Matthews to McCain: "[Y]ou've been a maverick and a lot of people like you because of that"
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SUMMARY: Despite questioning a few days earlier how people could "still think" Sen. John McCain is "a straight-talk maverick when he's been in league with the president," Chris Matthews asserted during an interview with McCain: "Let me ask you about your Republican Party, because you've been a maverick and a lot of people like you because of that, and I want to ask you how much of a maverick you are."
On the April 15 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, while interviewing Sen. John McCain as part of Hardball's "College Tour," host Chris Matthews asserted: "Let me ask you about your Republican Party, because you've been a maverick and a lot of people like you because of that, and I want to ask you how much of a maverick you are." Matthews went on to ask, "Would you put a person on the ticket with you, like the former governor of this state, who is very popular, Tom Ridge, even though he may disagree, even though he may disagree with you on the issue of Roe v. Wade and abortion rights?"
Matthews reverted to calling McCain a "maverick" despite having said the following during the April 13 edition of the Chris Matthews Show:
MATTHEWS: Why does that survive, that image of the straight-talk guy, after he went back and made up with the religious, the televangelists and those guys, [Pat] Robertson and [Jerry] Falwell? He made some other comments that -- he hugged Bush.
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MATTHEWS: How come they forgive him? They still think he's a straight-talk maverick when he's been in league with the president.
From the April 15 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about your Republican Party, because you've been a maverick and a lot of people like you because of that. And I want to ask you how much of a maverick you are.
Would you put a person on the ticket with you, like the former governor of this state, who is very popular, Tom Ridge, even though he may disagree -- even though he may disagree with you on the issue of Roe v. Wade and abortion rights? Would you put somebody on the ticket like that? On that one issue, would that stop him?
It is still an open question how the media got to be so stupid.
If we take the given that monied interests control the media to distract and fool the masses, wouldn't they still hire people slightly intelligent or qualified to do that job?
But then I can't explain the stupidity of the republican party either. If they had nominated someone smarter than Bush in 2000, one or two of their ideas might still seem viable today.
The whole country is stupid. I mean really, really stupid. Matthews is a symptom, if not a cause....
Been to a college campus lately? Where ten years ago students were sitting quietly doing reading or studying in coffeehouses and cafeterias, now all they do is check their cell phones.
It's terminal stupidity. People know nothing about the possibilities of life, they have been so crimped down by the MSM the last 20 years, they know nothing else. And could care less.
To Americans, this is the best of all possibile worlds, and they think "F' you" for saying anything different.
It's hopeless. It really is.
Yeah yeah yeah, the media likes to refer to McCain as a maverick. They've been doing it for ages, I see no signs of it changing...ever.
You can go on banging your head against the wall about it, or simply accept that which you can not change.
IMO, it's not going to win McCain the Oval Office. The Dems beating each other up is more likely to do that.
I partially agree in the sense that the media is irredeemable and can only lose their influence, not improve. But it sounds like MMFA is still trying to get those old supposedly conservative principles of accountability and personal responsibility to apply to the media.
"Yeah yeah yeah, the media likes to refer to McCain as a maverick. They've been doing it for ages, I see no signs of it changing...ever."
The problem here is, how can Matthews reconcile two completely different statements, made only a short period apart?
You know what I think it is-- besides stupidity? The guy was a drunk and a pothead at one time, for a long time-- and it's pathological.
I think this is the problem with many many pundits and newly arrived middle-agers in positions of authority.
I'll bet I'm right...