Fitz! Fitz! Fitz!

fitz

Jesus, I guess Chris needed a new pair of pants after wearing out the knees with this one.

I thought Luntz was on the outs with the Repugs? Guess not.

Erm, shouldn’t DeLay apologize as well? Not that Matthews shouldn’t but his mouth is otherwise occupied.

jesus, jane…

didja hafta go to the visual? delays gnarly knob isn’t anything i wanted to think about… i wonder if he rested his ample gut on chris’ blond locks… no i don’t - not really…

but anyway… funny how the abc producer takes a suspension… matthews is teflon

Yuk!!!!!!!! I am too weary to be clever.

abc producer of the emails a coupla weeks ago, that is

Saw the clip over on the Kos. Matthews was barely able to contain his glee at the thought of giving Delay some juicy useful information. His obsiquious partisan gushing made me want to puke. I think even Delay seemed a little disgusted by his shameless fawning. Matthews has just got to go. Boycott him, particularly if you are a Nielson monitored viewer.

Tweety learned from Monica that fellatio can get you access…

>but really, couldn’t he just have worked DeLay’s joint with his hand for a few minutes while he bleated some feable disagreement?

Don’t know why I had trouble with that. Meant to add: Best line so far this month. LMAO!

Jane, equally bad as comments revealing that Tweety is a misogynist is this exchange at the beginning of the video:

MATTHEWS: Hey thank you for calling me. It was a good thing for me, mostly.

DELAY: Oh really.

MATTHEWS: Oh of course it was.

A reporter thanks an interview subject for offering to come on the show because it is “a good thing for me, mostly” and then says “I owe you one”?? !! !!

(Those quotes are over at Huffpo where you get to watch the “found video” of Tweety and his hammer schmoozing and follow along with the transcript at the same time.)

If this isn’t ombudsman material, what is?

Now this is exactly the kind of response we need to each and every instance of ass kissing by these servile media hacks.

God, I love me some Jane Hamsher…

Will Matthews get conjegal visitation rights? Then he can go give his ‘wife’ a blowjob.

conjugal, whatever….

Minor “housekeeping” thought:

This post is “Uncategorized”. I would argue that it qualifies for inclusion in the “Media” category, even though an it is only one example of how crappy the corporate, GOP Shill-filled “Media” is these days.

snarktacular, Jane!

And a possible meme:

Crime is not Christian and it’s not conservative.

(Delay, Reed, etc.)

Or perhaps: It’s not just a culture of corruption. More and more, it appears that many Republicans in the Congress have created a culture of crime.

Alliteration and all that.

Thanks, Jane, for your reaction and recommended action. I had asked for some such response below.

Time to start sending cases of kneepads to some of these so called”news”people.Or those little foam kneeling pads that gardeners use(those are much cheaper than the sets of kneepads.I’m a gardener,I love mine,I think it cost me two bucks,three at most).

I’m growing weary of hateful liars,I really truly am.

I’ve been waiting for the Jane Treatment on this - thanks - every word pure disgusted perfection.

Seriously, knowing what we know about DeLay and his degree of corruption (total), not to mention his utter lack of basic human values (see: Marianas Islands), Chris Matthews ought to have to choke back the vomit to even have the guy appear on his program.

Instead, look at the treatment he gives DeLay. It speaks volumes about Matthews’ own character. And the embarrassing towel-snapping banter only makes me want to punch him in the nutsack.

Chris Matthews is a pathetic excuse for a man.

I heard Ol 60 grit asked Chris for a snowball after Delay left.

Chris has some personal grudge/dislike for Hillary.

I have never heard anything positive about Hillary from Chris on either of his shows.

OT: Yesterday, I posted this reply to a self-congratulatory e-mail from the Democrats about Tom DeLay. Today, a resolution of sorts occured. I received this from my ISP’s mailer:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail1.XXXXX.net.
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.
….
<XXXXX@XXXXX.democrats.org>:
Sorry, I wasn’t able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I’m not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

[certain phrases XXXXX’d out for privacy and anti-spam reasons.]

In other words, they deliberately included a bogus “reply-to” address in the e-mail. Standard practice for spammers, but I thought a political party would know better than to do this without explaining how to reply.

Fortunately, they did explain how to get myself off their mailing list, which I’ve now done.

If he’s referring to the article I read it said that of the four 2004 presidential candidates Cheney came across as the most honest.

Does he know he’s being played? Or does he just not take the ethics of his profession seriously? I would think that, you know, this would get you fired. Surely the BugMan can get his own focus group information on the Democrats without the help of a news reporter.

If Matthews wants to help him, can’t he just pick up dog turds off his lawn or something?

“Wednesday April 05, 2006–Forty-one percent (41%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Fifty-eight percent (58%) disapprove.

For the first time ever, approval of the President fell below 70% among Republicans (down to 69%).

Overall, just 18% strongly approve of the President’s performance. Forty percent (40%) strongly disapprove”

Rasmussen.

This gooper pollster consistently shows an inflated JAR for GW Clusterfuck- about six points- so his 41% actually means about 35%- but his comments about goopers jumping off the Clusterfuck ship are interesting.

Jane,

You are terrific. Please never shut up.

jef

Jane, Christy,

Possible future pictures:

Elmer Gantry: http://images.rottentomatoes.c.....174_rt.jpg or http://www.art-posters.net/pos.....-00199.jpg and http://www.musicbaron.com/elmer.jpg

“Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all…”

Is Ann Coulter aware of Delay’s remarks?

