In A Three Minute Monologue, Matthews Gushes Over Bush’s ‘Great Neo-Conservative Mind’
In A Three Minute Monologue, Matthews Gushes Over Bush’s ‘Great Neo-Conservative Mind’
Immediately following President Bush’s press conference today, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spent three unbroken minutes fawning over the president’s “powerful rendition” of his “philosophy” without uttering a single critical word. “I thought in listening to the president, I was listening to one of the great neoconservative minds,” gushed Matthews.
Calling Bush “powerful” on three separate occasions, Matthews marveled at the president’s defense of his foreign policy:
We were given a rare opportunity to hear the real philosophy of this administration with regard to the war in Iraq. A powerful rendition by the president of why we’re there. When he talked about the fact that we can support emerging democracies in the Middle East, and that’s the only way we can prevent future 9/11’s, you’re getting to the heart of why this administration is fighting that war in Iraq.
“This president is ready to fight like a rock through the rest of his term,” Matthews proclaimed. “He made it clear that he’s going to fight as long as it takes to develop a democracy in Iraq. There’s not going to be any change come September.” Watch it:
Bush’s comments today, which contained at least one untrue assertion, were nothing more than a rehashing of his tired old rhetoric. Yet somehow, Matthews, who is labeled a liberal by partisan conservatives, only saw it through rose-colored glasses.
Matthews’ monologue is unsurprising, however, given his long record of hero worship for Bush and his supposedly “powerful” presidency:
– “We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical.” [5/1/03]
– “Sometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility.” [10/25/05]
– “I like him. Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left.” [11/28/05]
– “A little bit of Lincoln there, I think,” referring to Bush finally admitting that telling Iraqi insurgents to “bring it on” in 2003 “sent the wrong signal to people.” [5/25/06]
Given the president’s track record with the truth on Iraq, Matthews should check his uncritical awe at the door.
UPDATE: Media Matters catches Matthews lamenting over the lack of “big, beefy” and “every-way big” guys in the Democratic presidential race.
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Bush is a true political genius.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:52 pmBush is also a brilliant strategist.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:52 pmThe power of Bush's Pro-America philosophy, will never fail.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:53 pmBUSH IS MATTHEWS NEW AQUA VELVA MAN!
August 9th, 2007 at 6:54 pmThe chimp is certified IDIOT.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:54 pmHe's obviously sucking up to get some more honorary PhDs.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:54 pmIn A Three Minute Monologue, Matthews Gushes Over Bush’s ‘Great Neo-Conservative Mind’
Only three minutes?
It is also important to realize that President Bush is building off of the great neo-conservative philosophers. So, while Bush does indeed deserve more credit for saving our Motherland, he could not have been as successful if it were not for all of the great neo-conservative philosophers before him.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:55 pmDid Matthews have his flaccid weenie in his hand while he fantasized about his dreamboat?
-GSD
August 9th, 2007 at 6:55 pmIt is comforting to know that future Presidents will look back to Bush and Cheney for guidance.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:56 pmAnd would that be that Bush will don military gear and lead the troops?
Oh wait a minute that would mean maybe getting shot at.
The soldiers are actually offering their pay for 15 months if Bush will come join them. Is Bush on the phone now calling ?
August 9th, 2007 at 6:57 pm"This president is ready to fight like a rock through the rest of his term,â€
I think this is a transcription error. It should read "This president is ready to fight like Iraq through the rest of his term,â€
August 9th, 2007 at 6:57 pmYah more democracy spreading, I mean bomb dropping in Afghanistan, winning those hearts and minds I tell ya, that dubya is a friggen genious, compared to my goldfish that is.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/world/asia/09casualties.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
August 9th, 2007 at 6:57 pmGod Matthews is so sad. Do you think that he has any concept of what he sounds like? He has been pandering to Bush for so long it is pathetic. I really wish that MSNBC would can his ass and bring back David Schuster.
But, I guess having on "liberal" (Keith Olbermann) is all that the corporate owners of MSNBC can stand.
It's going to be very interesting to see what happens with our MSM once the Democrats control the government. I wonder who they will be pandering to then? Since it's all about money to them, once the money is on the side of the Democrats, the MSM will have a very hard time staying on the side of the humiliated and defeated conservatives. The corporations are already preparing by donating heavily to Democratic candidates.
The tide is turning. I only hope it isn't too late.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:58 pmMatthews just signed his Hardball death warrant. As Jan. 09 comes and goes, so will Chris and his overbearing mannerisms. In fact anyone who has politically aligned themselves with the chimpster... is no longer taken seriously.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:59 pmAnd now we know that Sir Tweety has finally gone 'round the bend. What a patronizing slimebag.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:59 pmThe msm have painted themselves into a corner.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:59 pmI'm shocked that Slimeball Tweety failed to note that the president's bags under his eyes now look like suitcases and his breath was foul.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:00 pm“This president is ready to fight like a rock through the rest of his term,â€
I'd have put it, rather, that President Bush has governed like a rock for his two terms.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:00 pm"one of the great neoconservative minds,..."
Warning, danger! Fatal oxymoron alert! Warning, danger!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:00 pmSo, while Bush does indeed deserve more credit for saving our Motherland, he could not have been as successful if it were not for all of the great neo-conservative philosophers before him.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
Bus saved the Motherland? Bush is successful? There are "great neo-conservative philosophers? I HOPE you're paid to be this out of touch with reality P.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:02 pmAbelard: "Bush is building off of the great neo-conservative philosophers..."
Yes, Peter, and he's borrowed quite a bit from Leo Strauss - especially the part about "noble lies" and never being honest with the people about your true intentions.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:02 pmThe more that I have heard from Matthews, the more that I understand that he is enamored with the process and form of politics rather than with the substance. Matthews has been consistently critical of the president's Iraq War in the past. However, Matthews has always been impressed with the gamesmanship of politics over all else. Read his book, it is all about positioning, gaming and image. Matthews does not seem to understand that politics involves real people with real consequences to the lives of many. He would better serve as a casting agent for television than as a political pundit.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:02 pmYeah guidance on how to run a country into the ground.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pmMatthews is becoming more and more irrelevant. Who watches his show anymore?
He's just the guy who comes on before Keith Olbermann.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pmTweetster should look into getting a voice transplant. About an octave lower than his grating whiney screech should work.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pm“This president is ready to fight like a rock through the rest of his term,â€
It should have been:
"This president is dumb as a rock and has to fight to remeber to breathe."
August 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pmwtf is wrong with that guy?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pmAbelard: "It is comforting to know that future Presidents will look back to Bush and Cheney for guidance."
Yeah, kind of like how presidents always try to emulate Herbert Hoover.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pmBush saved the Motherland? Bush is successful?
There hasn't been a terrorist attack on US soil since 2001.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pm– “I like him. Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left.†[11/28/05]
I'm proud to be a "whack job on the left". What a really stupid thing to say.
He was heard to report later: "in other news, the chimps approval rating is 29%".
August 9th, 2007 at 7:04 pmTimmy Glenn Murphy's Bush Again.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:04 pmOkay, ain't no way to do this one clean, guys. Go ahead, let 'er fly.
Expect trolls en masse any minute now.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:04 pmHe does work for the MSM, isn't their job PR for the RNC?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:04 pmSee libs, more people are beginning to understand that we have a President that has a brilliant mind. Hasn't the surge proven that he knew what he was doing all along? I personally believe that he should be ranked as one of the top five Presidents.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:05 pmThese furbearers are the smallest members of the family Mustelidae. Other species of mustelids in Alaska include mink, marten, river otter, sea otter, and wolverine. Weasels are more common than most people realize.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:05 pmYes, Peter, and he’s borrowed quite a bit from Leo Strauss
Yes. Plato and Aristotle, to Machiavelli and Hobbes, to Strauss!
All of the greatest philosophers!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:05 pmMSM/RNC, what the hell's the difference these days???
August 9th, 2007 at 7:06 pmJMOHR: "Matthews does not seem to understand that politics involves real people with real consequences to the lives of many."
That may be because he's a multimillionaire who lives on Nantucket. As Bob Somerby keeps pointing out, when you have a millionaire pundit class trying to speak for and to a middle-class democracy, strange things tend to happen.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:06 pmExpect trolls en masse any minute now.
Comment by The Republic of Stuipdity
Just one, Mr. Pee-Brain with all his alts.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:06 pmoops...
my last comment should say "all of the greatest neoconservative philsophers"
August 9th, 2007 at 7:06 pmPeter - take time off your posting and check just what Bush is saving.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:06 pmFDA hasn't enough inspectors for the food coming in, our water supplies are unguarded, airports are a joke, take your shoes off but forget that the cargo is unguarded and very easy to access, refiniries can be walked up to, Ports are not being guarded.
Peter, I hope you are being paid very well for your misguided efforts. They really need more of you to combat all the truth coming out.
I personally believe that he should be ranked as one of the top five Presidents.
Comment by Daryll — August 9, 2007 @ 7:05 pm
Of course, your personal opinion means nothing to sane human beings.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:06 pmThe weasel declares a temporary truce with other weasels during the summer mating season. Courtship by the male includes dragging the female around by the scruff of her neck.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:07 pmFight like a rock?
Hmm.
Maybe he'll think like a rock or act like a rock.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:07 pmIt's all method. Be the rock, man.
What Peter is not a comic? Oh he must be. He's doing a parody of a neocon. Hey, he makes me laugh.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:07 pmAbelard: "There hasn’t been a terrorist attack on US soil since 2001."
OK, that's 6 years. The first WTC attack occurred 30 days into Clinton's administration and there wasn't another Islamic attack on American soil for the next 8 years, so by your thinking, Clinton was even MORE successful.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:08 pm43 - I just got it, you are joking and we thought you were serious !
August 9th, 2007 at 7:08 pmHey, he makes me laugh.
Comment by RagingGurrl — August 9, 2007 @ 7:07 pm
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Good, I'm glad that you are happy!
All Americans should be.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:08 pmDuring a power failure, cooking and eating habits must change to fit the situation.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:09 pmDEBKAfile Exclusive: New Al Qaeda threat of radioactive truck attacks naming New York, Los Angeles, Miami
August 10, 2007, 1:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
The threat was picked up by DEBKAfile’s monitors from a rush of electronic chatter on al Qaeda sites Thursday, Aug. 8.
The al Qaeda communications accuse the Americans of the grave error of failing to take seriously the videotape released by the American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gaddahn last week. “They will soon realize their mistake when American cities are hit by quality operations,†said one message
Eyes Wide Shut
August 9th, 2007 at 7:10 pmjezus, he is crazy. I'll tell you what though. I bet he has an awesome selection in his liquor cabinet.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:10 pmBearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations on Sand: A Relative Density Approach.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:10 pmChris Matthews Gushes Over Bush’s ‘Great Neo-Conservative Mind’
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Heh!....This is funny.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:11 pmAll Americans should be.
Comment by Peter Abelard
Happy about what?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:11 pmi don't think so, that only takes two minutes.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:11 pmIt is comforting to know that future Presidents will look back to Bush and Cheney for guidance.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 6:56 pm
Of course, a bad example is a valuable resource in determining what not to do.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:11 pm46 - yeah and we are fighting over there so we don't have to fight them over here. Maybe you think they are not here. Talk to the Law in El Paso and Arizona see what they say.
Peter, Peter find a real dad.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:12 pmLinks to TIME magazine are pathetic! LOL
August 9th, 2007 at 7:13 pmThat's even funnier, Peter!
There are all types of theories that try to explain how an illiterate and untrainable idiot can have access to unlimited accurate information in a certain field.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:13 pmSee libs, more people are beginning to understand that we have a President that has a brilliant mind. Hasn’t the surge proven that he knew what he was doing all along? I personally believe that he should be ranked as one of the top five Presidents.
Comment by Daryll — August 9, 2007 @ 7:05 pm
Oh DuhRyll, you cut and run when you were provided a link from a credible source that this war is about the oil, and no response? Would Jesus be happy that America invaded a country, and refuses to leave until they sign away the rights to their oil? Is this how Jesus told you to behave?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pmHey maybe Peter is really supporting our troops by supporting Bush just like Mitt's kids.
