Matalin: ‘This Brilliant Man’ — Dick Cheney — ‘Has Changed The Nature Of’ The Vice Presidency
Matalin: ‘This Brilliant Man’ — Dick Cheney — ‘Has Changed The Nature Of’ The Vice Presidency
In the span of 30 seconds on this morning’s Meet the Press, former Cheney adviser Mary Matalin offered a series of bewildering, eye-opening statements in defense of the Bush administration.
Asked who John McCain should pick as Vice President, Matalin offered that the candidate must have “good cred on having experience across the board.” She argued:
Dick Cheney has changed the nature of that office. This brilliant man has made that office completely relevant.
Indeed, Cheney — who has argued that his office is not “an entity within the executive branch” — has changed the nature of the office in many destructive ways, operating in secrecy and callously disregarding the views of the American public.
Host Tim Russert then asked whether Condoleezza Rice would make a suitable Vice President. Matalin said:
You know, people don’t know about Dr. Rice is that she weighed in on every domestic issue before the President.
Recall, Rice was the National Security Adviser to Bush in his first term before becoming Secretary of State. Despite having a very thin record on domestic policy issues, she was apparently one of Bush’s key domestic policy advisers, too.
When Russert noted that the selection of Rice would signify a “third Bush term,” Matalin responded, “People are sick of this Bush-bashing stuff.” In fact, as a recent Gallup poll shows, people are simply sick of Bush. Watch Matalin’s comments:
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My favorite moment in any one of these broadcasts is the point at which some elitist monster like Matalin says “People are . . .” as though her own personal viewpoint is validated by the vast majority of “people” — none of whom she’s ever met, much less polled. What Matalin really means (just like every other pundit or politico) is “my friends and I”. And by “my friends”, she means those people she’s gone out of her way to surround herself with so that her moronic opinions aren’t challenged.
And, yes, she’s married to Carville, who does exactly the same thing but with different opinions and, no doubt, different friends.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:31 pmMatalin: “You know, people don’t know about Dr. Rice is that she weighed in on every domestic issue before the President.”
So…. it’s all Condi’s fault?
April 13th, 2008 at 1:39 pmShouldn’t Matalin be in her coffin while the sun is up?
April 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm“good cred on having experience across the board.”
I am curious to find out what board she’s talking about.
The one used to stretch the prisoners on? The one used during a prisoner’s foot roasting? The waterboard? Which one?
Dick Cheney, Vice-President of the United States of Torture.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:41 pmGregor Samsa
April 13th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
The “waterboard.”
April 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pmSo amazing people like this can be SO STUPID and remain in the public eye.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:45 pmYup. Brilliant.
NO ONE has been such as TRAITOR to the USA at a high-level and gotten away with it.
NO ONE!!
April 13th, 2008 at 1:48 pmShe is one crazy loon.
my apologies to loons……
April 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pmShouldn’t the Humane Society be looking in on how to save her children, before it’s too late!
April 13th, 2008 at 1:50 pmSo!
April 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pm“People are sick of this Bush-bashing stuff”
~Mary Ritalin
And by that she means, of course, she is sick of hearing his authoritarian father figure being criticised, because in her teeny little mind any criticism amounts to “bashing” -regardless of how rightful these criticisms are, whether they are earned, and/or their validity.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:57 pmMatalin is a horrible fascist, an enabler of war crimes, and an utterly repulsive person.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:08 pmGee Mary, why don’t you go ahead give ‘ol Dead Eye Dick a blow job while your at it?!
April 13th, 2008 at 2:13 pmMatalin is a horrible fascist, an enabler of war crimes, and an utterly repulsive person.
You say that as if it were a BAD thing? Why do you hate Murka?
April 13th, 2008 at 2:14 pmThis brilliant man has made that office completely relevant.
Translation: Cheney has ignored international law, the constitution of the US, the wishes of the American people, has made torture a matter of official American policy, and I am ok with all of the above.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:18 pmMatalin is giving Coulter a run for her money in “the most outlandish statement” department. She like to sit next to her husband on Sunday news programs and talk trash like this, though. It spices up their love-life.
Oops. Sorry. I just thought of Matalin and Carville makin’ bacon . . . and threw up a little in my mouth.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:23 pmThis brilliant man - Cheney
- - Arguably, so was Hitler.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:29 pmIt was cross-talk, but I thought I heard Carville say:
“My wife gives great headache.”
