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Matthews: 'I Have Been Against This ***** War From The Beginning'

thinkprogress.org — Video of MSNBC's Chris Matthews being interviewed by Don Imus on Thursday morning.

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  • tryclarity, on 10/12/2007, -22/+46Eh. Matthews sticks his finger in the wind and tries being all things to all people far too often for my tastes. He can verbally fellate Tom DeLay one moment, then say something like this the next. He's the embodiment of the kiss-ass inside the beltway 'journalist'.
    • bwd01, on 10/12/2007, -29/+9How can he be kissing ass when he makes his living grilling people? This video is one example.
    • leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -39/+13
      Chris Matthews is just another republican chasing polls to get better ratings...


    • LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -17/+33leobaby
      Chris Matthews is just another republican chasing polls to get better ratings...


      Are you high?
    • ashooner, on 10/12/2007, -18/+5chris mathews:dumb liberals::bill o'reilly:dumb conservatives

      the fact that Chris Matthews at least seems more intelligent I suppose says something about his audience
    • manumitx, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17Is more moderate than anything, with some Rep leanings. However its a shame in this country that moderate logical thinkers are looked down on because they don't think in terms of Us and Them and left and right.
    • bsoltani, on 10/12/2007, -18/+8Well said.

      He said he supports Ghouliani the criminal war profiteer for president and he's my anti-war hero? I'm tired of fake anti-war politicians being against the war 4 years after they supported it, sent American kids to kill Iraqi kids.

      Sorry, I didn't see your dumbass saying ***** when the drums of war were beating.
    • dootisterhans, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11I'm going to be Ghouliani for Halloween
    • GoodBrain, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10snipehack: Matthews writing speeches for Carter doesn't mean much of anything. Clinton hired a republican speechwriter. Plus, how long ago did Matthews write for Carter? 30 years ago? People's politics can change a lot in 30 years.

      Take for example, the neocons. Many of whom were originally far-left Trotskites before swinging sharply right (they are still Authoritarian assholes though). (BTW, Wofowitz and Abrahms both worked for a Democratic Senator, once upon a time).
    • BobTGoon, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4"Chris Matthews is just another republican chasing polls to get better ratings..."

      dugg down for ignorance. Chris Matthews sucks, but anyone who can do 10 seconds worth of research before spouting their opinion as fact will see that Matthews is far from being a republican. There aren't many republicans who worked as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter or served under Tip O'Neil during the Regan years.
    • leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Sorry guys, but Chris Matthews is clearly a republican.

      When he says "So you're one of us.." he wasn't talking to a democrat.
      His friends include Pat Robertson and Tony Snow.
      Thats no democrat.
    • wundie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5“You can please some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time”

      Or, my take on it…

      Agree with everyone, end up with no one.
    • allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5leobaby --

      I have many republican/conservative friends, but that doesn't make me republican/conservative.

      I like Chris Matthews because he seems like a reasonable humanist rather than a cult/party member. He asks good questions that don't seem to have partisanship to them.

      That's it. Reasonable. In my opinion.
    • FlaG8r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Matthews saying that he has spoken out against this war from the beginning is flat-out verifiable *****. I was a regular Matthews viewer in 2003 and he did NOT speak out against the Iraq war.
    • allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2FlaG8r --

      Chris Matthews said, "Every column I have written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it."

      Although he did say he was a "voice" against the war, but apparently he meant through his columns.
  • lumnar, on 10/12/2007, -20/+3I like to watch Chris Matthews' show. But who cares what he thinks/thought? Why is this news?
  • tryclarity, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4Well, 'Think Progress' is where this video originates, and they are a GREAT lefty blog to check in on often. Much good information to be found there. They've also made diggin' easy to do by incorporating the 'dig this' link in their posts.
    • helix400, on 10/12/2007, -21/+16Thinkprogress.org is also frequently inaccurate and shouldn't be trusted in any way without further investigating.

