Hello Everyone:

Here is the MSNBC Morning Joe video from January 11 where Chris Matthews said that "some people think I‘ve been disrespectful to Hillary Clinton, not as a candidate but as a woman.  They point to something I said on MSNBC‘s “MORNING JOE” the morning after the New Hampshire primary, that her election to the U.S. Senate and all that‘s come since was a result of her toughness but also the sympathy for her because her husband embarrassed her by the conduct that led to his impeachment because he, in the words I used, “messed around:”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22611519#22611519  (12:34)

Chris Matthews versus Barbara Walters?
Jan. 11: Chris Matthews responds to "The View" criticism and thinks Hillary Clinton's poise in the midst of her husband's infidelity made her a heroic figure. Chris Matthews proposes a debate with Barbara Walters about facts, not opinions.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22611519#22611519  (12:34)

Here is the Hardball video link where it seemed to me that Chris Matthews tried to apologize for the impression that he left in the Morning Joe video when he said "If my heart has not always controlled my words, on those occasions when I have not taken the time to say things right or have simply said the inappropriate thing, I‘ll try to be clearer, smarter, more obviously in support of the right of women, of all people, the full equality and respect for their ambitions.  So I get it:"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22717819#22717819  (04:31)

Clinton proves herself a ‘great politician’
Jan. 17: Chris Matthews clarifies a comment he made on ‘Morning Joe’ about Sen. Hillary Clinton.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22717819#22717819  (04:31) 

Right below is the entire Hardball transcript of this video. 

I think that Barbara Walters got it right in the Morning Joe video on the subject of fact vs. opinion when it comes to the obvious personal bias that Chris Matthews has against Hillary Clinton and his giving Barack Obama a free ride!

There is absolutely no question in my opinion that Chris Matthews has shown his own personal bias against Hillary Clinton and that he has given Barack Obama a free ride in his media coverage as I have credibly and thoroughly documented:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/13814

Why I think Chris Matthews crossed the line showing his own bias against Hillary

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on November 5, 2007 - 3:30am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14242

Joe Sestak did a great job of defending Hillary to a very biased Chris Matthews!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on December 28, 2007 - 5:40am.

My conclusion is that while it is nice that Chris Matthews tried to apologize for the controversial comment that he made about Hillary on the Morning Joe video, it was almost like a plea bargain where he tried to plead guilty to a misdemeanor to get out of a felony!

That guilty plea of Chris Matthews for the impression of his comment on the Morning Joe video as far as I am concerned is almost like pleading guilty to a misdemeanor compared to his serious crime of showing outright media bias toward Hillary Clinton on a regular basis which in my opinion is journalistic malpractice and is almost like a felony compared to that one controversial statement which he made!

The outright media bias that media pundits like Chris Matthews are showing toward Hillary Clinton along with the free ride in the media that they are giving Barack Obama right now are definitely valid topics for us to discuss with impressionable people who we talk with in the field so that they will know that journalists like Chris Matthews are NOT credible when they "report" on Hillary and Obama!

I do not care whether it is Rush Limbaugh in the extreme right wing Neocon GOP media or Chris Matthews in the mainstream media.  I always call things right down the middle how I honestly see them no matter who they are and I always provide credible documentation to back up the points that I make.  I do not give anyone a free pass when I post about a specific topic or person no matter who they are!

Mitch Dworkin

http://www.securingamerica.com/

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10756
StopIranWar.com: "War is not the answer"
Submitted by Wes Clark on February 21, 2007 - 11:40am.

http://www.securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7191
Listen to Gen. Wes Clark fight for Dems on Sean Hannity's radio program: An excellent example for all of us to follow and what we all need to be doing to help fight back against extreme right wing Neocon smear propaganda!

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22731229/

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Jan. 17
Read the transcript to the Thursday show

Guests: Allen Raymond, Mike Paul, Linda Douglass, Pat Buchanan, Nancy Giles, David Ignatius, John Harwood

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST:  Good evening.  I‘m Chris Matthews.  Welcome to HARDBALL.  Well, we‘re in a time of a lot of frustration in this country—Iraq, of course, the lack of health care for people who work every day, gas prices going up, the weakening economy that scares us every day.  And I come on here every night and try to wrestle with these frustrations, and also the changes in our country.

