Chris Matthews ‘Makes Fun’ of Arianna Huffington Over Stewart Rally
- Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:33am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Want a recipe for some great television? Here’s a suggestion:
Take one part liberal MSNBC host. Add one part liberal Huffington Post founder. Throw in a pinch of media critique, mix it all in together and watch it boil over.
That’s what happened yesterday when Chris Matthews and Arianna Huffington went head-to-head over Jon Stewart’s weekend rally critique of cable news.
The result was Matthews mocking Huffington while she condescendingly gave him an apparent lesson in journalism. “Listen, you can make fun of me,” Huffington said at one point. To which Matthews replied emphatically, “I am.” The cold sarcasm permeated the entire segment, with Matthews chiding Huffington for taking Stewart’s position.
By the way, you might also want to add a dash of finger pointing and a Jon-Stewart-is-like-Thomas-Jefferson comparison. Now you have all the ingredients:
As a side note, Keith Olbermann was upset with Stewart’s comments as well.
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Comments (184)
Sinestro
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:15amChris doesn’t get the meaning of the message. His programming disallows it. All he hears is “Danger, Danger Will Robinson.”
Report Post »Awakenow
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:15amLook how they handle becoming irrelevant, they turn on each other. These are supposed to be the intellectuals.
Report Post »standswithafist
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:03amthanks for the laugh awake now.if they are representative of “intellectuals”, glad i depend on common sense.
Report Post »cliKKer
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:09amWhat she means is “Fox, Glenn Beck, Palin, OReilly” need to stop speaking. But Media Matters, MSM, MSNBC can say anything they want.
The brilliance of Glenn is he realized all you had to do is let them speak for themselves. Show the juxtaposition of their ideas/images versus us.
Report Post »TMGallagher
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:24amNO KIDDING Clikker!
Report Post »NWalters78
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:38amSpoken so true and so well….
Report Post »blueberrynoname
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:07amMatthews mocking Huffington? You do know that this is just for show. They‘re all Liberals and in the end they’ll support each other. Just listen to how quickly they started to agree with each other at the end.
Report Post »DrPepper
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:06amShe wants to control what the media delivers, we have to be nice, nice people. Well people have opinions and they are allowed to express them. I really don’t get why they whine so much they have the media we have one small corner a few radio stations, Fox news and the Blaze. Basically their problem is that the truth has a bit more volume to it you can whisper the truth and it will hit someones ears. They scream and yell and it doesn’t stick because you have to keep feeding lies and then it becomes saturated. There point of view has saturated the American landscape with a sticky slugged and the truth is cleaning it up.
Report Post »snowcloud
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:05amThis is four minutes of my life that I can’t get back. These people make me sick. They say WE are the extremists when WE reflect the overwhelming majority of this country, if not the world? I’m tired of all this garbage.
Report Post »libertyordeath87
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:04amComing as soon as Odumass nullifies the midterm elections and tries to instill martial law.
Report Post »warner
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:04amAs the ******** begin to eat their own…the knight comes in to save the day! These two are pathetic…they both suck!
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:03amLOL. This was a hilarious example of how the progressives are devouring themselves. Self Destruct. Boom.
Report Post »libertyordeath87
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:03amHuhhhhhh, neither Huffington nor Mathews are journalists. Whats all the fuss about?
Report Post »starman70
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:03amCommunists, liberals, and the far left are all morons. These clowns on MSNBC are the cream of the crop!
Report Post »TOMB2
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:51amMSNBC Is that a creature designed for Halloween or are we all deigned 4 a long life of stupidity
Report Post »Rita
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:59amBeing civil to each other is a nice thought but it’ll never happen in the real world of politics. When Arianna comes off her rally high she’ll go back to being a name thrower in no time. Matthews wouldn‘t have a show if he couldn’t berate his fellow American.
Report Post »Quack Addict
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:57amHuffington is a moron.
Report Post »BeHeardAmerica
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:57amok lets stop by not talking trash about Bush or Beck or Limbaugh or The O’Reilly, you get the point. The pot calling the kettle black.
Report Post »Zaphod
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:13amYeah … there’s a complete lack of introspection here. It‘s amazing they don’t see the volumes of venom being produced by themselves.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:56amI hope they eat each other alive on TV. I pray that God confuses the enemiew of this republic and allows us to restore this country to its founding principles.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com western art
Report Post »hamrs_62
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:54amhes an ass, leftist, moron, his tingle is there, its in his eyes for obahussein
Report Post »FreedomsHope
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:53amI should have gotten some popcorn before starting that clip. That was fun.
Report Post »EnsureTheBlessingsOfLiberty
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:14amThat was great! Did you see how uncomfortable the third guy (no idea who he is) looked? You could just see him thinking…”Ok, if Chris just starts throwing round houses at her will I come to her assistance or just let him pumel the socialism out of her!”
I think Chris may have taken Stewart’s comments about 24 hour media being a problem a little personal. Great stuff!
Report Post »R and K
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:52amArianna preaching about not focusing on diferences? Not dee moe nizing people?
Hypocrisy.
