Mathews is calling out rw shill who used Obama's middle name

[me b zola]

On Hardball, a rw shill just used Obama's middle name (as a slur), and Mathews called him out on it. The shill said that he was just teasing Obama giving him a hard time because nobody knows who he is. Mathews didn't buy it and said he did it to make people think of terrorists.

Anyone who considers themself a journalist should do the same. Call them on their bullshit.

:)

[mitchtv]

1. 'Mitt' should now be known as

"Willard"

[NYCGirl]

3. Why? "Mitt" is bad enough. NT

[me b zola]

7. It really is

But it was an example that Chris used to show that the shill had an agenda by using Obama's middle name and he didn't do the same with other elected officials.

[MADem]

42. 'Mitt' is joyous, it rhymes with Shitt,,,,boundless opportunity, there! NT

[valerief]

22. We call him Willard in Massachusetts. Like the movie star rat. nt

[orpupilofnature57]

2. oooops! I forgot the Nazi party is unfolding

[rodeodance]

4. hey Tweety. Keep it up.

[Bake]

5. I'll be damned.

Did Tweety also get a spine and/or conscience transplant while he was in the hospital?

Bake

[MADem]

9. Maybe they adjusted his meds!!!!! Or transplanted some Tip O'Neill DNA into him NT

[me b zola]

10. Could be

So I told myself that as long as he is intellectually honnest I will call him by his name. The first time he reverts back to his bs his name will revert back to tweety. :)

[Flarney]

13. How did he get the name "Tweety?" n/m

[KamaAina]

16. His yellow hair dye looks like Tweety Bird from Looney Tunes

"I tawt I taw a putty-tat!"

[Rageneau]

26. Didn't BartCop give him that name?

BartCop coined the terms BFEE, media whores, the Giggling Murderer (Smirk), the Vulgar Pigboy (Rush) and many others. So without specific knowledge to the contrary, I assume BartCop also gave Tweety his name.

[orpupilofnature57]

40. I call Tim Russert the Evil Elf

[Imagevision]

6. Obviously Obama is a serious repuke threat in 08 & need to slow him down now!

[me b zola]

14. I agree. They're scare poopless over Obama

There are a couple of potential candidates that I favor more than Obama, but the Senator gets a couple of bonus points from me for putting fear into the gop.

[Clark2008]

37. I guess it depends on the part of the country you're in

They're not too scared of him around here. Or Hillary either.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

8. Ed Rogers is one of the worst of the worst (and that is saying something!)

of the reichwing rethuglican shills. He could be shredded, mashed, liquefied and press into toilet paper and he would give paper cuts of epic portions so sharp and divisive is his damn tongue.

He was playing the KKKarl personal smear by smirking Obama's middle name and it bit him in the ass. He is pre-11/7 mind set - and scared witless of Obama.

Fortunately Tweety called him on his shit and Ed had to whine "I know what you are trying to get me to say and I'm just not going to do it." Chickenshit a$$hole. Rogers is the type of person who would sucker punch a blind guy and then whine when he gets a white cane up his ass.

[me b zola]

11. LOL. You should have wrote the OP

You summed up Rogers very nicely :thumbsup:

[lapfog_1]

12. Make that "Edward Maurice Rodgers"

a likely french surrender monkey. At least according to his middle name.

[MADem]

15. And doesn't he look like a GOP pervert...really!!

Name your poison--child molestation, wife or mistress beating, prancing around with hookers while touting the family values mantra, excoriating gays whilst having a great time for himself in the closet...you could picture him smack dab in the middle of any one of those dramas. He's got that "over-pomaded preacher" look about him....wound up just a LEEEETLE too tight, methinks:

[Bake]

27. He kinda resembles Jim Bakker ... the PTL/prison guy

Perhaps somebody can put their pics side by side, but I think there's a comparison to be made there.

Bake

[lapfog_1]

29. As a child, Maurice was often picked on by the grade school bullies.

As a grown up, Maurice now emulates the personality traits of those same bullies.

