Appropriateness?
Johnny Dollar has the audio from the John Gibson radio program where Gibson talks about Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews moderating debates…
October 6, 2007
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Let’s have Rush and Bill moderate the dems debate.That’s fair right?But the dems wouldn’t have that.
Comment by SHANE — October 6, 2007 @ 1:13 am
I don’t even understand what the word appropriate means any more the way political types are tossing it around. Matthews was terrible in the first GOP debate at the Reagan Library, but I don’t think it was about bias, but his infatuation with the trivial, Ah-nold, Hilary’s “cackle”, the smell of Fred Thompson. And I don’t think his comments about criminality were targetted at the GOP, just the job Scooter Libby did for the administration that made him a criminal.
Comment by DanOregon — October 6, 2007 @ 1:53 am
The totality of being the rare person who watches Matthews betrays his bias towards populist democrats and hatred for Conservatives. He pretends to be a journalist. He’s a hack pol who can carry on a conversation. Little more.
Comment by BOStone33 — October 6, 2007 @ 2:12 am
#2 - I agree about Matthews at the Reagan Library…it wasn’t bias, but it was Matthews oddities and rapid-fire questions.
The whole thing about moderating bias in the debates is making less and less sense. If Matthews does the Republican debate and is considered biased against the field, then the criticism is that he won’t give the candidates a fair shake. Conversely, if Matthews moderates a Democratic debate, then the criticism will be that he will be showing favoritism and softballing the candidates.
In any case, I agree that Matthews is not needed next week. Let Bartiromo handle it and have someone from a local paper asking e-mail questions.
Comment by FishOil — October 6, 2007 @ 3:44 am
Hard-htting stuff, eh? Well, John Giboson came from NBC way back and knows a number of those colleagues and NBC’s once-good reputation. Now it is in shambles, at the bottom rung of the ratings year after year, and featuring a notorious magpie named Chris Matthews who is worse that the worst harridan I have met. I don’t even know why they would find it appropriate to celebrate its 10th anniversary, when it should have been dumped long, long ago.
Matthews has becone another cheap shill for his liberal friends, including that notable Ted Kennedy. Reports indicate a number of his leftist friends did not show up, though he had to rake the muck at the bottom once more to draw attention to himself, having run out of ideas as usual. The criminality of Bush and his administration?
John Gibson is right. The Republican candidates must be loony to agree to have this scoundrel, Matthews, moderate their next debate. A disaster is looming for the GOP with this loutish jokester.
Comment by RGL — October 6, 2007 @ 6:07 am
With all Matthew’s antics recently, it just occurred to me that Tim Russert must be sitting back laughing his (ahem) watching Matthews implode. Harmless way to rid oneself of a rival…
Comment by john — October 6, 2007 @ 6:22 am
Bob Schiefer over at CBS should be retiring soon. If Chris wasn’t such a loon, he could have gotten that job.
Comment by jmkaib — October 6, 2007 @ 6:48 am
John’s comments are right on. NBC has really gone downhill.
Get rid of Bboth Chris and Keith. They are terrible.
Comment by Bill — October 6, 2007 @ 7:23 am
I am so tired of the cable networks going after each other. Enough already!
Comment by myview — October 6, 2007 @ 8:28 am
Have you ever noticed how Chris will ask a question and the guest will start to answer 3 words will come out and Chris starts screaming at them. What’s up with that? Someone needs to tell him to SHUT UP!
Comment by SHANE — October 6, 2007 @ 8:34 am
Yeah Shane seems like he is turning into BOR more every day.
Comment by myview — October 6, 2007 @ 8:48 am
I think the point to be made about Chris Matthews to some extent and someone like Tucker Carlson more definitively is they don’t get numbers. Isn’t the failure of MSNBC, in part, settling for shows nobody watches because (they think) the hosts of the shows bring some cache’ to their brand? Doesn’t Tucker nearly scratch at least once a week? Why is he still on the air?
Comment by BOStone33 — October 6, 2007 @ 10:04 am
#10, I like O’Reilly; but he is guilty of the same thing especially if he doesn’t agree with the guest or he thinks he has been wronged in some way.
Comment by Scott — October 6, 2007 @ 10:56 am
If I were Chris or Keith, the last thing I would worry about is criticism from an untalented never-was along the lines of John Gibson, who has never been anything more than a Bill O’Reilly wannabe.
But more to the point, if Brit Hume can moderate debates after some of the comments I’ve seen of his on Fox News Sunday, then Chris can do the same. If the Republican candidates have a problem with that, then they should feel free to boycott Chris’ participation, just as the Democrats rightly did with Fox.
Comment by jay — October 6, 2007 @ 11:44 am
I agree with Nos. 2 and 4: The previous debate that Chris Matthews moderated was unwatchable because Chris exhibited some type of weird attention deficit disorder, interrupted or talked over all of the candidates and just made oddball comments in general. I can’t believe NBC is letting him moderate another debate. They must have been out of options. If the next debate he moderates gets crappy ratings, we told you so.
Comment by Goldfish — October 7, 2007 @ 3:46 pm