Chris Matthews Scolds Media For Getting Too Cozy With Bush: Forgets his own behavior
By Logan Murphy Sunday Apr 27, 2008 8:45pm
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Chris Matthews took time out of covering fake scandals and reciting GOP narratives on Monday's Hardball to take a dig at members of the media who attended this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner:
"...It's one thing to gather for events like this in Washington, it's another one to laugh and applaud - to be charmed when the president puts on a little show. It's harmless stuff, except that the people yucking it up in that scene are the people who are professionally committed to calling it when the people in power get it wrong."
Where do I begin? When it comes to boot licking and heaping praise on some of the worst politicians, (current, former AND indicted) pundits and candidates to ever darken Washington D.C., Matthews, the Village Idiot, knows no peer.
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"Forgets his own behavior"
you mean that time he kissed Bush with his tongue out on air?
...and again and again like every day for a coupla years?
yup.
Pot calling kettle black!
Jesus Hussein Christ tweety! How much of a jerk can you be? You are without a doubt one of the most egregious bush lickers in our sorry MSM. Surely, tweety, you remember your gushing orgasms over bush when he showed up on the aircraft carrier during his ill-timed "Mission Accomplished" photo-op?
Pot - kettle - black
'I hope I wasn't too towel snappy with him' - CM on joking around with Dubya at some function(can't remember when exactly) and there's soooo much more
I will never forget Chris Mathews and the rest of the media drooling over Bush over mission accomplished. It was verbal porn. You guys should post a video of that!
What a waste of skin.
Suck a turd in Hell, you hack.
Tweety forgets so soon so fast. Some one slap this dork awake and rub his nose in the same crap he laid down a few years ago. Yanno its rather funny actually to see the right wing numbnuts turn on thier own. And sooner or later those same fox or other crazies turn on each other.Where is anne? or michelle? tucker? billy? rush?
ahh how sweet it is .
isn't bush the kind of guy you can have a beer with?
What do you guys expect,when the advertisers on his show--oil companies and Boeing and Airfarce? Paid Shill!
Tweety should have been on that carousel. He's one of the biggest clowns out there.
Let me count the ways to hate Chris Matthews. What an asshole he is and yet, he has no shame. If I had been the subject of that article on the cover of the NYT's 2 weeks ago, I would be so ashamed, I wouldn't show my face.
The nation is circling the drain, and he is now talking about a sideshow. No Matthews, the sideshow is Rev. Wright. Take the time to watch and LISTEN to the interview with Bill Moyers and then watch the address to the NAACP (you will not be able to run your mouth simultaneously, as you are to watch the 2 clips).
I hate the media in this country, in fact, they act like they are 10 years old. Disgusting, overpaid phonies.
Chris Matthews on the "good guys" in the Bush White House...
Mathews is proof that sometimes sperm and egg should never meet.
"Don't do as I do, do as I say" Chris Mathews licks more than boots.
Ah yes... Tweety just flaps with whichever way the wind blows.
Larry King just snarled on live TV.
Please tell me somebody caught that and taped it!
Bush conducts while Iraq burns and America goes down the tubes.
this from the douchbag who said bushes face should be on mt rushmore, the madness!
CM gets something right every once in a while. A room full of chimpanzees and electric typewriters will get something right, every once in a while.
Even the Chimp in Chief might get something right, given long enough. Maybe ten thousand years, we are out of time.
11. I omitted in my screed, that god forbid, if Matthews actually listened to someone else he might just learn something for a change--something of substance.
May is Sweeeps Month for all the networks, I suggest everyone just stop watching these asses--their #s would tank so fast, they might actually get the message to start being serious and informative.
I think we are seeing the beginning of all these right wing cheerleaders distancing themselves from what and who will soon be war criminals and other categories of felons. "Who, me, I was against these people from the get go."
Gawd, when it was clear as his lip gross that things were headed south he still rolled on his stomach for chimpy. At one time he used the froth coming from his mouth to lube up.
Man, how shallow. He just wants to keep his bs show.
screw all you matthews critics. he's the only commentator to challenge the war hysteria, aside from phil donahue.
matthews is a true patriot, whether you people think so or not.
tyree @ 17:
Right on, the same asshole that gushed over Bushs' "sunny nobility". Barf me out, gag me on a spoon.
RIGHT....pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
I wondered how MSM suckups would play to Bush now that
his ratings are below the basement.
Oh the hypocrisy.
dw @ 9:
Damn, mckbr has his halliburton in beer.
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CakeWalk My Ass @ 22:
oh! you are so going to get it!
