Friday, December 7, 2012

Chris Matthews expresses regret for Sandy remark on election night | Synopsis

Chris Matthews expresses regret for Sandy remark on election night

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"I was on last night for 10 hours straight...  and a few minutes to 3 (a.m.), I said something terrible," Matthews said. "It was a terrible thing to say, period. I can say it was because I was tired, but the fact is I wasn't thinking of the horrible mess this storm has made in people's real lives up here in New York and elsewhere."  The death toll from that storm, which caused billions of dollars in damage, now exceeds 100. Many in the path of the storm's wrath -- in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere -- lost their homes or their cars or were otherwise displaced. The storm wreaked havoc on Election Day, as officials scrambled to facilitate the vote with many precincts facing power outages and fuel shortages.

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Matthews

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-0.38902"I was on last night for 10 hours straight ...  and a few minutes to 3 (a.m.), I said something terrible," Matthews said.
0.373661Matthews was referring to when he said at the close of election coverage he was "glad" ...
0.563705"I'm so glad we had that storm last week," Matthews said, ...
0.475581"ooo" at that remark, but Matthews confidently put his hand up to explain.  ...
0.156348"No, politically I should say -- not in terms of hurting people. The storm brought in possibilities for good politics," he said. ...
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Gov. Chris Christie

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City: New York

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