Chris Matthews: MSNBC bosses were 'basically pro-war'
MSNBC's Chris Matthews gave a speech last night at Harvard's Institute of Politics Forum where he made a few eye-opening confessions:
“I am here to make something of a confession,” Matthews said. “Television is limited in the way it can tell the political story of our time.”
Matthews then went on with some confessions about the media. Via Michael Calderone at The Politico:
"Well, it's not official." (LAUGH) "Well, I don't think Joe Scarborough has. And I don't think Tucker Carlson did. And Keith does his thing. He does his thing--it's something and it's very successful. I do my thing. I don't think that's true. I think... my sense is that everybody that lives in New York is for Hillary."
"The people I work with--all my bosses--seem to be for Hillary," he added. "I just sense it. They don't actually say it, but there's no sense from the top I can tell you that it's pro-Obama... by any means.
"That's not what I get," he continued. "And it was basically pro-war during the war.. the bosses were. And I was up against that. And if there's anybody telling me to push Obama, I haven't heard it yet. And by the way, they're so fickle.... but there seems to be a New York thing about Hillary. Just the people from... it's like the Yankees and the Mets... it's their thing. You know? It's Hillary. You know? And I feel it. I find it. It's hard to figure sometimes. But I don't know who you are talking about. I know who you are talking about."
Chris Matthews is the host of MSNBC's Hardball and hosted the North Carolina-Indiana primary returns with MSNBC's Countdown host Keith Olbermann.
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