OT and oh boy–
DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University’s lacrosse coach resigned Wednesday and the school canceled the rest of the season amid a burgeoning scandal involving allegations that three players raped a stripper at an off-campus party.

Mike Pressler spent 16 seasons at Duke and won three Atlantic Coast Conference championships. Last year, his team appeared in the national championship game.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....tigation_5

Just one minor thing. I think, from watching the tape, that the exchange went on BEFORE the interview. That, of course,would make it even worse.

Chris Matthews is a GOP political operative if I ever saw one.

Liberal bias, my ass!

So I guess this is how things usually work in the journalism business? A journalist (OK, I know, we’re talking about Tweety here) gets hold of some research done by a pollster, and the first thing he does is pass it along to the now-disgraced leader of the opposing party? “Here, you’re gonna love this.”

This is what passes for objective journalism these days?

(Rhetorical question, of course)

Tweety has always liked Delay- don’t know why- but he has.

He did a show after Delay’s indictment where he interviewed the bug man in the street in his neighborhood.

Delay lives in an upper class Houston suburb- when he’s in Texas.

Tweety said “How can people think that you’re takin money when you live just like normal people” or something to that effect.

Tweety’s tone deaf.

If most normal people saw Delay’s house they would think “mansion”.

“Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all”

DeLay really is for conservative values - sexism.

I meant to say two presidential and two vice presidential candidates.

As for the subject at hand, yes, Chris Matthews is an obsequious little asshole. At least, he is when Republicans not named Dick Cheney are on his program. If you want to write to some of his sponsors as well, there’s a list of them at Open Letter To Chris Matthews. They have an article somewhere about how to do that.

Howard Dean on Tweety just fired off that we need people who will put America before political party - unlike the Republicans!

I suspect Matthews has been the recipient of many gifts from DeLay. I will bet some of his children are getting great job offers from the DeLay machine, or getting internships on those permanent bases in Iraq with all the fastfood shops and swank hotels. He is getting something — besides what Jane mentioned. Yup, he certainly is. His need to be ‘loved’ is a bit too apparant.

A prediction:

If by November, oil is above $80 per barrel

And if thirty year fixed mortgage rates are above 7%

Goopers will lose both the house and the senate.

Errr. What’s to LIKE about Hillary? This a serious question. As far as I can tell, she’s not on the bus of peace & justice.

Reminds me of another disgusting bit of sexism coming from MSNBC- where Scarbourgh discuses what a better “housewife” Laura is than Hillary. I mean have these people heard of Eleanor Roosevelt!? Jesus, never in my life did I think that we would be subjected to crap like this in 2006.

I thought I was lucky that I wouldn’t even have to have the “you can be whatever you want to be” discussion with my 8 year old daughter because it would be so obvious to her. Guess not.

“Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all…”

Meanwhile over at Faux Neeeews, the complaint is that Hilary neglected her housekeeping duties. Since when is the First Lady the First Maid?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604050002

Another thing we need to jump on Tweety for the next time it happens (and it will), is when he fluffs his brother Jim Matthews on his show(s). Brother Jim is Lynn Swann’s running mate on the republican ticket for the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. I’ve seen it happen twice already, and I only watch Matthew’s shows sporadically. Perhaps y’all in the community can document this EGREGIOUS (hat tip to egregious for the nice word :-) ) pandering the next time it occurs, or find transcripts of previous times, and get a complaint campaign going to: NBC, MSNBC, FEC?, FCC?, sponsors?

forgot the link from Media Matters- here it is

timewarp-

great minds think a like.

The only correction I have for you is that actually the discussion of Hillary was on MSNBC- not Fox.

Oh right, Scarborough is on MSNBC not faux! Though I don’t watch any of it, so how would I know!

Fox- MSNBC- CNN

same difference.

When are we going to get an Air America of TV?

This isn’t too surprising considering that the Tweety bird is a species of SWALLOW.

Tweety likes Delay and Chimpy and McCain and Laura Ingraham and Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Tweety doesn’t like Cheney and Hillary and always goes after Katrina vanden Huevel.
Cheney must have slighted him once or twice; otherwise it appears he is a rethug tool and a dangerous wittle birdie.
ps— I am not a fan of Hillary now– I thought she was a darn fine first lady though and handled herself well during a very difficult time. Laura would have probably cried on teevee and run over chimpy with a big, black shiny Escalade had the same happened to her.

Wasn’t Tweety scheduled to speak at some event with links to Abramoff? There may be more to this “love that dare not speak its name” than a simple blowjob….

Add on to prediction- if oil is above $80, mortgage rates above 7%, AND american casualties in Iraq have hit 3,000 (656 to go)–then goopers will lose the house and the senate by substantial margins.

These are the “metrics” as Rummy would say- and there’s not much Clusterfuck can do about ANY of em fast enough to matter.

Nothing will make me like Hillary more than reading about what a bad housekeeper she was in the White House.

I realize a lot of the Hillary hating just is pretty blatant sexism- what and upity women she is!

I can’t stand her because she voted for the war and won’t really fight the administration- probably like everyone else here. However that shouldn’t stop us from pointing out how sexist the right is.

Q. What is the anagram for Tweety?

A. Wet Yet?

Well done. calvin is very happy to share your work with mrs. calvin because she thinks calvin is the only one who talks like that. Obviously, she was not a farm cat, but rather was raised in the genteel city where she was fed canned food. Although calvin must say that her experience with the current administration is close to turning her into a farm cat.