      Not to say that they're always wrong. Sometimes they are dead on. But other times, they dishonestly twist peoples words and claim things that were never said or implied.
    • TubaTechno, on 10/12/2007, -14/+19With as much left bias has ThinkProgress has, its very surprising that the Democrats still use it....considering how much they hate the right wing bias on Fox News...
    • chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -10/+11No, don't you see, ThinkProgress is "mainstream." LOL
  • Marku$, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2i watch Hardball about 30 seconds each day. it's usualy on fast forward on Tivo on the way to Countdown with Keith Olbermann
    • lakawak, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Dude...you TIVO MSNBC?

      You WATCH MSNBC?

      So, you are part of the 50 people that watch that channel.
  • tryclarity, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27MediaMatters does a fairly decent job catching Matthews at that thing he does - which should not be confused for 'journalism'.

    http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=chris+matthews

    He's a mediawhore wannabe opinion-maker and that's all he is.

    Having said that, what he now says about the Iraq War is correct, of course.
  • jav1231, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18"Chris Matthews is just another republican chasing polls to get better ratings..."
    You really don't know who Chris Matthews is, do you!?
  • naponx, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5I disagree. Kudos to Chris Matthews for calling out this travesty. While the media is busy filling the news with Anna Nicole Smith's son and Jonbenet Ramsey our soldiers are being killed by the dozens and we are on the brink of WWIII.
    • elebrio, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Kudos to Chris Matthews for coming clean on his liberal bias?
    • wpb83523, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2we are in WW III kiddo and Matthews should be assigned to Syria or Iran to report for the duration.
      The Pope had it right the only thing He forgot to add was that PC is a sin. lol
    • youareretarded, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@elebrio

      Being against the war doesn't mean you are liberal you ***** tool!
    • naponx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7exactly ... they just presented the primary GW mentality. Against the War = Unpatriotic


    • allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4naponx --

      You are exactly right. I don't give a rat's tiddly-ass about AnnaNicole Smith or JeanBenet Ramsey or who is cheating on whom or who is blowing whom when I have family and friends being slaughtered in this stupid war that is unjustified by my standards.

      Both the Bush Regime and the sensationalist media are to blame for polarizing the country. I'm embarrassed to be an American at times like this.
  • chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -14/+18Hey Chris, how about continuing to cover the Plame story, which you did for 2 years, after the facts no longer support your hopes and wishes that it was some combination of Rove/Cheney/Bush that was responsible.

    ***** hypocrite.
    • elebrio, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7but its too complicated now.... ;P
    • 2Fingers1Love, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Wow! you are the man chriskzoo!

      Nice ratings Mathews... check the score board!
  • schlurp, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Chris Matthews is an opportunistic ass.
    He would be considered way right of center in any western democracy.
  • LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -17/+10Looks like Digg Democrats are going to link every turd that drops from the left wing extremist blog ThinkProgress.

    Democrats: think for yourself - don't just be parrots.

    • brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Wait, now I think you might actually just be a robot. You've look for a key word or phrase, in this case "thinkprogress" and then make a predetermined comment.

      You've made this same pointless inflammatory comment on previous items.
    • LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1brufleth
      "Wait, now I think you might actually just be a robot".

      Yes Sherlock Holmes, I am a robot. We infiltrated your world years ago.

      "You've look for a key word or phrase, in this case "thinkprogress" and then make a predetermined comment."

      No that is not what I do. You are not very good at mind-reading

      "You've made this same pointless inflammatory comment on previous items."

      The truth hurts - doesn't it. There has been a flood of pointless mostly inaccurate links to the left wing extremist blog ThinkProgress. There is no values in linking to a blog that is usually misleading and often flat-out wrong.

      There is little to no value in linking to extremist blogs - be they left or right.
    • xpaladin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Internets.™ Serious Business.
    • allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Wait -- couldn't the same thing be said for anyone who submits digg stories from hotair.com?

      Why are you being so hateful?
    • steinbeckgirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@lastvisibledog please post all positive Republican links then. "Digg Democrats?" Most people I know are moderates. Just because YOU don't understand that doesn't mean you have to label people. Your true colors/common sense is shining through
  • catfish182, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just keep this in mind. ALL sites are opinion based. There is little to no way to just tell facts.

