Same Matthews who was named "One of the 25 most influential Liberals" by Forbes.com, along with Christopher Hitchens, Fred Hiatt, Maureen Dowd and Andrew Sullivan. With liberals like this, who needs Republicons?

"Also consider the context: in 2006, partisan control of the Senate was very much up in the air. Matthews, the "liberal," still voted for Steele."

Because Matthews is NOT a "liberal" in his thinking. He was too slow to see the change in America's attitudes towards the Bush Monarchy, and was voting for the side he thought would win. For every "thrill runs down my legs" comment about Obama, he has issued at least 10 times as many about Bush, even using terms of "beauty" that I didn't even realize were used to describe men.

Matthews has been "tough" on Repugs only since the last election in November; it's so obvious now that the Repugs are on their way to irrelevance, that even Chrissy can feel safe telling the truth about Repug politics.

tweey IS pretty liberal for a moderate republican.
why just last night he also had a spirited debate between conservative michael smerconish(?) – who's biggest draw for tweety seems to that he's on the radio in philadelphia – and some talking head from the heritage foundation. oddly, they both agreed that the democrats' stimulus package sucked swamp water.
see how liberal he is?

Tweety hardly misses a chance to rag on true liberals and Democrats, he's no liberal. And BTW what in the hell went wrong with Dick Morris?

Bag, meet douche.

And what mellowjohn said.

Tweety has also said he voted for Bush in 2000, postulated in I believe 2005 that "everybody likes the President, except the real whackos"; waxed onanistic about Bush's physique, how Bush radiates a kind of "sunny nobility", compared making birth control available to women to China's one-child policy. And on and on and on and on.

From Forbes magazine to Lesley Stahl, Matthews is a "liberal" by the Beltway definition of "not a hard-right, fundamentalist Xian conservative, partisan Republican. Charles Grassley, George Voinavich and Kay Bailey Hutchison are 'moderates' in their world. Everyone even a tic to the left is a "liberal".

I'm kinda glad Tweety voted for Steele. I think of him as simply worthless, rather than as liberal or conservative. He's the sort of guy you'd hate to have to claim as one of your own. Nice to have solid proof that he's not one of ours.

CHRIS MATTHEWS, LIBERAL....

Shit.

I saw that headline come up and now I have Diet Coke sprayed all over my keyboard.

Also, a few years ago, Tweety did a public appearance in PA, and he was asked if he would run for Senate, and if he did, would it be as a Republican or a Democrat. His response: "I don't know, and I don't know."

People who become wealthy by being useful sycophants for the already wealthy are always conservative republicans. Tweety has leaned further and further right for every "idealistic" piece of liberal orthodoxy he cast aside. He is as liberal as Bob Novak now.

I can confirm(via a friend who has MSNBC connections) that Matthews definitely voted for Bush in 2000 and I THINK he did in 2004. Didn't his brother run for Lt. Gov in PA as a GOP?

Yeah, Matthews is a Democrat because he once worked for one, just like Dick Morris.

So Chris Matthews is actually a liberal? Wow, he sure had me fooled.

I'd think by now that you would have figured out that almost all the talking heads are really neither liberal or conservative. They're more akin to the Springer school of Pseudo/journalistic/infotainment. They're nothing more than professional shit stirrers.

Also consider the context: in 2006, partisan control of the Senate was very much up in the air.

Oh, please. Let's not stop there. 2006 was the year Iraq was at its worst, the do-nothing Congress was doing no oversight, corruption was rampant, Katrina was fresh, and the debt was soaring. And Matthews voted for continuation? It's not exactly like he didn't know the inside story on the Iraq leadup, Plame, etc.

My quote of the day (OK, yesterday): We're not blaming the media. That's all the reporters have heard, and it's time they heard the truth." Ann Richards would have said, "You can't blame the media. They were born with Bush's foot in their mouth." (No predictable corrections, please.)

Tweety is neither a liberal or a conservative. He belongs to a separate category named asshole. The only thing that prevents him from being completely successful at it is that his tongue is not as long as Gene Simmons.

Q: What is the difference between a brown-noser & an ass-kisser?

A: Depth perception

The only problem I have are with those who insist on calling Chris Matthews a liberal. This guy probably voted for Bush twice too. He's a personality driven politico; he votes for the man and not the issue.

That's always been my take of him and that is how Hardball is set up too.

I actually wish journalists would disclose their voting patterns. It would help take that issue off the table and people could come to those reports and commentary with a clear view.

Shit, I forgot that douchehole lives in my state.

However, I had no idea he was supposedly a liberal. If you had to rank him on a scale that consisted of Matthews, Limbaugh, Savage (M, not D) and O'Reilly, sure. Otherwise, nuh-uh.

I never considered Matthews a liberal. I don't think that he does either. He just rattles on and on.

How reassuring to see that Matthew's preferences between candidates are as shallow and ill-considered as his comments on current events. He's the soul of consistency.

Sure, tweety is a liberal.

He's on the front page of my blog as poster boy for the left.

Amazing for Mathews to out himself. Their must be something in the works. For another reason perhaps, sides are being taken at MSNBC; no they are definitely taking sides. What does that mean? Take a hard look the whole Neo-Con family of hatred bias bigotry red necks, Limbaugh, Hannity, Newt, of course hate radio, and the hypocritical bible thumpers just got a shock in a vote getting Michael Steel as Chairman. Where does he go to church, do you think anything will come out in the media like reverend Wright?

These people, Neo-Con’s are not Conservatives they are shape shifters transforming for anyway to win they will take anybody from movie stars to beauty queens or undocumented plumbers to win an election.