April 13th, 2008 at 2:30 pm“Oops. Sorry. I just thought of Matalin and Carville makin’ bacon .”
I think I may need to gouge out that part of my brain with a butter knife
April 13th, 2008 at 2:30 pmMusollini also surrounded himself with people who would blindly support FACISM. Franco too and so did Pinochet. It doesn’t surprise me to see someone who thinks that ungly, fat War Criminal, Chenney, is a ‘brilliant men’…
April 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pmI heard her this morning - it made my skin crawl.
These are very disturbed people.
They need to be locked up - and helped.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:35 pmJust another bootlicking neocon talking head.Between her and Mann Coulter I can`t figure out who is more repulsive when it come to women re-pukes.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:36 pmMary,
The check is in the mail.
Love,
Dick
April 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pmOne does not expect or anticipate much push back from the Russerts of this world. We once again see a media that has misled this nation into war, accepted the establishment of a fascist government and will undermine the next elections to support the corporatist government that their masters desire. Matlin should have been treated with derision and her nose rubbed into each misstatement. Instead, we see that the media will offer scant opposition to the deception and lies of the elitist Republicans.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:47 pmWhy do they bother asking Mary Matalin or James Carville what they think? Neither of them has a clue what the average American thinks. And frankly, they are both miscreants.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:51 pmWhy do they bother asking Mary Matalin or James Carville what they think? Neither of them has a clue what the average American thinks. And frankly, they are both miscreants.
One thing is for sure — they are both riding losing nags in the horse race. Of course, Carville is used to that. He rides a losing nag every time he mounts his wife.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:55 pmIt’s time for new political programs and pundits. Past time.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:01 pmAmerica just loves its arrogant megalomaniacal bloodthirsty demagogues. Of course the polls say differently, but the proof is found where the money and power are concentrated, and the public can complain all it wants, but it is the public that has allowed this to happen.
congratualtions, USA - on rapidly becoming the world’s most dysfunctional republic.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:01 pmI CAN’T WATCH MATALIN WITHOUT WANTING TO REACH FOR THE BASEBALL BAT I KEEP IN THE CLOSET.
I ENVISION THE SWEET MUSIC OF THE ALUMINUM HITTING BONE AS I DESPERATELY ATTEMPT TO, METALLURGICALLY, INSERT SOME KIND OF INTELLIGENCE INTO THAT WOMAN.
BRRRRRRRRRRNNNNGGG! AND THEN I WAKE UP FROM MY DREAM. DAMN!
April 13th, 2008 at 3:03 pm.
She’ll make a good a defense witness at Cheney’s trial…
.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:18 pmif you havent realized that the news media doesnt give a flying fart about “what the average American thinks”, you havent been paying attention.
Pumpkinhead *knows* that Cheney *OWNS* us, & so all that matters is what his spokeshag has to say.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:25 pmConnie Rice signed the torture policy and knew of the attack before 9/11. We have proof that Connie Rice will be charged with War Crimes and she allowed thief and rapes of American woman. Now what would that look like a VP sworn in then the UN charges the VP with War Crimes. I guess Americans do support the lies and corruption of the Bush Team.
As for Dick well he hasn’t worked for the American people for 7 years and really could care less what anyone says. If that’s what Americans accept of the US Vice President then Dick is the leader. Our current President doesn’t know what happening in the US nor is he told what bills he is to sign.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:25 pmMatlin is seriously demented - has been for a very, very long time. She ought to be under the care of a professional psychiatrist.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:31 pmAnd what does M. Natalin’s husband James Carville say about this ?! James Carville who called Gov. Richardson Judas for not endosring Hillary.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:32 pmShe is an accomplice to his crimes. She worked for him while he was destroying our way of life.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:39 pmMary(hack)Matalin, just the sight of Her, makes me through-up in my mouth. Her advice about anything is worth s**t. Go home to the Big Easy, and pass out BEAD’S.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:41 pmIF THEY CAN PROSECUTE SADDAM HUSSEIN’S LIMO DRIVER THEN THERE IS GOING TO BE A LIST LIKE NEVER BEFORE GOING TO THE WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL.
