Matthews drops the F-bomb.
By on Feb 7th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Matthews drops the F-bomb.
Once again allowing his emotions to get the better of him, Hardball host Chris Matthews told Don Imus this morning that he’s “so sick of Southern guys with ranches running this country. I want a guy to run for President who doesn’t have a f**king — I’m sorry, a ranch.” Watch it:
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Bush’s ranch is a fake one. He just uses it for bike trails.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:57 amWhy does it have to be a guy, Chris?
February 7th, 2007 at 11:57 am(Hey, what am I saying…… I’ve got a half-acre in the middle of a one horse town, vote for ME!)
Guys with big horse ranches, bad. On the flip side, Dennis Kusinich lived out of a car as a child.
Somewhere in the middle are well-adjusted people with nothing to prove other than that they know well enough not run the country into the ground.
Let’s pick one of them. A smart one. With a soul.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:01 pmBush never had a “ranch” until he was about to become Prez. The “ranch” was and still is, fake.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:03 pm“I just saw the most incredible prostitute.” — Chris Matthews.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:04 pmLess political correctness… good for Matthews. Now if only he had told Tom Delay how much of a f*ck he is instead of kissing his ass that one week…
February 7th, 2007 at 12:05 pmThis is a red herring designed to spark a discussion (argument) that will polarize to ranchers (ie; common man) vs. elite (ie; Washington establishment).
Chris Matthews is a propaganda tool, pure and simple, and is being used here to help frame a position. The use of the f-bomb was just to ensure that this got adequate press.
I beg you not to fall for it.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:07 pmWhen did Matthews get a “set”? Eeewww- they’re so little!
February 7th, 2007 at 12:08 pmI want a perverse lesbian, male-impersonator for President! Oh yeah… we already have one. Never mind!
I think Tweety is a dipshit, but if he keeps dropping the f-bomb, I’ll have to carve out a tiny warm spot in my heart for him.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:12 pmThe only other “Ranch Prez” was Reagan. Mathews suddenly hates Ronny??? Huh.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:15 pm(Ahem….)
in my neighborhood, the ranchers are the elite, or, well, at least they think so…..
They are also arrogant isolationists who shoot anything larger than a cat, on the grounds it could kill one of their precious cows. And they drive to fast, and throw their empties out the window. And, and, and….
(I’m going to go take a time out now……)
February 7th, 2007 at 12:17 pmSlobbery McSpittleLip is at it again!
February 7th, 2007 at 12:17 pmBTW, doesn’t a “ranch” have to have livestock on it to be considered a real ranch? Or are they refering to the syle of home, in real estate agent parlance? Either way, Dumbya is all hat, no cattle.
Sorry, Tweetie, I don’t think you your opinion is worth a darn. You practically swooned over Bush and all his “manliness”. “Oooo, he cuts brush.”, “Ooooo, he wore a jumpsuit with a padded codpiece”. “Oooo, women just love a man dressed up like a fighter pilot”. (I, for one, thought it was ridiculous.)
Now ol’ Tweetie is gaga over Giuliani. “He has street cred.” “He can protect us from terrorism”. “Oooooo, ahhhhh.”
I give Giuliani points for saying the right things after 9/11. But good grief, he protected us from nothing. As for being able to say the right things, most politicians know what to say (except for Dubya, he admits he mangles the English language), but what they do over time is the test. From what I am reading, a lot of New Yorkers considered his pre-9/11 time in the mayor’s office a complete disaster.
Tweetie needs to stop drinking the kool aid and look deeper than the glossy magazine covers
February 7th, 2007 at 12:17 pmRaven do the ranchers throw out their “duckies” from the truck. It’s a bottle full of pee.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:21 pmSo when can we expect Matthews to receive a $1 million fine from the FCC–it’s $375,000 per word/incident isn’t it?.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:21 pmFor myself I don’t find the words offensive but Matthews himself because there is something seriously wrong with him. I mean I totally agree with his sentiment here but then on his Sunday show he can’t stop gushing about how manly and aithentic Bush is. I think he’s schrizophrenic ( and a total lightweight all around).
