Rawstory:Chris Matthews under fire tomorrow

[cal04]

Chris Matthews under fire tomorrow
Thursday: Detailed report to hit MSNBC Hardball host hard: Developing...

http://www.rawstory.com/

[LiviaOlivia]

1. Was he caught with a Cub scout?

eom

[benburch]

2. I think I hear a closet door opening...

and I can hear bones rattling.

[PCIntern]

3. Oh NOOOOO!!!!

Not Tweety under fire...hhe's probably spitting all over his wife and lawyers tonight...too bad.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Abramoff charity connection?

Bet his name is coming up.

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. That would be my first guess

[0007]

18. Mine too!

Perhaps someone has photos of Chris and little boys?

I hope Phil Donahue replaces him.

[FreedomAngel82]

31. I thought he was connected to the deal?

:popcorn:

[Nothing Without Hope]

37. That's my guess - gave a link in Reply #36

[mandyky]

5. He deserves it!

He has been horrid this week!
And Friday will really be he pits!

[Sparkly]

7. A paid propagandist?

That'd fit.

[marmar]

8. Por quoi?

Does anyone have a clue as to what he's under fire for? I don't know why Raw Story posts headlines with not even a hint of what they're about.

:shrug:

[benburch]

10. It's called developing a buzz...

old technique. It works.

[KittyWampus]

27. That it does, Marketing & Packaging are important, though not the MOST

important, one would hope.

[blm]

9. Hah - maybe we made some headway questioning his shilling for his brother

by propping up the national GOP figures.

[MelissaB]

11. This could be interesting.

:popcorn:

[xray s]

12. eh!

Thy doom is at hand!

[Kingshakabobo]

15. LOL....LOL n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

23. Nice graphic of the dire situation Mathews has gotten himself into...

[stop the bleeding]

29. I hope that Sylvester is Fitzgerald and Tweety gets his ass fried, but

it is probably Abramoff related.

[medeak]

13. his one redeeming quality

he DID say on his show that Rove called him and said Plame was "fair game"

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

19. I posted this about a month or two ago re: Tweety and a possible

Abramoff connection.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/hardballs-chris-matthews-foxs-tony.html

[Virginian]

26. That's old news. I heard it about a month ago.

I might have heard it from you.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

41. Probably so. Maybe there's an update to the story.

[madeline_con]

14. Are he and DICK going hunting together? n/t

[Ivote]

16. Could This Be The Reason?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=608484&mesg_id=608484
He has had smerconish on his show in order to promote his brothers election in Pa.

[lamp_shade]

17. PNAC?

I don't know... I've always been suspicious of some kind of connection. He refuses to go anywhere near the topic. On Tuesday's show, Bob Shrum(?) brought it up. Chris couldn't move fast enough to get past it/change the subject.

[Mr Rabble]

38. It was Buchanon who brought up PNAC.

Tweety said, "yeah, but those guys arent in power any more".

I had to leave the room I was so angry.

[mitchtv]

20. My Guess? Move on will send out a letter

about the McCarthy episode. I don't expect much from Raw story's "headlines"

[Marr]

35. I think you just predicted it.

If there were any meat to the story, it'd be described in the headline.

[The Backlash Cometh]

21. The only hardball topic I want to hear from Matthews now, is his

story explaining that he HAD to say all those pro-Bush comments because they had him over a barrel. Blackmail, in other words.

[tridim]

22. Tomorrow's MSM headline:

"Popular liberal media host involved in <whatever>"

Do you think they can spin that?

[cal04]

24. news a while back about Chris

On March 5, 2003, Matthews helped put on a charity event for the purpose of raising $300,000 for the Capital Athletic Foundation. According to sourcewatch.com: “Fox News Channel's Tony Snow is master of ceremonies, and Fox's Brit Hume and MSNBC's Chris Matthews are aboard. Opera great Placido Domingo is an event committee member. But, this being Washington, the event will be mostly populated by powerful lawmakers, including Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas; Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.; and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.”

As Daily Kos correctly points out, there are two problems with Matthews’ involvement. The first is what in the world is Chris Matthews doing cavorting with Jack Abramoff and helping him generate money into his fake charity? The second problem and more unseemly, is what is Matthews doing at such a blatantly partisan event? A man who plays the role of impartial journalist is now exposed as being a darling of the Republican Party? Certainly no one would be surprised at Tony Snow’s involvement, since he works for Fox News, but Chris Matthews?

