Chris Matthews Is a Shill for the Insider Machine

[marmar]

Chris Matthews Is a Shill for the Insider Machine

Tuesday, 04 August 2015 00:00
By The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed



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First, they ignored him.

Then, when Bernie started surging in the polls and they couldn't get away with ignoring him, they laughed at him and said he was just another long-shot protest candidate.

When that didn't work, they went on the attack, seeking to paint Bernie as bad on race, guns, and immigration.

Now the mainstream media has started going after Bernie for, you guessed, it being a "socialist."

The man leading this line of attack is MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who first brought it up on an episode of "Hardball" Thursday night when he asked Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz the difference between a "Democrat like Hillary Clinton and a socialist like Bernie Sanders."

Schultz couldn't give a straight answer and flubbed the question once again when Chuck Todd asked her it on "Meet the Press" yesterday. .................(more)

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32198-chris-matthews-is-a-shill-for-the-insider-machine

[TDale313]

1. Yep. Looks like we're somewhere between...

Laughing at him and fighting him. What's that last stage again? 😉

[daleanime]

8. +1

[Vattel]

2. He is a very lazy man. He never thinks or ponders or studies; he just spews out thoughtless crap.

[ladjf]

3. Mathews has lost his person hood. He is now just a talking stooge. nt

[Atman]

4. Who didn't see this coming?

I've been saying this since before Bernie was running. Americans will not elect a Socialist. Not because we wouldn't actually do well, do much better, with a truly Socialist system, rather it is because we've been indoctrinated our entire lives to believe that "Socialism is EVIL!" Americans are mostly too stupid to even understand our current fucked-up system of Corporate governance, never mind voting for something they learned was the Devil incarnate, way back in grade school.

I love you Bernie. But it will never happen.

[ibegurpard]

5. Matthews has ALWAYS been awful

[Skwmom]

6. Right after Ed Schultz got fired, Matthews went crazy supporting Clinton

against some Republicans and he increased his disparaging of Sanders.

Firing someone from their program is a sure way to keep the other talking heads in line.

[onecaliberal]

7. Tweety is a corporate shill.

[restorefreedom]

9. matthews is salivating

at the thought if an epic clinton bush showdown. he only has guests on that will say bernie has no chance or "is not a serious candidate." i don't think i have even heard him say the names omalley, chafee, or webb.

he is a hack.

[Adrahil]

10. Tweety is what he is.

He is not a deeply analytical thinker. If you want that, read Nate Silver. He relies on 'common sense discourse" and is an intuitive thinker.

His political instincts are interesting (and often right), but he is easily swayed by dominant narratives.

[Ron Green]

11. Tweety is first and foremost an entertainer.

On television, they almost all are. We've been in the media culture for so long that lots of people don't understand that.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Most people had this Shill figured out years ago.

This Guy is a product of the East Coast WASP Society. We are all outsiders to this Duffuss.

[olddots]

13. he praises Tip O'Neil

but he mimics Carl Rove .

[Cleita]

14. Tweety has a political weather vane attached to his brain.

His opinion changes as the vane changes direction. It's too bad that he has become a news demimonde to the corporation that pays him. It's too bad to because Chris really knows his history, politics and how Washington operates. There was a time he was an honest journalist. I used to read his columns in the San Francisco Chronicle before he became a television personality and they were brilliant. It's too bad he followed the money instead.

[polichick]

15. This is a guy who gets off on the Aqua Velva of those manly Republicans...

He's predictable.