[Kahuna]

32. LOL! Another Church Lady clone.

:rofl:

[Minnesota_Lib]

17. LOL At the end of the segment he asked Rogers for his middle name.

Rogers resisted saying it until the Dem guest said she looked it up online just before the show (talk about being prepared LOL). She said it started with an 'M.'

So Rogers was forced to tell Tweety that his middle name was French. Maurice.

ROTFLMAO! Too funny. Tweety started calling him Ed Maurice Rogers.

[originalpckelly]

18. GO TWEETY, I'll have to watch it comes on at 5pm MST.

:rofl:

[Minnesota_Lib]

19. That hospital stay worked wonders. Maybe he should go in once a month.

:D

[trumad]

20. Ed Maurice Rogers

I just spit coke all over my kids...

[trumad]

21. Maurice

Plot Summary: Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society... (more) (view trailer)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093512/

[valerief]

23. Hey, there's nothing wrong with being soy. nt

[trumad]

25. snarf

too funny... nice tie in.

[tanyev]

30. LOL! Does he speak of the pompatus of love?

[hvn_nbr_2]

36. Oh, dang, you beat me to it while I was trying to find how to spell pompatus.

From now on, he should be Ed "Pompatus" Rogers.

[Kahuna]

33. MAURICE?????!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Ediacara]

24. A kid I grew up with was named Hussein

No one thought anything of it until the Gulf War during Junior High. Luckily he was a very popular kid, so very little teasing happened.

Is the GOP seriously resorting to sub-junior high level maturity?

[me b zola]

28. Yes they are...in a big way

CNN's Jeff Greenfield yesterday said that voters would link Obama to Iran's leader because neither one wears a tie. WTF? Greenfield is supposed to be CNN's number one political reporter and he pulls this out of his arse? What person in their right mind would ever make a bizzar connection like that? It was truly mind-numbing to hear.

Clearly the gop is scared of Obama and is grasping @ straws.

[RamboLiberal]

31. And CNN also ran with the "Hussein" bit as well

It turns out that Jeff Greenfield isn't the only one at CNN connecting Senator Barack Obama to Muslim extremists on the basis of his name. Jeanne Moos is doing it, too, and she has some handy split-screen effects: She's displayed Obama in split screens with not one, but two of America's leading Middle Eastern nemeses, Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Check out our screen grabs below. Moos' spot is obviously meant to be tongue-in-cheek; she lets us hear the Senator's humorous take on it: "I mean, it would be one thing if my name was 'John Hussein Smith.' When you're already starting with 'Barack Obama...'" On the other hand, split screens with Osama and Hussein? It makes you wonder if the ad man for GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss — who unseated Max Cleland with ads linking him to the two — is working for CNN now.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/dec/12/cnn_puts_obama_in_split_screen_with_bin_laden_and_hussein

[question everything]

34. If he is going to run, or just aspire to higher office

he's better have a plan to face this right from the top.

The worst thing for him would be a whispering campaign that no one is talking in public, even here on DU - and I appreciate the sensitivity.

Still, some think that his name - Obama - is like Osama. And with a middle name Hussein they will not need more "convincing."

So he and his advisers better device a plan that address this as soon as he announces his candidacy (if he will).

I am watching on Showtime the series "Sleeper Cell" and the main character is an FBI agent who is African American and a Muslim. Last year and this year he has the full support and respect of his superiors and peers. But he got a new contact agent now who, as soon as something went wrong, threw in his face that he was a Muslim.

[ContraBass Black]

35. CHRIS Matthews?

No way.

[me b zola]

41. yeah way

But I watched the repeat of the show, and later Chris allowed the little turd to say "Democrat Party" and didn't call him on it. Hmmm, maybe I too quickly gave Matthews a little respect by calling by his propper name.

[Skidmore]

38. Where did they get this woman who is speaking for the Dems?

Who is she? Dems need better spokes people. Where was Flavia?

[Clark2008]

39. It's my son's second family name - used as a second middle name

as is the culture in the Middle East - so you can imagine that he's sitting here wondering why the hell everyone's talking about his middle name. LOL. He's really not bothered by it at all. He thinks it's kind of funny.

P.S. Which means, of course, that it's my ex-husband's middle name for those of you who understand what I mean by the Middle Eastern culture.