Four More Years Of Biased Blowhard Chris Matthews

"I love what I do. It’s transparent. You can see it in my face.” MSNBC's Chris Matthews to the NYT's Bill Carter on his new downgraded four-year contract.

I predict this is the last MSNBC contract for Matthews who will be 67 when the aforementioned expires. What I see in his face is unresolved anger, resentment, alcoholic rage, insecure fear-driven ego, jealousy and more.

To those who thought Matthews was dangling a possible Senate run against Pennsylvania Repu Arlen Specter as as contract negotiating leverage: “I think it’s unfair people think like that. That’s sacrilegious.”

Shut the fuck up, sanctimonious shill. The lazy blowhard woke up to the realization that it is far easier and lucrative to blow smoke out your ass every day on TV than run for political office.

Matthews on deciding to not run: “Every great guy has three things. Motive, passion and spontaneity. Clearly I had the final two. But motive?"

How presumptuous to refer to himself as a"great guy."

I find it hard to believe that Matthews was "pursued" by top Dems. I'm more intrigued by this line linking Obama to UBS: He said that Pennsylvania political figures and consultants had pursued him. Last October, he was a guest at a dinner in Manhattan organized by Robert Wolf, president of UBS investment bank and one of Mr. Obama’s top fund-raisers, and attended by Democratic donors. One of the attendees said at the time that it was the understanding of those at the meeting that Mr. Matthews was feeling out his prospects and whether money would be available to him. In October, Mr. Matthews disputed the idea that the dinner was an overt political introduction, saying that he had never told anyone at the dinner — or anywhere else — that he was running. Mr. Griffin raised no formal objection to the meeting, but he said last week, “I told Chris not to drag this out or it will present a problem.”

Bill Carter: Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, said, “You can’t be using your job in the media to promote a political career.” He said Mr. Matthews “got pretty close to the line, but he never actually got to the point of starting an exploratory committee.”As to the conflict issue, “I was sensitive to it,”

“That moment, that day, I told the producers around me: I’m not running. I cannot be in a position where I’m either dodging the story or dealing with it in a way where people believe me to be self-interested."

Oh, puh-leeze? "Thrill up my leg" ring a bell?

Mr. Matthews said he had proved his worth to the network over the last year. “My numbers were good,” he said, adding that his program — shown at 5 and 7 p.m. — set up MSNBC’s prime-time stars Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.

The audiences for “Hardball” are growing. In February, Mr. Matthews added viewers from the same month in the election year, to 616,000 from 531,000 for his 5 p.m. show, and to 871,000 from 699,000 for the repeat at 7.

With the intense interest in the economy and the new president, Mr. Matthews said, “That microphone is more potent than any legislative position.”