Oh yeah, Hillary is uppity.. and I HATE that new afro!

Goopers hate the Clintons- both of em. They specialize in nuetralizing gooper issues- eight more years of the Clintons- and goopers won’t have an issue left.

And speaking of woman know-it-alls, if we want to start comparing something substantive regarding the “duties” of the two First Ladies, how about their performance as “mother?” I mean look at the Bush twins as compared to Chelsea Clinton. I know who I would rather my daughter hang out with…

Remember “it takes a village to raise a child?”

Raise yer kids on a pig ranch- and what do ya expect ta get?

And wrt to this blowhardian whackjob and religion– I am so sick of Tweety, Timmeh and Bill Bennett touting their Catholic ole boys club– it gives the religion a bad name and is no different than the fundies’ constant proclamations of faith.

I heard that tape but I got the feeling that he was simply repeating what was reflected in the poll. It was that “I owe you one” part that really bugged the shit out of me.

Knob…

OT
Look what Howard Dean has been spending the DNC money on: click here

I wonder if Delay is thinking about that “know it all woman” who headed Tony Rudy’s case?

Anyone notice Tweety hide his face in laughter when Dean mentioned not needing DeLay as a poster child when you still have Rove with his security clearance? That moment revealed the absurd conflict between Tweety upholding his outside relationship with Rove sphere and acknowledging the absurd degree of corruption being discussed in his interview with Dean. He broke down, and his giggle was repulsive.
.

What’s the fastest four-handed game on the Chris Matthews show?

When it slips out.

Dear MSNBC Editors:

The below transcript of yesterday’s “Hardball” interview w Tom Delay is an embarrassment to MSNBC and an insult to the very viewers you so condescendingly purport to care about.

Your host, Chris Matthews, should apologize to you and his viewers for one, and resign for two.

It’s quite explicit — he is not an “objective” interviewer or supposed “journalist” and his conduct is unbecoming of the former and the latter.

This is not the first time and I, for one am an outraged FORMER consumer of MSNBC because of it. What fraudulent, naive, childish hero worshiping DRIVEL, Mr. Matthews.

It’s fraud, plain and simple

MATTHEWS: Have you seen this new focus group stuff on the candidates?

DELAY: No I haven’t

MATTHEWS: It’s great stuff. I’ll send it to you — it’s great — yeah it’s great stuff. Hillary, John Kerry. All these guys, all these democrats, and how they do. And, uh, Frank Luntz did it…

DELAY: who I like

CM: …and Hillary did not do well. Kerry did well.

DELAY: You’re kidding.

MATTHEWS: I am NOT kidding. They didn’t like Edwards — they thought he was a rich lawyer, pretending to care about poor people…

DELAY: Too slick. Too slick.

MATTHEWS: …and Hillary was a know-it-all.

DELAY: Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all

Fellow DUers are grateful for the links; as you can see, some are delivering rather blunt messages to tweetalinsky and his MSNBC enablers:

http://www.democraticundergrou.....215;852480

Thanks.

IMO, that NSFW link should have a warning. Way too much for me.

Yep,

Here is the focus Group that Mathews was quoting from (pdf)

Mathews was correct. Here is the quote from the focus group regarding Hillary:

“Negatives: Clinton comes across as highly partisan, overly negative – and often bitter. There is a tone of accusation that runs through much of what she says today. Perhaps she is held to a different standard, but regardless, her remarks often come across as bashing, angry, harsh and calculated. Democrats find some of her language to be too wonky and too hard to follow, at times verging on “know-it-all.†And that leads some to dismiss her as unelectable.”

Thanks for Tweety’s Email cjmatthews@msnbc.com … I just sent him a mash note ;-} I even invoked Monica’s name!

Maybe Tom is laying out his wife’s and daughter’s defense plea:
They aren’t ‘know it all women’ your Honor– they are real dumb– they both stuck with me and just aren’t clever enough to know right from wrong. I have it on the public record that I believe that there is “Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all.” You can watch the video and talk to my good friend Tweety Matthews.

Yeah, but didn’t you hear? A black woman shoved a security guard!!!!

Here’s the Frank Republican Luntz report.

Luntz focus group tests the early 2008 Dem field
WARNING: .pdf http://images.dailykos.com/ima.....z_2008.pdf

No wonder he was so righteous about Monica. Reaction formation. I think Lewinsky has suffered enough, or I would urge people to refer to Matthews as Monica.

I’ve got to ask this for all the “Simpsons” fans out there. Since Harry Shearer was the one who got the video first, do think he rubbed his hands together and went “excellent” after he found out what it was?

Well, SOMEONE had to ask.

the McKinney thing is orchestrated by Denny Hastert, the GOP House Speaker. When I heard that night the Speaker’s spokesperson Bonjean holler about the incident I knew it was a counterattack. Normally a Congresscritter could piss on a Capitol Hill cops shoes and the cop would have to apologize…

Tweety sprang a major bone for Chimpy’s codpiece too, remember that? He was yelling it from the top of Brokeback Mountain!

Heck, I dont subscribe to Cable TV and I don’t even watch Chris Matthews. But I read about him on blogs and I agree with all the ranting against him.