How dare folks that live in the country and enjoy the outdoors have any power or say in this country! Only Elitist’s that have never seen a corn field should be allowed to run for office.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:23 pmRaven do the ranchers throw out their “duckies†from the truck. It’s a bottle full of pee.
Comment by ForTruth
Something like that has a name?
February 7th, 2007 at 12:25 pmRoger I think you have given me my first strawman. Thanks.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:26 pmRogerx2 — once again totally misses the point.
Oy.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:26 pmNo, they just pull over, wherever they are…..
I see the yellow jugs on the interstate, though. Not sure who drops those off…
Thank you for the local colloquialism!
February 7th, 2007 at 12:27 pmHow dare folks that live in the country and enjoy the outdoors have any power or say in this country! Only Elitist’s that have never seen a corn field should be allowed to run for office.
Comment by Roger_Dodger — February 7, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
WTF? Did you just randomly type words or what???
February 7th, 2007 at 12:29 pmWhat are you really trying to post?
I’d love to debate this, whatever the hell this is!
Chris is fighting for his job. Tweety has supported Bush and the GOP so much you’d think he was related to them. He continues to put down Hillary even before she ran for President. He had jokes about Bill Clinton and other Dems. His racist remarks about Obama. He supported everything Bush did from day one even when thousands of soldiers died. Now that Cheney and Bush are caught he wants to act like he doesn’t know them. Once his friends used Tim Russert to cover they lie the word was out and Tweety is scared he’ll go down with his friends. Tweety made fun of Patrick Fitzgerald and Michael Moore and embarrassed Mrs. Edwards. Tweety is a true liar and is now turning like a rat on his best friends Bush/GOP.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:29 pmDoen’t Imus have that button he can push to bleep people when they do that? Randi does.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:30 pmUmmm, Bush isn’t a ‘Southern’ guy. He’s an f’ing carpetbagger who pretends to be southern.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:30 pmYes Zooey, we have to name things, even bottles full of pee.
I think the truckers give those gifts to society.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:31 pmI can’t stand Matthew’s, just another screamer cutting in to every conversation he start’s….No manners and a lousy show. Like bush can’t stand him either…As far as a ranch goes so goes the bush dictatorship…No ranch, no president…bush is a distroyer and war creator or front for his backers, cheney and the house of saud….A ranch like a farm is producing something rather it is 10 acres or 10,000 acres. The only thing this jerk produces is misery for us and the world…..Blessings
February 7th, 2007 at 12:32 pm#16…..
February 7th, 2007 at 12:32 pmc’mon by our local REI on Saturday and have a chat with the rest of us nature girls and boys…….
The neocons haven’t learned about the “duckie” yet. They still have pee-soaked pants.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:35 pmThey could take a clue from a crazy astronaut and wear a diaper.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:38 pmFor Truth, I didn’t know they had a name either…From eastern washington over the passes to the west our highway’s are littered with those nasty bottles….It didn’t use to be like that….Four year’s ago there were none and now they are every where….Blessings
February 7th, 2007 at 12:41 pmHe’s tired NOW of dude ranch leaders, but he used to be INFATUATED with them not too long ago.
By, gosh, he used to swoon about the manly Captain Codpiece Bush Jr. Republicans versus the wimpy Dem’s, just like he did with Ranch Reagan in his day.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:41 pmWhen did Tweety start making sense?
February 7th, 2007 at 12:43 pmI think the truckers give those gifts to society.
Comment by ForTruth
Now I really feel sorry for the people who pick up trash on the highways…
February 7th, 2007 at 12:45 pmThere is an official pee bottle you can buy, with a curved-up opening. It’s called a ducky. The un-official pee bottles are what is seen. I call them duckies too.
