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Jack Welch: I have no evidence jobs numbers were doctored
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch admitted to Hardball host Chris Matthews Friday that he had no evidence to support his accusation that President Barack Obama’s administration had falsified new employment statistics, yet refused to take it back. The report, released Friday morning, placed the national unemployment rate at 7.8…
Chris Matthews: ‘Where was Obama tonight?’
An angry Chris Matthews derided President Barack Obama’s performance Wednesday night following the first debate between Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. “I know [Obama] likes to say he doesn’t watch cable television, but maybe he should start,” Matthews said on MSNBC’s post-debate coverage. “I don’t know how he let Romney…
Chris Matthews tells Bill Maher panel: Mitt Romney is running a ‘racist’ campaign
On Friday night’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, panelist Chris Matthews renewed his accusations against Republicans of racist campaigning, in a confrontation with right-wing radio host Roger Hedgecock “There’s a gentleman’s agreement out there about covering up this racist game that your side has been playing this whole…
Chris Matthews: Republicans would have blamed Obama for 9/11
On his show Tuesday night, MSBNC host Chris Matthews said Republicans would have blamed the September 11 terror attacks on President Barack Obama if he were in office at the time. The liberal TV host began by calling on Republicans to stop blaming Obama for failing to clean up the…
Chris Matthews accuses Romney of encouraging white anger
MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday accused Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of using racial politics to turn white voters against President Barack Obama. During MSNBC’s Mitchell Reports, Matthews accused the Republican Party of trying to prevent people from being able to vote. Republicans this year have pushed for voter…
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Republicans ‘not generating enough angry white guys’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is warning Republicans that the strategy of relying on “angry white guys” is eventually going to doom his party. This week, the Republican Party, which is reportedly 92 percent white, has struggled to find minority speakers to take the stage at their convention. While former Secretary…
Chris Matthews destroys RNC chairman on live TV for playing race card
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus may have canceled the first day of the party’s convention due to weather, but he couldn’t evacuate in time to escape the wrath of Hurricane Chris. The party chairman found himself on Monday weathering a blistering rant from MSNBC host Chris Matthews about how…
Chris Matthews: Today’s Supreme Court wouldn’t back desegregation
MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday took a look at landmark Supreme Court decisions in the last 60 years and came to the conclusion that the current conservative court would not have backed a woman’s right to choose, removed prayer from public schools or supported desegregation. “Does anyone wonder like…
Warren: Americans ‘understand the game is rigged’
Speaking to MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Wednesday evening, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) said that in her time on the campaign trail, she’s realized that most Americans “understand the game is rigged,” and that “they’re ready for somebody to get out there and talk to them about it.”…
Chris Matthews goes nuts on ‘idiot Republican argument’
MSNBC host Chris Matthews didn’t wait until his own show to start yelling on Friday, instead appearing as a panelist on Chris Jansing’s program where he called Obama’s reelection effort “pissant,” and shouted down what he said was another guest’s, “idiot Republican argument.” Matthews begins the segment on Jansing &…
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