Tweety bar the door!

[Loge23]

Did you folks catch Chris Matthews' hilarious performance on the Today show this AM?
He was positively frantic discussing the Fitzgerald investigation. He tried his darnedest to praise the idiot president's suppossed accomplishments and coach the moron on how best to react to the (in his words) coming indictments. Tweety was like the last man in town before a Cat 5 hurricane hits.
This is truly incredible times we are in right now.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. There's got to be something more to this. Matthew's only goes

all out whorish like this when he's personally invested. He did it to Gore before the November election of 2000, and we later found out that Matthews voted for Bush.

I'm betting that if Rove goes down, this investigation will spread and we'll learn that Matthews is implicated.

Someone needs to ask Matthews if he has a horse in this race.

[shance]

3. GREAT points. Absolutely. Also, it was Matthews who was initially

somehow included in the mix if memory serves me.

Thats an insightful observation and I'd wager you are on the money.

Thanks for posting.

[Bumblebee]

4. Tweety was the one who told Wilson Rove had thought his wife was "fair

game." Remorse -- or, more likely, fear -- that he helped start it all?

To put it more precisely: it was because of what Tweety said that Joe Wilson became convinced that Rove was behind it all.

[Atman]

2. He's having a difficult time watching his idol fall

Every time I see him do these things, he manages to heap high praise about what a great president Bush is, and how everyone loves him (what polls are you reading, Tweets?), but...and then tries to sound like a "newsman," pretending he's objective. It's a sorry sight, watching the poor boy squirm before the cameras.

But I love it!

[Kingofalldems]

5. Speaking of Mathews I have a question

Does anyone remember the incident involving Pat Buchanan's brother (I think) and a member of the Clinton Admin.? Seems to me Tweety had a hand in this, if I remember correctly.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Buchanan's Brother?

He has a sister...Bay...:puke:



Tweety was hoping to get the Press Secretary's job in the Clinton White House that ended up going to Mike McCurry. Many think it was this snub that turned Tweety against Clinton. I think it was Jack Welch offering lots of money that helped, too.

[Loge23]

6. ...by the way

I sent a e-mail to:
[e-mail] objecting to the Today show's shameless reporting of this important story. I urge all to do the same. My text is below.


If Mr. Matthews wants act as the administration's spokesperson/advisor, than I suggest he does so on his own time. I don't appreciate Mr. Matthews obvious shilling for the president this AM under the guise of objective WH reporting.
This is a huge story for our country and our democracy right now. Please put aside your Board of Directors' conservative bias and report the facts.

[UTUSN]

7. Re: Posts #s 1, 4, 5

1) "personally invested" - My theory is that it has been EATING Tweety ALIVE from 2000 on to see the POWER and SUCCESS Rove raked-in at being the ultimate political flunky. EATING him, because Tweety desperately wishes HE himself had had the know-how to do things this (crummy) way, to be the Prince's Machiavelli.

As the flunky he was under CARTER, he at first smarted under the ass whipping RAYGUN gave them, then ADMIRED Raygun for it---and admires ANY political SUCCESS.

He tried to be CLINTON's press secretary. If ROVE goes down, would it be TOTALLY impossible to imagine that Tweety MIGHT (WANT, at least, to) step in? He'd be a failure at it, just as he more than likely would have QUIT as CLINTON's press secretary in a huff over not calling the shots.

4) "remorse" - I never fail to be MYSTIFIED every time any Dem gives Tweety credit for having ANY kind of SINCERE motive (like, he-was-against-the-Iraq-attack-because-draft/age-sons).

5) BUCHANAN gun incident. Yip, he badgered Kathleen WILLEY to name the supposed jogger who supposedly threatened her, and she wouldn't. She had talked to him pre-show about the name. When she wouldn't, he said, "Was it so-and-so?" The person named was later cleared of the involvement. But meanwhile, Pat and Bay BUCHANAN's mentally disabled brother took a gun to the house of that person, who wasn't there. Only some (foreign-exchange?) students were there. There are still missing details.

[Bumblebee]

10. I meant remorse vis-a-vis the rightwingers

which, by definition, is not a "sincere motive." He is remorseful he let the thugs he admires down.

[UTUSN]

12. Point Taken. Hope I Didn't Offend. But His Calling WILSON

has also always stuck out--like, he maintains positive communications with SOME Dems?

[Bumblebee]

13. I think he just wanted a sensational story out of it,

playing hardball, as it were. Not because he was sympathetic to Wilson or his wife but because he wanted to break the story open. Now he feels bad that he might have caused Rove and his beloved president some royal pain and also fearful, because he both admires and fears power (he would have been a secret or not so secret admirer of Hitler as well). Also because he does not want the conservatives to hate him and stop coming to his show. Have you noticed how super, super nice he has been to them lately -- even more so than usual?

[emulatorloo]

15. I don't think Wilson was a Dem then. . .EOM

[indie_voter]

9. I heard him say something yesterday

The transcript isn't up yet but he said something to the effect that power and powerful people fascinate him.

I thought that was a rare moment of honesty and explains a lot about him.

[Marr]

11. That character trait should exclude a person from "journalism".

Not that Matthews practices anything resembling journalism, of course. He's one of the most disgusting sycophants on TV.

[pacalo]

14. His meme lately about it on Hardball is: "But is it a crime?"

Unbelievable. An American presidency phones a group of journalists in high-profile news organizations to sneakily encourage them to print Valerie Plame's name & position at the CIA in the newspapers. She was only covertly involved in operations of WMD proliferation, a key position in the lead-up to war.

Then, when someone points this out to Matthews, he tries to dismiss it, saying that it goes beyond the realm of this case.

He's got something to gain from his whitewashing.

[cantstandbush]

16. It's about being judged by the kind of people you worship.

Bush being proven to be a fool and a liar just makes those who support him look worse than fools.