I am sick now, and ready to move on. This is why I don’t adopt a highway. Lets say greed is behind the piss-bottle litter. Isn’t greed wonderful.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:51 pmpoor chrissy, so out of sorts now that his man-lover george w is revealed as a totally bogus cowboy.
this is the guy who gushed with the orgasmic enthusiasm of a 13 year old girl having a crush on a teacher towards george w in the run-up to the iraqi war and it takes the guy years of bush’s blatant public lying and of laying waste to human decency to know that he is is the worst enemy America ever encountered?
shocking, like gambling at Rick’s Cafe.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:52 pmnote to tweety: dim son is not a cowboy and he doesn’t live on a ranch. in fact, dim son is askeered of horsies and lives on a redecorated pig farm. but all you ohsosophisticated chatter mavens fell for the myth.
just ask howard fineman.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:54 pmHoward Dean’s house in Vermont was a very mediocre suburban raised ranch. I guess that isn’t what the cocktail eaters wanted either. No ranches, check. No ordinary houses, check. So what does he want, a cardboard box?
February 7th, 2007 at 12:55 pmHmmm. Does this mean Edwards shouldn’t go on Tweety’s show?
I mean, he used that word.
I’m sure Malkin will be all over this.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:56 pm.
Piss in a bottle is called “duckies”? I thought it was called “Budweiser”.
Sorry folks, couldn’t resist that one. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming…
February 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pmBut, but….BUSH is so MANLY.
Cutting brush and all that.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pmIt’s idiotic for the media to keep calling El Rancho Potemkino a ‘ranch’. As others have noted, Bush bought it just as he was gearing up his presidential campaign, in order to pose as “Reaganesque’. If the media was honest, they’d call it what it is, Bush’s country estate. But no, that sounds too elitist. And to be accurate, the same could be said for Reagan’s ranch – but it at least had been a working ranch at one time in the past.
So if the press doesn’t want to talk about the ‘vacation home’ or the ‘country estate’. they could follow the Reagan tradition and give the place its last agricultural designator and call it the Bush pig farm. (No, I’m not kidding, you can look it up – before Bush bought El Rancho Potemkino, it was a pig farm.)
February 7th, 2007 at 12:58 pmlinda in #38:
“Chatter mavens” – ooooo… I like that lots.
The term I use: “Ball-chasing puppies”
Same-o, same-o.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:02 pmWasn’t LBJ the first and only Southern guy who had a ranch, as opposed to a New Englander or Midwesterner who had an estate he called a ranch?
February 7th, 2007 at 1:05 pmI don’t know how anyone can imagine that someone who owns a ranch with many thousands of acres is anything but affluent. This is one of those dumb ideas, like Bush being a man of the people, when he comes from great inherited wealth and never had to work a day, when most us– the real people– can’t even imagine that.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:06 pmAre we talking about Bandar Matthews?
February 7th, 2007 at 1:07 pmIn the past, Tweety fawned all over Bush, adoring his swagger, particularly in the jock-strapped jumpsuit on the aircraft carrier.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:15 pmNow that the world has seen the cardboard cowboy for what he is – except the the 28% of Americans who are brain-dead republiscum, and their representtives in congress – Matthews is showing a little disgust with dubya.
Too little, too late — we still have two more years of death and destruction to look forward to under Bush’s reign.
Chris made a mistake… Bush isn’t a true southerner… he just plays one on TV. And he isn’t very good at it either.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:17 pmThe only other “Ranch Prez†was Reagan. Mathews suddenly hates Ronny??? Huh.
Wrong-o.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:20 pmJohnson had the original Texas ranch. And reportedly, it was a *real* one. Bush is escared of horses.
Chris is too dense to realize it isn’t the ranch he has a problem with, it is the policies. Maybe once Matthews realizes that fact he will stop hyping-up Guiliani and McCain so much on his show…because both McCain and Guiliani have almost identical platforms to Bush. Just because they don’t come from a ranch, doesn’t mean their attitude and behaviour and bravado isn’t the same.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:20 pmI guess Tweety feels REAL men live in multi-million dollar mansions on Nantucket Island.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:24 pmChris just meant that he didn’t want someone who owned a ranch in This TownThis town in Germany to be President…
February 7th, 2007 at 1:25 pmHere’s the link, don’t know why it didn’t work properly before
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/311203757_c0bdd3e942.jpg?v=0
February 7th, 2007 at 1:28 pmAl Gore wasn’t on a ranch during Katrina, or a street corner answering questions. He was on a plane getting people out.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:35 pmMatthews must have Bi-Polar disorder.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:36 pmThe statement that bull shit bush is a southerner is as false as him being the president….First off he is from Kenny bunk pork, Main-ly..spelt wrong on purpose..Second he is an evil little pupett, pretend cowboy, drug induced not drug store type with no hat no cattle, no pig;s and only produces misery to all but his rich and getting richer backers like darth cheney…..Hell, he didn’t even win the election’s, it’s been proven they were set up and stolen by hook and by crook’s….Blessings
February 7th, 2007 at 1:36 pmJoe thats hilarious. The link to the Austrian town.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:42 pmDilemma: Think Progress and other liberal blogs have called Matthews a conservative Bush shill earlier. Guess not?
