How Embarrassing

I like Senators Klobuchar and Shaheen and its a damn shame that the Democratic Senate leadership trotted them out to cover Joe Lieberman's ass like this. I hope they realize that nobody is buying this bullshit, especially not any liberals or progressives. I guess you gotta do what you gotta do but talk about drawing the short straw. SMDH

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Alan Grayson Tells Dick Cheney To Shut The Fuck Up

He couldn't say it on national Tee Vee so I just translated the acronym for him.



We need more of this, truly...

Rev Al Still Got It

I don't care where you come down on Al Sharpton, there is no denying the fact that he straight dominated Chris Matthews and the racist Pat Buchanon in this conversation on Rush Limbaugh. It wasn't even close!

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The Drum Beat Is Getting Louder

Texas Governor Republican Rick Perry better get himself a very good lawyer.

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Update: As is their new norm, instead of backing away from this controversy, Republicans are doubling down on their support of the death penalty.

A Quick Point About Chris Matthews' One Sided Concern Trolling

Yesterday Chris Matthews had two Congressional Democrats on his show, one a Blue Dog and one a member of the Progressive caucus, to talk about health care reform. Well really more than health care reform he just wanted to focus on the public option. Surprisingly Blue Dog Democrat, Michael Arcuri, agreed with Progressive Democrat Chaka Fattah that health care reform needs a public option. This gave Tweety absolutely no pause and instead he just pressed forward with his predetermined line of attack and kept chipping away at them and their support of the public option. He even invoked former President Bill Clinton to try to make the case that Demcrats need to pass a health care bill or else suffer a humiliating defeat. And by pass a health care bill he of course meant one without a public option. Just check it out and see how aggressively he pushes the two Congressmen about how far they are willing to take it to get a public option in the bill.

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Now we all know that Tweety is a notortious concern troll but this segment took it to a whole other level. His whole premise is that if health care reform dies it will end up being the fault of liberals and progressives who want a public option. But lets look at the facts for a moment. A great majority of Democrats in the House want a public option. Similarly a great majority of Democrats in the Senate want a public option. So how is it that if a minority of Democratic Senators in the Senate are able to kill the public option that anybody can reasonably say its the fault of liberals and progressives if the bill fails?

I have a question for you, why the hell aren't people like Chris Matthews bringing on ConservaDems from the Senate like Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson and asking THEM if THEY are willing to kill the bill just because they don't like a public option? Why the hell aren't THEY being taken to task for being insufferable assholes who are going against not only the majority of Democrats in Congress but also the people of this country who support a public option in health care reform? If Tweety is really concerned and thinks Bill Clinton is right about Democrats needing to pass a bill today then maybe, just maybe he ought to take on the people who really might kill the bill and thats the Blue Dogs and the ConservaDems, not the liberal and progressive caucuses.

Its probably because its just so much easier to dumb on those "wacky far left libruls" than it is to hold bought and paid for "centrists" accountable for their actions and their votes. It is what it is.

Can't Grill This Weiner

Chris Matthews was the consumate concern troll today trying to challenge Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner over his support for the public option. The funny thing was how Weiner totally handled the guy and set him straight not allowing him to frame the story. Not only that he basically made Tweety look absurd at time by setting him straight on the facts.



One thing that pissed me off a little more than the rest of the condescending bullshit Matthews was spewing was how he ended the interview by saying something to the effect that they "have to" listen to all sides of the debate as if Congressman Weiner was some kind of fringe kook or some shit. Tweety doesn't even care enough about the policy of health care reform to even learn the nuts and bolts of it but he claims to want it to pass this time. If he could just realize that a public option is central to bringing down premiums enough for everybody to be able to afford them he might actually be an asset. But as long as he keeps just repeating beltway conventional wisdom, he is working against Democratic interests.

Better To Be Silent And Thought A Fool

Somebody should have finished that saying for teabagger Katy Abram. She brings new meaning to the phrase "no nothing". Lawrence O'Donnell was great drawing out all over her stupid for all the world to see.



She said she "saw on TV" that President Obama said we would go to a single payer system in 5 years. Anybody wanna take a bet that it was FoxNews?

Anybody? Bueller?

Tell The Truth, Shame The Devil

Joan Walsh and Kweisi Mfume held it down today on Hardball and didn't pull any punches about Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right wing race baiters. I had to give her a standing ovation when Ms Walsh stood her ground when Tweety tried to make her back off her statement that Beck and Limbaugh are racists. Its ridiculous how he and other pundits try to hold water for these assholes instead of calling a spade a spade just like she did.

