http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/hardball This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Hardball en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200811250011 On <em><em>Hardball</em></em>, guest host Mike Barnicle did not challenge the false claim by Republican strategist Todd Harris that union autoworkers earn "70, $75 an hour," a claim also recently made on <em>Hardball </em>by a Heritage Foundation fellow and echoed by host Chris Matthews. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811250011 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:54:36 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811240011 MSNBC's Chris Matthews falsely claimed that President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, his reported pick for secretary of state, disagreed on whether "we should make the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group" and on whether "we should have permanent bases in Iraq." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811240011 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:23:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811210008 Criticizing Sen. Hillary Clinton over her possible appointment as secretary of state, in three separate appearances, Christopher Hitchens purported to quote Clinton from 15 years ago to attack her foreign policy credentials. On MSNBC and CNN, from November 17-19, Hitchens claimed that Clinton directed her husband in 1993 not to intervene in the Balkans because it would detract attention from her health-care program. But the source he has previously cited for the assertion does not support it. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811210008 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:50:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180018 Amid reports that President-elect Barack Obama has decided to nominate Clinton Justice Department veteran Eric Holder to be attorney general, Chris Matthews criticized Obama on <em>Hardball</em>: "You could do this in any bureaucratic state, you could do it in the old Soviet Union. ... You don't need elections for this crap." But in 2001, Matthews said of George W. Bush's Cabinet picks, which included veterans of past administrations: "There's some real heavyweights in terms of experience." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180018 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:10:54 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180017 On <em>Hardball</em>, Chris Matthews used reports that President-elect Barack Obama might nominate Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state to "rehash" 1990s-era smears and scandals involving the Clintons. Matthews invoked Linda Tripp and hosted Rep. Dan Burton, whom Matthews asked to discuss the false accusation that Vince Foster was murdered, and Christopher Hitchens. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180017 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:12:38 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180015 Media have continued to respond to reports that President-elect Barack Obama is considering naming Sen. Hillary Clinton secretary of state with the smear that she (or Bill Clinton) might pursue her own agenda as secretary of state and not President-elect Barack Obama's, including the assertion that "Obama may wake up one day and discover that Hillary has decreed a new 'Clinton Doctrine' of foreign policy." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180015 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:50:35 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811150003 Discussing reports that President-elect Barack Obama is considering naming Sen. Hillary Clinton secretary of state, several media figures have responded with smears, including speculation that Clinton would pursue her own agenda as secretary of state and not Obama's, references to Clinton as Obama's "enem[y]," and speculation that Obama is considering the nomination because if Clinton remains in the Senate, she poses a threat of challenging him for the Democratic nomination in 2012 and can "mak[e] trouble" for him in the Senate. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811150003 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:20:56 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811140018 On <em>Hardball</em>, MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard asserted that if President-elect Barack Obama names Sen. Hillary Clinton secretary of state, "she will run a parallel government. It will be a huge problem." Additionally, Jennifer Donahue, political director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, asked: "Will she [Clinton] be, in fact, trying to create only one term for Barack Obama?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200811140018 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:59:06 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811140016 Chris Matthews echoed the discredited rumor that 32 ballots from Minneapolis were mishandled in the Minnesota Senate race. Matthews asked: "What about these absentee ballots that were found in somebody's back seat and they're now counting them as official -- what is that about? That sounds pretty squirrely or sneaky or what -- I don't know what it sounds like." In fact, a lawyer for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman has reportedly said regarding those ballots that "[i]t does not appear that there was any ballot-tampering, and that was our concern." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811140016 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:37:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280019 Discussing Sen. Ted Stevens' conviction for lying on his Senate financial disclosure forms, Chris Matthews asked Rep. Heather Wilson, "Does it bother you personally that one of your colleagues looks like a crook?" However, after Wilson responded, in part, that "in my office and in my service, you know, I tell everyone that works with me, we stay on the white side of gray," Matthews did not ask Wilson about a Justice Department report that called for further investigation of actions Wilson and others allegedly took surrounding the firing of a former New Mexico U.S. Attorney. The report stated that the alleged conduct of Wilson and others in the case "may have been criminal." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280019 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:03:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020029 On <em>Hardball</em>, Chuck Todd falsely claimed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit "wants to get rid of the Pledge" of Allegiance. In fact, in <em>Newdow v. U.S. Congress</em>, a 9th Circuit panel did not decide that the <em>entire</em> Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional, but rather "h[e]ld that ... the 1954 Act adding the words 'under God' to the Pledge ... violate[s] the Establishment Clause" of the First Amendment. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020029 Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:39:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020015 MSNBC's Chris Matthews and <em>The New York Times'</em> Katharine Q. Seelye asked whether Sen. Joe Biden will "help" Gov. Sarah Palin "with her chair" at the beginning of the vice-presidential debate. The question is one that presumably would not be asked if the two candidates were the same gender, and the premise of the question itself is false, as the debate format rules state that Biden and Palin will be "standing at podiums" -- a fact Seelye later acknowledged. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020015 Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:58:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020007 On MSNBC's <em>Hardball</em>, Chuck Todd said that Sen. Barack Obama "was judged as not winning" the first presidential debate, asserting that "it was somewhat of a draw." But national post-debate polls contradict Todd's assertion, with Obama receiving higher marks from respondents than Sen. John McCain. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020007 Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:15:45 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809270007 On MSNBC, Chris Matthews asserted that "we don't know who won this debate 'til we know how, to put it bluntly, the white working class guy, the regular working stiff out there, responds." He later asked <em>Washington Post</em> columnist Eugene Robinson: "[D]id it surprise you that he [Obama] was so un-ethnic tonight?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200809270007 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:22:20 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809150015 On <em>MSNBC Live</em>, while assessing a speech on the economy by Sen. Joe Biden, Jon Decker said that Biden does not "help[] his case when he's making the argument on economic issues wearing French cuffs and dressed to the nines. I think that he's really got to connect with these voters." Contrary to the notion that wearing French cuffs may interfere with Biden's ability to "connect with these voters," French cuff shirts can be found for $37.50 on the website of J.C. Penney, a national department-store chain that many voters can presumably "connect" with. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809150015 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:18:38 EST