Tweety is going off right now on MSNBC...
Last edited Tue Apr 7, 2015, 02:51 PM - Edit history (2)
More to come in a moment, gotta back up the tape and transcribe...brb...
Edited to add, they are talking about Rand Paul's announcement and political ads being shown as news:
Thomas Roberts (TR): Let's talk about the power that's been charged into the GOP side of the presidential race, your reaction to the (Rand Paul) speech?
Chris Matthews (Tweety): Well I think he laid down the fight here he said 'I'm not for nation-building overseas, I'm going to build bridges right here at home not over there'. It's a direct charge against the Neocons and the "piggish money" behind them right now. I mean you talk about big money being spent, let's lay out who these people are. Let's not just cover ads as if they're coming from God! There's a rotten crowd out there that is very hawkish in the Republican Party, wants to fight more wars, wants more regime change, more nation-building. Let's go through the list: they wanted to knock off Iraq, they wanted to knock off Egypt, they wanted to knock off Syria, they wanted to knock off Iran, they already did Lybia. It's really worked well for us, hasn't it? This continued effort to knock countries apart, create instability and chaos, and then say we're going to create Western-style, pro-Israeli democracies - it's all nonsense! It's always been non-sense.
I think the Republican voter out there, not the piggish money people but the regular voter, is not going to stand for it. Look at the latest poll we have from Pennsylvania, a regular state...pretty much a bit Democratic but not too Democratic a state. Rand Paul is beating Hillary Clinton there by a point. That tells me all this money, this "piggish money", that's a term we used in the '60s for the hawks. All this hawkish money is trying to create a right-wing candidate for president may not sit too well with the regular Republican voter because the cloth-coat regular Republicans who send their kids to war are not the ones who pay for these ads. They're totally different people. The ones who send their kids to war who come home maimed and wonder what he hell they were doing it for, those people are not impressed with these goddamn ads!
I wouldn't even talk about ads and I certainly wouldn't put them on for free, Tom!
TR: So...
Tweety: That's what we should stop doing! Stop running right-wing ads for free on our network.
TR: Well, I don't think we can filter out the fact that attacks ads...
Tweety: (overtalk)...ok...Who paid for the ads. Who paid for the ads...
TR: So, The Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America...
Tweety: What the hell is that, c'mon! What is that...the Committee for the Present Danger. They're all front groups. They're hawkish, right-wing front groups. Call them what they are. Le'ts not pretend some nice people got together and decided we need to go to war and naiton-build and knock off another government. That's what we're doing here and I salute Rand Paul for having the guts to take on this crowd. He may be the only Republican candidate who's doing it, which makes him worth watching.'
There's more but I'll just look for the video and post here it when available...
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