Chris Matthews Declares The PA Polls Closed Thirty Minutes Early

In the clearest sign yet that tonight is going to be a long night for the media, Chris Matthews got a familiar quiver up his leg and without warning, declared before his viewing audience that it was eight o'clock and the polls in Pennsylvania were closed. The only problem was it was only seven-thirty and there was a big ol' clock right there on the ticker that clearly said that polls would be open for another half hour. None of the professional newsmen in the room said a word, either because they were too dumbfounded to respond or because they just really, really, really, really wanted this primary to be over. Buckle up, people: this is going to be a bumpy ride.

Comments

[wwsword]

Chris Matthews announcing that polls had closed in Pennsylvania and the numerous pundits on the same MSNBC program might have helped Obama in Pennsylvania. It looks to me like that was the goal, anyway. Working class voters support Hillary, and working class voters have a lot of things to juggle at the end of the day - getting from work to home, picking up their kids from school, feeding their children and themselves, often having to pick up things at the store, and so forth. College kids and affluent liberals (who are skewing the primary vote) have their days pretty much open to go and vote at their leisure. This leading voters to conclude that the polls had closed when they actually hadn't is not likely to have affected those would could vote during the day, namely Obama supporters. Had Fox News done this we would have heard shouts of voter suppression from Democrats. But because it was MSNBC, which is an organ of the Obama campaign, we haven't heard much of anything. Indeed, not that the present story doesn't analyze the moment.

[josephjsalas]

Matthews has a thing for McCain. The longer Hillary stays in and the more that this super delegate
aristocrat fiasco keeps festering the better chance we will have of enslaving Americans not born
for another 50 to 75 years. Both Clinton and McCain are World Bank Poster Pimps.

[BillN]

Tweety Bird's always talking a mile a minute, and stepping all over his guests. Small wonder he was 30 minutes ahead of himself.

[BeReasonable1]

I could hardly wait till the morning to wake up and read the blogs at Huffington Post.
The demographic that always makes me laugh is how they keep saying that Obama's
Supporters are better educated. After reading these blogs, I find that hard to believe.
Maybe, Clinton won because she just simply has better solutions to America's problems.
Obama identifies problems, directs blame, but then offers no real solutions.
Perhaps the guy with the lunch pail is not so stupid after all. As far as Chris Matthews
and CNN is concerned, they might just as well name their network Obama TV. He is pathetic!

[FDRbyGodDemocrat]

Chris didn't screw up. He was just doing the Time Warp. It's just a jump to the Left ...

[dotbed1]

Who does Hillary think she is running against , Obama or McCain ? she praises McCain and trashes out Obama . Howard Dean needs to have a discussion with Hillary and tell her to stop praising McCain. It is quite obvious that she is under the mind set that if she does not win she does not want Obama to win either.

[dotbed1]

Why are the media not talking about the Votes being turned away in some areas and machines not working in others plus there has been a law-suit filled. This is what needs to be discussed today . All the top dogs in Penn are close allies of Hillary and there needs to be an investigation into what happened with the Obama votes . This same mess happens every election cycle and something really needs to be done . Every vote needs to be counted and every person that shows up to vote needs to be allowed to do so .

[BeyondGoodAndEvil2]

This is a glaring mistake, but I hear him make factual mistakes about both campaigns on a daily basis. Matthews is singularly uninformed.

[dotbed1]

Chris Mathews is a x drunk who still has a drunk personality . He speaks too loud , too fast and spits.The best journalist on MSNBC is Keith Olberman . He does his homework and does not take sides .If Obama does not get the nomination it will be sad . Those in the media are the ones who are trying to sabatoge Obama nomination . They did not expect him to get this far so they are trying everything they can to trash him . American needs to work on their racist ways . There are many in the media that are still very racist . Shawn Hannity is part of a NEO_NAZI group . Why is he on tv ?????

[dotbed1]

Chris mathews , Shawn Hannity ,and sometimes Anderson Cooper are terrible journalists . They always want to be first getiing out the election #'s and they make mistakes and are never calleed on them or appoligize . The biggest problems with our last several elections are the MEDIA .They are in a position to make or break a canidate if they do not appear on their shows or act or dress they way they think they should . A good example of this is the way they are now portraying OBAMA, Morning Joe on MSNBC is now trying to dictate how Obama should dress . Obama is a suit ad tie man and if he were to put on a plaid shirt as Joe sujested today , he would not be himself . People like Joe Hannity , Mathews ,Hume, Anderson Cooper want Hillary to win so that McCain can trash her out in the General . Hillary is getting help from her enimies now so they can help McCain later and he will be our next president . If Obama is not the nominee because the media has sabotaged the election , the young in our nation and the other Obama fans will not vote this fall .

