Chris Matthews just said that maybe breaking the law is presidents job.

[spanone]

Can't fucking believe this idiot. He's interviewing Tice 'whistleblower' on wiretapping and said that he would have done the same thing as Bush did after 9/11. Tice said you'd be breaking the law and then Tweety said maybe that's part of the president's job, breaking the law. What the fuck is wrong with this guy?

[WI_DEM]

1. maybe asking hard questions is the job of a real journalist

think about it Tweety.

[Supersedeas]

7. exactly

[spanone]

14. He's grilling this guy for revealing the wiretapping.

Tweety doesn't get it that the president committed a CRIME. Matthews seems to have no problem at all with people being spied on regardless of the courts...and I thought he had a modicum of intelligence.

[liveoaktx]

36. VIDEO-

With Tice

Maybe it's NOT "part of the job" asshole

[AX10]

2. Matthews started life out as a right wing Republican.

It's just his "natural way". Tweets is NOT our ally. Is one of them.

[fishwax]

38. can you tell me more about this?

i'm not surprised, really, but i'd always thought he'd started with the carter administration.

[Oceansaway]

3. ummm, 'shit sandwiches' could be the problem...n/t

[displacedtexan]

4. Clinton turned him down for the press sec. job...

That's what's wrong with him.

[radio4progressives]

11. is this true? Clinton turned him down? Maybe Tweety was what was

wrong with Carter's speaches...

[displacedtexan]

27. Yep. That really happened in '92.

He went in 1977 to the Carter White House, then to Tip O'Neill's office, where he stayed until O'Neill retired in 1987. After that, Matthews spent 15 years in the media boiler room -- metropolitan op-ed pages, small local-affiliate roundtables, morning-show political patter -- and was even, according to Hertzberg, approached to be Clinton's press secretary, though Matthews issues a shaky denial about this when asked. Then, in 1996, he scored his own show, Politics, on the America's Talking cable network, which became MSNBC. In 1998, his half-hour program doubled its airtime (and had its name changed to Hardball) when the president's affair became a huge story. As happens in politics, one man's extracurricular activity became another man's career.

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/4819/index2.html

[rodeodance]

5. He has been like that since his return from Africa--keeps saying they all

hate us and really want to kill us. I forget where he was in Africa.

[rodeodance]

10. he played the clip of jr saying it was wrong for NYT to out NSA.

[rodeodance]

12. Tice back to tweey "is it illegal to expose a crime" GREAT answer.

[BeyondGeography]

21. And rather than asking why, he's lapsed into paranoia

Makes it so much easier for the well-paid "journalist."

[Jackpine Radical]

34. ...and I spose it hasn't dawned on him to ask WHY "they" hate us.

I'd hate us too if I were the victim of American foreign policy.

It's bad enough being the victim of our domestic policy.

[JohnyCanuck]

6. And kissing presidential hiney

is a media ho's job, a job Tweety excels at.

[Algorem]

8. He needs his ass kicked.

[medeak]

9. Tice on hardball now! n/t

[Jara sang]

13. Chris Matthews is a gonad.

[Inland]

15. Maybe this IS Bizarro America, where the job of the chief law enforcer

is to break the law, the job of the legislature is to be told what the law is, and the job of the judiciary is to be partial and unfair.

After all, we've already invaded a country that wasn't threatening us, imposed a government, stolen an election.

It is Bizarro America. Me not like Bizarro America!

[spanone]

19. Oh My God, they've got Ed Meese coming on to refute this shit

Ed Meese, Attorney General under Ronald Rayguns.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

16. Nah, a president's job is to be "sunny" and "noble."

[0007]

26. Great catch! Now I'll go puke

[davidwparker]

17. Perhaps he was NSA-wiretapped and the Repugs have something on him.

They've got him on his knees for sure. I stopped watching him years ago.

[Selatius]

18. He's exhibiting classic authoritarian tendencies.

It's the authoritarian streak in his mind. He thinks he is right. Okay, that's one thing. He also believes he should be able to impose that belief because he is right. That's where he starts stomping on others and forcing his views down their throat. He is no different than some Nazi or Soviet government apparatchik. He believes so much that he is right that he begins making judgments about what is good for others regardless of how they feel.

[Auntie Bush]

20. Nothing is wrong with him...he's just doing the job he's been paid

lots of money to do and he's trying to deserve his salary.

[Trish1168]

22. Unf*cking believable

Now that he's out of the GOP closet, I guess there's no point to holding back.

[Neecy]

23. Hey, Chris

What do these words mean? "...to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Doesn't give him a freebie in case of war, doesn't give him ONE GODDAMN get-out-of-jail free card for breaking the law.

He took an oath. He broke it. Your boy is going down and the panic is obvious.

[spanone]

24. THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHY NOT USE THE COURTS?????

And Ed Meese is FULL OF SHIT. This IS THE REASON for the FISA COURTS YOU DUMBFUCK.

[dogday]

25. If that is his job, then he is doing it well and often...... eom

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

28. Quit Watching This SOB!!!

I turn MSNBC on at exactly 4:59 PM PST for Countdown. Anything that happens before or after that is GARBAGE so far as I'm concerned.

Matthews is an A S S H O L E ! ! Pure and simple. Why you people watch him is a mystery to me. He may not be Hannity or O'Liely...but he's an Ignorant SOB nonetheless.

Why even bother giving him the time of day, or risk boosting his ratings by watching his crap.

[DeepModem Mom]

29. He thinks Bush as outlaw is manly. Tweety's feelings for Bush...

have, as you probably know, been discussed here many times.

[Neecy]

31. without question

There's a thread of homoeroticism there with Tweety that doesn't exist within the ranks of the other media apologists (at least not that I've seen - I avoid FOX).

[sonsera]

39. Tweety is a Pimp for Geo Bush -

and MSNBC is another media whore house.

[DanCa]

30. My god the hypocrisy

I guess you can do anything you want in this repug theocracy if unless your caught with a blue dress.

[long_green]

32. He must need an addition on the house in Nantucket

Whore. At least he's being very well paid.

[0rganism]

33. Then impeaching the president is congress's job

Sorry Chris, you don't get to back out on the Constitution so quickly, when your primary oath is to uphold it.

[spanone]

35. I agree entirely. NO ONE is above the law. Not even George.

[fishwax]

37. not surprising coming from him

how typical that he'd save his tough questions for the leaker and give a pass on criminal behavior.

[Poiuyt]

40. Doesn't the president take an oath with his hand on the Bible to uphold

the Constitution? It doesn't sound like breaking the law and trampling on the Bill of Rights is his job to me!