Chris Matthews asks the important questions.
By on May 31st, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Chris Matthews asks the important questions.
Matthews on Al Gore: “Do you think, uh, do you think, Jill, he’s had cosmetic surgery around the eyes, below the eyes? What do you think? … You don’t want to talk about that one? Everybody’s so afraid of that one, but I think there’s some work been done. It looks pretty good actually.”
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Do you think Chris Mathews has had a lobotomy? Or is he an alcoholic? Of maybe it’s Oxycontin?
May 31st, 2007 at 1:29 pmMatthews is such a twit.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:34 pmChris Matthews : another slobbering, sycophant pundit for The Bush Family Cabal POSING as a credible journalist.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:34 pmWe should ask the same about his wife.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:35 pmBut the REAL question is… how much did he pay for his haircut???
May 31st, 2007 at 1:35 pmTweety is off his rocker again.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:35 pmPut down the bottle, Tweety, you’re supposed to be on the wagon.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:36 pmWas he drooling?
May 31st, 2007 at 1:36 pmOh that frisky liberal media asking the hard questions…cripes we suck as a country now, what a laughing stock we have become to the world.
Hating what we have become daily
May 31st, 2007 at 1:37 pmOne of the most important indicators people have been talking about regarding a potential Gore candidacy is his physical appearance–most notably his weight, but there’s no obvious reason plastic surgery shouldn’t count. And a Gore candidacy would certainly further destabilize an already unsettled Democratic field. So, is thinkprogress just not interested? Or do you just dislike Matthews that much?
May 31st, 2007 at 1:38 pmconfirmed: tweety is a shallow hal…
May 31st, 2007 at 1:41 pmWhy, oh why, is any legitimate source of information printing anything at all that Tweety sputters? Amazing
May 31st, 2007 at 1:43 pmOne of the most important indicators people have been talking about regarding a potential Gore candidacy is his physical appearance–most notably his weight, but there’s no obvious reason plastic surgery shouldn’t count. And a Gore candidacy would certainly further destabilize an already unsettled Democratic field. So, is thinkprogress just not interested? Or do you just dislike Matthews that much?
Comment by Chris
Or, perhaps, “Chris”, people at TP think that the American public deserves a slightly deeper analysis of the candidates and that fretting over whether or not Gore gained 20 lbs is so utterly irrelevant and inconsequential that it’s incredibly annoying!
Who cares?
May 31st, 2007 at 1:43 pmMSM, one part of the unholy trinity, and the one most responsible for where we are today.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:47 pmIsn’t Matthews looking into having his stomach stapled? I mean everybody’s so afraid of that one, but I think he looking into it.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:48 pmThis is what passes for “hardball” these days?
GWB looks healthy, but he’s a crap president. So who gives a shit what someone looks like? We need someone who can do the job properly.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:52 pmWhere’s Sylvester the Cat when you need him?
Who let Tweety out of his cage?
I taut I saw a Puddy Cat!
May 31st, 2007 at 1:52 pmComment by Chris — May 31, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
Idiot. Plastic surgery, going on a diet, or generally trying to improve the way someone appears, has no business being ‘news’. It is a distraction, and an insult to America to keep feeding us this pap. You sir are obviously part of the brainwashed 28%’ers, I’m sure you’re happy about the news that CNN just hired a ‘reporter’ whos job it will be to cover more ’stories’ about Michael Jackson – yay, how fun is that?
May 31st, 2007 at 1:53 pmWait to go Tweety! With crackerjack journo’s like yourself on point, the republic feels safer than ever. Keep up the great work.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:53 pmI like Matthews, but I do agree sometimes he is a little dorky. He strikes me as genuine though. Same with Tucker and Scarborough. They seem like honest guys, for the most part. I don’t know why people here pick on Matthews so much.
~Sean
May 31st, 2007 at 1:55 pmThe fact that this is noteworthy at all (whether someone has cosmetic surgery) speaks volumes for the level of idiocy and ignorance of the american people. We’d rather hear all the lurid details of the train-wreck-of-a-life called Anna Nicole than to discover the truth about how we got ourselves into this debacle called Iraq. We’d rather believe the brainwashed “lie” about how great this country is and what a “superpower” we are than to be brutally honest with ourselves and our complicity in permitting the Bush Cabal to continue their crime spree. Do the people of this country have their collective heads up their rear ends?? It would appear so since we are more concerned about whether a man has had plastic surgery than what qualities and qualifications and intelligence he can bring to the quagmire we currently find ourselves embroiled in….what the hell is going on?? Have we totally lost our way – never to regain any sense of morality and truth in our lives?
