Matt Lauer, on Wednesday's "Today" show hit Senator Jim DeMint over his statement that health care reform could be Barack Obama's Waterloo as the "Today" co-host accused, "People are saying that…
Chris Matthews, on Monday's "Hardball," invited on Dan Rather to remember Walter Cronkite and the former CBS News anchor – famously fired for letting his bias spiral out of control during the…
Chris Matthews honors the 30th anniversary of Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech with his former bosses in the Carter White House, including the New Yorker's Hendrick Hertzberg who hails Carter as a…
Bill Maher and Chris Matthews slam non-liberal Southerners and Republicans as racist in Sonia Sotomayor segment.
ABC national correspondent Claire Shipman: “I think it’s also hard when you look at [Supreme Court nominee Sonia] Sotomayor’s record and look at the cases, it’s very hard for people to make the…
Chris Matthews attacks RNC for its criticism of Obama's trip to Broadway.
Chris Matthews and guests slam Rush Limbaugh over his Sonia Sotomayor criticism.
Co-host Diane Sawyer: “The battle begins: How will President Obama’s Latina powerhouse handle the opposition?”... Correspondent Claire Shipman: “Even as a little girl, growing up in a drug-ridden…
“It made me feel pretty good. I thought it was a great speech....You know, a friend of mine said, ‘Oh my God, we have a President again!’ Now, in some ways, that’s not fair to Bush, but that’s the…
“But our president seems remarkably unruffled by all of this, serene in an inner confidence that he’s got what it takes to lead this country back into the sunlight....It was quite a performance…
“It was his debut and he wowed us. That’s the running headline from last night’s presidential address to the Congress.” — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews opening Hardball, February 25, 2009.
“[President Obama] came right out of the box and said, 'make no mistake about it, we are going to recover.’ That’s the most important thing he wanted the country to hear last night. He began on…
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann: “What can the Republican response be?...How do you come out against recovering the nation's sense of self and its optimism? How do you come out against words like ‘boldly…
“The larger question raised by [Senator Judd] Gregg’s about-face, is it a sign that Republicans have no desire for real bipartisanship? Have they, in fact, declared war on President Obama?...Do…
“Mr. President, you got no honeymoon. Not a single Republican vote in the House on your first major piece of legislation....I wonder if, coming into the presidency, maybe you were too nice. If I’m…
“You campaigned to change the culture in Washington, to change the politics-as-usual culture here. Are you frustrated? Do you think it is much, much harder to do that than you ever anticipated…
ABC reporter Claire Shipman on the Oct. 31 GMA asked the author of a new biography on Michelle Obama how the candidate's wife deals with her husband being "lusted after by all of these women out…
Chris Matthews is overwhelmed by sight of Bill Clinton endorsing Obama.
“The Bush administration seemed clueless about the magnitude of the [Hurricane Katrina] disaster....President Bush lost his carefully cultivated image of competence. The President’s image of…
George Stephanopoulos: “Did government neglect turn a natural disaster into a human catastrophe? And was it rooted in racism?” Rapper Kanye West on NBC’s Concert for Hurricane Relief: “George Bush…
“You know, I’ve been to some pretty lousy places in my life. And Iraq over the past 12 months and Banda Aceh, open graves and bodies. These were Americans, and everyone watching the coverage all…