MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on JFK, HBO’s Game Change and the GOP race

OleSarge! You remind me of that Marine Corps Sergeant in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket", spitting every conceivable profanity and degradation. Take up some anger management therapy why don't ya, and leave us post-Nam red lepreachauns alone. If the majority of Irish-Americans are Conservative (Repubicans), why are the liberal (Democrats) in power? Do the math! DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE NOW!

Touche Jam ,is anything really as it seems?

That may be, Murph, but dont forget -- Reagan increased taxes and the economy took off. Guess St. Ronnie wasn't as far right as you'd like to think.

I guess Cahir is still sharing that "thrill down the leg" with Chris Mathews. It must be blissful to live a life into which reality never intrudes.

"For the Irish of the period, good government meant WASP. Irish politicians meant the old city machine, which meant corruption. JFK helped break that mold." What does Matthews know. He's from Philadelphia and his remarks illustrate how ignorant he is. Recall that it was Senator Walsh of Mass. who called for the Democrats to renounce the KKK in their 1924 platform. Senator Wagner and Rep. Gavagan helped Walter White fight lynching, it was the Republicans how let them down. Celebrate Kennedy, but don't do it at the expense of people whose careers were every bit as admirable in their own way.

Bytheby don't forget -Kennedy CUT Taxes to spur the economy so he couldn't be that far left!

JFK would not recognize Chris Matthews as a Democrat of as a liberal. He would identify him as a socialist or even communist. Matthews is so far to the left of where JFK stood that it’s a different zip code. Why doesn’t Irish Central just call itself the Irish Socialist? Every left wing nut in America gets puff pieces from you as long as there is some Irish connection, however thin and distant. The majority of Irish-Americans are conservative. If you want to represent the Irish American’s start seeing the world through our eyes, not the pike lenses of a handful of spoiled elite socialist that claim to be Irish.