9mnq30i">pic.twitter.com/gMq9mnq30i</a>
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On Saturday, as Sanders&#8217; victory in Nevada appeared imminent, Matthews joined establishment Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-matthews-faces-rebuke-calls-for-resignation-after-comparing-sanders-win-to-nazi-invasion">in a collective panic</a> over the possibility that an avowed socialist could win the party&#8217;s nomination.
“It looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat right now,” Matthews said. “I’m with Carville all the way in terms of the dangers of what lurks, what lies ahead in November. I’m very much aware that they’re sitting on so much oppo research on Bernie, what he said in the past about world affairs, how far-left he is … they are going to make the most of that in terms of world politics. They’re going to kill him.”
He continued, “I was reading last night, Brian, I know you’re a history guy too, I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940, and the general, Renault, calls up Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says ‘How can it be? You’ve got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over.’ So I have that suppressed feeling. I can’t be as wild as Carville, but he is damn smart, and I think he’s damn right on this one.”
As the weekend unfolded, Matthews faced a scolding on social media as several hardcore Sanders&#8217; supporters called for his firing.
Of course, Matthews was hardly alone in his fear about a Sanders victory; none other than former Obama National Finance Committee Member Don Peebles said that he would have a difficult time voting for a socialist in the primary.
“There’s no way I could vote for Bernie Sanders as a socialist,” Peebles said Sunday. “I believe things need to be shaken up, and voters on the Republican side as well thought they did, and that’s how Trump got the nomination, and that’s why he’s president. I think these centrist Democrats need to articulate a much more aggressive vision to moving the nation forward and bringing everybody else into the prosperity that we’re seeing right now.”
Former Clinton adviser James Carville referred to the rise of Bernie Sanders as “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-carville-explodes-over-bernie-sanderss-nevada-win-political-suicide-putin-is-ecstatic">political suicide</a>.”
“The happiest person right now is Vladimir Putin,” Carville said on Saturday. “I don’t think Sanders wants Putin to help. I think they don’t like this story. But the story is a fact. This thing is going very well for Vladimir Putin. I promise you. He’s probably staying up watching this right now. How you doing, Vlad?”

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WATCH: Chris Matthews Apologizes For Comparing Bernie Sanders Nevada Victory To Nazi Invasion

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It&#8217;s no secret that MSNBC host Chris Matthews fears what Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) could do to the Democratic Party if he receives the nomination, but he may have crossed the line this past weekend when comparing the socialist&#8217;s win in Nevada to Adolf Hitler taking over France.
&#8220;It looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat right now,” Matthews said. “I’m with Carville all the way in terms of the dangers of what lurks, what lies ahead in November. I’m very much aware that they’re sitting on so much oppo research on Bernie, what he said in the past about world affairs, how far-left he is … they are going to make the most of that in terms of world politics. They’re going to kill him.”
He continued, “I was reading last night, Brian, I know you’re a history guy too, I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940, and the general, Renault, calls up Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says ‘How can it be? You’ve got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over.’ So I have that suppressed feeling. I can’t be as wild as Carville, but he is damn smart, and I think he’s damn right on this one.”
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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews likens Sanders victory in Nevada to Nazi Germany overrunning France in 1940: “It’s too late to stop him … it’s over” <a href="https://t.co/6GJetLoDkq">pic.twitter.com/6GJetLoDkq</a>
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According to<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/484237-chris-matthews-faces-calls-for-resignation-after-comparing-sanders-victory-to"> The Hill</a>, as the weekend unfolded, social media erupted with calls for Matthews&#8217; resignation, including from Bernie Sanders&#8217; communications director Mike Casca. People were especially incensed that Matthews would mention Sanders and Nazis in the same breath considering that Sanders is Jewish.
&#8220;Never thought part of my job would be pleading with a national news network to stop likening the campaign of a Jewish presidential candidate whose family was wiped out by the Nazis to the Third Reich,&#8221; tweeted Casca.
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never thought part of my job would be pleading with a national news network to stop likening the campaign of a jewish presidential candidate whose family was wiped out by the nazis to the third reich.
but here we are. <a href="https://t.co/2G1bqZ6bkI">https://t.co/2G1bqZ6bkI</a>
&mdash; mike casca (@cascamike) <a href="https://twitter.com/cascamike/status/1231351029616316416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;For once, I&#8217;m not being sarcastic here. I&#8217;m dead serious. I&#8217;m really, really insulted by a major pundit on an allegedly liberal news network comparing a Jewish candidate&#8217;s overwhelming caucus victory to the French losing a battle with the Nazis. Get this lunatic off the air,&#8221; tweeted reporter Alex Kotch.
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For once, I&#39;m not being sarcastic here. I&#39;m dead serious. 
I&#39;m really, really insulted by a major pundit on an allegedly liberal news network comparing a Jewish candidate&#39;s overwhelming caucus victory to the French losing a battle with the Nazis.
Get this lunatic off the air. <a href="https://t.co/HZXWl3ceS7">https://t.co/HZXWl3ceS7</a>
&mdash; Alex Kotch (@alexkotch) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/1231354290360475648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Chris Mathews has been generous to me on a number of occasions, even blurbing my book. However, his constant references to political violence and today Nazism to describe Bernie Sanders campaign is beyond the pale. [Matthews] must resign or be fired from MSNBC,&#8221; tweeted filmmaker Arun Chaudhary.
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Chris Mathews has been generous to me on a number of occasions, even blurbing my book. However, his constant references to political violence and today Nazism to describe Bernie Sanders campaign is beyond the pale. <a href="https://twitter.com/HardballChris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HardballChris</a> must resign or be fired from <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>.
&mdash; Arun Chaudhary (@ArunChaud) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArunChaud/status/1231359106088304640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Probably true but there are a million other ways he could have made his point that don’t involve the holocaust,&#8221; tweeted Yashar Ali.
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Probably true but there are a million other ways he could have made his point that don’t involve the holocaust <a href="https://t.co/14fFnuPBnt">https://t.co/14fFnuPBnt</a>
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“[Chris Matthews] just compared Bernie Sanders and his movement to Hitler and the Nazis on national television.  Sanders, who is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust, is on track to be the nation&#8217;s first Jewish president. Enough with this. Matthews should not be on the air,&#8221; tweeted journalist Walker Bragman.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/HardballChris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HardballChris</a> just compared Bernie Sanders and his movement to Hitler and the Nazis on national television. 
Sanders, who is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust, is on track to be the nation&#39;s first Jewish president. 
Enough with this. Matthews should not be on the air. <a href="https://t.co/TBC9bOmdfa">https://t.co/TBC9bOmdfa</a>
&mdash; Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1231355581799260160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday, MSNBC political analyst Anand Giridharadas <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/02/24/chris-matthews-rebuked-by-msnbc-colleague-for-comparing-sanders-win-to-nazi-invasion/">openly rebuked</a> Matthews on the air.
&#8220;Why is Chris Matthews on this air talking about the victory [of] Bernie Sanders, who had kin murdered in the Holocaust, analogizing it to the Nazi conquest of France?&#8221; Giridharadas asked. &#8220;People stuck in an old way of thinking, in 20th-century thinking, are missing what is going on. It is time for all of us to step up, rethink the dawn of what may be, frankly, a new era in American life.&#8221;
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Chris Matthews Faces Rebuke, Calls For Resignation After Comparing Sanders Win To Nazi Invasion