What I dont understand is the lack of insight by posters here as to why he has folks like DeLay and O’Beirne on his show. One reason was brought out (I think) on Kos: All the politics talk shows have more conservative talking head guests than liberal or even independent ones.

A big reason is the success of Fox TV. Like the flies-to-shit type of business electronic media can be, it only makes sense that its competitors would try to imitate Fox’ formula because they think it will bring them the same ratings gold.
Truth and information be damned–this is about $$$$$.

At the same time, dont discount the fact there are media consultants out there telling producers at these networks the same thing: You need to be more like Fox TV, so spoon feed your audience the conservative personalities who will incite them into righteous indignation that will result in ratings gold.

James Wolcott covers all of this brilliantly in his book “Attack Poodles.” And let me repeat, Tom DeLay talking with Chris Matthews is not supposed to be journalism—its about getting the viewers riled on both sides, which leads to great ratings.

It’s also plain that DeLay had an open line with Chris to complain about coverage.

On the tape, Chris says that when his aid told him DeLay was on the line she said “don’t worry -he’s not calling to complain”.

Past time for an organized national netroots/grassroots full board boycott of MSNBC.

Until and unless the hopeless Chris Matthews show is canned we can and should boycott every MSNBC sponsor on his show. Simple as that.

Warm up with letters to his sponsors with cc to the network. The next wave of letters could be done in reverse order.

We can do this folks!

OT (repost), but a bit more important than Tweety & DeLay’s Brokeback Molehill…

Snip from the new James Fallows Atlantic Monthly article on Iran:

“…As it has watched Iran’s evolution, the United States has delivered more and more studied warnings that “all options remain openâ€â€”code to the Iranians that they should worry about an attack. In different ways, George W. Bush and two aspiring successors, John McCain and Hillary Clinton, have expressed this view. Government officials in Israel have been more explicit still, with the defense minister saying that Israel “will not accept†Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. Intellectuals, activists, and out-of-power politicians from Newt Gingrich to Benjamin Netanyahu have all urged their leaders to stand firm.

The biggest change has been in what Soviet strategists used to call the “correlation of forces.†Every tool at Iran’s disposal is now more powerful, and every complication for the United States worse, than when our war-gamers determined that a pre-emptive strike could not succeed. Iran has used the passing time to disperse, diversify, conceal, and protect its nuclear centers. Instead of a dozen or so potential sites that would have to be destroyed, it now has at least twice that many. The Shiite dominance of Iraq’s new government and military has consolidated, and the ties between the Shiites of Iran and those of Iraq have grown more intense. Early this year, the Iraqi Shiite warlord Muqtada al-Sadr suggested that he would turn his Mahdi Army against Americans if they attacked Iran.

Economically, Iran also has far greater leverage than before. Through 2004, the price of a barrel of oil averaged less than $40. In 2006, it has been above $60, an increase of more than 50 percent. Rising demand from China, India, and, yes, the United States has left virtually no slack in the world’s oil markets. OPEC’s “spare†production capacity—the amount it could quickly supply beyond current demand—is about 1 million barrels a day. Iran now supplies about 4 million barrels a day. If it chose to, or had to, remove much of its oil from the market, a bidding war could send the price of a barrel of oil above $100. Eventually, everyone would adjust. Eventually, the Great Depression ended.

Perhaps the American and Israeli hard-liners know all this, and are merely bluffing. If so, they have made an elementary strategic error. The target of their bluff is the Iranian government, and the most effective warnings would be discreet and back-channel. Iranian intelligence should be picking up secret signals that the United States is planning an attack. By giving public warnings, the United States and Israel “create ‘excess demand’ for military action,†as our war-game leader Sam Gardiner recently put it, and constrain their own negotiating choices. The inconvenient truth of American foreign policy is that the last five years have left us with a series of choices—and all of them are bad. The United States can’t keep troops in Iraq indefinitely, for obvious reasons. It can’t withdraw them, because of the chaos that would ensue. The United States can’t keep prisoners at Guantánamo Bay (and other overseas facilities) indefinitely, because of international and domestic challenges. But it can’t hastily release them, since many were and more have become terrorists. And it can’t even bring them to trial, because of procedural abuses that have already occurred. Similarly, the United States can’t accept Iran’s emergence as a nuclear power, but it cannot prevent this through military means—unless it is willing to commit itself to all-out war. The central flaw of American foreign policy these last few years has been the triumph of hope, wishful thinking, and self-delusion over realism and practicality. Realism about Iran starts with throwing out any plans to bomb.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200605/fallows-iran

Such are the fruits of allowing an incoherent dilettante into the U.S. Presidency.

Now I have been a little disappointed with Hillary, but I can’t stand Republican-style attacks on her. They are misogynistic. & Bill O’Reilly seems obsessed with getting Hillary alone on the “No-Spin Zone” in a peach pantsuit, and he had the gall to write about this women-hating tainted fantasy in one of his books.
CT news. Traffic was better than I would’ve expected given Chimpy’s visit, although I am loathe to give Chimpy any credit for “good planning.” Shays got dissed by Chimpy & Gov.Rell. Chimpy gave him lukewarm praise in Bridgeport & said,” er, uh . . .he’s independent.” I smell a rat & it’s not just Ann Coulter.Shays supports the war, but doesn’t always vote Republican. Oh, I think Bush’s healthcare talk was given to all Republicans and one Dem. In Bridgeport. In the spirit of the full moon . . . Ow, ow, ow.

