Well, bless my britches -- Tweety is pretty good today

[CatWoman]

he's covering Wolfowitz resignation, Chimpy trying to strong-arm a sick, bed-ridden Ashcroft, and the DEM plan to vote no confidence on Gonzo.

And that's within the first 5 minutes :)

[snappyturtle]

1. Wait. nt

[Cassandra]

2. Well, it's juicy...

and Tweety does like a little juice.

[CatWoman]

7. he like-a the juice, huh?

:hi:

[Gabi Hayes]

3. wait'll you see the last five minutes, in which he negates anything

positive which came before

you'll see what I mean

as disgusting as anything I've ever seen him spew, and that's saying a lot

[Cassandra]

5. He must have gotten a late phone call...

from KKKarl Rove.

[snappyturtle]

9. That's why I said, "Wait." I agree with you....disgusting. nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Throw in this excellent interview with Schumer. Tweety is trying to get people to

agree with him that Darth Cheney was behind the sickbed visit of Ashcroft and not Shrub.

[grasswire]

6. No one ever identifies O'Beirne...

...as the wife of a Pentagon officials.

[spotbird]

14. Kate's married?

I'd always visualized her as living alone, in a barron apartment, complaining endlessly about her neighbors.

What a miserable life her husband must have. Seriously, who is he?

[grasswire]

27. from wikipedia

Kate O'Beirne's husband James O'Beirne ran the office at the Pentagon that was in charge of selecting candidates for the Coalition Provisional Authority, charged with reconstructing Iraq. According to the Washington Post, "To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration."

[sheerjoy]

8. Stupid question I know but I am new

who is Tweety????

[snappyturtle]

10. Chris Matthews on Hardball....see the resemblance? HA! and

Welcome! :hi:

[sheerjoy]

26. Ahhhhhhh

ookay...thanks.

[TwilightGardener]

11. Chris Matthews--Let's Play Hardball!

[UTUSN]

15. Etymology of "Tweety".

During Campaign 2000 the media noise machine was swooning over the nicknames Shrub was giving some of them. Media Whores Online ran a contest to nickname Chris MATTHEWS. In the first 3 or so weeks, there was no clear, catchy front runner, with "The Screamer" sort of leading. Then one of MATTHEWS's own Hardball staff leaked to MWO that they themselves called him "Tweety" because of the Clairol shade he favored. This was immediately declared the winner. But in some quarters, it wasn't entirely satisfactory. For one thing, by the time the name was declared, the shade had changed to platinum, leading to a suggestion he be called "Carole LOMBARD". Plus, "Tweety" sounded too affectionate. Then M-TV held its 20th or 25th or whatever anniversary, and all the cable echo chambers were doing segments of Britney shedding her duds down to almost nothing. Not to be left behind, Tweety followed suit, with a guest "culture" commentator from Time Mag, the young humor columnist, Joel STEIN. The staff kept re-running the Britney clip, and Tweety was clearly DROOLING disgustingly. STEIN said, "You're beginning to creep me out." Tweety responded, "Yeah, well, wait till YOU're 50." This led to the suggestion that "Tweety" be modified to "Tweezer" to retain the hair reference while canceling out the affection factor and also adding the (dirty old) "geezer" angle.

[TahitiNut]

18. I think I thaw a Crith Matthewth!!

[Sydnie]

12. OT question -

is "HA" laughter heard in Keith's Oddball opening Tweety? Is that Tweety's laugh that Keith used? Is that a bitchslap to Tweety ... Keith calling him a perfect Oddball instead of a Hardball?

Things that make me go hmmmm ... that is one of them. :)

[CatWoman]

13. that's a good question

:)

I hope someone has the answer

:)

[H2O Man]

24. It is Mr. Matthews.

And it is not an attempt to call him an "oddball." At least not in a bad way. Keith and Chris get along very well.

[AlCzervik]

16. thats Tweety, someone told me i was wrong and it's Woody wood pecker, it''s

not, you can clearly hear it's Matthews.

[leftchick]

17. I think it is pee wee herman

aways have thought that. Hadn't thought about the tweetster though.

[Berry Cool]

19. Nah, it's Tweety.

That's why he always says "Let's play Oddball!" at the beginning.

But I'm sure he'd call it an homage. (Keith is a team player...he probably wouldn't admit to you that Tweety annoys him unless you injected him with truth serum, or got him really, REALLY drunk.)

[Sydnie]

20. Not goofy enough for Pee Wee

nor high pitched enough. I think it's Tweety, right pitch and sounds just like him when he gets caught off guard and laughs.

[Error]

25. He heas a huge yellow forehead like the bird too...

[VolcanoJen]

22. That's Our Tweety! HA!

Keith confirmed it a few weeks back during some "Oddball" anniversary thingy.

Chrissy probably loves it. Makes him think Keith's tipping the hat, giving him an homage. Like he's a real Heather now. One of the Kool Kidz. ;-)

[Sydnie]

23. I missed that show but glad that he confirmed it

and grateful that you shared the info. That takes one thing off my hmmmmmmmmmm list! :)

[indie_voter]

21. I love Ron Reagan. I wish he' d show up more often. The voice of reason nt