Chris Matthews - Revision history

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	"I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning ...check everything -- get your Nexis-Lexis out, get your Google out ... every column I've written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it" (On "Imus in the Morning," MSNBC Sep. 21 2006).[http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/09/21/matthews-claimed-he-has-opposed-iraq-war-from-t/136694]		"I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning ...check everything -- get your Nexis-Lexis out, get your Google out ... every column I've written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it" (On "Imus in the Morning," MSNBC Sep. 21 2006).[http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/09/21/matthews-claimed-he-has-opposed-iraq-war-from-t/136694]

			== Net Worth==
			$16 Million [[http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celeb/chris-matthews-net-worth/]]

Sam: /* On How Cable News Would Have Prevented Iraq */

2012-08-20T20:54:59Z

On How Cable News Would Have Prevented Iraq

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	"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types…. I just wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: 'Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong'? Maybe the White House will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now, Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war….		"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types…. I just wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: 'Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong'? Maybe the White House will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now, Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war….

	"Maybe disgraced commentators and politicians alike, like Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich, and all those others, will step forward tonight and show the content of their character by simply admitting what we know already: that their wartime predictions were arrogant, they were misguided and they were dead wrong. Maybe, just maybe, these self-anointed critics will learn from their mistakes. But I doubt it. After all, we don't call them 'elitists' for nothing." Video: [[http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/24/chris-matthews-and-the-awesome-power-of-cable-television/]] Original article: [http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/23/chris-matthews-cable-news-would-have-stopped-iraq-war-lies/]		"Maybe disgraced commentators and politicians alike, like Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich, and all those others, will step forward tonight and show the content of their character by simply admitting what we know already: that their wartime predictions were arrogant, they were misguided and they were dead wrong. Maybe, just maybe, these self-anointed critics will learn from their mistakes. But I doubt it. After all, we don't call them 'elitists' for nothing." Video: [http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/24/chris-matthews-and-the-awesome-power-of-cable-television/] Original article: [http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/23/chris-matthews-cable-news-would-have-stopped-iraq-war-lies/]

	Chris Matthew also played a role in the firing of Phil Donahue, who was against the Iraq War:		Chris Matthew also played a role in the firing of Phil Donahue, who was against the Iraq War:

Sam: /* On How Cable News Would Have Prevented Iraq */

2012-08-20T20:54:33Z

On How Cable News Would Have Prevented Iraq

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	"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types…. I just wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: 'Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong'? Maybe the White House will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now, Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war….		"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types…. I just wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: 'Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong'? Maybe the White House will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now, Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war….

	"Maybe disgraced commentators and politicians alike, like Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich, and all those others, will step forward tonight and show the content of their character by simply admitting what we know already: that their wartime predictions were arrogant, they were misguided and they were dead wrong. Maybe, just maybe, these self-anointed critics will learn from their mistakes. But I doubt it. After all, we don't call them 'elitists' for nothing." Video: [[http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/24/chris-matthews-and-the-awesome-power-of-cable-television/]]		"Maybe disgraced commentators and politicians alike, like Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich, and all those others, will step forward tonight and show the content of their character by simply admitting what we know already: that their wartime predictions were arrogant, they were misguided and they were dead wrong. Maybe, just maybe, these self-anointed critics will learn from their mistakes. But I doubt it. After all, we don't call them 'elitists' for nothing." Video: [[http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/24/chris-matthews-and-the-awesome-power-of-cable-television/]] Original article: [http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/23/chris-matthews-cable-news-would-have-stopped-iraq-war-lies/]

	Original article: [http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/23/chris-matthews-cable-news-would-have-stopped-iraq-war-lies/]

	Chris Matthew also played a role in the firing of Phil Donahue, who was against the Iraq War:		Chris Matthew also played a role in the firing of Phil Donahue, who was against the Iraq War:

Sam: /* On How Cable News Would Have Prevented Iraq */

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On How Cable News Would Have Prevented Iraq

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	"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types…. I just wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: 'Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong'? Maybe the White House will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now, Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war….		"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types…. I just wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: 'Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong'? Maybe the White House will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now, Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war….

	"Maybe disgraced commentators and politicians alike, like Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich, and all those others, will step forward tonight and show the content of their character by simply admitting what we know already: that their wartime predictions were arrogant, they were misguided and they were dead wrong. Maybe, just maybe, these self-anointed critics will learn from their mistakes. But I doubt it. After all, we don't call them 'elitists' for nothing." [http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/23/chris-matthews-cable-news-would-have-stopped-iraq-war-lies/]		"Maybe disgraced commentators and politicians alike, like Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich, and all those others, will step forward tonight and show the content of their character by simply admitting what we know already: that their wartime predictions were arrogant, they were misguided and they were dead wrong. Maybe, just maybe, these self-anointed critics will learn from their mistakes. But I doubt it. After all, we don't call them 'elitists' for nothing." Video: [[http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/24/chris-matthews-and-the-awesome-power-of-cable-television/]]

			Original article: [http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/05/23/chris-matthews-cable-news-would-have-stopped-iraq-war-lies/]

	Chris Matthew also played a role in the firing of Phil Donahue, who was against the Iraq War:		Chris Matthew also played a role in the firing of Phil Donahue, who was against the Iraq War:

