Poor Tweety looks like he is about to cry

[Elwood P Dowd]

Having a very difficult time talking about Bushit, Rove, etc..

[jasmeel]

1. Why?

[greekspeak]

3. The darling of his life is coming apart at the seams

Shrub is crumbling. All his beautiful wickedness, ruined ruined! And flying monkey Tweety doesn't know what to do with master melting in a big green pile of wickedness.

[senseandsensibility]

14. It's truly tragic

But I can't seem to stop laughing.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[leesa]

38. Did you mean his Sugar Daddy was melting? He's an actor for $$$.

[senseandsensibility]

2. I think he's been looking at his pic

of * in the flightsuit and the sock and falling in love all over again.

[rocktivity]

6. Hope this isn't "too much information," but

"We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical, who’s not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who’s president. Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war."

Chris Matthews, Hardball, May 1, 2003

[atommom]

7. I think he's projecting a little there. Tweety himself was the one

swooning over this picture!

As a female myself, I'd swear off men after seeing this pic, if I hadn't already found myself a good one...

[distantearlywarning]

10. Me too.

He looks both constipated and cranky in this pic. Certainly not attractive in the least.

[LastDemocratInSC]

23. There's a reason for that grimace on *'s face in that photo

One of the most important lessons taught to a military pilot is to ... disconnect your parachute harness BEFORE getting out of the airplane. If one fails to do so certain anatomical areas will become mechanically constrained by the harness.

I guess * missed that Air National Guard class while he was AWOL in Alabama.

It's always possible, of course, that the pilot who flew Bush out to the carrier was laughing his ass off in the cockpit after Bush got out while thinking "Maybe I should have told him about that ... NAAAAHHHHH!!!"

[zippy890]

26. HAHAHAHA

:rofl:

'certain anatomical areas' Constrained--thats it! couldn't figure out why that photo of him in that ridiculous uniform looks so weird --his crotch is all tied up!!!

[FreedomAngel82]

30. Wouldn't he have learned that in the beginning though??

:shrug:

[senseandsensibility]

16. Exactly

As a straight woman, he is not at all sexy. I have to seriously doubt the taste of ANYONE that finds that sexy. He is an unattractive man at all times, and even more so in that pic. Poor Tweety, he obviously lives such a rich fantasy life.:rofl:

[ellie]

34. Agreed.

I hate stupid smart asses and smirky certainly is one.

[Jane Austin]

35. "As a straight woman, he is not at all sexy."

I don't know a single woman who finds him attractive or sexy. But I do know a lot of women who have to change the channel the minute his ugly mug comes on.

Although I did that for three years, I have to admit that I've become fascinated with watching his twitches and jerks, and I eagerly await catching his next gaffe.

But mostly the women I know can't even watch him.

I think all that swaggering stuff only appeals to a certain type of male - - an insecure type of male.

[senseandsensibility]

36. An insecure type of male, indeed,

such as the tweety bird.:)

[Dulcinea]

56. I'm with you!

There is absolutely nothing sexy about the Potemkin President. Ignorance is NEVER attractive.

[Jane Austin]

32. "I'd swear off men after seeing this pic,

if I hadn't already found myself a good one..."

Whew! That was my reaction to that flightsuit thing, too!

[Eric J in MN]

9. Where did you find that quote of Hardball? (nt)

nt

[rocktivity]

49. I doubt the transcript is there now

but I was so appalled by his remarks that I looked it up on MSNBC.com and saved it, because I figured no one would believe me!

:headbang:
rocknation

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. Tweety said that?

He deserves to be taken off the air for that.

How utterly stupid.

Why do people watch him?

[chaumont58]

24. Why do people watch him?

What an appropriate question! I quit watching on a regular basis the night before the California recall. I think the question should be to Dems more than others. Tweety is like many of the beltway insiders. Nothing has as much meaning as their status as a beltway insider. Cohen's column today means he joins that beltway insider club: Tweety(once a working Dem), Al Hunt, his wife Judy Woodruff, Margaret Carlson. Once working liberals.

[medeak]

13. would like to see entire transcript

it may be out of context and sarcastic

[senseandsensibility]

17. It absolutely was not

I saw it live. It was dead serious.

[senseandsensibility]

15. If Tweety had a brain or a heart

he would hang his head in shame when he recalled saying that. And no, he wasn't joking. Excuse, I'm going to lose my dinner....

[Jane Austin]

39. Tweety also kept rhapsodizing about the fabulous reception bush was

getting from the aircraft carrier's crew.

Duh. These people had been on a, what, 11-month tour of duty on a freaking ship. They would have cheered a fake watch salesman if he had come aboard.