February 7th, 2007 at 1:52 pmI think we just found Obama’s next campaign slogan: Vote Obama! No farking ranch here.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:53 pmRoger: “Only Elitist’s that have never seen a corn field should be allowed to run for office.”
Hey dumbass, the president you support so stubbornly was his family’s 17th legacy at Yale, part of a string of legacies dating back to the 1840’s. That makes him part of the elite by definition. Get a frickin clue!
February 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pmwas watching it live this morning when Matthews said it, in his phone call to Imus.
i’ve noticed Matthews always vents a lot harder when he’s calling in on those early morning phoners with Imus…
then he goes all limp on us when he’s on camera.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:09 pmvoxpopgirl, I think the reason Matthews “goes all limp” on us when he’s on television is that he’s bought and payed for by Jack Welsh. He’s Welsh’s boy, and he damn well doesn’t want to do anything that would make Jack angry. Welsh is the one who gave him his $5 mil a year contract.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:21 pmIt is a humiliation to a fine group of American agricultural workers to refer to Bush and his coterie as ‘cowboys’ – Imus himself, as does every other wannabe disgraces the fine people that are outside, working cattle, by wearing that ridiculous hat and (probably) high heeled boots. The clothes don’t get you saddle sores.
A pig farm is not a ranch (the president’s stage set ranch was a pig farm).
February 7th, 2007 at 2:31 pmF Bomb?
February 7th, 2007 at 2:36 pmWho gives a flying F bomb?
I thought this was 2007.
couser, you’ve also never seen a picture of Bush riding a horse. He’s afraid of horses. He’s the definition of poser and so is that idiot Imus. I mean, what’s that 10-gallon hat in the studio for. Is the sun shining in there?
February 7th, 2007 at 2:37 pmWhat tuber said. We don’t need a division between rural and city, or rancher and non-rancher, Chris. So, please don’t try to start one. What we need is competent-enough, honest-enough leadership. Which we haven’t had in 6 years, at least. It doesn’t matter what deck of the S.S. America you come from, just bail like hell.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:37 pmDilemma: Think Progress and other liberal blogs have called Matthews a conservative Bush shill earlier. Guess not? Comment by Seixon — February 7, 2007 @ 1:52 pm
Tweety grew a pair when Bush’s popularity tanked, and Republicans lost the last elections. When will yours sprout, or is it too cold in Norway for you to grow any?
February 7th, 2007 at 2:37 pmRemember, Dave. This is the guy who was deeply disturbed and troubled by Clinton’s BJ’s. Just the idea of that was an attack on his delicate sensibilities. Plus, he’s a good catholic boy.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:39 pmThe thing I like about Tweetie is that you can always count on him to give you high word count/minute of speech. It’s a pleasure watching the master of Big Time Verborrhea practice his craft.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:43 pmPeople like Sexion have crap for memories. Matthews spent the 90’s lambasting all things Clinton and he spent 2 years trying to convince the public that Gore was a creep and a liar and Bush was a “regular guy.” Matthews is a big reason why we have Bush and we’re in Iraq. There’s blood dripping off of him.
These days, he’s working overtime trying to convince us that Hillary is a creep, Guliani is a great guy and St. McCain is a man’s man patriot.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:44 pmMatthews recently laid out $4.4 Million for a house on Nantucket Island. That could buy alot of ranch.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:49 pmI love Chris Matthews. He has no filter.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:14 pmImus the coward cannot get “will the FCC spank me?” confirmation fast enuf-
Imus is the Inverse of a normal human smile
February 7th, 2007 at 3:15 pmThe shrub as a rancher is all hat (pint-sixed) and no cattle.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:38 pmWasn’t Tweedy for Bush, before he was against him?
