Why "Tweety"?

[TexasSissy]

I know we all refer to Chris Matthews of Hardball as Tweety. But I don't know why. Can anyone shed any light on why?

[Mojambo]

1. Because he has a big yellow head?

I don't know either.

[Melodybe]

4. Bingo, it is his hair and his willingness to tweet for his repub masters.

[TexasSissy]

7. Oh, that's goooood.

[Kahuna]

10. Ding ding ding !!!! Of course it's because of his big yellow head.

nt

[951]

2. Just look at his head

[Owlet]

3. ......and he has a wittle wisp? NT

[951]

5. :P

[TexasSissy]

8. Lookalikes!

[Stew225]

6. I always thought that it was the pitch of his voice and

the yaw of his underwear! I never really knew, either.

[TexasSissy]

9. Yeah, that makes sense. His big yellow head and high pitched voice.

That makes sense to me. Thanks!

[Michael Harrington]

11. His big, yellow...

ROUND head. Don't forget that last detail.

[ObaMania]

12. That's what his staffers call him...

..because of his yellow hair dye.

[UTUSN]

13. The Unexpurgated Version

During Campaign 2000 the media whores were swooning over the nicknames Shrub was giving some of them. Media Whores Online ran a contest to nickname Chris-the-Whore. In the first 3 or so weeks, there was no clear, catchy front runner, with "The Screamer" sort of leading. Then one of The Whore's own Hardball staff LEAKED to MWO that his own staff 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 it was declared, the shade had changed to platinum, leading to a suggestion he be called Carole LOMBARD. Plus, "Tweety" sounds too affectionate towards this JERK WHORE. Then M-TV held it's 20th or 25th or whatever anniversary, and all the cable whores were doing segments of Brittany shedding her duds down to almost nothing. Not to be left behind in any whore game, Tweety followed suit, with a guest from Time Mag, the young humor columnist, whassisname Joel STEIN. The staff kept re-running the Britany clip, and Tweety was clearly DROOLING disgustingly. The Time dude 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.

Just to round out the Tweety portrait: 1- He is our enemy. 2- The last time he was identifiably a Democrat was circa 1988 when his book, Hardball, was first published. 3- He's a political flunky who worships SUCCESS, and started "turning" through admiration for RAYGUN's kicking his Dem bosses' rears. 4- He was ABSOLUTELY VICIOUS to President GORE all through Campaign 2000. 5- He triggered a gun incident by naming, ERRONEOUSLY, Kathleen WILLEY's supposed "jogger" (Pat BUCHANAN's mentally ill brother took the gun to the house). 6- He is a de facto wingnut operative. 7- He voted for Shrub. 8- He was utterly vicious to KUCINICH, Phil DONAHUE, and SHARPTON on the air, personally vicious to them.

And from great Dem Mike PETERS of "Mother Goose & Grimm"