Who gives a rat’s ass about how great or how fat Al Gore looks?? After all, the fools who believed that a president with a lower IQ than themselves and spoke like an illiterate (and still does) is somehow “cute”, “delightful”, or a “breath of fresh air”…..just look where that got this country!
We didn’t get a breath of fresh air – we got a miasma of evil so putrid that it will take another 200 years for this country to rid itself of the stench – that’s what we got!
Focus on things that matter, people. Don’t underestimate your own intelligence and fall for the “trap” of the neocons who have planned and are still carrying out the “dumbing down of america”. They don’t want you to think for yourself; they don’t want you to know the Truth; they don’t want you to have actual facts and data; they want “blind faith”….blind faith so they can manipulate and twist you in so many directions that you will not know which end is up.
Do not be tricked into tomfoolery and complacency about the “real issues”. Do not allow these tricksters to hijack the important “conversation” which SHOULD BE TAKING PLACE in this country…..and it’s not about Anna Nicole, Al Gore’s plastic surgery….be not deceived by the “great deceiver” who once called himself the “great decider”……it only amounts to the addition of a “e” and the replacement of a “d” with a “v”…. and you are one step closer to a more accurate moniker for this ultimate shapeshifter.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:03 pmChris: “One of the most important indicators people have been talking about regarding a potential Gore candidacy is his physical appearance–most notably his weight…”
Oh, my frickin god! This is what corporate news and morons like Chris Matthews have done to us. Nevermind the issues, forget about foreign policy, nevermind about healthcare. Sure, Gore has been spectacularly right about almost every issue facing us today… but he’s fat.
Few pundits in the mainstream slammed and distorted Gore like Chris Matthews did during the election in 2000. I sometimes wonder if he feels any responsibility for the fact that Bush has set the world on fire, destroyed our standing in it and led the most lawless administration in history. Those 3400 soldiers would not be dead in Iraq if it weren’t for people like Chris Matthews. And, now he’s asking questions about plastic surgery…
May 31st, 2007 at 2:04 pmSean,
Go back to the top of this thread, and look at the tripe that came out of Tweety’s mouth. Then come back and report your findings.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:05 pmI don’t care one thing about his weight or any vanity issue and neither do most thinking reality based humans.
Would he upset the apple cart in the Presidential race? Damn right he would, cause he’d WIN. He is campaigning, but in his OWN WAY is what I think. He’s putting the reason back into the argument, he is engaged and engaging people and able to get his ideas out there on a global level. He is so passionate, so articulate. This is what we need in a president. We need a youtube with Bush speech outtakes with speech outtakes from Gore to show the dramatic differences.
He’s the new FDR, nobody cares about his weight. Reason is on it’s way back into vogue. He is not engaging in the political race crap, yet he is getting more visibility and attention and laying out his game plan. It is absolute GENIUS.
Check out his CurrentTV
May 31st, 2007 at 2:05 pmhttp://www.current.tv/about
Then again, perhaps Chris Matthews needs to find a “real job” if the most important question in this time of crisis is whether Al Gore had plastic surgery or not – wow! To what levels this sycophantic media whoremongers lower themselves. If they are not spoon fed the propaganda coming directly from the GOP talking points, they are incapable of even thinking for themselves…..ergo….Matthews becomes the flaming buffoon of the telly.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:05 pmWhat do you think? Is Matthews an idiot?
Do you think he has had his brain altered — you know, some sagging lobes removed?
He looks about the same, but he has a weird shape to his head these days.
Matthews – no longer a news anchor, but now a gossip columnist.
All the wants to talk about is Hillary’s marriage, Edwards’ haircut, Gore’s (alleged) cosmetic surgery, and this week I also heard him discuss the hairstyles of the various candidates.