Taking Pride In Being Ignorant: Chris Matthews Edition

I don't know if there is another political commentator on Tee Vee who is as frustrating to watch as Chris Matthews. When he gets it or when he actually knows the subject matter the guy is a virtuoso at beating people up with their own words and actions. But when he isn't familiar with the issue the guy will just go off the rails at the drop of a dime.

Today was especially aggravating because not only did he not know what the hell he was talking about, he decided to act like he DID know and berated one of the guests about something in the health care bill when she was right and he was absolutely wrong. Make it so bad, THAT GUY is supposed to be a liberal according to right wing talkers. So now he helps to further the right wing smear about euthanasia being in the bill instead of debunking something that every fact checking website has already said is a pile of crap.

Gee thanks Tweety!



Can somebody at MSNBC like KO or Rachel Maddow, pull this clown to the side and try to get him to actually research the stuff he talks about on his show?

Thanks in advance.

Birther Bill Co Sponsor On Hardball

This is vintage Chris Matthews, smacking around the nutjob Republican Congressman for pandering to his wacky, birther base. Gotta love it!!!




Fringe ideology is the new black for the GOP.

Every Once In A While...

This is what pisses me off about Chris Matthews. About once or twice a week he can lay the smackdown as he did today to Mike Pence like nobody's business. But then the rest of the time he is damn near a blithering idiot. I swear man every time I am close to totally writing him off he will pull an interview like this out of his ass. The way he exposed Congressman Pence as a fundamentalist bible thumping, anti-science, anti-progress, anti green energy, wingnutastic buffoon was just masterful. By the end of the interview you just knew that Pence was going to whup whomever booked him on that show's ass big time. Dammit Tweety can we get this out of you on more of a regular basis? Sheesh.

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Willful Ignorance

I watched this segment on Hardball yesterday and one thing became clear, the Villagers don't want to hear the truth. Time and time again Chris Matthews and Pat Buchannan tried to used the "means justify the ends" defense to excuse the torture of detainees. Time and time again Johnathan Turley kept reminding them THAT ITS FUCKING ILLEGAL TO TORTURE PEOPLE. Near the end showing that Tweety just doesn't think breaking the law is that big of a deal, he asks Turley why he is being such an absolutist about this. Whiskey Tango Fire? What part of ITS FUCKING ILLEGAL TO TORTURE PEOPLE can Tweety not understand? I thought Professor Turley did a hell of a job of sparring with those idiots but it was a lost cause. Of course Chris Matthews and Pat Buchannan had no such hangups when it came to trying to impeach President Clinton for getting some head. That to them was a lot more clear cut illegal behavior than waterboarding people is. Such is the mindset of the Village. IOKIYAR is now an institutional part of their mindset.

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I should also point out that after handing out a Hardball award to John McCain Tweety made the remark that McCain should have won the Presidency in 2000. I used to try to take up for Matthews but now I think he has just lost his damn mind.

Facts Are Such Pesky Little Things

Pro Torturist John Ensign had better get his weight up the next time he decides to go on Hardball. Attacking Tweety will get your ass smacked down with the quickness, especially when its a topic that he actually has an interest in. Funny how just like the difference between Wall Street traders and GM union members the pro torture GOPers treat Bush administration figures way different from the rank and file soldiers who they couldn't get enough of bashing.

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He's Mad!

Lawrence O'Donnell gave such a complete and thorough ass whupping to Pat Buchannan today that Uncle Pat was reduced to personal attacks. I am beginning to see that O'Donnell is a grade A shit talker and although he is annoying at times I am fast becoming a fan.

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Texas Absurdity

Tweety makes an excellent point at about 10 minutes into the clip. You can't claim some kind of special level of patriotism for Texans on the one hand then defend calls for secession fromm the country on the other.

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"You Can't Just Make Up Your Own Facts"

If only David Shuster could host Hardball everyday. Oh wait he DID have a show then the geniuses at MSNBC decided that he was expendable. What a frikking joke.

Well at least he was there today to connect the dots from the cop shooting in Pittsburgh to the hate talk from the wingnuts on Tee Vee and radio. And he pretty much sent the 2nd Amendment guy running home with his tail between his legs. Good on him for that and good on Charles Blow for calling the guy's argument "laughable".

Enjoy

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Dig A Hole

Chris Matthews is a buffoon and he can drive me crazy at times but I live for moments like this when he totally dismantles a GOP flack. I mean the guy has a talent for it yet they keep making the mistake of going on his show. Ari Fleischer is going to need therapy after this one.

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Its Clobbering Time

Debbie Wasserman Shultz will be a first ballot inductee into the PWN Hall of Fame. She put in top notch work again yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews kicking around Brian Bilbray like his head was a soccerball. Sooner or later the conservatives had better learn that you don't bring a knife to a gun fight and DWS is like a Desert Eagle.




(h/t COkdub)