Keep in mind what we have here. We’ve got a guy on his way to prison, resigned in disgrace, surrounded by his fellow crooks trooping off to prison. And not only does Matthews suck up to him in every way possible, Delay treats him like a powerless sycophant. Which, apparently, he is.

The sooner we recognize Matthews’ plan, the sooner we can work to stop it. He’s not going to be at Hardball forever, but that’s his last stop in broadcasting before he runs as a Republican for Specter’s seat in 2010. He’s from PA, his brother is building a campaign network now in HIS run for LT. Governor of Pennsylvania, and I’d be willing to bet that by 2009, Matthews quits his show and moves full-time to PA. Conveniently, he’ll be able to use the 2008 Presidential election to further push his name recognition.

Too very good. Way to Harry S.

I just sent Chris an email:

Hey Chris Matthews, nothing worse than a blog
know-it-all, huh?

Ooooooo, that was too funny. Now we all know.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....18506.html

Tweety sprang a major bone for Chimpy’s codpiece too, remember that? He was yelling it from the top of Brokeback Mountain!
Tweety and that other character, er uh . . .Gordon Liddy. They *loved* the Chimpman’s codpiece.

EW!!

EW! EW! EW!!

Afterglow pillow talk with these two men constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Chris Matthew, that “sweet” little canary for the right-wing. Sing, tweety, sing.

Bobby G - great find. I have a hard time using as innocousous a word as dilettante though.

“dilettante” is way too French … “dabbler” is what we call them in Indiana … “fuckup” is what we call the Preznit !

BTW - here in the heart of red, Dems (and some REps) do like Edwards. Of course, they like Bayh too, but still. I think he’s going to get Rep. hits bc he is attractive on a ticket, but that’s jmo and I’m not in the political league of most here.

What is the deal with Hillary? Hillary drove that poor Mr. Safire stark raving mad, you know. Right there in the editorial page of the New York Times -we went nuts.

I think we need to have a Democrat not named Clinton to win the WH. Then maybe some people on the right will quit attributing dark satanic supernatural powers to the Clintons, and see that a Democrat can legitimately be president. Then their heads will blow up, I suppose.

dark satanic supernatural powers to the Clintons
I am wondering if that makes Poppy Bush an acolyte by mere association.

sorry HE went nuts. We went nuts too, whenever we tried to read him, but that is a different matter.

Matthews run for political office????? That’s a joke, right. No way ever in a million years could be get elected. Late night comics would love it, but that is about all.

LOL, yeah “dabbler”… he dabbled at being the Oilman, the Texas Rangers “Owner” (w/a 2% stake, haha), Texas Governor, now our Play President. Next stop(assuming he doesn’t suspend the Cosntitution and stay on)? MLB Commish. Perfect gig for his dabbling ass.

I would boycott everything on MSNBC (#83) ‘cept Olbermann. The best hour of news on television (Daily Show is only 30 min)

Maybe HE could make Tweety “worst person in the world”

” innocousous ” LOL That’s what happens when bad typist, lazy proofer, has dinner and cous cous on their mind. Btw, the lag time on the typing is making me nuts. The cure for all of it I guess is to type in something else, then copy over? Or do I get “special” lag time bc I rant about how much I liked living in a country that had a working Constitution?

Good times.

Kirby! You live in Central right? Any word there on the Day of the Chimp?

Ya think they’d let Keith loose on Tweety?

“…another story my producers are FORCING me to cover…”

Nah.

“worst” is too much credit. “Most pathetic syncophant on TV”, maybe.

Jane, please. “Joint” is Jeff Goldstein’s favorite synonym for tallywhacker. Be a little more discriminating, will ya?

Agree with Mary in 71.

I suspect the lag is coz of an overloaded or underpowered computer … I’m running a superfast whizbang and I can barely detect a lag in the preview window…

Bobby–great article- makes sense.

GWClusterfuck seems to be trying to intimidate the Iranians-with negative results..

Lots of speculation that he might try to lure Iran into a provocation that would make a strike more excusable. If this article is accurate- that seems like a doomed strategy..

I suspect that he will do SOMETHING to flex his muscles publicly before the election- a provocative naval move? Carriers off shore?

Perhaps Tweety should get a new name for his show.

May I suggest Teabag?

BobbyG,

Re: “LOL, yeah “dabblerâ€â€¦ he dabbled at being the Oilman, the Texas Rangers “Owner†(w/a 2% stake, haha)”

THANK YOU! I’m still SHOCKED that the so called Major League Baseball “expert”, Keith Olberman said this Monday night…

“The former majority owner of the Texas Rangers going National League on us, ceremonially opening the season before the Reds hosted the Chicago Cubs in Cincinnati, calling the toss his, quote, “best pitch, which was kind of a slow ball.†His words, not ours.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12150659/

“Majority owner” hahaha

“Duke University Lacrosse Coach Resigns”
By DUFF WILSON and VIV BERNSTEIN
Published: April 5, 2006
DURHAM, N.C., April 5 — Duke University’s president canceled the men’s lacrosse team’s season and accepted the resignation of its coach today, hours after Durham County authorities disclosed an e-mail message written by a team member saying he planned to invite strippers to his dorm room, kill them and cut off their skin.
The e-mail message was sent shortly after a party three weeks ago at which a woman has said she was raped by three members of the team. The message was disclosed this morning when the authorities unsealed a search warrant that was executed March 27 on the student’s dormitory room and vehicle…”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04.....-duke.html

McKinney case goes to the GJ– jeebus.

