Matthews Should Fired

[erpowers]

Republican on their BS, and always pushing Republican talking points as if they were true. I am upset about the fact that Matthews allowed Delay to come on his show a spew BS. I only heard a part of the show, but that to me was like Bill Press realizing he only needed to listen to Rush Limbaugh's show for a few minutes to find the pieces of BS Limbaugh was pushing. I only needed to hear a few minutes of the show to find Delay's BS. First, Matthews should never have asked if there were any moral people in the Democratic Party. However, the fact that Matthews allowed Delay to BS his answer is just ridiculous. We all know that Delay does not believe their are any moral people in the Democratic Party. After all this is the man that pushed for the impeachment of a President for having sex. In addition, he made a living off of claiming that Democrats were not moral. Moreover, Although I like and respect Barney Frank we all know why he picked Frank. In the GOP mind if Frank is the only moral person that Tom Delay can think of in the Democratic Party then the party must be completely bankrupt on moral issues. Matthews should have called Delay out on his BS.

This is not the first time Matthews has done something like this. Matthews has been a major pusher of the idea that Republicans, for some reason, are more patriotic than Democrats. It would have been easy for Matthews to blow this talking point out of the water. Matthews based his idea of patriotism on the polls that claimed support for the war. Matthews never went deeper and asked how many of the people from the Midwest and other areas of major support for Bush had kids fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. On two occasions I have seen where parents who claimed to support Bush and the war admitted that if their kid had to fight the war they would vote against Bush in the 2004 election. Also, many should remember that when Bush made the mistake of saying he would bring back the draft the crowd at the event went almost completely quiet. All you could here was the grumbling of the crowd. Finally, the young Republicans are always claiming that people who do not support the war are communists or unpatriotic, but when they are asked to go fight the war they get all upset and give crazy reasons as to why they themselves will not go to the war. I am not sure Matthews had the Democratic kid who was the president of his college Democrats groups on his show and point out that this kid was going to war while the young Republicans were staying in college. There are many other ways that Matthews has allowed the Republicans to use his show and occasions that he did not call them on their BS, but I just do not want this post to be miles long, so I will stop now.

[dogday]

1. Wrote him a short but sweet little email: see below

I always knew you shrilled for the right, but your interview with Tom DeLay had to of taken a good bit of practice... My question is whose butt did you practice on, before you starting kissing DeLay's? I think I will invest in chapstick as it seems you will need lots of it.....

[acmejack]

2. He works for GE

The biggest war profiteer on the GD Planet! WTF do you expect form him? That is the exact corporate line he paid to spew. He is a corporate prostitute, nothing more, nothing less! He is handsomely paid to do exactly what he does.

What part of Corporate whore/shill is so damned difficult to understand? GE aka MSNBC will, if anything, reward him with a large bonus!

[gratuitous]

5. Winner, winner, chicken dinner

Matthews would be liable to being fired for cozying up to his subjects, if that displeased his bosses. He still has his job. Soooo, what can we deduce from those facts how his bosses view his job performance?

[Chiyo-chichi]

3. Repubs "picking the next President"

He hyped the hell out of that Rethug straw poll in Tennessee. "You won't believe what the Republicans are doing in Tennessee. They're picking the next President." Not the nominee, the Republicans are picking the next President and the Democrats are irrelevant (that's his implication.)

Couple that with the list of conservative groups he speaks to, and the pre-show and on-air sucking up to Delay, and you're right... he should be fired. But acmejack is right, too. He'll probably get a raise.

[adigal]

4. My letter to the powers-that-be at NBC and MSNBC

Dear Sirs:
How embarrassing for you that the host of the absurdly named "Hardball" was caught on camera telling a politician, "I owe you one, no, I owe you two." I have been a Hardball viewer for about 7 years, and have been bewildered by what has happened with Matthews. He is now nothing more than a tool of the Republicans, and he needs to be fired for that comment to Tom DeLay.

You no longer have even the pretense of a fair "reporter" in Matthews - that is why his ratings are tanking and Olbermann's are increasing. The idea of any serious journalist telling a politician "I owe you," is anathema to any idea we still have of a free and objective press.


Adigal

[tularetom]

6. The problem with Matthews is that no matter

how much he kisses r/w ass or how tough he talks about Dems, the wingnuts think he is a screechy librul (he is screechy for sure). That is why he "owed" delay. The fact that delay gave him that exclusive will in his mind five him credibility with those he deisres to impress. Alas, he still seems hysterical and effeminate, not "tough" like the real r/w mouthpieces.