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CHRIS MATTHEWS is back on today. He spent 2 weeks in New Zealand. (Original Post) trueblue2007 Mar 2019 OP
So much for the rumors about his demise. He's looking like he always does redstateblues Mar 2019 #1
Go Tweety malaise Mar 2019 #2
BTW, Don Lemon is gone all week HipChick Mar 2019 #3
Hehehehe malaise Mar 2019 #6
Good for him. Xolodno Mar 2019 #4
Looks and sounds well rested malaise Mar 2019 #8
Lucky guy. If I went to New Zealand I don't think I would come back! Luciferous Mar 2019 #5
Does NZ have a border wall? If not, I'm sneaking across! bullwinkle428 Mar 2019 #7
I'm fairly sure I wouldn't. n/t Different Drummer Mar 2019 #10
"he hates" SHITLER - or *DOES* he?!1 UTUSN Mar 2019 #9
That's the truth malaise Mar 2019 #11
"a genuine promoter of civil rights - he walked the walk" - umm, he did? UTUSN Mar 2019 #12

Xolodno

(6,390 posts)
4. Good for him.
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 08:22 PM
Mar 2019

Taking time off with loved ones is far more important.

That is what gives you perspective, what you fight for, etc.

malaise

(268,846 posts)
11. That's the truth
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 09:15 PM
Mar 2019

the other thing is that he is a genuine promoter of civil rights - he walked the walk.
Sure he has flaws but so do the rest of us.

UTUSN

(70,671 posts)
12. "a genuine promoter of civil rights - he walked the walk" - umm, he did?
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 10:41 PM
Mar 2019

Last edited Mon Mar 4, 2019, 11:22 PM - Edit history (1)

In what way? All I've ever known about him is what I saw on his show over the years that I monitored him closely (stopped in 2012?), and what I saw is that he was a misogynist towards Hillary and his own wife and that his career has been, sure, based on his having been a Democratic "operative" (Tip O'NEILL, Jimmy, blah blah) - iow, he was a flack/hack when he was working in politics. But he turned into a RAYGUN worshiper, then a Shrub worshiper - because he saw them as "WINNERS" not "LOSERS" like his ex-bosses. Plus, his allegiance was not based on ideology, but rather on pop culture Irish heritage (JFK). In his newspaper column he was supposedly anti-war but on his t.v. circus there was no bigger booster for Shrub and the Iraq Attack than him. Really, besides the weather vane persona, I don't see that he has actual principles. He himself has said outright that the ONLY reason he joined the Peace Corps was to get out of being drafted to Vietnam - and, NO, to what some of his defenders have said, it wasn't to do something constructive (like HEMINGWAY being an ambulance driver in a war), it was STRICTLY to get out of the draft. Plus he has bragged that his family are "cloth coat (Repukes)."

But back to "civil rights". Can you tell me what that was about with him? What marches did he participate in, what arrests did he suffer, what? Really, I've never heard any of that and will welcome any info. Tia!1





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