Gee, I think the guys on the ground would appreciate you being beside them instead of sitting in your comfy a/c room.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pmComment by texaslady — August 9, 2007 @ 7:12 pm
My number 46 shows:
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 7:08 pm
I guess the numbering is off on my screen or on yours, but it would be helpful to include the time stamp when referring to a comment.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pmcall any vegetable and the chances are good
August 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pmthat the vegetable will respond to you
(Frank Zappa)
Maybe we should send some US soil to the middle east. They can attack it there, so they don't have to attack it here.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:16 pm60 - More people ? Chris Mathews, that's your example? First establish that he is human and not one of the Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Beck clan.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:16 pmIt’s Official: Cindy Sheehan Announces Run Against Pelosi
Momma moonbat here she comes!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pmThere hasn’t been a terrorist attack on US soil since 2001.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:03 pm
There's been no Continental Army attack on English soil in seven years. Thanks Lord Cornwallis!
King George III - 19th October 1781
August 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pmComment by RagingGurrl — August 9, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
Well, there is more good news from Iraq, both Dems and Reps agree!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pmPlease...PLEASE! let me sex you up.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:18 pm"...he talked about the fact that we can support emerging democracies in the Middle East,..." and dumbing down democracy at home.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:19 pmPlease…PLEASE! let me sex you up.
Comment by Marcus Aurelius — August 9, 2007 @ 7:18 pm
Inappropriate.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:19 pmYou forgot Hitler.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:19 pmWell, there is more good news from Iraq, both Dems and Reps agree!
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
This simply goes to a Bill Kristol editorial at the Weekly Standard.
Got milk???
August 9th, 2007 at 7:20 pmAbelard: "Bush is also a brilliant strategist."
Sure he is. That must be why Dems enjoyed the biggest congressional shift in their direction since 1933. Bush has also strategized his party into a great political position for 2008, wouldn't you agree? And, the strategy of bringing democracy to the middle east - how's that working out for you, Abelard?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:20 pmBush saved the Motherland? Bush is successful?
There hasn’t been a terrorist attack on US soil since 2001.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:03 pm
Except for that unsolved anthrax attack. And you troop hating neocons don't care about dead soldiers in Iraq. Those deaths don't matter to you people because you're not going to Iraq so you're safe. Only attacks that can affect you matter, isn't that right?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:20 pmMomma moonbat here she comes!
Comment by ConservativeWhiteRepublicanMaleEvangelicalChristian — August 9, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
Ad hominem attack. No reply necessary.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:20 pmDumb sh!t Daryll is back.
Hey you fu*king moron. This isn't "more people" this is the same fu*king idiot that has been wanting to suck Bush off for the past 7 years. Tool.
You are so against homosexuality, but your gaydar is as broken as your brain is. Tweety wants to do Bush and not in the female kind of way.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:20 pmI think all these armchair warriors need to go straight to Baghdad. Bush isn't doing any fighting, the soldiers are. His policy is an utter failure and he's too stupid and stubborn to fix it.
Chris Matthews missed his calling as a cheerleader. He has no credibility as a journalist.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:21 pmChris Matthews, the man I see for 30 seconds before Countdown starts.
That Chris Matthews?
-GSD
August 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pmWell, there is more good news from Iraq, both Dems and Reps agree!
Comment by Peter Abelard
What's so good about that?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pmDon't worry, we haven't been atacked in 6 years, and our borders and ports are secure. You'd better head for the basement (don't forget the duct tape).
August 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pmDaryll would Nixon be in that top five ?
I feel so much better that Tweety is in love with Bush, lets see that makes Rove, Snow, Tweety, oh yes, Peter ! P.S. almost forgot Barney the jury is out on Laura, think she is hanging around for the settlement.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pmagain, class:
pundit = PAID PROFESSIONAL PROPAGANDIST
August 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pmChrissy has a crush on Chimpy. LOL!!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pmThese Bush Cultists also don't consider anyone in the coalition as having any meaning whatsover.
If so they would be upset by the attacks in Madrid, London, Bali and Jordan.
But they don't care about anyone but themselves.
-GSD
August 9th, 2007 at 7:24 pmAbelard: "Yes. Plato and Aristotle, to Machiavelli and Hobbes, to Strauss!
All of the greatest philosophers!"
Silly me. When I'm thinking of what philosophy informs the American experiment in representative democracy, I'm thinking of philosophers like Jefferson, Madison, Paine, Adams, etc. Peter Abelard can't be bothered by thinking like theirs.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:24 pmWhat’s so good about that?
Comment by dlet — August 9, 2007 @ 7:22 pm
His link goes to an editorial by Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard, dlet.
There is no news there, just Kristol's personal opinion.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:24 pmChimpy and Tweety should just get a room, already.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:26 pmTypical conspiracy theororist rant.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:26 pmThe way Chris slipped right in to his deep praise right after they broke to him is a sure sign that he had this commentary prepared. This was not an observation...this was a planned and deliberate reach around by Chris. For shame.....pitiful.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:26 pmA little off thread - now why is it that so many Repubs are coming out of the closet lately ? Aren't they violently against gays?
We have Foley, Haggard, Bob Allen and oh yes, the RNFC chairman Glen Murphy who likes to sneak up in the dark on guys.
Poor repressed people, come out of the closet it is so dark in there.
Now back to Bush, did anyone say he was on a plane to Iraq to lead our guys?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:26 pm. “He made it clear that he’s going to fight as long as it takes to develop a democracy in Iraq. There’s not going to be any change come September.â€
A shocking revelation from Mr. Matthews.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:27 pmWho knew we would be staying after September?
There is no news there, just Kristol’s personal opinion.
Comment by The Republic of Stuipdity
Thanks for taking one for the team...I wouldn't follow a link by that tard if it smelled of elderberries.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:27 pmrefresh!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:27 pmPlease…PLEASE! let me sex you up.
Comment by Marcus Aurelius — August 9, 2007 @ 7:18 pm
You don't want him, DuhRyll is a Two-Pump-Chump, which explains why so many of them evangelicals have so many children. They never get to enjoy sex. Mr P is another Two-Pump chump, thus his frustration, and pathetic life hanging out on a progressive site posting his drivel, women don't want him, he doesn't have any friends other than micheal, who has the hots for a hermaphrodite mAnn Coulter.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:27 pmWhat kind of an idiot elevates Leo Strauss to the level of Aristotle?
The same kind of brilliant mind that believes killing 60,000 Iraqi civilians will make them favor US-style Democracy.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:28 pmOkay. You sex him up.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:29 pmWe have Foley, Haggard, Bob Allen and oh yes, the RNFC chairman Glen Murphy who likes to sneak up in the dark on guys.
Poor repressed people, come out of the closet it is so dark in there.
Comment by texaslady — August 9, 2007 @ 7:26 pm
Getting busted and facing charges isn't exactly "coming out".
August 9th, 2007 at 7:29 pmComment by dlet — August 9, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
Funny!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:30 pmThanks for taking one for the team…I wouldn’t follow a link by that tard if it smelled of elderberries.
Comment by dlet — August 9, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
That's all right. Just wanted to see waht he was referring to and then discredit it, which was WAAAAY easy to do. Absolutely no NEWS there!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:31 pmcall any vegetable and the chances are good
that the vegetable will respond to you
(Frank Zappa)
Comment by oldtree — August 9, 2007 @ 7:15 pm
Good one.
Now ho you jivin with that cosmic debris?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:31 pmThe same kind of brilliant mind that believes killing 60,000 Iraqi civilians will make them favor US-style Democracy.
Comment by Arthur C. — August 9, 2007 @ 7:28 pm
Did you accidentally leave a zero out of taht figure? Isn't more like 600,000 Iraqis, or even more, by now?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:32 pmMan, Chris Mathews has to be the biggest fag on the planet -- not that I have anything against fags (I live in San Francisco, after all); just against the faggot-hating fags who seem to infest the Republican Party like crab lice in a Bush daughter's panties. What is it about authoritarians that makes them so gay-hating gay? J. Edgar Hoover (nice name there), Mark Foley, Ted Haggard (no doubt he was), Bob Allen -- the list goes on like the train in a Bush daughters' gangbang.
But Chris Mathews: be careful, next time you stop to squirt at a public restroom anywhere along the interstate. Chris Mathews may be attracted to your cologne/man odor/ignorant political policy and may try to climb over the stall to get at your goodies. When that happens, just tell him you have a wallet full of twenties from Republican blowjobs and don't need any more. Or just tell him George W. Bush has fu*ked you and the rest of the American public in the a*s so much that you'll never have want to be fu*ked there again. No doubt he'll understand, though he'll later claim he was frightened into solicitation by your overt manliness.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:32 pmChris Matthews is mind linked to Bushiva...
...both are a*swipe...
August 9th, 2007 at 7:32 pmLet's be clear about something here: when a Bush cultist like Peter Abelard sings the praises of Leo Strauss' philosophy, he is talking about a profoundly undemocratic vision - Strauss believed society should be run by a small group of elites known as "Special Gentlemen," and that these elites should tell "noble lies" to the public to achieve their special goals. Strauss did not believe in democracy. We need to understand that modern neocon philosophy is NOT an American value. It is the opposite of what our Framers had in mind.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:33 pmNow back to Bush, did anyone say he was on a plane to Iraq to lead our guys?
Comment by texaslady — August 9, 2007 @ 7:26 pm
No he doesn't even have the guts to visit those who are sacrificing for his war for oil, I did a quick google of bush goes to iraq, and bush visits iraq came up with several links to 2003. Is this really the last time he went there? So not only AWOL in Nam, the coward is AWOL in his losing wars. (lets all not forget Afghanistan, where I think soon the UK will leave, as well).
August 9th, 2007 at 7:33 pm... oh wow... so now he's reciting rove's love letters?
ew...
August 9th, 2007 at 7:33 pm.
Mr. Peeter Abelard,
How many Iraqis have to die before they start to love us?.........you can round it off to the thousandenths(is that right?) if you want......
August 9th, 2007 at 7:33 pmWe need to understand that modern neocon philosophy is NOT an American value. It is the opposite of what our Framers had in mind.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
Thank you Col.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:35 pmIsn’t more like 600,000 Iraqis, or even more, by now?
At least one estimate says so. If true, that means the Bush killed more Iraqis than Saddam.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:36 pmWhy isn't Matthews on Fox? He'd fit right in there.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:37 pmComment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
Well the reason "Peter" loves Bush, is that he really loves "Peter", wink wink. And "Peter" really wants to play with Bushs' "Peter" in the Bushes.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:37 pmAt least one estimate says so. If true, that means the Bush killed more Iraqis than Saddam.
Comment by Arthur C. — August 9, 2007 @ 7:36 pm
He certainly would appear to be catching up as fast as he can, and in far less time.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:37 pm7:29 - Out of the closet is out no matter how it gets out. What a burden to have to hide and sneak around. If they wouldn't be so damn uptight and point fingers nobody would care what they like in bed. Or in the park bathroom.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:38 pmBush' policy of spreading democracy unilaterally by force in the Middle East has been a colossal failure. The surge has also been a resounding failure. Matthews repeated a GOP talking point by invoking 9-11. Saddam had nothing do to with bin Laden or the tragic attacks of 9-11. This president is stubbornly refusing to admit his mistakes. That makes him a very weak individual. In September Bush and Petraeus will say that the surge needs more time knowing that Maliki is incapable of making political progress in Iraq. Matthews is a neo-conservative and thus has no credibility when it comes to telling the truth.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:40 pmStudy: War blamed for 655,000 Iraqi deaths
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths/
Iraqi Deaths under Saddam Hussein: 600,000, which includes 500,000 casualties during the war with Iran.
http://wais.stanford.edu/Iraq/iraq_deathsundersaddamhussein42503.html
August 9th, 2007 at 7:40 pmComment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
Look, the Founders knew that people that come together to deliberate are often erroneous in their opinions. In fact, unless the idiot masses are directed by a superior mind, their decisions usually contradict all reason!!!
Usually, the masses will follow whoever is more desirous of pleasing them. Bush does not want to merely "please" the masses. He is concerned with truly protecting America from all enemies!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:40 pmIf they wouldn’t be so damn uptight and point fingers nobody would care what they like in bed. Or in the park bathroom.
Comment by texaslady — August 9, 2007 @ 7:38 pm
I agree, but there is a difference between voluntarily coming out, which means one is accepting oneself, and getting busted.
Getting busted serves a purpose too. Perhaps its the only way they can acknowldege it. There must be some reason so many GOOPers choose to engage in high-risk behavior.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:40 pmChrissy loves his men "big, beefy and every-way big".
Is Tweety coming out on network TV?