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MSNBC host Chris Matthews fumed over Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) performance in the Nevada Caucuses on Saturday, comparing his apparent inevitable victory to Nazi Germany taking over France during World War II.
&#8220;It looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat right now,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;I’m with Carville all the way in terms of the dangers of what lurks, what lies ahead in November. I&#8217;m very much aware that they&#8217;re sitting on so much oppo research on Bernie, what he said in the past about world affairs, how far-left he is &#8230; they are going to make the most of that in terms of world politics. They&#8217;re going to kill him.&#8221;
Matthews continued, &#8220;I was reading last night, Brian, I know you&#8217;re a history guy too, I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940, and the general, Renault, calls up Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says ‘How can it be? You’ve got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over.&#8217; So I have that suppressed feeling. I can&#8217;t be as wild as Carville, but he is damn smart, and I think he&#8217;s damn right on this one.&#8221;
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>WILLIAMS: What is going on here and is this any way to pick a nominee?
MATTHEWS: Well, I don&#8217;t think so, but it is the way we are picking this one and it looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat right now. I&#8217;m with Carville all the way in terms of the dangers of what lurks, what lies ahead in November. I&#8217;m very much aware that they&#8217;re sitting on so much oppo research on Bernie, what he said in the past about world affairs, how far-left he is &#8230; they are going to make the most of that in terms of world politics. They&#8217;re going to kill him.
I think it&#8217;s a little late to stop him and I think that&#8217;s the problem. By the way, if you look at the pattern, its dynamic, Bernie won the popular vote in Iowa, he won it again in New Hampshire, it looks like he&#8217;s going to win it here when they finally get a vote [in].
Bernie&#8217;s been winning consistently and I think it&#8217;s mathematically understandable. Every time we poll, every time Steve and everybody polls, two-thirds of the Democratic vote, two-thirds of people who call themselves Democrats, are either liberal or very liberal. All Bernie ever had to do, and he&#8217;s done it beautifully, is get a majority of that and he&#8217;s up to the mid-thirties. If you get half of sixty-seven, you&#8217;re into the mid-thirties and that&#8217;s where he&#8217;s gotten and a little better.
Biden, his only prayer, was the consolidate the third of the vote that&#8217;s moderate and conservative and he got no where near clearing that field, no where near, that&#8217;s split up four ways now. And so with new people coming in, Deval Patrick came in, he didn&#8217;t make it; Bloomberg is in and he&#8217;s probably going to survive a bit longer because of his money, but that field wasn&#8217;t clear. The only way Biden could win in that one-third of the vote that&#8217;s either moderate or conservative is to sweep it, he got no where near. Bernie on the other hand, did his job, he got more than the majority, more than a majority of that sixty-seven percent. That is the name of the game, it is pretty much over, unless that changes.
I was reading last night, Brian, I know you&#8217;re a history guy too, I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940, and the general, Renault, calls up Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says ‘How can it be? You’ve got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over.&#8217;
So I have that suppressed feeling. I can&#8217;t be as wild as Carville, but he is damn smart and I think he&#8217;s damn right on this one.</blockquote>

WATCH: MSNBC’s Matthews Compares Rise Of Bernie To WWII ‘Fall Of France’ To Nazi Germany

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Leftist MSNBC host Chris Matthews said on Tuesday that if socialist Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic nomination for president that Democrats will lose 49 states to President Donald Trump.
While talking about how the other candidates are not attacking Sanders&#8217; ideology, Matthews said, &#8220;They&#8217;re just pandering to the Bernie people and you know what pandering gets you? Nothing. It certainly doesn&#8217;t get you respect.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;ve got to get out there and say I disagree with socialism; I believe in the markets; I think he&#8217;s wrong,&#8221; Matthew said. &#8220;I think you&#8217;ll never get it done and this country will never go that direction, by the way we&#8217;ll lose forty nine states.&#8221;
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Earlier in the interview, Matthews said, &#8220;I hope that the candidates who have been telegraphing their punches against Sanders, Senator Sanders, are actually going to deliver them. I mean I hope they actually do what they promised to do. Are they gonna go after him about the bad behavior of Bernie supporters or not? Is this how they do things in Denmark? I mean this is a preview of coming attractions, these people. He says he can&#8217;t control them but I think he&#8217;s going to be called to account by the other candidates because they seem to have a hesitancy or a fear of going after his ideology, going after his self declared socialism, or even about the do-ability of all the things he says he&#8217;s gonna do in a Congress that&#8217;s split right now.&#8221;
&#8220;Everybody knows half the US Senate&#8217;s run by Republicans, it&#8217;ll be half run by Republicans next time, and it takes 60 votes to get any of this stuff through and yet nobody just says the obvious, &#8216;Bernie you&#8217;re full of it,'&#8221; Matthews added. &#8220;None of this is going to get passed, you&#8217;re gonna be a miserable president frustrated for the first day because you&#8217;re not gonna get Medicare for all, you&#8217;re not gonna get free college tuition for public universities, you&#8217;re not gonna get [rid] of all student loans. None of this is gonna happen and you&#8217;re just gonna sit there and stew in it. So why don&#8217;t they bring that up? I do not understand why they don&#8217;t bring that up.&#8221;
Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbcs-chris-matthews-explodes-on-democrats-over-socialism-it-doesnt-frickin-work">Matthews went off on Sanders</a> because of Sanders&#8217; socialist ideology, saying in rant that &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t frickin work!&#8221;
“…the issue of this campaign, it is that word ‘socialism,&#8217;” Matthews said. “Some people like it, younger people like it, those of us like me, who grew up in the Cold War and saw some aspects of it, if they&#8217;re visiting places like Vietnam, like I have, [and seeing countries] like Cuba, being there, I’ve seen what socialism’s like, I don’t like it, OK?” Matthews said. “It’s not only not free, it doesn’t frickin work!”
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Chris Matthews laying it down.
Socialism is an issue in this campaign. 
He doesn’t like socialism and “it doesn’t frickin’ work!”
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“I think the Democratic Party has to figure out its ideology,” Matthews continued. “A lot us will be sorting things out if the Democratic Party runs a socialist candidate. That’s a change from the Democratic Party. The Democrat Party has been to the left of the Republican Party on the issue of mixed capitalism, more social programs, they push social security, Medicare, Medicaid, enormously popular programs.”
“I have my views on the word ‘socialist,’ and I’ll be glad to share them with you in private and they go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude about them, I remember the Cold War, I have an attitude toward Castro,” Matthews continued. “I believe if Castro and the reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed and certain other people would be there cheering, OK?”
“So I have a problem with people who took the other side,” Matthews continued. “I don’t know who Bernie supports over these years. I don’t know what he means by ‘socialism.’”
“One week, it’s Denmark, we’re going to be like Denmark,” Matthews said in a voice mocking Sanders. “Okay, that’s harmless. That’s basically a capitalist country with a lot of good social welfare programs. Denmark’s harmless.”
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Video: Watch Chris Matthews GO OFF like a boss (no, I&#39;m not joking) about the dangers of socialism re; Bernie, the pure evil of communism, the legitimate fears of a Red Scare in the Cold War, and how &quot;there would have been executions in Central Park&quot; if they won <a href="https://t.co/2XxmZbsJTc">pic.twitter.com/2XxmZbsJTc</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1226005638435745792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Chris Matthews: If Bernie Gets Democrat Nomination ‘We’ll Lose 49 States’ Against Trump

Left-wing MSNBC host Chris Matthews exploded on the Democratic presidential candidates following Friday night&#8217;s primary debate for embracing socialism, saying, &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t frickin work!&#8221;
&#8220;&#8230;the issue of this campaign, it is that word &#8216;socialism,'&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;Some people like it, younger people like it, those of us like me, who grew up in the Cold War and saw some aspects of it, if there visiting places like Vietnam, like I have, [and seeing countries] like Cuba, being there, I&#8217;ve seen what socialism&#8217;s like, I don&#8217;t like it, OK?&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not only not free, it doesn&#8217;t frickin work!&#8221;
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Chris Matthews laying it down.
Socialism is an issue in this campaign. 
He doesn’t like socialism and “it doesn’t frickin’ work!”
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&#8220;I think the Democratic Party has to figure out its ideology,&#8221; Matthews continued. &#8220;A lot us will be sorting things out if the Democratic Party runs a socialist candidate. That&#8217;s a change from the Democratic Party. The Democrat Party has been to the left of the Republican Party on the issue of mixed capitalism, more social programs, they push social security, Medicare, Medicaid, enormously popular programs.&#8221;
&#8220;I have my views on the word &#8216;socialist,&#8217; and I&#8217;ll be glad to share them with you in private and they go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude about them, I remember the Cold War, I have an attitude toward Castro,&#8221; Matthews contined. &#8220;I believe if Castro and the reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed and certain other people would be there cheering, OK?&#8221;
&#8220;So I have a problem with people who took the other side,&#8221; Matthews continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know who Bernie supports over these years. I don’t know what he means by ‘socialism.’”
“One week, it’s Denmark, we’re going to be like Denmark,” Matthews said in a voice mocking Sanders. “Okay, that’s harmless. That’s basically a capitalist country with a lot of good social welfare programs. Denmark’s harmless.”
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Video: Watch Chris Matthews GO OFF like a boss (no, I&#39;m not joking) about the dangers of socialism re; Bernie, the pure evil of communism, the legitimate fears of a Red Scare in the Cold War, and how &quot;there would have been executions in Central Park&quot; if they won <a href="https://t.co/2XxmZbsJTc">pic.twitter.com/2XxmZbsJTc</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1226005638435745792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>CHRIS MATTHEWS: She had guts to talk about the issue of this campaign. It is that word socialism. Some people like it. Younger people like it. Those of us like me who grew up — who grew up in the Cold War and saw some aspects of it after visiting places like Vietnam like I have, seeing countries like Cuba, being there, I&#8217;ve seen what socialism is like. I don’t like it. Okay? It&#8217;s not only not free. It doesn’t freaking work. [APPLAUSE] It just doesn’t work.
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CHRIS HAYES: I mean, his sorta response to the socialism question I basically like I don&#8217;t care what the guy says about me because he&#8217;s going to say ugly things about anyone. What do you think about it?
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Yeah, he — I&#8217;ve never heard actually him say this is how I&#8217;ll respond to that. He really just sort of says, as you say, basically I don&#8217;t care. He would be — if he’s the nominee — he&#8217;ll be the first socialist nominee anyone&#8217;s ever seen and so it’s a very difficult thing to predict —
HAYES: Exactly.
O’DONNELL: — how that will go. It’s coming at a point in the curve of the understanding of that word that really has never been better. This economy is filled with socialism. It&#8217;s filled with capitalism. Every economy in the world has a mix of capitalism and socialism and they vary. Sweden has more socialism than we do. North Korea has no capitalism. That’s the only place. Every other place is a mixed economy. Everybody knows that. I think everyone in this room knows that, so the word doesn&#8217;t scare people the way it did in the 1950s, 1960s and Bernie Sanders band is one of the beneficiaries and by the way, the guy who made that word less scary by embracing it and saying I — I personally am not afraid of it and so, the word is living in a different environment now and I can&#8217;t predict for you just how much of a liability that may or may not be.
MENENDEZ: I do wonder if it is going to be scary to Venezuelans and to Cubans —
HAYES: There are a lot of Floridians who are very wary of that, yeah.
MENENDEZ: — in Florida and to your point about unity, and about Sanders understanding how important it was to give that full throat call for unity, I also wondered if Pete Buttigieg does end up becoming the nominee, how, then, Sanders reconciled the attack he made tonight which is to say there are two sides. I&#8217;m on one, the mayor is on the other. Now he&#8217;s the nominee, how he then does a turnabout then to support him?
O’DONNELL: They do it every time.
HAYES: Right, that’s the other thing.
O’DONNELL: This state remembers the phrase voodoo economics.
HAYES: Yes, exactly.
O’DONNELL: The guy who accused his opponent of voodoo economics became that guy&#8217;s vice president, okay? So, there’s nothing you can&#8217;t take back when it gets to the general.
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MATTHEWS: But I think that the Democratic Party has to figure out its ideology. In Britain, we had a Liberal Party — or when I wasn’t growing up — beginning of the last century, they were over taken by the Socialist Party. Labour became the main threat, the main challenger to the Tories, Churchill went back to the Tories. We all know that — a lot of us know that history. A lot of us will be sorting things out if the Democratic Party runs a socialist candidate. That’s a change from the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party&#8217;s been the left of the Republican Party on — the issue of mixed capitalism, more social programs. They pushed Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, enormously popular programs. I think ACA — ObamaCare has also — had wished they follow through with it and make it work. I think most Americans would be happy to have a public option and have Medicare follow through with. But I don’t want to get in — you know, I&#8217;m on every night. I&#8217;ll let the Democrats figure this out. I — I have my own views of the word socialist and I’ll be glad to tell them — share them with you in private. When they go back to the early 1950s, I have attitude about them. I remember the Cold War. I have an attitude towards Castro. I believe if Castro and the — and the Reds had won the Cold War, there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have one of the ones getting executed and certain other people would be there cheering, okay? So, I have a problem with people who took the other side. I don&#8217;t know who Bernie supports over these years. I don’t know what he means by socialism. One week it&#8217;s Denmark. We’re going to be like Denmark. Okay, that’s harmless. That’s a soc — that’s basically a capitalist country with a lot of good social welfare programs. Denmark is harmless.
HAYES: He’s pretty clearly on the Demark category.
MATTHEWS: Is he?
HAYES: Yeah.
MATTHEWS: Are you sure? How do you know who — did he tell you that?
HAYES: Well, that’s what he says and what his agenda calls for, right? He’s not calling for — I mean —
MATTHEWS: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s see. Let&#8217;s figure that one out.
JOY REID: But we haven&#8217;t seen a campaign yet where video of him praising the other version, which is Castro, has been used.
HAYES: Right. Well, that’s —
REID: If it will be used. We haven’t seen how that plays out.
HAYES: — that’s a question of how — of how it tang — what the effect that has.
MATTHEWS: Well, what does he think of Castro? That’s a great question. What do you think of Castro? What do you think of Fidelismo? We all thought he was great when he burst — at first, I was cheering like mad for him when he first went in and then he became a communist and started shooting —
HAYES: Okay.
MATTHEWS: — every one of his enemies.
HAYES: Okay. Hold those —
MATTHEWS: So you got to make a —
HAYES: — hold those thoughts on the Cubans.
MATTHEWS: — those judgements. He’s old enough to think.
HAYES: Hold those thoughts on the Cuban revolution.</blockquote>

