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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Linda Sanchez, D Cal., said to Tweety!
"If you'll let me get a word in edgewise!"
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Rep. Linda Sanchez, D Cal., said to Tweety! (Original Post)
elleng
Jan 2013
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OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)1. Someone finally lets Tweety have it for constantly interrupting! I bet she'll never be asked....
Last edited Mon Jan 28, 2013, 08:43 PM - Edit history (1)
...to return to his show.
elleng
(131,103 posts)3. Really!
And was gonna complain earlier about his constant shilling for Hillary. Gonna have to listen to that for FOUR MORE YEARS??? and he's bashing VPOTUS Biden now, by featuring SNL. DAMN!
pacalo
(24,721 posts)2. Hahaaa!
blogslut
(38,016 posts)4. I'm surprised he didn't jump all over her.
He gets mean when people comment on his rude and belligerent "interviewing" style.
abolugi
(417 posts)5. my forehead, my rules!
brucefan
(1,549 posts)6. Tweety was pissed
when the camera went back to him he was still fuming
Octafish
(55,745 posts)7. What a coincidence. Mr. Hardball write a lot, but his words say very little.
For example, Tweety wrote a lot about JFK, but his book said very little. James Di Eugenio explains:
Why Mr. Hardball Found JFK Elusive
Exclusive: For weeks, Chris Matthews has been flogging his book, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, driving it up the ranks of best-seller lists, but the biography is as superficial and clueless as the MSNBC pundit often is, missing Kennedys true complexity, writes James DiEugenio.
By James DiEugenio
ConsortiumNews January 3, 2012
EXCERPT...
On the previous page, he stated that his other main source was the interviews he did for his 1996 book. But in reality its worse than that. For if one looks at the footnotes and reads Matthewss own comments on the subject, one of his favorite book sources is Herbert Parmets two-volume biography of Kennedy, which first appeared in 1982. This consisted of Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy, and JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy.
I am familiar with these books since I used them in writing my first book entitled Destiny Betrayed. Looking back, I should not have. Parmet is a conventional historian in the manner and method of say David McCullough and the late Stephen Ambrose. He is not the kind of man who, as historians say, pushes the envelope or forges a new frontier for others to follow.
And with Kennedy, that is necessary since many of the things he was doing were rather unconventional to the point that new information was still being discovered 40 years after his death. And we are still learning about them today; many years after Parmet published his rather obsolete books. Yet, in the face of that, Matthews still swears by Parmet.
Let me name just four books that do push the envelope and forge a new frontier, all of them released since Parmets. They are: JFK: Ordeal in Africa, The Kennedy Tapes, Battling Wall Street, and JFK and Vietnam. These books deepen our understanding of both John Kennedy and that turbulent age much more than the Parmet study does.
Considering who Matthews is, the reader will not be surprised to learn that there is not one footnote in the entire book related to any of these sources. This is remarkable because, as many Kennedy experts would say, those four books are in the forefront of Kennedy scholarship today.
CONTINUED...
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/01/03/why-mr-hardball-found-jfk-elusive/
As Tweety will never invite him on his show to try and get a word out, I'll side with Oliver Stone on this one.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)8. Tweety's tag line:
"I don't get it." (Usually directed towards Republicans excesses we all get)