Sure looks like it.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:41 pm#46--Score one for you, Ripper! And wasn't it more like 2 weeks into his term--like Feb. 3, 1993? Bush will never be able to match Clinton's record for length of time without an attack on the homeland. He will always be 8 months short. Unless, God forbid! he concocts a way to serve a third term.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:41 pmUsually, the masses will follow whoever is more desirous of pleasing them. Bush does not want to merely “please†the masses. He is concerned with truly protecting America from all enemies!!!
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
Whoa... don't hold back, fellas. Peter's begging for it w/ this one.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:41 pmHe is concerned with truly protecting America from all enemies!!!
Then he's failed. Terrorism is way up, not down.
U.S. Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.html
August 9th, 2007 at 7:42 pmThey see no political value in live and let live. Plus, their conservative "base" of sexually repressed hypocrites would turn on them and kill them (based on a mis-reading of the Bible).
August 9th, 2007 at 7:42 pmI'm offended that Chris Matthews would call those here on TP "whack-jobs". We trolls have earned that right because we're always here in the stinking trenches and have paid the dues.
Hey Chris, they are our whack-jobs, not yours.....you keep to reporting the news...
August 9th, 2007 at 7:43 pmfirst cokehead in the White House
August 9th, 2007 at 7:43 pmfirst National Guard deserter
first convicted criminal in the White House (Cheney too!)
lost more jobs in his first year than any President in history
broke more international treaties than any in history
lowest job growth in American history
more debt than all previous President's combined
first administration to out a CIA agent for partisan reasons
largest worldwide protests against the Iraq War
presided over the worst terror attack in world history
first President since the Civil War to lose an American city
spying on his people more than any administration since Stalin
first President to use a wire
first President on antidepressants (& God know what else)
more vacation time than any other Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history. Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
The most secretive and un-accountable of any administration in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market frauds of any market in any country in the history of the world.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack.
Etc.
Hey Chris, they are our whack-jobs, not yours…..you keep to reporting the news…
Comment by Eric — August 9, 2007 @ 7:43 pm
Again, if we really were the "whack-jobs" Matthews etal keep saying we are ,there'd be no need to attack us endlessly. Sorry, that just validates us.
TP WINS AGAIN!!!! WOO-HOO!!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:44 pmFirst President to start and lose two wars.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:44 pmWhen other ME countries look at what a supposed democracy has done for Iraq, they shudder. They treat Nuri al Maliki like their puppet. Just the other day, while he was out of town, they took advantage of his absence to attack Sadr City and killed some more civilians. Matthew's can't help it, he's just one more well paid hack for the corporations.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:45 pmBush's Thanksgiving tour of Iraq with the phoney turkey - great photo op. When was he there the next time? Way too much shooting for George. Even for a photo op.
He only visits Walter Reed when the guys are ready to leave, seriously wounded are hidden.
The young man that rescued the kids from the school bus in MN has more brains than Tweety, Bush people wanted to do a photo op with him and he said, "NOPE". Wow !
August 9th, 2007 at 7:45 pmComment by gnawer of the moon — August 9, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
Good. They know not to fuk around, like Saddam did.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:46 pmI hate to tell you that I told you so, but .....
I TOLD YOU SO!
The MSM is backing Hill'reh, and insofar as supporting Bush and the Iraq War hurts Obama and helps Hill'reh, then that is what the MSM will do.
Barack "let's get out of Iraq and into Pakistan and Sudan" Obama has lost his followers by trying to look dovish and hawkish at the same time.
When
August 9th, 2007 at 7:46 pmare
you
netrooters
going
to
learn?
In fact, unless the idiot masses are directed by a superior mind, their decisions usually contradict all reason!!!
Usually, the masses will follow whoever is more desirous of pleasing them. Bush does not want to merely “please†the masses. He is concerned with truly protecting America from all enemies!!!
Rather! Providing the mind is mine and not some low-born scum. And make sure you either lock up or ship out the Puritans, the Catholics, Jews and anyone who fails the 'with you or against you' litmus test.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:47 pm“I like him. Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left.†[11/28/05]
Go to hell, Tweety. Go straight to hell.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:47 pmI don't want to defend CM in any way, but listen carefully to that clip again. The "great neo-conservative mind" he refers to is Paul Wolfowitz. (You can go ahead and laugh about "great" applied in any way to Wolfie, but I think that's the reading.)
To me, the crudest, least-perceptive and most gushy comment of Matthews is at the end, where he praises Da Boosh for "sticking it" to Congress, for its failure to build safe bridges....
NOLA, anybody?
You're doing a hekkuva job, Chrissie.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:48 pmSo long crazy people.
I'll be back tomorrow to poke you with a sharp stick, until then, keep on raging against the machine!
Adios
August 9th, 2007 at 7:48 pm7:43 Perry please add Bush vowed to veto childrens healthbill that really should be a top. Just all heart, a man of the people, thats' our George. May all that he sows comes back twice to him.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:48 pmSee ya, Ringo!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:49 pmThis Petey Asslard is ally funny.
He actually BELIEFS Chimpy's bull$hit.
What a maroon.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:49 pmAbelard: "Look, the Founders knew that people that come together to deliberate are often erroneous in their opinions. In fact, unless the idiot masses are directed by a superior mind, their decisions usually contradict all reason!!! "
That's quite a sweeping statement. Can you provide any documentation for this or did you simply pull it out of your ass. And, even if you were able to find a Framer's words to support this statement (I don't think you can,) their system of checks and balances were designed to mitigate poor governance and bad ideas.
You know what, Abelard. I don't think you know thing one about what the Framers thought it meant to be an American.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:50 pmMatthews is a grovelling gasbag whose sole concern is with the DC media/pol party curcuit. He has a soul of dog snot.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:50 pmHey Jason,
Long time no see, how come, tired of having your ass handed to you? How did that 2006 Election go? Would it really piss you off if the D ticket was Clinton and Obama, would you still kill yourself as promised? You know a woman and black man running America, hahahahaha!
As for your topic, I don't think anyone on here would not think Clinton would get the the MSN nod, she's a whore too, just not as bad as the gay male whore running the country now.
Still doing your mom?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:50 pmNewsflash: Americans love sex. Pleasing the electorate can make you and them much happier. Since this is such an important aspect to a relationship the government and the governed, it is important that you know how to please them. I offer these two words to help Bush please the American public: Oral sex.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:50 pmChris Matthews is irrelevant. TP shouldn't give him the time of day.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:51 pmComment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
They created a Constitutional Republic, rather than a strict democracy...
Need I say more?
August 9th, 2007 at 7:51 pmYou know what, Abelard. I don’t think you know thing one about what the Framers thought it meant to be an American.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
He could always look in the Federalist papers... but there are no pictures to color or fold out...
August 9th, 2007 at 7:52 pmChris just tried to redeem himself by pointing out the Romneys'...
...(chickenhawks')...
...hypocrisy on Iraq...
...5 sons = none serve...
August 9th, 2007 at 7:52 pm#
Chris Matthews is irrelevant. TP shouldn’t give him the time of day.
Comment by dloberk — August 9, 2007 @ 7:51 pm
It actually serves a purpsoe to drag this nonsense out into the light of day.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:53 pmJ.R. 7:45 - I agree with you but we need to add a few others that like cavorting with the elite. How about Dick Gregory and Tim Russett to name a few. How can anyone be objective if you finished off a BBQ with George or friends. Look how much fun Rove is when he does a rapper skit. These guys are just party animals. Who wouldn't want to be their best buds? So what if they are killing our young and bankrupting our economy and borders. Hey, it is just all in good fun, lighten up people !
August 9th, 2007 at 7:53 pmComment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
The Sadr community is one of Maliki's backer in his election to parliament. Attacking them, behind Maliki's back, only shows the world he's a puppet, that the US isn't serious about democracy, and, since Maliki was in Iran working out security issues, just fu*k things up in general.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:53 pmNeed I say more?
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:51 pm
I'd suggest reading more, myself.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:54 pmPoor Tweety,
August 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pmHe has become so irrelevant that he has to talk loudly enough for the geriatric, O'Reilly fans who tune into him to see how the 'liberals' are thinking. Think about how divided our country has become since the Uniter and Decider has ascended his throne. Tweety is so indicative of that divide, a bloviating psychophant against all those crazy liberals who hate America.
No.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pmComment by gnawer of the moon — August 9, 2007 @ 7:53 pm
Right, it showed the international community who's really in charge!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pmAbelard, I'm still wondering where our forefathers said "unless the idiot masses are directed by a superior mind, their decisions usually contradict all reason."
If George Washington was here, he'd kick your ignorant cowardly ass all the way across the Potomac, Goober.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pm#
Chris just tried to redeem himself by pointing out the Romneys’…
…(chickenhawks’)…
…hypocrisy on Iraq…
…5 sons = none serve…
Comment by big papa — August 9, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
Indeed!!! The Croix de Poulet-Mohet!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pmCongress appropriated $5 Billion for bridges this year and Chimpy threatened to veto it, he wanted only $3 billion.
We actually need $9 Billion a year for 25 years to fix all the bad bridges.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pmArthur C......give it up.
This is a war against terrorism and it will be going on long after Iraq. It started way before Iraq. If you would read some history, it's very normal for an enemy to escalate the fighting when they are first confronted or cornered. If we had put the majority of our forces in Afghanistan like you stupid libs wanted, the fighting would be there instead of Iraq ---- in extremely difficult terrain that beat the Russians. The location is irrelevant, the fight has started and will continue until moderate Arab countries (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon) who already support us against muslim extremists and their safe havens (Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Taliban, etc.) gain the upper hand and enter the 21st century. Moderate Muslims still have the numbers, just not the loudest voices and media coverage. Sort of like the moral majority here in the US far outnumber liberal extremists. We are doing the right thing. Your side is wrong once again.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:56 pmIf George Washington was here, he’d kick your ignorant cowardly ass all the way across the Potomac, Goober.
Comment by Arthur C. — August 9, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
Careful, keep replying to him directly, you'll help him take over the thread, again!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:56 pmAbelard, I’m still wondering where our forefathers said “unless the idiot masses are directed by a superior mind, their decisions usually contradict all reason.â€
...
Comment by Arthur C. — August 9, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
It's implied.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:57 pmRomeny will have a tough time with this flip-flop; I am a white rich male and love the war, because I make lots of money, but PULEEZE don't ask me to have MY sons serve.
After all, it is their decision to be chickenhawk,.... just like their Daddy! (Mormon, and NeoCon) apples don;t fall too far from the tree!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:57 pmWe are doing the right thing. Your side is wrong once again.
Comment by Eric — August 9, 2007 @ 7:56 pm
Irrational, dishonest position. Don't debate this troll. There is nothing of value in what he says. DON'T FEED THIS TROLL!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:58 pmThere goes Chris Matthews again, with more of that liberal propaganda.
That was a joke.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:58 pmIt’s implied.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:57 pm
Ah yes, no argument.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:58 pm#
Chris just tried to redeem himself by pointing out the Romneys’…
…(chickenhawks’)…
…hypocrisy on Iraq…
…5 sons = none serve…
Comment by big papa — August 9, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
That's only 'cuz Rommey's a Mormon, you know a cult weirder than his Christian cult.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:58 pmComment by Eric — August 9, 2007 @ 7:56 pm
100% Correct!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 7:58 pmRight, it showed the international community who’s really in charge!!!
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
No. It showed that Bush was as callous as the terrorists.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:59 pmPetey Asslard has a crush on Chimpy too.
What a surprise. Another gay-hating closet case Repuke troll.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:00 pmAbelard: "They created a Constitutional Republic, rather than a strict democracy…
Need I say more?"
No need. You've already proven that your grasp of the Framers' political philosophies is just deep enough to get the soles of your feet wet.
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation for any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." (Jefferson's letter to Benjamin Waring, March 1801)
August 9th, 2007 at 8:00 pm#142, Dittohead,
Obama will NOT be on the ticket with Hill'reh. She will choose someone like Evan Bayh of Indiana. Obama killed his candidacy with the "unilateral attack on Pakistan" comment.
Regardless, Pelosi and Reid have seriously hurt the Dems chances in '08, so I am expecting the Republicans to retake the Congress and hold the Presidency.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:00 pmGee and I was just starting to have fun and suddenly we are discussing something George Washington said ?
Hey we are discussing Tweety's love affair remember ? And Dubya's longing to go to Iraq and fight along with our troops just as soon as this weekend is over...he has a wedding to attend to.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:02 pm“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation for any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.†(Jefferson’s letter to Benjamin Waring, March 1801)
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 8:00 pm
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Exactly. Jefferson said "our" not their.
