Tweety says gays may have torched churches in Alabama

[LiviaOlivia]

Friday, February 03, 2006

Chris Matthews says gays and liberals may have torched churches in Alabama
by John in DC - 2/03/2006 08:13:00 PM

Why? Because he can.

Yes, out of thin air Chris Matthews suggested tonight on his TV show Hardball that liberals, and specifically gays, may be responsible for a series of terrible church burnings in Alabama last night? Ah yes, that massive population of liberal gays who live in central Alabama, gotta keep an eye on those well-known troublemakers.

The man really never ceases to amaze. And since MSNBC doesn't think Matthews needs to apologize for his recent "fag joke," it's no surprise that he's now labeling liberals and gays as terrorists (he labeled us all terrorists two weeks ago as well, and we didn't get an apology for that either).

How do you spell MSNBC? F-O-X. Read more here, and check out the left hand column and email and call every single advertiser that is sponsoring this hate: Verizon, Pearle Vision, Office Depot, Bayer Aspirin, Intuit and Toyota.

~snip~

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/02/chris-matthews-says-gays-and-liberals.html

[Catch22Dem]

1. Hard to spell MSNBC as F-O-X when Olbermann works there.

Granted, tweety is a piece of shit, but not indicative of the entire network. Well, at least not KO

[Benfea]

39. Keith Olbermann is the ONLY thing worth watching on MSNBC

The rest of it is even more conservative than CNN.

[genie_weenie]

43. IT's NOT THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!

KO ROCKS!

[TheWraith]

2. Right, cause we have a big gay vandal problem in this country.

If the churches had been doused in rose petals, or painted pink, I could see it.

Twenty bucks says that this is one of three things:

1. A very angry ex-employee.
2. A group of drunken frat boys who fancy themselves "counterculture"
3. A distraught person who was told that a dead loved one was going to hell.

Even odds on 1 and 3, two-to-one on the frat boys.

[Disturbed]

4. Did that RW shill Asshat provide any shred of evidence ...

in his remarks?

[bush_is_wacko]

3. I knew someone would say this sooner or later. My guess...

a non-religious, right-wing, homophobe did it just so gay people would get blamed for it. You know how that works, right?

[genie_weenie]

45. Yeah, because that fits your

preconceived notion...

How's bout waiting for facts before we convict?

[Virginia Dare]

WTF?

[Joy Anne]

5. really stupid

He thinks ACTUP is active in rural Alabama.

Another point, he kept saying the arsonist was compassionate because he or she burned down the churches at night so nobody would get hurt. Hmm, I figure arsonists burn down churches at night SO THEY DON'T GET CAUGHT!

Well, at least I remembered why I hadn't watched the show for a couple of weeks.

Joy
http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/003614.html

[EvolveOrConvolve]

37. By that reasoning

the KKK was also compassionate because they blew up synagogues and at night.

Tweety is a fucktard. Actually, he's more than that; he's King Fucktard.

[Kansas Wyatt]

6. Maybe it was some Radical Right Wing Religious Cabal wanting to...

Acquire that area and the church followers, so they could build a big Mega-Church to rake in lucrative offerings.

[Bozita]

15. Could be same cabal drooling for Armageddon or war with liberals

Could be. The liberals stole Christmas, ya know.

[UTUSN]

7. Tweety loves RAYGUN cause RAYGUN beat his Dem-bosses ASS n/t

[davidinalameda]

8. I KNEW that someone would end up blaming liberals for it

but gays?

that's a new one

I'm making phone calls and sending emails this weekend.

[bobbieinok]

9. remember when all the churches were being burned in the mid 90s??

I think they were mostly black.......Clinton waw very proactive, sent fed $, etc

[BrotherBuzz]

16. You mean a leader the quickly stood up and condemned the act?

was a novel idea....


I want my country back!

[dchill]

10. I think he's campaigning...

for a top slot at FOX - he'd like to knock out Hume or O'Really. I really think this is a possibility.

[dsc]

11. Replace gays with Jews

and he would be looking for a job.

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. "Round up the usual suspects" Just like Casablanca

And just as corrupt. Since the end of the Cold War they have a harder time blaming commies.


It's really repugnant. Which sounds like Repub Ant I just realized. It's another example of Mathew's Repub Ant Behavior. Only crueler than usual.

[LiviaOlivia]

13. Update from John

UPDATE: I didn't realize that Matthews also went down this path at the beginning of the Hardball broadcast as well. Here's what he asked the pastor of one of the churches.

MATTHEWS: Tell me about what you think may have, is there any hint as to what's behind this, all these churches getting torched last night?... Is there any issue within the Baptist affiliation, any issues that have caused a lot of anger, any reason why a person would not like the positions taken by your churches?

