{"id":41379,"date":"2020-02-24T20:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41379"},"modified":"2020-02-24T20:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:57:05","slug":"msnbc-host-needs-to-issue-a-full-throated-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41379","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC host needs to issue a full-throated apology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Hardball%20%23ChrisMatthews%20%23Bernie%20%23Holocaust%20%23WWII%20%23NaziconquestofFrance&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10igAe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41380\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10igAe-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10igAe-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10igAe-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10igAe.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Matthews has stepped in it. Big time.<\/p>\n<p>The MSNBC &#8220;Hardball&#8221; host is taking intense social media fire over a remark he made over the weekend in which he likened Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; big win in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi invasion and conquest of France during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>One serious problem has emerged immediately after Matthews shot off his loud and boisterous mouth. Sanders, who is Jewish, lost many of his family members during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Social media have gone berserk. Viewers are calling for Matthews, a veteran newspaper columnist, a former congressional aide and a longtime cable TV broadcast personality, to resign. Short of resignation, social media critics are calling on MSBNC to fire Matthews for his display of extreme insensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I think ought to happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/chris-matthews-faces-calls-for-resignation-after-comparing-sanders-victory-to-nazi-invasion\/ar-BB10iimx\">Chris Matthews<\/a> needs to go on the air and issue an apology. And I don&#8217;t mean one of those phony &#8220;If I offended anyone&#8221; non-apologies. He needs to say something like this: <em>&#8220;I made a terrible mistake. I am sorry for what I said. I engaged my motor mouth without turning on my sensitivity filter. I blew it and I apologize to everyone who heard me make that hideous comparison on the air.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If the apology doesn&#8217;t stem the criticism, then he should quit. My hope would be that a full-throated, sincere apology might do the job.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Matthews &#8212; who is known for his machine-gun delivery &#8212; needs to re-calibrate the manner in which he delivers his commentary.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Hardball%20%23ChrisMatthews%20%23Bernie%20%23Holocaust%20%23WWII%20%23NaziconquestofFrance&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Matthews has stepped in it. Big time. The MSNBC &#8220;Hardball&#8221; host is taking intense social media fire over a remark he made over the weekend in which he likened Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; big win in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi invasion and conquest of France during World War II. One serious problem has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MSNBC host needs to issue a full-throated apology<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[597,969,2060,2151,3155],"class_list":["post-41379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-chris-matthews","tag-hardball","tag-holocaust","tag-msnbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41381,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379\/revisions\/41381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}