Chris Matthews Passionately Defends ‘Blacklisted’ Pat Buchanan: ‘I Miss Him Already’
- Posted on February 17, 2012 at 9:14pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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Chris Matthews doesn’t often have warm words for conservatives, but recently ousted MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan seems to have a special place in the Hardball host’s heart.
Responding to the news that Buchanan was leaving MSNBC, Matthews said:
“I miss him already. We’ve had dragdown fights right here on this set and I’ve said things that drive him up a wall and he’s said things that have driven me up a wall. We’ve done it here in a pretty good spirit most of the time and have managed to be friendly and friends throughout it all. And, obviously, I’m going to miss his cheerful fun-loving irascible presence around here.”
Matthews goes on to laud Buchanan’s “deep, even formidable loyalty“ and admired how Pat ”sticks up for his people like nobody I know.”
“He will laugh with you about the frailties and foibles of those he served but he never, ever quits being loyal to them. His most famous proof of loyalty was his strong defense of President Richard Nixon. At his moment of greatest vulnerability, when so many others were running for the tree line, Pat Buchanan was out there in the open field with a national television cameras right on him.”
There is an abundance of praise for Buchanan. Mediaite brings us the video clip below so you can hear Matthew’s tribute in its entirety:
“Loyalty is the heart of Pat’s being. He is loyal to country, to church, to neighborhood to heritage. To Pat, the world can never be better than the one he grew up in as a young boy. Blessed Sacrament Church and Grade School, Gonzaga High School, Georgetown University. No country will ever be better than the United States of America of the early 1950s. It’s his deep loyalty to preserving that reality and all its cultural and ethnic aspects that has been his primal purpose and is what has gotten him into trouble. Not just now but over the years.”
(h/t: Mediaite)
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Comments (106)
Atilla
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:53am“Thrill up my leg” Mathews is a despicable human being. Any words that he would say on behalf of Pat are insincere because in the final analysis it is the Marxist agenda that is promoted by any means possible. Mathews cannot be so stupid as to not recognize the silencing of opposition by an alleged news outlet. Soros wins another battle and Mathews has drunk his kool aid.
Report Post »Natsdaughter
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 10:34amI agree. If Mathews or other drones really support Pat, they’d hold a strike against the silencing of the right. They’d walk-off the set and show true support for opposing voices. Hypocrites and traitors thay are!
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:13pmYeh, get that Maddow guy to walk of his set and go glitter bomb Mathews.
Report Post »freedomofspeech
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:17pmI see the words “let me finish”, he sure likes to hear himself talk, wonder what would happen if he let his friend Pat finish talking? Chris, let other finish, then respond, it’s called a conversation.
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:07pmWhile I do not agree with Chris’s views, I will not berate him for speaking a kind word for Pat.
Matthew 5:43-48
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:56pmPat says “blacklisted”~ho hum. A station lets someone go, old news….Keith, Imus, Cenk, Glenn…Pat will find a place to peddle his racism, but I’d wager not Fox. Ailes knows Pat won’t carry the water, he speaks his OWN radical mind.
Report Post »Maybe Glenn will invite Buchanan to join, a Beck-Buchanan team is almost irresistible. :^)
WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges10
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 2:15am“Chris Matthews Passionately Defends ‘Blacklisted’ Pat Buchanan”
Too little, too late, Chris Matth-who? You’re gonna swing with the rest of your commie traitors (for treason to overthrow America … as if you didn’t know).
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 9:48am@ Tifosa
Report Post »Hum ho. Oops, Freudian. Trolls being what they are, did you factor that anything said by Chrissy is suspect to begin with, and anything half way decent about another “human” is more that likely ratings related only. Troll on you crazy troll.
Secret Squirrel
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:26pm.
Report Post »“‘I Miss Him Already’”
Yeah, sure. Hey Chris, did you get
your knife out of his back before he left?
Hate to lose that.
