"The Tweety Effect" - Tweety said he GOT it, he NEVER got it!1

[UTUSN]

I wondered who Tweety was talking about when he said "the people who normally like what I say, ... who LIKE ME..."

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http://mediamatters.org/columns/200801220003

The blog swarm Chris Matthews never saw coming

by Eric Boehlert

"I get it." -- Chris Matthews, January 17

.... But the Tweety Effect, as the Matthews controversy was dubbed online, illustrated how the Beltway press is increasingly susceptible to pressure applied by the netroots, especially when the offenses are as egregious as Matthews'. And that could have enormous impact as the general election unfolds this year. ....

And then there was the rampant sexist commentary coming from Matthews' Hardball. ... ....

Firedoglake founder Jane Hamsher .... quickly posted an item on FDL headlined, "New Hampshire: Tweety Did It." ("Tweety" is the netroots' shorthand for Matthews.) ....

Pam Spaulding quickly spotted the TalkLeft post and immediately copied-and-pasted it into the comments section at Pandagon, a prominent feminist blog ....

...Spaulding suggested on her blog that a brand new phenomenon had been on display in New Hampshire -- "The Tweety Effect": "where the misogyny of a talking head in the MSM so enrages a demographic that they go out and vote in a manner that will put egg on the face of the talking head." ....

At 3:25 a.m. ET, Mark Matson at MyDD, another key liberal destination site, officially logged the new term into the always-evolving netroots glossary... ....

One week later, under growing external pressure from people who, as the MSNBC host put it, "normally like what I say, in fact, normally like me" (i.e. the Beltway chattering class), Matthews publicly walked back his "messed around" comment. ....

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[rodeodance]

1. He really is a twit--

[MADem]

2. It's good that he got his ass handed to him.

What it does point out is that he CAN be swayed, if only a bit. He'll always be a tool of GE, but at least he can be hit on a visceral level--frankly, the guy was AFRAID of being "Imus'd" by the netroots.

Assholes like Limbaugh, though, can't be moved. They just laugh and waddle onward.

[protect our future]

3. Bingo, UTUSN. The media's massacre of Hillary after the tear incident united

females from coast to coast, and Hillary won the Empathetic Woman and the Angry Woman vote in NH for the win.

The media REFUSED to admit their role in this. Instead, it was Clinton tear ... Clinton tear ... race ... incorrect polling ... NO, MEDIA, IT WAS YOU! YOU TURNED THE CLINTON TEAR INTO THE DEAN SCREAM AND WE WOMEN DESPISE YOU FOR IT!

YOU DID IT, TWEETY!

[SharonAnn]

4. It made me realize that all their blather was really "anti-woman". That's all it was.

Disguised by "issues", disguised by "likeability", disguised by "race", etc.

It was really all about misogyny.

And I've had enough of that in my life, thank you very much. I'm Sen. Clinton's age and have fought the same battles she's fought, just less publicly visible. It has cost me well over $500,000 in lost earnings over my lifetime (paid less than men for 40 years and promoted more slowly) and that has affected me and my family in our ability to take care of ourselves.

And I recognized Tweety's talk for what it was, anti-woman.

The entire establishment media seems to be either anti-woman or neutral. It's not even "balanced" by any pro-woman or anti-men media people.

So, it's time that the majority of people in this country (girls and women) spoke up and said "we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more."

That's all.