In court, Chris, we call that leading the witness.

Pathetic.

But even more pathetic are the advertisers who insist on sponsoring this garbage. Stay tuned for next week's actions against these sponsors, that's when things are going to get real creative and fun.

~snip~

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/02/chris-matthews-says-gays-and-liberals.html

[Oilwellian]

14. Tweety also likened his questions to....

good investigative journalism. The ATF guy he interviewed also complimented him on his investigative journalism. Now you can puke.

[Skip Intro]

17. He's just a cog.

who's running the machine?

[Mr_Spock]

18. You can have that thought - I did. DON'T say it on TV!!

What as ass he is for speculating like that though.

He's behind Olberman in the ratings on MSNBC BTW, though he's keeping up trying the Faux "News" approach. If killing a person on TV got high ratings, I think Matthews would kill a person. I wonder why he sold his soul?

[Catrina]

22. So the boycotting of his show is working, I guess ~ I haven't seen him

for weeks nor have several of my friends ~ funny, nobody misses him at all. I don't think anything he says will have much impact. Too few people watch that show, even fewer now. I think more people read Daily Kos or DU each day, than watch Chris Matthews ~

[Mr_Spock]

24. Yeah, he got the "iggy" from me a year ago for getting too "Faux" like

in his approach to stuff. Also, MSNBC hired all the failure RW morons that even Faux doesn't want - and since all their shows were cancelled, they have nothing better to do with them but stick them on Matthews show. Pretty sad actually, not sure Tweety would want those morons around if he had a choice. Too bad for him - I'll never watch his show again.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. Matthews is a moron.

BTW, what "fag joke" is AmericaBlog referring to?

[davidinalameda]

20. he was interviewing Don Imus or vice versa

and they were making Brokeback jokes

[Starbucks Anarchist]

21. Thanks.

[davidinalameda]

28. you're welcome

[Eric J in MN]

26. Matthews controversial joke is here

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601200002

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. Thanks, Eric.

Matthews needs a good kick in the ass.

[FreedomAngel82]

23. And he has this proof where?

[napi21]

25. Yes, but that was only one of a whole lot of possibilities he said.

I'm not trying to defend Tweety here, but I watched the show. He suggested, rw extremist groups, blacks, gays, anti religious groups, and just any people who might be opponents or have some grudge.

That's the way crimes are investigated. You try to figure out who MIGHT want to do it, and who might benefit!

I found it very odd that he kept stressing "the perps here had some compassion because they did it in the dark of night when they wouldn't kill anybody! That statement I found weird!

[ComerPerro]

29. That's just sick

[graywarrior]

30. Why can't we all stop watching this asshole?

Can't we assign one person to watch and then report to us. Why give him the attention? He's an untalented piece of crap and doesn't deserve a single post here.

[Anakin Skywalker]

35. I Don't Watch @$$hole Chris Matthews.

I hardly watch tee-vee news at all and have not since not long after the hijacking of the gov't by Emperor Shrub. It is sickening how all the talking heads on tee-vee are afraid to speak the truth about their Holiness, His Almighty. I get a good balance of news on the internet. The rightwing CONservative @$$holes want to CENSOR the internet because they are not able to control its contents just yet....

[Rocknrule]

31. Forgive me

but who is Tweety?

[LiviaOlivia]

32. Chris Matthews on MSNBC

eom

[Rocknrule]

33. Why do they call him Tweety?

[Eric J in MN]

42. "Tweety" is a yellow bird in Warner Brothers' cartoons, and

an anonymous staffer years ago thought Chris Matthews' hair dye was yellow.

[Anakin Skywalker]

34. Remember When Hitler Had His Goons

torched the Reichstag and then blamed it on his enemies? They even managed to execute one person to make it seemed real. I smell a similar thing here.

[terrya]

36. There's not a fucking SHRED of evidence to suggest that.

Fuck Chris Matthews. That's one of the most evil things I've ever heard anyone say on television in a long, long time. Matthews is turning into Jerry Falwell before our eyes (remember old Jer and hos comment about gays and lesbians, among others, being responsible for 09/11?)

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

38. Does anyone know the demographics of the congregations of the

churches involved?

[Eric J in MN]

40. I read that it was one black church and two white, all Baptist (nt)

nt

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

41. Thanks. I did a search and found the same thing, some black

congregations, some white.

At least it doesn't appear to be racial.

Should be "interesting" if they ever figure it out.

[SmokingJacket]

44. That's the craziest thing I might ever have heard.

Come on. Who burns things down in rural Alabama? Not roving bands of angry gays. Disaffected teens or the KKK.

Or maybe freepers.