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• Hardball: Watergate Redux

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Hardball Chris Matthews

  Download (3340)   Play (3317)  Download (1379)   Play (1629) YouTube (thanks to Heather for the vids) When you have Tony Snow spinning wild accusations against Democrats to distract from the news that Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee has requested a Special Prosecutor to look into Alberto

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• Duncan Hunter Knows His Priorities, Just Not His Facts

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:35 pm

  Tags: Rubber Stamp Congress, Right Wing Stupidity, Hardball Chris Matthews

  by on yesterday’s Hardball if he had any opinion on Alberto Gonzales’s alleged perjury before Congress. Hunter demurred from answering for Gonzo, but used the airtime to slam the Democrats for ignoring what he thinks should be the priority for Congress: the “loopholes” in the FISA law. The only problem? Those

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• Two Vets Go At It On Hardball

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:28 pm

  Tags: Military, Supporting Our Troops, Hardball Chris Matthews

  On Wednesday’s “Hardball,” VoteVet’s Jon Soltz squared off with another veteran, Eric Egland, of Vets For Freedom on today’s heated testimony on Capitol Hill surrounding the cover up of Pat Tillman’s death. Egland–who is involved with Melanie Morgan’s Move America Forward–naturally defends

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• On Hardball, Cillizza asserted Democrats "need to prove" they can keep Americans "as safe as Republicans can"

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:27 pm

  Tags: Chris Cillizza, Hardball, Msnbc, National Security Foreign Policy

  1 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, discussing an August 1 speech in which Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) proposed a comprehensive strategy to fight global terrorism, WashingtonPost.com staff writer Chris Cillizza said: "Democrats still know they need to prove to the American public that they can keep them just as safe as

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• Matthews Sez It's Not Fair For Public To Trust Democrats Over Republicans On Balancing Budget

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:15 pm

  Tags: Msnbc, Hardball Chris Matthews

  On “Hardball” today, Chris Matthews spoke with CNBC’s Jim Cramer about a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll which showed a majority of Americans trust the Democrats over Republicans on economic issues such as balancing the budget, taxes and government spending. Tweety claims the only reason for this is because they’re mad

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• Matthews can't believe that public favors Dems on fiscal issues

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:26 pm

  Tags: Chris Matthews, Hardball, Msnbc, Economic Issues, Economy, Taxes

  March 13, 2006, edition of Hardball, Matthews claimed that "people trust Republicans more than Democrats" to handle taxes, but as Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) noted: "[I]f you look at even your own data and your own polling, they don't." On the March 28, 2006, edition of Hardball, Matthews acknowledged that "the latest polling shows that

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• Matthews' post-forum pressing issues: Edwards' size, Clinton's voice

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:52 pm

  Tags: Chris Matthews, Hardball, Msnbc, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards

  On the January 19 edition of Hardball, Matthews said of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: "He has the perfect chin, the perfect hair, he looks right. He looks like a Mountie. He looks like [he's] from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police." Discussing former Sen. Fred Thompson's (TN) potential presidential bid on the March 29 edition

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• Discussing poll question on Clinton's "warmth," Matthews said: "She has to smile when she puts the knife in"

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:50 pm

  Tags: Chris Matthews, Hardball, Msnbc, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Hillary Clinton

  7 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, prior to the AFL-CIO's Democratic candidates' forum airing on MSNBC later that day, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell referred to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finding that 39 percent of respondents said they "feel positive" toward Clinton on the issue of her

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• Anti-war YearlyKos Panelist Gets Spanked By Move America Forward Vice Chairman

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:07 am

  Tags: Iraq, Military, Buzz Patterson, Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton, Jon Soltz, Hardball, Move Americ Forward, Msnbc

  HOST: Welcome back to HARDBALL. It is time for tonight`s HARDBALL debate. Is Hillary Clinton a hawk or is she a dove? Jon Soltz is an Iraq War veteran with votevets.org. And Buzz Patterson is the vice chairman of Move America Forward, and a former military aid to President Bill Clinton. He is also the author of "War Crimes."Jon,

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• Matthews: Where have all the "big, beefy" "every-way big guy" Democrats gone?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:46 pm

  Tags: Chris Matthews, Hardball, Msnbc, 2008 Elections, Government Elections

  21, 2006, edition of Hardball, Matthews asked Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley if Gore was "in fighting weight" and then said: "He's the Hindenburg." Matthews has also previously suggested that Obama's being "skinny" is an asset, rather than a liability. On the January 17 edition of Hardball, he

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• The Hill's Karen Hanretty And Her Awful Appearance On Hardball

  Published: August 9, 2007, 8:40 pm

  Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Msnbc, Nsa Wiretapping, Plame Case Pat Fitzgerald, Hardball Chris Matthews

  this evening’s “Hardball” has to rank as one of the worst and most annoying I’ve seen. Hanretty became highly perturbed when host Chris Matthews and Ezra Klein from The American Prospect dared to challenge her pathetic attempts to defend Scooter Libby and Alberto Gonzales.  Download (8)   Play (3)

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• Hardball: Is Hillary A Hawk Or A Dove?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:01 pm

  Tags: Hillary Clinton, Hardball Chris Matthews

  version of playing “hardball” is to pose the question of whether Hillary Clinton is a “hawk” or a “dove”. Of course, he doesn’t ask Clinton, but two substitutes: Jon Soltz from VoteVets.org and Buzz Patterson from MoveAmericaForward, Melanie Morgan’s hategroup, and author of the oh-so-balanced

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• Chris Matthews' Three Minute Bush Love-Fest

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: Msnbc, Iraq, George W Bush, Hardball Chris Matthews

  Via Think Progress: Immediately following President Bush's press conference today, MSNBC's Chris Matthews spent three unbroken minutes fawning over the president's powerful rendition of his philosophy without uttering a single critical word. I thought in listening to the president, I was listening to one of the great neoconservative

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• On Hardball, Patterson repeated dubious smear of Clinton, despite his changing story

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:09 pm

  Tags: Robert Patterson, Hardball, Msnbc, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Hillary Clinton

  8 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, author of Dereliction of Duty (Regnery, March 2003), repeated the claim that when he worked in the White House in 1996, then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton "wanted to outlaw uniforms, military uniforms in the White House," saying it was a

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• On Hardball, Cillizza falsely claimed "most" Dem candidates said "our kids don't go to" public schools

  Published: August 10, 2007, 7:32 pm

  Tags: Chris Cillizza, Hardball, Msnbc, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Mitt Romney

  9 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, washingtonpost.com staff writer Chris Cillizza asserted, "There was a debate in New Hampshire, I believe. Democrats were asked, 'Are your kids in public schools?' Well, most of them said, 'Yes, we believe very strongly in public schools. But no, our kids don't go to them.'

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