Jefferson didn't trust the idiot masses to make their own decisions, because he KNEW that they would fuk sh!t up!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 8:02 pmI’d suggest reading more, myself.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity
Mr.P needs books with pictures and small words.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:02 pmSee Spot.
See Spot run.
Run, Spot run............
"We are doing the right thing"
Yeah...far, FAR right.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:02 pmRight, it showed the international community who’s really in charge!!!
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
So, the whole democracy thing is just a ruse, eh? Exactly what is it that all our soldier's blood has given us?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:02 pmArthur C......give it up...........that is such an old sound bite
This is a war against terrorism and it will be going on long after Iraq. It started way before Iraq. If you would read some history, it's very normal for an enemy to escalate the fighting when they are first confronted or cornered. If we had put the majority of our forces in Afghanistan like you stupid libs wanted, the fighting would be there instead of Iraq ---- in extremely difficult terrain that beat the Russians. The location is irrelevant, the fight has started and will continue until moderate Arab countries (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon) who already support us against muslim extremists and their safe havens (Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Taliban, etc.) gain the upper hand and enter the 21st century. Moderate Muslims still have the numbers, just not the loudest voices and media coverage. Sort of like the moral majority here in the US far outnumber liberal extremists. We are doing the right thing. Your side is wrong once again.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:03 pmRegardless, Pelosi and Reid have seriously hurt the Dems chances in ‘08, so I am expecting the Republicans to retake the Congress and hold the Presidency.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
Uhhh, OK, I'll bite. Exactly what will drive the 70% people to the Big Spending, warmongering Repug side.
And, WHO, in your mind, would be the candidate to win the WH? And remember.... Ronnie Raygunz can't run. He is DEAD!
August 9th, 2007 at 8:03 pmr.e.f.r.e.s.h.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:03 pm8:00 - J.R. It really doesn't matter because the constitution is just a bunch of paper, another quote from Georgie to his Texas cronies, Newsweek 2006.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:04 pmRegardless, Pelosi and Reid have seriously hurt the Dems chances in ‘08, so I am expecting the Republicans to retake the Congress and hold the Presidency.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — August 9, 2007 @ 8:00 pm
I think the Democrats are going to massacre the republicans in '08.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:04 pmWhat in the hell does it matter if he didn't utter a critical word? That is precisely what is wrong with politics today. Too much attacking.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:04 pmEric, I'm not giving anything up, sap. Explain to us again how killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in the ME will reduce terrorism?
Now, for you, some current events:
"U.S. Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism"
"State Dept. Will Not Put Data in Report"
"Overall, the number of what the U.S. government considers "significant" attacks grew to about 655 last year, up from the record of around 175 in 2003."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.html
George Bush's "war on terrorism" is a colossal failure.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:05 pmRegardless, Pelosi and Reid have seriously hurt the Dems chances in ‘08, so I am expecting the Republicans to retake the Congress and hold the Presidency.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
Hows that prediction of the Repugs keeping the Houses in Nov 2006 working for you?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:05 pmOh, yeah, it was way off........
Yes, if we had listened to Jefferson, Bush wouldn't have gotten into office thanks to the idiot masses.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:05 pmThat is precisely what is wrong with politics today. Too much attacking.
Comment by veritas — August 9, 2007 @ 8:04 pm
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Yes, indeed. Why does the left hate so?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:05 pmI'm watching clips of Bush's press conference today on Countdown.
The members of the press should be allowed to bring in rotten fruit to pelt Chimpy with when he tells his usual outrageous lies.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:05 pmveritas, TripMaster Monkey,
Hey, where is /a. /c. /e. /?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:07 pmJefferson didn’t trust the idiot masses to make their own decisions, because he KNEW that they would fuk sh!t up!!!
Comment by Peter Abelard
But he also didn't want the Exewcutive Branch to fu(k it up eiahter, so he is rolling over in his grave right now. But even TJ couldn't have conceived of any bunch of Fudgepackers like we have now, being this immoral, dishonest and S T U P I D!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 8:07 pmAbelard: "Exactly. Jefferson said “our†not their."
Oh, my god, that's just so damn stupid. He wrote this in 1801 as an American citizen. When he said "our", he was speaking for Americans, not a small ruling class. The last thing Jefferson wanted in this country was a European-style aristocracy. You have been royally brainwashed, young man.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:08 pmYes, indeed. Why does the left hate so?
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 8:05 pm
It's the same reason why the right hates.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:08 pmJefferson didn’t trust the idiot masses to make their own decisions, because he KNEW that they would fuk sh!t up!!!
Comment by Peter Abelard
Jefferson would have challenged Bush to a duel and shot him.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:09 pmWashington would have just shot him.
in fact most of the Founding Fathers would have just shot him.
I don't have it in me to watch another Tweety gush fest. Yuck.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:09 pmWayne sez:
Washington would have gone after him with a hatchet.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:10 pmLooks like it was good for Tweety....
August 9th, 2007 at 8:13 pmRegardless, Pelosi and Reid have seriously hurt the Dems chances in ‘08, so I am expecting the Republicans to retake the Congress and hold the Presidency.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — August 9, 2007 @ 8:00 pm
not by elections. they can't win if free and fair elections are held, so you are hoping for the most antiAmerican of events, just like 2000, a stolen, rigged election. You are a traitor with no moral values and a very low character. you can't be an American, no American would wish for fascism like you just did.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:15 pmUsually, the masses will follow whoever is more desirous of pleasing them. Bush does not want to merely “please†the masses. He is concerned with truly protecting America from all enemies!!!
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
Way to justify the fascism Bush has propagated in the country. It's for our own good. So the founding fathers were wrong and the constitution is wrong. Ang all the veterans in all the wars that fought for our freedom are wrong. Only Bushco knows what is best for the USA.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:16 pmBush does not want to merely “please†the masses. He is concerned with truly protecting America from all enemies!!!
Comment by Peter Abelard
Funny way he has of doing it! By creating more terrorists and world hatred for America. But then, Dubya never was the sharpest tool in the shed.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:18 pmPeter is all for the decisions by the ruling class as long as he considers himself one of the ruling class. Most Republicans think of themselves as better than everyone else. That is why they don't join the military but take care of "bad knees", and have "other priorities, or support the troops by posting garbage to enlighten the masses.
Hey Peter it is not 1801 and the masses are enlightened to the ruling class dirty tricks.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:18 pmHardlyABall's fondest hope is to sit on da Shrubs lap and talk 'bout the first
August 9th, 2007 at 8:19 pmthing that pops up between them...It'll make them both soo happy. Their parents should be slapped.
You have been royally brainwashed, young man.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 8:08 pm
Assuming facts not in evidence. No brain I can determine. just another America-hating Rovot, a poster child for Nazi extremism, a sociopath. And most certainly not a real man.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:19 pmJefferson didn’t trust the idiot masses to make their own decisions, because he KNEW that they would fuk sh!t up!!!
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation for any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.†(Jefferson’s letter to Benjamin Waring, March 1801
I believe Jefferson said "our first object" is to protect the free expression of "the will of the people".
"Idiot masses"??? Please define. I don't believe there is any reference to the Idiot Masses in the Constitution ANYWHERE!
August 9th, 2007 at 8:19 pmPeter - Bush is not your BFF either.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:21 pmComment by texaslady — August 9, 2007 @ 8:18 pm
I don't advocate a "ruling class." I feel, as did the Founders, that political decisions should be made by men and women who have devoted their lives to statescraft.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:21 pmFunny how Hendler became very quiet immediately after Wayne reminded him of his erroneous prophecies regarding the 2006 elections...
August 9th, 2007 at 8:21 pmYou have been royally brainwashed, young man.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 8:08 pm
It meant "idiot asses", speaking of neocon liars and Republican traitors. peter dont spel so gud. home-schooling from his mother and her brother, who was also his father.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:21 pmThe members of the press should be allowed to bring in rotten fruit to pelt Chimpy with when he tells his usual outrageous lies.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — August 9, 2007 @ 8:05 pm
Didn't they actually do that in Elizabethan England - sell rotting veggies outside the theaters so ya could pelt the actors if ya didn't like the show?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:22 pmWhy does Bush hate our servicemen?
"The Bush administration opposes a Democratic effort to restore full educational benefits for returning veterans."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/08/administration-.html
August 9th, 2007 at 8:22 pmPeter - Bush is not your BFF either.
Comment by texaslady — August 9, 2007 @ 8:21 pm
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I know. That's why I said:
August 9th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
that political decisions should be made by men and women who have devoted their lives to statescraft.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 8:21 pm
And Bush's training was in what?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:22 pmFunny how the trolls get real quiet when they are challenged on real issues, like the Constitution and leadership and stuff.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:23 pmComment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — August 9, 2007 @ 8:08 pm
Read your history, son.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:23 pmGood grief Nobody could, what was that comment by Peter F---S--U-- as good as Bush and Cheney. And we all know Bush has been trying since college to learn how to F--S--U--. Well if we make it through 530 more days with this bigtime F--U-- there may be hope.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:24 pmFunny how the trolls get real quiet when they are challenged on real issues, like the Constitution and leadership and stuff.
Comment by upside00 — August 9, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
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I'm a troll.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:24 pmComment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
It was stupid at 6:55, Peter...what made you think it would be any less stupid at 8:22?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:24 pmAnd Bush’s training was in what?
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — August 9, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
cheerleading, binge drinking and running away. did very well in all of them.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:24 pmI think what Peter means is Jefferson thought those idiot masses were called Christians, thus our separation of Church and State, as well as our right to religious freedom, which includes freedom FROM religion. I see his point now, thanks Peter!
August 9th, 2007 at 8:25 pmPeter is so stupid he thinks Machiavelli was a neocon. we all know Machiavelli was a stone psychopath, like W. Read some history Peter, or have somebody read it to you, very slowly.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:26 pm"idiot masses"?!?!?
Petey Asslard is a REAL fascist, isn't he.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:26 pmJefferson had no use for obnoxious fake Christians. he was very wise, as we can see what kind of damage they've done to America. The Muslim extremists are jealous.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:28 pmcheerleading, binge drinking and running away. did very well in all of them.
Comment by ronjazz — August 9, 2007 @ 8:24 pm
Don't forget tootskis... a minor in coke snorting.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:28 pmHey. If y'all can't deal with reality, that's not my problem. Call me all the names you want, it just reflects poorly on yourselves.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:28 pmCareful, folks. We're slipping into name-calling.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:29 pmPetey Asslard is a REAL fascist, isn’t he.
Comment by Tom3.2 — August 9, 2007 @ 8:26 pm
he would be, if he had the balls, but he won't even sign on to kill ragheads for Big Oil. Waste of oxygen is that Petey the Sissy. Must be mitt's bastard kid.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:30 pmFight like a rock for Iraq? Matthews should get a Nobel prize for poetry. That's almost as good as "Adam had 'em"!
August 9th, 2007 at 8:30 pmOh I see Bush is a natural intellect because his GPA did not reflect this hidden intelligence, and lets see he made a 25 on his Flight test to jump ahead of 1000 others to get into the National Guard.
And what was that MBA written about...anyone remember ? Oh what about those marvelous business ventures that he succeeded so well in. Seems I remember Georgie being bailed out by oh yes, THE SAUDIS.
And then the Dallas taxpayers funded his Texas Rangers stadium.
Wow, you just have to be absolutely amazed at this person intelligence. I sure have faith that he will lead us out of this hell hole he has us into.
But hey, what a guy to have a beer with, right?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:30 pmyes, it was sickening. i heard nothing new. i guess he easily entralled by recycled bs. what did chrissy think of the stammering and stuttering dubya did on the question about pat tillman? america wants to know.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:32 pmFacts lean left. Peter has no relationship with Truth; it's a stranger to him.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:32 pmHe Who Says 'American', Says 'Slave'.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:33 pmI’m a troll.
Comment by Peter Abelard
let me fix that for you.
Mr.P says "I am an extremely stupid troll."
Much more accurate now.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:35 pmTypical.
I prove you lefties wrong, and all you can do is try to insult me.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:35 pmThink of how many times a day Chris Mathews must have to brush his teeth just to get the taste of Republican cum out of his mouth. . . .
August 9th, 2007 at 8:37 pmIt sounds like Chris Matthews is chumming for a big interview with the president. He usually goes into a gushing frenzy just before he's granted some access usually reserved for Fox or one of the network anchors.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:37 pmonce again,,as expected..
selective history by your crappy site....
he has hammered the neocons on their crap....
but you'll never show it....
here watch these and see for yourself..and then shut the hell up...
and learn something about foreign policy for christ sake!