I have a recollection of him just gushing over the “heroic” pres on board the USS A. Lincoln declaring ‘Mission Accomplished”. Seems like he used to gush often,…..
February 7th, 2007 at 3:42 pmFirst Doris Kearns Goodwin quotes LBJ about “Communists and cocksuckers,” on Imus, and now Tweety dropping the F-bomb, maybe I need to watch that wrinkled old coot more often.
February 7th, 2007 at 5:16 pmSouthern guys with ranches…are you sure he’s not talking about Carter’s peanut ranch?
February 7th, 2007 at 6:06 pmI want someone to run the country who puts the people first, and their party affiliation dead last. I want someone to run the country who puts the United States first, and every other country last. I want someone to run the country who believes in liberty and justice and equal rights for all, not just for heterosexuals. I want someone to run the country, who can run a country, instead of run the country into the ground. I want someone to run the country who believes in diplomacy, instead of machismo and war. I want someone to run this country, and not one of the people who’ve thrown their hats in the ring so far fit the bill.
February 7th, 2007 at 7:31 pmmatthews…………isn’t he that beauty pageant judge? who gives a flyin f*ck what he thinks about presidents?
February 7th, 2007 at 7:55 pmTP? Could you do something with this posters name?
ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus
It is mischaracterizing someone elses name in a bad light.
Your attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.
ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus needs to be BANNED!
February 7th, 2007 at 9:35 pmi keep my hourse inside my horse, is it still a ranch house?
February 7th, 2007 at 10:34 pmOk, First, the F-bomb was bleeped on the radio show and NOT on MSNBC..
Second, MSNBC is a Cable channel. They can say whatever they want.
-Mike
February 7th, 2007 at 10:36 pmBush is not a “southern guy!” He’s a silver spoon, spoiled, C average Yale boy who acts like a good ‘ol boy from Texas, only after years & years of driving one oil company after another into the ground, trying to strike it rich in West Texas.
February 7th, 2007 at 10:59 pmChris Matthews values are much more obscene than any words.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:02 pm(I would be thrilled to get a C average at Yale.)
Because America trusts republican ranch owners more than democrat men who carry purses.
February 8th, 2007 at 12:39 am“I want someone to run the country, who can run a country, instead of run the country into the ground.” (Earthling)
(fair use)
I’m trying, I’m trying…..
February 8th, 2007 at 12:44 amWe need more cussing and swearing. These people deserved to cursed and sworn until the day the leave office. That’s it.
February 8th, 2007 at 2:36 amSee this…. Looks Awesome…http://enginepuller.com/
February 8th, 2007 at 3:07 amWHO f**king CARES
February 8th, 2007 at 3:19 amHey, I hate uncle Ronnie. Wanna talk about another evil president? I’m willing to engage in that discussion.
February 8th, 2007 at 9:31 amI never watch this two hemorrhoided(faced) clown however, if I don’t surf quickly enough to get past it, it seems that he’s always about to drool.
February 8th, 2007 at 10:36 amI wonder whether the drool will be sperm, ya’ll.
This is ridiculous and a waste of space. Here we are about to nuke Iran and we spend this electronic asset worrying about school boys vocabulary and whether W has a true ranch or not. No wonder Americans watch stupid tv and elect nitwits to represent them.
February 8th, 2007 at 11:54 amHilarious irony:
And then you read the comments to this post.
Still outraged?
/Matthews a conservative shill? What are you guys, a bunch of Marxists?? Good grief!
February 8th, 2007 at 4:13 pmLook, it’s time for a national lottery – the “winner” get’s stuck being President for an eight year term.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:12 amAfter the results of an elected President like we have now, no matter who we got they would be better and more honest.
No more Ranchers? how about no more politicians?
No I don’t mean use professional administrators, we’ve seen what happens with that on the BP pipeline, the Daimler/Chrysler hoseup and Enron. The Pro’s are worse that the aout and out, nobodys (Joe Citizen).
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February 24th, 2007 at 1:31 pm