[Darwin48]

Dear MSNBC: I Love Olberman, but why, why, why are we still made to suffer Tweety Mathews?

[jakibaez]

Gaygrandpa- I can't understand how you can get on this blog and talk about the Clintons , I can't undertstand how people can call themselves gay and want to be grandfather- being gay is not having sex with the opposite sex, child. As for the Messiah of America- he lost. He loses the big states because the "uneducated" as most media put them, are smart to his ties. How can y ou stand there on this blog as ignorant college educated individuals and not see his ties: The have been proven: marxist Libyan president Muammar al Gadaffi (proven), Syrian tycoon Antoin Rezko (proven), Saudi Arabian sheikhs fundraisers (proven), Iraq's global arms dealer, Nadhmi Auchi,(proven)
also marxist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (still in question) then there's hardcore anti-Israel, pro-Palestine PLO enforcer Rashid Khalidi,(proven). Obama was a member of the Woods Fund with communist domestic terrorist Bill Ayers who bombed the Pentagon, the US Capital, among other things,(proven) his E. Germany communist educated cousin Raila Odinga (proven). And let us not forget Rev Wright.
Are you liberals that "not caring for your country" to take a chance with this man? Yes, some of you see him as Superman, but though the bullets of Ayers, Wright, and all the above ties have bounced off him, there is two "green substances" that are brewing around for the media. No..it is better to chance it out with the Clinton- we all already heard over a million time the word Monica!

[GayGrandpa]

Part 1

First of all I am not a gay grandpa WANNABE! I am a proud gay grandpa PERIOD, proud of my family and proud to be gay! I was a lot of things that I am not now today! I was once married to a women. I was once a Southern Baptist youth pastor in the mid-seventies and had one of the fastest growing youth groups in America. I was once on the same stage as Jack Wyrtzen and Anita Bryant in one of the largest youth rallies in Florida. So what Jack of B.S., so what? People change if you have not heard! And many things that people may or may not have done have little or nothing to do with their current lives.

You arrogance is only equaled by your ignorance! Do not suggest to me that I do not care for this country. I come from a military family, in my immediate family five of us boys served in the Armed forces with all kinds of honors from Purple Hearts to all kinds of medals. Don't talk to me disrespectfully! Some are not with us today and I will not have you dishonoring their contributions to freedin by shouting me down with lies and B.S.

[GayGrandpa]

Part 2

You wish us to swallow your bigoted bull hook line and sinker. Well as a gay man I have learned that it is not prudent to swallow everything some jerk off wishes to ram down your throat! What a bunch of crap! The only thing you have proven is just how stupid and gullible and bigoted your closed minded is.

America needs an honest President, a thinker, one with a new perspective and a genuine commitment to peace. You call me a liberal and I don't know what to call you other than an idiot. I am so tired of this pro-WAR ANTI-peace rhetoric. Do you think that Israel cannot defend itself, it can blow up its enemies a hundred times? Why is it that we are starting wars and profiting and setting up permanent bases in lands where obviously we are not welcomed? I am sick of it!

I don't give a rat's ass about Monica or Bill excessive ability to lie...it is Hillary's lying that I can not and will not swallow. As far as your lies well the ignorant and the bigoted will believe anything with out any thought. You are going to get sick on it, you are sick.

[PerryWhite]

Brian Williams, in the evening newscast Tuesday said that, unlike Russian manned spacecraft, US manned spacecraft return to earth in the oceans. Really? Williams is the worst NBC anchor in history.

[dotbed1]

Not so...

[PublicusOrator]

Other than the American shuttle, William's comment is absolutly correct.

[nellpost]

I disagree -- I think Brian Williams is GREAT

[dotbed1]

Brian is class act . He thinks before he speaks , he is handsome and well dressed at all times . Keith Olberman is also great .Andrea Mitchell is republican but she tries to be fair in her reporting .

[filo]

OK People...move along....nothing to see here......keep it moving.

[lizr]

For God's sake you crazy people at Huffington!

She's out in the gay media!!!

It's not a f(T*&^ing secret!!!!

Quit censoring me.

[mathme]

Quit freaking out.

