Chris Matthews, angry about Romney’s joke about Obama’s birth certificate, decided to ‘call out’ the RNC Chair on it this morning and it basically degraded into a one-sided shouting match where Matthews was arguing that Romney was playing the race card with the birth certificate joke and welfare reform.

But what really got Matthews going was when Priebus said that Obama was looking to Europe for guidance on his spending and health care policies. After that Matthews was so enraged he wouldn’t let Priebus answer a single question without interrupting him. Priebus finally said “I’m not going to get into a shouting match with Chris so you guys can move on.”

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Michael Hall
Michael Hall

Chris promised me he would lay off the Blow, reason1984. Should we stage an intervention?

reason1984
reason1984

Chris promised me he was done with bath salts. Sigh.

texasgirl46
texasgirl46

There is something seriously wrong with Matthews.....the look in his eyes, wow...he looked like he wanted to cut the mans throat.....

Chris
Chris

After having to experience "Thrill up my leg"'s seizure, how do people wonder why MSNBC has a total of only three viewers? When Romney becomes President, there is a room with rubber walls awaiting Mr. Matthews somewhere.

Chris
Chris

I don't know what's more pathetic, Chris "Thrill up my leg" Matthews' insane rant or the applause from the mind-numbed robots in the crowd.

PVG
PVG

This is a desperate man. He knows BO is toast and is grasping at inane issues to somehow change the tide. I seriously think when BO loses badly, Chris will need therapy...for a long time.

PVG
PVG

This is a desperate man. He knows BO is toast and is grasping at inane issues to somehow change the tide. I seriously think when BO loses badly, Chris will need therapy...for a long time.

GoodLuckAmerica
GoodLuckAmerica

Chris Matthews should be forced to publicly apologize to Reince Preibus for not only his show of despicable unprofessional-ism and gross conduct but also his disgusting personal attack and insult of the RNC chairman on *national tv*. And the hosts were completely USELESS at controlling his senial tirade. However, I admire Mr Priebus for holding back on Chris "Obama wouldn't come on my show but I'd still lick his shoes" Matthews, because I know Mr Priebus has a sharp tongue. Props to you, sir.

Johann Streit
Johann Streit

The deck was stacked against Priebus alright.

A_Trueism
A_Trueism

Yes, it was. And yet he kept his cool and never strayed from the facts. A class act.

Johann Streit
Johann Streit

For me, this kind of separates the men from the boys. As well as the sane from the insane. Should have sent in Sununu or Gingrich to deliver the punches.

hongryhawg
hongryhawg

Chris Matthews was pissed off the day he was born and the only happy day he has ever had is the day Blowbama was elected. And that's it. But, compared to what he's going to be the day after the election, he's happy now.

marketcomp
marketcomp

Looks like Priebus can only fire back a repubilicans behind the seams. He should have brought up the ad where Obama essentially says that Romney was responsible for killing someone.

drphibes
drphibes

The left knows intuitively that it's all slipping away. It's getting shrill.

PVG
PVG

Yup!

Pyrran
Pyrran

No reasonable person should ever be in an interview with Matthews.

He's an insane liberal tool.

He'll end up in a padded room, interviewing himself in the mirror and losing the argument.

conservative58
conservative58

Matthews is an A$$...

No wonder MSNBC continues to scrap bottom in the ratings.

Susanna958
Susanna958

Why not just point out that Obama is a foreigner? Why not ask Chris how Obama paid for his college? Call him out on releasing the records.

tx_gold
tx_gold

Poor chrissy. He's losing the tingle and his mind cause obammy is may be going down!! Pitiful!

johnos2112
johnos2112

I have a bachelors in Social Science and I would mop the floor with Matthews. Anytime you arrogant pompous ass!

tinker_thinker
tinker_thinker

They should suspend Matthews..he totally lost it.

Reckoner_3
Reckoner_3

This is good for the GOP headquarters. I hope Rence Priebus has a long memory. Getting pounced on by an Obama surrogate, lol....

Let's get this president ousted, then Chris can say America is racist "again" for voting Obama out for the "white guy"

And Why the heck are these white bozos, (Chrissy Matthews being uber-white)so irate? they're the racist ones because all they think about is Obama's skin color when he's being criticized!

- Chris Matthews , is educated beyond his intelligence, always with these lefty talking points, I remember universities liberal arts crap, teach this in sociology

"completely other" I notice that black liberals use this term ALL the time, on the MSNBC shows, ......terminology so ridiculous, liberalism is a mental disorder. Sociology class information should be dropped the minute you earn the college credit. But these idiots like t he one last week using the N word to get people thinking race failed...

I guess now they have to go with "foreignization" to play the race card now, and to say Obama looks to the European model, is racist?? lol desperate

Hypno Jive
Hypno Jive

Chris Mathews sounds more like Barney Frank everyday.

Chris Mathews:Romney made a mean joke about my boyfriend and that was MEAN! bla Bla Bla bla blaaaaaaaaaaaaa bla bla bla blaa (GASP) (GASP)bla bla bla Don't say mean stuff 'bout Barack! bla bla blaa bla bla blaaaaaa!(GASP)BLa Blaa BLAAA!!!!! ...

