Even if you hate Tweety

[malaise]

Watch the replay

[sasha031]

1. thank you, I will

:)

[malaise]

3. He destroyed balloon head Bachmann

Unfreakingbelievable :rofl:

[sasha031]

6. she is so stupid....

[CatWoman]

10. they are live on this show

but I found some video :)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#41261376

[Skittles]

2. I've never really hated Tweety

not in the way I despise, say, Hannity or O'Reilly. So what's up? Give me the gist - I'm a night worker and just woke up. :D

[gateley]

7. He ravages Bachmann and the spokesman for the Tea Party, who's his guest on the show.

Must see TV! :hi:

[annabanana]

21. VERY nicely done, I thought.

He called that fool out mercilessly.

[malaise]

14. Bachmann said the founding fathers fought against slavery

and Tweety exploded starting with his first guest - Robert Gibbs...it is breath-taking.

[Mojeoux]

23. John Quincy Adams abhorred slavery, but he was not an abolitionist.

He felt that the radical abolitionists were a threat to the Union, and that disunion would be a disaster for civilization’s experiment with democracy. (Nagel 1997)

Jeeze Bachman...that was two minutes of American historical research!

[gateley]

4. Agree! (I've always liked Tweety personally, but I understand many don't. ) nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. The guy has a split personality.

So don't blame us if we disagree with him when he gets staunchly conservative, which he's prone to do.

[gateley]

39. I don't "blame" anybody for anything. Everybody has the right to disagree

with whomever they want. I never try to talk people into liking him, and I understand how grating he can be at times and at others says WTF? off the wall things, but I still like him. :7

[napi21]

5. YES! TOO funny when he called BAckman a balloon head!

I have to wonder if any of her people watch this show? If they do, will they tell her how wrong he was?

[gateley]

9. I doubt many do. Just like most of us wouldn't watch Fox. Hell, CNN is even on our

list!

[MrMickeysMom]

12. Actually, Tweety's head is kind of a balloon...

... It's just big, therefore the bird reference.

But, when comparing the surface area within the globe of Ms. Bachman, there's just no comparing the surface area of "space" It just sits there on her shoulders taking space.... like a b-i-g...... v-a-c-u-o-u-s...... ballroom where nobody showed up for the dance.

[UTUSN]

24. "therefore the bird reference" - nope, it was the color of Tweety Bird's feathers, MATTHEWS' Clairol

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3854829&mesg_id=3855601

Etymology of "Tweety". During Campaign 2000 the media noise machine was swooning over the nicknames Shrub was giving some of them. Media Whores Online ran a contest to nickname Chris MATTHEWS. In the first 3 or so weeks, there was no clear, catchy front runner, with "The Screamer" sort of leading. Then one of MATTHEWS's own Hardball staff leaked to MWO that they themselves called him "Tweety" because of the Clairol shade he favored. This was immediately declared the winner. But in some quarters, it wasn't entirely satisfactory. For one thing, by the time the name was declared, the shade had changed to platinum, leading to a suggestion he be called "Carole LOMBARD".



Plus, "Tweety" sounded too affectionate.



Then M-TV held its 20th or 25th or whatever anniversary, and all the cable echo chambers were doing segments of Britney shedding her duds down to almost nothing. Not to be left behind, Tweety followed suit, with a guest "culture" commentator from Time Mag, the young humor columnist, Joel STEIN. The staff kept re-running the Britney clip, and Tweety was clearly DROOLING disgustingly. STEIN said, "You're beginning to creep me out." Tweety responded, "Yeah, well, wait till YOU're 50." This led to the suggestion that "Tweety" be modified to "Tweezer" to retain the hair reference while canceling out the affection factor and also adding the (dirty old) "geezer" angle.

Darrell HAMMOND "Doing" Tweety on SNL. Tweety's ego was massively stroked after the debut of HAMMOND's impersonation of him, either in 2001 or 2002. He said, "I am now an ICON: I have been 'done' on Saturday Night Live'." The funniest line in the debut was HAMMOND as Tweety, cracking himself up with, "For the...FIFTY...people who watch this show (Hardball, not SNL)..." In the first few times HAMMOND featured him, the target was Tweety himself--manically interrupting, spitting, and drooling. However, the characterization evolved, not true to the original, where Tweety became the "rational" character surrounded by oddball, extremist "guests", with HAMMOND-Tweety shaking his head in disbelief at their partisan spin.

