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Remember when pundits criticized former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s claim during his run for the Republican presidential nomination that he fell into the trap of marital infidelity because he loved America so much? Remember MSNBC host Chris Matthews piling on? (more)

Even though Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker denounced both political sides in his Sunday appearance on “Meet the Press,” the left is coming down hardest on Booker. (more)

My longtime friend Chris Matthews was at Ford’s Theater in Washington recently. He appears to have maligned his own Catholic Church by saying that many of the new converts to Catholicism are motivated by anti-gay bigotry. But he went further, alleging that conservatives alone have a “Southern Strategy.” (more)

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MSNBC host Chris Matthews told The Daily Caller that he would still consider John F. Kennedy a hero and still would have written his new book “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero” if his daughter had been one-time White House intern Mimi Alford. (more)

MSNBC host Chris Matthews said Monday at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., “if you’re really anti-gay you become a Catholic now.” (more)

On his Friday show, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews offered an unexpected tribute to Pat Buchanan, who he had worked with at MSNBC for the last 10 years. Although on the opposite end of the political spectrum from Buchanan, Matthews echoed the sentiments of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, telling his viewers that he would miss the conservative commentator. (more)

1.) When is someone going to take Chris Matthews off the air for his own good? – During a radio interview Tuesday promoting his book on JFK, Matthews spouted lunacy. TheDC’s Jeff Poor reports: (more)

On Tuesday MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said that the level of hatred directed against President Barack Obama is greater than it was against any other president, including George W. Bush. (more)

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Washington, D.C. radio station WMAL’s “Morning Majority,” MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews denied applying a double standard to his treatment of the tea party and “Occupy” movements. He also claimed he never saw hate-speech protest signs directed at former President George W. Bush — only at President Obama. (more)

On his Thursday “Hardball” program on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews took a shot at those that believe in religious creation stories instead of evolution. (more)

In recent months, pundits from across the political spectrum have reached a consensus: Obama has lost his mojo. Even Chris Matthews forlornly admits that the thrill is gone. There’s distress on the left and confusion on the right concerning our president’s struggle to strike a chord that resonates with anyone. Obama seems to have misplaced his once-superhuman ability to connect, to uplift, to electrify, to rally the people toward a righteous common cause. (more)

MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said Tuesday that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s opinion about states’ rights is reminiscent of  the 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation,” which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and provided the hate group with a valuable recruiting tool. (more)

Often when Republican guests appear on shows hosted by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, they face a hostile environment. And if you add liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and the Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman, it would be fair to say the deck is stacked. (more)

During the last days of World War II, the U.S. Air Force and the British Royal Air Force firebombed Dresden, Germany, killing tens of thousands. (more)

Another year has gone by, and at America’s fastest-growing (and fairest) online news organization, we’ve brought you every amusing, aggravating and heart-thumping minute of it. (more)

Back in March, MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich might have a tough go at being elected president because he looked like “a car bomber.” At the time, that was thought to be over the top, even for Matthews, and it landed him a spot on the Media Research Center’s “The Best of Notable Quotables” list for 2011. (more)

From 1999 through last March, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had a regular presence on Fox News as a contributor with a reported salary of “nearly $1 million a year,” according to the Los Angeles Times. (more)

On Tuesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Montgomery County Commissioners chairman James R. Matthews was arrested for perjury charges. Matthews, the brother of MSNBC talking-head Chris Matthews, is accused of misleading a grand jury about his campaign contributions and county contracts. (more)

In an appearance Tuesday at Washington, D.C.’s Politics & Prose bookstore, MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews told a standing room-only audience that his new book “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero” was important because it taught “leadership,” and that’s something many people today don’t know about — especially under President Barack Obama. (more)