(ps..yes he kisses some repug ass but he also gives beat downs to repugs too,,the tom delay interviews are embarrassing but you have to show tweetie's good stuff too)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1093331498361075102
Robert Baer : Iraq Situation is Deteriorating
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1093331498361075102
August 9th, 2007 at 8:38 pmRobert Baer : Iraq Situation is Deteriorating
Typical.
I prove you lefties wrong, and all you can do is try to insult me.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 8:35 pm
Where and who exactly did you prove wrong. You told us that fascism was better for America but have yet to prove how. Your misinterpretation of words doesn't only proves your weak grasp of the
August 9th, 2007 at 8:40 pmEnglish language.
I prove you lefties wrong, and all you can do is try to insult me.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 8:35 pm
Your interpretation of Jefferson's statement was laughable at best, and embarassing in the end. The only point you made clearly is that you don't understand Jefferson's words.
"It’s implied...."
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 7:57 pm
That would certainly hold up in a court of law. Please present us w/ one valid opinion by a SCOTUS or Constitutional expert that supports your view.
People start calling you names because you're exhausting to deal w/, like a petulant child. You simply cannot bear to admit you're wrong, much like Bush. Ya remind me o' Mr P, who tried to sell us "the Saudis aren't Moslems" ond day and got laughed off the site.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:41 pmTroll Score: Peter Abelard 75 everyone else 158. I think that the troll won this one too. It's getting hard to find a thread on TP where the trolls don't win. You are giving them what they want. Does it make you happy? I know it makes them happy.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:43 pmNobody has insulted Peter, he's just allergic to Truth. Like Sevenson said, if Republicans would stop lying about Democrats, Democrats would stop telling the truth about Republicans. Republicans appeal to the frightened, the weak-minded, the unpatriotic, the greedy and the insane. That's a lot of people, but they're still wrong for America.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:44 pm"Jefferson didn’t trust the idiot masses to make their own decisions, because he KNEW that they would fuk sh!t up!!!"
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
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So Peter, does that mean you don't support the presidents efforts to spread democracy in the middle east?
Or does it mean that you, like him, pay lip service to a system of government you don't really believe in solely for the reason of manipulating said masses?
Rhetorical questions both - there's no chance of an honest answer from the Peter bot, just more 'noble lies'.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:44 pmMr P. . . hmm. Looks like he's back, no longer in abbreviated form.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:46 pmwatch this too..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1242462397558594358
August 9th, 2007 at 8:48 pmWell TP - so now you are censoring my posts? No swearing or name calling and yet? It can hardly be that I claim to be King George III - we have old Peter Abelard/ Gregory Nazianus posting merrily away too.
UP yours as they say where I come from.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:48 pm8:33 Shep just reverse everything Peter and Bush say and that's what the truth is. Oh and tonight Bush pulled the "I just can't remember on the Pat Tillman question." Rumsfeldt at least said, "you haven't a shred of evidence that I knew it was fratricide." Got to love those shredding machines, bet they are burning the electricity at the White House every day.
Loss of memory by so many White House people...must be the water.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:49 pmprove you lefties wrong...
Show me, Abelard, exactly what did you "prove"?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:50 pmYou know one just has to laugh at this White House bunch otherwise we would all be throwing up everytime they open their mouth. And I include the Bush lovers in this group. They are like a bad hangover.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:52 pmShow me, Abelard, exactly what did you “prove�
Comment by Arthur C. — August 9, 2007 @ 8:50 pm
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I proved all of this:
Bush is a true political genius.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Bush is also a brilliant strategist.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
The power of Bush’s Pro-America philosophy, will never fail.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
August 9th, 2007 at 8:54 pmBush is a TRAITOR who needs to be jailed at Gitmo until he DROPS DEAD.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:56 pmpete...on all your points you are full of shit....
August 9th, 2007 at 8:57 pmthe magic filters of "Don't Think Progress"
August 9th, 2007 at 8:58 pmcheerleading, binge drinking and running away. did very well in all of them.
Comment by ronjazz
Don't forget playing grabass with his fellow Skull and Boners!!
August 9th, 2007 at 8:58 pmGod-Awful trolls.
I remember way back when- when people from the right would disagree with something that was posted, and we had actual discussions with them.
Now, there's nothing but stupid Rove plants that simply create chaos.
Sad, and desperate.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:59 pmI prove you lefties wrong, and all you can do is try to insult me.
Comment by Peter Abelard
Bwahahahahaha
August 9th, 2007 at 9:04 pmYou made a funny.
Oh, I see Peter - you think reality changes to accommodate your assertions. You don't have to actually prove anything, you can just make declarations & then say you proved them.
I'm sure that's a very persuasive strategy with the right target audience, but I have a feeling this might not be that audience; most of us use this little cognitive process called 'critical thinking'. Try it sometime.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:05 pmI prove you lefties wrong, and all you can do is try to insult me.
Comment by Peter Abelard
...We all know.that..
...Peeter Abetard is always "right"...
August 9th, 2007 at 9:08 pmPeter Absurd is a charicature. He is a fake.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:08 pmAnd he's succeeded here too. Way to go, guys!
August 9th, 2007 at 9:10 pmI am curious why Peter or trolls even bother with this website. They aren't interested in another opinion. Their comments are like a two year old, "I want a cookie, I want a cookie". So what is the point?
August 9th, 2007 at 9:12 pm“I want a cookie, I want a cookieâ€
OOo... me too... me too!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 9:13 pmWhat is with Matthews? I swear he has verbal orgasms over anybody that is powerful. Remember the very sexually ambiguous comments about Bush when he went all Mission Accomplished (I think it was the codpiece). The guy certainly is either not straight or he has a small unit.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:16 pminteresting in that there should theoretically now be some push-back from the left-ish. e.g. some really oprah-ish talking head lathered up about transparency and inclusiveness :)
August 9th, 2007 at 9:21 pmPeter you proved my point but it is bedtime now so off with you.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:23 pmYesterday I was scolded for roasting troll meat. I've posted nothing today. Glad to see there's been such a dramatic reduction in troll droppings.
August 16th can't come soon enough - TP don't let us down.
OT: Chris Matthews - time to move to Comedy Central along with the other fake news comedy shows. Jon Stewart couldn't write a monologue funnier than that CM clip.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:36 pmI've heard our President is a surprisingly small man from a number of people who have met him. So why does Mr Cupcake Matthews get so worked up about him?
August 9th, 2007 at 9:44 pm"I’ve heard our President is a surprisingly small man from a number of people who have met him. So why does Mr Cupcake Matthews get so worked up about him?" - Comment by Peter in St. Paul
'cause that was no codpiece...
August 9th, 2007 at 9:46 pmWhat did you expect, It's obvious even Mathews needs a Job, He would have been attacked by Neocons long ago and sacked as a Media personality long ago if his style of Propaganda was not Favored as a strategic value too the Bush's {Imperialistic Corporate controlled Gulags and Rogue Family friends}.
AKA Prescott Bush's Financiers Under Hitler's control .
food for THOUGHT
August 9th, 2007 at 9:55 pmComment by JPark — August 9, 2007 @ 9:16 pm
What is with Matthews? I swear he has verbal orgasms over anybody that is powerful. Remember the very sexually ambiguous comments about Bush when he went all Mission Accomplished (I think it was the codpiece). The guy certainly is either not straight or he has a small unit.
I agree, JP, there is something wrong with Matthews. Maybe it's physical. He is married, with children, but he has diabetes now and who knows what complications, if you know what I mean, so he may be doing more fantasizing.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:04 pmThat's all the sympathy I can muster -- he needs to be taken off the air.
He fawns all over pretty women, he can't hide his admiration for what he believes are "manly men" - his commentary is more gossip than pertinence, and he is so in love with himself, he answers his own questions.
Why doesn't Dan Abrams cut him off?
WER'E GOING TO TEACH THE IRAQIS DEMOCRACY EVEN IF WE HAVE TO KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM !!!
August 9th, 2007 at 10:17 pmWhy doesn’t Dan Abrams cut him off?
jack welch.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:27 pmIf you watch Matthews's show, you know that he hates the neocon world view.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:38 pmWar and torture are Republican "family values".
August 9th, 2007 at 10:41 pmTweety ought to stick to things he's expert on, like the "manliness" of a guy with his parachute harness hitched up so tight he'd emasculate himself if he ever had to bail (not that Dubya would be inclined to do so).
Dubya's real message was delivered in the last 60 seconds of his press conference, and it confirms to a "T" the primary thesis of Glenn Greenwald's book, "A Tragic Legacy". Yes, Dubya's a strident 'neocon'. But above and beyond all, he's a Manichean. Read Glenn's book for the implications of that fact.
Cheers,
August 9th, 2007 at 10:46 pm"There hasn’t been a terrorist attack on US soil since 2001."
Comment by Peter I'll Be Lard
Peter, Peter. That's because the Bush Crime Family hasn't authorized another attack yet. But just wait. It's coming.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:54 pmI watch Mathews to get an idea of what the non-batshit insane right is thinking. If this guy is a liberal-he's a liberal right winger. Every once in awhile he comes up with something that suggests he is still a rational member of humanity-heckuva leap for diehard conservatives. Just as the party of family values (he referred to all the once married dem candidates as "stuck" with their original partner) seemed to be packed with faithless pervs; the party of gay bashing seems to have, and Mathews frequently, man crushes that defy reality. Reagan was a good communicator, as any actor would be; but really, he was a crumby president. There is just no justifying w. How can anyone boy crush on that doofus?
August 9th, 2007 at 10:56 pmWow...I think tweety got a boner on that one. What a putz. He is pathetic. Tip O'Neil is rolling over in his grave and spitting.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:04 pm“This president is ready to fight like a rock through the rest of his term,†Matthews proclaimed.
Poor Chris. He said he is ready to "fight like IRAQ through the rest of his term," and for anyone that has seen how the Iraqi forces fight, the GOP should be worried.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:06 pmPeter HAS to be a spoof - no way that's serious...
August 9th, 2007 at 11:11 pmThere is only one explanation for Mathews behavior... he must be on someone's payroll. A rational objective person viewing that haltering, rehash of old talking points, had to conclude the guy is intellectually weak, inarticulate, and clearly given to long winded talking points designed to run out the clock.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:11 pmThere is no other reasonable conclusion other than Mathews is bought and paid for.
Chris Matthew is Bush's own Monica.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:13 pmCan you say MALARIA?
August 9th, 2007 at 11:25 pmgorn, roast away, don't listen to the haters. :)
August 9th, 2007 at 11:28 pmWhich Darryl are you, Darryl? And does Larry know where you are?
August 9th, 2007 at 11:38 pmAnyone see any similarities to the Reagan presidency?
Here are 2 boneheads, no clue, no presence, no capability.
One wonders what they are paying the punditocracy to both imagine they are smart and great, and then to not vomit or explode laughing when others say it too.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:46 pmAnd who they are working for.
Yikes - just a few posts up from mine is one claiming that Tweety must be paid for, and another also dredging up Reagan.
It's not just me.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:48 pmYou have to give Bush credit for pursuing his strategy. He is asking all the tough questions. "How did all of our oil get under their sand?" Neoconservative minds want to know...
August 9th, 2007 at 11:51 pmJeez you guys, lighten up.
Can't you see that Abelard is a satirist?
He's so obviously either posing or quoting directly from something like Chairman Mao's book.
And if it turns out he's serious? Well, then he needs help and we all know what kind of mental health resources are available these days - zip, nada, just about.
Abelard, you have my pity but not my support.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:03 amIts so obvious Tweety WANTS HIM, badly.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:47 am#236 = someone named Peter has stated that he thinks that "facism is good for America?" -- is he kidding??? First of all, if he is, it's not funny in any shape or manner....and just the thought that someone would say something like that ...I don't get it. I'm just about giving up on America. I think it's finished.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:16 amI was going to say something, such as the neocon propaganda of the corporate media, as witnessed by a newsman also on MSNBC, -- named John Roberts, - a sellout if there ever was one. But why bother, with an American saying, after The Holocaust and Nazi Germany, that facism may be ok. We're done for.
After the last Democratic debate, Matthews remarked that John Edwards looked so "small" behind the podium.
Since Matthews says what he's told to say, I figured they must consider Edwards the biggest threat. Interestingly, he also sang the praises of Hillary Clinton.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:34 amI’m just about giving up on America. ...
