So why does tweety (C Matthews) focus on Hilary and 08 Presidentials

[ShockediSay]

this Sun morning? Is it that NBC (GE) wants those of the sound bite mentality to forget about the issues for the 06 Congressionals?

[eleny]

1. He's been at this for months nt

[politicasista]

2. Cause he is trying to take the focus of Bush and his dismal failures n/t

[niyad]

3. what? you expected him to maybe talk about colbert's performance

last night?

[NYCGirl]

7. Since his show is taped on Friday, that would be somewhat impossible. NT

[niyad]

8. thank you, I was being partially sarcastic, but also, I don't watch tweet

so didn't know his show is taped.

[chaumont58]

11. Good for you. Nobody should watch the sob

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I don't watch him either.

[0007]

16. Haven't for years.

He so full of shit it hurts.

[evlbstrd]

4. Brainwashing.

If they repeat the Hilary for President mantra often enough, they hope the sheep will buy it. They hate the Clintons and feel that she can be beaten. More divisional politics.

[NYCGirl]

5. Because it gets people like you talking about it. NT

[iconoclastNYC]

6. It is exactly the reason you cite.

[autorank]

9. That's the "management" Corporate agenda and game plan...

...get with it:)

Matthews never goes far off script.

[havocmom]

10. Cuz his bro is running for office and the GOP will help

in direct proportion to the amount of time Chris spends parroting their talking points.

The GOP wants to run against Hilary in 08 so they are pounding that into our heads... or so they think.

[Placebo]

12. Because it's fun talking about 2008!

:)

[FrenchieCat]

13. Cause that's what the Corporate media wants us to concentrate on.....

as oppposed to strategizing for the 2006 election.

It does work well, that's for sure!

[maine_raptor]

14. I watched it and there was one VERY interesting quote

One of the other reporters, not sure which one, said something to the effect that the businessmen and chamber of commerce types did not run the GOP anymore. To which Tweety replied, in shock;

"Not my party!"

Damn telling if you ask me.

[tishaLA]

15. Laziness

Tweety and his buddy Fineman are the biggest purveyors of conventional wisdom in Washington. He doesn't want to challenge himself to cover anything except through the lens that's most readily available to him. Same reason he's been fellating McCain.

And I'm sure that when they do segments on Hillary and McCain, they know they will have ratings.

The only question is why he does a GOOD job on Plame. The answer, I think, is that he is an integral part of the plot, at least according to Joe Wilson, so covering it doesn't require any real research on his part.

[blm]

17. Matthews KNOWS that Hillary DIDN'T POLL WELL in an extended focus group

that was conducted by Frank Luntz recently. He won't discuss it - none of the newsies will because they want the Hillary-McCain battle.

On that clip of Matthews and DeLay while they were supposed to be off-air, Matthews asked DeLay if he heard about it - he said Hillary did poorly and Kerry did the best out of all the expected candidates.

This is something that NO MEDIA would report. Gee - If the study had turned out BADLY for Kerry and great for Hillary, the corp media would have shouted it 24/7 for weeks.

Too bad so many Dems get manipulated and sucked into repeating the media perceptions against our own, too.

[karynnj]

21. Especially because Kerry had the highest rated sound bite

which challanges their conventional wisdom. Kerry connected extremely well.

[blm]

22. Really weird that media CENSORED their own findings just so they could

continue to promote a race between Hillary and Mccain that THEY WANT - they all know they're rooting for McCain and they want to see Hillary humiliated. They are THAT craven.

[Zapatero]

18. Tweety Bird

is obsessed with Hillary. You can tell he hates her with a passion.

[riona]

20. Yes, she is a guaranteed solid- gold feather ruffler

[blm]

23. He hates Hillary as much as he loves McCain and that is the reason behind

why he promotes both to get his desired McCain v Hillary race in 2008.

[TayTay]

19. It's cheaper and gives the pundits something to do.

This type of thing has no right or wrong answer and the people answering the questions about potential candidates will never be brought up to answer for when they are wrong.

This is a big yawn. Nobody knows anything anyway. It's too early.

[OregonBlue]

24. I don't know what the Clintons did to Tweety but he hates them so much

it is beyond ridiculous. I have written to him and to MSNBC about it repeatedly. His predjudice is always showing. He simply cannot discuss ANYTHING political without bringing it back to the Clintons. He is so biased in his coverage of anything Clinton that he has no credibility on the subject. Does anyone have a clue what they did to him? Or was he so outraged by a blow job in the oval office that it continues to have him seeing red.

[TheFarseer]

25. I believe Hillary will make for the best TV

Slamming Hillary every night is good for ratings. Just like Notre Dame has/had(?) that NBC contract because you either love Notre Dame or love to hate Notre Dame, but either way, it's good TV. That's the bottom line - it's good TV.