Video: Now it’s Chris Matthews tearing up
posted at 2:11 pm on January 9, 2008 by Bryan
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It is Chris Matthews, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. But can we make this weepy-eyed stuff stop already?
I thought Barack Obama’s speech last night was impressive. He easily outclassed Hillary Clinton, who gave the best speech of her life right after his. Vocally, maybe it was the hoarseness of having delivered speech after speech after speech, but he even sounded like MLK. The “Yes we can” refrain was a serious lift. Nevertheless, for grown men and especially members of the press to start getting weepy over this is just…unstoppable, apparently.
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What would happen to these people if they faced some real adversity? Or something that is actually sad?
kcluva on January 9, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Someone get me a kleenex.
mattyj86 on January 9, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Matthews is a blubbering blowhard
Buttercup on January 9, 2008 at 2:14 PM
This election is turning out to be one big “chick flick”…
JetBoy on January 9, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Jeez,man up Chrissy boy.
bbz123 on January 9, 2008 at 2:15 PM
The pussification of a nation. I have had enough already.
SoTX on January 9, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Hannibal Smith on January 9, 2008 at 2:17 PM
I loved the way Chrissy went into some strange tangent last night about how the people of NH didn’t vote for Obama because they are racist. Classy.
Zetterson on January 9, 2008 at 2:18 PM
You gotta admit Obama’s theatrics in the above clip during the speech were pretty gosh darn awesome. He is/was charming as hell, tall dark and handsome, has a raspy deep voice, knows how to work the crowd, confident, not a gram of femininity, etc.
He’s got all the qualities a leader should have, according to every liberal’s subconsciousness :)
He’s like my ex girlfriend: all style and no substance.
AlexB on January 9, 2008 at 2:21 PM
All Democrats such weepy Pv$$ie$?
RobCon on January 9, 2008 at 2:22 PM
He will forever be known as Chrissy.
RobCon on January 9, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Journos like Matthews are revisiting their childhood. When they go to an Obama event it doesn’t matter what he says, they see RFK/JFK. Probably more RFK though.
gabriel sutherland on January 9, 2008 at 2:23 PM
This is silly. Good night. With the way the media has been absolutely drooling over Obama, you would never know that it is Hillary who is supposed to be the candidate of inevitability…
Weight of Glory on January 9, 2008 at 2:24 PM
I’m telling ya, this guy is a formidable candidate.
Spirit of 1776 on January 9, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Good lord Matthews, get a life and grow up . . . you’re talking about wormy politicians who would say and do anything to attain power. Matthews has never been anything but a political parasite sliding along on the coattails of politicians, so we shouldn’t be surprised that he gets misty listening to their babble.
rplat on January 9, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Mitt cried first!
Brat on January 9, 2008 at 2:27 PM
What happened to the old adage: “Women cry to keep from swearing, men swear to keep from crying”?
Obama is a great communicator, which was the old Dem knock on
Reagan. Don’t discount his chances. Inexperience is temporary.
Seasoning on the campaign trail this time puts him in good standing for 2012. If Obama were on the Conservative side, which of course will never happen-I would consider supporting him.
Doug on January 9, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Anybody see this?
“Re: Hillary’s “amazing comeback” in the New Hampshire primary election; was it her tears? I don’t think so. Was it “hordes of women voters?“ I don’t think so. Was it the “Bradley effect?” I don’t think so. It was plain old electronic election theft and fraud.
Senator Obama was robbed of his election victory in New Hampshire by electronic election rigging in favor of Hillary. The most corporate candidates almost always seem to “win” when private corporations “count” the votes. I would suggest that Obama was robbed of victory in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary Election on 8 January 2008 by the criminal electronic flipping of several thousand votes from Obama to Hillary. The so-called “amazing comeback” of Hillary was based on computerized electronic election fraud.
This is just like the Bush/GOP electronic theft of Presidential Election in November 2004 when about seven million Kerry votes were electronically flipped into Bush votes on Election night.