Comment by blueseahorse — August 10, 2007 @ 1:16 am
bye bye
August 10th, 2007 at 2:08 amPoor cm.He could have been great.Still can when he gets his own brain back.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:14 amLooks like he thinks he found where they have all the gold hidden and if he hangs around long enough looking cute they will give him some.
I think Tweety is a manly man. A man of such manliness that he just oozes manhoodliness. I brilliant man who in a very manly way makes us men ashamed that we aren't as manly as him . . . or Shrub.
Did I mention his manliness?
August 10th, 2007 at 3:05 amA mental midget, this banker controlled robot doesn't speak for most Americans who are against this illegal war.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:25 amOh Mattews busts out the kneepads and ball polishing rag again for his manly man Bush. How 2004 of you Chris. His only regret is Bush wasn't wearing his codpiece of invincibility.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:55 amMatthews is a size queen.
August 10th, 2007 at 5:49 amA "Great Neo-Conservative Mind" as proclaimed by Chris Matthews, a Great Neo-Conservative Whore.
August 10th, 2007 at 7:56 amAnd for all the 20-some%'s that still want to enable the worst administration ever....a little bit of guidance
"Please forgive me. I forgive you. Thank you. I love you." These four simple statements are a powerful tool for easing suffering of people facing life's end - themselves or a loved one - and preparing to say "Good-bye." They are about cleaning up and "becoming current" in our relationships with the people in our lives who matter most.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:02 am.
I might want to add, "And don't let the door smack you where your brains have found themselves when you leave."
August 10th, 2007 at 8:04 amMatthews? A liberal?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Well, I suppose compared to Savage and Coultergeist, maybe. But there are a number of extremist talking heads who think anybody left of Franco is a liberal.
Another observation -- Matthews has been improving his fawning skills if he can get the whole act whipped off in only three minutes.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:41 amWhat's to say? Matthews has ALWAYS had his nose in the crack of whoever's in power.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:51 amBush adulation is simply unfathomable.
I just read former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully's piece in the Atlantic in which he eviscerates his colleague Michael Gerson for being a shameless self-aggrandizer. Scully shows that he is capable of cynicism and independent thought, yet he has nothing but praise for the awesome and inspirational leadership of "George W".
Unfathomable.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:03 amGeorge W. Bush is to democracy what Tweety is to journalism.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:04 amAmid all the schoolgirl gush, Matthews did manage, however inadvertently, to make one very true statement when he said that Bush will "fight like a rock" for the rest of his presidency. Rocks are not usually very aggressive. In fact, unless someone throws one in battle, rocks generally tend to sit out all conflicts, just the way Bush did during Viet Nam, and the way his entire family is doing now.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:36 amI noticed Matthews' admission: "...during lunch several months before the war" Paul Wolfowitz laid out his plans for Iraq. I wondered why the MSM never questioned the justifications for the war more deeply. Now they seem to be comfortable enough to admit that they are not true journalists but elitist, biased suck-ups willing to eschew neutrality to be insiders. Not for long, I hope.
And, of course, the philosophy of such neocons as Wolfowitz is working out so well for them. Their Iraqi "democracy" is producing shiny happy citizens who are productive West-loving members of society, you know, since our invasion has brought them 99% unemployment, almost no potable water and maybe two hours a day of electricity. They love us. And that 3-swimming pool embassy Halliburton and Bechtel are building for the neocons in Baghdad is really going to go over well when the function lights burning all night keep the citizens awake and mindful of who really benefits from "democracy" in Iraq.
Geniuses, all of them.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:29 am“'…during lunch several months before the war' Paul Wolfowitz laid out his plans for Iraq. "
And that's about the amount of thought and detail that went into them: enough to fit on a restaurant napkin.
Paul Wolfowitz is to architect as George W. Bush is to _______?
A. Genius.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:05 pmB. Airman.
C. War hero.
D. Decider.
“This president is ready to fight like a rock through the rest of his term,†Matthews proclaimed.
Other people have dealt with it as a stupid metaphor, but fighting? He's going to do what he wants to do and not do what he doesn't want to do. There is no measure of sacrifice or risk involved, especially since anyone with any sense already knows he's the worst president in living memory.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:19 pmTweety is neither "liberal" nor "conservative". He's a goddamned moron, no more, no less.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:38 pmGreat mind????
Wow we are definitely living in a world of diminishing expectations (and shrinking craniums).
August 10th, 2007 at 12:38 pmAnd the fightin' rock metaphor, just sweeter than sweet. Great extemporizing, fatboy.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:39 pmLove letter to Bush from Chris drippy lips Mathews,
August 10th, 2007 at 12:56 pmDaddy Bush,
You smell like cigars and aquavellva.
I love your beefyness, your neocon your codpiece.
Excuse me if I just ooops.I have to get a tissue.
Will you give me an interview now for my TV show.
Love Tweety
Mathews: A media man, not to be confused with a news man.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:08 pmIs Matthews off on some fantasy tangent or has MSNBC has taken a significant turn to the right? It could be ratings pressures and a strategy to compete head-to-head for the wingnut crowd. Best ad I have seen for CNN.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:16 pmI am as liberal as you get, but I know that Chis Matthews is against this war (calling it a "Bullshit War" on live air, which can be seen on YouTube) and the lies the administration used to get us into it. I think that in this case he was trying to be impartial about a specific speech given by Bush, and that's all. I didn't agree with Reagan much, but it doesn't mean that he didn't give powerful speeches. This was simply a case of Matthews listening to Bush and hearing unusually clear messages, and saying so. I don't agree with William F. Buckley either but I can't deny that the guy is smart, and in acknowledging that I am not detracting from my own position. Give Chris the benifit of the doubt here.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:30 pmThe power of Bush commands you.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:39 pm"Great' and 'neoconservative' are mutually exclusive terms. Period. Someone inform tweety when he gets up off his knees and wipes his chin.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:44 pmThe Motherland? Sounds like a sound bite taken from Hitler.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:50 pmThis reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw a few months back. It said:
"BUSH - like a rock... just a lot dumber.
Effing perfect.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:52 pmImpeach the chickenhawks.
Oh Tweety, you do disappoint.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:54 pmDoes anyone notice that Chris Matthews seems to be a bit too much into homo-eroticism?
He has commented on the scents of GOP candidates as well as how "manly" they appear to him.
How many Jeff Gannons get to interview the President before people realize that this head in clouds journalism is completely worthless and unappealing?
August 10th, 2007 at 1:56 pmI thought Chris Matthews kissed the big big pink bush babboon hiney really really good...good job Chris MatThews..
August 10th, 2007 at 1:57 pmHey guys calm down, Chris Matthews is one of us. I will say president Bush is like a rock through the end of his term. He's standing by what he believes in regardless of how bad that philosophy is. Lets not go calling Chris Matthews conservatively bias because he's one of the few liberal voices we have on television.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:57 pmDictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
syc·o·phant Pronunciation[sik-uh-fuhnt, -fant]
–noun a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
—Related forms
syc·o·phan·tic, syc·o·phan·ti·cal, syc·o·phant·ish, adjective
syc·o·phan·ti·cal·ly, syc·o·phant·ish·ly, adverb
syc·o·phant·ism, noun
—Synonyms toady, yes man, flunky, fawner, flatterer.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:57 pmMatthews turned me off for a long time. He DOES suck up to whoever seems to have power. He was very suckupish to Dean and his wife when it seemed they would get the Dem nomination in 04. Now, this horrible suck up to Bush just because he seems "physical" and powerful.
I basically don't really watch TV commentators except for Lou Dobbs and God's Learning Channel out of Odessa/Midland TX, a Christian channel which gives marvelous insight on the news. 7 PM Central time, repeated at 9 PM Central time, Sunday through Thursday, repeated on Saturday nights. Worldwide sattelite.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:04 pmChris Matthews is a meally-mouthed piece of trash that should be ignored in this internet-youtube era. He speaks from both sides of the mouth. He is an unqualified marecenary pretending to be a serious journalist but the truth is that he will serve anyone who pays him. Like all other phonies, he should be exposed and shunned. He gives real journalists a bad name.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:07 pmSo the excuse for the war this month is *spin wheel* building democracies in the Middle East! I could have swore the excuse in 2003 was Weapons of Mass Destruction.
It's quite funny that George Bush would point the finger at Congress over pork barre spending, when how many of President's Cheney's former employers and cohorts have robbed this country of how many billions of dollars before moving their headquarters to Dubai so they never have to answer to Congress or The People? Also, those tax breaks for the top 1% of the population certainly were more needed than using that money for things like oh, say, the infrastructure of this nation, or wow - here's a thought - education!
August 10th, 2007 at 2:11 pmSo does this mean Chris Matthews man-crush on Fred Thompson is history? Why, that two-timer!
August 10th, 2007 at 2:12 pmPresident Bush's tears can cure cancer. Too bad he's never cried.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:13 pmI agree with a previous poster that CM was trying to be impartial about a speech. Both before and after these comments, he continues to rip into Bush and his cronies for this debacle.
Unlike many of those posting here, he has respect for the office of President of the USA, and a professional position in which he tries to remain objective and reasonable.
In the end, I bet most of the 321 posters here agree on most real American issues today...we should stop for a minute and get some perspective.
Those of you attacking Chris Matthews are missing the bigger picture. We, the unwashed masses, are being attacked on every front by the rich, powerful, landed aristocracy. Those of you attacking crazy liberals or uptight neocons are destroying yourselves. We are currently living through a massive class war by the rich vs. the rest of us. We're getting off-topic by calling each other names. Clips like this one from Hardball are taken out of context to rile up both sides of the argument against each other...but guess what? We're on the same side!
Rise up, not against the "other" political party, but against those who would take your money and your liberty. Rise up against those who lower their own taxes while raising yours. Rise up against these arrogant bastards who believe their money and power grant them the right to control our lives!
We are under attack by massive telecommunications companies, oil companies, multinational corporations and their CEOs. Ask yourself why corporate taxes dropped from 90% in the 1980s to 30% today. Ask yourself why our oil-man-president is really in Iraq. Ask yourself why our car companies are still getting subsidies from our government when they obviously produce polluting and inferior cars.
Money makes the world go round, and those that have it will do whatever it takes to get our money. This is the real war...this is our real crisis.
Wake up!
August 10th, 2007 at 2:16 pmPeter Abelard needs his head removed from his ass. Posting the same bullshit over and over...what a douchebag.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:16 pmChris Matthews is a tool. I stopped watching his silly show long ago when I realized it wasn't about asking hard political questions.... but was about, literally, Matthew's apparent facination with his guests 'hard balls'...in this instance the President's.
I think 'ol Chris is bucking for a spot on FAUX News.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:17 pm#
It is comforting to know that future Presidents will look back to Bush and Cheney for guidance.
Comment by Peter Abelard — August 9, 2007 @ 6:56 pm
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August 10th, 2007 at 2:20 pmJust as Bush looked back on Hitler and Goebbels for guidance.
Hi everybody,
Abelard is yanking your chains. Man, you guys are suckers.
"It is comforting to know that future Presidents will look back to Bush and Cheney for guidance." ... LOL! Comeon! You guys do know Colbert is kidding right ?
Stuart, I agree with you somewhat. Matthews tries to play both sides too strongly sometimes. However, I just didn't understand why he liked this speech so much. Honestly, I think they need to get rid of him and Tucker. keep KO, and Abrams on. Get rid of Morning Joe..ZZZZzz. sorry I dozed off thinking about Joe S...ZZZzzzz.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:21 pmhow could you not gush over a fellow who just ducked a question about whether the white house would get to the bottom of the Pat Tillman
cover-up. he knew Tillman was a victim of "friendly-fire" - and went ahead with the silver star ceremony.
like everything else in this administration - do whatever the hell you want for political gain, then fight it in court and the court of public opinion (the media and the "justice" systems are in your pocket), then just deny and defend and attack, until it all becomes a swamp. we've seen this on every issue from iraq to valerie plame to gonzales. commit the crime - then use the courts, time and media to wear people down. great victory! you really win!! everybody feels all warm and fuzzy about your administration!!! great logic - great soul!!
great wisdom!!!!! now this is a leader - one built for america.
you got what you deserved. shouldn't have been close enough to steal it - but it was. 2000/2004 - america's shame to live on in infamy.
and yet this yahoo, in this day and age, is still speaking positively about bush?!!!?!!! (huh?!!!) are you freaking kidding me?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 10th, 2007 at 2:23 pmHmmm...since that Bushie troll is calling yourself "Peter Abelard," after the famously castrated 12th-century French philosopher, does that mean that he doesn't have any balls, either? tee-hee.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:23 pmWhat liberal media. This media is clearly a tool of the neo-con power brokers of which Bush-Cheney are a part.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:25 pmyou guys missed chris' point... when he says bush has a great neo-conservative mind... he's SLAMMING bush, not gushing over him. it went right over your heads. don't worry, chris has been putting the smackdown on neo-cons (he hates'em, duh) for years.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:26 pmI would like to remind George Bush that the peoples of the Middle East are not like the Native Americans of the old western frontier before the US was fully established. The US government cannot just ignore our beliefs and our religion like the previous governments that sought to assimilate Native Americans of North America.