Howard Dean said some great things on Hardball today. I think if the Dems focus on what he said they have a good chance at not only taking back the Senate, but maybe the House and the Presidency.

I don’t know if it’s especially ironic, but did anyone notice that the list of contacts provided above did not include one single woman?

DELAY: Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all
Yeah, hottub guy! Maybe “uppity” is the word he almost used. Delay needs to go to jail, right now!!!

rwcole -

This will a very dangerous period. Iran is 3x the geographic area and 2x the population of Iraq. Now that Bush-Rumsfeld have eviscerated our ground force, the only Game we got is bombs and missiles. Unlike Iraq, they will be able to answer, in multiple ways (and, don’t forget, we used up our entire inventory of cruise missiles invading Iraq. While we’ve re-stocked, we’d quickly shoot the wad again. You don’t simply order up 10,000 more for delivery next week).

Cozumel -

Yep, 2%, bought mostly with a sweetheart insider loan that he repaid when they sold the team for a huge profit after sticking the taxpayers with the new stadium.

The “Owner” !!! LMFAO!!!

OT (as usual) Was wondering about the lag — I have a “spare parts” computer taped together with my son-in-law’s computer spare parts from his job. Which is (shshsh) computer security. But it was free, sooooo … I was in a computer store and looking at a brand new computer ‘in a box’ and I asked the salesman if this will play computer games. He said he did not know. What a computer store -geesh.

Confession — I have many of the old Tomb Raider computer games and this spare part computer will not play them. I really liked to play them too. [Hangs head.]

Mary #100: Guess I am not the only one having problems with the slow typing. This morning I could enter only about 2-3 characters per sec. Anybody know what’s going on? Is the software checking for troll behavior even as we type? Say it ain’t to, Jane/Christy!

http://justoneminute.typepad.c.....060405.pdf

New Libby filing

I haven’t read it yet, don’t know what it is.

OT, Kos and Donna Brazile on On Point now from 7-8 ET talking about Dems 2006

If you’re interested,

http://www.wbur.org/listen/

Bobby- Well apparently a big pile of the cash came from insider trading on Harken stock.

Vin Weber on Tweety to pimp the McCain campaign, without talking about McCain.

Weber is a McCain guy.

BobbyG,

I know the whole story, Shrub bought a small stake in the Rangers with BORROWED money. 500 or 600K IIRC. lol

I wonder if Jane still has that fingerprint kit. We need to dust Tweety’s chin for Delays ball prints.
(Hat tip to Jane for that one. I roared with laughter the first time I saw it.)

The ombudsman@msnbc.com address did not work but the others did. Here’s my e-mail to the MSNBC wild bunch:

“Dear MSNBC folks,
I really want to salute Chris Matthews for the video segment with Tom Delay in which they were both putting down those “know it all women”. It is so refreshing to hear men talk like that on television these days.

Can we look forward to a Hardball segment criticizing those ‘uppity black people’?”

I am not a Hillary fan, but what is up with Mathews’ Hillary obsession? He just can’t bash her enough and it’s so obvious it’s almost embarrassing. And speaking of embarrassing, does he realize how he looks when all he does every single night is kiss the ass of those in in the majority?

I think he ceased being a real journalist a long time ago, but I think this is as much about his brother as anything else. He wants help for his brother who is running as a GOPer and Tweety is sucking up to them big time. The way he has those local PA radio folks on his show is unbelievable.

a reminder: Tweety @ cjmatthews@msnbc.com

Jane,

“…but I guess I was mistaken, he actually believes this pile of sexist horseshit.”
…(from christy above)”The question I keep asking myself is how do we rebuild the bridges.”

Yes Jane, these people, not jest the sans-coulotte in the street but the leaders and manipulators on the tube and in Washington…all these people really believe this stuff. Yes Jane, we have a real fullblown fascist movement threatening us and it is not jest a bunch of suedeshoe salesmen and tent revivalists out to squeeze a few bucks from the ignorant masses. This movement-machine is a pyramid scheme controlled by the ruling families and run by true believers (that is, those who know they hafta convince folks they truely believe or they’re goin ta jail). The irony or , if you will, the malignant brilliance, behind this movement is that the ruling elite which runs the machine is not riskin any of it’s own cash anymore, but is using the tax revenues and credit (debt) from the taxpayers to fund the machine that is designed to enslave ‘em. The sooner we all realize that this is not jest “politics as usual” or ” an arch of the pendulum” but a full blown fasicst takeover, the sooner we can build the coalition to confront and destroy this threat.

The answer to Christy’s question about “rebuilding bridges” is simple…we can’t rebuild bridges to the old ruling stucture, but that’s a good thing. We CAN, however, build an anti fascist coalition with democratic constituencies (the key word is democratic) but it won’t include the ruling elite or the 17-25% of the voting population that are “true believers”.

We can’t worry about appearances anymore and we can’t waste time devising strategies to win over the “true believers” or evangelical, Christian fascists. We hafta understand who the enemy is, expose ‘em, brand ‘em, lable ‘em and isolate ‘em. The grand anti-fascist coalition labels itself and defines itself as all those who are not fascist…it’s simple and it’s basic politics - identify the enemy and get folks ta vote against ‘em.

I love ya Janie, you and Christy have created a “living space” that is fueled by some of the the most fecund minds in the world…thanks and…

KEEP THE FAITH AND REMEMBER THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM!!!

