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• Once again, Fineman looks at Republican failures and sees problems for ... Democrats

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, Kelly O Donnell, Nbc, The Chris Matthews Show, 2008 Elections, Government Elections

  political correspondent Howard Fineman stated that the political environment for the 2008 election favors Democrats, but said that the Democratic Party faces disaster if it cannot come up with a long-term plan for fighting terrorism. Using a historical reference he has employed before, Fineman asserted that if Democrats cannot win the

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• Fineman's strawman: Dems advocate leaving Iraq "overnight"

  Published: August 27, 2007, 5:55 pm

  Tags: Howard Fineman, Countdown Keith Olbermann, Nbc, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  political correspondent Howard Fineman asserted that "[t]he problem that the Democrats have got, indeed, that all America has got, is that having gone into Iraq the way we did, there is, in the opinion of many fair-minded observers, chaos and hell to pay if we get out overnight." While Fineman did not specify which "Democrats" have

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• Matthews Rants: 'Should We Put Exxon Signs Up Over Arlington Cemetery?'

  Published: September 17, 2007, 7:08 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Oil Prices, Chris Matthews, David Shuster, George W Bush, Howard Fineman, Jill Zuckman, Hardball, Msnbc

  old Marxist analysis." Howard Fineman, Newsweek: "Well it is but I, I think, to some extent it's unarguably true. And there are various times, as David Shuster said earlier in the show, we reported earlier in the show when these arguments were being made by administration officials it wasn't the number one reason. Number one was

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• Chris Matthews: Strom Thurmond 'Hanged A Few People'

  Published: December 12, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, Oprah Winfrey, Strom Thurmond, Hardball, Msnbc, Video

  with Newsweek's Howard Fineman about Oprah Winfrey stumping for Barack Obama in South Carolina: HOWARD FINEMAN: I was in South Carolina, I saw that rally down there in the football stadium and it was electric. It was- CHRIS MATTHEWS: Did you have a helicopter at your disposal this weekend? You were everywhere. FINEMAN: No, no I was

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• Matthews: Bill Clinton a 'Total Card Shark' When Attacking Obama

  Published: December 17, 2007, 6:44 pm

  Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton, Howard Fineman, Linda Douglass, Hardball, Msnbc, Video

  And now to spin this around, Howard, and say "this is a [sic] object lesson from my wife." Isn't there any limit to the decency factor here? HOWARD FINEMAN, Newsweek: You have to be born without the gene that produces the emotion of shame in the human soul, and that's Bill Clinton. MATTHEWS: Did they go to the Jerry Lewis school of

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• Olbermann Fascinated with Hillary's 'Fearmongering' on Terrorism

  Published: January 16, 2008, 6:14 am

  Tags: 2006 Congressional, 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, War On Terrorism, Barack Obama, David Gregory, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Howard Fineman, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Msnbc

  that was opened for him? HOWARD FINEMAN: He was sort of tiptoeing halfway through the door. I think he said, boy, it's almost the end of the debate, I can really hit her one before it's over, and I think he wanted to do that, but yet he had in his mind, you know, Axelrod and all the other guys saying, you know, don't go after her too hard, be

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• Matthews: Straight Talk Express Derailed?

  Published: January 25, 2008, 9:18 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Debates, Economy, Taxes, Chris Matthews, David Shuster, Howard Fineman, John Mccain, Msnbc, Nbc, Video

  Matthews and Newsweek's Howard Fineman pummelled McCain for his misrepresentation. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Howard, the Straight Talk Express: did it stall tonight? Was it derailed by his denial of a quote that's on the record? HOWARD FINEMAN: I think he straight-talked himself right over that Bridge to Nowhere that he kept talking about. You can't

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• Andy Card Calls Out MSNBC 'Cynicism,' Bush Like Fibber McGee

  Published: January 29, 2008, 6:51 am

  Tags: Iran, Iraq, War On Terrorism, Andy Card, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Eugene Robinson, George W Bush, Howard Fineman, Jim Webb, Joe Biden, John Mccain, Keith Olbermann, Pat Buchanan, Rachel Maddow, Msnbc