Matthews needs time off — about 5 years.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:07 pmTIME TO BOYCOTT HARDBALL NOW! IT WILL JOIN THE JUNKPILE CALLED FOX NEWS….WHICH, SOON, WILL BECOME TOTALLY IRRELEVANT. BYE BYE CHRIS…YOU’VE FINALLY GONE OVER THE EDGE ON THIS ONE. BUFFOON.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:08 pmLOL! Matthews is soooo off the bar with that one. Who gives a damn???
May 31st, 2007 at 2:10 pmSorry party people, looks matter. Ask Romney or Kucinich. The fact that you don’t like it doesn’t change that fact. And, looks are a good indicator of whether Gore is going to enter the most important Presidential race of our lifetimes. So, again, I’m surprised thinkprogress finds conversations about it worth belittling. But I guess they know their readership.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:11 pmSean: “I don’t know why people here pick on Matthews so much.”
Let me help you out there, Sean. During the 2000 election, Matthews said this about Gore while on the Imus show: “He doesn’t look like one of us. He doesn’t seem very American, even.â€
This year, his first question to Repubs at their first debate: “Mayor Giuliani, how do we get back to Ronald Reagan’s morning in America?”
Are you beginning to get it?
May 31st, 2007 at 2:13 pmChris Matthews: Misinformer of the Year
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512230005
Nuff said.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:14 pmHere that people? Chris thinks WE’RE shallow for focusing on things like issues as opposed to looks. Nice going, Chris. Way to be part of the machine.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:15 pmorry party people, looks matter. Ask Romney or Kucinich. The fact that you don’t like it doesn’t change that fact.
You really are thtoopid ain’t you – I didn’t say that looks were unimportant, it’s the reporting on them by the MSM rather than reporting on issues that matter.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:16 pmSorry party people, looks matter. Ask Romney or Kucinich. The fact that you don’t like it doesn’t change that fact. And, looks are a good indicator of whether Gore is going to enter the most important Presidential race of our lifetimes. So, again, I’m surprised thinkprogress finds conversations about it worth belittling. But I guess they know their readership.
Comment by Chris
Among very shallow people, looks matter. This is how we ended up with buffoons like Reagan and GWB as presidents. “Wow, they sure look presidential.”
It’s a complex world, Chris, and the President of the United States should be someone who has a brain and knows how to use it, not someone who appeals to your personal sense of attractiveness.
Yes, TP knows their readership: people who are concerned about getting the country on the right track.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:16 pmas much as I agree that all these buffoons like Matthews and Tucker and Limpbaugh spew trash, what scares me is that people WATCH IT. Boycott all the loudmouthed liars and scum like Matthews will disappear.
We need a reality based TRULY “fair and balanced” MSM news outlet! How I miss real investigative news reporting!
May 31st, 2007 at 2:22 pmIt baffles me how they call MSM “liberal” when clearly MSM has a heavy right wing bent.
Who on earth would gain a substantial amount of weight and at the same time have cosmetic surgery?
even taken on its own terms the question is unimaginably stupid.
Chris Matthews is Jiminy Glick.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:24 pmGo back to the top of this thread, and look at the tripe that came out of Tweety’s mouth. …comment by zooey
Zooey….”tripe” is one of my most favorite words to use to describe the things spewed from the Republic Party and its supporters.
Great choice of a word to use!!
May 31st, 2007 at 2:31 pmAmericans are obsessed with looks over brains. With a hint that Gore may consider a run in 2008, there is nothing more important than the bags under his eyes to get ignorant Americans off track (attention span is very short)
http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=274
from the real issues Gore wants to address.
This is an example of what Gore addressed earlier about how Media is more concerned with trivial drivel.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/21/gore-sawyer-interview/
May 31st, 2007 at 2:34 pmWell how am I supposed to spend all day focusing on one guy with tuberculosis if I have to worry about whether Al Gore had plastic surgery?
May 31st, 2007 at 2:34 pmSorry party people, looks matter. Ask Romney or Kucinich. The fact that you don’t like it doesn’t change that fact. And, looks are a good indicator of whether Gore is going to enter the most important Presidential race of our lifetimes. So, again, I’m surprised thinkprogress finds conversations about it worth belittling. But I guess they know their readership.
