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Time to Bury the "Meet the Press" Format
Beverly Davis | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
Watching Brokaw manage the Snoozeville format demonstrated how dated the program has become. We need a show that combines web speed with major interviews conducted by someone unafraid to offend.
A Big Slip of Chris Matthews' Quick Tongue
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
Matthews audibly groaned when he slipped, meaning to say that a tape came out of the Osama HQ just before the election in 2004 had hurt Kerry and helped Bush -- but saying, instead, "Obama."
Chris Matthews Calls Osama Bin Laden "Obama" During Terror Discussion
Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
Today on MSNBC's "Hardball," which aired live at 5pm, Chris Matthews was joined by Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd for a discussion about Charlie Black...
MSNBC Pulls "Inappropriate" Michelle Obama "Hardball" Ad Depicting Silhouetted Female Dancers (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media
MSNBC ran an ad for "Hardball" Thursday morning teasing a segment on Michelle Obama's image makeover. The ad featured background artwork of female si...
Harball Flirts With Women Voters
Scott Swenson | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
If Chris Matthews and the mainstream media want to add something productive to the reproductive rights debate, they should move off the 70's polarization created by the far-right.
Election 2008: The Race Election
Dan Treul | Posted 06.15.2008 | Home
There is something culturally sick about defining such a critical election along racial lines alone. This election should not be a referendum on black and white. It should be a referendum on the Bush years.
Chris Matthews Dons A Cowboy Hat (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 06.09.2008 | Media
Why did Chris Matthews put on a cowboy hat during Monday night's "Hardball?" Was he finally so tired of hair-dye mix-ups that he opted for the cove...
Hilary Rosen On Hardball With Chris Matthews
Huff TV | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Hilary Rosen appeared on MSNBC's Hardball Wednesday to discuss Obama clinching the Democratic presidential Nomination and Clinton's refusal to concede.
There'll be "Race Riots" in The Streets?
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Michelle Bernard, with her supremely irresponsible, reckless, race-baiting comment, was abruptly cut-off by an incredulous Chris Matthews as he closed last night's show.
Talking Themselves to Death
John Moore | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media
Kevin James shows that a distorted and paranoid world view survives quite nicely in the bell jar of talk radio and friendly cable television shows.
Chris Matthews Eviscerates Right-Wing Host Kevin James Over Obama "Appeasement" Claims
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
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 o...
Chris Matthews Vouches For Black People's Work Ethic
Huffington Post | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
On Friday's "Hardball" Chris Matthews discussed Hillary Clinton's comment about hard-working white people with Tucker Carlson and former San Francisco...
Chris Matthews Debuts New Hairdo
Huffington Post | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media
MSNBC host Chris Matthews took to the airwaves Thursday night with a new 'do. The normally bleach blond Matthews, host of "Hardball," now has noticeab...
Reverend Wright's Wrong Timing
Janet Ritz | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Reverend Wright's pre-primary media blitz seems designed, unintentionally or not, to benefit John McCain, while distracting from the real issues of the campaign.
Chris Matthews Declares The PA Polls Closed Thirty Minutes Early
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
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, ...
Senator Hardball?
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
Forget Pennsylvania's primary, let's think ahead to the Keystone State's 2010 senate race -- it could include Chris Matthews.
For Chris Matthews, misogyny pays
Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
Question: Is Chris Matthews the Michael Scott of political talk show hosts? And if so, does that make MSNBC the Dunder Mifflin of cable news? Rememb...
Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy Congratulates His Son For Asking McCain Question About Hillary's Drinking
Huffington Post | Posted 04.16.2008 | Media
Yesterday when Chris Matthews interviewed John McCain at Villanova University as part of the "Hardball" College Tour, a junior named Peter Doocy asked...
Jake Tapper's Smoke Detector Goes Off at ABC News
Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.09.2008 | Media
Did Obama fib about smoking as Tapper claimed? I have no idea. Does it matter in terms of Obama's White House run? I can't imagine how it would. I d...
Obama Jokes About The Comedic Value Of Cable News
Huffington Post | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media
Barack Obama was the special guest on the Hardball College Tour with Chris Matthews on Wednesday. When Matthews asked the Democratic frontrunner when ...
Tucker Carlson And Chris Matthews On Drinking Boilermakers
Huffington Post | Posted 04.01.2008 | Media
On Hardball Tuesday, Tucker Carlson and Chris Matthews got a little sidetracked while talking about the upcoming Pennsylvannia primary. Specifically, ...
Chris Matthews Really Plays Hardball, Demands New Guest Name Sources For Obama Claim
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar and Danny Shea | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Wow - talk about playing Hardball. Tonight Chris Matthews absolutely went off on guest Crystal McCreary Anthony, host of BET-J's "My Two Cents", deman...
Waiting for a Wise Man
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Why Bill Clinton would be on anyone's short list for New York's next governor at a time when sex scandals are at the forefront is puzzling.
The Fools of Spring Available for Comment: a Snapshot of Impressions of Madness at Dawn
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 03.24.2008 | Media
If you keep MSNBC on, as the day goes on, you start to feel insane because the same stuff is rehashed in a sisyphusian cacophony from dawn to midnight, with some breaks for shows about prisoners and their tattoos.
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
"Extra" has learned that Heather Mills' publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, has...
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
Huff TV | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media