Chris Matthews

“Good speech.  Great speech!”  The words came from President Obama.

Republican or Democrat you can’t be surprised by coverage of the Republican National Convention.  Remember the mocking of Clint Eastwood 4 years ago in order to promote Barack Obama for another term?  Even in his 80s Eastwood can twist media liberals into pretzels...

The morning after the final major primary contests for President and I don’t see any damage done to Donald Trump.  Three of the states voting yesterday have large Latino populations and some of those people are Republicans.  With Ted Cruz and John Kasich still on ballots as options we didn’t see any major movement away from Trump...

A Bridge Too Far.  Perhaps you saw the film.  The Allies attempted to dislodge the Germans in Holland and failed.  World War Two continued for another 8 months.  There’s an analogy here for Lefty.  Emboldened by a string of culture war triumphs Lefty now wants men to pee next to little girls in public and government restrooms...

Do Doctors force women to have abortions?  Following Donald Trump’s appearance with Chris Matthews on MSDNC the candidate has been attacked from both left and right for suggesting if abortion becomes illegal women should be punished.  Later the Trump campaign put out a clarification saying the abortion provider should instead face charges, however...

You’ll be hearing plenty about Donald Trump’s latest campaign commercial (see it here) as mainstream media reaches for the sand shovels and squirms in its collective pants. This is about the most direct campaign ad I’ve ever seen. By the way, when media now says Hillary was right about Trump being a recruiter for ISIS do you think it’s possible she offered the idea in the first place...

Steve Martin once summed up cultural differences by saying, “It’s as if those French have a different word for everything!”  I’m reminded language isn’t always the barrier when I follow mainstream media in the United States (I’m told it’s no better in Western and Northern Europe)...

Out for a drive this week I tuned in to a public radio show hosted by Terry Gross.  The program is called Fresh Air and generally features a fawning Gross asking highly personal questions of guests.  Monday’s victim was a comedian who interviewed President Obama in the comedian’s garage for a podcast...