Chris Matthews: "Not always so obvious to the cretins who got us in to this war that real people

[beaconess]

are paying the price for their mistake." Hardball, December 19, 2006

So now Bush, et al, are "cretins?"

Interesting change of tune from a couple of years ago when Matthews was swooning over the ever-so manly Bush Bush and his buddies were brilliant, manly and "noble:"

May 8, 2003:

MATTHEWS: What do you make of this broadside against the USS Abraham Lincoln and its chief visitor last week?

G. GORDON LIDDY: Well, I -- in the first place, I think it's envy. I mean, after all, Al Gore had to go get some woman to tell him how to be a man.

And here comes George Bush. You know, he's in his flight suit, he's striding across the deck, and he's wearing his parachute harness, you know -- and I've worn those because I parachute -- and it makes the best of his manly characteristic.

You go run those -- run that stuff again of him walking across there with the parachute. He has just won every woman's vote in the United States of America. You know, all those women who say size doesn't count -- they're all liars. Check that out.
. ..

MATTHEWS: Let's let him talk for himself. Here's President Bush expressing his confidence that he did the right thing.
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. . .

MATTHEWS: You know what struck me about that? The part that couldn't have been faked, which is the faces of the troop{s}.

LIDDY: Yes. Did you see when they -- when they ran the Clinton one? Pretty much the same thing. They're all there just like that, stone faces, and here, they're just all over him.

MATTHEWS: They just love him.


LIDDY: They're loving him.

MATTHEWS: I think that's a bonding that we're seeing right there. We're watching it now, Gordon. It's pretty impressive bonding between him and these guys. I mean they did win the war together, and he was their commander in chief.

Hey, Chris - did it ever occur to you that you're partly responsible for the fact that those "cretins" don't understand how the war is impacting ordinary Americans since it was YOU and your drooling buddies like the creepy felon G. Gordon Liddy who enabled them gin up the war and, in so doing, helped build the bubble that they now function in.

It's nice that you've finally gotten with the program, but it's a little late now.

Shame on you!

[tuvor]

1. Matthews: Cret-enabler?

[ellacott]

17. He says now that he didn't support this war in the beginning

I don't think that's true. I remember he used to bully people on his show who were critical of the war.

[eleny]

2. he was one of the boosters

i suppose he's been studying olbermann's recent ratings numbers and adjusting his rhetoric.

[Bitwit1234]

3. Gee I wonder

if the tailored flight suit, the socks and codpiece stuffed in bush's pants helped to make people think he was a MAN. I bet he loves dressing up.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Chris Matthews chief enabler of the cretins march to power

You slandered not only a good man, but a great one!

[muntrv]

5. Yeah Liddy, Al is a wus who went to Vietnam in 1969 after finishing

Harvard, unlike the chicken hawk that you're flogging your dong to.

[Demobrat]

6. I wonder where he learned

how to talk out of both sides of his mouth with a straight face? Do they give degrees in that?

[cali]

7. Great find, beaconess.

Pretty stark compare and contrast. Thanks for sharing it.

[Cha]

8. First of fucking all..just to set the

record straight, Al Gore's advisers did not hire Naomi Wolff to show him "how to be a man". It was a freakin' earth tone color scheme they were coming up with that got into the insane wing liar machine and regurgitated lies on shit.

Al Gore's family can attest to what kind of man he is and the USA can see these last six years that the real winner of the 2000 selection should have damn well been inaugerated!

chimpy the cod.

[mzteris]

9. ewwwwww -

that made me feel all icky.

his "manly characteristic" (????) and "He has just won every woman's vote in the United States of America. You know, all those women who say size doesn't count"

you've got to be kidding me!

[Mad_Dem_X]

20. I know!

That whole bit gives me the creeps!

[DURHAM D]

10. I actually wish that KO would move to CNN so he can start

going after Tweety. There is as much material on him as on Orally.

[pwb]

11. Matthews never asks the follow up question i am looking for. never

he is another news builder, thats all.

[beaconess]

12. How can he ask a followup? He's too busy talking. We're lucky we get the first question out of him

in between all of his bloviating.

[Arugula Latte]

13. I swear, Tweety is the most schizo person on cable.

He's all over the map. He needs serious meds.

[howmad1]

14. Hey, he just got back from a long illness.

Maybe they did a lobotomy on him. Took out the bush adoration part. One can only hope.:evilgrin:

[OneBlueSky]

15. it was not a mistake . . . mistake implies an unintentional screw-up . . .

Iraq was very, very intentional . . . it was (and is) a crime, not a mistake . . . in fact, it's a whole bunch of crimes, including war crimes and crimes against humanity of the highest order . . .

[Diane R]

16. Thank you for this excellent post. nt/

[Rockholm]

18. Almost fainted when he said that.

Maybe he was off his meds or something.

[Mad_Dem_X]

19. Two-faced moran

And that whole fawning dialogue with him and Liddy...every time I read it, it makes me sick to my stomach. :puke:

[mentalsolstice]

21. Ugh! I think I need to go take a shower now!

It sounds like Tweety may have finally got his blood sugar normalized...

[eleny]

22. And today he said he was always against the war

[tinfoilinfor2005]

23. They could never make a Chris Mathews doll

because the string would have to be nine hundred miles long.

I'm surprised that people who go on his show don't learn sign language ahead of time so that they can get a few words in edge wise.

[rocktivity]

24. "The cretins who got us into this war"--present company included?

Is he honestly THAT oblivious to the fact that he was--and still is--one of Georgie's top aiders and abetters? Obviously it would have MUCH been more useful for Chris to say such things sooner (even at the risk of receiving an envelope containing either white powder or a pink slip). But without an admission that he was wrong and an apology for being so unfair and unbalanced, his calling the Bush empire cretinous now comes across as--well, unfair and VERY unbalanced.

Perhaps Tweety needs his memory refreshed. Where's Symbolman and AndyHappy? A video/audio montage of the Best Of Tweety is a Peabody award just begging to happen!


:headbang:
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