Report Post »louzyana
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:51amPooooooooop
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:14amWell said!
Report Post »clockwatcher
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:49amShe is a Greek,she wants to bring to the USA the Greek social system. Look at Greece today, they are the basketcase of Europe. She should fix Greece than, I would tend to listen to her. Other than that she speeks the same social trash time after time. I hope Greece recovers and I hope the American people will vote out the Black Jimmy Carter. Freedom1 day and 2 years.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:58amGo back to Grease !
Love,
Report Post »J. Travolta
Ponyexpress
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:11amHey clockwatcher do you know the definition of Greek love?
Report Post »It is never leaving your brother’s behind. Seems to fit the discussion between Huff and Cris
Marcobob69
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:48amI love it when they snipe each other! Is ol’ Frau Huff related to Spooky Dood??? She sounds a lot like him(kinda looks like him, too!)! And as far as Keith Olbermann, WHO CARES if he is upset at ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »janedough1
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:37amShe’s Greek, he’s Hungarian.
Report Post »henryKnox
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:14amI’ve seen the Greek riots by the dependent class. Knowing that she is Greek now makes her perspective a little more understandable. Why is it that these people that hate the US Constitution are european or europe worshipers.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:46amHuffpo is comedy central. This story is a joke also.
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:12amread my mind. this rally served no purpose but to try and make stewart’s show relevant again.
Report Post »he should stick to comedy, if he can.
hillbillyinny
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:42amEating their young. . .
Report Post »Steve Smith
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:41amOooo
Report Post »egosumverum
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:40amI just threw up a little.
Report Post »AstupidAmerican
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:47amStupid is as stupid dose.
Report Post »Marc Jacobs
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:47amI always enjoy when the stupidites of one liberal confound another liberal. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:22amNo real commentary is needed.
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:24amYum… a healthy dose of irony to start my Monday. Has she read her website lately?
Report Post »Marc Jacobs
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:26amI always enjoy when one stupid liberal confounds another stupid liberal. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:32amI have to laugh the fact that Areanna THINKS her website is bringing anyone togeather.. She has one of the BIGGEST selections for DIVISION.. they lie, spin and have 1/2 truths.. she must be doing good drugs to think that a media outlet is going to get hits to read about someone doing anything in their community.. PEOPLE are looking for the truth and information which we DON’T get from MSM.. and sometimes not even from other sites.. PEOPLE want to know what bills their reps are voting on.. what bills were introduced and who wrote them.. what was added to an existing bill.. the name calling is not all that important what they are planning to do or how they are going to vote IS..
slickmeister
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:44amThere is something odd about the liberal mind that compels them to whine about the exact behaviors that THEY engage in, but project onto their opponents.
I call in inverted logic. Something that is obvious to the casual observer but impossible for lib/socialists to notice.
SnapTie
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:47amEverybody set your DVR’s to watch all the heads popping Tuesday night.
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:53amWhat a pathetic, lost little girl she is.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:03amWow, what a pair of fine citizens we have here,
Report Post »chazman
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:12am… damn buttheads …
Report Post »2
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:20amRemember Huffington said everyone should be able to talk but GLENN BECK.
Report Post »Handsome Pete
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:22amHow large of a dose is a stupid dose?
Report Post »Muslim in Chief
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:12amStewert said we can have animice, but not have enemies…..Obviously the President didn’t get that memo. According to him, anyone who is not Latino, or a democrat is the enemy and will get punished.
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:38amShouldn’t she be back in Hooterville making Oliver a burnt casserole?
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:11am@FORMERLIB
That, my friend, is a great reference!! “Green Acres” is fitting in so many ways.
I don‘t know about y’all but I would much rather listen to someone scrape their fingernails across a chalkboard than to listen to that woman’s voice. It is truly one of the most horrible sounds ever to be made.
Report Post »Peters
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 12:28pmThese three represent the concept of modern liberalism’s dependence on the perpetual beginning of the end is always near. This rhetorical weaponry though, is always followed by new beginnings, “hope and change,” as we are well aware. And know, in this latest stunt, these three, their ignorance of their own professional environment is far too deliberate in some cases while in others their ignorance is just plain true. But that’s very concerning because they have deep rooted beliefs that dictate their ill and gross actions against us.
Take notice that Mathews’ recent attempts at being the reasoned moderate voice of the left are far too deliberate and convenient. But together, these three, as they professionally feign benevolence in unison, are openly dangerous to the pursuit of truth, their obligation to their audience as the ultimate purity of journalism. This is fully demonstrated by the unknown junior liberal throwing out-of-context historical grenades: He said to Huffington, as she presented a position in support of Stewart’s calling for moderation in the media, “The founding fathers were the most ugly bitter vindictive politicians that we have ever seen.”
In his response to Huffington, what was his point other than to rationalize and justify liberal behaviors?
But understand how contradicting that this is coming from liberals, media liberals, calling for moderation in the media. This exchange is a ploy to reposition the Democratic Party, the liberal media, as not being radical, at least not as much as the Obama liberals have demonstrated them to be. But again, this is a ploy to hide their overreaching and gross violations against the people they serve. To simply demonstrate this contradiction all we have to do is look to how the liberal media had conducted themselves during the eight Bush administration years and then the build up to Obama, his launching and now his descent for a soft landing. It’s all about positioning and transitioning.
