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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTalk about nerve...Tweety's on live now with an I told you so about Iraq!
He's bragging about how he was always against the war and has been proven right. He said something about how he held back from his criticism for a while. His hand is going to get really sore patting himself on the back.
Of course nothing about the truly courageous journalists who never held back. He was the only one who was right.
Funny... I remember him swooning over chimp in a flightsuit, and being a jerk to Phil Donahue. He thinks there is no video of this, I guess..
Where's the barf icon when you need it?
Whisp
(24,096 posts)not likely, for one Tweety doesn't let others talk much.
for two, they would be too scared to.
senseandsensibility
(16,933 posts)although he's not fit to shine his shoes.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Ninga
(8,273 posts)war.......he pimped for Cheney......he's a fucking pimp. Read this from 2005....and the snip taken from an interview with doc film maker, Alexandra Palosi. Matthews is such a fucking pimp ass hole......has he even said ONE WORD about Tomas Young? No balls, that's why....sputter, fume and bluster Matthews all you want you creep.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/05/31/matthewss-statements-defy-conservatives-claims/133268
-snip-
MATTHEWS: I make this president look like -- you don't watch this program, Alexandra. That has never been the case with me. And anybody watching knows right now, we treat this guy [Bush] with respect. I happen to like him. I voted for him at least once. I'm not going to go any further on that. But the idea that we treat him like a dunce is just inaccurate.
[...]
MATTHEWS: Just to straighten the record out, Alexandra, back in the 2000 race, I was one of the few journalists that pointed out that George W. Bush did extremely well in those debates against Al Gore. In fact, I said he won in terms of personality, in terms of likability and fairness and on other grounds. I was the one who took a lot of heat for taking that position.
From the beginning, I've defended him on issues like saying Jesus Christ is his personal philosopher. I've defended him against the liberal elitists who did put him down. So, I don't think it's fair to say that I have in any way abused him. Do you want to take that back or do you want to start over or what here?
dsc
(52,152 posts)something that people ridiculed when I pointed out Lawrence O'Donnell engaged in similar behavior. fancy that.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)nose from having it up Bush's ass all those years. You can still summon up the barf icon by typing the word puke between colons.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)he swooned over the flight suit also.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)he did not lie.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)He still loved him some manly man Dubya then.
Tweety's kind of like the Bible, he talks so damn much you can get anything you want to out of his blitherings .
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 22, 2013, 06:31 PM - Edit history (1)
99Forever
(14,524 posts)(Btw, agree completely!)
KoKo
(84,711 posts)senseandsensibility
(16,933 posts)when his show repeats, if your stomach is strong enough.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Tweety the bush ass kisser, war lover, codpiece adoring fowl.
Autumn
(44,986 posts)consistently. I've watched the show for years. I recall it. He also wrote editorials about it. You can probably find them on Google.
Autumn
(44,986 posts)Oh he was a little circular about it, flopping around like a fish but he still supported it. That when I quit watching that ass.
BainsBane
(53,016 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)when the war was developing they were all frothy with excitement over their wonderful president.
when the truth started seeping out that that wonderful president was really a doofus mass murderer, then all of the fake talking heads put their opinions in reverse and gunned the engine and hope no one notices.
Autumn
(44,986 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Haha, nice try, Chris! Back when junior was lying us into war, he used to get that tingle up his leg from watching junior speechify. He was so pro-junior back then it was sickening!
Wow. Selective amnesia strikes again.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Enough will believe him for it to help shape the perception of his legitimacy.
Jim di Eugenio pegged Tweety, who wrote a lot about JFK, but his book said very little:
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.
PS: Lying neocon stooge for the warmongers is about the nicest thing I can think of to write.
kairos12
(12,843 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,684 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)People who DIDN'T play along with the bullshit and actually voiced the very obvious problems with the Administration's case for invasion-- like Phil Donahue-- were FIRED.
Regular citizens who went out and protested, or made their feelings known elsewhere, were insulted (or worse) by right-wing assholes from the street level to the White House Press Room. If you "held back your criticism" when it actually mattered-- when it was actually hard to voice-- then you are part of the right-wingers' camp-- NOT the dissidents'.
This is the standard line now, though. I even hear it from people with whom I personally argued at the time. They now insist that they never believed any of it, or even that they protested the invasion-- when I know for a fact they were cheering like idiots at the time.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)He admires people who come off as strong or fatherly. He admires authoritarian types and the ONLY reason he supports Obama is because he's not seen as "weak".
Make no mistake, if McCain or Romney had won he would have sucked up to them. What got me is when Fred Thompson announced he was all creamy-dreamy over the idea of the smell of cigars and Old Spice. What was funny was when he sited a poll that said a Republican could beat Obama and Rachael asked, "Who?" and he was floored because there wasn't a specific Republican he could name that had a chance.