Is Chris Matthews Full of S**t?

31. Love when Chris says "CHEENEY" instead of Cheney!

Posted at 4:32PM on Jun 21st 2007 by castra regina

32. Since MSNBC is on cable different rules apply then over-the-air traditional broadcasts, cable content is not subject to fines since it isn't being broadcast over the public airwaves. So basically this is a mote point.

Now, if it was said on NBC Nightly News then it would a different issue, and could be subject to fines from the FCC -- but probably wouldn't as a recent FCC ruling regarding such utterances - this is from an NYT article last month:

"If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts."

(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/business/media/05decency.html?ex=1338696000&en=d31a8d498dfcd90a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)

Posted at 4:56PM on Jun 21st 2007 by caroline

33. Chris Mathews used the F-word when he was a call-in guest on the Imus In The Morning Show just a week or so before Imus made his own outrageous but overblown remark. Imus wasn't amused with Mathews. It seems Chris can't seem to control himself on national television. He would HAVE to be a real foul-mouth at home.

Posted at 4:57PM on Jun 21st 2007 by Paul Gardner

34. HE SHOULD BE FIRED AN ROSIE O'DONNELL SHOULD BE THE NEW HOST!!!

Posted at 9:07PM on Jun 21st 2007 by Concerned American

35. What an ASSHOLE! If it were Rush Limbaugh who said that...it would be on EVERY headline accross the country! IDIOT!!!!

Posted at 9:20PM on Jun 21st 2007 by Harry Houdini

36. #35 " an ass kisser for the left"????? you cannot be serious.... Southern Yankee you need to stay away from the moonshine if you really believe that. If you consider him on the right I don't even want to know who you consider a liberal.

Posted at 1:23AM on Jun 22nd 2007 by Dennis

37. Sorry I was so amazed at your comment that the line should have been" ass kisser for the right"..... still the point is the same....your hagin at the still wayyyyyyyy too much.

Posted at 1:25AM on Jun 22nd 2007 by Dennis

38. In response to the idea that Chris Matthews will get off easy for saying the S-word, but a right wing TV personality would be attacked for it, is crazy! First, this IS making headlines (obviously). We're all reading about it! Second, cursing (could) be a bigger deal for right wingers like O'Reilly because THEIR audiences are "conservative". Although it's hard to believe that anyone could be mortified by the S-word today.

By the way, conservative hosts ARE given some slack too. Lest we forget? O'Reilly is a perv and Limbaugh's a druggie. They're still on the air!

Posted at 3:01AM on Jun 22nd 2007 by Mandy K

39. Dennis first of all I would like to tell you I don't drink. I am entitled to my own feelings just like you are. I watch the Matthews show everyday. I am not a lefty but a moderate left. Matthews does suck up to the right all you have to do is watch his interviews. I am northerner living in the south. My heart is and always will be where I am from which is in the north. Yes I am a democrat who loves her country and see it going in the wrong direction. If the Matthews, O'Reilly's of the media world did they job in the beginning we would not be in Iraq now. Oh by the way am in a family with over 60 yrs military service. All the servicemembers are all democrats. So don't by that we are all republicans.

Posted at 8:40AM on Jun 22nd 2007 by SouthernYankee