NO WONDER HILLARY IS TRYING TO SAVE BILL BY BECOMING PRESIDENT.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:52 pmMatalin is the type of person that makes me bitter and drives me to my guns. I can’t swallow the phony religion. Why isn’t somebody this stupid begging for food money at the freeway on-ramp?
April 13th, 2008 at 3:53 pmDr Phil is exploiting the teen beating to get ratings. he bailed the girl out of jail and is gonna have her on his show. the girl that did the beating not the girl that got beat
“capitalists” Shwartzenegger
sensational tragedy
April 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pmIs she implying that McCain should pick Cheney?> Oh ficking please, please, please!!! YES!
April 13th, 2008 at 3:58 pmI have to commend Chaney for his brilliance in helping end democracy in the USA. I have to condemn the rest of us for not fighting back.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:07 pmKinda Sleazy brought nothing before “The Brilliant Man”
Huh?
Matalin and Carville represent the permanent ruling party that brings you the illusion of a two party system.
Take off the blinders.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pmI watched that whole episode this morning. I hated every second but, it was like trying not to look while passing a car wreck. Besides, it was all-infomercials-all-the-time elsewhere, and it was too early for Tiger’s tee time.
That show was like a walk down the midway at a carnival or watching a freak-show at the circus.
I also learned something new from visiting and reading here … PLEASE say it ain’t so … Carville & Matalin are married??? C’mon, you’re joking, right? If that is factual, at least tell me no children were harmed in the making of that horror movie, wowzers! So, it’s really true that there is someone out there for each of us after all.
Matalin & Carville married and former employees of Cheney & Clinton (& Monica) talk about a bad gene-pool from all the in-breeding! Nasty, just nasty.
Yeah, and ya just gotta love when these pundits and politicos even TRY to TELL ‘WE-THE-PEOPLE‘ what we’re thinking and feeling, or HOW we’re supposed to think / feel … especially that collection of mutants!
April 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pmFor the life of me I can’t understand what Carville sees in this B!tch. But, then, Carville isn’t much of a catch either. Maybe they deserve each other.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:25 pmIt’s pretty obvious that Matalin’s flying monkey Carville, is working for the Repugnicans to poison the election well for the Dems for this year so Hillary gets another shot in ‘12.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:27 pmKlem Kiddilehopper Says:
Shouldn’t the Humane Society be looking in on how to save her children, before it’s too late!
You mean that Matlin and Carville actually bred. Shudder…
April 13th, 2008 at 4:27 pmXisithrus Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Matalin and Carville represent the permanent ruling party that brings you the illusion of a two party system.
You have reminded me of a quote from Kurt Vonnegut, though I paraphrase:
“America has two parties, the powerful and the powerless. The powerful are split into two factions, the Democrats and the Republicans.”
April 13th, 2008 at 5:00 pmYes, Mary, drink a little more tainted Kool-Aid! Yes, Cheney has changed the OVP in very profound ways - none of which have been democratic, legal, OR desired by those who pay his salary - the People of this country. He goes down in history along with his puppet as being two of the most vilified, evil government officials EVER in the history of the US.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:05 pmMatalin & Carville have been America’s #1 “sideshow” (replete with the freak moniker) for a long time. No one’s sorry to see them leave Washington. As the saying goes….don’t let the door….baldie & LadyGoth Vadar!
April 13th, 2008 at 5:06 pmCarville’s been a “double agent” for a long time. The people caught onto his little gig years ago which is why the ratings on the show drop every time he’s on a panel.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:07 pmHe is so brilliant that he was called incompetent as Ford’s chief of staff. Oh well, suppose it is all relative when you are surrounded by people like the Village Idiot in Chief, someone who doesn’t know Tibet from Nepal, another one who doesn’t know the Bay of Pigs from the Cuban Missile Crisis….. You too can appear to be brilliant around these dummkopfs. It also helps to have a whole lot of money (however questionably obtained). That way you can push people around without suffering any consequences and they gladly prostrate themselves and start calling you “brilliant”.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:37 pmI wonder if Mary will ever join us here on Earth?!
April 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pmIn the span of 30 seconds on this morning’s Meet the Press, former Cheney adviser Mary Matalin offered a series of bewildering, eye-opening statements……….that made people wonder why she isn’t under psychiatric care.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:47 pmIts April 1945, we are in Berlin near a bunker. the country is going under and the fools like Matalin still offer support for the crazed neo-cons within that bunker.