Comment by Chris
I think they matter a little bit more to you neocons that to progressives. After all you guys are getting all hot an bothered over another actor candidate.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:38 pmI used to have to raise the roost poles and shovel out the hen house a couple of times when I was a boy on the farm. Shoveling several inches of chicken shit mixed with feathers, sort of like watching Chris Matthews.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:38 pmTripe is the name commonly given to the stomach tissue of ruminant animals. Bovines have four stomachs through which their food undergoes different stages of digestion.
From the first, the rumen, comes the “blanket” tripe, so named because of its “pile”. It varies in thickness and is often accompanied with a layer of fat which needs to be removed.
The second stomach, the reticulum, produces “honeycomb” tripe, generally preferred by cooks because it keeps its shape during cooking and also because it holds, on its textured surface, the sauce in which it is cooked.
Tripe from the third stomach, the omasum, is known as “bible”, “book” or “seam” tripe.
Tripe from the fourth stomach, the abomasum, produces “reed tripe”-glandular tripe and is rarely used.
Tripe is almost always cleaned, bleached and par-cooked before it appears in butcher shops.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:38 pmAs long as we’re talking, did I mention how much I dislike selective quotations? The segment on Gore was, what, five, ten, fifteen minutes? So before trashing Matthew for the above, I’m sure everyone on this thread read the entirety of that transcript, right? Or was the whole thing worthless (whatever the rest of it was) because of what was literally a five second digression?
May 31st, 2007 at 2:39 pmDo not waste your time with Matthews. He acts more like the village gossip than a political commentator. He is overpaid, lazy and is unlikely to really discuss the really important issues that concern us all.
If he were capable of intellectual honesty, he would be discussing Iraq, the unraveling Attorney General Scandal, the position this nation is in because a fraternity clown has conducted our foreign and domestic policy like it was a keg party.
To have high expectations of Matthews is just unrealistic. Its ALL about Chris and how clever and smart he is in his OWN eyes. In other words, he is a very, very insecure man who loves to name-drop and make himself seem more relevant than he really is.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:40 pmLet’s see: For president of the United States (and supposed leader of the free world) do I vote for someone pretty, or bitchy or rich. Well, let me read The Enquire–no, wait I’ll watch Matthews — hardball my a$$.
How about an unbias and truthful profile/interview of someone who will get us out of Iraq, restore our world standing and be faithful to our Constitution. We dont need looks, we need brains and guts.
Thank God I do not have to rely on MSM to give me the real important truth. Thank God for TP and other web sites.
Damn, I am a child of the 60’s — grew up on and trusted Walter Cronkite–where is someone who will ask the really hard questions and DEMAND truthful answers? Keith Obermann is the closest I can get (and a great job I think he is doing), but good grief, he was/is a sportscaster.
Why cant people like Matthews, Gregory and Blitzer be journalists instead of personalities? Why cant these guys grow some kahonies? Why wont they be truthful with the American people? (Yeah, I know–the are the corporate ho’s and are paid by them to screw whomever whenever, but a girl can hope.)
May 31st, 2007 at 2:46 pmChris advertise his ‘Hardball” show by saying ” I ask tough questions, until I get answers…”
Is Al Gore face cosmetic work is one of these tough questions…?
Looks like Chris is thinking about having some work done to his face,when he said:”It looks pretty good actually..”!!
May 31st, 2007 at 2:46 pmJesus Christ Mattews!
May 31st, 2007 at 2:47 pmI find it fascinating that , as i write this comment, 43 other folks have taken time to comment on mathews and his pig like commentary on Gore!
May 31st, 2007 at 2:48 pmGet a life folks and do the only thing that will have a chance at removing that disgusting porcine disgrace from the airwaves– Shun the slob. Don’t watch his presence on air and write msnbc and wherever his pork-like presence appears!
And- TP- why not stop posting anything on mathews.Anything at all. God knows there are enough other items that need to be discussed.
REMEMBER- SHUN the PIG!
What about Mark Halperin?….Next to Mathews, this guy is the biggest Gore hater around. Didn’t ABC News get rid of him? I’ve been hearing for years from little Mark about trivial nonsense about Gore. He was going at it again yesterday by lying about Gore’s Poll Numbers “not having any traction.”
May 31st, 2007 at 3:36 pmActually nothing’s further from the truth. In fact without announcing, Gore has shown in at least three polls to be running close to Clinton and Obama. In a CNN poll, he was the only Democrat beating or in a tie with every announced Republican Candidate.