Hillary “won” with the help of Republican corporations “counting” the votes. Certainly the pre-election polls did not indicate that her victory was even remotely possible… Could the right-wing neocon corporatists still be rigging elections in 2008? Hillary is corporate America’s best good chance to continue Bush wars and unchallenged corporate greed…
I have zero faith in any election that does not employ the hand-counting of paper ballots. Anything with a “electronic” computerized voting system can be very easily and undetectably rigged…
Most of the “unexpected” and “amazing” Republican election “victories” in the 21st century were the direct result of GOP operatives hacking, rigging and stealing elections electronically…”
it was only a matter of time
LtE126 on January 9, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Enough already PLEASE.
We are talking about a run for the President of the United States not American idol!
TroubledMonkey on January 9, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Obama’s got all cylinders firing right now. The biggest concern he’s going to face is if he can maintain this energy level going into the actual election (Obama’s going to get the nod, IMHO).
Obama’s another Clinton– all great ideas, but he’ll discover his horrible ideas are going to be soundly rejected by the populace. He’ll get a quick reversal in 2010 in a midterm (thanks to the creeping recession as well). Then he’ll tone everything down and be a nice face, warm heart, but do-nothing prez for the next 6 years.
Unless he gets beaten by a Republican, and none of the field looks strong enough, at the moment, to take on Obama.
Nethicus on January 9, 2008 at 2:32 PM
If Hillary doesn’t end up teaming with him, Anthony Robbins (Awaken the Giant within) could. Think of it! It would be an unstoppable positive thinking self-help team. They could ride off into the sunset singing, “I did it my way”, “The Greatest Love of All”.
America is plagued by egocentrism and it will be our downfall.
God bless America….with repentance.
shick on January 9, 2008 at 2:32 PM
No Crybabies!!!! Now vote for me, i will begin taking donations :)
SoCalInfidel on January 9, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Chrissy’s been Oprahfied
Geronimo on January 9, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Matthews is another sad baby-boomer desperately trying to have their time back again………Give it up man, it ain`t the 60`s anymore.
ThePrez on January 9, 2008 at 2:34 PM
Those are not tears….
It’s the MATTHEWS DROOL coming out of every orafice…..
“The Dog” cried first…
awesum on January 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM
New favorite biblical quote: Jesus wept.
Now I’m going out to buy some stock in Kleenex because this is getting out of hand. I smell windfall profits.
pistolero on January 9, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Does that make Chrissy an alpha or a beta?
AlexB on January 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM
You’re a Tear Profiteer! Pick me up some of that stock while you’re at it…
Bryan on January 9, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Life’s a
CampaignCuddly Mommy.fogw on January 9, 2008 at 2:43 PM
I guess sissy Chrissy got the memo. What a worthless turd!
libhater on January 9, 2008 at 2:45 PM
If Chris Matthews had any decency, he would apologize for the treatment he gave Michelle Malkin went she went on his program. Matthews engaged in ambush journalism, making accusations and not letting the guest answer or in the case of Michelle, interrupting and insulting.
But revenge is sweet and it came in the form of Stephen Colbert (how ironic is that?). Matthews went on Colbert’s show and Matthews spoke adnauseum about how if young men want to be cool and get the girl, they should emulate Bill Clinton. If young people want to be successful in life, argued Matthews, they should try to be just like the Clintons. When Matthews described Bill Clinton as the ultimate in male coolness and sophistication, Matthews seemed almost libidinous. Matthews really believes that Bill Clinton is a combination of Frank Sinatra and Brad Pitt. And Colbert was laughing so hard at Matthew’s infatuation with the Clintons that Matthews sensed that he was the foil and the butt of the joke. Ah, poetic justice. Revenge is sweet.
Larraby on January 9, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Scarborough is on the bandwagon too? I don’t know how Hillary can keep up.
