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In reply to the discussion: Chris Matthews delivers the damn smartest reply I have seen to the "Socialist" accusation [View all]Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)9. Matthews is a rare talent
Rachel Maddow is not capable of a summary like that. Not even close. Every time Matthews is ridiculed around here and Maddow lauded as some type of genius I just have to chuckle. Backtracking without foresight doesn't impress me at all.
I don't want Matthews to desperately twist everything in our favor every night. That is not the real world. That is the duty of one-dimensional lesser caliber. Matthews does get a bit lazy these days in terms of blowing with the wind but when he gets around to big picture summation he reaches levels nobody else on that network is capable of.
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Chris Matthews delivers the damn smartest reply I have seen to the "Socialist" accusation [View all]
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
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Yes. He frustrates me sometimes. I was especially disheartened by how much he reviled Bill Clinton.
Texin
Mar 2019
#67
It's only socialists who are wanting to call the Dem. Party a socialist party.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2019
#70
Yes, he did. I remember Tip O'Neill, too. He was a powerful figure in Congress...
Honeycombe8
Mar 2019
#88
Whoa! I think he said that about Dubya Bush; maybe when Bush was playing fighter pilot.
maddiemom
Mar 2019
#91
No, it wasn't. It was definitely about Obama. I was watching at the time & remember it.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2019
#106
No. You haven't heard the ribbings against him for saying that about Obama?
Honeycombe8
Mar 2019
#105
Nah, Tweety's OK. An insider, a guy perhaps too easily dazzled at times. But always a liberal.
Midnight Writer
Mar 2019
#22
I used to like Chris a lot more than I do now. It isn't that I don't like him, either -
PatrickforO
Mar 2019
#11
sometimes he infuriates me - other times he just seems to strike a note of pure insight
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#17
the wingers aren't satisfied with 'socialism' though, limbaugh is calling us 'stalinists'!
certainot
Mar 2019
#10
AI just made it a lot easier to digitize talk radio. rw radio is doomed, it's just up to dems to
certainot
Mar 2019
#23
Just curious, why listen to these stations? Perhaps you live in a geographically challenged area...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2019
#51
and you live in a city? your sister's a whore, your father's a thief, and your ideas a treasonous
certainot
Mar 2019
#66
Gawd, calm down. The only reason I asked was pretty well if you're in a rural area. The area...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2019
#69
you asked why i listen to it. i don't listen much anymore but sample it. it's very predictable
certainot
Mar 2019
#77
and limbaugh provides transcripts that can now be accessed through iheart instead of his website
certainot
Mar 2019
#26
+1. Yes. We need to find a succinct message(s), and then Repeat Repeat Repeat
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#18
AOC is getting hammered on talk radio and the left ignores it - that's a problem
certainot
Mar 2019
#32
in 40 states with 80 senators there are no free easy alts for politics while driving, working and
certainot
Mar 2019
#30
There's millions of people who listen to talk radio religiously every day....
KY_EnviroGuy
Mar 2019
#81
I know some people think it's a gimmick but Naming Has Power - I believe that.
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#60
We aren't going to be able to stop that, you know. The EXACT thing the right-wing
PatrickforO
Mar 2019
#84
dem messaging has not worked! the cons sit in their think tanks and look for progress and then
certainot
Mar 2019
#87
i'm serious - it wouldn't take much to convince the ad industry to desert rw talk radio
certainot
Mar 2019
#92
trump has done us a favor by telegraphing his attack this far in advance, now we
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#19
it seems so obvious, yet this has been completely absent from the discussion
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#24
"Capitalism or socialism? We already made that choice. Both. Now we just need to find
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#27
Wealth & Income Inequality is historically high right now. Can't and doesn't last. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2019
#72
Trumps is not for capitalism. He is for fascism. Fascism is when the state exists to aid corporation
McCamy Taylor
Mar 2019
#99