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Explodes On Democrats Over Socialism: ‘It Doesn’t Frickin Work!’

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Chris Matthews likened it to a &#8220;three car funeral,&#8221; Joe Scarborough called it a bad omen, and Jeffrey Toobin simply hailed it an embarrassment. No matter who one consults about Monday night&#8217;s Iowa Democratic Party caucuses, the opinions among Democrats and their allies are nearly universal: Trump won big.
Over at MSNBC, a noticeably disgusted Chris Matthews said President Trump was &#8220;chuckling all night&#8221; as the Democratic Party struggled to so much as organize a &#8220;three car funeral.&#8221;
&#8220;The guy in the White House is chuckling all night here, showing the Democrats can&#8217;t even get a three car funeral organized, or whatever you want to call it. I would say to the people of Iowa, &#8216;Will the last person leaving Des Moines, please turn out the lights?&#8217;  This has not been a success,&#8221; Matthews frustratingly declared, as reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/02/04/disgusted-matthews-mocks-three-car-funeral-iowa-preview-dem">Newsbusters</a>.
Matthews then tried to spin this gross display of incompetence on the part of the Democrats into the fault of the Iowa caucuses themselves, even though Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez was <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/1224475047974330369?s=20">literally boasting</a> hours before the election about the &#8220;reforms&#8221; the party had instituted to ensure a more transparent primary process.
&#8220;I think we have to ask ourselves about the viability of the Iowa caucuses as an institution to start off this decision this country has to make to find someone to challenge Trump,&#8221; continued Matthews.
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Chris Matthews on Iowa Caucuses: This has not been a success. <a href="https://t.co/tAmEUmfDXO">pic.twitter.com/tAmEUmfDXO</a>
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Joe Scarborough of &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; blasted the party for leaving the results of Monday night&#8217;s important election in the hands of a &#8220;crappy app&#8221; they did not even know would properly work.
&#8220;What is wrong with the Iowa Democratic Party?&#8221; Scarborough began on Tuesday morning. &#8220;Again, this is a party who botched the call four years ago, rushed it when the media was shocked that they would be so transparent, and now they get on the phone for 74 seconds? The world&#8217;s watching this. We&#8217;re not being melodramatic.&#8221;
&#8220;For a year and a half, American politics has been focused on this moment, and the Democratic Party has a crappy app and say, well, nothing happened to the app,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Then you hear reports something did happen to the app. Was there election interference? Did somebody try to hack into the app? Was it just pure incompetence? Did they lose the information? Why were they only on the phone for 74 seconds when they should be holding two-hour press conferences explaining to America and the world what happened.&#8221;
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&quot;The world&#39;s watching this,&quot; says <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeNBC</a> of the delayed results for the Iowa caucuses <a href="https://t.co/RqtL1EY6Qj">pic.twitter.com/RqtL1EY6Qj</a>
&mdash; Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) <a href="https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/1224656620447289345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Writing at CNN, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/opinions/iowa-caucus-is-an-embarrassment-toobin/index.html">minced no words</a> by deeming the night an &#8220;embarrassment.&#8221; Toobin even argued that the whole concept of the Iowa caucuses should be scrapped altogether.
&#8220;Maybe the fiasco of the late reporting results from the Iowa caucus this year will have a positive legacy — the end of the caucus process and the invitation to another state to start the delegate selection process,&#8221; wrote Toobin. &#8220;The caucuses are an embarrassment to the Democratic Party and the United States. This is no way to pick a nominee.&#8221;
None other than hardcore Bernie Sanders supporter Cenk Uygur of &#8220;The Young Turks&#8221; expressed the most outrage over the Iowa results.
&#8220;I’m enraged about the lack of transparency from Democratic officials in Iowa &amp; nationally. Who designed the vote counting app &amp; who paid for it? The point of winning #IowaCaucuses is to get positive press coverage and now that’s ruined,&#8221; Uygur declared on Twitter. 
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I’m enraged about the lack of transparency from Democratic officials in Iowa &amp; nationally. Who designed the vote counting app &amp; who paid for it? The point of winning <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IowaCaucuses?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IowaCaucuses</a> is to get positive press coverage and now that’s ruined. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotMeUs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NotMeUs</a>
&mdash; Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) <a href="https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1224566964623798272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/cenkuygur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cenkuygur</a> on impact of delayed <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IowaCaucus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IowaCaucus</a> results, &quot;The press that you get out of it is the relevant part of Iowa and they just ruined that for the winner.&quot;
Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tytlive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tytlive</a>: <a href="https://t.co/epNjbsjqnS">https://t.co/epNjbsjqnS</a> <a href="https://t.co/vL7WIf6FuG">pic.twitter.com/vL7WIf6FuG</a>
&mdash; The Young Turks (@TheYoungTurks) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks/status/1224567250994094080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘Three Car Funeral’: Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Others Freak Over Iowa Embarrassment