    The person that is writing it will write it as that person sees it.
    So you ether want to know what the person is thinking so you can get news that interests you OR live in a dream world thinking that there is anything out there reporting any news that is "fair and balanced"

    Knowing what Matthews views are is a important thing.
    I know what Olbermann thinks so i like him.
    • steinbeckgirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@catfish182. I believe those type of people are called egocentrist
  • cmw72, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6You people don't watch Hardball do you?

    Matthews job is to call people on thier *****. That's why it's called Hardball. Half the time he's playing devil's advocate to whomever is on his panel. It's called being a good moderator. He tries to get politicians to actually take a stand, not make some half-assed comment they can weasel out of later on when the polls change.

    Sure ... the dude has his own opinions, but he is neither a tool for the Right or the Left. He's kinda conservative, but not in a hawkish sort of way. He used to be a speech-writer for Jimmy Carter (who was also pretty conservative, for a Democrat).
    • chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Anyone on his show, when asked a tough question they don't want to answer, should just use Matthews response "It's too complicated now."
  • krewemaynard, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6People still watch Chris Matthews?
  • FazzMunkle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3"chris mathews:dumb liberals::bill o'reilly:dumb conservatives"

    I heeeeard that. Is it any wonder why people get sick of both sides?
    • elebrio, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Bill O'Reilly is clearly dumb, but is not a true conservative.
  • CharlieInCO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Children, please. I hate to crush your little dreams, but Chris Matthews is a hard-core Massachusetts Party Democrat. He was Tip O'Neill's Chief of Staff:

    "Prior to that, Matthews spent 15 years in politics and government, working in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a Presidential speechwriter and on the President’s Reorganization Project, in the U.S. Senate for five years on the staffs of Senator Frank Moss (Utah) and Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine), and as the top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. for six years."

    That's from Matthews' MSNBC bio. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080432/

    Contrary to popular belief, "not as far left as I am" does not equal "Republican."
    • appidydafoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Funny, because in my world a spineless ***** is a spineless ***** no matter which side of the fence you throw it on.
    • jlowe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well, at least we can trust mainstream television media as having no bias except for Fox news.

      Oh, wait...
  • urbandistrict, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I don't think anyone can argue with what is being said, so the argument then moves on to the motive of who's saying it.

    Regardless of what side of the fence you are on, it's pretty apparent that this war has been a complete mess on all fronts except perhaps for those who have gained from this misery.
    • LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0urbandistrict
      I don't think anyone can argue with what is being said

      You think wrong.
    • urbandistrict, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Trolls do not count as being "anyone"

      Find a bridge to crawl under please.
  • LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1 CharlieInCO
    Guys, I hate to crush your little dreams,


    Seems we have some Digg Democrats that like to make up "facts" on the fly.
    • dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Did Diggers come up with WMD's or the 9/11 iraq link?

      Damn they're smart!
    • LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0dshPls
      Did Diggers come up with WMD's

      No, that was Bill Clinton.

      Remember on the day of Clinton's impeachment he bombed Iraq - all the Democrats went on record about Iraq's WMD (to cover for Billy-Joe-Bob Clinton). This was three years before Bush was president.
  • cyclescott, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Wow, what a bold thing to say for a guy who had no hand it any decision regarding the war. Next he'll say he was "totally against" Nazi Germany since day one.
  • takehiro12, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I like Chris Matthews but 'Hardball' it's not. He asks some really idiotic questions that make me want to throw something at the TV. Norah O'Donnell should have his job permanently. She's always on the ball and asks tough, smart questions. Plus she's a hell of a lot cuter than Matthews.
    • SwordofKahless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree with you about Mathews but Norah who is sometimes his sidekick seems to lean the same politically with perhaps more of a liberal marxist slant rather than being an unbiased commentator.

      I thought MSNBC could not be any worse with Mathews but she pisses me off more than Mathews.
  • appidydafoo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Like rats from a sinking ship, they flee from the bows of the once championed Bush cabinet... GG, you spineless *****! Someone fire this assclown!
    • jlowe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Wow, you are a complete idiot.
    • LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0appidydafoo
      "Like rats from a sinking ship, they flee from the bows of the once championed Bush cabinet."

