Tweety Will NOT Let Facts Get In The Way

This is absolutely remarkable.

I meant to post this video yesterday when I saw it but I couldn't get the embed to work.

I am going to tell you what happened before you watch the video but I don't know if you will actually believe it until you see it.

This segment is what Chris Matthews calls his "Big Number" on his Hardball show. He starts off by pointing out that new polling in a Washington Post poll shows that 70% of respondents in Virginia say that their feelings about President Obama will have no bearing on their vote for governor. He repeats this for effect after noting that the Democrat in the governor's race, Creigh Deeds, is down by double digits in the same poll.

But Tweety just can't help himself. You see Republicans have been saying that this race is a referendum on President Obama and Tweety is the ultimate concern troll. So just before he cuts to commercial he basically says "Damn what that poll says, this race is ALL about Obama".

Seriously.

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It makes you wonder why he brought up the poll in the first place.

Chris Matthews is one of the major reasons I get pissed off when folks try to make analogies between FoxNews and MSNBC. If there is one guy who goes out of his way every single day to prove he isn't a liberal or progressive its Tweety. He will carry every drop of water for Republicans even when all evidence points to them being full of shit. Hell just today he was STILL trying to make abortion rights a "big problem" in health care reform when not even most Republicans are telling that lie any more.

In closing, fuck that guy!

Cut The Bullshit!

Why in the hell is Spencer Ackerman seemingly the only journalist pointing out the fact that General Stanley McChrystal did not try to call out President Obama in London which has now become conventional wisdom in the Village?!

For goodness sake PLEASE spread this link around so people aren't fooled by the mainstream media promoting a civilian/military split!

George Stephanopolous Clowns Himself

George Stephanopolous is once again having John McCain on his show this weekend to criticize President Obama's Afghanistan policy. He has been getting his ass kicked all over the blogosphere and twitter for having that crotchety old bastart on again after he lost last year. In a response to Greg Sargent he said among other things that:

McCain is the leading GOP voice on Afghanistan.

One of the people who has taken shots at Stephanopolous, Steve Benen, gets at how bogus that is of an argument.

But there's no reason to assume that McCain is the "leading GOP voice on Afghanistan." Not only are there plenty of other Republicans who approach the issue with the same perspective, but McCain has never demonstrated any particular expertise on Afghanistan -- on the contrary, he has a record of confusion on the war. During the presidential campaign, for example, McCain was both for and against sending additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan. His most noteworthy contribution to the debate was arguing in 2003 that "we may muddle through in Afghanistan," whatever that means.

If McCain is a "leading" voice on the conflict, it's only because the media keeps calling on him to talk about it. It's entirely self-fulfilling -- the media gives McCain the stage, and justifies the decision by pointing to how often he's on the stage.

But you see, Stephanopolous will never have to address his faulty logic behind inviting McCain on again. People will just assume that because McCain was a prisoner of war that he actually speaks for the Republicans on any military issue. The truth is there are some Republicans (probably for shady reasons) who are against sending more troops which McCain is decidedly for. And McCain was a leading voice on getting us into the war in Iraq. How he maintains any credibility on military issues says a lot about pundits like Stephanopolous.

Watch Your Mouth

I have a lot of respect for her and I am sure she didn't mean it this way, but Minnesota's senior Senator, Amy Klobuchar really should watch what she says when discussing her newly minted colleague, Senator elect Al Franken. There will be enough long sharp knives out for him as he takes his seat next week, he certainly doesn't need any friendly from someone spreading erroneous conventional wisdom about him. The last thing on earth we need to hear about Senator Franken is some "Even his fellow liberal Senator from Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar, had X to say about him".

The Story That None Of The MSM Is Covering

In the rush to pat themselves on the back for their coverage of the AIG bonus scandal the mainstream media folks missed probably the best round of questioning of AIG CEO Edward Liddy and new information about more bonuses. Thats what happens when you already have a meme framed and are just looking for information to further it. Had the media stuck around for/paid attention to Rep Elijah Cummings' questions there might have been a lot of different headlines this morning.




One billion dollars of bonuses would seem a lot more compelling to me than $170 million dollars worth.

Thomas Frank Is A BEAST

Check out Thomas Frank's column, in the Wing Nut Journal no less, calling the Villagers out and slamming their Conventional Wisdom. The ending summed it up best of you ask me.

What's more, bipartisanship's boosters can't even discern friend from foe. The Republican caucus in the House of Representatives, which seems to be growing even more conservative as its numbers shrink, has clearly resumed the strategies of the early Gingrich era -- obstruction, bomb-throwing and more obstruction. But to the mainstream media, the angry Republican pols seem to mainly discredit Mr. Obama, who failed to win over the GOP. Which will, of course, encourage the bitter-enders to obstruct even more.

Never has Beltway orthodoxy looked as clueless and futile as it does today. Confronted with the greatest failure of economic ideas in decades, it demands that the president make common cause with people for whom those failed ideas are still sacred. To think we can solve our problems in this way is like hoping to chart a route to the moon by water.

Change we can believe in!