Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/23/why-did-chris-matthews-say-ber.html
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He’s an asshole?
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Because he’s an idiot? Because he’s incredibly out of touch? Because he’s scared for his own millions?
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Matthews is the ancient dinosaur of msnbc that no-one has been able to explain to me why he is still around.
Okay he had prostate cancer and they maybe supported him through that with health insurance which was nice of them.
But he is a disgusting, belching, farting relic (seriously he is so horrible during his regular time slot, it’s like he is eating before/during) way past his prime.
Maybe he has some blackmail on some exec there, or maybe he is terrified to retire because he will lose health-insurance (hey he should support Bernie for that alone).
But it’s not just him, they are all towing the anti-bernie corporate line.
The only great hosts like Melissa Harris Perry were terminated long ago for refusing to go with the “but her emails” and hype breaking news on every candidate-trump idiocrasy. Even Maddow is kinda terrible now with her endless breathless drama instead of issue coverage.
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Because “left-wing” media in the US is right of center, just like the members of the Democratic establishment.
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Is he gunning for a spot on fox news as an “awakened former liberal media person who has seen the light”?
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Hey, that’s impressive; a headline that disproves Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.
Or better still, we can adhere to Betteridge and answer: “No.”
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Indeed.
You know, Chris Matthews actually used to work for Roger Ailes on a cable channel called America’s Talking. Ailes eventually left to start Fox News, taking folks like Steve Doocy with him. And what happened to America’s Talking? It became MSNBC.
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Right?!
He’ll be part of the Fox News “Never-Berner” hires when Fox News gets relegated to being the moderate Republican channel and Trump TV becomes a legit thing.
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That explains that clip of him laughing with John Kasich & saying something to the effect of “I love Roger”
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Whenever Chris Matthews and James Carville and their ilk come onscreen to hand-wring, I feel like they should be introduced with, “And now let’s hear what the '90s has to say…”
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There are some nominal democrats in the running, whose interests would be better served by another 4 years of Trump, than a Sanders presidency.
Everyone who isnt a millionaire needs to take their calls for party unity with a grain of salt.
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That was my immediate thought upon reading the title of this post.
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owned by comcast
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Chris Matthews is a corporate stooge.
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It’s great to see people arguing the way you are having to do so now on their back foot like that.
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Chris Matthews, the subject of the boing boing post we are discussing, literally expressed, earlier the same day, openly, exactly the position that you are so incensed that someone might have imputed to him.
This is unequivocally true of Bloomberg, so I’m not sure why @mcsnee is assuming that he’s ascribing it to all non-Sanders Dems.
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Lolwut?
You mean sound bites like his fully fleshed out M4A proposal that has a complete plan for funding?
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Glad you’re enjoying it!
The same way it’s done in all the other developed countries: We use the National Science Foundation to fund it. Treating sick people and curing disease is too important to let it all swing on whether or not that’s profitable.
It’s 100% a done deal in the rest of the developed world. I don’t know why you think it’s so impossible or difficult mechanically.
That part is tricky. I guess we just have to vote out inhumanitarians and hope the trumpists die soon. They won’t but that’s the only way you can fix a judiciary selected to maximize cruelty and human suffering.
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