And in that, we know that the liberal media has to do this to survive; it’s a marketing ploy and it works. They’ve been riding this methodology since Martin Van Buren created the Democratic Party on a foundation of deceptions back in 1820. And Van Buren, keep in the mind, as the originator of the Democratic Party, was masterful with his use of the media against his republican opponents. He controlled the media to ensure that the issue of slavery became politically incorrect. No one was allowed to speak of it because the dialogue that would result would destroy the purpose of his creating the party in the first place: Power. He had to bury the issue because it was too politically complex to deal with; and with the help of the liberal media he buried it, for a while. But think of the magnitude of this, of the supporting lies that have been kept alive for generations upon generations.
And yes, political correctness has been around for a long time, or rather the manipulation of it. But in doing this, controlling the media, if we trace history back truthfully, we will find that these Democratic deceptions were purposely carried out to prolong the environment of slavery, pure and simple. Yet, this is not how contemporary society thinks of the Democratic Party. In fact, just as Mathews is doing here with this current issue of setting things up, positioning to bend the logic of blame away from themselves, Democrats have been doing this for almost two hundred years. Society still believes that it is Republican ideals that did the dirty deeds of prolonging slavery when in fact it was the opposite.
What we can expect out of this latest ploy, one that would make Martin Van Buren very proud, is the Republicans are to blame for the current media environment that liberal media, the Democratic Party has actually created, has over heated. In other words, what was built on a foundation of lies one hundred and ninety years ago is still standing rationalizing itself upward like the world’s greatest assembly of pathological liars ever assembled to write the scripts of a civilization, of a society and a culture . . . of its future, it’s present and its past.
Stay vigilant; censorship is around the corner.
Report Post »WTH
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 1:28pmHaving these two clowns (Mathews and Huffington) discussing proper media conduct is funnier than anything Stewart or Colbert had to say.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 1:37pmArianna’s on-line publication is all about diviciveness. I find it humorous what she said in this chat with Matthews.
Report Post »ArmySGT
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 2:33pmMarc…what, on earth, is a stupidite??? LOL
The video was quite funny. 2 jackasses butting heads. Stupid is as stupid does indeed.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 3:31pmDumb and ‘Dumberer’ ;) ..Perhaps Matthews is gay since Obama makes his legs tingle but it‘s obvious Ariana ’ZsaZsa‘ Huffing And Puffington doesn’t…
Report Post »GWSchool.Net
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 3:36pmCommon Sense – Anyone???
Report Post »Impeach-BO
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 3:42pmMatthews accuses stewart of not being kind to people he critizies..are you kidding me???? ..and Matthews is?
Matthews asked, “Who do I demonize here?” Oh, I don’t know, maybe Glenn Beck(every damn day) and any and all tea party members. What an absolutely idiotic liar Matthews is.
You know I actually agreed MORE with Arianna in this one. lol If you can believe that. She has the right idea but wrong on many of the facts she is putting out. I suggest Arianna simply look in the mirror to find the problems she’s complaining about.
As for Matthews he‘s only spewing more hard left lies because basically that’s all he has left is his far left/communist/marixist/union/(fill in the blank) lestist wackjobs core. If he tries to go anywhere near the center now, he’ll anger his base. And he knows very well what happens to people who anger the hatefilled left. Watch out!
Report Post »rebel
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 3:51pmcome on arriana, you almost had him! jsut say YES YOU DO DO THAT STUFF ON HERE! and then he can say YOU DO IT TOO. and then you can get a room and make up
Report Post »the_patriot
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:02pmI have to agree in that the lines have been drawn, and people are choosing their side daily if they have not already. If we don’t unite soon we are heading for a civil war. The fact is that many, including myself, cannot stand liberals and their ilk (communists, etc.) I would just as soon they didn’t exist, or give them a portion of land to congregate and build their own liberal system of government. Let’s split the country and have the liberals live on one side and the sane people live on the other. We will quickly see who will prosper and who will fail.
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:22pmzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Report Post »RaptureReady_004
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:59pmwow, it’s entertaining. To watch them fall apart at the seams, and attack each other. Keep that up , the election will be over soon enough. ( YES).
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:28pmWho wouldn’t make fun of the Huff. She looks and thinks like a lizard. As a variation on theme to one of The Door’s songs, she is the Lizard Queen.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:08pmFrightening but I think I for once agree with something Chris Matthews said..
Colbert and Stewart tell us they don’t want partisanship and then out of the other side of their mouths say but this is who we voted for… make no mistake they both voted and will vote Democrat for Obama again…
partisanship is what WE want and need and that IS why we have “different parties”.
For Colbert and Stewart to tell us to stop acting like they do each and every night is
Report Post »Hypocrisy…..
Thoughtful One
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:26pmProgressives are imploding.
Report Post »trikldown
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:49pmYes, it dose.
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