MSNBC's Chris Matthews Shows Anti-Obama Sentiment
Posted February 21, 2008 
Last Monday MSNBC's
"Hardball" aired a picture of Osama
Bin Laden while host Chris Matthews reported a story about presidential candidate Barack Obama. The incident is being touted as an accident and the responsible employee was reportedly reprimanded.
Accident or not, Matthews displayed a markedly anti-Obama sentiment the following evening after results for Wisconsin and Hawaii primaries rolled in showing the Illinois Senator as the easy victor in both contests.
Matthews and fellow MSNBC news anchor Keith Olbermann had Rep. Stephanie Tubbs (D-OH) on to support Hillary Clinton with State Senator Kirk Watson (D-TX) for Barack Obama. After a long, uninterupted spill from Rep. Tubbs, Matthews turned attention to Sen. Watson, asking him to list Obama's legislative accomplishments. Tubbs was not put to the same test.
After the embarrassing show from Watson, the tables were then turned on Matthews when Olbermann asked the “Hardball” host to name some legistlation from the entire U.S. Senate from the last 7 years. Matthews, too, stumbled and quickly went on the defensive, saying that he wasn’t there to defend the U.S. Senate, but Watson was there to defend Obama and his unpreparedness was “a problem.”
See the video here.
FYI: A short list of Obama’s Legistlative Accomplishments
As an elected official Barack Obama sponsored the following bills, among others:
233 on healthcare reform
125 on poverty
112 crime fighting
97 economic
60 human rights
15 gun control
6 veterans affairs and more
As a U.S.Senator Obama authored 152 bills, andco-sponsored 427, including the following:
The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006, which became a law;
125 on poverty
112 crime fighting
97 economic
60 human rights
15 gun control
6 veterans affairs and more
As a U.S.Senator Obama authored 152 bills, andco-sponsored 427, including the following:
The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006, which became a law;
The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, which also became a law;
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, which was passed by the Senate; and The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation, which in currently in committee.
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Posted on : February 23, 2008 12:29 am by KhymmiiKim
MSNBC , IM SURE HAS FAR MORE WHITE MEN WHO COME FROM NO ECONOMIC STRUGGLES IN THEIR LIVES AND MOST LIKELY ARE REPUBLICANS AND NO IM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE COMMON FOLKS THAT WORK THERE BUT THE ONES WHO RUN THAT CO. MSNBC DEFINATELY KNEW WHAT THEY WHERE DOINGH WHEN THEY PUT A PICTURE OF OSAMA UP WHILE REPORTING ON THE ONLY BLACK MAN THEY HAVE EVER HAD TO TAKE SERIOUS IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN ALL OF HISTORY . I BELIEVE IN MY HEART OF HEARTS THEIR ARE ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF UPPER MIDDLE CLASS WHITE AMERICANS WHO REALLY WANT OBAMA AS PRESIDENT , HOWEVER THEY KNOW THAT THE REPUBLICANS DONT HAVE MUCH OF A FIGHTING CHANCE FOR THE WIN SO NOW THEY ARE QUESTIONING THEMSELVES HMMMM ARE THEY GOING TO TOLERATE HILLARY CLINTON OR BE A PART OF A GREAT CHANGE WHITH OBAMA AS THE LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY . I KNOW THATS A HARD PILL FOR YOU ALL TO SWALLOW BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE ~REMEMBER THIS CHANGE IS ALWAYS A GREAT THING MAYBE SCAIRY AT TIMES BUT IT IS TIME FOR JUST THAT !!! OBAMA 08
MSNBC , IM SURE HAS FAR MORE WHITE MEN WHO COME FROM NO ECONOMIC STRUGGLES IN THEIR LIVES AND MOST LIKELY ARE REPUBLICANS AND NO IM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE COMMON FOLKS THAT WORK THERE BUT THE ONES WHO RUN THAT CO. MSNBC DEFINATELY KNEW WHAT THEY WHERE DOINGH WHEN THEY PUT A PICTURE OF OSAMA UP WHILE REPORTING ON THE ONLY BLACK MAN THEY HAVE EVER HAD TO TAKE SERIOUS IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN ALL OF HISTORY . I BELIEVE IN MY HEART OF HEARTS THEIR ARE ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF UPPER MIDDLE CLASS WHITE AMERICANS WHO REALLY WANT OBAMA AS PRESIDENT , HOWEVER THEY KNOW THAT THE REPUBLICANS DONT HAVE MUCH OF A FIGHTING CHANCE FOR THE WIN SO NOW THEY ARE QUESTIONING THEMSELVES HMMMM ARE THEY GOING TO TOLERATE HILLARY CLINTON OR BE A PART OF A GREAT CHANGE WHITH OBAMA AS THE LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY . I KNOW THATS A HARD PILL FOR YOU ALL TO SWALLOW BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE ~REMEMBER THIS CHANGE IS ALWAYS A GREAT THING MAYBE SCAIRY AT TIMES BUT IT IS TIME FOR JUST THAT !!! OBAMA 08