Steve, or Hilzoy, that is an eye opening story about strategies ethics or just no good moral authority. We should hear another story that Michael can’t control all those who work for him. Common sense better tell us all that there are a bunch of uncontrollable freakazoids out there. With operations like that story about fraud or false documents in an election presentation shows Michael Steel’s political knack in navigating through the electorate. Chances are the staff in the background has no ethics yet parades around as they do have.

But looky here even though I voted for Obama does not mean I am a liberal. Ever since I found out by listening to Ron Paul and researching about the American banking system, I blew my Conservative Gasket, now trying to patch it up, where the Federal Reserve is the problem and was installed by the rich almost a hundred years ago.

Every time I watch MSNBC, and I try to do it diligently especially when Andrea Mitchell the wife of former Federal Reserve Chairman Allen Greenspan is giving political analysis just gives me the creeps. Having the whopping creeps to know this woman has had insider knowledge all along. Ladies and gentlemen of America these people knew after 911 the monetary system was going to hell.

Sure Cavuto, Blitzer, O’reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity, Mathews, what a show we got. Even Olberman makes it look like he is with us and in a battle, but they are not. Hell they know where each others cars are parked. Now instead of just listening to Limbaugh’s commercials I look at them all and don’t buy any of their products that are advertised. Ladies and Gentlemen stop buy their stuff…All we get are toxic commercials anyway. Watch they are going to plead for bail money soon.

Cardin is a total hack. I don't blame him voting for Steele. Then again, yeah, Matthews isn't really a liberal. More like a conservative Democrat.

I like Matthews's show and watch it daily. I've never really been able to determine WHERE he stands politically and it doesn't matter to me. He has guests of all stripes, which is good.

I really like Morning Joe because there are so many different views on.

Matthews isn't liberal, he's "dickeral": in any given dispute, he asks himself, "I wonder who's got the bigger package?"

Ergo: Steele vs. Cardin equals big, bald, middle-aged black guy vs. small, bald, old white guy. Steele wins. Similar calculations with Bush v. Gore, Bush v. Kerry, but Obama vs. McCain? Bet on black! The guy spends a career pandering to GOP masculinity memes (mommy party vs. daddy party, etc.), no wonder he thinks with little Tweety.

Media people don't *have* to vote for someone. Jim Lehrer hasn't voted in a very long time, at least since he started moderating presidential debates. He thinks he shouldn't take a side. I interned for the show once, it's true.

I like Matthews's show and watch it daily. ... I really like Morning Joe ...

And you voted for?

The political weather vane atop the head of Chris is controlled by a wind sock. His views change with the change in winds. During the last two years of the election run-up, he gushed over Rudy, then McCain, while conistentently bashing Hillary. He did not race for the Obama Express until late in the election.

Did anyone else catch his comment about Rudy running for Guv in NY, this week? He said he had really liked Rudy for President, but, Rudy did not do well in New Hampshire. Perhaps, this was on the same program, where he commented about voting for Steele.

Chris doesn't know what he is. He is for the most part very confused and not very bright. He is so inconsistent that it's clear he's there to just provoke and 'act like' he knows what he's talking about. Every now and then he gets it right (say maybe 1/4 the time), and the rest of the time he just wings it.

As I mentioned yesterday, he went off course with the purpose of Lilly Ledbetter bill and turned it into an entirely different debate about women found too readily in fields that are underpaid
(and that therefore this bill was rightly enacted).

And he also said a day or two ago that he's convinced Palin has the right stuff(charisma)to pull off running and winning in the future (presidency). He insisted she could "catch-up" with the intellect part, uh--you know, that pesky little thing called dumb as a doornail.

This might be true, in a different time. After all, we elected Bush twice and Reagan was all charm.

But he just seemed so confident that she could 'act' her way to the top, he was so excited about this prospect-- that I found that his jubulance in itself disturbing. It was as though he enjoys the drama and the deception much much more than the reality of what buying into the same costs us all.

This is what disturbs me the most about Mathews--he has just a bit too much fun with the sad fact that we do get seduced by idiots who lead us to ruin. After all the damage of what Bush did--due to similar qualities Palin has (indifference, arrogance)-- it just feels incredibly irresponsible to even flirt with this notion, that we could all be 'fooled' again, while we're all feeling the very real horrific effects of what such an arrogant and incurious (willfully ignorant) leader can incur.

In any case the whole Palin conversation nauseates me. She isn't getting any smarter re: world issues, just more cunning perhaps with raising money for now.

I don't know, he seems well meaning enough. But he's doing the wrong job. He should be teaching drama or the like.

This wasn't really news. A few weeks ago, Matthews mentioned that he voted for Steele simply because he wanted to see more African-Americans in the Senate.

It was a total affirmative action vote.

Chris Matthews is an epic joke foisted on the American public. If voted for Steele that's poetic justice.

Matthews is a pandering fool. He doesn't even know what he is politically, and the rest of us are just damn glad he decided to stick to being a talking head rather than running for office.

Just more evidence that the "Liberal media" is just pure myth.

Knowing Maryland's demographics, he probably thought, "Hey, Cardin's going to win big anyway, so I might as well vote for the Negro."

mmy, supra:

Jim Lehrer hasn't voted in a very long time, at least since he started moderating presidential debates. He thinks he shouldn't take a side.

Voting black is more liberal than voting Democratic. It's PC.

The two successes of liberal politics were civil rights and Vietnam protest. Many lib reporters are still infatuated with their self-image as champions of the black people.