Irish America's best journalists

 

10. Chris Matthews

The Irish-American host of MSNBC’s hardball has said in an interview with the Irish Echo that he is “three-quarters Irish”, adding that on his mother’s side, there are Irish families -- the Conroys and the Quinlans, and that a grandmother on his father’s side was a Northern Irish Presbyterian, from the seaside town of Portrush, in Co. Antrim.

To give him credit, he isn’t as easy to pigeon hole “conservative” or “liberal” as many of his contemporaries: he was a critic of the Iraq war, of U.S policy towards Israel, but also of Bill Clinton.

Best quotes

On the Iraq war:

"And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war."

"We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely."

"I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning."

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