I gather there truly is no love lost between Keith and Tweety.

[Berry Cool]

This article coming up in this Sunday's NYT Magazine, the Tweety profile, sounds like it's going to be one humdinger. Some excerpts here:

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/nyt_mag_on_matthews_the_excerpts_81956.asp

Most pointedly this one:

According to people at NBC, Matthews has not been shy in voicing his resentment of Olbermann. Nor, according to network sources, has Olbermann bothered to hide his low regard for Matthews, although when I spoke to him, Olbermann denied any personal animosity toward Matthews and told me that he appreciates his "John Madden-like enthusiasm for politics."

Now, why doesn't this surprise me one bit? Tweety naturally resents Keith, who is smarter and has more integrity than he ever will. And Keith has never been one to suffer fools gladly, either. "John Madden-like enthusiasm for politics"? Yeah, and they make fun of John Madden, too, because for everyone who's entertained by him, there are a million others who just think he's a big old goof. That was definitely Keith's diplomatic way of saying "He's an idiot, but he's also my coworker, and I've already gotten in trouble for confiding to someone that I thought one of my coworkers was dumber than a suitcase full of rocks, so I'm not about to walk into THAT trap again."

I can't wait for this article. Oh, and people think KEITH has an ego? Read some of the comments in this thing. I'm glad I wasn't at the bar in the Ritz-Carlton (a place I know well, and no, not for the reasons you might think, LOL) when he was hanging around there after the debate. I would've been tempted to break tradition with all the other fawning people dancing attendance on him and say "You realize, don't you, that Keith Olbermann has twice the smarts and twice the integrity you do, and that you're going to be looking for a job next year?"

I wonder what he'd have said.

[RevCheesehead]

1. Hamster abuse!!

"I know why he wants you on," Matthews said to Washington while looking at Griffin. At which point Matthews did something he rarely does. He paused. He seemed actually to be considering what he was about to say. He might even have been editing himself, which is anything but a natural act for him. He was grimacing. I imagined a little superego hamster racing against a speeding treadmill inside Matthews's skull, until the superego hamster was overrun and the pause ended.

:rofl:

also:
"soothing-like-a-blender voice..."

"On the contrary, they (Stewart, Colbert, Olbermann).. appeal to the eye-rolling tendencies of a cooler, highly educated urban cohort of the electorate that mostly dismisses an exuberant political animal like Matthews as annoyingly antiquated, like the ranting uncle at the Thanksgiving table whom the kids have learned to tune out."

"Tim -- as in Russert, the inquisitive jackhammer host of "Meet the Press" -- is a particular obsession of Matthews's. Matthews craves Russert's approval like that of an older brother. He is often solicitous."

Oh, my.... I'm :rofl: here!!
Thanks, Berry!

[WolverineDG]

2. Here, Tweety, have a donut

:eyes:

dg

[Berry Cool]

3. Full article is out already:

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.