Jon Stewart Trashes Chris Matthews

[conley]

hilarious! brutal, but hilarious...i have to say i dont generally like jon stewart's interviews b/c he seems like a brownnoser a lot of the time, but in this interview he actually crushed chris matthews.

matthews is kind of laughing on the outside but you can tell he is completely baffled and blindsided by the content of the questions

 

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=104548&title=chris-matthews

[conley]

matthews called it the worst interview of his life

 

[conley]

this article is where i found the jon stewart reference:

"Tim — as in Russert, the inquisitive jackhammer host of “Meet the Press” — is a particular obsession of Matthews’s. Matthews craves Russert’s approval like that of an older brother. He is often solicitous. On the morning of the Cleveland debate, Matthews was standing in the lobby of the Ritz when Russert walked through, straight from a workout, wearing a sweat-drenched Buffalo Bills sweatshirt, long shorts and black rubber-soled shoes with tube socks. “Here he is; here he is, the man,” Matthews said to Russert, who smiled and chatted for a few minutes before returning to his room. (An MSNBC spokesman, Jeremy Gaines, tried, after the fact, to declare Russert’s outfit “off the record.”)

Matthews has berated Russert to several people at NBC and has told friends and associates that Russert is like John F. Kennedy while he is more like Richard Nixon. Kennedy was the golden boy while Nixon was the scrapper for whom nothing came easily. It’s an imperfect comparison, certainly (Matthews is Irish Catholic, for starters, and Russert is not charismatic by any classic Kennedyesque definition), but it does offer a glimpse into how Matthews perceives himself, especially in relation to Russert. It’s also worth noting that Nixon was obsessed with Kennedy, and Kennedy could be dismissive and disparaging of Nixon.

A number of people I spoke with at NBC said that Russert can be disdainful of Matthews, whose act he often sees as clownish. They also told me that Russert believes Matthews is something of a loose cannon who brings him undue headaches in his capacity as NBC’s Washington bureau chief. This friction was immortalized in notes revealed during the trial of Scooter Libby. Mary Matalin, an adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, was quoted as having suggested that Libby call Russert to complain about Matthews’s rants against the White House’s Iraq policy. “Call Tim — he hates Chris,” Matalin supposedly told Libby. Russert denies that he felt this way then or now. “I’ve always had a very good relationship with Chris,” he told me. “We do different things.” Matalin, for her part, insists that she doesn’t remember ever saying that Russert “hates Chris.”"

[conley]

hilarious quotes:

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"Sometimes during commercial breaks, Matthews will boast to Olbermann of having restrained himself during the prior segment. “And I reward him with a grape,” Olbermann says."

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"“I remember we were out hitchhiking once,” O’Regan told me. Matthews started arguing about Nixon and Vietnam. “It was just like watching his show today. Chris would ask a question, then he would answer it himself and then the person was invited to comment on Chris’s answer to his own question.”"

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"“Imagine bullfighting without Hemingway,” he says. “I can’t.”

Is Matthews comparing himself to Hemingway?

“No way,” he says. “Don’t you, don’t you [expletive] do that.”"

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"As I began researching this article, Jeremy Gaines, an MSNBC spokesman, gave me the names of about a dozen people that Matthews recommended I speak to, all famous — everyone from Nancy Pelosi to Marvin Hamlisch. But gatekeepers for more than one of these people expressed confusion as to why Matthews would refer me to them. “Please keep us out of this,” pleaded a spokesperson for one prominent politician whom Matthews had recommended via Gaines."

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"Matthews has called Obama “bigger than Kennedy” and compared the success of his campaign to “the New Testament.” His reviews of Obama’s speeches have been comically effusive at times, as when he described “this thrill going up my leg” after an Obama victory speech. (“Steady,” Olbermann cautioned him on the air.)"

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(it just keeps getting better! this fucking brutal!!!)

"Chris returned after 20 minutes, and Kathleen served seafood pasta in the dining room. When he realized the pasta was whole wheat, Chris helped himself to seconds.
After we finished eating, I placed a tape recorder on the table, which would later yield many sequences of indecipherable cross talk, along with long, loud monologues from guess who."

the article is on the front page of the new york times -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13matthews-t.html?ex=1365480000&en=64d5ce1167eb646c&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

[Mr. Ed]

Good video.  Stewart is an expert at providing truth through comedy.

[conley]

Good video.  Stewart is an expert at providing truth through comedy.

yep i love his commentary, i mentioned i dont care for the interviews but perhaps i've been too tough on him. i also thought he only attacked republicans but he seems pretty tough on democrats too (and god knows there's enough material to cover both sides of the aisle)

this nyt article has me cracking up (as you could probably tell)

[Vermouth]

Chris Matthews is a tool. I like Russert.

[pittypat65]

Both Mathews and Russert are sleezbolls. 

[Mr. Ed]

Russert is a solid journalist; Matthews is a wannabe.  Olbermann is heavily biased but damn entertaining.

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

I remember seeing some photos of Matthews when he was in the Peace Corp riding around Africa on his lil' scooter. You just want to punch him in the face after seeing them.

[pittypat65]

Olbermann should wipe some if that eyebrow pencil off. Makes his eyebrows look funny.

[Vermouth]

I finally got around to reading this article. I actually like Chris Matthews more now. It's not an act. He's just as obnoxious in real life as he is on his show.