Sam: /* On the Iraq War */

2012-08-20T20:43:54Z

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	(MSNBC, speaking about Howard Dean, April 9 2003)		(MSNBC, speaking about Howard Dean, April 9 2003)

	"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits" (MSNBC, May 1, 2003).		"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits" (MSNBC, May 1, 2003).[http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2842/]

	"I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning ...check everything -- get your Nexis-Lexis out, get your Google out ... every column I've written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it" (On "Imus in the Morning," MSNBC Sep. 21 2006).		"I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning ...check everything -- get your Nexis-Lexis out, get your Google out ... every column I've written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it" (On "Imus in the Morning," MSNBC Sep. 21 2006).[http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/09/21/matthews-claimed-he-has-opposed-iraq-war-from-t/136694]

Sam: /* On the Iraq War */

2012-08-20T20:41:18Z

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	"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits" (MSNBC, May 1, 2003).		"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits" (MSNBC, May 1, 2003).

	"I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning ...check everything -- get your Nexis-Lexis out, get your Google out ... every column I've written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it" (On "Imus in the Morning," MSNBC Sep. 21 2006).		"I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning ...check everything -- get your Nexis-Lexis out, get your Google out ... every column I've written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it" (On "Imus in the Morning," MSNBC Sep. 21 2006).

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	==On the Iraq War==		==On the Iraq War==
	"We're all neo-cons now." (MSNBC's ~~Chris Matthews~~, 4/9~~/03~~)
			"We're all neo-cons now." (MSNBC, April 9 2003)

			"What's he going to talk about a year from now, the fact that the war went too well and it's over? I mean, don't these things sort of lose their--Isn't there a fresh date on some of these debate points?"
			(MSNBC, speaking about Howard Dean, April 9 2003)

			"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits" (MSNBC, May 1, 2003).

			"I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning ...check everything -- get your Nexis-Lexis out, get your Google out ... every column I've written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it" (On "Imus in the Morning," MSNBC Sep. 21 2006).

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	After the item was published, Matthews showed up at Donahue's office and apologized. [http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/10/08/chris-matthews-role-in-msnbcs-donahue-firing/]		After the item was published, Matthews showed up at Donahue's office and apologized. [http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/10/08/chris-matthews-role-in-msnbcs-donahue-firing/]

			==On the Iraq War==
			"We're all neo-cons now." (MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 4/9/03)

96.231.2.80 at 17:55, 6 July 2012

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	Donahue's problems only increased when Chris Matthews let it be known that he wanted Donahue off the air. Matthews was a rising force at the network, with a reported salary of $5 million. He cultivated former GE CEO Jack Welch and had the ear of NBC CEO Bob Wright. (The two summered together on Nantucket.) Matthews saw himself as MSNBC's biggest star, and he was upset that the network was pumping significant resources into Donahue's show. In the fall of 2002, U.S. News & World Report ran a gossip item that had Matthews saying over lunch in Washington that if Donahue stays on the air, he could bring down the network.		Donahue's problems only increased when Chris Matthews let it be known that he wanted Donahue off the air. Matthews was a rising force at the network, with a reported salary of $5 million. He cultivated former GE CEO Jack Welch and had the ear of NBC CEO Bob Wright. (The two summered together on Nantucket.) Matthews saw himself as MSNBC's biggest star, and he was upset that the network was pumping significant resources into Donahue's show. In the fall of 2002, U.S. News & World Report ran a gossip item that had Matthews saying over lunch in Washington that if Donahue stays on the air, he could bring down the network.

	After the item was published, Matthews showed up at Donahue's office and apologized. [www.fair.org/blog/2010/10/08/chris-matthews-role-in-msnbcs-donahue-firing/]		After the item was published, Matthews showed up at Donahue's office and apologized. [http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/10/08/chris-matthews-role-in-msnbcs-donahue-firing/]

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	Donahue's problems only increased when Chris Matthews let it be known that he wanted Donahue off the air. Matthews was a rising force at the network, with a reported salary of $5 million. He cultivated former GE CEO Jack Welch and had the ear of NBC CEO Bob Wright. (The two summered together on Nantucket.) Matthews saw himself as MSNBC's biggest star, and he was upset that the network was pumping significant resources into Donahue's show. In the fall of 2002, U.S. News & World Report ran a gossip item that had Matthews saying over lunch in Washington that if Donahue stays on the air, he could bring down the network.		Donahue's problems only increased when Chris Matthews let it be known that he wanted Donahue off the air. Matthews was a rising force at the network, with a reported salary of $5 million. He cultivated former GE CEO Jack Welch and had the ear of NBC CEO Bob Wright. (The two summered together on Nantucket.) Matthews saw himself as MSNBC's biggest star, and he was upset that the network was pumping significant resources into Donahue's show. In the fall of 2002, U.S. News & World Report ran a gossip item that had Matthews saying over lunch in Washington that if Donahue stays on the air, he could bring down the network.

	After the item was published, Matthews showed up at Donahue's office and apologized.[www.fair.org/blog/2010/10/08/chris-matthews-role-in-msnbcs-donahue-firing/]		After the item was published, Matthews showed up at Donahue's office and apologized. [www.fair.org/blog/2010/10/08/chris-matthews-role-in-msnbcs-donahue-firing/]