We posted this video earlier and on Wednesday’s “Hardball”, Chris Matthews spoke with Howard Schaitberger, President of the International Association of Fire Fighters about the Rudy myth and his failures before and after 9/11. Tweety did his best to paint Schaitberger and the union as a left wing group, accusing him of going after Rudy simply because he’s a Republican.
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Schaitberger schools Matthews on how Rudy failed to get adequate radios to the fire fighters before 9/11 and then halted the recovery effort, pulling fire fighters from the rubble of the World Trade Center just 24 hours after recovering millions of dollars worth of gold from a safe from the basement. Matthews still didn’t get it, even after Schaitberger told him to walk into any NYFD station and ask them how they feel about America’s Mayor…
Filed Under: Hardball/Chris Matthews, Rudy Giuliani, The House, Unions
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#1!
And this man wants to be OUR president?
Quick Question
What is it with idiots who park their vehicles and sit there idling for an hour while they guzzle down wendy’s with a cell phone glued to their ear?
Can someone explain the logic?
Rudy is no hero - but of course HE likes to tell us that he is. The firefighters have been standing up to this hypocrisy for quite some time. I’m glad the news is getting out.
Being in the right place at the right time is not heroic. In fact, there’s plenty this man did to cause harm to the real heroes - the firefighters.
Some additional reading on this:
“Giuliani vs the Firefighters”
http://www.populistamerica.com.....refighters
Tweety was being willfully obtuse at best. It took him WAY too long before the light clicked on what the FF was saying: the only reason ANY recovery was going on at ground zero was to get to the gold. Once the gold was found, it was all over. Tweety looked like an even bigger fool than usual.
“Schaitberger told him to walk into any NYFD station and ask them how they feel about America’s Mayor”
Can someone on the east coast do this and post it to you tube? Please.
Lord have mercy on me if i am wrong. The hypocracy of Republicans logically makes former president Bill Clinton an angel. How low can they go? From young boys to prostitutes and treason. Jesus!!
Schaitberger better prepare himself for a GOP swiftboating.
This shithead can’t shut up and let the guy talk…
I don’t think Tweety has the mental capacity to be set straight on this issue. It was a valiant attempt to set him straight, though.
Tweety was twisting himself into knots.
You can always tell when his spin isn’t working…he furrows his brow and get that confused look on his face. Kinda like the President does.
Gold Bars? Thats a new one for me. They stopped the search for human remains at the WTC site after they found the last “gold Bar”…?
Maybe thats why Giuliani didn’t go to many firfighter funerals. He was worried about those Gold Bars.
If thats not typical republican, I don’t know what is.
Clearly if he opposes Rudy he must be a “liberal” and therefore this is a partisan thing and therefore we can all be skeptical.
/Tweety logic
//Tweety sucks
Ruthless People @ 8:
Has Rudy hired the Bush bots that Saint McCain had to jettison since his campaign got flushed down the toilet?
Chris,
Are you daft you complete friggin’ tool? It took you seven reiterations of the gold bars and the removal of remains to get the connection! Jesus! You are a goddamned fool!
Then you end it all with your tongue-tied idiocy of a Philly thing with the name Harold (not Howard) routine! You’re a despicable toad…
The connection is obvious even to a two year old!
Rudy is an opportunist and you’re not a journalist.
Matthews is playing deliberately dumb here and he looks like an idiot.
How many times did he ask about the gold bars? Pretending he didnt know what he was talking about.
Compare that interview to his “on bended knee” cowering before whitehouse officials.
What a knob.
It’s a powerful argument. Is it gaining any traction among the GOP?
L.A. Confidential @ 3:
In the direct sun, even though there is a shaded area available. Oh wait, time for a quick nap now. Let me just waste more gas, and spew more fumes into the atmosphere, create annoying noise pollution. Just gimme mine, mine , mine.
Sheesh. “The American Lifestyle Isn’t Negotiable!”
Question–who told the cops that the bldgs were to collapse ?–Rudy one of the 19 terrorists !
kindness = wealth @ 6:
Now that would be priceless! Somebody get busy…
Salmineo @ 11:
This will really shock you. Watch Die Hard 3, and see the some of the plotlines of 9-11, including the deception of the bombers to raid the gold vaults, and here’s the kicker…
just before the subway train derails and the bombs are set to go off, Samuel Jacksons character races downstairs to make the required phone-call, the time on the station clock: 10:19:11, and Samuel Jacksons character looks at the Twin Towers just before heading down to the subway.
Coincidence?
Then watch the following outtakes from the pilot for the X-Files spinoff, the Lone Gunmen…aired in March/April 2001.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQyYuWXp3E8
vbg @ 16:
Maybe with the tractor driving GOP.
That sounds like something you hear when you inadvertantly step in something unexptected in the fields.
Bush on Libby Scandal
say’s it’s was time to move on.
Every have the urge to smack that smirk right off his face? Apparently his mother never took the liberty to do so.
Oh, Hey! Chris, I get it, let me ’splain it to yah.
