Chris Matthews: "People on the East Coast like this guy Bloomberg." WHAT!?

[StudentsMustUniteNow]

How come these "news" anchors have the right to tell us who we like, without any factual basis?

I don't like Bloomberg. Where is his evidence that the East Coast is SO enamored with him?

Why does he have the right to make shit up on a "news" program?

How about the corporations let us decide who we like instead of having them decide for us?

[Renew Deal]

1. 70% approval in NY

and NY is the center of the universe.

[babylonsister]

4. He's the mayor of NY; who else would they get the percentages from?

And for the OP, here's an article recently posted:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3327171

[aquart]

5. Yeah, because we stop his stupid stuff.

And he does get whacked-out loony ideas. A STADIUM IN MANHATTAN?????? The frickin' OLYMPICS? We were just getting over the nightmares and he wants to pin a target on us??? And now the congestion-pricing which will destroy retailers and help no one except limo drivers. His sense of financial reality is entirely rich man.

[DainBramaged]

13. 7 out of 10 New Yorkers love him, rich and poor.

[aquart]

19. Love? I'd be careful with your verbs.

Bloomberg is NOT cuddly.

As for the idea that he'd take New York State...

Please understand, he does NOT believe in democratic process. Period.

[DainBramaged]

24. Let me say this one more time

I hope he runs. I hope he picks Lugar or another disenchanted Rethug. But if he picks Wes Clark, all bets are off.

In the meantime, until Al Gore announces, all of this is fun but pre-school.

How many days till election?

And where in NY do you live?

[Hawaii Hiker]

15. Yeah, didn't they talk once about putting the new Yankee Stadium

in Manhattan, and W-H-E-R-E in Manhattan could they have put it....

But it's going adjacent to the old Yankee Stadium I think, ready for the 2009 season...

[sabbat hunter]

18. actually they did talk

for a while about putting yankee stadium over hte west side rail yard during the rudy years. then he wanted (And rightly so) to build a football stadium over there. but it was blocked by dolan and silver (dolan who owns madison square garden and gets millions in tax abatements each year, didnt want any competition to his garden for major events)

[aquart]

20. Nobody on the West Side wanted it, either.

Please don't buy the crock about MSG engineering the defeat of a popular project. It was as popular as cockroaches.

[sabbat hunter]

23. no one lives over there

it is brownlands and railroad tracks.

the dolans are the biggest asses out there. I laugh at the knicks misfortunes. him and isiah deserve each other.

and now dolan wants to build a new MSG in the post office. they want to ruin ANOTHER landmark? wasnt taking down the original penn station years ago bad enough. now dolan wants to repeat that mistake, get more millions in tax breaks? fuck dolan

[DainBramaged]

12. You bet it is

[aquart]

2. Tweety is bound neither by fact nor reality.

He is an unfettered fantasist.

[Supersedeas]

28. Queen Man-crush Pundit of Superficiality -- off the cuff, good enuff

[Purveyor]

3. Did I just hear Crissy say, before he thought that camera was on that "we are putting on shit..."?

[flpoljunkie]

6. Evidently. Just heard him apologize for saying something he shouldn't have said-altho I missed it.

[Berry Cool]

7. Yeah, he either said "We're all here reacting/acting and putting on shit"

or "...on pretty much shit." (As in, maybe, "shit-nothing." As in, "We're all here having to react to this news, but we really don't know shit about the details.")

[Bitwit1234]

8. Why don't we line all those republican men up

tell them to drop their drawers, bend over, and let Matthews get all the ass kissing he wants. Then maybe he will be able to host his "Softball" Program without all the KISSUP.

[Virginia Dare]

9. Here's an east coaster who can't fucking stand him...n/t

[Totally Committed]

10. Chris Matthews is a sh*t-stirring gasbag.

I wonder if Bloomberg will really run?

TC

[DainBramaged]

11. Miami is another world, not the East coast

:sarcasm:

You forgot about all of the NYC retiree living in Florida who WILL vote for Mayor Mike (PS, he was a LIfeLong Democrat before taking a dump on a Rethug vacancy in 2002 to beat Mark Green).

[Kahuna]

14. Actually, I do like him. He's cool. But..

I don't like how he supported bushco in 2004. That was not cool. :grr:

[DemBones DemBones]

16. Somebody needs to mail Tweety a map

and an ego deflator.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

17. The east coast of what country?

Albania?

[Skittles]

21. he had all us wimmin folk loving our Commander Codpiece

yes INDEED

[caligirl]

22. I stopped watching the cheap suit moron about two years ago. He doesn't matter.

[AZBlue]

25. Despite my screen name I'm an East Coaster by birth and in my heart and

I can't stand him. I hate him so much I don't ever watch him, so I'm not even sure what comment you're referring to!

[illinoisprogressive]

26. Just as he says the Dems love Hillary. huh????

[WCGreen]

27. He's not an anchor for a news show....

He is a two bit media whore who will do or say anything in order to stay somewhat relevant...

[shawmut]

29. I really don't think many people on the east coast outside of

the tri-state area give a crap about him either way, or even know who he is.