{"id":1185124,"date":"2022-01-03T22:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T03:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185124"},"modified":"2022-01-03T22:05:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T03:05:29","slug":"former-msnbc-host-chris-matthews-slammed-after-declaring-i-tried-to-warn-we-were-headed-too-far-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-msnbc-host-chris-matthews-slammed-after-declaring-i-tried-to-warn-we-were-headed-too-far-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MSNBC Host Chris Matthews Slammed After Declaring: \u2018I Tried To Warn We Were Headed Too Far Left\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-msnbc-host-chris-matthews-slammed-after-declaring-i-tried-to-warn-we-were-headed-too-far-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews received backlash from progressives over the last couple of days after declaring that he tried to warn \u201cwe were headed too far-left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatthews \u2013 a moderate Democrat who was replaced by the far-left Joy Reid when he left MSNBC \u2013 shocked viewers in March 2020 by announcing he would immediately step down from his program amid a series of controversies,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-chris-matthews-liberals\">reported<\/a>. \u201cDuring his on-air remarks, the longtime MSNBC host then referenced claims of sexual harassment against him by a journalist who previously appeared on his show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want Hardball fans to know how I appreciate your faith in me,\u201d Matthews tweeted. \u201c2022 could be a great time to show what we\u2019ve learned. I tried to warn we were headed too far left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want Hardball fans to know how I appreciate your faith in me. 2022 could be a great time to show what we\u2019ve learned. I tried to warn we were headed too far left.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Matthews (@HardballChris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HardballChris\/status\/1477787775529144321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notable leftist responses included:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Brunch<\/strong>, columnist: \u201cThis is your takeaway from a year in which right-wing authoritarians tried to stage a violent coup??\u201d<strong>Jay Rosen<\/strong>, NYU journalism professor: \u201cGood lord. Have some dignity, man. Be thankful you\u2019re not Halperin and\u2026 I don\u2019t know\u2014 watch football games. Read some Churchill biographies. Try Lowe\u2019s.\u201d<strong>Gary Legum<\/strong>, blogger: \u201cDid he get into some leftover eggnog?\u201d<strong>David Cross<\/strong>: \u201c\u2018Too far left\u2019 Yes that\u2019s the real problem, we hired the centrist VP of a centrist president who isn\u2019t able to get legislation passed that would make a centrist appear somewhat leftist but only relative to how right leaning our current leftists are.\u201d<strong>David Atkins<\/strong>: \u201cAn evidence-free, self-serving take that perfectly exemplifies what was wrong with Hardball in the first place.\u201d<strong>Andrew Perez<\/strong>, writer: \u201cDon\u2019t worry your old pundit colleagues have that narrative covered.\u201d<strong>Michael Sainato<\/strong>, writer: \u201cRemember when this old creep \u2018retired\u2019 for sexual harassment only to try to creep back up to froth at the mouth a little more about the left?\u201d<strong>Peter Daou<\/strong>: \u201cLOL. I still remember when I launched the #TooFarLeft hashtag in response to Obama and it trended #1.\u201d<strong>Walker Bragman<\/strong>: \u201cImagine watching Biden squander the first trifecta Democrats have had in a decade in the face of an existential climate crisis and an escalating pandemic and thinking \u2018we need more of that!&#8217;\u201d<strong>Max Berger<\/strong>: \u201cThe United States has the highest poverty rate in the OECD (17.8%), and the 3rd highest level of income inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews received backlash from progressives over the last couple of days after declaring that he tried to warn \u201cwe were headed too far-left.\u201d \u201cMatthews \u2013 a moderate Democrat who was replaced by the far-left Joy Reid when he left MSNBC \u2013 shocked viewers in March 2020 by announcing he would immediately &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}