Chris Matthews won the Media Matters 2005 award for Misinformer of the Year. And it was richly deserved. But the most damning thing about Media Matter’s documentation for the prize wasn’t misinformation per se. The worst of it was how it revealed just how much of a suck-up Matthews is. What else can we conclude from comments like these?
“[S]ometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility.”
“Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs …”
He even suggested that Bush might deserve a place on Mount Rushmore. So, it is kind of amusing to see Chris trying to compute the latest polls numbers that show a plurality of Americans consider the President an incompetent, lying, idiot.
Even so, reading the following, dontcha feel just a teensy bit bad for Chris?
MATTHEWS: I always thought Bush was more popular than his policies. I keep saying it, and I keep being wrong on this. Bush is not popular. I’m amazed when 50 percent of the people don’t like him — just don’t like this guy. Thirty-nine percent like him. Are you surprised? Does that fit with the world you walk in?…
It fits perfectly in the world I walk in. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Chris.
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Game-Ending Double Play Extinguishes a Ninth-Inning Rally: Mexico 2, United States 1.
ANAHEIM, Ca. (International Herald Tribune) March 16 — The ball and the barrel of Vernon Wells’s bat were both bouncing along the ground, but the latter came to rest on the grass while the former went around the horn for a game-ending double play, and just like that the United States was done. The Americans had said there would be no shame in getting sent home early from the World Baseball Classic, that the high level of play around the world, so evident over the previous two weeks, validated the tournament’s concept and protected them from criticism.
But when it was all over, when Mexico had put the finishing touches on a 2-1 victory over Team USA in front of 38,284 at Angel Stadium, the scene on the field was incongruous. Mexico’s players, who already had been eliminated and had nothing to play for but pride, celebrated wildly on the field, with arms raised and mouths agape, while the U.S. players slinked into their dugout and disappeared.
Pinch runner Johnny Damon walks off the field as Mexico celebrates Lucy Nicholson -- Reuters“Shock,” said U.S. designated hitter Alex Rodriguez, describing his emotions at the end. “You almost feel like there should be three or four innings to go. It didn’t seem fair, but they beat us fair and square on the field.”
Our Baseball President Had A Funny Feeling?
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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My favorite comment by Tweety is, speaking of Bush, “I like the way he leans into that podium”.
Hay Tweety, you can kiss my, umm, blarney stone.
Hardly. We can ridicule him all we want – and I’ve done my share – but at the end of the day he goes home to his $4 million home on Nantucket where Timmy Russert also resides.
These guys have gotten rich carrying the right wing’s water and I don’t believe our insults hurt them as they sit on the veranda watching the waves come in.
Tweety and Timmah reside together?! That explains everything! <snark>
But, ya know, sometimes when Matthews talks about Bush it does seem like he’s got the hots for him.
I don’t believe he’s the only one, Ed.
Karl Rove recalls his first meeting with (a far more youthful) George Bush:
Legend also has it that Rove was especially impressed by the can of chaw Bush carried in his back pocket. To which I can only say, ‘Please, Mary — that wasn’t the can you were concentrating on.’
The good Lord knows what the appeal is, but it’s obviously somewhere in that mess.
After finding out that Tweety has been getting paid big bucks for speaking engagements to rethug or conservative groups it’s even less surprising about his ignorant comments.(and isn’t his brother running for Congress as a rethug)
One of the most stomach churning statements for me was several weeks ago, he compared bush to fucken Atticus Finch-which makes me quite sure that Tweety had officially jumped the shark. Bush=Atticus Finch! and he also said along with that that bush is like the lone hero who comes out of the jail to stand up by himself to the mob gathered outside-Tweety was referring to bush stand on the whole Dubai deal…yeah bush is Atticus Finch and the lone hero like Gary Cooper all rolled into one…I think the peroxide Tweety uses on his hair has seeped into his brain and caused massive brain damage he just doesn’t know it yet.
Jiminy, what’s to like about the guy?
I’ll tell you what infuriates me about him, and about the American public. It’s that any jackass who talks in monosyllables and swaggers a bit is automatically assumed by the public to be a “straight shooter” and “strong”.
Lemme clue rural America into something that they might not know if they’ve never worked in sales: if you want to fleece somebody, talk like they do. The most effective con men are not the ones that try to confuse their marks, they are the ones that come off as completely straightforward. And another thing: people whose job it is to detect lies, like cops and intelligence agents, typically score no better than chance when evaluating statements made by suspects. That’s why the collect facts and evidence. You may think you can tell someone is lying by the way they look or talk, but you are dead wrong. That’s why we have logic and rules of evidence and whatnot.
As for strength, well, no one is weaker than a bully. I discovered that myself around the 9th grade, when I was finally so enraged by being picked on that I started punching my tormentors in the face. Hard and repeatedly. They never messed with me again. Some of them wept like startled children to boot. Shoving people around and talking tough isn’t a sign of strength; it’s a sign that no one has bothered to kick his ass yet. And I’m pretty sure this pampered rich boy has never had his ass kicked. Except perhaps indirectly, by the Iraqi resistance, and even that has him pouting and sulking.
“Sunny nobility”, my ass. George Bush is just a petulant, candy-assed twerp. The only way he’s going to end up on Mount Rushmore is if Dick Cheney shoves him out of a helicopter during a flyover.
[D]ontcha feel just a teensy bit bad for Chris?
Not even a little bit. As a horse lover, I don’t even feel bad for the one he rode in on.
Does anyone have any popularity figures for Tweety? Since he’s on MSNBC he gets only a couple of hundred K viewers: I’d be surprised if he breaks 20% on a popularity/recognition poll.
Ummm, let’s see, I think I’ve had something to say about what a geat job Matthews does at kissing fascist ass.