Al Gore’s Vulcan Utopia
David Brooks, National Post, page A21
Published: Thursday, May 31, 2007
If you’re going to read Al Gore’s book, you’re going to have to steel yourself for a parade of sentences like the following:
“The remedy for what ails our democracy is not simply better education (as important as that is) or civic education (as important as that can be), but the re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way – a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a meaningful response.”
But, hey, nobody ever died from contact with pomposity, and Al Gore’s “The Assault on Reason” is well worth reading. It reminds us that whatever the effects of our homogenizing mass culture, it is still possible for exceedingly strange individuals to rise to the top.
Gore is, for example, a radical technological determinist. While most politicians react to people, Gore reacts to machines, and in this book he lays out a theory of history entirely driven by them.
He writes that “the idea of self-government became feasible after the printing press.” With this machine, people suddenly had the ability to use the printed word to debate ideas and proceed logically to democratic conclusions. As Gore writes in his best graduate school manner, “The eighteenth century witnessed more and more ordinary citizens able to use knowledge as a source of power to mediate between wealth and privilege.”
This Age of Reason produced the American Revolution. But in the 20th-century, television threatened it all. In Gore’s view, TV immobilizes the reasoning centers in the brain and stimulates the primitive, instinctive parts. TV creates a “visceral vividness” that is not “modulated by logic, reason and reflective thought.”
TV allows political demagogues to exaggerate dangers and stoke up fear. Furthermore, “conglomerates can dominate the expressions of opinion that flood the mind of the citizenry” and “the result is a de facto coup d’état overthrowing the rule of reason.”
Fortunately, another technology is here to save us. “The Internet is perhaps the greatest source of hope for re-establishing an open communications environment in which the conversation of democracy can flourish,” he writes. The Internet will restore reason, logic and the pursuit of truth.
The first response to this argument is, Has Al Gore ever actually looked at the Internet? He spends much of this book praising cold, dispassionate logic, but is that really what he finds on most political blogs or in his e-mail folder?
But Gore’s imperviousness to reality is not the most striking feature of the book. It’s the chilliness and sterility of his worldview. Gore is laying out a comprehensive theory of social development, but it allows almost no role for family, friendship, neighborhood or just face-to-face contact. He sees society the way you might see it from a speaking podium – as a public mass exercise with little allowance for intimacy or private life. He envisions a sort of Vulcan Utopia, in which dispassionate individuals exchange facts and arrive at logical conclusions.
This in turn grows out of a bizarre view of human nature. Gore seems to have come up with a theory that the upper, logical mind sits on top of, and should master, the primitive and more emotional mind below. He thinks this can be done through a technical process that minimizes information flow to the lower brain and maximizes information flow to the higher brain.
The reality, of course, is there is no neat distinction between the “higher” and “lower” parts of the brain. There are no neat distinctions between the “rational” mind and the “visceral” body. The mind is a much more complex network of feedback loops than accounted for in Gore’s simplistic pseudoscience.
Without emotions like fear, the “logical” mind can’t reach conclusions. On the other hand, many of the most vicious, genocidal acts are committed by people who are emotionally numb, not passionately out of control.
Some great philosopher should write a book about people – and there are many of them – who flee from discussions of substance and try to turn them into discussions of process. Utterly at a loss when asked to talk about virtue and justice, they try to shift attention to technology and methods of communication. They imagine that by altering machines they can alter the fundamentals of behavior, or at least avoid the dark thickets of human nature.
If a philosopher did write such a book, it would help us understand Al Gore, and it would, as he would say, in fact, evoke a meaningful response.
Originally appeared in the New York Times, May 29, 2007
May 31st, 2007 at 4:09 pmYou gotta laugh – Gore writes a book about how shallow and distracting the media has become. Tweety confirms his analysis.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:22 pmOh, Patty, Patty – quoting BoBo is always a losing proposition.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:23 pmDid Chris Matthews confirm the content of Gore’s book verbatim and on the dime or what?? What a dweeb! If he was attempting to make the case for Gore’s book content, he certainly did so. It’s obvious that our resident troll is incredibly emasculated and intimindated by the intelligence and chutzpah of Al Gore – painfully obvious for him by the tone and timber of his commentary. I see that the PsychoTroll with about a dozen monikers ranging from Patrick1 to Jake and everything inbetween still loves the left wing so much that he simply cannot extract himself from spending all of his waking ours trying to indulge in relevant discussion with people whom he purports to dispise. Now if that isn’t the epitome of schizophrenia, then I don’t know what is. hahahahaha!
