He needs to be Obama's Press Secretary. Fer chrissakes Matthews, zip it up.

Though the image of the "media" as completely in the bag for Obama, Matthews is a prime example of a talking head that doesn't understand subtlety with his opinion when discussing a major political figure.

I hope he is classified in the same category as Fox News when considering his opinion on political matters.

ALL 3 MAJOR CABLE NEWS OUTLETS PEDDLE TRASH AS INFORMATION, NEVER REALLY COVER A STORY BEYOND THE SUPERFICIAL EXTERIOR, AND CONSISTENTLY PERFORM ONLY SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN MY I REMEMBER MY COLLEGE NEWSPAPER.

More after the break when John C Reilly (Democratic Strategist) will take on Will Ferrell (Republican strategist) as they attempt to dig deep into the government's efforts to fix these problems.

This is [insert your favorite cable news program], your home for politics and drug fix for breaking news. Remember, you can't get that ideological banter everywhere! You won't hear 8 hours of rambling about the same inane topic anywhere else! So come on home to [insert your favorite cable news channel].

sloppy shoes: ALLY COVER A STORY BEYOND THE SUPERFICIAL EXTERIOR, AND CONSISTENTLY PERFORM ONLY SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN MY HOW I REMEMBER MY COLLEGE NEWSPAPER.

FTFM.

on the one hand, i do think there is something to be said for media that don't seem to understand that the america they are reporting from is a vestige of the 80s and 90s that hasn't really existed for some time now. there are a lot of reporters that don't get it. that don't understand that their common wisdom isn't as widely held in america as it is inside their insulated little bubble.

and of course, on the flip side of that, some journalists do get it. they aren't all on msnbc, though there are probably more on msnbc than other cable news networks. most write for websites.

however, on the other hand, chris matthews is a raging moron with chronic foot in mouth disease. and by the way, he isn't one of the ones that really gets 21st century america; to wit, he's always talking about "normal, white working class people", when the majority of the country isn't that demographic.

Because Fox News is so clearly supporting Obama by calling him racist names and insulting him?

GAT_00: Because Fox News is so clearly supporting Obama by calling him racist names and insulting him?

Impartial political journalist Chris Matthews on impartial news network that employs him: "It sure as hell helps to be on MSNBC today. Let's talk straight here: This is the network that has opened its heart to change"


The part in bold helps determine the origin of this particular story.

MSNBC is pretty openly liberal. They don't really pretend not to be. What's the problem?

As far as News Talking Heads are concerned, the guy's totally harmless. I'm sorry, but I can never feel anything more than humored by him. He's biased as all hell but actually knows a thing about politics and history (unlike O'RLY), doesn't succumb to the temptation of fake histrionics (unlike Olbermann), and doesn't seem overtly hostile toward dissenting opinions (unlike the whole of FOX News). Most of the time he acts like an over-caffeinated precocious 6 year old on his way to Santa's Village. We should all be so energetic about our careers.

Besides, he still has some intellectual capital left over from his verbal murdering of (the non-fat) Kevin James.

Y'all got to get over the idea that cable news networks produce "news" as a product. Networks produce audiences and sell the attention spans of those audiences to corporations.

You get all lathered up about the failure of news networks' "objectivity" and you miss the point entirely. Objectivity is not in their business plan. Telling what you want to hear over and over and over again so that you watch their sponsors' commercials is.

Does anyone actually watch MSNBC, I mean whole programs not just in passing as they change channels or when one of their talking heads says something silly and it gets picked up by the other talking heads.

I mean people watch CNN, Fox, heck even BBC, but I don't even know what channel on the cable box I would find MSNBC. I mean it is a combination of Microsoft and NBC why would anyone thing that would be good? Do you have to reboot your TV three times a week if you watch MSNBC?

I flipped through the different channels during the Inauguration. MSNBC had, by far, the worst coverage. The talking heads just would not shut up. And nothing they said was interesting. Do these people really think their stupid discussions add to the experience?

Tabatha Static: Y'all got to get over the idea that cable news networks produce "news" as a product. Networks produce audiences and sell the attention spans of those audiences to corporations.

You get all lathered up about the failure of news networks' "objectivity" and you miss the point entirely. Objectivity is not in their business plan. Telling what you want to hear over and over and over again so that you watch their sponsors' commercials is.

Which is why news "corporations" should be public trusts and publicly funded.

sloppy shoes: Tabatha Static: Y'all got to get over the idea that cable news networks produce "news" as a product. Networks produce audiences and sell the attention spans of those audiences to corporations.

You get all lathered up about the failure of news networks' "objectivity" and you miss the point entirely. Objectivity is not in their business plan. Telling what you want to hear over and over and over again so that you watch their sponsors' commercials is.

Which is why news "corporations" should be public trusts and publicly funded.

Like Voice of America?

/used to listen to it, Radio Moscow, and Radio Havana-Cuba on shortwave.

sloppy shoes: Which is why news "corporations" should be public trusts and publicly funded.

bill moyers does a bang up job on pbs. so i agree.

burndtdan:
bill moyers does a bang up job on pbs. so i agree.

I would agree. Though I listen to the podcast. Is that cheating?

I watched the some of the coverage on MSNBC when Bush was leaving the Capitol and getting on the chopper. Those announcers were quite rude and disrespectful to the former president and vice president. While I don't like Bush either, they were not very professional in their comments during such a momentous occasion.

feckingmorons: Does anyone actually watch MSNBC, I mean whole programs not just in passing as they change channels or when one of their talking heads says something silly and it gets picked up by the other talking heads.

I watch Contessa Brewer's segment every day before I go to work, but that's because she's a stone cold fox.

I talked to a guy who interned at CNN, MSNBC, and FOX for his sociology of mass media degree. He said that the internal culture of FOX was the most conservative and CNN the most liberal. In his opinion, MSNBC was much closer to FOX than CNN.

They've turned that station into total unwatchable shiat.

How bad do you need to be to make CNN look good by comparison.

I suppose they are still a few twelve year-olds who enjoy it.

F*ck off, subby.

Seriously, is the kind of childish BS we can expect from you Republican, er I mean FARK INDEPENDENT™ losers in the next eight years?

Grow the fark up. And shut up if you don't have anything intelligent to add.

Mmmhmm

DamnYankees: MSNBC is pretty openly liberal. They don't really pretend not to be. What's the problem?

That is a fairly recent development. They hired Olbermann and Maddow and are now allowing Matthews to tell how he feels. After so many years of the right claiming left-wing bias I say...WELCOME, MSNBC.

/biatches brought it on yourself

MMmmhmmm!

Beertender: I talked to a guy who interned at CNN, MSNBC, and FOX for his sociology of mass media degree. He said that the internal culture of FOX was the most conservative and CNN the most liberal. In his opinion, MSNBC was much closer to FOX than CNN.

I think MSNBC found a niche to exploit since then.

PWNtheCCP: MMmmhmmm!

WTF is that?

whidbey: F*ck off, subby.

Seriously, is the kind of childish BS we can expect from you

Heh, subby really struck a nerve with you. Why? MSNBC is becoming more unprofessional and more liberal. That's common sense. And on Fark, those things are pointed out. So why cry about it so much?

CNN = Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Larry King
MSNBC = Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow
FOX = Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity

I'll take MSNBC, thanks.

eraser8: I flipped through the different channels during the Inauguration. MSNBC had, by far, the worst coverage. The talking heads just would not shut up. And nothing they said was interesting. Do these people really think their stupid discussions add to the experience?

I completely agree, their prattle drove me farking insane, and I like the folks who were prattling. It chased me back to CNN which I expected to be just as unlistenable, but it was surprisingly unobtrusive (at least by the time that I switched over -- I'd avoided listening to Bill Bennett bloviate on CNN earlier). It was refreshing to find that some producer had the good sense to tell the talking heads to shut the hell up and let the ceremony speak for itself. It spoke volumes.

whidbey: F*ck off, subby.

Seriously, is the kind of childish BS we can expect from you Republican, er I mean FARK INDEPENDENT™ losers in the next eight years?

Grow the fark up. And shut up if you don't have anything intelligent to add.

You don't have to be a Republican to agree that Matthews' statement is sily at best, unprofessional and biased at worst.

whidbey: F*ck off, subby.

Seriously, is the kind of childish BS we can expect from you Republican, er I mean FARK INDEPENDENT™ losers in the next eight years?

Grow the fark up. And shut up if you don't have anything intelligent to add.

Dude, switch to decaf.

LOL. ROFLCSI. If this doesnt prove theres a liberal medium I dont know what will. This psycho basically admits to being a paid monky of the democratic party and no one bats an eye...do you have some kind of mentalists illness to not see this? Or is it because they know its every journalists tru calling to push the lib agenda. The lies raines down upon me from these news networks and libs laugh. I feel we are inching ever closer to state control of all media and if anything the democrat party should be charged with criminal intent to brainwash the populace. Or maybe even breaking and entering because they basically broke into MY HOUSE to feed me these lies through the tv. Therefore I can shoot them to defend my life, thats the law. Hey journalists and democrat politicians, dont wanna get shot? Dont wanna get your criminal minds splattered all over my walls while fragments of your bones adorn my carpet? DONT BREAK INTO PEOPLES HOUSES.

helix400: Heh, subby really struck a nerve with you. Why?

It's not obvious to you? That the anti-Obama f*cks have nothing as usual, so they make up more sh*t to whine about. They're the ones crying.

I'm the one who's sick of it. You should be too.

But it doesn't sound like you are, in fact, if I didn't know better, I'd say you agree with them and you've probably got nothing as well. Just a hunch.

StopArrestingMe: LOL. ROFLCSI. If this doesnt prove theres a liberal medium I dont know what will. This psycho basically admits to being a paid monky of the democratic party and no one bats an eye...do you have some kind of mentalists illness to not see this? Or is it because they know its every journalists tru calling to push the lib agenda. The lies raines down upon me from these news networks and libs laugh. I feel we are inching ever closer to state control of all media and if anything the democrat party should be charged with criminal intent to brainwash the populace. Or maybe even breaking and entering because they basically broke into MY HOUSE to feed me these lies through the tv. Therefore I can shoot them to defend my life, thats the law. Hey journalists and democrat politicians, dont wanna get shot? Dont wanna get your criminal minds splattered all over my walls while fragments of your bones adorn my carpet? DONT BREAK INTO PEOPLES HOUSES.

I think the psycho=Psych was a stretch but otherwise...well done.

Marshall Willenholly: I watched the some of the coverage on MSNBC when Bush was leaving the Capitol and getting on the chopper. Those announcers were quite rude and disrespectful to the former president and vice president. While I don't like Bush either, they were not very professional in their comments during such a momentous occasion.

Is that so. I'm sure you're able to provide examples of their lack of professionalism. We'll be waiting.

whidbey: helix400: Heh, subby really struck a nerve with you. Why?

It's not obvious to you? That the anti-Obama f*cks have nothing as usual, so they make up more sh*t to whine about. They're the ones crying.

I'm the one who's sick of it. You should be too.

But it doesn't sound like you are, in fact, if I didn't know better, I'd say you agree with them and you've probably got nothing as well. Just a hunch.

Looks like someone can't handle his own party's eight year old medicine...

The Fox Movie Channel had a great "Planet of the Apes" marathon. That counts as support for Obama.

dySWN: Looks like someone can't handle his own party's eight year old medicine...

What party might that be?

I watch MSNBC, but even I rolled my eyes at this.

Look, the network is actually fairly neutral... Until about five o' clock. Until then, they report the same "Breaking News" that isn't really breaking news and puff stories that all the other networks do. And they keep themselves pretty in check most of the time.

But man, when Chris, Olbermann, and Maddow come on, it becomes insane. And I'm a RAGING liberal. But at least then, at those times, it's on their own shows. That's why I watch them. I know what I'm going for. It's not the news, I've heard the news all day, I go to these shows to hear people rant their opinions on the news.

Where I draw the line is when they let it spill over into the other hours when they are suppose to pretend their are reporters. Remember during the RNC, of course, when Olbermann couldn't stop calling people out in the rudest ways possible and Matthews practically foaming at the mouth.

All I ask is that you keep it in your pants until your shows come on, guys. That's why you HAVE those shows. But when you are on the fake anchor desks acting like you are journalist, why don't you go ahead and pretend like you have a little journalistic integrity and objectivity for a little while?

Us on the left don't really need talking heads and our opinions fed to us. We also don't need our news filtered for things we don't like to hear. Just give us the news, we can dish all it over tonight after dinner. In the meantime, like someone above me said, keep it in your pants. You're making the rest of us look bad.

whidbey: It's not obvious to you? That the anti-Obama f*cks have nothing as usual, so they make up more sh*t to whine about. They're the ones crying.

I'm the one who's sick of it. You should be too.