Cripes, doesn't he remember being in elementary school? You could have an insurance salesman show up there for an assembly, and if it interrupted the deadly routine for even a few minutes, it was like getting to go to the circus!

[LincolnMcGrath]

19. Yep

Don't forget the 2002 midterms, where tweety giggled like a school girl all night long while opining, "Is the democrat party finished?"

[Ikonoklast]

22. George McGovern? Don't go there

Chris Matthews is a complete fucking retard.

Let's see, hmmm....George McGovern, piloted 35 B-24 missions out of Africa and Italy in WWII. Won the Distinguished Flying Cross. Campaigned for president in 1972 against Dick Nixon. The former Senator is currently serving as the UN Ambassador against hunger.

I guess being A REAL WAR HERO counts for little in that pea-brained media whores opinion, but playing dress-up as a pilot does.

[FreedomAngel82]

29. Oh good grief

Sorry to disappoint you Matthews but this woman would prefer a real hero.

[Jane Austin]

40. Oh!

Be still, my beating heart!

[FreedomAngel82]

43. Yep

:loveya:

Here are some other hot democratic military men.

Al Gore-

Max Cleland-
(he had cute dimples)

Jimmy Carter-

[tabasco]

46. Fuckin' Tweety is such a stupid fuckin' asshole.

McGovern was a REAL pilot and a war hero.
Mondale was a soldier and never went AWOL.
Dukakis was an Army vet too and served his entire hitch honorably.

But Tweety worships Dress-Up Bu$h like a little teenie with her first crush.

Tweety is paid well by NBC (see war-profiteering GE) to praise the corporate cabal. But he could try to be a little less gross about it.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

48. kick

:puke:

[stanwyck]

57. The women like this war?

I had never heard that before....Yikes!
What a freak.

[spuddonna]

58. "The women like this war..."

You know, I've never met a woman that liked war... I wonder who he hangs out with...

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. He told that witch he had on that he loved the National Review

Trying to make excuses for outing Plame - blaming Wilson.

[FreedomAngel82]

33. Oh yes

I'm sure Wilson outed his own wife. :eyes: Good grief.

[medeak]

5. I don't know why DU picks on Tweety

He was the first to go on air two years ago to say he got a call from Rove re Wilson's wife.

Wilson quoted him in his book.

[Eric J in MN]

8. Chris Matthews was one of the pro-Bush journalists

who helped put Bush in office.

(I don't mean to ascribe more personal power to Matthews than he actually has.)

[medeak]

12. he was virulently anti Iraq as well

When you have a son that's of an age to draft you will see the light like he did.

[UTUSN]

18. These 2 "Reasons" for Defending Tweety

1) that he was "virulently" against the Iraq attack, because 2) he has a (more than one) "draft age son" have been bouncing around for years and cannot be borne out by anybody who has actually watched Tweety for hours on end.

He wrote columns (long since ended) that were more "Liberal" than the material he presents on cable, meaning that he was at least open to being a changling, a fair weather follower.

Why do DUers give him a rough time (like we have power to make an actual DENT in him)---because we have WATCHED him doing soft porn over porn since Campaign-2000, because he has SAID he voted for Shrub, because he has SAID "I'm not the Democrat I USED to be," because nobody can savage Democrats the way he can.

As for the canard about his draft age sons. In the run-up to the Iraq attack he was VOCIFEROUSLY pro-attack. This "draft age sons" crap is very intangible and hard to debunk with links and such. I wish Snopes would work on something this intangible, but it's too "emotional" in substance.

I challenge anybody who uses this "draft age sons" regarding Tweety to provide ONE link, one newspaper column, one whatever where he ever said something about it.

The short answer is that anybody who defends Tweety from the Dem side DOES NOT WATCH HIM. The last time he was identifiably a Dem was back when "Hardball" the book was published, something like 1988.

[Tatiana]

21. Tweety is a great actor.

Honestly, I don't think he believes a word of the crap he spews on his asinine program. He fellates Bush on Hardball because he gets off on it and he is highly compensated for it.

[jazzjunkysue]

27. You may be right: I was live w Matthews at the Dem Convention.

He just wound up for the camera, and didn't seem to give a crap about anything else when the camera was off. He mugs, and then cut to commercial, nothing. No sign of life, either way.

At one point, the idiot boy prince was droning on and the crowd in Herald square was screaming "Liar, liar" and it was so loud, you couldn't hear the idiot child's ranting. I thought tweety would react to the crowd, when he couldn't hear anyone on the set, but I only saw him give a ver short smile to another pundit for just a fleeting moment. None of it matters for him. Just the camera. And he really loves the camera, that's for sure.

[UTUSN]

31. I Thought You Were Going to Say

that when he talks to Liberal groups, like on college campuses, he talks out of the "Liberal" side of his mouth. He also takes fees to speak to wingnut groups.