Yeah Tweety , you're certainly one to talk ; did you request the US government rename Rushmore to Bushmore yet , asshole ?
Tweety's been running with the wolves for so long, he's beginning to emulate them.
Occasionally even the biggest buffoon will utter the truth.
Is that really the best time to criticize him?
Now if Bush smelled good in Aqua Velva, and had that mature air about him provided only by Depends sticking out of his pants backside, then it would be okay for journalists to cozy up to him.
CakeWalk My Ass @ 22:
When did Tweety "challenge the war hysteria" ?
When it was blatantly apparent that the Chimpy administration were lying daily that we were "turning a corner there" daily ?
Is it me or did Chris just try and steal Kieth Olbermann's oddball segment?
CakeWalk My Ass @ 22:
But he sure loves him some of that McCain. Who wants to amplify the war hysteria.
Somebody somewhere convinced Tweety he has a chance someday to become a Senator from Pennsylvania. Since he now sees politics in his future, I suppose he's just practicing the essential art of hypocrisy. He's a twit. Forget about him.
MCMetal @ 28:
Thanks for this. It confirms Tweety has multiple personalities.
Perhaps, McCain could also reject the Corporate Media's PR constructed misleading narrative of himself as the moderate maverick, straight talking non-Republican Republican? Nah, we'll never hear such honesty from the double-speak express.
Cindy McCain is the kind I could snort a line of mind altering barbiturates with. I'd dump my ailing aging ugly wife for a hot, blond multi-millionaire beer baroness who likes to party in a heartbeat. McCain's my kind of guy.
I wonder why he feels he has to flatter his guests at the end of each segment?
Is that the only way he can get them to come back?
Also, why can't he keep from spitting and slobbering? It's so gross.
Snowball @ 38:
Liar. :)
Chris Mathews was the MSM's loudest, most severe, and essentially only critic of the war before it even began. (As in, summer of '02.)
Also with the exception of Countdown, his show was probably the most tenacious in dealing with the Valerie Plame situation. So much so that the VP's office made its now famous attempt to shut the program up.
I've also see him obliterate fascist torture cheer leaders as well as briefly take up the cause for Universal health care around the time SICKO came out.
Yeah, sometimes he says some wacky or off-the-cuff things, but christ, you people treat him like he's sean hannity or something. I will admit though, I don't watch as much anymore due to his show basically becoming a nightly campaign soap-opera report.
Matthews inexplicably called Obama a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tonight. Matthews, however, appears to be the one with multiple personaliities--one who loves Bush and one who disdains him. The Matthews I despise is the one who sucks up to Tom Delay.
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 40:
Well, you've got me there, I'm not into downers.
This statement really gets me laughing:
Tweety:
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Does this idiot do ANY blog reading? Is he aware of the stink he causes when he opens his mouth? I am so confused with this dumb ass, where to begin seems like the opening phrase.
Hey tweety...you ignorant slut....you are as much the problem as any other "news spinner". You are such a dumb ass, you don't even see yourself. LOOK...open your f*cking eyes and see what a shill and pathetic entertainer you are.
It's nice that you see evil in others, but what about YOURSELF??? Are you there, tweety??
It seems that Matthews interviewed McCain in 2005 on MSNBC and in that interview McCain was arguing for the exact opposite of his 100 years talk. There was no reason to stay long term in Iraq, he argued. HuffPost just have it as their lead now. How come Matthews never seems to have recalled the substance of that interview all this time and it takes the Huff Post to have to find it? Or maybe he conveniently forgot it not wanting to hurt his good buddy, McCain.
This is the biggest flipflop of them all.
Pander much?
MSNBC is a joke.
About 2 years ago I witnessed crissie boy say this on his show: "I can't understand why people don't like President Bush". That was the last time I channel surfed across his show. I don't see Tucker on anymore..perminent I hope...NEXT....please MSNBC dump this gladhand,flipflop,sucka**,bootlicking POS.
Tweety is now considered liberal or not one of them by the Wingnuts
Ruthless People @ 16:
I am glad America is going down the tubes. I hate this country. I really do. This place sucks. Here we are in another Presidential Race and what are we talking about: "a bunch of stupid sideline issues that don't mean anything". The whole elections is nothing but a corporate media circus. I love the way we are talking about McCain's age, Hillary's trip to Bosnia, and the Reverend Wright (who ever the hell he is).
Can we talk about the price of food?
Or maybe about how housing is unaffordable?
Or maybe about how every candidate has a shitty plan for fixing our healthcare system?
