Not only does he quote approvingly something that Michael Savage said, but he can tell you what station he listens to Savage on. Nice.

I used to think Matthews wasn't so bad. After all, he used to work for Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill. Now I think they should fire the stupid asshole.

Perhaps it's a mix of both.  The bottom line is that, just like CNN, it would appear Matthews is in competition with Fox News for an ever-smaller slice of the viewing pie.  Sooner or later, media execs are going to catch on that Olberman and Air America have a pretty good thing going, and realize that there's a much bigger audience to be had.  Until then, it seems to me that it's past time we treat Chris Matthews as a "hostile witness" and give him the full-on Sinclair treatment: go after his sponsors, and get him kicked off the air, if possible.

He's made himself part of the problem; there's absolutely no doubt whose side he's chosen.

Regardless of whether you like Michael Moore, he did not murder 3000 people.  Calling him an enemy of America and a murderer, which is what Matthews did, is about supressing political dissent through intimidation rather than proving it wrong through argument and discussion.  Surely you can agree, Nixon, that your arguments are strong, and should be used to persuade rather than shouting down your opponent or attempting to shut him up through overt bullying and accusations of treason.

      "You'd think the only focus tonight would be on destroying Osama Bin Laden, not comparing him to an American who opposes the war whether you like him or not. You want a real debate that America needs? Here goes: If the administration had done the job right in Tora Bora we might not be having discussions on Hardball about a new Bin Laden tape. How dare Scott McClellan tell America that this Administration puts terrorists out of business when had they put Osama Bin Laden out of business in Afghanistan when our troops wanted to, we wouldn't have to hear this barbarian's voice on tape. That's what we should be talking about in America." -- John Kerry

It seems to me that it is written in English first, and then translated into Arabic. It is very western style of tape. It is not very characteristic of bin Laden, at least it tells me that the non-Arabic speaking within the al-Qaida network are taking over the organization --

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/jan-june06/osama_1-19.html

Oh God.  Please.  No.

Someone needs to ask him if, like his brother, if he's a gay-hating, liberal basher.  Maybe if it hits close enough to home, we can get tweety to shut up.

It can grab a presidency, strangle the media, pollute Congress on a grand scale, preen and primp on prime time, but it never feels it has won.  There's always some sensible, albeit frowsty lefty, voice out there (like chubby, messy, Michael Moore, like that professorial-looking Joe Wilson, like a black comer like Obama) making the right feel insecure and disrespected..  

Republicans remain angry, fearful, and self-conscious. Insecurity makes them shout louder and get nastier.  They have money but they don't get no respect. They're not really winning, not winning the way they want to.  They rely on a cardboard imperial presidency.  They have to cheat to get and keep power -- and it haunts them.

I don't think the left has really caught onto this massive weakness on the right.  Reid, Kerry, Clinton -- they all look cowed.  

Joke innapropriate.

Moore reference inconsequential.

Don't we have better things to focus on.