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• Hardball: Watergate Redux

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Hardball Chris Matthews

  of a partisan witch hunt. Chris Matthews talks to Stan Brand, former US House Counsel and Bruce Fein, formerly part of Reagan’s DoJ. Not surprisingly, Fein sees parallels in what is happening with Watergate. MATTHEWS: How can Tony Snow come on the show as the President’s spokesman and deny seeing and hearing what we just heard and

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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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• 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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• 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

  (570) QT later… 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

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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

  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 minds, gushed Matthews. Calling Bush powerful on

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• David Brooks lets us in on a little secret: Everyone hates Bush

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:29 pm

  Tags: Msnbc, Right Wing Pundits, George W Bush, Hardball Chris Matthews

  weekend’s “The Chris Matthews Show”. Matthews asks David Brooks who among the Republican presidential contenders would be considered the rightful heir to the Bush throne and David lets slip what we have all known for a while: Bush isn’t that popular, even with his own party: BROOKS: Bush…you gotta remember

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• Hardball: On President Bush's Cashing Out

  Published: September 5, 2007, 1:35 pm

  Tags: George W Bush, Hardball Chris Matthews

  of public opinion…Chris Matthews brings on VoteVets.org’s Jon Soltz to discuss the perception behind Bush’s plans for after leaving the White House. But we can’t have someone representing the thousands of soldiers putting their life on the line for Bush’s occupation on without the “balance” of

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• Bill Maher On The Surge, Minneapolis And The Naughty, Dirty Republican

  Published: September 5, 2007, 9:31 am

  Tags: Msnbc, Real Time, Hardball Chris Matthews

  Bill Maher was on Hardball and as always, had plenty to say about President Bush and his surge-spin, Republicans and everything in between. Matthews plays a clip of Maher’s HBO show Real Time talking about Larry Craig’s “naughty, dirty boy” clip and Maher had this to say in Senator Craig’s defense:  Download

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• Sometimes the jokes just write themselves

  Published: September 10, 2007, 4:11 pm

  Tags: George W Bush, Hardball Chris Matthews

  (1146) My favorite part? Chris Matthews asking “Why a clueless megalomaniac?” It’s just too easy with these guys.

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• The Chris Matthews Show: David Gregory, put down the Kool-Aid!

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Msnbc, George W Bush, Hardball Chris Matthews

  expect slavish devotion from Chris Matthews when it comes to George W. Bush. But not David Gregory, who has been as big a thorn in the sides of the White House Press Secretaries as anyone else in the press corps, save Helen Thomas. Clearly, I was wrong. One regular feature of the weekly Chris Matthews Show is a question asked of a roundtable of

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• Hardball: The question of credibility

  Published: September 11, 2007, 12:41 pm

  Tags: Ads, Hardball Chris Matthews

  town yesterday. Leave it to Chris Matthews on Hardball to get right to the bottom of it by conducting one of the most frustrating interviews ever of MoveOn’s Eli Pariser and DailyKos’s Markos Moulitsas. Is he just congenitally unable to let people finish their answers uninterrupted?  Download (1659)   Play (2109)

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• Hardball: What do you say? Why did they fall?

  Published: September 11, 2007, 10:01 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Joe Biden, Hardball Chris Matthews

  emotional Sen. Joe Biden and Chris Matthews discuss the ramifications of Gen. Petraeus’s surprisingly unvarnished answer that he couldn’t say that our presence in Iraq was making us any safer.  Download (1105)   Play (1500)  Download (215)   Play (366) MATTHEWS: But if the commander over there

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• Hardball: General Petraeus Doesn't Know If The Mission In Iraq Makes America Safer

  Published: September 12, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: Msnbc, Middle East, Iraq, Hardball Chris Matthews

  Bush’s surge and as Hardball host Chris Matthews put it, ran into a bi-partisan buzz saw. MSNBC’s David Shuster runs down today’s testimony, including Republican Senator Chuck Hagel’s passionate statements and an exchange between Petraeus and Senator John Warner (R-VA) which produced this stunning statement which sums

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