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MSNBC's Matthews, NY Times' Seelye pondered whether Biden will "help" Palin "with her chair" at debate
MSNBC's Chris Matthews and The New York Times' 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. Read More

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Matthews on Obama's debate performance: "[D]id it surprise you that he was so un-ethnic tonight?"
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 Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson: "[D]id it surprise you that he [Obama] was so un-ethnic tonight?" Read More

County Fair: Chris Matthews, sunglasses-wearing elite?

Matthews: "They're the working-class white voters ... the regular folks"

Matthews does not believe McCain would personally join in his campaign's attacks -- but he did
Chris Matthews falsely suggested that Sen. John McCain is unwilling to personally engage in the false accusation made by his campaign that Sen. Barack Obama compared Gov. Sarah Palin to a pig. Matthews stated of McCain: "He would never say Barack Obama called Governor Palin a pig." However, when reportedly asked what he dislikes about campaigning, McCain said: "Probably the negativism, those negative ads and personal attacks, Senator Obama's recent comments about 'lipstick on a pig.' " Read More