Pay no attention to that cheney behind the curtain……
April 13th, 2008 at 5:55 pmMary Joe Matalin (born August 19, 1953) is an American political strategist and consultant. She is known for her work with the Republican Party. She was an assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003.
What a shock ; an empty-headed shill for Chimpy and Dickhead , who used to work for them ……………..Why are these lying , useless vermin even allowed to speak ?
April 13th, 2008 at 6:00 pmWhen Russert noted that the selection of Rice would signify a “third Bush term,” Matalin responded, “People are sick of this Bush-bashing stuff.”
Yes, they are ; let’s arrest them and convict them so no one has to see or hear from them ever again , Cruella………..
April 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pmNo! We are not sick of Bush Bashing! Acctually the World can’t wait for Bush Hanging for WAR CRIMES!
April 13th, 2008 at 6:07 pmMary Matalin is always using her Cheney-shaped dildo. This is why she never smiles….she’s beyond daily Cheney-orgasms from her Cheney-dildo and has now lulled herself in Cheney-ecstasy. See? She’s a good Brownshirt.
April 13th, 2008 at 6:07 pmWith that ugly mouth… she may be a Cylon!
April 13th, 2008 at 6:08 pm“…she may be a Cylon!”
She totally is one, Sacopenapa.
April 13th, 2008 at 6:12 pmMary Matalin - “porridge for brains”. What a stupid fool. And the vast majority of the worlds knows it, honey– you are an incompetent.
April 13th, 2008 at 6:14 pmScary couple. They both resemble cobras.
April 13th, 2008 at 7:32 pmWell, they have to look for something positive even when it is the most negative thing on earth.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:10 pmCal, right on. Snakes all.
These creeps are the reason that I do not watch Sunday morning news shows. They are all the same and it does not matter which network you are watching.
In fact, if I were to subject myself to such weekly punishment, I would have to start drinking heavily to numb the stupidity as soon as my feet hit the floor on Sunday morning. By noon I would be passed out. Not a good thing.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:24 pmDude . . . she’s on drugs.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:25 pmThere is no doubt about that.
Just look at the content of her responses and listen to how she slightly slurs her words and makes shit up as she goes along. This cart has lost a wheel.
That woman scares me, and I’m fearless.
April 13th, 2008 at 9:19 pmWhat an irresponsible twit! Matalin is directly accountable for the deaths of those Americans who, weakened and dehydrated by retching–a natural response to her statements about Cheney-will drown in their toilets today.
And if anyone ever deserved to be drowned in a toilet…
April 13th, 2008 at 9:38 pmAnd Carville calls Richardson a traitor?
April 13th, 2008 at 9:40 pmhad enough Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
So amazing people like this can be SO STUPID and remain in the public eye.
Let me add to your sentence: “And get paid for their blather, too!”
April 13th, 2008 at 9:43 pmmay have been mentioned already…somewhat OT, but i made a note of it…
i noticed that matalin stated the super delegates are not there to follow the will of the people… they’re there to save us from ourselves, to paraphrase…
imagine that…
April 13th, 2008 at 10:07 pmBased on Mary’s marriage to James Carville, her comments on men should be ignored. She thinks Dick is a “great man.” Oh, yeah.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:58 pm“You know, people don’t know about Dr. Rice is that she weighed in on every domestic issue before the President.”
But since the American people disagree with every domestic decision made by this administration—that is not a good thing.
Do you really think the racist and sexist Republican voters are going to put a black woman one McCain heart beat away from the presidency? NOT!
April 14th, 2008 at 1:29 amI never cease to be amazed at the pathetic stupidity of these right-wing s***bags. They say whatever they feel like, no matter how ludicrous it is. There’s a real psychotic element to their personalities.
Pray that we all survive these nut-jobs.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:31 amYou know, people don’t know about Dr. Rice is that she weighed in on every domestic issue before the President.
My interpretation: The President never had an original thought. Mary we already knew that one.
It was impossible to watch her without thinking of Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty. And then there was her manner, which was so incredibly nasty.
That is the way Arianna Huffington describes Mary on a previous occasion, while defending Dick. I couldn’t agree more, another comment was Dick needs to invite her to his bunker and hide her there, Priceless.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:14 amFatso Cheney = Fatso Goering.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:12 pm