Chris Matthews Calls Mitt Romney Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (VIDEO)

Chris Matthews and Martin Bashir had some harsh words for GOP candidate Mitt Romney on Monday.

Matthews appeared on Bashir's MSNBC show, live from Des Moines, Iowa. The two MSNBC pundits were discussing the high volume of negative television and radio ads attacking Newt Gingrich in Iowa. The ads are paid for by the super PAC Restore Our Future, which Matthews described as "basically a Romney operation."

Bashir called Romney "disingenuous" and asked if he was playing an "entirely duplicitous campaign." According to Bashir, Romney was on the campaign trail acting "as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, as the most civil of all candidates."

Matthews agreed with Bashir and likened Romney to Dr. Jekyll — the protagonist in Robert Louis Stevenson's story about a kind scientist who takes a potion and turns into a homicidal maniac, Mr. Hyde. "He plays Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde runs the ad campaign," Matthews said of Romney. Matthews added that Romney "goes around quoting verses from 'America the Beautiful' as if there's something new to talk about...meanwhile his ads are kicking the hell out of Newt Gingrich."

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Comments

[avacat]

09:18 PM on 01/03/2012

Why does this dypsomaniac twit assume anyone cares what he thinks..?

[robjh1]

06:25 PM on 01/03/2012

Oh please Chris. Doesn't he remember 2008 and he kept pushing Barack Obama to go negative against Hillary Clinton to make the election exciting. When Obama didn't go negative Chris went negative. These media pundits are jokes.

[spongeworthy06]

06:14 PM on 01/03/2012

If only the Libs Dear Supreme leader Obama had gotten this kind of scrutiny, we might actually have gotten a real leader

[thehardertheycome]

08:50 PM on 01/03/2012

Get over it. The media was all a buzz in 2008 when Obama went up against Hillary Clinton but it seems that you have forgoten that.

Did it occur to you that with the vast network of FOX News that if there was "something" on Obama that FOX would have covered it and would not have to continuously make things up that are so easily debunked by the professional media?

[Maxeyw]

09:46 PM on 01/03/2012

Get a life spongie we do have a leader it is just one you don't like tough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HumanLioness]

12:30 AM on 01/04/2012

Maxeyw, you're correct. We do indeed have a leader, a real leader. F&F.

[mjdloc157]

05:47 PM on 01/03/2012

lets see Chris mathews ,worked on 2 failed campaigns, his "legs tingle" whwn Obama speaks this man is so in love with Obama its pathetic.,Martin Bashir is only known for spending a day with Michael Jackson ,so thats that, this whole netwok is obamas campaign team

[Elbrando]

05:28 PM on 01/03/2012

and this isn't obvious because......

Of course Mitt is running the ads. He was scared of Newt and went on the attack with the millions of dollars he's collected.

[wehrleone]

04:57 PM on 01/03/2012

I don't give an Fxxx anymore either way. My country has taken a dump and is not coming back . DOWN, DOWn, DOwn, Down, down. Good luck gang. You ALL deserve what you get.

[citizenlegisators]

04:33 PM on 01/03/2012

it is so precious that the HP author has to write an explanation of Dr Jekyll

[suds mcduff]

04:49 PM on 01/03/2012

That was for the benefit of the tbag trolls....

[rjhavron25]

04:27 PM on 01/03/2012

Here comes the knee jerk Republican responses. Attack the media for reporting the truth about a gutless politician. Instead of admitting that the duplicitous Mitt Romney will say or do anything to get elected, the GOP fringe attacks Matthews & Bashir for revealing the obvious. This "new" GOP & it's dim acolytes are a disgrace to a once great Party (which included George Romney, not his weaselly son).

[mylittlepwny]

04:18 PM on 01/03/2012

I think the media is working well within its job description for calling Romney out here for adverts made in his name while He tries to play innocent pointing out he has no control over the PAC. It is just a shame that the criticism runs in such a partisan line.

[OlongapoEd]

02:51 PM on 01/03/2012

People in the MSM are actually calling out MittseyWittsey for his misdeeds? Amazing!

[JakeMontero]

02:07 PM on 01/03/2012

Chris Matthews and Martin Bashir bashing Republicans - shocking!

[pnanos]

03:39 PM on 01/03/2012

right, this is the same guy who had orgasms when Obama spoke. Made it as a commentater even though he can't pronounce "dollar".

[suds mcduff]

04:48 PM on 01/03/2012

He was a speechwriter before then...of course he was moved by the historical event of the first black President, only racist Repubs weren't....

[Rus Viking]

01:54 PM on 01/03/2012

"Chris Matthews and Martin Bashir had some harsh words for GOP" ?

Shocking!

Shocking, that these fine, impartial 'journalists' would have harsh words for anyone in the GOP.

I'm stunned!

[suds mcduff]

04:46 PM on 01/03/2012

Actually, had you watched it, you would have seen that Matthews was sympathetic towards Gingrich, but you didn't, did you?

[jhooperaa]

01:39 PM on 01/03/2012

FOX NEWS is always called bias by ALL the mainstream media. MSNBC has a logo and saying that says MSNBC the place for politics. That is supposed to convince you that they are objective. When you tune in during the day the anchor desk people ALWAYS have a bias against Republicans. Then starting at 5:00 P.M. you have Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton, Ed Shultz, Rachael Maddow, and Lawrence O'Donnell for 6 hours of NON-STOP GOP bashing. Basically MSNBC has become an extension of the Obama campaign and the Democrat party. If you want to accuse FOX of bias how can you ignore the even worse bias at MSNBC?

[proudcalib]

01:45 PM on 01/03/2012

There is no "Democrat" Party. There is a Democratic Party. Is that what you're referring to?

[Rus Viking]

01:56 PM on 01/03/2012

More Liberal semantics.

How typical.

How pathetic!

[marilyn 63]

04:05 PM on 01/03/2012

oh that's okay that's their little dig and mine is calling them what they represent> THE GANGSTA OPPORTUNITY PARTY.

[jmjohnso45]

01:47 PM on 01/03/2012

I don't know Fox is a little different because they lie and distort the truth so much. You do remember that ridiculous story about the PRESIDENT's trip to India right? Fox News was broadcasting for days how much the trip was costing.

[jhooperaa]

01:53 PM on 01/03/2012

Answer my point. Is MSNBC biased? If I agree 100% with you that FOX is biased will you at least admit MSNBC is the same only for the Democrats? I doubt if you will because you agree with what MSNBC says and therefore to you it is not biased. You people are a joke.

[Robert Kilbourne]

01:11 PM on 01/03/2012

Mathews needs something to do until that tingling feel happens again. Bashing the right comes in second for him. With no marching orders from on high he needs to find something to fill in the time.

[binnywal]

01:36 PM on 01/03/2012

unlike the fox talking heads who march to roger aisles' tune.

[Rus Viking]

02:01 PM on 01/03/2012

Actually..... Roger's 'tune' goes...

Cha~Ching! Cha~Ching! Cha~Ching!

And he's become quite a Maestro at it, wouldn't you say?

[h23154]

12:56 PM on 01/03/2012

Who would have thought that Matthews and Bashir would not like Romney? Next thing you know Limbaugh and Hannity will say bad things about Obama.