But your observations re "acting" are on the mark. On satellite feeds, the hosts and guests don't interact at all when not on the air.

[jazzjunkysue]

51. Right. Doesn't give a shit either way. It's just more air time for him.

Tweety's high on the TV audience. Needs lots of attention. I have students like that at school.

But even though he may ask better questions than other reporters from time to time, it doesn't mean he cares about anything: Truth, freedom, democracy, representative government. He wants only what keeps him on air and all of you watching.

[UTUSN]

25. Too Late to Edit. 3rd Paragraph

"...we have WATCHED him doing soft porn over porn..." should be:

"...we have WATCHED him doing soft porn over Shrub..."

[FreedomAngel82]

45. Yep

And take this for what you will but in 2004 he went to Boehmian Grove which is what Arnie and the Bush's are apart of.

[Fla Dem]

54. I don't understand how someone who idolized Kennedy, was in the peace

corp and worked for a Democrat administration, can now be such a turncoat. What possibly could have caused such a change of heart and mind?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Matthews


Christopher John Matthews (born December 17, 1945) hosts a nightly, hour-long talk show called Hardball with Chris Matthews on the American cable television channel MSNBC, formerly on CNBC.

Matthews, a Roman Catholic, graduated from The College of the Holy Cross, and did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina. Then he served in the Peace Corps in Swaziland as a trade development advisor.

As a Democrat, Matthews has worked for several Democratic politicians. He was a presidential speechwriter for four years during the administration of Jimmy Carter. He served as a top aide to long-time Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill for six years. He worked in the U.S. Senate for five years on the staffs of Senators Frank Moss and Edmund Muskie before running for U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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[northzax]

55. simple answer: look at your keyboard

see the number "4" now hit the 'shift' key.

not to be flippant, but these people are entertainers first and foremost. They swing with the wind, regardless of what they personally believe. They all are playing characters on TeeVee or the radio, the true believers are not good entertainers and aren't successful in media. The really good ones, like Rush Limbaugh, are incredibly in touch with their audiences and pander to exactly what they want to hear, it's not news, it's entertainment. People only think it's news.

[Fla Dem]

59. Not flippant, you have a point. But that's my whole point; how can

someone so steeped in the Democratic party become such a shill for the right and still sleep at night. How much did it take to sell his soul? It's not like he's getting great ratings beating up on the dems.

[andino]

50. Massthews gave the Swifties TONS of airtime!

Even when he KNEW they were full of it...

That's when I turned him off. Haven't watched his POS show since.

[PA Democrat]

20. Ha! Ha! And he looked so MANLY in that flight suit

Tweety is probably heartsick wondering if those were dirty gym socks stuffed in the crotch.

Poor Tweety. It's rough losing your hero.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. Boo hoo

He knows Bush is going down.

[goforit]

37. He's gonna have to look at himself in the mirror for a long time.

Tragic for us all!!!

[tallahasseedem]

41. Good.

That asshole has known all along how horrible this administration is and has repeated their talking points over and over again. I hope he has an on-air break down.

[Tower]

42. Of course. If Bush goes down, Matthews loses a paycheck, and his favorite

masturbation tool.

[5thGenDemocrat]

44. When he looks like he's about to kill himself, get back to me

Better yet, maybe we could hook him, O'Reilly and Carlson up in a Texas Death Cage match.
John
I'd buy a ticket.

[gulfcoastliberal]

47. Matthews is the worst talking head, maybe behind Hume, Cavuto, O'reilly

Ranks up ther with the worst cretins. Don't care if one show he talked about Rove being indicted. He trashed Gore, trashed Kerry, and sucked Bush dick since he campaigned for pResident. Tweety will rot in hell, I have no sympathy for such a horrid, maggot-infested traitor.

[symbolman]

52. Does he have

Splash guards on all the cameras, because when he gets going his mouth is like a Rottweiller's, he could build suspension bridges with the spittle..

I think this guy was whacking to Bush in the flight suit, and I'm serious.

[sofa king]

53. Hmm. I'm confused.

I was under the impression that Matthews was one of the reporters pigeonholed by Scooter Libby and/or others involved in Plamegate, and that he's pissed that he can't talk about it. Can someone fill me in on that?

You guys shouldn't trust anyone on TV. Television as it is currently conceived doesn't allow for anything but the crudest representation of the news. It's like a medieval court jester telling gossipy stories with marionettes. Even if what the puppets said is true, well, the source is still a friggin' clown.

I bet that some--maybe most--of the people in television news understand that better than a lot of us.... Well, at least me. So if you don't like what the guy on television is saying, remember he's a puppet and go after the goddamned clown who tells him what to say.