Chris Matthews on Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani

[Phx_Dem]

On October 4, MSNBC host Chris Matthews professed his neutrality in the presidential race. "I'm pretty independent, in terms of the two parties," he said. "I have been just as tough on Bill Clinton and Hillary and Rudy and the whole bunch of them."

In order to ascertain whether this claim is true, Media Matters for America examined every evaluative remark Matthews made on MSNBC's Hardball during the months of September, October, and November about either Hillary Clinton or Rudy Giuliani, the two national front-runners for their respective parties' nominations during that period. We excluded instances in which Matthews was simply reporting facts (e.g. "A new poll shows Giuliani leading ... ") and restricted ourselves to cases in which Matthews offered his own opinions or judgments.<1> We also excluded instances in which there was any ambiguity about whether the statement was positive or negative.

The results demonstrate that Matthews has been particularly friendly to Rudy Giuliani in recent months, and extremely hostile toward Hillary Clinton. Not only is there a qualitative difference between the kinds of praise and criticism he offers these two candidates, but a quantitative difference, as well: Matthews made 10 negative remarks about Clinton for every negative remark he made about Giuliani, and nearly three times as many positive remarks about the former New York City mayor as about Clinton. The ratio of positive to negative remarks was 3.5-to-1 for Giuliani, but 1-to-8.2 for Clinton.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200712180005?f=h_top

[GodlessBiker]

1. Matthews is a blowhard who loves to hear himself talk and won't let his guests finish a sentence.

[Tellurian]

3. Agreed, he's a mean spirited vacuous talking head!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. He's Entitled To His Opinion...His Dishonesty Is Grating

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[Tellurian]

14. Not when he's promoting his opinion as a narrative of the Truth..

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. He's A Dishonest Piece Of Excrement

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[GodlessBiker]

4. I once saw him eat excrement, in the way Romney saw his father march with MLK.

[Cameron27]

5. !

:spray:

[Jim__]

7. So, Media Matters found that Chris Matthews was lying with respect to his ...

treatment of Hillary and Rudy.

The real story would be if they found Chis Matthews telling the truth.

[Phx_Dem]

8. What's scary

is that he seems oblivious to his own bias.

[zbdent]

9. This should read "Chris Matthews ON Rudy Giuliani, and comments on Hillary Clinton"

as much as he drools on Rudester ...

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. Thank you for posting this

I shouldn't have to add this part, but given how things have been around here lately I will. I appreciate that you took the time to post information about how someone in the media is leaning over backward to slam a Democrat who is not your first choice for the Democratic nomination. We should be able to take integrity for granted among Democratic activists but I don't do that anymore. So I wanted to express appreciation for yours.

[Phx_Dem]

11. Thanks

Democrats need to stick together now more than ever. I will fully support whoever wins the nomination.

[William769]

12. His premature ejaculation over the Clinton's has been self evident. NT

[Tellurian]

16. Hmm...I see him as an impotent, washed up speech writer..

promoting his stilted version of reality politics. Thanks goodness, we're not living in his world.

[Rock_Garden]

13. I have to wonder how much of Chris's slant is chosen for him.

There's not much difference between Matthews and Tucker, at this point.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. The Hatred For Hillary Among Both Of Them Is Visceral...Such Hate Can Not Be Manufactured

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[Tellurian]

17. It's scripted..

He was reading his latest rant accusing Hillary of killing babies off of a monitor.