  MATTHEWS: I still think, Howard, challenge me here, that the big news today, the State of the Union, is the deal announced today at American University between Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama, that is the State of the Union. I'm not sure this adds to the definition of this presidential campaign or what's to come in the next year at all. HOWARD

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• Chris Matthews Warns Howard Fineman About His Pending Death [Chris Matthews Now Threatening Journalists]

  Published: February 5, 2008, 9:46 pm

  Tags: Chris Matthews, Chris Matthews Now Threatening Journalists, Howard Fineman, Ted Kennedy

  newVideoPlayer("matthewsfinemanken_wonkette.flv", 463, 387,"");Indeed, Christopher: Watch out for that girl-killing bite of TEDDEEEE KENNEDDEEE… boogity boogity… boo.

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• Hardbrawl

  Published: February 14, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hardbrawl, Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Matthews, Msnbc Interactive News Llc, Lewis Libby, Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, United States, Dee Dee Myers, Adam Levine, Darrell Hammond, The White House, Tim Russert, Nbc Universal Inc, Dick Cheney, Howard Fineman

  Last fall, as network executives, members of Congress and other hotshots gathered beneath a massive tent at Washington's Decatur House to celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Hardball," Chris Matthews began to address the crowd.

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• Hardbrawl

  Published: February 14, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hardbrawl, Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Matthews, Msnbc Interactive News Llc, Lewis Libby, Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, United States, Dee Dee Myers, Adam Levine, Darrell Hammond, The White House, Tim Russert, Nbc Universal Inc, Dick Cheney, Howard Fineman

  Last fall, as network executives, members of Congress and other hotshots gathered beneath a massive tent at Washington's Decatur House to celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Hardball," Chris Matthews began to address the crowd.

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• 'Hardball' Panel Predicts 'Nasty' and 'Vicious' GOP Attacks on Obama

  Published: February 27, 2008, 7:31 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Barack Obama, Bill Cunningham, Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, Norah O Amp 039 Donnell, Rush Limbaugh, Hardball, Msnbc

  for the nomination. ... HOWARD FINEMAN, NEWSWEEK: Two things. First of all John McCain promised not to do this kind of thing, McCain himself. MATTHEWS: Again, today he did that. FINEMAN: Yes, yes. MATTHEWS: He will not use the guy's ethnic heritage against him. FINEMAN: Yeah. He'll just, he'll just call him a traitor by saying he wants to

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• Olbermann: Ferraro Statement 'Clearly Racist: Are We in South Africa?'

  Published: March 11, 2008, 9:40 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Race Issues, Racial Preferences, Racism, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Howard Fineman, Keith Olbermann, Maggie Williams, Countdown, Msnbc, Newsweek, Video

  discussing with Newsweek's Howard Fineman Geraldine Ferraro's remarks about Obama and the way the Clinton campaign, far from denouncing her, sent out campaign manager Maggie Williams to try to turn the tables, accusing Obama of "false, personal and politically calculated attacks" for having the audacity to complain. View video here.

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• Olbermann Apologizes to Huff-Po About Hillary Needing a Beating

  Published: April 27, 2008, 7:30 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Hillary Clinton, Howard Fineman, Keith Olbermann, Countdown, Msnbc

  suggesting to Newsweek's Howard Fineman that the Democrats need someone to force Hillary Clinton to quit, "Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out." Sklar added an update, that an MSNBC spokesperson sent over a brief apology from Olbermann: "It is a metaphor. I apologize: the generic he' gender could

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• Newsweek's Fineman: Tune to Fox for Iran War; Bloggers Are Lazy [w/audio]

  Published: May 2, 2008, 11:04 am

  Tags: Iran, Howard Fineman, Media Business, Fox News Channel, Msnbc, Newsweek, Audio, Technology

  no further than Newsweek's Howard Fineman and the way he thinks the Bush administration uses the network. Fineman, who is Newsweek magazine's senior Washington correspondent and a regular on MSNBC, told an audience at the Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. on May 1 that if you want to know what the Bush administration has in

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