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Suffice it to say, there is no tingle going up MSNBC host Chris Matthews&#8217; leg over presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gaining steam in the 2020 election.
On the day of the vital Iowa caucuses, a visibly troubled Matthews noted that the self-described &#8220;socialist&#8221; &#8220;can&#8217;t win&#8221; in a general election, adding that he and fellow Democrats have a &#8220;real problem&#8221; if Sanders is to become the party&#8217;s nominee.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not gonna be good if it&#8217;s Bernie,&#8221; the MSNBC host said Monday, appearing on a &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; panel.
As noted by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/481186-chris-matthews-expresses-worries-democrats-need-to-find-candidate-who-can-beat">The Hill</a>, Matthews likened a possible Sanders nomination to that of Democratic nominee George McGovern in 1972, who lost to President Nixon by 49 states.
&#8220;What are my thoughts? I’m not happy. I&#8217;m not happy with this field,&#8221; said Matthews. &#8220;I think they (Democrats) got to find a candidate for president that can beat Trump. &#8230; Im lookin&#8217;, I&#8217;m still lookin&#8217;.&#8221;
&#8220;Bernie Sanders is not gonna be president fo the United States,&#8221; he declared.
Matthews&#8217; worried remarks come as Sanders positions himself to possibly win Iowa and New Hampshire.
Sanders &#8220;leads by 4% over Joe Biden in the RealClearPolitics statewide <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-6731.html">polling average</a>, as we enter caucus day,&#8221; reported Daily Wire Editor-at-Large <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-to-watch-for-during-tonights-iowa-caucuses">Josh Hammer</a>, Monday morning. &#8220;Sanders is now also the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nh/new_hampshire_democratic_presidential_primary-6276.html">firm and unequivocal favorite</a> for next week’s first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, and all eyes will be attuned tonight to see if he can position himself well to open this primary season by wining the first two states in back-to-back fashion.&#8221;
Matthews highlighted Sanders&#8217; past comments on communist and socialist leaders and complained that the senator openly calls himself a &#8220;socialist,&#8221; instead of referring to himself as a &#8220;democratic-socialist&#8221; like far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has, the host complained.
Matthews argued that former NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg will battle it out with Sanders for the nomination. Bloomberg, said the far-left host, will have to frame himself as the alternative to Sanders, who will surely lose the general election to President Donald Trump.
Sanders&#8217; policy proposals and past remarks have allowed politicos to credibly label the senator a full-on communist. Writing at The New York Post in 2016, for example, <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/">Paul Sperry</a> outlined:
<blockquote>In the early ’70s, Sanders helped found the Liberty Union Party, which called for the nationalization of all US banks and the public takeover of all private utility companies.
After failed runs for Congress, Sanders in 1981 managed to get elected mayor of Burlington, Vt., where he restricted property rights for landlords, set price controls and raised property taxes to pay for communal land trusts…
In 1985, he traveled to [Nicaragua] to celebrate the rise to power of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government. He called it a “heroic revolution.”…
Sanders also adopted a Soviet sister city outside Moscow and honeymooned with his second wife in the USSR. He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with nuclear annihilation.
Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the US.”</blockquote>
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Chris Matthews is back at it with the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bernie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bernie</a> negativity. &quot;It&#39;s not going to be good if its <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bernie2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bernie2020</a>&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotMeUs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NotMeUs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Elections2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Elections2020</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/politics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#politics</a> <a href="https://t.co/4gthIl32UL">pic.twitter.com/4gthIl32UL</a>
&mdash; CaseStudyQB (@CaseStudyQB) <a href="https://twitter.com/CaseStudyQB/status/1224365681895976960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bookmark this for future reference:
Chris Matthews (2/3/2020): &quot;Bernie Sanders is not going to be president of the United States.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieWillWin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieWillWin</a> <a href="https://t.co/IRNGakzxKi">pic.twitter.com/IRNGakzxKi</a>
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WATCH: Chris Matthews’ On-Air Panic: ‘Sanders Will Not Be President Of The United States’

On Tuesday night, MSNBC shared unverified Iranian propaganda with their viewers on American casualties in the midst of Iran firing more than a dozen missiles at two Iraqi military bases at Al-Assad and Irbil, which host U.S. military and coalition personnel.
Joining MSNBC host Chris Matthews, NBC News&#8217; Tehran bureau chief and correspondent Ali Arouzi said 30 Americans were killed in the missile strikes, citing Iranian state media.
&#8220;Iran state media is claiming that 30 U.S. soldiers have been killed in this attack,&#8221; Arouzi told MSNBC viewers in the midst of the attacks.
&#8220;This is not confirmed, this is just coming from Iranian media, but we have just stepped over the precipice, Chris. We have entered a very unpredictable time,&#8221; the reporter said. &#8220;We have to see what the response is going to be from the United States, but this is undoubtedly the most serious moment between Iran and America in the last 40 years. It&#8217;s very, very tense here.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re just getting reports here that Iran has deployed its entire air force,&#8221; Arouzi continued. &#8220;They are saying that if they are retaliated against (for) these attacks, they will launch attacks against the Emirates and Dubai.&#8221;
MSNBC was quickly hit with backlash from politicos for sharing the unverified Iranian propaganda with their viewers. (Currently, the Pentagon has said there are zero casualties from the Iranian strikes.)
&#8220;MSNBC just touted from their NBC News Tehran bureau chief a totally unverified claim from Iranian State TV about a death toll of U.S. soldiers,&#8221; said NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck. &#8220;Totally irresponsible.&#8221;
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MSNBC just touted from their NBC News Tehran bureau chief a totally unverified claim from Iranian State TV about a death toll of U.S. soldiers.
Totally irresponsible.
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1214711405158514690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Sharing totally random supposed casualty figures is not only bad in terms of spreading misinformation,&#8221; commented popular political Twitter account @Neontaster. &#8220;Think of the relatives of soldiers stationed there reading tweets about dozens of deaths. Are their hours of terror now worth your Twitter engagement?&#8221;
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Sharing totally random supposed casualty figures is not only bad in terms of spreading misinformation. Think of the relatives of soldiers stationed there reading tweets about dozens of deaths. Are their hours of terror now worth your Twitter engagement?
&mdash; neontaster (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1214711821212553219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;MSNBC is literally doing the work of the Iranians by airing completely unverified, untrustworthy Intel about US casualties,&#8221; said TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. &#8220;The Pentagon has not reported on any lives lost. Why would the Media air what is so blatantly Iranian propaganda? Absolutely disgusting reporting.&#8221;
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MSNBC is literally doing the work of the Iranians by airing completely unverified, untrustworthy Intel about US casualties
The Pentagon has not reported on any lives lost
Why would the Media air what is so blatantly Iranian propaganda?
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&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1214741217801465856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;MSNBC brought us far closer to the brink of war with this stunt than anything President Trump has done,&#8221; Human Events Editor-in-Chief Will Chamberlain posted.
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MSNBC brought us far closer to the brink of war with this stunt than anything President Trump has done <a href="https://t.co/0A1kZTmhRd">https://t.co/0A1kZTmhRd</a>
&mdash; Will Chamberlain 🇺🇸 (@willchamberlain) <a href="https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1214754519684390912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;MSNBC helped Iran push the false claim that 30 U.S. soldiers were killed tonight in their attack,&#8221; conservative Jason Howerton wrote. &#8220;Zero were killed. This isn&#8217;t just fake news, this is so damn disrespectful to the family members of those deployed. Do better or delete your network.&#8221;
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MSNBC helped Iran push the false claim that 30 U.S. soldiers were killed tonight in their attack. Zero were killed.
This isn&#39;t just fake news, this is so damn disrespectful to the family members of those deployed.
Do better or delete your network.<a href="https://t.co/2l9KzsNPc5">pic.twitter.com/2l9KzsNPc5</a>
&mdash; Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) <a href="https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1214757820790296576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr. posted: &#8220;They sound like they were actually hoping for that outcome. I guess they too were really upset about their loss this weekend too.&#8221;
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They sound like they were actually hoping for that outcome. I guess they too were really upset about their loss this weekend too. <a href="https://t.co/AcdJjwQUvk">https://t.co/AcdJjwQUvk</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1214910114634850305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Iranian ballistic missile strikes come in the wake of a Trump-ordered kill of terrorist and Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irans-foreign-minister-we-do-not-seek-escalation-or-war-irans-supreme-leader-military-actions-not-enough">The Daily Wire</a> on Wednesday morning, &#8220;American officials say there were no reported casualties and the damage to the bases was minimal. Now Iran’s foreign minister is signaling that the country hopes for de-escalation, though Iran’s supreme leader is sending another message: the missile strikes are &#8216;not enough.'&#8221;
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irans-foreign-minister-we-do-not-seek-escalation-or-war-irans-supreme-leader-military-actions-not-enough">Iran’s Foreign Minister: ‘We Do Not Seek Escalation Or War’; Iran’s Supreme Leader: Military Actions ‘Not Enough’</a>