May 31st, 2007 at 4:37 pmLet’s face it: Al Gore would be regressing and sinking to a new low to consider running for President as anyone who comes in following this level of destruction and disaster is doomed to failure – besides, it’s my guess that the damage done by this administration will take about 6 administrations to even begin to resurrect this country. Why would anyone credible run when they know they will be doomed to failure? There is a “breaking point” to all things and the tipping balance has been breached long ago in this country. We’ve slid so far down into the abyss of darkness that we will not see the light again for decades. Besides, Al Gore has elevated himself and his work to the “global scale”….. while old fratboy Georgie has regressed back to his frat party, ranting days and has done absolutely nothing positive in 6 years. Gore’s star has risen; Dumbya’s star has exploded into smithereens.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:41 pmNow, what if Chris Matthews had command of a platoon of Hooters gals?
May 31st, 2007 at 4:49 pm…
Al Gore’s “The Assault on Reason†is well worth reading.
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Comment by Patrick1 — May 31, 2007 @ 4:09 pm
Based on the above quote from your own post, why don’t you go read it and come back to us with a report on your own instead of cutting and pasting as you always do? That should keep these threads clear of your crap for a month or so.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:50 pmEven though you pirated a Times Select article, I have to thank you.
What a load of horsehockey.
Just to pick up two points:
Al Gore talks about the mind–and David Brooks thinks he refutes him by talking about the brain. They’re two very different things, and Brooks is either being dumb or dishonest.
Ah, those fear-filled Lovecraftian tales called the Dialogues of Plato! This is so wrong I have to wonder just which philosopher he’s misunderstanding. Nietzsche? Schopenhauer? Irwin Corey?
He seems to think the one is the opposite of the other. Hitler, Lenin. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Idi Amin–all were passionately out of control and emotionally numb where their mania did not apply.
As for his main argument, my copy of the book hasn’t arrived, but I’ll lay you odds Brooks is using the time honored high school distortion of the excluded middle. Al Gore says that technology affects human society, so he’s a technological determinist! He says technology is useful, so he thinks that technology can solve absolutely everything! He says that emotions cloud discourse, so he wants all emotion done away with!
If Al actually says these things, I’ll be disappointed and angry with him–but I’d bet cash money he doesn’t.
This is the sort of drivel written by folks who read Will Durant’s the Story of Philosophy in high school and think they know philosophy.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:55 pmI have to wipe the tears out of my eyes (I am laughing so hard), so that I can type this.
I read 49 comments on that pompous ass Matthews and then in # 50, the pompous-ass troll, Jake, quotes the SUPREME pompous ass, David Brooks, calling Gore pompous. Dear Lord in Heaven, what a laugh from those jokes-of-human-beings, Matthews, Brooks, and last but the very least of a human being, pukey troll Jake!
Thanks for the laughs, fellows!
May 31st, 2007 at 5:00 pmAnd the reason Chris Matthews is permitted to appear on TV for an hour at a time is?
They should just have him dressed in curlers and a housecoat, downing a cup of coffee while gossiping conspiratorially over a backyard fence.
Matthews is the drunk guy in every bar who comes and sits next to you uninvited and proceeds to talk your ear off about things he cannot begin to understand.
Turn him off, America.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:27 pmSeriously silly comment. I hope everyone is writing Chris and holding him accountable.
‘I thought I was watching Hardball… not reading US Weekly.’
The media has lost it.
June 1st, 2007 at 4:28 amI wish I could assume Matthews had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when he said this, but I fear that’s not the case.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:11 amBrooks’ review is astonishingly inane. He seems completely unfamiliar with any 20th century social theory and unable to follow the arguments of the book. Using dubious logic to refute Gore’s logic as too logical seems perfectly logical in Bushworld I suppose.
I like Chris Matthews a lot… I just hate that every news outlet is about bs questions and celebrity gossip.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:05 pmReading you column and the varied vacuous comments is amusing.
Drivel
June 8th, 2007 at 11:48 pm