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_anthony__060105_chris_matthews_tied_.htm

In March, 2003, Hollywood Reporter online reported that "Fox News Channel's Tony Snow is master of ceremonies, and Fox's Brit Hume and MSNBC's Chris Matthews are aboard" for an event whose "purpose is to raise about $300,000 for the Capital Athletic Foundation." The Capital Athletic Foundation is one of Abramoff's various slush fund fronts. Ostensibly devoted to "needy and deserving" sportsmanship programs, the Washington Post discovered that though it collected nearly $6 million in its first four years of operation, "less than one percent of its revenue has been spent on sports-related programs for youths."

The fundraiser was cancelled because of the invasion of Iraq...No one is saying they are dirty. But neither can they be considered objective in reporting about a widespread scandal that they themselves have gotten entangled in, however innocently. And yet, they are among the leading voices telling America how to think about it.
http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2006/01/the_matthewsabr.html

[FreedomAngel82]

32. I'm not surprised because

in 2004 it was reported he went to Bohemian Grove so who knows what connections he made out there. When did he start really showing his rightwing true colors? Does anybody know?

[Pachamama]

40. All I know is it seems that there was a major shift in his ideological

bent sometime starting in 2003/2003....I used to always think of him as neutral and then all of the sudden he started shilling for the right.

So Chris Matthews went to the Bohemian Grove eh? Interesting.... :eyes:

[Cassandra]

46. He made it very clear to Matt Lauer before the 2000 election...

that he was voting for Bush. Lauer was still enough of a human being to be incredulous. Now they've both sold their souls; must be easier if they have lunch together.

[regnaD kciN]

25. Teaser headlines without details are meaningless...

...they could just as easily vanish down the memory hole tomorrow. Big whoop.

:eyes:

[jarab]

28. No gratuitous hits for a non-story. eom

...O...

[stop the bleeding]

30. could it be.......

SATAN!!!! :evilgrin:

[cynatnite]

33. Media Matters posted an article...it could be referring to this:

Summary: A Media Matters study of guests on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews shows that Republican and conservative guests have dominated Hardball during the first two months of 2006.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603080005

No surprise.

[napi21]

34. Yea, so we all knew that already! n/t

[Nothing Without Hope]

36. Could it be related to THIS story from January? I bet so - LINK:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2403270
thread title (1-27-06) Chris Matthews Tied to Jack Abramoff

(snip)

Daily Kos is reporting today that Mr. Matthews has ties to Mr. Abramoff and the details of those ties presents ethical problems for someone pretending to be a journalist. Jack Abramoff is the former super-lobbyist who bilked millions upon millions of dollars from his clients, bribed numerous republican congressmen, and even paid to have things inserted into the congressional record from those he did “business” with. Amongst the slime of Mr. Abramoff, he also ran a faux charity called the “Capital Athletic Foundation”, which allegedly was designed to provide sports related programs for youth. Instead, Jack used the charity as a front to funnel money in and out of to provide perks to the Congressmen he was bribing and doing business with. The reality is that less than ONE percent of the revenue of the Capital Athletic Foundation (CAF) actually went to sports related programs for youth. CAF was actually used to fund the overseas trips for Tom Delay and others we are starting to hear so much about.

(snip)

[lovuian]

39. I'll put my money that Mathews is tied to abrahmhoff

I remember Kucinich wouldn't come on his show and matthews was the one who always tried to tear the Dems down and build the repubs up.......

[Virginian]

42. It is 11:00. When are they going ot release their story? n/t

[Reciprocity]

43. Humm

Maybe Tweety is going to spend more time with his family and the missing Tucker Carlson is taking over his show.

[Reciprocity]

44. This just in.

Report reveals Chris Matthews spoke to myriad conservative groups... Hardball star won't say if he was paid... Developing...
http://www.rawstory.com/

[MadJohnShaft]

45. Now it says Took Money rather than spoke to...

Report suggests Chris Matthews took money from myriad conservative groups; Hardball star won't say if paid: Soon...

[Reciprocity]

47. Well that explains alot. So who and how much.