‘DELETE YOUR NETWORK’: MSNBC Shares Iranian Propaganda On American Casualties, Gets Ripped

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He failed to get much attention during his brief run in the Democratic presidential primary, but Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA) is now making some noise on the internet.  A moment during his interview with MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Hardball With Chris Matthews&#8221; Monday has gone viral for what appears to be Swalwell pausing briefly to loudly rip one on air. After the clip exploded online, Swalwell was asked about it by BuzzFeed and denied it adamantly. Now &#8220;Hardball&#8221; has even felt compelled to address &#8220;Fartgate,&#8221; issuing a statement to &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; explaining what they say really happened.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-eric-swalwell-appears-to-drop-massive-fart-on-live-television-gets-mocked-online">The Daily Wire</a> reported, during an interview with &#8220;Hardball&#8221; Monday, Swalwell appeared to have an embarrassing moment while answering a question about the Democrats&#8217; favorite topic, Ukraine:
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<blockquote>&#8220;The president used taxpayer dollars to help the Ukrainians cheat–,&#8221; Swalwell said as he paused for a brief moment and then appeared to fart, which was loud. “–an election…&#8221;</blockquote>
Here&#8217;s video of the moment that went viral:
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Eric Swalwell appears to drop a massive fart during live on television
Turn the sound on, this is real <a href="https://t.co/DyElNSwYog">pic.twitter.com/DyElNSwYog</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1196593236392808448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Even far-left Media Matters circulated a clip of the moment. #Fartgate had caused enough of a stir online that BuzzFeed reporter Addy Baird felt compelled to ask Swalwell about it, though apologetically.
After sending a clip by Media Matters to the failed presidential candidate, Baird had the following exchange with Swalwell:
<blockquote>Baird: I’m really sorry about this but I have to ask if this was you or someone in the studio.
Swalwell: It was not me!!!!! Ha. And I didn’t hear it when I was speaking.
Baird: You look like you heard it and are stifling a laugh.
Swalwell: I def did not hear it.</blockquote>
Swalwell&#8217;s denial wasn&#8217;t enough to blow away #Fartgate, so &#8220;Hardball&#8221; went to bat for their embattled guest — and managed to work in some promotional material at the same time.
&#8220;Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy theorists — it was the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hardball</a> mug scraping across the desk,&#8221; the show tweeted. &#8220;Get yours today and let’s get back to the news!&#8221;
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Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy theorists &#8211; it was the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hardball</a> mug scraping across the desk. Get yours today and let’s get back to the news! <a href="https://t.co/SG8Owm2IBw">https://t.co/SG8Owm2IBw</a>
— Hardball (@hardball) <a href="https://twitter.com/hardball/status/1196639020056494081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In response, Swalwell channeled his inner-President Trump after Special Counsel Robert Mueller finally submitted his report dealing the death blow to the Russia collusion conspiracy theory, declaring &#8220;TOTAL EXONERATION&#8221;:
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TOTAL EXONERATION! <a href="https://t.co/JAuTsnCjAC">https://t.co/JAuTsnCjAC</a>
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1196641189476421632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-eric-swalwell-appears-to-drop-massive-fart-on-live-television-gets-mocked-online">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted, Swalwell&#8217;s critics have had fun with his unfortunate moment in the spotlight.
“He who denied it supplied it. Everyone knows this,&#8221; tweeted Federalist co-founder Sean Davis in response to Swalwell&#8217;s denial.
“My sources affirm that Swalwell smelt it. It stands to reason, therefore, that Swalwell dealt it. #IMPEACH,&#8221; wrote Ricochet Editor-in-Chief Jon Gabriel.
The show&#8217;s explanation inspired the perfect &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221; response from Federal Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway. &#8220;First you gas your viewers, then you gaslight them. No one believes this,&#8221; she tweeted.
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He who denied it supplied it. Everyone knows this. <a href="https://t.co/u4TanKLvPh">https://t.co/u4TanKLvPh</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1196603470473773056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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My sources affirm that Swalwell smelt it. It stands to reason, therefore, that Swalwell dealt it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMPEACH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IMPEACH</a> <a href="https://t.co/UcqC5O6z6W">https://t.co/UcqC5O6z6W</a>
&mdash; jon gabriel (@exjon) <a href="https://twitter.com/exjon/status/1196604917953126401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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First you gas your viewers, then you gaslight them. No one believes this. <a href="https://t.co/T2amY79hZO">https://t.co/T2amY79hZO</a>
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Following Tuesday night&#8217;s Democratic primary debate hosted by CNN, far-left MSNBC host Chris Matthews questioned presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) about the costs of her &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; policy proposal.
Matthews repeatedly asked Warren how much the plan would cost taxpayers, though he never did receive an answer from the senator. Clearly frustrated with Warren&#8217;s refusal, Matthews later knocked the progressive lawmaker on-air. &#8220;Warren wouldn&#8217;t answer that question,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1156401216164941827">complained</a>.
&#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; will cost taxpayers more money, Matthews told Warren. &#8220;You guys dodged that tonight. … How much will your taxes go up?&#8221;
Warren refused to answer, suggesting the real question is, &#8220;How much are your costs going to go up?&#8221;
&#8220;I know that argument, but you&#8217;re covering it,&#8221; pressed Matthews.
&#8220;&#8216;Medicare for All&#8217; is cheaper than our current system — that&#8217;s the Republicans&#8217; version,&#8221; Warren said.
&#8220;I know the argument,&#8221; answered Matthews, &#8220;that you put it all together and you reduce the cost of healthcare premiums, and you get more benefits, therefore you come out ahead, but will you pay more in taxes? Why don&#8217;t you want to answer that question?&#8221;
