MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Says He’s A Centrist. No, Seriously. | Mediaite

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Says He’s A Centrist. No, Seriously. | Mediaite: On his MSNBC show last Thursday, Chris Matthews made a rather surprising admission on-air: politically speaking, he’s a big centrist. When talking about the Keystone XL pipeline, Matthews said that when someone like President Obama tries to take the middle ground on an issue, they tend to get hits from both sides. Joan Walsh nodded in agreement with the sentiment, and then Matthews said, “Take it from a centrist, I know what it’s like.”

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Let’s all take a minute to process that. Chris Matthews, the man who said a little over four years ago that listening to Obama speak gave him a “thrill going up my leg,” said he’s a centrist. Over the course of his career, Matthews has made statements that seem quite centrist in nature, like his admission that if he were a Republican voter in the New Hampshire primary, he would have voted for Jon Huntsman. Or when he admitted that U.S. media tends to “lean a little to the left.” And Matthews could very well be a political centrist. For who are we to tell another man what’s inside his own heart?

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