Chris Matthews on Hillary Clinton: "I Hate Her"

5:45 pm EST November 16th, 2007 | News | 4 Comments

Via Bob Somerby, from The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine 6/3/01

In 1994, [Roger] Ailes hired Matthews for a show on NBC’s "America’s Talking" network. Ailes later moved him to CNBC, where Hardball was born.

chris matthews"He had a natural sense of moral outrage," said Ailes, now chairman of Fox News.

The outrage is no put-on. Aboard a recent shuttle flight to Washington, Matthews spotted New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. Earlier in the day, he’d been complaining privately that, as first lady, she’d rejected a health-care plan that would allow nurses to give care to public school students because it was "too narrow-bore."

"In other words, ‘I’m not going to get enough credit for this,’ " Matthews told a colleague in the cafeteria of MSNBC headquarters in North Jersey. "Madonna won’t get flowers brought to her. I hate her. I hate her. All that she stands for."

Remember, fair and balanced.

Topic:

Related Posts

«
»

4 Responses to “Chris Matthews on Hillary Clinton: "I Hate Her"”

  1. Sean D. Martin says:
    November 16, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    “Earlier in the day, he’d been complaining privately…”

    “…Matthews told a colleague in the cafeteria…”

    Seems to me you can’t really point to comments a person is making in private, or in casual conversation and use them as a basis for complaining that he’s not “fair and balanced.”

    I know I certainly express opinions in private about, say, the relative worth of my employees, that I certainly wouldn’t express publicly. Not because of hypocrisy, but because I know when venting in private I don’t have to be fair.

    Frankly, my first reaction to the excerpt isn’t “He’s being unfair.” so much as “Does he have a point?” Did Clinton in fact reject a plan because she wouldn’t get sufficient credit for it, or is Matthews complaint on that inaccurate?

  2. Oliver Willis says:
    November 16, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    I think that a news anchor/analyst saying he hates a politician that he reports on is relevant – whether they say it in private or not.

  3. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    November 16, 2007 at 10:37 pm

    Venting is one thing, but saying, “I hate her. I hate her. All that she stands for.” is going overboard. It is could explain some of his behavior since then. It’s not like he’s been a big Clinton booster all these years.

  4. Bruce Godfrey says:
    November 17, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    I don’t trust the sourcing on this. “Chris said something in the cafeteria? to somebody?” Colonel Mustard with the Lead Pipe in the Library? Not biting.