Media Matters names Chris "Tweety" Matthews "2005 Misinformer of the Year"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Chris Matthews: 2005's Misinformer of the Year

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512230005



For your reading pleasure, we've compiled some highlights of Matthews's most egregious false and misleading claims, as well as his glowing and gushing praise for President Bush. Without further ado:

* Chris ♥ George, Part 1: Bush sometimes "glimmers" with "sunny nobility." On MSNBC's Hardball, during a discussion with Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley of the effects on President Bush and his administration of the investigation into the leak of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame, Matthews said "Sometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility." (Hardball, 10/24/05)

* Chris ♥ George, Part 2: "Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs ..." Insulting the majority of Americans who hold an unfavorable opinion of President Bush, Matthews exclaimed on Hardball: "Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left," adding, "I mean, like him personally." (Hardball, 11/28/05)

* Chris ♥ George, Part 3: Matthews praised Bush speech as "brilliant" even before it was delivered. Before Bush had even delivered his November 30 speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, Matthews used variations of the word "brilliant" twice to describe it, while deriding Democratic critics of the Iraq war as "carpers and complainers." (MSNBC live coverage, 11/30/05)

Please note: I'm honoring the DU "4 paragraphs of copyright material" rule here...do yourself a favor and read the whole article at the link provided above.

:patriot:

[edbermac]

1. Damn, you beat me by a minute!

Must be slowing down in my old age...x(

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5678031

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. Hey, it happens to me all the time...

...I'm gonna enjoy this one while it lasts!

:toast:

[wryter2000]

3. It must have been really hard for them to choose

There are so many worthy candidates. :evilgrin:

[Tom Joad]

5. What i was going to say... with Woodward, Miller, and all the rest..

[tularetom]

4. Is the story true

that Tweety wanted to become and even applied for the job of speechwriter for Clinton. He was not hired and he felt that he was ridiculed by whoever rejected him. What we now see is a product of the bitterness and resentment that this poor sick man carries with him many years after the fact.

Don't know if it's true or not but it sounds plausible.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

6. I think it started when he contracted malaria a few years back.

The burning fever must have cooked his brain.

[tsuki]

7. Good call.

[Cha]

8. That picture of tweety looks

just like a big ol' tweety bird gettin' ready to talk some shit, too.

Whoever first named him tweety knew what they were doing!

[snowbear]

9. Good for Media Matters!

I sure hope the info makes its way to Tweety somehow!!!

[otohara]

10. Sent My Congratulations

w/ sorrow and disgust!

[No Exit]

11. Thanks! I read it! Due to the 4-paragraph rule, you had to leave out

an IMPORTANT Tweety milestone: his opinion that "if Bush really creates a democracy in Iraq, he belongs on Mt. Rushmore". (Paraphrase of Tweety's words.)

I am proud to say that I personally witnessed not only the "sunny nobility" beaut, but also both the "everyone likes the prethident" one AND the famous "Mt. Rushmore" one! Yes, Tweety, I watch your damn show... I watch it because of your dogged coverage of the CIA leak case. Don't forget that, Tweety. There are others like me who put up with your strange schoolgirl crush on Shrub, just because we like your coverage of the CIA leak case.

And, Tweety, when you used the expression "towel-snapping" in relation to your beloved Prethident Bush (creating unspeakable mental images for many of us), I, like a cancer patient who endures nausea in order to receive lifesaving chemotherapy, still kept watching because I was waiting for the CIA leak coverage.

[ewagner]

12. Should we?????

Should we be sending Tweety our "Congratulations"? :evilgrin:

[harpo]

13. I really despise Chris...almost as much as DildO'Reilly..he earned it

[Doctor_J]

14. That is a REALLY tough field to conquer

stiff competition. Tweety should wear this award proudly.

[Harper_is_Bush]

15. I wish media matters was more concerned about being factual...

than partisan.

They perform a critical service, but because they're declared partisans and offer up too much opinion (ie. label opinion in the media as "misinformation") they are too easily dismissed as a "left-wing" source.

It's a shame.

[Dr Fate]

16. What are some examples of left-wing bias that MM should expose?

Are there some examples of left wing lies on TV or the radio that MM could talk about, even if they were declared non-partisan?

A website like media matters has to foucus on RW lies- that is all there is.

[high density]

17. Tweety is such a nut

The Democrats are always damned if they do and damned if they don't on his show. MSNBC tries to market this guy as non-partisan type but he seems to side with Republicans on 90% of the stuff. I think overall he's just not that smart and I'm kind of surprised by the number of people at DU that regularly waste their time watching his show.

[Strawman]

18. Chris Matthews' schtick is a symptom, not the disease