We might soon have the first woman president, the first African-American president, or a man older than we‘ve ever elected before.  And of course, we always treat things here with hope, our uniquely American hope that we can actually make things better, that we can make the greatest of countries not only survive, but as William Faulkner once said, prevail.

In the midst of talking about all this, almost always without a script and almost always on tricky subjects of gender and race and right and left and what‘s in our country‘s interest and who I think is telling the truth and who I think isn‘t, I know I‘m dealing with sensitive feelings.  I‘ve accepted all of this as part of the business I have chosen.

This program, I am proud to say is tough, fearless, and yes, blunt.  I want people to react when I say something.  I don‘t like saying things so carefully, so politically correctly that no one thinks I even said anything.  What I‘ve always counted on, in all the wild, speeded-up conversations on HARDBALL and elsewhere on television, is my good heart.  I‘ve always felt that no matter how tough I got, how direct, how provocative, how purposely provocative, people out there watching would know I was not out against them, that it was them I was rooting for, that while I was tough on individuals who sought to lead the country, I was not against the hopes we all have for a fair shake, in fact, a better deal for people who have been held back before we came along.

Some people I respect, politically concerned people like you who watch this show so faithfully every night, people like me who care about this country, think I‘ve been disrespectful to Hillary Clinton, not as a candidate but as a woman.  They point to something I said on MSNBC‘s “MORNING JOE” the morning after the New Hampshire primary, that her election to the U.S. Senate and all that‘s come since was a result of her toughness but also the sympathy for her because her husband embarrassed her by the conduct that led to his impeachment because he, in the words I used, “messed around.”

The truth, of course, is finer, smarter, larger than that.  Yes, Hillary Clinton won tremendous respect from the country for the way she handled those difficult months in 1998.  Her public approval numbers spiked from the mid-40s, up to the 70s in one poll I looked at.  Why?  Because she stuck to her duty.  She performed strongly as first lady.  She did such a wow of a job campaigning for Senate candidates, especially Chuck Schumer of New York, that she was urged to run for a Senate seat there herself.

She might have well gotten that far by another route and through different circumstances, but this is how it happened.  The rest is history, how Hillary went up to New York, listened to people‘s concerns and beat the odds, as well as the Republicans, to become a respected member of the U.S.  Senate.

So did I say it right?  Was it fair to say that Hillary Clinton, like any great politician, took advantage of a crisis to prove herself?  Was her conduct in 1998 a key to starting her independent electoral career the following year?  Yes.

Was it fair to imply that Hillary‘s whole career depended on being a

victim of an unfaithful husband?  No.  And that‘s what it sounded like I

was saying, and it hurt people I‘d like to think normally like what I say -

in fact, normally like me.

As I said, I rely on my heart to guide me in the heated, fast-paced talk we have here on HARDBALL, a heart that bears only good will toward people trying to make it out there, especially those who haven‘t before.  If my heart has not always controlled my words, on those occasions when I have not taken the time to say things right or have simply said the inappropriate thing, I‘ll try to be clearer, smarter, more obviously in support of the right of women, of all people, the full equality and respect for their ambitions.  So I get it.

On the particular point, if I‘d said that the only reason John McCain has come so far is that he got shot down over North Vietnam and captured by the enemy, I‘d be brutally ignoring the courage and guts he showed in bearing up under his captivity.  Saying that Senator Clinton got where she‘s got simply because her husband did what he did to her is just as callous, and I can see now it comes across just as nasty—worse yet, just as dismissive.

Finally, as if anyone doesn‘t know this, I love politics.  I love politicians.  I like and respect people with the guts to put their name, their very being out there for public approval so that they can lead our country.  And that goes for Hillary and Barack and John and all the rest who are willing to fight to take on the toughest job in the world.

So let‘s get on with the show.  Whoa!...