Yoosaion on January 9, 2008 at 2:47 PM
I didn’t catch the speech Obama gave last night. The clip above was striking in one regard: The cadence in his voice seemed to be deliberately similar to Marin Luther King’s I have a Dream refrain.
The Mathews girlishness is pretty sad. He gets creepier as time goes by.
Dork B. on January 9, 2008 at 2:47 PM
The pussification of males in the MSM is quite far along.
jukin on January 9, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Maybe those two should team up just like Chrissy says. They’d kill each other by November. LOL
Griz on January 9, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Face it, this is a country of Nancy Boys. The womanization of males is almost complete.
gator70 on January 9, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Mancrush Matthews…he’s got a fee-vah!
Dork B. on January 9, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Bwahaha. Good one. We’ve all got a front row seat to the pussification of a nation.
TheBigOldDog on January 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM
“Leave Chrissy ALONE!” BWAH!!!! lol
deedtrader on January 9, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Larraby, wasn’t it John Stewart who sliced and diced Matthews?
mymanpotsandpans on January 9, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Mitt Romney has cried twice on the campaign trail, which bumped him down in my estimation. The other side finds it to be a selling point, apparently.
joewm315 on January 9, 2008 at 3:08 PM
I liked him better when he was just a drooling, drunk old imbecile.
Weepy drunks just make me want to — vomit.
Misha I on January 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Silky’s next.
Dork B. on January 9, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Only on their side. Our guys are still at least sort-of manly. Also, Chris Matthews isn’t womanly, he is a woman – notice how he gossips with Liz Edwards and then tries to ambush Ann Coulter, just like a high school gal trying to stir up “drama.”
By the way, am I the only one who thinks the only thing this election is missing is a KT Tunstall song? Seriously, when did we as a nation decide that Oprah was allowed to vent politically? When did we decide that crying was a good thing? We used to laugh at these people; now we devote hours and hours to them!
It’s further proof that the conservative mindset is the only rational one. The most notable conservative woman of the 20th century: “This lady’s not turning.” The most notable liberal woman: “It’s hard…(sniffle)”. Lightyears of difference.
emailnuevo on January 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM
The Vajapocalypse hath cometh.
Brat on January 9, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Dude. .5 mil this morning?
Spirit of 1776 on January 9, 2008 at 3:18 PM
By the way, “Yes we can” was stolen/given to Obama by Deval Patrick, the new Governor of Massachusetts. Obama’s whole campaign is identical to Devals. Deval and Obama is only slightly a better speaker and slightly better looking, otherwise they could be twins. Deval so screwed up his first 100 days in office he had to go into hiding.
TheBigOldDog on January 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Wow! Maybe he can ask Al Franken if Stuart can come out of retirement and give lil’ Chrissy a few sessions. Sniff, sniff!
Casper the Friendly Host on January 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Chris Matthews dream weekend: A roaring fire, chocolate chip cookie dough right from the tube, and a good cry to movie playing on the Oxygen network.
Then a sweaty Gladiator movie.
Just sayin.
pistolero on January 9, 2008 at 3:20 PM
He’s just weeping from the thought of Hillary caressing his cheek again.
Torch on January 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM
This is just comical at this point.
jewells45 on January 9, 2008 at 3:33 PM
I’ve got a slogan for one of our candidates:
I cried once, but when I pulled the metal shaving out of my eye it stopped.
NellE on January 9, 2008 at 3:34 PM
I tell you we are in the throws of giant collective mental breakdown. Check your ammo…
ronsfi on January 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Could somebody please make a montage of this garbage, set to “It’s Alright to Cry” by Rosie Grier? Thanks in advance.
Jim Treacher on January 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM
I cry, you cry, please pass the apple pie.
Notice how Obami changes his voice to reflect “the struggle”
Captain America on January 9, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Jesus Christ Crucified, this isn’t what is going to pass for substantive political speech, is it? All is lost if some Elmer Gantry type is going to be accepted as a legitimate political practitioner. Woe is us.
thegreatbeast on January 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM
That Red Lasso player has been nothing but trouble for me since you guys started using it. It freezes my browser on occassion, and it rarely plays the full video without error.