But it doesn't sound like you are, in fact, if I didn't know better, I'd say you agree with them and you've probably got nothing as well. Just a hunch.

You sound like a raving, water-carrying lunatic.

Marshall Willenholly: I watched the some of the coverage on MSNBC when Bush was leaving the Capitol and getting on the chopper. Those announcers were quite rude and disrespectful to the former president and vice president. While I don't like Bush either, they were not very professional in their comments during such a momentous occasion.

Actually, even Olbermann said that singing "Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye!" and booing Bush was too much, disrespectful, and uncalled for.

When Olbermann says you've crossed the line of acceptable Bush hate, you may want to take a step back and reevaluate your stances...

whidbey: F*ck off, subby.
Seriously, is the kind of childish BS we can expect from you Republican, er I mean FARK INDEPENDENT™ losers in the next eight years?
Grow the fark up. And shut up if you don't have anything intelligent to add.

The idiot that was pissed at Chris Matthews for his coverage yesterday is outraged that submitter posted a quote from Chris 'My job is to make this presidency successful' Matthews. And then brings out his stupid 'fark independent' meme to boot. LOL.

GaryPDX: He needs wants to be Obama's Press Secretary intern. Fer chrissakes Matthews, zip it up.

FTFY.

Arnold T Pants: The idiot that was pissed at Chris Matthews for his coverage yesterday is outraged that submitter posted a quote from Chris 'My job is to make this presidency successful' Matthews.

1. Not an idiot, thanks.
2. Confused C. Matthews with C. Wallace yesterday
3. You're still a Fark Independent™ who's too embarrassed by the Bush administration to admit it
4. subby is an ass, and if this is the kind of childish BS we're going to expect from you in the next 8 years, then get used to never being in power ever again

Frank N Stein: whidbey: It's not obvious to you? That the anti-Obama f*cks have nothing as usual, so they make up more sh*t to whine about. They're the ones crying.

I'm the one who's sick of it. You should be too.

But it doesn't sound like you are, in fact, if I didn't know better, I'd say you agree with them and you've probably got nothing as well. Just a hunch.

You sound like a raving, water-carrying lunatic.

This

The Great EZE: As far as News Talking Heads are concerned, the guy's totally harmless. I'm sorry, but I can never feel anything more than humored by him. He's biased as all hell but actually knows a thing about politics and history (unlike O'RLY), doesn't succumb to the temptation of fake histrionics (unlike Olbermann), and doesn't seem overtly hostile toward dissenting opinions (unlike the whole of FOX News). Most of the time he acts like an over-caffeinated precocious 6 year old on his way to Santa's Village. We should all be so energetic about our careers.

Besides, he still has some intellectual capital left over from his verbal murdering of (the non-fat) Kevin James.

...and this.

"Coming up next on Hardball, Hurrrrrr and Durrrrrrrrr, stick around!"

Is this the same impartial Chris Matthews that occasionally flirts with running for Democratic Senator from PA?
Folks, I think the cat's out of the bag on this one. Matthews, Olberman, and then they added Maddow just in case you didn't get the hint.
Oddly, they'll never get the left's loyalty the way Fox has won the right's.

GaryPDX: He needs to be Obama's Press Secretary. Fer chrissakes Matthews, zip it up.

You're like the Saddam Hussein of Fark. Everything you say, no matter if it's valid or not, ends up being assumed to be completely wrong. Congrats. If you had any self respect you'd start over with an alt and a new attitude.

whidbey:
3. You're still a Fark Independent™ who's too embarrassed by the Bush administration to admit it

Using the meme Fark Independent™ is far more embarrassing than anything. It actually proves that you are an idiot.

4. subby is an ass, and if this is the kind of childish BS we're going to expect from you in the next 8 years, then get used to never being in power ever again

Why is the submitter an ass? Matthews and MSNBC are not impartial. If you think they are you are an idio... er, nevermind. You wouldn't understand.

Chris Matthews will suck whatever cock will get him the most attention. Whether he's liberal or conservative isn't the question, the question is whether he has any journalistic merit. And the answer is no, he doesn't.
Olbermann is a little too gleeful recently. Maddow is keeping a more respectful-but-happy attitude.

Now, here's an interesting thought. We know Matthews would like to run for PA-Senate in 2010, but MSNBC likes him as a host. Maybe this retarded outburst is to get him out of favor, so he can leave the network and embarrass himself as a politician rather than an extremely large and loud talking head.