Chris
Chris

Bawney Fwank is more affable, compared to "Thrill up my leg".

911Infidel
911Infidel

I still think that Prissy Mathews is such a douche all the time because Kathleen just ain't kicking down anymore. That "thrill up his leg" is just him playing with himself.

sjmom
sjmom

I'd like to see Matthews vs Hannity or Levin or Limbaugh.

PVG
PVG

Levin would hand him his butt.

Chris
Chris

An all-day job, of course.

tshtsh
tshtsh

So, spittle, calls other people racist because spittle believes only black people are on food stamps and welfare?

reason1984
reason1984

Of the total food stamp recipients, 49% are White, 26% are Black, and 20% are Hispanic (extrapolated from census questionnaires). According to the Department of Agriculture 36% are White, 22% are Black, and 10% are Hispanic. The total population receiving food stamps is in the 46-47 million range.

Chris Matthews rarely lets facts get in the way of his personal agenda and narrative. His daily goal appears to be to out race shill his colleague, Al not so Sharpton. MSNBC is in a s******, and they know it.

rich wojcik
rich wojcik

Matthews said:

................if a black, or partially black guy wants to be a PRESIDENT, ALL HE NEEDS IS TO ASK HIS MAMA TO IRON HIS PANTS.

......................................

THAT'S ALL- ACCORDING TO that imbecile. He's got a crease on his logic, poor dolt.

SKL53
SKL53

Matthews is a screamer! He will probably check into the Betty Ford Clinic when Romney wins! Let's send him flowers along with a note...Bon Voyage!!!

Chris
Chris

He's a screamer??? That was just...the mental and visual image was...ugh...I just can't...uh...I need to take a moment....

Chris Dias
Chris Dias

Why is he refuting!! DONT refute!! No excuses. They're all true. Whoose.

layne22
layne22

It frustrates me that even Repubs won't respond with "he said it because President Obama's own literary agent printed that he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii".

Man, I thought Chris was going to pop a blood vessel!

GEDouglas
GEDouglas

Chris hit the nail on the head when he said "I don't get it"

Tim Jaggers
Tim Jaggers

Tingles lies. Romney didn't say "I don't have a problem with my birth certificate," he said "No one's asked me for my birth certificate." It was a statement of fact. Romney's statement in no rational way can be interpreted as saying Obama wasn't born in the US. Only a racist would see criticism about Obama removing work requirements from welfare reform as playing the race card.

Obama IS a foreigner. His formative years were spent in foreign schools. He admitted in one of his "biographies" that his mother taught him to not see America as a special place. For nearly 20 years he let his publisher describe him as being born in Kenya.

He thinks that because both Roosevelts and Truman pushed for the gov't to take over the medical industry that it makes it a good thing? They were all progressives! That alone proves it is a policy that any sane person would run screaming from.

Chrissy has clearly become unhinged. Anything negative said about Obama becomes the product of racism. The problem for him is that he can see his beloved Obama losing and it scares him so much that the only thing he's feeling in his leg is a warmth resulting from the loss of control of his bladder.

Chris
Chris

I wonder if Mitt Romney should have just used a "Triumph the Insult Comic Dog" hand puppet and used a foreign accent while he told his joke, so as not to confuse the leftards out there in looney land.

Stewie
Stewie

I would also argue that the entirety of the progressive influence is foreign- Whether it comes from Russia or Europe at any given point in history, academics have long spoken of the "efficiencies" of an all powerful central government.

p m
p m

Matthews' cohorts appeared to be nearly as taken aback as Priebus.

Seriously, seeing this, I wonder if CM's health is deteriorating and they know about, it but not how to handle him.

He has diabetes and also had malaria some years ago. Very serious disease, whose complications include cerebritis, a brain infection.

Understand this is not intended as a hit, though he richly deserves those we've given him here today. His manner is execrable, but even so I doubt anyone would wish even worse health on him. Just a possibility.

p m
p m

Matthews is a fool and a tool. Bloviating like this won't get him his interview with Zero. An aging, ugly-know nothing doesn't need to be interviewed by another aging, ugly know-nothing.

kong1967
kong1967

What the hell is wrong with those stupid liberal morons? !!

There are a lot more whites on welfare than there are blacks. Why do they associate welfare and foodstamps with blacks? We can't require ID to vote because blacks are too stupid to get one. There was voter fraud last election because blacks couldn't figure out how to use the machines.

Is that what they think of black people? I am so sick of this bullcrap I'd like to punch that a-hole in the mouth. Hey Chris!!! Stop talking about black people like they can't make anything of themselves and they're too stupid to do anything without you and the Democrat party doing it for them!! It's degrading, you stupid idiot.