DaveS on January 9, 2008 at 3:41 PM
No kidding. We need John Wayne to rise up from the grave and start kicking some a$$ … this is getting pathetic.
thirteen28 on January 9, 2008 at 3:41 PM
I just want to thank that fat, snide, self hating, looney left wing moon bat Chrissy for calling people in “Boston” racist because of Osama’s loss in the primary of New Friggin Hampshire! Hello…we don’t vote there.
And, Osama’s political twin, Cadillac Deval Patrick, was elected Governor by a record setting landslide in Boston just last year.
Not to mention, even if the voters decision to tell the pollsters they would vote for Barry outside the booth and then pull the lever for Hillary once inside was based on latent racism as Chrissy suggests, that would only make New Hampshire DEMOCRATS racists as the Republican numbers vetted out within 1 point of the pollsters numbers.
The moral of this story is that the supposedly liberal, eclectic, all inclusive party of progressive, smarty pants, latte sipping, Bijon Frise owning, hybrid driving, Oprahfied, pansies who talk so loudly about racial harmony are actually closet racists and are liars to boot,… while Republicans are prone to tell the truth and vote on issues instead of fluffy, hollow, rhetoric.
Alden Pyle on January 9, 2008 at 3:47 PM
I’m sorry to hear that. They’re still a beta service so there are going to be bugs. You could try re-installing your Flash player to see if that helps. If not, shoot me an email describing what happens and I’ll pass it to the Red Lasso folks.
Bryan on January 9, 2008 at 3:51 PM
It worked in MA. Then after a few weeks of him (Deval Patrick) actually being in office even the Moonbats freaked out. Patrick is advising Obama. Their campaigns are identical and they even look and sound like brothers. So, sorry but be very pessimistic because this pablum works when the media does not challenge it.
TheBigOldDog on January 9, 2008 at 3:52 PM
LMAO, why doesnt the press just look at his churches web page and replace white everywhere the word black appears. the guy is a flat out racist!! that’s what makes me tear up. oh, i forgot, there isnt any media bias. it makes me want to puke.
devere252 on January 9, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Am I the only person who can’t view RedLasso video at work? It crashes my browser. I have firefox set to block RedLasso content just so my browser doesn’t crash when I click on a HotAir story that has embedded RedLasso content!
Ludwig on January 9, 2008 at 3:59 PM
OMG! Howie Carr (WRKO) Just said Obama is going to make Deval AG if he wins! OMG! When Deval was part of the Clinton Justice Dept. he spent his time harassing Federal Prison Wardens about things like under-inflated basketballs and warm tuna sandwiches. Then he made it his personal mission to get a brutal rapist of an old woman freed and even paid for the DNA testing (which proved beyond a shadow of doubt the guy was guilty).
TheBigOldDog on January 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Senator Obama late last year stated that preventing the genocide of the Iraqi people was an insufficient reason for the US to stay there.
Okay, that’s debatable. Although I firmly, forcefully and fully reject it.
But how does someone who believes that the US doesn’t have an active role in preventing genocide when we are capable of doing so also believe that “We can repair the world”?
Doesn’t the world also include the Iraqi people? Or does his plan mean we go in after they’re slaughtered and fix things?
Repair the world, indeed Senator.
Words have consequences. Empty slogans don’t.
SteveMG on January 9, 2008 at 4:06 PM
mommy party
dingbat on January 9, 2008 at 4:06 PM
What happened to real men don’t cry? I think I miss that. I’m so over the metro-men crap. I’ve been trying to explain to my 17 yo daughter why a platoon of Army rangers running down the road all hot and sweaty is so much hotter than some metro fool in tight jeans with eye-liner on who thinks Chris Crocker is just misunderstood. Blah.
mauioriginal on January 9, 2008 at 4:07 PM
SaaaWeeeeet! Now we can pull down the maroon crushed velvet curtains from the corner office, sell the Caddy, boot his old lady’s $72K personal scheduler and get back to the business of governing instead of advocating for criminals and creating amnesty cities for illegals.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Muffy!
