Tweety called the "the people who brought us this war"... "cretins"

[npincus]

Yesterday on "Hardball" as he was going to a break, after the story about the fellow from Maine who donates 5,000 wreaths to Arlington National Cemetery, placing them himself (with volunteers) on the graves. Tweety noted the death of a 20-year old soldier killed in Iraq, his coffin being carried to his grave, on camera, as the journalist was reporting this story from Arlington. Tweety said something LIKE this (as I remember it, I didn't write it down) "I wish the cretins who brought us this war could see the result of what they've done". Tweety looked/sounded angry.

"cretins"...

[Turbineguy]

1. Called these people "cretins"

is an insult to cretins everywhere.

But I'll take what I can get.

[Felinity]

2. A polite and restrained characterization. n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. But who was Tweety referring to as cretins?

We assume maybe he was talking about the bu$h regime, but knowing how Tweety sometimes swings right, he may be trying to sell 9/11 hijackers as those who brought us Iraq War. They have not completely abandon that idea.

[kellenburger]

4. doesn't that make him a cretin cheerleader ?

as a RW ass kisser I think he should take some of the blame.

[greenman3610]

5. Mathews is showing genuine anger about the war

and seems aghast at the plans to expand it.

He and Barry McAffrey had nothing good to say about
the "surge" last night.

[bahrbearian]

6. OK Chris Mission Accomplished

MATTHEWS: We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.

[Systematic Chaos]

10. ROFL he actually SAID that?

So much for the previous post I just made.

Hey Chris, do women like getting that phone call or visit letting them know they've lost a son or husband, too? :eyes:

[bahrbearian]

16. "We are all Neocons now" Matthews

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, Bob Dornan, you were a congressman all those years. Here's a president who's really nonverbal. He's like Eisenhower. He looks great in a military uniform. He looks great in that cowboy costume he wears when he goes West. I remember him standing at that fence with Colin Powell. Was the best picture in the 2000 campaign?

<...>

MATTHEWS: Ann Coulter, you're the first to speak tonight on the buzz. The president's performance tonight, redolent of the best of Reagan -- what do you think?

COULTER: It's stunning. It's amazing. I think it's huge. I mean, he's landing on a boat at 150 miles per hour. It's tremendous. It's hard to imagine any Democrat being able to do that. And it doesn't matter if Democrats try to ridicule it. It's stunning, and it speaks for itself.

MATTHEWS: Pat Caddell, the president's performance tonight on television, his arrival on ship?

CADDELL: Well, first of all, Chris, the -- I think that -- you know, I was -- when I first heard about it, I was kind of annoyed. It sounded like the kind of PR stunt that Bill Clinton would pull. But and then I saw it. And you know, there's a real -- there's a real affection between him and the troops.

[Systematic Chaos]

7. Maybe there is hope for the guy yet...?

He's no KO, to be sure, but anything that leaves even a seed of doubt in the 30-percenters is good at this stage of the game, no?

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. And today, he said that george was *charming* to the press during his

press conference. :eyes: Which is it Chris, is george a cretin or a charmer? A charming cretin, perhaps? :shrug:

[wryter2000]

Gee, Tweety

I thought we were all neocons now. I guess that makes you a cretin, cretin.

[UTUSN]

9. Meaning Tweety is a cretin since he voted for them in 2000 n/t

[pacalo]

11. He added "for a mistake" at the end of that comment.

Right on, Chris.

[meegbear]

12. What about cretins like Matthews ...

he was whoring so badly for *, he should be tested.

[Ganja Ninja]

13. Is that a mea culpa from Tweedy?

because it should be.

[otohara]

14. I Had To Rewind

just to make sure I heard it right! Matthews and I agree more and more these days

[kimsterdemster]

15. Freaked me out too...

I went and looked up the definition:

a stupid, vulgar, or insensitive person

[zbdent]

17. My first impression of his "cretin" remark is that

he's going to be leading the charge of those trying to rewrite history as the Democrats forcing this country into war ... with Hillary as head "cretin" ...