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The Media’s Shameful, Inexcusable Distortion Of The Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision

One of the beauties of the transfer of power from major media operations to individuals, bloggers and tweeters is that they -- we -- can all serve as a sort of fact-checking peanut gallery. So it's hard to imagine that, in this day and age, the mainstream media could repeatedly misstate the holding of one...

The Media’s Shameful, Inexcusable Distortion Of The Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision

One of the beauties of the transfer of power from major media operations to individuals, bloggers and tweeters is that they -- we -- can all serve as a sort of fact-checking peanut gallery. So it's hard to imagine that, in this day and age, the mainstream media could repeatedly misstate the holding of one...

Chris Matthews Beams: President Obama’s Smile ‘Worth Five to Ten Points’ On Election Day

On Monday's Hardball on MSNBC, Chris Matthews gave President Obama' an early Valentine, fawningly gushing over the political power of his toothy grin. "I think that smile of his is worth five to ten points in the general!" Matthews exclaimed. He added the caveat , "Hs campaign strategists might feel differently."

Contraceptive Mandate Is Not About Religious Liberty, It’s About Female Liberty

On Wednesday evening's Hardball, host Chris Matthews convened an infuriatingly one-sided panel to discuss the Obama administration's recent decision not to permit an exemption for some religious employers to the contraception mandate. The Washington Post's Melinda Henneberger and Melissa Rogers of the Brookings Institution took turns trashing the decision, and no one spoke a...

Andrew Sullivan: GOP Can’t Stop Gingrich Because Of Support Among Fox News & Talk Radio Audiences

Newt Gingrich's family values have been the subject of much attention during the GOP primary race, and on his show today, Chris Matthews highlighted a poll which showed roughly half of the respondents rated Gingrich's personal standards poorly. Mathews asked panelist Andrew Sullivan if the GOP establishment still retained enough clout to heavily...

Chris Matthews Harangues Alex Wagner Panelist: ‘Are You A Romney Guy?’

On Wednesday's edition of Now with Alex Wagner, perpetual motion machine and Hardball host Chris Matthews showed up to liven things up. In a segment about the current slugfest between former Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Gov. Mitt Romney in Florida, Matthews (seated next to former Obama spokesman Bill Burton)...

Chris Matthews: Only Way Romney Can Beat Gingrich Is To ‘Catch Up To Him With His Hatred Of Obama’

Last night, all the networks were talking about Newt Gingrich and what his victory in South Carolina means for the future of the GOP presidential race and the chances that Mitt Romney will end up being the nominee. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews told Rachel Maddow that at this point in the race, Romney...

Williams To O’Reilly: Gingrich Wanted Debate Crowd To React To ‘Strange Character, Juan’

Juan Williams received some of the most visceral reaction of anyone during Monday's Fox News Republican debate when asking Newt Gingrich to explain his comments on child janitors. On tonight's O'Reilly Factor, he reacted to some of the fallout: namely, Chris Matthews claiming that Gingrich had pronounced his name in a...

Williams To O’Reilly: Gingrich Wanted Debate Crowd To React To ‘Strange Character, Juan’

Juan Williams received some of the most visceral reaction of anyone during Monday's Fox News Republican debate when asking Newt Gingrich to explain his comments on child janitors. On tonight's O'Reilly Factor, he reacted to some of the fallout: namely, Chris Matthews claiming that Gingrich had pronounced his name in a...

Chris Matthews Accuses Newt Gingrich Of Racially Charged Pronunciation Of The Name ‘Juan’

A big moment of last night's debate came when moderator Juan Williams and Newt Gingrich argued over Gingrich's comments that many have seen as condescending towards blacks. However, Williams really should have been offended due to Gingrinch's incredibly insensitive pronunciation of the word "Juan." At least, that's the opinion of Chris Matthews...

Chris Matthews Accuses Newt Gingrich Of Racially Charged Pronunciation Of The Name ‘Juan’

A big moment of last night's debate came when moderator Juan Williams and Newt Gingrich argued over Gingrich's comments that many have seen as condescending towards blacks. However, Williams really should have been offended due to Gingrinch's incredibly insensitive pronunciation of the word "Juan." At least, that's the opinion of Chris Matthews...

Romney Surrogate Gov. John Sununu Takes Turns Insulting MSNBC Anchors

Is former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu this election's Zell Miller? Challenging Chris Matthews to a duel was just about the only thing he didn't shout at the MSNBC team today, as he told Ed Schultz the statistics he cited were "a crock of crap," told Lawrence O'Donnell he didn't "know what...