The right has a huge problem with Hillary for some reason. My O’Reilly loving mother hates her with a passion. I don’t get it.

And can I just say something about the edwards is a “rich lawyer pretending to care about poor people”- how hypocritical is it for someone like Delay to sit there and agree with that? If they want to look at a rich jerk pretending to care about poor people they can first look at a) themselves, b) the GOP Congress and finally, c) our illustrious President who, unlike John Edwards, spent his whole life with a silver spoon up his ass.

And since when does the GOP have a problem with politicians having lots of money? I’ll tell you when- when the politicians have a history of representing plaintiffs who sue their precious corporations. But they have no problem with rich corporate attorneys who work for the tobacco companies? Yeah, whatever.

That the dems don’t effectively counter this BS and point out the hypocrisy drives me crazy. Everything the GOP does is to protect Bush and his cronies who inhabit the top 2% of the economic food chain.

cathy -

Ditto my Mom! LOVES O’Lielly, HATES Hillary.

Geez, who would have known that Luntz was a double agent. Get into the Democrats hierachy and then funnel the info to the Republicans.

Brilliant.

Who would have guessed Matthews was a shill?

Jessh. I can’t take this crap.

-GSD

Is the whole world corrupt, or is it just me?

Where are all the decent people?

Stand Up!

Be Counted!

Be Heard!

Once again, I’m no Mathews fan but he was correctly quoting from the focus group report. “Know-it-all” was the precise characterization used in the report.

Yeah, thanks for posting this as I’m trying to think about what to make for dinner. The visuals are really enough to take your appetite. I think I’ll go feed the dogs. They don’t care what I’m thinking about. yuk

BobbyG: 115

My guess is that there is no plan to invade, much less occupy Iran but to do “surgical strikes” to disable their nuclear capability, a replay if you will of Israel’s earlier strike. So Iran’s population and size has not that much to do with it. In some ways this kind of a plan makes it even more insidious than the occupation of Iraq because it fosters the illusion that we can do it at little cost in lives and materiel. The delusion of course is that Iran is just going to sit there and let us exert our will on it.

Israel’s takeout of Iran’s nuclear facilities was, what, 6 years ago? That was then and this is now. There’s no way they are going to just sit there and take it this time.

I am sure the war gamers in the Pentagon are busy as we type this, testing all kinds of scenarios. I am sure that at least some of those simulated outcomes will predicate pre-emptive strikes—by the US on Iran, and…you guessed it, by Iran on the US.

Of course, if you are a neocon, your adrenaline is working overtime. Whee, isn’t war fun?

When somebody asked Bush about apocalypse the other week, he was flabbergasted. He should be.

What was the name of that film by Coppola? Oh yes, Apocaplypse Now.

I emailed Tweety and asked him why he allowed Delay’s sexism to go unchallenged and asked if his own wife is a “woman know it all” and whether he thought that was a good or a bad thing. Then I told him his constant hillary-bashing put him at about the level of Limbaugh and questioned why he singled her out for constant criticism for being assertive, driven and tough, when he clearly has no problem with that (in fact, even drools over it) in her male counterparts in Congress.

new thread — old whores

Cap’n Phealy 108, via marky 23…

Howzabout we call the show…

Snowball

oangejumpsuit-

The Israelis hit Iraq, not Iran.

I agree Bushies have no intent to invade/occupy Iran. Can’t be done. Bombing them will unleash some very bad shit. Y’oughta read the Fallows pieces on this, including the earlier war-gaming studies The Atlantic sponsored. Sobering.

Well let’s see.

We have learned from Rush Limbaugh this week that the alleged rape victims at Duke University are “ho’s”.

We learned via Imus that Jill Carroll probably had sex with the insurgents who abducted her.

We learn via Neil Boortz that Cynthia McKinney looks like a “crack-whore”.

We learn via Tom Delay that “no one likes a know-it-all woman.”

The voice of the compassionate conservatives in ringing loud and clear these days.

Oh yeah, and Helen Thomas is an “old Arab” who is not concerned with the safety our nation.

Someone get me outta this fucking nuthouse.

-GSD

Yeah, Mary, it has a warning. “NSFW.” It means “Not Safe For Work.”

Israel hit the Osirak plant in Iraq in the 80’s.

-GSD

Cupholder

IYou’re right about that. JANE did you see that? Matthews was reading from Luntz’s report.

But what DeLay said afterwards is unexplainable.

PLEASE flood these people with emails. This is truly outrageous from a “journalist.”

Matthews doesn’t deserve to be called a whore. Sex workers sell what’s theirs to trade, and nobody gets hurt or robbed in the process. Matthews sells access to the public’s airwaves to a bunch of thugs. Call him a dealer in stolen goods. Call him an accessory to murder. But don’t compliment him by calling him a whore.

rwcole:

I think the thrust of your predictions are spot on. I would suggest that there is MUCH confusion and disagreement about why the long rates aren’t siginficantly higher today, though everyone acknowledges China is sopping up U.S. debt with a biscuit. Anyway, just thought I’d suggest that the 30 yr fixed need not rise from here when there is plenty of havoc to wreak on the unfortunate souls who have been taking out interest only arms tied to shorter rates. Everybody, get your rate fixed today! You can always move to the ARM when the geopolitical scene normalizes a bit and we’re not deficit spending to line the pockets of the rich.