Shane74
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:20pmPeople should look up Pat Buchanan’s interview with the Russian Times, from at least a few days ago. Not exactly sure, but it can’t be older than a week and a half.
That is one TELLING interview.
Report Post »gabbygirl
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:38amDon’t watch MSNBC , but happy Pat is no longer with them. He was to good for them.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:01pmI agree. Pat was too good for those horrid liberal programs. Now, finally I’ll get to watch him as a guest and hopefully as a regular on the programs I watch. Chris, perhaps there’s hope for you after all, thanks for the kind words about Pat. That was very nice.
Report Post »Danthebugman
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:25amFinally…..Chris…you said something I agree with. Read Pat’s new book, “The Death of A Superpower”……chilling is not the word!
Report Post »momsense
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:53amConsidering that MSNLSD takes its marchng orders from Media Matters and therefore form the White House–Matthews had better watch his longings or he may be next.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:11amI’m sure this was done with the blessing of George Soros and all those under his command (including the White House). It’s just to show us how compassionate the progressives are…even with a lowly, despicable conservative.
Report Post »BigSky
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:31pmThis was done as more of a distraction to the fact that MMfA and MSNBC are related. MMfA may write the scripts of MSBHO’s primetime shows, but they also bragged about the fact they got PJB sacked at MSBHO.
Report Post »JLocke
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:40amPat dared to say the things that current dogma cannot accept. As Pat said on Hannity, he hasn’t changed. His views are the same as they have been for decades. He questions the “Diversity is Strength” mantra. The Western World is rapidly being swamped and anyone who points out that obvious fact needs to be silenced. Balkanization will happen in our children’s lifetime.
Report Post »AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:37amEver notice how the Buckley‘s and Buchanan’s are no more? Just the same shrill voices now without intellectual content. Even GB is a boy in comparison. No more American men; just boys. We are paying for our transgressions. What we do in life really does echo thru eternity.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:45am‘Loyalty is the heart of Pats being, and Communism is the black heart of MSNBC!
Chris Matthews, I wanna hang you from a rotten tree …
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:54amI’ll miss him says Chris but, for the good of the world, all consevatives must be banished from our airwaves!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:12amMatthews pi** down your leg and quit if you feel that way,
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:17amWhat’s kind of funny is the words beside his face “let me finish”… I was told that any guy that has tinkles down his legs could not even start!
Report Post »Truthmonster
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:54amWhy would he miss MSDNC? The west wing propagand channel.
Report Post »Truthmonster
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:52amChris Mathuseless, The GodFather of the loons. Pat should be happy he got out of Freak Show Hate TV.
Report Post »The Blu Morpho
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 11:52pmPAT BUCHANEN IS A STUPID F-ING RACIST and the clip PROVES IT. Here he is WHINING about how the little racist white kid have to be FORCIBLY integrated as if his racist azz would have ever “gotten around to it”, without force. Burn in hell racist and all those on the blaze that so heartily agree with you!!!!
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:15amThat poor village idiot…
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:34amSounds to me like you are the racist, not to mention your parents clearly failed when trying to teach you some manners.
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:08amIf there is anyone going to burn in Hell, sounds like it may be you, BLU MORPHO.
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:45amThe race card is worn out and tattered … and barely legible … from being overused … like going to the well too often … It’s all dried up … try another ploy … that’s not working anymore.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:56amwhat BRYAN FROM FLORIDA said.
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 11:44pmThat is the most rational thing I’ve ever heard this idiot say.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:12amAnd it took him decades!
Report Post »TPartyXpress
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:42amActually, it was a typo in his script.
Report Post »hogtrashhd
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 11:44pmmika,joe and now tingles..come on.. i call B.S. they threw juan williams overboard and we took him in.. (and gave him a million dollar a year contract which in my opion was waaaaaaaaay over the top) so they want to pretend they have a heart.. gimme a break…. not buying their crocodile tears.. they have not one shred of humanity amongst them all…
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:10amI guess Chris might be thinking that Juan didn’t get such a bad deal! (a better one than cleaning up your own pants after each tinkle!).