&#8220;It’s a question about where people are gonna come out economically,&#8221; contended Warren.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not my question,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not my question. That&#8217;s not my question. My question is how much will taxes go up.&#8221;
Warren, again, refused to answer. &#8220;The question is about costs,&#8221; she said, about how much you&#8217;re &#8220;digging in your pocket&#8221; to pay healthcare costs.
&#8220;Will your taxes go up?&#8221; the MSNBC host asked, again. &#8220;Will your taxes go up? &#8230; There is no answer to the question, will your taxes go up.&#8221;
Matthews then moved on with the interview.
Warren and presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) both support a radical universal &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; program that would end private insurance and cost an estimated $32 trillion, $10 trillion more than the current national debt.
&#8220;Look at the business model of an insurance company,&#8221; Warren has argued, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/elizabeth-warrens-shift-puts-health-insurers-in-2020-crossfire.html">according</a> to CNBC. &#8220;It’s to bring in as many dollars as they can in premiums and to pay out as few dollars as possible for your health care. That leaves families with rising premiums, rising co-pays, and fighting with insurance companies to try to get the health care that their doctors say that they and their children need. Medicare for All solves that problem.&#8221;
Not all Democrats are on board with the controversial plan, however. Former congressman John Delaney, for example, has called the proposal &#8220;political suicide.&#8221;
During Tuesday night&#8217;s debate, Delaney bluntly told Sen. Sanders that his &#8220;math is wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s been well-documented that if all the bills were paid at a Medicare rate, which is specifically — I think it&#8217;s in section 1,200 of their bill — many hospitals in this country would close,&#8221; said the businessman and presidential hopeful.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t have to go around and be the party of subtraction … telling half the country who have private health insurance that their insurance is illegal,” Delaney suggested, adding, &#8220;The question is, why do we have to be extreme? I&#8217;m starting to think this isn&#8217;t about health care, this is about an anti-private sector strategy.&#8221;
As <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/447515-sweeping-plans-from-2020-contenders-come-with-trillion-dollar-price-tags">reported</a> by The Hill, Warren’s proposal to erase student loan debt and eliminate tuition at public colleges could cost $1.25 trillion, while her environmental spending plan comes with a $2 trillion price tag.
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Should a person who was just determined to have not committed a crime still resign in shame?
That seems to be what MSNBC host Chris Matthews was suggesting during a panel discussion on &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221; Matthews and his fellow panelists were discussing the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which found &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45041/no-collusion-attorney-general-william-barr-emily-zanotti">no evidence</a>&#8221; of collusion between President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. The topic turned, naturally, to another major American investigation involving a president &#8212; Richard Nixon.
&#8220;I think Nixon had shame,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o35-HNuhpY">Matthews said</a>. &#8220;It may not have been moral shame, but was political shame. He knew he blew it.&#8221;
Matthews then explained that Nixon &#8220;got caught up&#8221; in various scandals, including one during his first campaign in 1946, when he accused incumbent Democrat opponent Jerry Voorhis of having communist ties. Switching back to Nixon resigning as president over the Watergate scandal, Matthews suggested Trump should do the same.
&#8220;[Nixon] got caught, and he knew it, and he cried, and he left,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;Trump doesn&#8217;t have that faculty.&#8221;
Host Mika Brezezinski nodded her head and agreed.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/HardballChris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HardballChris</a>: &#8220;I think Nixon had shame. It may have not been moral shame, but it was political shame &#8230; He got caught, and he knew it, and he cried, and he left. Trump doesn&#8217;t have that faculty.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/aXFpRa5N7z">pic.twitter.com/aXFpRa5N7z</a>
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Matthews made these comments the day after Attorney General William Barr released his summary of Mueller&#8217;s report, which found &#8220;no evidence&#8221; of collusion. Democrats will point to another line in the summary, which states that Mueller&#8217;s &#8220;report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.&#8221; Neither Barr nor Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein believed the allegations that Trump had &#8220;obstructed justice&#8221; warranted further investigation.
Still, it&#8217;s a far stretch to suggest Trump should resign over something he doesn&#8217;t appear to have done.
Earlier in the program, Matthews <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o35-HNuhpY">expressed his shock and dismay</a> that neither Trump nor his children, associates, nor &#8220;henchmen&#8221; would be indicted.
&#8220;I think the Democrats have got to win the election,&#8221; Matthews said, hinting that the party must win in order to hold Trump accountable for the alleged crimes for which Mueller found no evidence.
Matthews has had a strained relationship with reality when it comes to Republicans, especially Trump. In December of last year, he suggested that Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39538/wacky-msnbcs-chris-matthews-predicts-trump-will-joseph-curl">should resign as part of a deal</a> with Mueller to ensure the president&#8217;s children were not indicted as part of the investigation.
&#8220;What if he were to say he would let the children walk if the old man does the same? That would mean giving up the presidency in exchange for acquittals all around &#8213; not just for himself, but for all his kids,&#8221; Matthews said.
Now Matthews is trying to keep the &#8220;resignation&#8221; fire lit by suggesting Trump resign just because the MSNBC host wants him to. Democrats hung their hopes on Mueller discovering evidence of collusion and obstruction that would lead to Trump&#8217;s downfall. That hasn&#8217;t happened, so the Left is stuck demanding he resign even though Mueller recommended no indictments of anyone close to Trump &#8212; or any American, for that matter &#8212; for colluding with Russia.
As for the obstruction charge, this is just the Left demanding people they believe are guilty not publicly defend themselves or suggest the investigation against them is a sham &#8212; even when it is.