What about the cost of higher education?
I would like to talk about the whole torture thing?
Excuse me Mr. or Mrs. Politician; but, are you going to shut down the concentration camps; I don't know, just lie to me and promise you won't let this place turn into Communist China?
What about this job thing? Are my children going to forward to a career with McDonalds or Walmart; or are you going to create some jobs that are well you know; slightly less humiliating than working for hot dog on a stick?
Every election is the same. They start with real issues; slowly the corporate media dumbs down the political dialog until we are left with things like gay marriage, family values, and character? They have to lower our expectations so that we don't actually expect our politicians to actually do something.
Tweety just has his panties in a wad because he wasn't invited...
Tweety, your day in the sun is over. Deal.
Since I make it a point not to watch this moron, I wouldn't give a crap what he says. However, this IS the epitome of hypocrisy.
And while we're blasting MSNBC for allowing this blowhard on the air, let's all pick up our crusade to get Newsweek to give the boot to Karl Rove. I mean, why don't we just put criminals in the Oval Office too.
Oh yeah,........nevermind.
Definit U turn but he makes a good point none the less .
This from the same guy who drooled on about how lincolnesue one of Bush's speeches was.
I like Pie @ 52:
Excuse me, but most Americans ARE talking the issues and asking important questions of the candidates. It's the MSM who dictates which side-issues and moronic distractions get to take the place of the important stuff.
Can you imagine how LONG it took them to find someone stupid enough to go on camera in Pennsylvania to ask Obama about a freakin flag pin ?
I would love to see that dual between Chris and Zell Miller, maybe we could rig both their pistils to backfire!
I'm always amazed at the people who defend Matthews.
I guess love really is blind.
Hope you don't catch something.
Rick Mac @ 57:
Yeah, but these side issues always drown out the real issues.
That picture of tweety makes him look like he's squeezing out a nasty wet fart, but trying to do it discreetly and quietly.
MMMmrrrr..Hmmm. Oh...Yeah... much better...
Read and weep, here's what you get when the media gives Old John a free pass (in fact, actually builds him up).....a depressing survey:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20080428/pl_rasmussen/mccaintrustmore2...
The hypocrisy of American media and politicians is jaw dropping. And we just keep watching them and voting for them. The only people worse than them is us.
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tyree @ 27:
Good one tyree. ROTFLMAO!
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Matthews mentioned on his show 4 or 5 years ago that he voted for dubya in 2000. So he voted for the worst president in u.s. history & he worked for Carter, who is @ the 3rd or 4th worst president in history. Quite a track record, he still hasn't gotten over Reagan trouncing Carter & has had an inferiority complex ever since.
He so wants to be loved by everyone, but most everyone knows he's a putz!
I support Obama, but I never got a tingling sensation in my leg when I saw him give a speech lol
Don @ 62:
Yeah, the DNC is going to have to continue playing hardball on McCain (in other words, speak the truth about his stand). Not hard dick like Tweety, but hard ball.
Nothing he's done in the past compares at all to how big of a stooge he's been for Obama. That whole channel has been totally in the tank for Obama, even moreso than Fox is in the tank for republicans. Olbermann has been even worse than O'Reilly.
And you can add to that the fact that theyve bashed Hillary unmercifully during the same period. I think if Obama loses (or if Hillary becomes the nominiee), there will be HUGE shakeup at MSNBC. Matthews will go. Olbermann will go,... Theyll completely revamp the lineup. Theyve got EVERYTHING riding on BHO.
Holy shxt! Getting lectured by Tweety on journalistic integrity must be like getting lectured by Bush on the constitution!
Jonesy @ 69:
Agree, he has been a stooge for Obama at times, but it's how media operates, they build a candidate up so they can eventually tear them down. Wash, rinse, lather ~ repeat.
Whereas with Matthews & McBush, it's true love!
Chris Matthews= useless
Chris Gamble @ 15:
At least it showed he is still alive.
Chris Matthews is just following the game plan. As we near the election, he'll start to define McCain as having the qualities and likeability/manliness/great smellin' balls that Bush used to have before he became universally reviled, I mean, moderately disliked by America and the World.
Then he'll talk about how the Democrats lack x, y and z, and how he's always been a critic of Bush, and somehow work in the bulge in McCain's pants, and how tall, black men are intimidating, and old hag women are weak on defense.
Americans are such fucking tools. I'm sick of these people, and I want my fucking country back.