Chris
Chris

It does not fit their narrative. They don't think of people in this country as Americans. They categorize them into groups and then apply their brand of "social justice" to certain groups they feel are deserving of such.

kong1967
kong1967

Exactly, and they intentionally make groups of people pi**ed off at other groups. Their tactics are disgusting, immoral, and dishonest. Says a lot about the ethics, morals and integrity of Democrat politicians.

MikeBri527
MikeBri527

Yes it's true that both sides are running negative campaigns. However, there's still a HUGE DIFFERENCE between the two.

The Romney negative campaigning is mostly factual and relevant (i.e. the state of the US economy, cuts to Medicare, more people on food stamps, more people below the poverty line, gas prices, food prices, national debt, etc.)

Barack's negative campaigning is mostly inconsequential and irrelevant (i.e. what happened at Bain SEVEN YEARS after Romney left, a prank he played in high school, a joke about Barack's birth certificate, etc).

Susan Reaney
Susan Reaney

ALL OF THIS HAPPENED IN Less that 2 minutes? MAJOR RANT!

1 minute 34 seconds to be exact!

TAKE A BREATH CHRIS! BREATH!

I've tried to transcribe this conversation, as best I can, I do not claim this to be an absolute, it is only what I personally grasp to be said during the conversation.

Chris: By the way, your guy, I have to call you on this Mr Chairman, is suggesting that Obama is somehow running a negative campaign, Obama, and your guys running a positive campaign, that's not accurate. In fact, if they both stopped all the negative, I'm not sure who would win; but they've both been negative. That cheap shot about I don't have a problem with my birth certificate, was awful, and it's an embarrassment to your party to play that card. This stuff about getting rid of the work requirement for welfare is dishonest and was postatized (scrambled), and you aren't playing that little ethnic card there. And you can play your games and giggle about it.

Priebus: well I

Chris: but the fact is, your side is playing that card.

Priebus: well I won't

Chris: when you start talking about work requirements, everyone knows what game you're playing. And everybody knows what game you're playing. It's a race card. (audience applause) And this thing about birth, your name is Romney, you're well-born, you went to prep-school, you gotta brag about it, this guy has an African name, he's gotta live with it. What comes...

Joe: di di did, did you REALLY?

Chris: lets come further with it, who was born on 3rd base?

Joe: wa, wa, wa, wa... wait.

Chris: This is an absurdity here

Priebus, Joe, others: (inaudible)

Chris: making fun of a guys birth certificate issue, when it was never a real issue, except from the right wing.

Joe: do you think Mitt Romney's playing the race card?

Chris: he said

Joe: no, I'm asking you, do you think he's playing the race card?

Chris: there's no doubt he did with the birth certificate

Joe: no doubt?

Chris: no doubt, why'd he bring it up? Why'd he say I have no problem with my birth certificate? What's that suppose to say?

Mika: cause he made an awkward joke on it

Joe: because he misfired badly on the joke

Chris: why would he do it?

Joe: well I'm just asking, do you think Mitt Romney's playing the race card?

Chris: well knowing, yeah.

Joe: Did he really?

Chris: oh yeah, and I think his work requirement fits right into it.

Joe: that's the race card too?

Chris: of course it is, welfare? Food Stamps? Absolutely!

(ALL Speaking at one time)

Priebus: (visibly disgusted) I'm happy...to respo

Mika: Reince I'm sorry, well now let him respond to it.

Chris: you can chuckle about it Mr. Chairman it's a practice issue

Priebus: I'm happy to...respo

Chris: the fact is you know it's going to happen.

So what did I personally learn from the conversation?

1. Obama's NOT negative campaign, is actually a negative campaign; and so is Romney's positive campaign?

2. Obama's NOT a birth "issue" is actually "a birth issue" WHAT?

3. Romney's pulled the race card regarding the work requirements memo sent out by the president, which suggested that states remove the work requirement over a certain percentage to obtain unemployment without working; but it's really a non-issue because Federal Law strictly prohibits "anyone" (including the president) from removing the work requirement from the laws present format, even tho the president suggested it be remove in the first place; and it is absolutely a "racist" issue because Romney brought attention to it in the first place; and because it also ties to those who receive welfare and food stamps?

4. Best yet is the entire conversation give the "implication" that only Barack Obama, by virtue of his color; and NOT his wisdom, knowledge or ability to lead the nation as it's president, is allowed to discuss the issues of work reform, welfare or food stamps,

Honey, now that just takes the cake!

Hate to tell y'all this, but the African-American people of this nation are NOT the only people drawing welfare and food stamps...GET A FRIGGING CLUE!

Chris
Chris

Note to El Presidente: Make welfare and food stamps accessible to all Americans.

Thanks,

Unemployed "White People"

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

Thanks for taking the time to transcribe that, much appreciated!

Mythslayer
Mythslayer

LOL excellent synopsis.

When I read your comment:

"Honey, now that just takes the cake!

Hate to tell y'all this, but the African-American people of this nation are NOT the only people drawing welfare and food stamps...GET A FRIGGING CLUE!

I laughed and wanted to ask with tongue in cheek:

You mean Chris was being (gasp) "racist"? LOL