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 11:10pmTingles,quit lieing.
Report Post »Skee
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:29pmB.S.
Report Post »Chris knows the majority of MSNBC veiwers will probably go with Pat.
Leaving Chris with a pay cut. Downgrading Chris’ income status to the
dreaded 2%ers.
Cavy from VA
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:40pmWhy I believe you nailed it!
TEA
Report Post »jzs
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 11:15pmWhat I’ll miss most about Pat his is explanations about how America has to fight to postpone as long as possible the inevitable browning of America, the intermarriage of Mexicans and white Americans, and his Christian support of a white ruling class, even when others with DNA deficiencies become the majority in America.
God speed Pat Buchanan! And good luck at your new job at FOX. I hope you last longer than Glenn!
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:18amJZS, as usual another ignorant comment by your liberal, half-witted self. Pat will do just fine, and BTW, Glenn left on his own for greener pastures, and is free to take on the lunatics on the left and their flunkies in power, and is no longer shackled by the confines of FOX NEWS.
If not for Glenn, there would be many, many uninformed Americans about the treachery and travesty of the Obama administration and those from the dark side who surround him as well as those on the supposed right who are in league with those on the left engaged in the destruction of this country.
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:20pmPoor old chris, a little slow on the uptake. The old saying applies to him: “Day late, dollar short’. When he is out of a job, then the light might come on where that lonely brain cell exists.
Pray For Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
GeorgieJo
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:29pmSORRY CHRISSY but I’m not buying it. Buchanan is fine. Your ratings are in the hole.
WHEN they fire your Saul Alinsky _____,You might feel some pain…..but I doubt it.
You are a simple mouth spewing Progressive crap.
Go write another book about JFK.
You Sir are toast.
OMG 2012
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:04pmHey Chris, if you had anything other than an empty nut sack, you’d resign in protest….. Cuz when you quit parroting the marxist propaganda, they will come for you…..tooooooooo
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:17pmhard to believe he is the same person who guest hosted the rush linbaugh show. i guess people change.
Report Post »Candidus Vindex
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:00pmChris’s mourning the loss of Buchanan… is like a member of the Pol Pot regime mourning the losses of the killing fields.
Report Post »Beckster2
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:00pmWonder what Matthews will say when they fire him. What a gutless man among others like him.
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:21amI wonder if he also misses Olberdinke.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 9:59pmChris, When you used to (express) hope to someday be an elected official,
>you too used to talk about America ….. Remember?
Report Post »FreedomWI
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 9:46pmChris … Be careful where you put your support; this could be you. You are just another pawn and as soon as your usefullness is gone, you will be as well.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:00pmBingo
Report Post »voodoolife
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:08pmYup, ask Juan Williams…
Report Post »TNT_Party
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 9:33pmdoes anybody else think there’s too much man-love coming from Chris? I‘m thinking he hasn’t been inside a woman since he was born…
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:53pmTo bad the POS I mean the turd
Report Post »had to come out
TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 9:26pmYes, you and everyone else at MSNBC will miss Pat. He was the last on-air person with logic and conscience. But, hey MEDIA MATTERS said he most go so there. Now it’s most likely you will see Pat on FOX more and more; which means he will actually have a viewing audience.
Rock on, Pat!
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 9:40pmTrue that
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:32pmCHRIS?
Tip O’Neill is still DEAD.
I swear Matthews is still living in the 60′s (sans drugs)
OMG 2012
Report Post »Lumbar Spine
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 9:24pmNot exactly a defense of what got Buchanan fired…but it makes sense when you consider that Matthews and Buchanan are both Irish Catholics from the Northeast.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 9:40pmHuh???
Report Post »Lumbar Spine
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:11pmPeople here have no idea what Chris Matthews is all about, except for some cartoonish image the right wing has created about him. I’m not a big Matthews fan, but he’s far more complex than the one dimensional BS that passes for commentary here and on FOX.
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