Just a few days ago he was criticizing the media for perpetuating the 'Clinton-Obama' fictitious "Horse Race' when the election was pretty much mathematically settled, now this bit of truth about the American media as Bush ass-kissers... Much as I don't like the guy, he might want to get an MRI. I wouldn't wish a brain tumor on anyone.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
Not one in the whole steaming pile worth a penny.
The Washington Press Corps dinner has devolved into a creepy self-celebration of America's most self-important sell outs. I have three solutions for a Democratic president, either...
1. Quit attending altogether.
2. Steven Colbert. The crowd at his famously ill-received appearance was mostly
press, and he was as hard on them as he was on the object of their icky love-fest
(Dubya).
3. Give them the entertainment they deserve. No more Colbert or Craig Ferguson or
even tired old Jay Leno. Bring back Rich Little. Celebrate media idol Ronald
Reagan with the side splitting humor of Yakov Smirnov - "In Russia, Party always
finds YOU!" HA! HA! Inside the beltway types love Imus so they'd probably
love... Andrew 'Dice' Clay! How about Larry the Cable Guy? Or, the comedy the
Washington Press Corps, after all these years of unquestioned scandal, thievery,
torture, stolen elections, etc, with no accountability whatsoever... finally the
comedy these people truly deserve... Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting Gallagher.
No, Dana Perino, those watermelon stains are there for life.
matthews is not so ignorant that he doesn't know that he sold out. He tries to play both sides of the fence, laughing, snickering at the one side but always cognizant of which way the wind blows. he sees now a strong south wind and he has thrown his lot to the democratic side in preparation for the new democratic Congress and Presidency.
Well, too late, tweety. You've shown yourself for what you are and whether you care to believe it or not, American does have some discerning individuals within who are able to see beyond the smoke and mirrors. so go to hell.
I like Pie @ 53:
I agree with this quote, further adding that the Media blacklists candidates who actually have plans to do something, so people feel forced to narrow their options to stuffed suits #1, #2 and #3.
rk @ 5:
You asked for that sickening clip? Well get your barf bag ready cause here it is!
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/05/chris_matthews.php
motorfingaz @ 82:
Um, I think thats the wrong clip
I hate that everyone gangs up on Chris Matthews... If everyone focused as much attention on tearing down Bill Orally, we could probably tarnish the image of someone who at least has an agenda we can all comfortably despise. Chris is hardly the most harmful voice in the mainstream media, he's just the one of the funnest (and easiest) to mock.
I watch his show almost daily along with several others in cable news. His may not be my favorite but I always appreciate the way he seems to genuinely LOVE analyzing politics. On top of that he's basically a likeable old man with a big smile on his face and an infectious laugh.. For any political news junkie who can appreciate that - it all adds up: to a good show.
Lastly, think about the following: this post on crooksandliars essentially attacked someone for saying something completely, 100% true. I don't care if he used to wipe Bush's ass - at least he's correct now. To contrive an attack like this one (in particular), seems to lack the characteristic integrity I've come to expect on the left.. In other words - it reeks like a republican chainsaw.
T.M.
Made for tee-vee.
. . . just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.
someone should get a snippet of his hair and send it in for a drug test
please chris, be smoking that pcp
It's not just Matthews. Watching David Gregory's show just preceding, I was appalled at how much Gregory, the supposedly "tough press room questioner" was yukking it up at how much fun he had at the correspondent's dinner. More evidence the MSM is deeply in bed with the admistration and are still powering the Republican agenda.
Rachel Maddow on the panel was polite, but you could tell she was stunned and disgusted by Gregory's buddy-buddy attitude. I ask again why she was not given her own show and Gregory was?
mynameisscott:
chris matthews = useless
that is my new bumpersticker
we will split the profits 60/40
and you will get to keep the cat
Chris Matthews is the Poster Tweety of an MSM FLIP FLOPPER!
He is, as others have stated, well aware of which position he will take for each
particular show depending upon his guest list. He panders all of the time.
Who loves Tom Delay? Chris! Duh! Huh?
He delivers little news and is known for his off the wall analogies. Yesterday,
he called Senator Obama and Rev. Wright, Dr. Jekyll - Mr. Hyde.
Later someone reminded him this fictional character was one person and not two.
Tweety is lazy and ill prepared for his cable show. Has he ever listened to Rev.
Wright's sermons in full? No, Chris lives by MSM sound bites.
If an artist was to draw Chris Matthews, he would depict him with an elephant's ears
& body along with a donkey's large teeth, jaw, tail and colored Tweety Yellow.
CakeWalk My Ass @ 23:
Stop drinki