"Turning" from Being a Democrat. He (like G.E.RUSSERT and Pat CADDELL) still trades on having been a Democrat in the CARTER/O'NEILL era. In the hothouse of big time political flunkydom, STATUS and POWER come from the SUCCESS of your boss. RAYGUN kicked Tweety's bosses' rears, and Tweety gravitated to admiring that "success". When he started up his media career he was mentored by G.E. RUSSERT, who had himself already started "turning" by "reaching out" to LIMBOsevic and expending his formerly-Lib-bleeding-heart on those poor wingnuts who had been maligned and marginalized, lo those many years. Tweety started doing video valentines to RAYGUN, walking arm in arm with Nancy. He might have tapped into the frenzy of the FAKE impeachment, but "hatred of the CLINTONs" isn't what made him turn. The last time he was identifiably a Democrat was sometime after 1988 when Hardball (the book) was published.

How Tweety "Executed" DONAHUE on MSNBC. Tweety was on his book tour for another one of his "books" (large type, wide spaces between lines, blank half-pages). It was in the jingoistic hysteria in the run-up to the illegal Iraq attack. The book was about supposed "Americanism" --an American Civ 101 ripoff about books and movies and cultural stuff that are essentially American (think, "The Great Gatsby"). So Phil welcomed him as a colleague and peer on Phil's show for the full hour to plug the book. From the moment he appeared, there was a strange, deadly snake look in Tweety's snake eyes. Phil was walking around, apparently not sensing anything, while Tweety was motionless, following him only with his eyes. Phil brought up something or other questioning blind jingoism, and Tweety STRUCK! He started out with venom dripping, "You see THIS is EXACTLY what's wrong with you Liberals: You are NEGATIVE about this country, you find NOTHING good about it," and on and on. It took awhile before Phil figured out what was happening. Later, Phil was sitting at the table with Tweety and, weaker and weaker, did some of his trademark shoulder shrugging and arm waving. Tweety delivered the coup de grace, "What's THIS (mimicking the movements)??!! What's with the --APE-- movements???" Days or a week or two later, Phil's cancellation was announced and took effect.

How Tweety "Triggered" a Gun Incident (re: Kathleen WILLEY). At the height of the FAKE impeachment, Ms WILLEY claimed that a mystery jogger had threatened her or her cat or somebody. Several months later, there was gossip that the jogger had been identified. Tweety hosted her and it appeared they had discussed the identity off camera. He tried mightily to get her to say the name on the air, which she wouldn't do. Finally, he himself blurted it out, "Was it Name/Surname?" She would not confirm it. Within days there was a bizarre incident, with the mentally disabled brother of Pat and Bay BUCHANAN going with a gun to the house of the supposed jogger, where there were only some foreign exchange students present. Later it was determined that the person Tweety named on the air had NOTHING to do with the supposed jogger incident.

"Heroes" Tweety and Tom DeLAY. In the aftermath of the 07-24-98 shooting of two Capitol police officers when the slain officers were duly eulogized and called heroes, Tweety latched on to this, the way we have seen him attempt to glorify himself in other instances: Like saying he was assigned in the Peace Corps and "WALKED THE SAME GROUND" THAT CHURCHILL passed through. Or when he said, "I am an ICON! I have been 'done' by SNL!". So now that the Capitol policemen were being called heroes, Tweety came forward to say that HE had been a Capitol policemen, TOO, JUST LIKE THEM, when he was starting out. It turns out that he had worked a (temporary?) job for three months as that. In all the years before the officers were shot and eulogized, he probably NEVER referred to that job, most likely thinking of it as a rent-a-cop turn, until he could see in retrospect the glory that he had been DESTINED to from the beginning.

But he is not the only glory hog. When that incident was happening, the news of the moment reported that Tom DELAY had hopped a plane out of town and immediately turned around in Houston when the incident was over. This show of courage is why he has been dubbed, "Tom-DePLANE!-DePLANE!-DELAY".