You cannot ignore the fact that a majority of muslims in Iraq would prefer a theocracy, instead of a democracy, which falls in line with our belief systems. Such is the essence of the problem in Iraq today.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:28 pmPathetic! Next thing, Matthews will be kissing up to Cheney. Bush & Cheney are the two worse "leaders" in the history of the world, but Matthews seems to have some strange heroes. I'll pray for him - to my God, not Bushie's.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:30 pmMatthews said “I thought in listening to the president, I was listening to one of the great neoconservative minds,â€. So lesser minds than Bush created and executed our policies in Iraq. That's why we're still their!
August 10th, 2007 at 2:32 pmOnly a pu$$y is impressed by another man who speaks a good game without actually doing anything himself. He should gush over the soldiers in Iraq and not over the male cheerleader who said bring them on, and cried in the oval office.
I pray that those who command the bully pulpit in this country are able to hold fast to rationalization and impartiality. I would hope that they are not susceptable to charm, jokes, and fluffery.
Bush comes off as a happy go lucky average guy, like an uncle or something, but he still violated international and U.S. constitutional law during his presidency. Because he attacked a sovereign country not in self defence he is guilty of murder 100,000 times over. No amount of jokes or quips can cure that, can save his soul.
What a pathetic pandering display by Mathews, trying to get some of that FOX listernership.
If I were a democrat (or anything else for that matter) and one more person questioned my manhood on national T.V. I would definitely challenge that person to a fight in the Octagon. Where the hell are Meeks, Jessie Jackson, Jr., Shuler, Tester, and the like. Stand up and defend yourself from this stupid childish labeling that they live off of.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:35 pmOh come on, Who could take this guy seriously. He thought the elderly Mr Thompson would be irresistibly sexy to us females. After hearing him fawn over Bush in his codpiece enhanced flight suit I have decided he is possibly gay but certainly a neo-con advocate. Perhaps they are the same thing??
August 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pmWhen gushing about geo bush I wonder whether matthews in his ardor remembers if he has his chapstick and preparation 8 in his back pocket as I'm certain he wouldn't want to disappoint his stud muffin.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pmI think there should be a limit on how much crap someone like "Peter Abelard" can spew on one thread.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:41 pmAbelard must ride the short bus to the "special" philosophy school since he can equate Bush who has no coherent philosophy to Plato, Hobbes, etc.
Abelard and Bush are indeed "special" people.
President Bush is a moron and history will judge him to be the worst president ever.
Chris Matthews is from another planet.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:45 pm"Fight like a rock."
Is that the ancient bird?
I knew the guy was soft in the head, but he doesn't get into fights with rocks on the ground, does he?
Bob Novak, sure. I bet he shakes his fists and yells at telephone poles and believes the tv people are spying on him. But I didn't think that Mathews had lost enough grey matter to the social disease of Aristocracy to be this pitiful.
Poor guy.
It's like Mad Cow disease for celebrity telejournalists.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:46 pmCM only supports boy george for the tax cuts. People like him don't care about anything but their money, he doesn't care how many slaves die for his plantation. And protect him from the unwashed masses.
If boy george is so interested in spreading democracy, why does he prop up the house of saud, who rule Saudi Arabia as a monarchy, while Iran which is a democracy with elections and everything, is the evil bad guys. You think oil has anything to do with it? Especially when you consider OPEC is tapped out, mexico oil fields are in decline, running out of oil faster than Mexico will admit. Peak oil is here, actually more of a table top, statistical fact if you look at global oil production.
It's really all about the big corporations taking over the world in the form of oligopolies (like a monopoly, but 2-3 big corps control 90% of whatever market), basically only hillbilly towns where mom & pop stores still exist, everything else is corporate takeover. Corporations live forever, humans die eventually.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:53 pmI am so sick and tired of this flip flopper Chris Mathews.. One min he is talking about the President or as Mathews calls him "Pressdent" Bush as a guy that has royally screwed up this part of the world.. The next min Mathews is calling Pressdent Bush the man of the people.. Or as Mathews says it.. The "pepoo" I give up watching any of this spineless bullshit anymore
August 10th, 2007 at 2:55 pmBush like a rock only dumber.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:55 pmWe have witnessed the first administration that is totally and completely a marketing campaign. Bush has executed 0 plans successfully during his term, but Karl Rove knows that as long as there is no draft, Bush can keep playing the patriotism card.
When will these TV morons focus on the actual execution of the topic of these speeches? For a start, let's have a campaign to get those soldier-bearing coffins returning home TELEVISED, as they used to be.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:56 pmChris has been overcome by Bush's flatulence. He's infatuated with the aroma. He would be a good candidate in the White House when Bush makes his rounds spreading his odor on the staff.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:56 pmYou people have it wrong. Matthews isn't so much fawning over Bush as he is trying to burnish his own supposed bipartisan chops.
He has come to see himself as a neutral observer, so he goes overboard being fawningly nice to both sides. The idea that this late in the game he still thinks there are two equal sides to every story just shows how directionless he has become.
He has no compass, other than a finger he points at himself, saying "how grand am I."
August 10th, 2007 at 3:04 pmI wonder if they dunk Dubya in pheromones every morning before he talks to other people...
August 10th, 2007 at 3:05 pmSome of these comments are HILARIOUS! I especially like the bot-like entries: "It is comforting to know that future Presidents will look back to Bush and Cheney for guidance!" Keep'em coming guys and thanks to who ever is bankrolling you!
August 10th, 2007 at 3:10 pmMatthews has been relentlessly critical of Bush over the last year--he was merely commentating on the president's emotional appeal. I think what he said was perceptive--obviously, the president has some appeal or he would not have been elected twice, and Matthews was trying to tease out the nature of that appeal. Matthews is by far the smartest and most knowledgeable commentator on TV and it's embarassing when left-wingers complain about him. There are much bigger problems out there.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:13 pmWell put, Chris. Truly a glimpse into the workings of a great neoconservative mind. And here's another great thought for ya: the only way you're going to get a date with Kate Moss this week is to blast yourself right up to the moon and bring her back some of that green cheese.
How on earth did this imbecile get on the teevee?
August 10th, 2007 at 3:17 pmAlas, Fellatio. I knew him well...
Perhaps Chris now has a "leg-up" on a cabinet position after Bush declares martial law next year...
August 10th, 2007 at 3:18 pmMatthews dosen't care its all about the game, its all about Chris. He is like a child that only addresses what before him, right then and there. Like asking the next question before you get an answer...its all about Chris.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:20 pmChris....there's a special at Walmart on KY Jelly going on now. Just thought you'd like to know.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:35 pmI quit watching his shows when I realized he was the biggest flip-flopper on the planet. I've heard him go back and forth on so many things I started to get dizzy.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:37 pmThe way that he loved showing the SNL clips of himself every chance he got was kind of sad too. The final straw for me was that he was a judge on The Miss America Pageant. That was funny, sad, weird and just another opportunity for him to be on television. What self-respecting journalist would do that? Especially in 2007! Talk about political incorectness.
Anyone who watches Chris Matthews knows that he is able to compliment objectively the White House for pursuing its agenda while at the same time disagree, or question, with the agenda. Matthews has not disavowed his dubitey for the Administration, rather he has merely commented on the slick way it attempts to sell its agenda to the American people.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:54 pmHe likes to say "I'll ask the tough questions."
What he fails to say is that he doesn't wait for answers. He just makes them up himself.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:55 pmI think Matthews has been smoking some wacky weed. Bush is nothing but a bungling babbling buffoon who should be tried for war crimes by the world court.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:01 pmResponding to 117. Peter, Peter, Peter, what will be left of America after Bush has completed his task. The infrastructure is falling apart, Katrina victims have not been taken care of, unwarranted wiretaps, lies about the reason we got into this war, refusing to listen to Generals who advised him not to get into this war, pressing Tenet to find evidence against Iraq. There has been no accountability with this Administration. Billions and billions of dollars have gone a rat hole while America is going down the tubes. The true terrorists have taken over the White House and are condemning the people of the United States. Watch out Peter, 1984 is coming to pass. This Administration has been caught doing so many corrupt and illegal acts. The Constitution is in disarray.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:04 pmHardball has become hardly (any) balls...
August 10th, 2007 at 4:05 pmHey, Anyone who has regularly watched Matthews, especially pre-invasion, knows the was always against invasion, saying repeatedly that his fear is that for every one we kill we will create 10 more.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:06 pmThey would also know that Matthews is not a fan of Bush's and he hates neo-conservatism.
You have to listen in context and understand Matthews focus, which is politics, how politcs works, how it sells, what qualities appeal to the voter...when he is raving about Bush it is not his approval of Bush but Matthews identifying how and why Bush is still president.
Matthews is s student of politics and the American psyche and you mistake that for approval.
At many points he praises qualities of many leaders and he does try to vocalize differing sides, and get the best voices from both sides
But good lord, his contempt of this war is unmistakeable and he was one of the very few on tv that was openly NOT on board with invasion and the policy of pre-emption...while this was a very unpopular thing to say.
WHY OH WHY HAVE THERE BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT ASSINATION ATTEMPTS ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
August 10th, 2007 at 4:07 pmChris, you are an absolute moron. If you had any decency, you'd quit posing as a newsperson and journalist and allow actual scrutiny of this president, as is the proper role of the press.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pmmatthews has always had a crush on bush..only lately he switching to his new hero/idol Rudy,listen to the adjetives matthews uses in describing giulliani "manly" strong" Tough" and thats when rudy's wearing a dress
August 10th, 2007 at 4:09 pmYa know...
I think it's wrong that they make Chris take off his dribble-cup and bib for television.
It must be some kind of "Ism."
August 10th, 2007 at 4:12 pmWHY OH WHY HAVE THERE BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT ASSINATION ATTEMPTS ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
EXTERMINATE THE RELIGIOUS, THE REPIGLICANS, AND ANYONE WHO DOESN'T AGREE WITH ME!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO.
NO REALLY.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:12 pmIt's obvious, he has probably prostituted himself like Armstrong Williams, Jeff Gannon / James Gekert (both figuratively and literally if you will) and gotten on the bandwagon. Bet there is another Swiss bank account just opened. I respect the substance I just wipped of my shoes more than Matthews.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:14 pmP.O.Him.
Wll
With propagandists like Matthews, rather than say "freedom is on the march" it's more appropriate to say "fascism is on the march."
August 10th, 2007 at 4:23 pmJesus. Is Matthews on pain medication or something?
Here he is fawing over "listening to one of the great neoconservative minds" but then tune into him on other nights and he's tearing apart the neoconservative mindset.
Perhaps he still doesn't have his mind made up over whether the neocon mindset is "great" or "nuts". But it sure has Matthews coming across sounding like a "real whacko".
August 10th, 2007 at 4:27 pmBush--the greatest Turd in the universe next to Matthews.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:28 pmConservativeWhiteRepublicanMaleEvangelicalChristian
August 10th, 2007 at 4:43 pmI can't believe someone would take such a pathetic identity w/o being tortured
Matthews obviously and sadly has lost his wrapper. Someone--anyone--please help him!
August 10th, 2007 at 4:47 pmEXTERMINATE THE RELIGIOUS, THE REPIGLICANS, AND ANYONE WHO DOESN’T AGREE WITH ME!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
NO REALLY.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:48 pmMatthew's is the whack-job. He is a lousy host who constantly is over talking his guests. Not giving anyone a chance to respond to his spit-sprayed idiocy while giving the American people no credit to understand the corruption and political processes in Washington. Like it is some Byzantine puzzle that only greats minds like himself are capable of understanding. The guy is a shameless hack and a has-been or more correctly a never-was. Tip O'Neill would be horse whipping this Bush sycophant with the simple mind and the cliche take. Hey Chris maybe you can't see the forest for the trees by don't paint us with the same broad brush you use for your tired. idiotic logic.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:49 pmAlways remember and never forget that Chis has a $4 million (second) home on Nantucket Island that isn't as big or as expensive as John Edwards' home.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:57 pmHmmm...political genius you say? Perhaps. From false phone calls to voters on election day to writing bogus parking tickets on the cars of voters in miami, yes, Bush knows how to steal a win. Americans unfortunately will fall for the fear vote. If by political genius you mean unethical in nearly every way, I agree. Politics isnt about right or wrong, its about winning.