WATCH: Chris Matthews Says ‘Nixon Had Shame,’ Suggests Trump Should Resign Even Though Mueller Report Found No Collusion

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That didn&#8217;t take long.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller was the darling of the liberal intelligentsia for the past two years, but as soon as he released his long-awaited report that ended up clearing President Trump of all charges that he colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election, liberals turned on him. Hard.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who has made a career of appearing on liberal cable stations alleging all kinds of criminal activity by Trump and his campaign team, quickly said Mueller was wrong.
&#8220;It was a mistake to rely on written responses by the president,&#8221; Schiff said during an appearance on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; on Sunday. &#8220;That&#8217;s generally more what the lawyer has to say than what the individual has to say.&#8221; Schiff, chairman of the House intelligence committee, said Mueller should have interviewed Trump under oath.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews, the guy who always got a thrill up his leg whenever he saw former president Barack Obama, also thought Mueller must be kinda dumb.
&#8220;Maybe he missed the boat here,&#8221; Matthews said of Mueller. &#8220;Why was there never an interrogation of this president? We were told for weeks by experts, &#8216;You cannot deal with an obstruction-of-justice charge or investigation without getting the motive.&#8217; &#8230; How could they let Trump off the hook?&#8221;
Well, Chris, a few days ago you were singing the praises of the special counsel, now he&#8217;s &#8220;missing boats&#8221;?
Uber liberal Cenk Uygur, host of online news show The Young Turks, wasn&#8217;t going to let some stinkin&#8217; report color his world. &#8220;Let me be clear, I CONCEDE NOTHING!&#8221; he wrote on Twitter. &#8220;If #MuellerReport didn&#8217;t look into Trump&#8217;s business ties with the Russians before the elections and didn&#8217;t look into his secret meetings with them after the election, then this is an epic debacle that looked into the exact wrong things.&#8221;
HBO talk show host Bill Maher agreed. &#8220;Did the Democrats put too much trust in the Mueller report? Because I don&#8217;t need the Mueller report to know he&#8217;s a traitor. I have a TV,&#8221; Maher told his panel of guests on his show &#8212; apparently referring to Trump (although by now, liberals are beginning to consider Mueller a traitor to their cause).
&#8220;Comedian&#8221; Chelsea Handler said: &#8220;I will admit my feelings for Mueller are conflicted now and my sexual attraction to him is in peril, but I still believe there is a lot more to come, and we must all march in the streets if we don&#8217;t see that report.&#8221;
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I will admit my feelings for Mueller are conflicted now and my sexual attraction to him is in peril, but I still believe there is a lot more to come, and we must all march in the streets if we don&#8217;t see that report.
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The Washington Post detailed the back-biting in a piece headlined, &#8220;For Democrats, the Mueller report turns their politics upside down.&#8221;
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Democrats put their faith in Mueller. Now they are questioning how and why he did what he did. Should he have forced the president to answer questions in person, rather than in writing? Why didn&#8217;t he make a judgment on obstruction, rather than turning it over to the attorney general to make perhaps the most important call of the investigation? Did he interpret his mandate too narrowly? The second-guessing, still at a low level, reflects the frustration among Democrats and opponents of the president who already had connected dots that Mueller found not conclusive.
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Soon, the charges will emerge that Mueller, who was once appointed head of the FBI by (gasp) George W. Bush, was in the bag for Trump all along. And of course, after the Mueller report was released, exonerating Trump of all those collusion allegations, Democrats simply moved on, joining together to collectively demand the full release of the report and all evidence gathered.
Which is what made the tweet by former FBI director James Comey&#8217;s tweet so fantastic.
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So many questions. <a href="https://t.co/66KaR52Kk8">pic.twitter.com/66KaR52Kk8</a>
&#8212; James Comey (@Comey) <a href="https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1109930531389472768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Uh, Jimbo, you gotta back up a bit. A little more. There, don&#8217;t you see it? It&#8217;s not just trees, it&#8217;s a forest!

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MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews thinks President Trump might just resign as part of a secret deal with special prosecutor Robert Mueller in an effort to avoid prosecution of himself or members of his family.
&#8220;The president&#8217;s children stand right in the line of Mueller&#8217;s investigative progress,&#8221; Matthews said this week on his show &#8220;Hardball,&#8221; referring to Ivanka and Donald Jr. &#8220;They stand as the next dominoes to fall,&#8221; Matthews said, noting that the Trump children can &#8220;hardly testify against their father.&#8221;
&#8220;Therein lies the problem: Where earlier Mueller subjects have given Trump up, these two lack the option to do that,&#8221; said the TV entertainer, adding that if Mueller &#8220;will not be stopped and the kids will not fall to him, we see the president&#8217;s adult children heading to prison.&#8221;
Matthews then mused about a solution. &#8220;But what if the prosecutor were to offer the president an alternative?&#8221; he said. &#8220;What if he were to say he would let the children walk if the old man does the same? That would mean giving up the presidency in exchange for acquittals all around &#8213; not just for himself, but for all his kids,&#8221; said Matthews, who famously got a &#8220;thrill&#8221; up his leg whenever he watched former President Barack Obama speak.
The TV host said it&#8217;s happened before, citing the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973, who struck a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time for tax evasion. &#8220;Leverage the office while you still have it. So let&#8217;s watch the probable events of the coming weeks bring all this to a breaking point,&#8221; Matthews said.
&#8220;It is going to be historic,&#8221; he predicted.
The scenario has become a favorite of Washington insiders and mainstream media of late. The Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;conservative&#8221; columnist Jennifer Rubin said last week that Trump is likely planning an 11th hour stunt to avoid going to jail.
&#8220;I would predict here on MSNBC that when Trump leaves office he will resign the presidency 10 minutes before Mike Pence leaves office, allowing Pence to pardon him if there is not a Republican president to follow him,&#8221; Rubin said on the network&#8217;s &#8220;AM Joy&#8221; show.
Under Rubin&#8217;s theory, on January 20, 2021 (or, more likely, 2025), Trump will resign the presidency at 11:50 a.m. (the incoming president is sworn in at the Capitol at noon). Then, the vice president will be sworn in as president (he&#8217;d have to be), and whip out a presidential pardon, which he&#8217;d sign. At noon, poof, Pence is no longer president and Trump is in the clear.
Talk about wacky.

WACKY: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Predicts Trump Will Resign Soon In Secret Deal With Mueller

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They say &#8220;be careful what you wish for.&#8221; Next time MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews should think long and hard before he calls for a &#8220;Spanish Civil War&#8221; over a SCOTUS fight.
Back in June when Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, leftists were up in arms over who would replace him, with many fretting about the fate of their beloved Roe v. Wade. One of those men, of course, was none other than Chris Matthews of MSNBC.
Speaking to Ali Velshi, not only did Matthews predict the fight would be the &#8220;Spanish Civil War,&#8221; but his only advice to Democrats was to play as dirty as they could by blocking Kavanaugh at every turn. Matthews did not call for peace or level-headedness; he called for an absolute block in a situation he predicted would be like the &#8220;Spanish Civil War.&#8221;
&#8220;So I would say, I think this is going to be the fight of the century,&#8221; Matthews told MSNBC host Ali Velshi. &#8220;I think the Democrats have to say &#8216;No way, non pasario, no one passes this line.'&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be almost like Spanish Civil War stuff,&#8221; Matthews continued. &#8220;You watch the next few months.&#8221;
At the same time, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer(D-NY) said that he would oppose Brett Kavanaugh with <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/396236-schumer-i-will-oppose-kavanaugh-with-everything-ive-got">&#8220;everything I&#8217;ve got</a>.&#8221;
As it stands, Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of attempted rape 35 years ago by a woman with no corroborating evidence or witnesses.
You got your wish, Chris.
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