Thanks for the email links. I’ll be busy contacting NBC/MSNBC execs once the family is asleep.

“I owe you”

I call Chris Matthews “Bush’s own Monica”. Looks like Bush will have to share him with Delay.

E-mails were sent to every address you have. Doesn’t help my outrage, but maye a little.

He certainly likes to give reach arounds to corrupt Republicans, doesn’t he? Certainly explains why a show called “hardball” is nothing but softballs delivered in crossfire mode. So now that Chris “owes” him, what is he you going to pay him?

Tool.

Matthews run for political office????? That’s a joke, right. No way ever in a million years could be get elected. Late night comics would love it, but that is about all.

Um, no joke. Arnold. Jesse Ventura. Lynn Swann. George W. Bush. It’s the age.

From June 6, 2002 Philly Inquirer:

The U. S. Senate must wait.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, a Philly guy, had been making noises about challenging Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) in 2004. The noise officially stopped yesterday, when Matthews re-upped for seven years.

“Specter can rest easy,” says Matthews, 56, whose 7 p.m. weekday shoutfest, Hardball, is MSNBC’s highest-rated series. “I may run when I’m 83. It’s my boyhood dream to be in the Senate.”

Matthews’ former deal, which was to have expired in June 2004, was extended through June ‘09. That locks him in through two more presidential elections.

the truly, truly sad part about that is the fact that matthews is bending over backwards for delay, a man who has lost all his power and is being forced to walk away from congress with his tail between his legs.

on a professional level, it’s embarrassing since matthews claims to have some journalistic integrity. on a personal level, it’s just a really pathetic display.

The following is a copy of my email to Matthews and everybody on the email list provided by Jane:

Chris’ sperformance last night with political criminal Tom Delay was incestuous, fawning, appalling and disgusting. HARDBALL my ass! Why does Chris love corrupt pols? The misogynistic gang-bashing of Hillary Clinton was also sickening… and I am no fan of hers. Chris should join the Imus team of low class, bigoted thugs.
Mr. Matthews is a media whore and a not-so-well-disguised GOP operative. There is nothing wrong with being the latter, but pretending to be a journalist at the same time defines him as the former. I realize that his chosen profession pays extremely well, but is it worth his soul and is it worth being loathed and reviled by such a large segment of MSNBC viewers?

Notice none of the contacts at NBC/MSNBC are women.

They must talk too much.

Wait a minute, recole. Kids raised on pig ranches (i.e., pig farms), are usually honest, hard-working, honorable types. I’ll be the twins couldn’t hold a candle (or a castrating iron) to 99% of ‘em.

The Hardball/DeLay interview was the worst I’ve ever witnessed. It is also the last I will ever watch on Hardball. I’m done with that shit.

I can hear Tweety now:

http://www.everwonder.com/davi.....lphelp.wav

Someone at MSNBC obviously wants Matthews gone. That clip was not part of the broadcast and could only have been leaked by MSNBC.
Whether it will have the desired result, remains to be seen.

Can we in the left blog world please get off the fellatio imagery? I know it’s useful, but it’s just getting outof hand, and as bad as matthews was in this clip it’s just a little too much this time.

The whole thing was totally disgusting. Caldonia over at Kos had the great idea of having every female Democratic candidate putting up Delay’s vile comment on their websites and campaign literature and every Dem female in office refering to it at any public venue. I couldn’t agree more. Hammering (couldn’t resist) the Bugman with this would be effective in so many ways, not the least being to sour his and Tweety’s lovefest and shame them both nationally. A gift of gold to spread far and wide.

All these “good old boys in the back room” are showing themselves for what they are. Hawkers–Back Room Grifters. They were the men who traveled from town to town selling the “medecine” that cures everything to our ancestors. They never got to stay in one place for long unless they got in good with the town bosses.
Blondie is a tradionalist who probably “owes a lot” to a lot of people.

Chris Matthews blows Republican’s for pocket change and if they don’t have any money he’ll loan them some.

What is funny is that Tweety is surprised by Hilary’s popularity. To us, it has nothing to do with her intelligence. The problem is that she tends to stick too much to the wishy-washy consultant’s view of the world. The nomination is not a fait accompli for Hilary. Nor is it one for Kerry, Edwards, Feingold, Clark or any other candidate right now. She is running for the senate right now and it is possible that she has to tailor her message to her NY constituents. Maybe by 2008 things will be different for Hilary but we are not ready to crown her yet. Surprise, Surprise, Tweety. All that lather over Hilary for nuthin’. Feels kinda stoopid, doesn’t it?

Sent to Tweety’s mailboxes:

“Hey, Chris;

Check this out. While everyone is abandoning this ethical giant of a man, you’re hanging in there.

I hear there may be a job opening up soon in the White House Press office.

Good job:

http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....et-a-room/

Mac, in Palisade, Colorado”

the blowjob analogy participates in homophobia. i doubt you would use the analogy for a female commentator, because you would immediately recognize it as mysogynist. here, your argument achieves its angry power in part from the tradiational taboo of man-sucking-off-man.

i grow increasingly disenchanted with this site’s sloppy rhetoric, including yesterday’s prosecutorial zeal toward an accused child molestor who hasn’t yet been tried.

Television is now almost completely unwatchable except for a few shows on Comedy Central. News is not news, its entertainment, not to be taken seriously. How sad. But the public loves it. They cant or wont think for themselves. What a waste.