Odd Job: Matthews Says His Role Is To Make Obama Presidency a Success (flag)

newsbusters.org — Just in time for the new James Bond movie, Chris Matthews has earned himself a new moniker: Odd Job. Matthews says he sees his job as a journalist as doing everything he can to make the Obama presidency a success. Appearing on Morning Joe today, Matthews was reluctant to critique Rahm ...

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True Colors
QandO — If Chris Matthews could be any more of a mealy-mouthed hypocrite, please tell me how: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that — JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist! MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.Obviously that’s a newly discovered "job" given his performance over the last 8 years as a "journalist". ...

Matthews: “I want to do everything I can to make … this new presidency work”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Via the ‘Busters . A noble sentiment and a shining example of a journalist placing the national interest above all; no doubt the same principle would have colored MSNBC’s coverage going forward had McCain won, especially in primetime and especially when it came to not questioning motives. Scarborough observes, acidly, that wanting the president to succeed never seemed like a real high priority for the media vis-a-vis George Bush, but that’s easily explained. If you believe that anything that hurts the GOP’s election chances is ipso facto in the national interest, then it’s ...

Chris Matthews: It's My Job to Make Obamacracy Work
Moonbattery — ... At last, a glimpse of honesty from MSNBC Obamunist Chris "Tweety" Matthews, the guy who gets a thrill up his leg when he hears Chairman O blathering vaguely about Hope and Change: ...

Bush, Obama, & Ghosts
The Anchoress — ... While you’ll see a few disgruntled extremists on the right say foolish, even ignorant things - and many throwing daggers at the sickening double-standards of the press - they’re not indulging in that sort of dehumanizing (and very adolescent) hate of their fellow countrymen or the president-elect. The reports they’re filing ...

Is There Nothing That Dear Leader Can't Do?
small dead animals — ... Plus, media accountability you can believe in. Chris Matthews announces new position as editor in chief of Pravda. Posted by Kate at November 6, 2008 2:37 PM

Good Will
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH The clip above has wingnuts spinning (h/t NewsBusters). Partial back and forth below: ...

Chris Matthews' Peculiar Vocation
The Corner — ... ] The harmonic vibration in Chris Matthews' leg continues apace : CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist! MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country. And: SCARBOROUGH: Your job is to make this presidency work? MATTHEWS: To make this work successfully. This country needs a successful presidency. ...

Another “thrill up my leg” moment from Chris Matthews
Sister Toldjah — During an interview on Joe Scarborough’s show this morning, Obamaniac Chris Matthews gushed that it was “his job” to make the Obama presidency work. Watch/read the video and excerpts here. You’ll get no more of a sincere admission by a member of the mainstream media than that excepting certain female journalists, of course).

Post-Election Evidence Of Media Bias
Rhymes With Right — Well, NewsBusters has it from Chris Matthews . I don’t think this statement could be any more clear. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work , and I think that – JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist! MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country. * * * SCARBOROUGH: Your job is the make this presidency work? MATTHEWS: To make this work successfully. This country needs a successful presidency. Now let me see if I’ve got this correct – ...

Chris Matthews: My Job Is To Make Obama Presidency a Success
Stop The ACLU — CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that – JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist! MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country. Hat tip: Newsbusters Its his job to help the country, by making the presidency work because the country needs a good president? Why didn’t he do that with Bush? What media bias?

Journalisitic malpractice
Common Sense and Wonder — Matthews: My Job Is To Make Obama Presidency a Success Just in time for the new James Bond movie, Chris Matthews has earned himself a new moniker: Odd Job. Matthews says he sees his job as a journalist as doing everything he can to make the Obama presidency a success. Appearing on “Morning Joe” today, Matthews was reluctant to criticize Rahm Emanuel’s kabuki dance over accepting Obama’s offer to be chief of staff. The “Hardball” host (and presumptive candidate for U.S. Senate from PA) was equally unwilling to see the Emanuel episode as evidence of a lack of planning and ...

Hanoi Jane Republicans
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... "This country needs a successful presidency," Matthews said in addition to, " I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work . . . . Yeah, it is my job." ...

Chris Matthews needs Obama to succeed
Rathergate.com — Somehow, we’d think this typifies some, but hopefully not all, in the American media today: I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that… it is my job. My job is to help this country. … This country needs a successful presidency. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to former Republican morning host Joe Scarborough last Thursday A decent reporter would be skeptical, would view their duty to report the news as it is: good, bad, or indifferent. Matthews, of course, is not a good reporter.

Call for Post-Election ‘Unity’ Fails the Giggle Test
Pajamas Media — ... of sensitive programs designed to keep Americans safe in the wake of 9/11. Now that The One has emerged victorious, the need for unity is suddenly imperative. During his acceptance speech, Obama said that even if he didn’t win your vote, “I will be your president.” Former Clinton hack and MSNBC “journalist” Chris Matthews wants to “do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work. …Yeah, it’s my job. My job is to help this country.” I thought his job was to impartially report the news of the day with a minimum amount of drooling, but what do I know? And, ...

How the Media Fared in the Campaign
Stones Cry Out — ... the polls so tight this season, bouncing around in the high 40s & low 50s for so long, that explanation doesn’t really fit. The Washington Post ombudsman, Deborah Howell, also says that her paper tilted towards Obama and didn’t really cover the issues well.  The big question is, will this translate into better coverage?  With the media still in the tank for Democrats after decades of being that way, it doesn’t seem likely. Just ask Chris Matthews: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do ...

Howard Kurtz on the post-election media frenzy over Barack Obama
Sister Toldjah — ... Really, I think it’s too much to expect that the lapdog media will turn into attack-dogs or watchdogs anytime soon. After all, they have a President to help succeed. ...

Roger Ailes on FNC's 'Obligation' to Not Derail Obama Transition
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — News Corporation executive Roger Ailes has told Los Angeles Times reporter Matea Gold that he has advised employees of the Fox News Channel that "all presidents deserve time to get their team on the ground and get organized" and that "we have some obligation in a new presidency not to attempt to destabilize it." Via TVNewser (paragraph breaks removed): Ailes responded to the report in the New York Daily News that he instructed FNC to tone down attacks on President-elect Barack Obama. He denied giving specific orders, but said he told staffers "all presidents deserve time to get their team on the ground and get organized." ...

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism
Wizbang — Well, dissent used to be the highest form of patriotism. Apparently that line of reasoning is so totally, like, 2005. We can't afford to think that way now. This country needs a successful presidency. Do you believe we can achieve a successful presidency by ...

Will MSNBC’s Chris Matthews be the Senate Dem’s 60th vote after 2010?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... However, Salena Zito spoke to Allegheny Count Dem chair Jim Burn who said that he spoke to Matthews and the host indicated that he’s still mulling his options. Then again, Matthews told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who does a morning show, that his job as a member of the media is to ensure that a President Obama is succefful in his endeavors. Could Matthews best do this as a little-watched lefty pundit or as the potential 60th Dem vote in the U.S. Senate? ...

Senator Orrin Hatch supports Eric Holder, not Mitch McConnell
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... stood opposite the two main Dem gadflies on the committee he’d later chair: the one who liked his Scotch and the other, more smarmy one, whom we’ll soon call, Mr. Vice President. Now this? “I start with the premise that the president deserves the benefit of the doubt. I don’t think politics should be played with the attorney general,” he said. “I like Barack Obama and want to help him if I can.” It’s a lot like Chris Matthews said, This country needs a successful presidency. ...

Chris Matthews: Sarah Palin is illiterate.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... , and neither am I. The talking head has notoriously taken sides with regard to the new administration, and in the final analysis I don’t see where there’s much difference is that the talking head is malicious, or whether it is simply a fool. ...

ABC’s Jake Tapper: The Sam Donaldson of the Obamanation
Stop The ACLU — ... wonder if Tapper was giving the back of his hand to MSNBC’s Chris “Tingle” Matthews? It was Matthews that said in November that he felt it was his job to make Obama’s presidency work. “I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work… Yeah, it is my job.” (Also reported on NewsBusters .) Here is what Matthews said not long ago. So, in ABC’s Jake Tapper, here’s a man that takes his journalism seriously. Well, at least he takes the charge for journalists seriously because he also has a wicked sense of humor. His “Political Punch” blog posts are ...

Matthews Has Lost that Loving Feeling
Wizbang — Remember when Chris Matthews had this conversation with Joe Scarborough: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that -- JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist! MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country. SCARBOROUGH: Your job is the make this presidency work? MATTHEWS: To make this work successfully. This country needs a successful presidency. Chris Matthews and the others on MSNBC have lost that loving feeling for Obama. ...