But searches of countless news reports of that time show no mention of the hopping-the-plane. Only this is left:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm /... "...House members, many rushing out of town, did not have to remain behind. DeLay slipped out the main door of the Capitol less than 15 minutes after the shooting. He looked stricken. Asked if he'd seen anything, he said, "Did I ever. I don't want to talk about it." Aides rushed him into his waiting car. ...."
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[malaise]

27. Great trip down memory lane

:toast:

[UTUSN]

37. I've wondered how long my UNforgivingness of Tweety ought to last

He started getting back to criticizing Rethugs more in the last couple of years of the Shrub regime, with even his blind spot for Mc5planes seeming to fade.

But his being a total Rethug operative during Campaign 2000 and all those other things made me swear it would be nearly impossible for him to be rehabilitated, certainly not the way David BROCK has been.

[malaise]

41. Tweety is a barrel of contradictions

He's a rosy eyed man who has watched way too many movies.
I laughed yesterday when he suggested that Bachmann should have watched Gone with the Wind or some other movies.

Thankfully he learned some lessons during Bushco.

[MrMickeysMom]

40. Jeez... I've never laughed so hard being corrected!

I stand corrected (even though I think his large (pre-platinum) head and Tweety Bird are separated by birth!

:rofl:

[Beaverhausen]

8. can someone post the video? Some of us are still at work

[CatWoman]

11. ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#41261376

:hi:

[malaise]

17. You're the best

Coming up after the commercial as well -Hahahahahahahahha - Geezz that was funny - she's a balloon head, balloon head. Tweety had me in stitches. :rofl:

[CatWoman]

18. yeah

Jeopardy will have to take a back seat to this tonight!!! :rofl:

[malaise]

20. Hehehehe - isn't that the truth. Well now that I have the video

I'll switch to Jeopardy for Double Jeopardy.

Damn this is fall down funny - Tweety was genuinely pissed.
You want me to play it again - hahahahaha :rofl:

[patricia92243]

29. Thanks for the link. I have watched tweety on and off for years, I have NEVER heard him go off so

bad on anyone. He does know his history, and someone being that uninformed made him froth at the mouth.

[butterfly77]

35. Yes, he even asked..

why there was no teaparty when bush was running up the debt,amd how can he prance around like he had nothing to do with it. He finally put Halperin who I hate on the spot..

[patrice]

13. Thanks for the heads-up!

:hi:

[footinmouth]

15. It was must-see TV

The stupid so hurts.

[Kurovski]

19. It's on now!

That was GOOOOOOD!

[malaise]

22. GOOOOOOOOOOD does not quite describe this one

It was a beat down of the highest proportions and fall down funny to boot. :hi: :rofl:

[Kurovski]

25. I was

saving some of my "O's" for later tonight. ;-) :hi:

[malaise]

28. LOL

:fistbump:
David Corn, Eugene and Tweety are having a good laugh - they are pissed. Vast ignorance does not describe Balloon head.

[Kurovski]

30. The Queen of Trancelvanya.

"What's wrong with her?" Someone just asked in a clip on Larry O's joint. :D

[malaise]

31. Love it

Maybe they're drinking mushroom tea and are hypnotized :evilgrin:

[my2sense]

26. Yes, it appears he's bucking to be the

to be the call it like it is news guy on MSNBC. He had me rolling tonight. He beat them like they stole something.

[malaise]

32. That was a beating

I loved it. :hi:

[H2O Man]

33. Recommended.

I like and respect Mr. Matthews. Of course, he sometimes says things that make me cringe. But he is a good man.

[butterfly77]

34. I awoke to it earlier...

and I was:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[proud patriot]

36. Agreed

My husband can't stand him, yet he enjoyed the show.
He usually tells me to turn the channel when hardball
is on. He didn't today.

[kayakjohnny]

38. Wow. That's a keeper.

Been sitting here for 45 minutes trying to get that player to work.

Finally did and it was worth the wait.

Thanks for the link.

Again, wow.

[Major Hogwash]

42. He'll have to apologize later.

Using that tone of rhetoric is not going to do anything but throw more wood on the fire.

[TicketyBoo]

43. I was pleasantly surprised by this thread.

I figured some of the virulent types would be accusing him of misogyny for calling her what she is.

[malaise]

44. She is too stupid for sympathy

I'd love to see a celebrity Jeopardy show with Palin, Bachmann and Rachel. Rachel would have them on the mat but I would be ROFL. :rofl: