Chris Matthews Eviscerates Right-Wing Host Kevin James Over Obama "Appeasement" Claims

Utterly insane goings-on tonight on Hardball, where, for the second night in a row, the "Hardball Sideshow" segment was preceded by a scene that way outfreaked it. Tonight, host Chris Matthews took up President Bush's pointed attack on the Democrats in the Knesset today, asking if Bush was "out of line." Radio talk-show host Kevin James didn't think so, saying - and I'm paraphrasing - "RRRRAAAAAHHHH! OBAMA BLAAAAHHHH! HAMAS LOVES BARACK, YAAAAHHHH!" Chris Matthews was quick to ask, "Why are you screaming?"

But the best was yet to come. Matthews, convinced that James was being a fatuous ass, called him out on his knowledge of geo-political history, asking James if he knew what Neville Chamberlain did at Munich in 1938. If you answered, "He signed the Munich Agreement, conceding a portion of Czechoslovakia to the Nazi regime," you are right. If you answered, "He talked to Hitler, and caused 9/11 to happen and made the Statue of Liberty cry, just like Barack Hussein bin Laden wants to!" then you are Kevin James.

The ensuing melee is just far to shouty and unhinged to transcribe. Basically it ran like this, over and over again:

MATTHEWS: WHAT DID NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN DO? WHAT DID HE DO? YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT HE DID, DO YOU?

JAMES: WUBBA WUBBA HUH?

Until finally, James conceded, sort of, that he didn't know. Matthews replied: "Your problem, is, Kevin, you don't know what you're talking about. You don't understand there's a difference between talking to the enemy and appeasing. What Chamberlain did wrong was not talking to Hitler, but giving half of Czechoslovakia." He then growled, "This is pathetic," tossed it to Air America's Mark Green, who told James, "Kevin, when you're in a hole, stop digging."

Watch the video:

You sort of have to love the way he worked in a shot at Dana Perino there at the end. Anyway, as a famous newsman once said: "F*** it! We're doing it live!"

Comments

[scorpioleidy]

This is why I LOVE HARDBALL and Chris Matthews!!!! If you can't take the heat, don't go on the show!!

I was watching this show the day this happened, and I had NO IDEA it would turn out the way it did --- or that it would be replayed a ga-zillion times on TV.

It was THE BEST 'Hardball' show I've ever seen!!!!

[conscioushope]

Yes, this was as good as Jon Stewart or Colbert!!

Kevin looked like he was doing a parody of himself. It was so goofily funny!!
Made my day!

[Yukon Jack]

"If you can't take the heat, don't go on the show!!"

I guess that is the reason Obama never had the guts to appear on the O'Reilley Factor. And took him almost 800 days (that is WELL OVER TWO years, for mathematically challenged Democrats) to appear on FOX NEWS SUNDAY after the original invitation. Or the fact that these brave and courageous Democrat president wannabees never had the guts to appear for a debate moderated by a fair and balanced moderator. And that is the reason that when former Clinton aid Stephanopolous asked some tough questions of MESSIAH OBAMA, all the left-wing media declared him to be sleazy and dishonest.

Don't get me wrong, I DO like Matthews.

[Bonny9]

This is why I love Chris Mathews! He does not drop the question. Bonny

[booker52]

This is why the show is called Hardball. The GOP might want to pick someone with a brain next time, unlike their pick we now have sitting in the WH. Ya know the guy who really doesn't know history either and loves to tell folks that he doesn't read either.

[MrJoyboy]

Kevin James is from the old Scots-Irish school of diplomacy. Fight first, then talk.

[Rosanneofpgh]

Kudos to Chris Mathews. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while. lol

[mudfiles]

Unfortunately, the day after, Matthews claimed that James was a 'good guy, and will be back on the show'.

It's not like he needs to suck up to this guy or anything. The guy is obviously not good people and why would you want him back on your show?

[pithymaxim]

Well, does GE own or have financial interest in the station which employs Mr. James?

[LeftLeanWing]

Because Kevin James provided Good Entertainment value... This was hilarious. It was like watching an I Love Lucy episode with Lucy explaining to Ricky how she is Fred's mother.

[Durango]

And that is all it is. No insight, nothing beyond the 'conventional wisdom. Just "good entertainm­ent.'

With next to nothing to do with real news.

[ZekeBundren]

While it is an added bonus that Keven James is a reactionary nutball, a more important benefit of Mathews letting James throw himself to the mat very hard over and over again until James was out in the cold is that James illustrates for all to see what passes muster in professional education today.

A surprising (at least to me) number of today's on-air gasbags have gone through law school although not all passed a state bar exam. IMO law school has been degraded to the level where about anyone with the money who resented the way they were treated on the playground in elementary school can pass through and spend the rest of their lives with social and professional deference that is almost as ridiculously undeserved as the medical community gets.

That fellow Abrams took Coulter down hard on television a year, maybe two or so, ago. Gladdens the heart. I am very tired of these chatterboxes giving professional respect to people and ideas that do not deserve respect.

[Yukon Jack]

Abrams and his MSNBC cronies are extremely apt at bad-mouthing and insulting people that they, themselves could not hold a candle to, behind their backs.

What irks them is that they are - justifibly - totally ignored by the targets of their venom.

And what irks them even more is the fact that they are ALWAYS dead last in the TV ratings, be it the target group or the total viewers.

[Binx101]

At our Site a visitor posted that he thought it was hypocritical of me to suggest that James be fired, since we have invited and pointed people to James' advertisers in order to sound off but are proponents of free speech.

We never suggested any such thing.

We don't think any one should be silenced ... we do though feel strongly that they, you, we, me - should be accountable for what we say.

This guy James is s former Asst. US District Attorney turned propagandist taking his talking points from very anti-American sources.

We're not done with him or his ilk by a long shot.

We consider it terrorism on US soil.

Binx101
The Almost Daily Binx
http://binx101.wordpress.com

[rosal]

This is exactly the "knowledge" all those screaming right wing nuts have. Lucky for them, nobody ever challenges them. If heavy set Limbaugh, or Mr. Ann Coulter were challenged, we would see similar videos.
That's why education is the last priority for the Repugs. As long as they keep people uneducated, and misinformed, they will keep running and destroying the country until eternity.
Kudos to Chris Matthews.

[metalpipe]

Seeing Limbaugh get chased off the set would be worth the wait.

[nancytheragingliberal]

I saw that loud, repub. creep, and enjoyed Chris' going after him. He deserved what he got, and then some.

[Oceancal]

First, who is Kevin James?

Second, what does OMFG mean?

Thanks in advance,


OC

[theschoolpsych]

Oh my F"{@*ing! God is what OMFG means.

[Oceancal]

Nothin but class.....­..

Thanks schoolpsych, not up on all the abbreviations’.


OC

[Yukon Jack]

Your answer reveals who you are!

[baronmerlot]

That was an amazing piece of video. I'm not normally a fan of Mr. Mathew's, but he was spot on here. We too often let people get away with half-assed or uninformed comments because of our won insecurities regarding the facts. Fortunately, at least two people in that segment knew their history.

What frightens me most is that the conservative radio host has an audience that will hang onto and believe his every word, without researching things for themselves, as the Rush Limbaugh fans do. Ignorance will destroy us, just as those who fail to learn from history threaten to repeat it.

[metalpipe]

Yes, and it will take so much patience and guidance from those of us who have choosen to SEE the truth, and attention to non-judgemental listening to their ranting. Love them as they forget to love themselves.

[shag11]

I don't watch Tweety anymore, but I enjoyed this clip.

[ipv4]

LMAO, oh man that was priceless.­....Chris needs to do that more often which is to call these nutbags out on their b.s. It's because of people like Kevin james that we have a moron running for a second term not to mention a press secretary that does not know what the cuban missle crisis was all about. How is this possible? Can this country get any lower?

[Testtubebaby]

Kevin James kinda reminds me of a couple of states.

[jupitor]

You do have that right ipv4! It's just like what bush does! Gets up their and booster and don't know what he's talking about. Bush went on his hands and knees to the saudie to beg for more oil. If he spent the last 8 years putting mokney into finding alternative energy, instead of pouring billions into a dead end war, we might have had some modest solutions to get us through till a permenent fix could be found. Morans like Bush and Keven James ought to keep their mouths shut. Especially on foreign soil, where he opened it once to often, and even pissed of the Republicans base who know has to try to defend his crazy out of touch actions. the American people are out raged at Bush/Mccain! If Bush keeps this up, We won't have to fight Mccain at all. Even the hardest Core Repub's have to be out raged at Bush now!

[timetorevolt]

Why do the right wing nuts lips disappear when they start yelling their talking points? Reminds me of chicken lip Joe Scarbrough.

[coinier]

they open their mouths and their faces disappear.