Reply #3: Full article is out already:

[Berry Cool]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091801556.html

OMG, it is embarrassing for Tweety. Makes him sound exactly like what he sounds like: a goggle-eyed gawker at the wonder that is Politics, a guy who sees life as a "game" to be "played" who thinks he wrote the rulebook, the kind of guy ready to give you his autograph before you ask him for it, in love with his own reflection and his own image on TV, sexist as hell because he just has no concept of why a woman would ever take it as an insult that he calls her beautiful or a knockout, constantly bragging about the people he knows and the places he's been and might go...without any seeming understanding of what is really worth bragging about (like all the honorary degrees he's been given). While at the same time, quietly feeling inferior to people whom he has realized are his intellectual betters, and sometimes bristling about it in a public way.

And they say KEITH has an ego? HA!

My favorite Tweety-in-a-nutshell quote:

“Did you see me on the ‘Today’ show?” Matthews asked when I called him one afternoon in early March. “I quoted F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think I’m the only guy around who quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald on the ‘Today’ show.”

Oh, good for you, Tweety!! You get a cookie!! Or a grape!! In the meantime, Keith will be correcting you ("You know, Chris, when Fitzgerald said 'There are no second acts in American lives,' he didn't mean nobody ever gets a second chance in America. We're the most forgiving country there is. What he meant was that there's no Act II between Act I and Act III, no plot development, just a pell-mell rush from beginning to end...") and you will be looking at him with one part of your brain going "Duh?!?" and the other part going "STFU, you know-it-all grandstanding smartass who has ruined my life at MSNBC."

God only knows how Keith reels him in on election coverage. I can just picture him trying to teach Tweety the concept of "commercial break," which apparently he forgets all about when he gets on a hot streak. You can cut the tension with a knife. I feel sorry for the Hardball crew.