Alden Pyle on January 9, 2008 at 4:11 PM
When I got in trouble or whatever, my mom would pat me on the butt and say, “there there baby, don’t cry.” Later on the old man would walk by and tell me to stand up strait.
dingbat on January 9, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Could Obama’s delivery have been any more contrived? He’s imitating MLK, for crappsake. He does it well enough, but so what? Stagecraft is not leadership. And as for his message, it is the same as it ever is: utterly devoid of substance. He supposedly idolizes Abraham Lincoln, but Lincoln was a genius. Lincoln (were he alive today) would shred this twink in a debate in less than a minute. I can understand the girlish emotional reaction of the witless whitebread liberals to this man, but it is just too nauseating to read/hear the plaudits he receives from the right. What ever happened to logical argument and critical thinking in this country? THAT was the stuff of Abraham Lincoln. Not this theatrical swill.
argos on January 9, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Matthews crying? On air?
Been there, seen that – immediately following the cut away from Gore’s 2000 concession, Chris completely broke down, on the air, and the floodgates came open. He was actually almost speechless, but still managed to make blubbering platitudinous noises.
Oh, how I WISH someone had the video clip of those 2-3 minutes.
Matthews, in tears, reduced to a sobbing lump behind a desk.
It was priceless.
Wind Rider on January 9, 2008 at 4:37 PM
Bryan, added women, with your indulgence, I hope.
I don’t have time to read what all was commented on so far, but I offer my shrink services for free to our entire nation having gone batshit crazy. Yes, a national couch is necessary.
This morning KNX 1070AM said that the reason Hillary won with the ladies in NH was because she wept the other day.
These same women’s pockets will be picked by same Hillary, they being self-made, not after one named Bill.
Yes, America, you are psychotic and crazy. Get on my couch, because you need therapy before it’s too late. By all accounts it looks like sooner, rather than later, is advised.
Entelechy on January 9, 2008 at 4:39 PM
What would happen to these people if they faced some real adversity? Or something that is actually sad?
This is a wonderful point. I guess it’s a matter of it’s all relative. If you’re a powerful politician and you’re getting your ass handed to you when you were supposedly the chosen one, I guess you cry. Or you’re a powerful journalist who is completely out of touch with reality, you cry when you hear a speech. You and I cry when our wives die young from horrible diseases.
Yeah, they have a clue.
RWLA on January 9, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Barak: “Yes we can.”
Deval: “Together we can” and “Let’s get started.”
Apparently when black men utter simple, moronic statements like these, the electorate is summoned to swoon. Deval Patrick said NOTHING substantive throughout the gubernatorial campaign in terms of policy, objectives, etc., yet, as pointed out in this thread, he won in a landslide against the incumbent (female) lieutenant governor… I have to believe she had dents in her head when all was said and done after pounding against the wall trying to figure out how she could lose to the shrimp.
As for Barack — he IS a formidable candidate (again, as someone noted earlier), but only because too many Americans are caught up in style rather than substance. Like Deval, Barack is a seemingly pleasant fellow — quite likable, actually, although wrong on virtually any issue of significance facing this country.
Was it a good speech? Sure. Did it contain any meat? Of course not. And yes, his delivery was contrived, but simpletons eat that crap up…
In the end, America will deserve what it gets, and that’s what worries me.
D2Boston on January 9, 2008 at 4:47 PM
I haven’t seen a speaker with this much talent since…uh, I guess since I watched a string of late-night real estate infomercials on TV when I had trouble sleeping the other night.
GMAFB.
Why even bother with an election? He was already declared “The next president” after his 2004 convention speech. Of course, back then he was tacking more center/right.