The NY,NY Firefighters despise Guliani and are all about explaining their reasons why.
So you see Chris it’s not about Dems and Repugs, it’s about the Firefighters and Guliani.
Sometimes a whale is just a whale (Reference: Moby Dick)
I agree with dakine01 (#5) Chris was acting like a block head. Acting as though he didn’t get the message the guy was talking about. My dog caught on before Chris did. I think he was faking it (Chris, not my dog) He wanted to make it look like the message was so far fetched that it wasn’t sensible. Of course this is the candidate that Chris thought was god’s gift just a few weeks ago.
Why is it that after all this time I never heard the “Gold Bar” connection on CNN, or their affiliated Blog sites like ABlog?
WTF is going on here?
dakine01 @ 5:
Why doesn’t anyone ever call these guys out on this crap? I can’t believe the guy didn’t just pause, stare tweety in the eye and ask “What, are you a moron or something?”
Poor Tweety couldn’t pull his Aqua Velva boy out of this one…
Could somebody explain to me where Matthews got the name “Tweety?”
L.A. Confidential @ 17:
L.A. Confidential @ 3:
They would’ve done that inside the Wendy’s resturaunt, but they probably got kicked out for talking on the cell phone at 100 dB.
Good lord; A 6 year old could understand the connection between searching for the gold, and calling the search off when it was found, leaving bodies to remain. Yet Tweety is confused by it?
L.A. Confidential @ 3:
Yeah, that’s on topic.
Tweety’s man-crush and goo-goo eyes for Rudy is downright creepy. Almost as creepy as his obsession with the Clinton’s sex lives. He’s a clown and his political viewpoints matter only to the DC cocktail beltway crowd and their sick ilk.
Well, I will allways remember that Giuliani, the NY Mayor, walked out of the WTC and hundreds of NY fire fighters did not.
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Nickname for Chris Matthews, host of ‘Hardball.’ His staff nicknamed him Tweety Bird because of the shade of yellow he dyes his hair. First divulged at mediawhoresonline.com
There was a time when I watched his program but, after seeing the same people over and over again, spouting the same two sided talking points, you come to the realization that his show should be called “politically correct hardball” or “softball” and just doesn’t deserve your time.
They might as well add the term “swift-boating” to the dictionary.
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Steve @ 30:
I couldn’t agree with you more! I was shouting, “What are you, stupid?” when he kept saying he was confused.
Tweety’s a jackass, no doubt.
Did the guest complete a single sentence without Tweety interrupting? Is this what passes for an interview these days?
goatsage @ 34:
A HA! Now I get it. I can close that little chapter in my life now.
Did anyone see his show the night his wife was his guest? She’s smart as hell and he never once talked over her when she was speaking. He was like a pet puppy.
I think he is fearful of strong women, let’s say like Hillary. I think he resents that his wife can control him and that’s why he gets all weak in the knees about strong manly men. He wishes he was one of them.
Just my own little analysis.
Tweety on Nantucket TV last week.
http://nantucket.plumtv.com/vi.....s_matthews
So….Rudi Giuliani got the message to leave the WTC and the firefighters didn’t.
Clearly Rudi’s radio worked.
At last the firefighters are able to put truth to Giuliani’s lying legend. He wasn’t a hero at all. He was probably looking for a bonus from the bank and hotly pursued the bullion. This is a huge issue and will peal off support from every American because it shows that Guiliani is a fraud. The man walked around all day, glad to be alive, but he had put his offices in the buildings that came down. HE HAD NOWHERE TO COOP AND HIDE. That radio loss killed 121 men and the stopping of the firefighter’s active search made recovery stop and familiies of loved ones suffered even further. Bush was awol, but Giuliani really wasn’t as effective as a mayor should have been.
Pissed of patricia — watch the end of the video linked @ #41, he proclaims that women will be the reason Hillary wins in ‘08, because how can mothers look the daughters in the eye ever again if they don’t vote for her.
Just like “bullhorn Bush” standing on the rubble with a stagecrafted firefighter, Guliani is a fraud and a cheat.
Matthews always sounds like he’s in a hurry to get an interview over. The continual butting-in and not allowing the interviewee to complete his point would be considered poor journalism, not to mention bad manners, in my country. Why is this guy such a media icon in the US?
Tweety is a silly man, with a giant bullhorn.
I can’t stand to watch this idiot because he’s always cutting off or interrupting his guests. “The Beard” on CNN is starting to do the same thing.
I went to the site, but couldn’t find what to click to watch the video. All I saw was a photo.
I can’t believe this is the first time this news has been broadcast nationally!
I’ve mentioned all these facts here before and been called a conspiracy nut.
Still waiting for someone to ask Roody where he was the morning of 911- tho he has publicly mentioned it in passing…
Tweety: *whiny* “Harold” “Haaaaaaaarold” thats a hard name to pronounce. “Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaarold”.
Rudy was just interested in rewarding the radio contracts to a well connected campaign doner. These republicans have to raise more money then democrats to win an election because democrats are populists, and when it comes down to it republicans really only care about winning elections.