Tweety Blasts Neocons

[peaches2003]

Chris is going after the neocons full blast. "They want to have wars everywhere, have killed 50,000 in Iraq, want more wars in the middle east, and who knows what Bush wants. These guys should have been in fights in the school yard as boys and they would know what physical fights are like, but they didn't and where are we going with them! For every Arab they have us kill there will be their relatives after us. What are we doing!?"

Folks, there has to be an uprising of the people or Bush will destroy us all! (My words, not Chris, but he was pretty damn close.)

[flyarm]

1. tweety is a psychopath..one day he is ..

giving * bj's..the next he is hanging him...he goes whichever way his ratings go and as far as nbc will let him..

he is a whore..

[Poll_Blind]

8. Amen. He sure is. He even gives whores a bad name. n/t

PB

[warrens]

15. I think he's just genuinely what we in science call

Fucked in the head. He has two distinct personalities; the one that only cares about what Washington insiders whisper to him, and the "outsider liberal" who's a brave truth-teller. That these two personalities believe completely different and often opposite things at the same time creates the condition known as "fucked in the headedness."

He really makes my skin crawl, even when I agree with him, as I do now.

[earthside]

2. Yeah. He did.

Basically he was calling Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, et al. a bunch of weanie, pantywaists.

HA!

[peaches2003]

3. And I thought

he was saying it like it is that Bush and them are destroying us in the Mideast and the world is on the brink because of Bush's idiotic know-nothing foreign policy.

He may facilate, but today he was anti-Bush and I'll take it.

I think the Republicans in Congress are going to have to wake up and for the sake of the country make a trip to the WH and talk impeachment.

[WI_DEM]

4. That's because he is in full Rudy G. mode for '08

[mmonk]

5. How close?

"Folks, there has to be an uprising of the people or Bush will destroy us all! (My words, not Chris, but he was pretty damn close.)"

[sutz12]

6. Funny, a lot of people saw this coming...

I did. It's been fascinating, in a sick sort of a way, watching this slow motion train wreck of an administration and is lemming followers driving us all towards the cliff.

[gratuitous]

7. What is Tweety saying?

"Who knows what Bush wants" indeed? Well, one manly strut in his jock-sniffer uniform by Bush, and Tweety will be back to salivating over his unrequited man crush.

Sorry Mr. Matthews; this is the foreign policy you were positively drooling over back in May 2003. There were millions of us marching in the streets all over the country and all over the world, warning you that this was not going to turn out well. But you were too busy yukking it up with Gordon Liddy over Bush's manly characteristic to give much of a damn. Now that it's gone so horribly wrong, you're looking to jump the fence and point at the inmates run amok in the asylum. No fucking way, you goddam bloodthirsty warmonger. No fucking way. Drown in the river of blood your sunny nobility has unleashed.

[Kahuna]

9. Ummm.. Mathews never supported the invasion. Ever. While..

he is a whore because inspite of his gut reaction telling him that the invasion was wrong on many levels, he still continued to support bush in general terms and gush over him inspite of his feeling about Iraq.

[H2O Man]

10. Your second paragraph is wrong.

It's the exact opposite of the truth.

[gratuitous]

12. Matthews has adroitly played both sides of the fence

To the point that some people don't even remember his war-mongering episodes (the emphasis in all cases has been added by me for the benefit of some people's memory):

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604270005

On the May 1, 2003, edition of Hardball, Matthews was joined in his effusive praise of Bush by right-wing pundit Ann Coulter and "Democrat" Pat Caddell. Former U.S. Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-CA) also appeared on the program.:

MATTHEWS: What's the importance of the president's amazing display of leadership tonight?

<...>

MATTHEWS: What do you make of the actual visual that people will see on TV and probably, as you know, as well as I, will remember a lot longer than words spoken tonight? And that's the president looking very much like a jet, you know, a high-flying jet star. A guy who is a jet pilot. Has been in the past when he was younger, obviously. What does that image mean to the American people, a guy who can actually get into a supersonic plane and actually fly in an unpressurized cabin like an actual jet pilot?

* * *

MATTHEWS: Ann Coulter, you're the first to speak tonight on the buzz. The president's performance tonight, redolent of the best of Reagan -- what do you think?

* * *

On the May 7, 2003, edition of Hardball, Matthews asked former Nixon administration official G. Gordon Liddy what he thought of the response to Bush's landing on the Abraham Lincoln. Looking at the footage, Liddy commented that Bush's flight suit made "the best of his manly characteristic."

MATTHEWS: You know, it's funny. I shouldn't talk about ratings. I don't always pay attention to them, but last night was a riot because, at the very time Henry Waxman was on -- and I do respect him on legislative issues -- he was on blasting away, and these pictures were showing last night, and everybody's tuning in to see these pictures again.

____________________

gratuitous again: That sure looks like he was yukking it up with Liddy about Bush's "manly characteristic" and positively gushing over the war in May 2003. But times have changed, and I'm sure that Tweety would like those episodes of his show to just drop into the Marianas Trench.

[H2O Man]

13. The fact is

that Mr. Matthews was opposed to the war in Iraq from the beginning, and has never said anything in support of the war. He has said numerous things in support of President Bush.

[gratuitous]

14. Pretty hard to distinguish

Pretty hard to distinguish his support of this warmongering president from his alleged "opposition" to the war in Iraq.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603230009

On the March 22 (2006) edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews discussed President Bush's recent public relations campaign to rally support for the war in Iraq with Republican strategist Ed Rogers and Democratic strategist Steve McMahon. McMahon asserted that "

eople don't believe this president, they don't trust this president, and it's moved over into character issues," to which Matthews replied: "How can you not trust a man who says, 'I won't be able to win this war in my presidency; I'm leaving it up to other presidents in the future'?"

* * *

While suggesting that his viewers should trust the president because of Bush's acknowledgement that the U.S. is not going to prevail in Iraq during his own presidency, Matthews failed to address whether previous claims about Iraq by the Bush adminstration -- "Mission Accomplished," the insurgency in Iraq is in "the last throes," and the U.S. is winning in Iraq -- also should have earned him the public's trust.

gratuitous again: And note the framing of this question from February 2005, and tell me if you can detect any "opposition" on the part of Matthews to the Iraq war (http://www.democracynow.org/hardball-050216.shtml):

MATTHEWS: Amy, I want to ask you this. I have to ask you a question. We only have a minute here on this segment. I want to ask you about this new poll we've got, an NBC poll, ”Wall Street Journal” poll, that right now, 44 percent of the country believes that we were right to go to war in Iraq. And only 49 percent say we weren't right. What—it's a very close call.

Yep, even as polls were finally turning against the war in Iraq, two years down the line, Matthews is still trying to paint the plurality opposition as a "very close call," as if the numbers could flip back to positive at any second.

And the compendium of obfuscation, from Matthews' award for Misinformer of the Year:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512230005

Note the number of apologies he makes for the war, the criticisms he levels at war detractors, and the kid gloves with which Matthews handles folks who support Bush and the invasion and occupation of Iraq. If Matthews is "opposed" to the war in Iraq, I'd hate to see what his conduct would be if he supported it.

[Oceansaway]

11. SSS (again)

Shit Sandwich Syndrome

[Crankie Avalon]

16. The broken clock has just reached one of its two daily moments of glory.

[AtomicKitten]

17. We were saying that while Tweety was ga-ga over Bush's flight suit.

A day late and a dollar short.