John from WuzzaDem on January 9, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Chris Matthews a de-balled pussy?! I’m stunned!
MrC_5150 on January 9, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Werd.
John from WuzzaDem on January 9, 2008 at 4:48 PM
No, “yes we can” is borrowed from Cesar Chavez. Hey, it got Obama the endorsement from the Las Vegas union he was after, so pandering works.
Look at Rudy’s Spanish ad…no, don’t, you’ll get too mad.
The New (old) Motto
PattyJ on January 9, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Calling Zell Miller.
fogw on January 9, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Oh, and Matthews diagnosis, he’s very
sexfood deprived.Entelechy on January 9, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Zell Miller “Kids, and grandkids, I’m thanking God to be this old. For you, however, I feel very worried and sorry”.
Entelechy on January 9, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Geez……
The best speech evah?
I thought Jimmy’s ‘malaise’ speech was the best evah!
Limerick on January 9, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Obama is all blow and no show. Hell, He has no foreign policy experience and he has yet to put anything worthwhile, if anything at all, through the Senate. Who gives a rats fat ass about speeches?!… Hell, let’s all vote for Al Pacino because of his speech at the end of “Scent of a Woman”! Obama is an empty suit. Eventually it will be so glarringly obvious that even the girly men that cry at speeches will see it! Chrissy Mathews is a sorry excuse for a man. Grow a pair, you pansy!!! Quit crying like a little girl at a Beetles concert!! Jesus Christ!… we have become a country full of punks! I am going to go out, rev the V8 in my SUV, go to the range and fire off a few shots just to get the visions of that crying, sack-less wonder out of my mind!
clawjockey on January 9, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Sorry to agree, it’s the sad truth.
fogw on January 9, 2008 at 5:05 PM
I wish I hadn’t read your post. My BP just went up five fold.
MrC_5150 on January 9, 2008 at 5:08 PM
All of this is going to make me…cry
NickTx on January 9, 2008 at 5:17 PM
Give Chrissy a break.
“Socialized medicine? Yes we can. Higher taxes? Yes we can. Waste a lot of money fighting climate change? Yes we can. Pull out of Iraq and let the terrorist think they beat us? Yes we can.”
You telling me that didn’t make you cry?
Spolitics on January 9, 2008 at 5:19 PM
exactly what I was going to say
deepdiver on January 9, 2008 at 5:23 PM
So far, I really like Obama– in spite of his leftist views, I think he’s a man of integrity.
But in his last few speeches, he seems to be taking on the sing-song style of a southern black preacher. I find the style phony and annoying… almost as much so as Hillary’s faked southern black dialects. Obama can do better.
petefrt on January 9, 2008 at 5:26 PM
It sure is fogw. See my offer, above.
Entelechy on January 9, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Some interesting background stuff on Obama
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/01/obamas-backchannel-to-kenya.html
He has some fascinating relatives, if this is true.
a capella on January 9, 2008 at 5:36 PM
crying is for little girls. preferably legal hot ones. and then i come in and save them. with my — wait. im off track here… um…
ya. Chris Mathews is a lame-o
Drunk Report on January 9, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Yeah, I feel the same way about Denzel Washington. He was great in ‘Glory’.
argos on January 9, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Maybe Oprah won afterall. Good lord!
SouthernGent on January 9, 2008 at 6:04 PM
What is this idiot running for, dog catcher? This just gets sicker and sicker.
dave7997 on January 9, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Chrissy “The Sissy” Matthews…
Has a nice ring to it, don’t ya think?
eanax on January 9, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Obama gets an ‘A’ for rhetoric and platitudes, but he certainly gets an ‘F’ for substance and experience.
eanax on January 9, 2008 at 6:09 PM
I seriously just threw up in my mouth. Chris Matthews is officially the biggest Pu$$y I have ever seen in my life.
Jungliszt on January 9, 2008 at 6:11 PM
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