Matthews brought Clinton fixation to GOP debate, asking about prospect of "Big Bill" back in WH

http://mediamatters.org/items/200705040006?f=h_top

During the May 3 Republican presidential debate on MSNBC, moderator and Hardball host Chris Matthews said, "{L}et me ask you about something else that might be a negative in the upcoming campaign. Seriously." He asked, "Would it be good for America to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House?" Later, when he reiterated the question, Matthews asked, "Should the Clintons come back to the White House, especially Big Bill?"

Contrary to Matthews' suggestion that the prospect of Bill Clinton back in the White House "might be a negative in the upcoming campaign," according to a March 23-25 USA Today/Gallup poll, 70 percent of Americans say Bill Clinton will do "more good than harm" for his wife's campaign. That poll also put President Clinton's approval rating at 60 percent, compared with 38 percent who disapproved, according to a USA Today article on the poll. Additionally, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll -- taken April 10-12 and noted by CNN's Political Ticker weblog -- "If Sen. Clinton wins the Democratic presidential nomination and goes on to win the general election in 2008, 60 percent of Americans believe her husband would have a positive effect on her administration, while 30 percent think it would be negative."

The debate question was not Matthews' first recent reference to the fact that a Hillary Clinton presidency would mean that the former president would also return to the White House. On the March 23 edition of Hardball, he asserted:

MATTHEWS: This week, we saw the spotlight shone on spouses of the 2008 candidates for president. On Thursday, of course, a sad story. John Edwards announced that his wife's cancer had returned but that he would continue his campaign in full force, with her full help. The New York papers today are reporting that Judith Giuliani has been married three times, not twice, as most of us thought. Plus continued intrigue -- I love that word, it would have been mine, as well -- at what might be called about -- might be called intrigue about having Bill Clinton back in the White House.

Previously, as Media Matters for America has noted, Matthews has obsessed over what he has referred to as Bill Clinton's "social life," "personal behavior," "current behavior," and "personal life." Additionally, he has repeatedly referred to the Clintons' marriage as a "sitcom." As Media Matters noted, on the March 28 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, Matthews referred to the purported terms of the Clintons' relationship as a "sitcom": "We're all supposed to notice this sitcom but not mention it. We're supposed to notice. He always wants us to know he's got AstroTurf in the back of his car. He always wants us to know that stuff, that he's the stud. But we're not supposed to talk about it. He wants us to know it, and clam up, and live with it. That's his attitude towards this."

i could go on and on...and have.

Among other reasons...

picture, maybe we should all send him one...

see, Clinton's 2 terms were fairly successful in part because the media was always after him, and, whether he liked it or not, it kept him honest, and the entire system WORKED! But bush got nothing from the media, but asskissing and penile flute playing by the mathews and novaks and blitzers and limbah-humbugs of the money media. They helped Clinton, by harassing him, and then they helped destroy Bush! Yet that's ok? mathews even has the gall to flaunt his amateurishness, under the guise of pro republican bias! And who pays? well Bush certainly has been ruined for ever, but the real price will be on the people....Mathews should HANG, and it's the republicans who should hang him! Let them tumbrills roll!

and his moderation to have been great television. He is delusional.

With Moron Bush, we have nothing but crisis, fear and loss:

the tomato shortage
bees gone missing,
gas going up
women soldiers being raped
soldiers at Walter Reed getting sicker
the constant victories of the insurgency
no sign of hope
fewer jobs
decaying infrastructure
all children left behind
lost cities
lost towers
lost bin ladens
scandal after scandal after scandal and they remain on the job screwing America.

When he feels that his guests are straying into aspects of a subject with which he is completely ignorant, he cuts them off mid-sentence. Hannity, who has the intellect of a nematode is a tower of knowledge compared to Matthews. Matthews has a one-track mind regarding Clinton. I've never figured out why and I don't really care, as Matthews matters less to the history of this country than the new pimple that recently sprouted on my ass cheek.