Now, if you want to see Bush in action as a strategist, read "Imperial Life in the Emerald City." Bush as a liar "Lying Liars and the Lies who tell them" by AL Franken. Bush as a political strategist? "The Greatest Story Ever SOLD" by Frank Rich. Bush's past? "Bush's Brain" and "Bushwhacked." The library is full, it's the american reader that's missing. Looks like a few are missing from these threads as well.
I'm out.
Jeff Cummings
August 10th, 2007 at 5:02 pmChris Matthews is criminally ignorant.
August 10th, 2007 at 5:04 pmSo I guess Matthews is Bush's "catcher"...
Can we get Bush, Coulter and Matthews in a locked airtigth room and see who uses up the most oxygen with their hot air?
please. I hear Matthews wants O'Really?'s job...
August 10th, 2007 at 5:08 pmI knew I didn't like Matthews for a reason. The guy who described him as "the guy who comes on before Olbermann" was dead on....during the last few mintues of Matthews show, I have the mute button on till Keith shows up.
August 10th, 2007 at 5:17 pmWell, shit, Bush Aurelius. Who knew?
August 10th, 2007 at 5:38 pmI really have to forgive Mathews for this utterly misguided approval of the bush administration's activity in Iraq.
Clearly, Mr. Mathews has no understanding of the Middle East. If he knew more, he would - I am sure - have something much different to say.
August 10th, 2007 at 6:05 pmBush is a damn moron. Hell, my cats are smarter!
August 10th, 2007 at 6:38 pmHeadline in Murdock's WSJ: Giant Tweety Bird Escapes From Fox News Zoo!
August 10th, 2007 at 6:55 pmMatthews also made nauseous gushing when Arnold was voted governor in California. I thought he was going to have an ____ right there on TV.
I never hear him talking about Arnold now that Arnold is a "democrat" with an "R" by his name. Arnold changed because it was the right thing to do. Bush will never change because he is stuck! He will go down in history worse than Nixon.
Shame on the Americans that voted for him in 2004. You all screwed our country so bad, it will be a long time until we are a "benevolent" power again. They are comparing our gov't to Hitlers'. My God!! Open your damn eyes!!
August 10th, 2007 at 7:10 pmWhat a suck up.
August 10th, 2007 at 7:30 pmYuk...
Did I see the same press conference as this hack did?
What does Matthews get out of all this? Dinner at the Whitehouse.
August 10th, 2007 at 7:41 pmIt is a shame what our "news" shows have become. They work right off the talking points of this Administration.
I refuse to watch fox, I don't turn to cnn for the news, nor do I watch the news from the networks. I get most of my news from the internet, foreign press and Air America. But, I do watch Olbermann.
Kieth can kick Matthews butt any day!
Matthews must be huffin' Aqua Velva and Old Spice again.
August 10th, 2007 at 7:43 pmPeople who call the United States ...Homeland...or Motherland..will be the first ones to get on the trains off to the camps.....this is a facist regime run by the most criminal kabul ever in power in this country. Bush, Cheney and the rest are mass murderes and are responsible for genocide in Iraq..pure and simple.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:20 pmIdiots like Matthews and the rest of the corporate media have been on the money train for a long time and they will do and say anything to further the agenda of these murderes...beware the end is alot closer than you think.
388. Headline in Murdock’s WSJ: Giant Tweety Bird Escapes From Fox News Zoo!
Comment by Mark Cartwright — August 10, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
LOL!
Get that thing before it starts breeding. It's almost certainly an invasive species.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:52 pmMatthews also laments the slight physical stature of the crop of Democratic prez candidates (no specific mention of how Hillary fits in here)
He likes 'em Big N' Beefy....soooo....how about...
BARRY BONDS for President!!
August 10th, 2007 at 10:06 pmChris! Chris! You're a sycophantic, blithering idiot.
70% of us have by now figured out that Bush is (1) colossally stupid and (2) incompetent as strategist or [c]ommander-in-[c]hief, but you are pimping for him like it was the 2004 election again.
You should be embarrassed. We certainly are embarrassed for you.
August 11th, 2007 at 12:06 amIm laughing so hard i need a bucket.
Matthews ratings are lower than bush and they keep allowing
him in the building.
Keith lock this man in a broom closet.....
August 11th, 2007 at 12:10 amPeter Abelard? You actually think you do credit to The french philosopher Peter Abelard by spewing the most blindingly ignorant right-wing blather in support of glorious leader? I have often wondered what goes thru the mind of this last 25% that support him, and you have helped clearify that for me. Nothing. Nothing goes into your minds, and only sh*t comes out.
August 11th, 2007 at 12:25 amAbelard= Neophyte Crank Yanker :)
August 11th, 2007 at 12:36 amI had to read this a few times to be sure I wasn't hallucinating:
“Sometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility.â€
...sunny nobility...
Well, if by sunny you mean that dazed look you get when you have sunstroke, and by nobility you mean lazy, rich, self serving egomaniacs... then yeah, I concur. Good call.
August 11th, 2007 at 3:43 amCome on. Matthews can definitely be irritating, and he does tend to gush for some unknown reason with his guests, etc. But as anyone who watches him on "Hardball" with any regularity knows, Matthews is openly critical of this administration in regards to Iraq, the influence of neocons, Libby, "chicken'hawks," and more. His comments about Bush here may be stupid, but it is not accurate to suggest that he's currently a shill for Bush.
August 11th, 2007 at 4:04 amMatthews is a superficial person incapable of seeing anything beyond physical apearance and trivial concerns. When Bush was runing for president, Matthews kept saying he is the "kind of guy you have a beer with". The bars are full of people with drinking problems that you can have a beer with.... that doesn't necessarily qualify them to be president. Matthew's lame comentary and flawed logic doesn't qualify him to be a political pundent either. I can't imagine what NBC is thinking. Matthew's would do better to focus on the presidential oath that Bush swore to uphold our Constitution and the loss of our freedomsthat followed.
August 11th, 2007 at 4:19 amMatthews is proof positive that the media is washed up: it's absolute crap. What's wrong with Matthews is wrong clean through. The man is just plain dull. Nothing new there.
Bush may have been a great president if had he great character. But, Momma B kept her little son from learning the lessons a good arse kicking would have taught him. As a result, instead of a lion we get an ass: stubborn, uncomprehending, and braying platitudes.
May God save America, we need Him now, more than ever.
August 11th, 2007 at 7:38 amTweety is essentially supporting Bush in pulling a condom over Bush's head capturing his "seminal" legacy stemming from mental masturbatory phantasys his tragic Iraq misadventure had inspired.
Then I'am sure Tweety will be the first to pay his respects to the display that contains that shameful "legacy" in a spot lit glass case prominently located in Bush's five hundred million dollar presidential library.
August 11th, 2007 at 10:11 amWow...I can remember back to when Chris Matthews had a brain and maybe even a conscience. But this incredibly uncritical verbal stroke-job marks his final transformation to talking robot (with blinking software). I believe he still goes to the bathroom, but even that must now be held in question.
August 11th, 2007 at 10:17 ami watched that press conference and bush managed to make me feel sorry for him. he seems desperate to cling to a failed policy.
August 11th, 2007 at 11:16 amchris matthews is only affected by the swagger, and the manliness of the man, a sexual attraction if you will.
Mathews has been on his knees for Dubya so long, he's forgotten what it's like to stand up.
August 11th, 2007 at 11:55 amI watch Chris everyday and thought he was joking. I think he was being scarastic. But come to think of it he has started making more jokes about the pretty womwn...HUM perpaps he is going thru a mid-life crisis.
August 11th, 2007 at 12:23 pmApparently Herr Matthews and DuMbya suffer the same loss of touch with reality. What else could possibly explain such ass-kissing? Surely not logic, critical thought, or, well, smarts. Maybe Herr Matthews is angling for a plum ambassadorship- to the Moon?! Go Christine, GO- and take DuMbya with you!
August 11th, 2007 at 1:01 pmJust remember everyone, this is the same man who gets googly-eyed and pants over Tom DeLay everytime he has him on the show.
He's probably told to fawn over Bushie for fear that MSNBC could be labeled (Yikes!) too liberal. Because we can't have that!
August 11th, 2007 at 1:33 pmMatthews a genius? A journalist? Intelligent? Worth listening to?
Really? I didn't hear anything...... oh...... NOT!
August 11th, 2007 at 1:36 pmPeter Abelard, are you stupid? You must be. You have you head so far up Bush's ass, that you have no idea what's really going on in the real world. Shame on all you Republican S*umbags. You make me sick!!
August 11th, 2007 at 4:43 pmWhy doesn't Chris Mathews just go to work for FoxNews?
Oh yeah! I forget. They already have Sean Hannity to do Chris' job.
August 11th, 2007 at 6:03 pm"His comments about Bush here may be stupid, but it is not accurate to suggest that he’s currently a shill for Bush."
Not always. Only when he is speaking.
August 11th, 2007 at 6:06 pmThe uncertainty of Fred Thompson's Presidential bid obviously has led Chris to jerk off to the real deal.
August 11th, 2007 at 6:48 pmMatthews' idiotic comments aside, he was referring to Wolfowitz as one of the greatest neo-conservative minds, not Bush.
August 11th, 2007 at 7:05 pmBush brought democracy to the ME, Hamas was elected in a certified clear election , plus the same with Siniora in Lebanon who was defeated. If Bush is so wildly exstatic about democracy why does he push for real elections in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan?
why - because the US interests would lose and lose big.
The US govnt doesn't care about democracy, that just the icing they feed to people willing to believe it.
August 11th, 2007 at 9:37 pmC'mon. Chris Maththew has been highly critical of the Neo-Conservative Cabal. Read between his lines.
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Matthews really has an obsession with big, manly, men. What's up with that? Methink that he ought to spend some time in therapy.
August 12th, 2007 at 10:11 amIf "gay" is a choice, Mathews needs to make up his mind. And get some KY. What a maricon patriot.
August 12th, 2007 at 2:28 pmI seem to recall and you folks may jump in with corrections as you see fit, that, in my eighth grade civics class mention was made of the constant juggling act democracy amounted to, when balance between liberty and security was the issue. Assuming I was paying attention in class, it appears that an increase in one inevitably leads to a decrease in the other. Draw your own conclusions.
August 12th, 2007 at 5:58 pmThe other salient point in the battle for yclept balance was that intellectuals of all persuasions were "employed" to shore up the argument for either liberty OR security. Sadly, I've never once heard, nor heard of, anyone striving for both.
Again, draw your own conclusions...
BTW, Bush is a distraction; he is merely a puppet, shoved out in front of the audience to get everyone's attention while the thieves ransack our cars and houses. Sadly, this MO is standard operating procedure in every nation on earth, with more or less humane variations extant.
Watch, enjoy and occasionally throw some fuel on the fire.
Be prepared.
Come on, Matthews, I know your smarter then this. Don't disappoint me!
August 12th, 2007 at 6:31 pmDoesn't it seem that he is jockying for a job in the White House --- it has worked for others.
August 12th, 2007 at 7:23 pmMathews is the one who began his worship after the cabinet was installed. He stated : so good to again ask a question and get a straight answer---parting paraphrase with 1st Rummy interview.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:00 am. . . so much for" hardboil's" credence.
Chris Mathews - TODAY'S WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:14 amAnyone still believing Bush is ayything but a idiot must have been educated in the Los angeles sholll district. never understood a book they read or words they heard and lived in a dark cave somewhere becoming a lunatic in the process.
August 15th, 2007 at 4:17 pmGeez... If ANYONE thinks that Matthews is a conservative, they have no political compass whatsoever. An old friend -- a Clinton White House operative -- introduced him to his wife who works for D.C. ABC affiliate; his a big Dem, through and through. Not to mention that worked for FOUR democratic politicians.
EITHER WAY, his not too sharp and pretty much irrelevant. The other day he said, "Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter has a military background?" Um, yeah. If you're commenting on politics, you might want to know the politicians.
August 16th, 2007 at 9:41 pm