[lizr]

OK will split this into 2 pts and maybe it will make it past the Pravda regulators.

Rachel is a lesbian. she is out. this is not a secret.

It drives Pat CRAZY and he can't believe he has to sit beside her.

He cannot manage to be even polite under the circumstances.

[dotbed1]

Regardless to what Rachel sexual preferance is she is a great journalist . She is smart and well informed . Unlike Chris ,,joe Scarbrough Rachael is wonderful.

[PublicusOrator]

What is the proof for this numb nut statement ?

[Geovan]

broadcasters are licensed by the government, so being a broadcaster is not a right, but a privilege which can be taken away. So, when broadcasters make serious errors which can effect the populace's voting, then the broadcaster's license should be suspended and revoked. Instead, we allow this news event which costs the broadcaster zero dollars to produce to continue its neglect of America.

[Greg0658]

Here's another one everybody is running with.

55% Clinton 45% Obama = 10%
NOT
Thats 5%. If 5% of the Clinton voters had voted for Obama it would be a TIE.

The MSM needs to advertise a double digit win. I don't know if its for the ad revenue by keeping this primary going or they need a proven globalist in the White House.

I saw this in a movie "you know when you put a stamp on that and put it in a mail box its called mail fraud, punishable by 5 to 10 years and $50,000 each offence".

[MCJ22]

Hey this is the Chris Matthews that voted for and supported George W. first time around.
So much for his judgement dear Obama-(b)ites.
Now that'll send a quiver up your leg.
This guy is a hack!

[dotbed1]

Yes Chris did . He is very Republican ......

[dam1r]

Hear hear hear!

[USMC1980]

Your kidding...Chris Matthews screwed up, no.

Chris "Chunky" Matthews, has been screwing up for months, as has NBC...the funny part is, he doesn't get what a joke he and MSNBC have become.

[nellpost]

I wonder why more people don't get that!

[ResidentChimp]

Matthews, an Obama supporter, was trying to stem the tide all by himself.

[dotbed1]

Not so ,Chris wants McCain to be president . Listen to what he does not say .

[dotbed1]

Chris Mathews is not for Obama or Hillary . Chris wants john McCain to be president . Listen to what Chris does not say , he is very republican.

[PhillyQuaker]

received an automated call from Obama last night at 7:45 - "I need your help...." 15 minutes til the polls closed!

[Igglesbee]

I saw that live, and at first it confused the hell out of me, then, I took a beat, checked my watch, and realized it was about right that that dufus Matthews lived in a different time zone than the rest of the planet.

[mvpeach10]

Haven't we all had enough of Chris Matthews and his vilification of Hillary Clinton? I never thought I would dislike someone I've never even met as much as I dislike Chris Matthews for what he has done throughout this campaign. He has been so underhanded, so unfair, so cruel. I hope that Hillary wins this nomination, picks Obama as her running mate and never sets foot in a studio with Chris Matthews. He has proven to be as unprofessional as a journalist can get. He is the Democratic swift boater of Hillary Clinton. Tonight is just one more example of what he will stoop to do to this woman who has been fighting so courageously for this nomination against a media that never gives her a break. Shame on you Chris Matthews.

[trubluelefty]

and gee Haven't we all had enough of Hillary Clinton? or some of us. Why do we not get a choice this isa democracy and I find herto be underhanded, unfair,and unprofessional. Just as you think of Chris Matthews. Why don't you change the channel? If you and your ilk let her destroy Barack Obama and my party then you can watch her all you like but some of us, and me in particular are faced with a choice. I worked countless hours for Bobby Kennedy and then went on and worked for Hubert Humphrey as I felt that I was a democrat first and foremost and was proud of that. I was the Chairman of the Mc Goern/ Shrier ticket for Henry Country Illinois and always was proud of my party. I will not and I mean NOT support this woman and as for swift boating... gie me a break. I hae a key broke on my keyboard and you probably at least figured out which one. I will not sit back and, "not ote" and make it easier for her and BIll. I will ote forJohnMc Cain. Shame on Hillary Clinton a ruthless liar.

[BeReasonable1]

Wow! Judging by all the ultra liberals you just named, it is hard to beleive
you would actually vote for McCain over Clinton. Be honest and admit that
Obama and his campaign people have done their share of "Swift Boating"
against Clinton. He just pretends to be above all that. It is simply politics.
Clinton's appeal is that she is neither far left or far right, just a leader with
pratical solutions that can move this country forward during these difficult times.