      That is a very stupid statement - clearly you have no idea what you are talking about.
  • forseti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I seem to remember Mathews saying he'd come around to the war after seeing footage of cheering Iraqis after the fall of Saddam's regime. I think it was on Jay Leno, just after the Saddam statue came down in Baghdad.
    • allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was happy to see the statue come down, and thought at least the Iraqis would have a great opportunity coming out of oppression. That was the high point of the whole thing; now it's gone down the toilet, with the worst commanding decisions being made by the brass and the commando-in-chief.

      It's sad and tragic. There's not much hope for those people now. Or for us.
  • omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2If only Matthews had been this outspoken when the war was gearing up – when it mattered. But he was probably too afraid of losing his job.
    • youareretarded, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'm sure had he known and all the other people that voted for the war had known that the intelligence they received was faulty, none of them would have been for it.
    • omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Wow, where do I begin to explain that someone with half a brain could have seen that the intelligence was flawed before the war began? With the tips we shared with UN inspectors that yielded nothing? With the aluminum tubes that were for ordinary missiles, not nukes? With the fact that the case for war was based on no actual weapons finds, but speculation and innuendo? And none of this really matters compared to my original point – that if Matthews was really against the war from the beginning as he now claims, he should have made a bigger stink about it then, when it really mattered.
    • youareretarded, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm sorry you have better hindsight than everyone else.
  • ryansasteroid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It amazes me that people still get bent out of shape upon learning that journalists have opinions and biases. People research and present the news. People have opinions and biases. These debates over who is biased is inane. Just make sure to get your news from more than one source.
  • ShiN3R, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's all just politics as usual. The left blames the right, the right blames the left, and whoever is in charge at the time never looks good. The media spins stories to get good ratings, we believe the media blindly, we vote what we believe, then when the opposite party wins, they already start to lose because any bad news sells. Then they lose, and the cycle starts over. Isn't it great!
  • hardkoretom, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Chris Matthews is a load of crap. He is a jackass who jumps on the bandwagon much like O'rielly does(republican as well). he can keep his stupid show on CNBC and suck the dick of all his guests and he can bitch about everything going on, but i dont see him running for any office to try and change what is going on in this country. he is one of those guys much like larry king where you just want to say stfu before you open your stupid mouth.
  • SwordofKahless, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Mathews, formerly of the Carter administration has proved himself time and time again as partisan hack for his party or political candidates of his choice rather than being an unbiased commentator. It is pathetic that NBC continues to provide him such a platform.

    Despite being a liberal Democrat, Mathews is a huge John McCain fan. Expect him to defend and push McCain for the 2008 Republican primary as he pushed for Kerry for the Dems. Once the nomination is made I expect he will push for whoever the Democratic candidate will be.
    • valeyard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Doesn't matter. Speaking as a Republican, McCain doesn't have a chance. The only reason he won a couple primaries in 2000 was because Democrats were crossing parties to vote for McCain. They were doing this because they knew Gore couldn't beat Bush but he could beat McCain.

      McCain has angered WAY too many of the Republican base to ever win Republican nomination, and if he changes parties to Democrat he'll get the same treatment the racist liberals gave to Leiberman, because McCain voted for the war.

      In short, there is no way McCain is going to be president and Mathews knows it. He only strokes McCain for the same reason other liberals in the media do so. Because he causes trouble in the Republican party. The minute McCain is no longer useful, the media will treat him the same way they did Senator Packwood.

      McCain is a fool for thinking the media loves him for any other reason than he is their pawn.
  • Compared2What, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Poor ole "Chrissy". . . still having a "Hissy".

    Once a rectum, always a rectum!
  • gardnert1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1When he said app er po (spelling???) i just thought of that faggy old guy in the matrix... and then i became sad.
  • deanmeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Mathews is just another left leaning MSM ex-Clintonite who hates Bush and has "Bush derangement syndrome." I don't mind both sides having opinions, but he tries to hide his disdain for this administration. I do admire that he is starting to show his true colors now.
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