My 2nd e-mail to MSNBC of the day complaining about Tweety

I started this day the same way I'm ending it, complaining about Chris MATTHEWS's unprofessional performance.


He makes no pretense at being a reporter/journalist. Nor should he pretend to be a pundit. He is actually at the level of being a partisan political operative, overall for the Republican party, and in more or lesser degrees for any of the Republican candidates.

Conversely, he drips contempt, personal animus for at least one of the Democratic candidates, Senator CLINTON.


All day long he has run his twisted version of these themes:

1) that a three way split among the three top Democratic candidates means that TWO THIRDS are AGAINST Senator CLINTON, while, as Rachel MADDOW corrected him, two thirds are against EACH of the three, and

2) that Republicans and Independents packing into the Democratic caucuses means the Democratic candidate they are swinging for means that that candidate HAS APPEAL to "Republicans and Independents," that these outsiders are being sincere in their choice of a DEMOCRATIC candidate. This is an old gimmick, Republicans crossing primary lines in order to pick the candidate they think will be easiest for them to beat in the General Election. The Republicans and a significant number of these so-called Independents are Republican operatives who will be VOTING REPUBLICAN in the General Election.

At least partisans like Pat BUCHANAN are labelled for being the Republicans they are. Chris MATTHEWS should be making disclosures of his partisan operative identity at the beginning of all of his appearances.

he offers analysis about the democratic race and not necessarily in a mean-spirited way, unlike Tweets.

He's that way:
Often
Loudly
Repeatedly
Boringly
Stupidly

Yup ..... much as I hate to say that.

Yesterday, on the air, he called himself an "Independent".

That gives lie to his on-air statement to Maryland Senatorial Democratic Primary candidate Keisi Mfume, on the day after his defeat in the 2004 primary by now-Senator Ben Cardin, that Tweety voted for him. In order for that statement to be true, Tweety would have to be a registered **Democrat** in his home, Montgomery County, Maryland.

Or he's a fuggin' liar.

I've said it ad nauseum, so tune me out if the nausea wins, but Tweety was raised in a Rethug family, reinforced by Catholic school regimen, of the sort that there are "nun's pets" and "the smart one in the class" label. He was prime for kissing ass.

And in the hothouse of D.C., flunkies (which he was) gain their own power and prestige by the success rate of their bosses. He was flying high when CARTER and O'NEILL were on top. When RAYGUN beat the pants off of those two, Tweety the Flunky regrouped and figured out that RAYGUN had been SUCCESSFUL against his old bosses. The last time Tweety was identifiably a Dem was circa 1988 when Hardball (the book) was published.

After that, his flunky worship of RAYGUN grew. He slid into G.E.RUSSETT's orbit, who had paved the way for reconstruction of "Liberal bleeding heart" and who reached out to LIMBOsevic. He mentored Tweety, weaning him away from Dem partisanship, ostensibly for media "objectivity".

Tweety began doing episodes with him walking arm in arm with Nancy RAYGUN, yapping praise for RAYGUN.

Years ago he said he had stopped being a Dem, said to a guest, "Oh. You're STILL a Dem, more of a Dem than I am." Yeah, he voted for KERRY after voting against GORE. His one vote is nothing compared to the daily damage he does to all Dems five days per week. But the upside is that he has a tiny audience, and, actually, we Dem junkies here are probably the largest part of his audience.

has been more twisted and disgusting than usual today...his humongous ego is so apparent. Sometimes he says things you can agree with but that just makes him even more dangerous. He can persuade those who don't have a big picture view through glib and colorful presentation of details. A talented propagandist. Orwellian.

:puke: