Thank you Chris Matthews.

[garybeck]

I know sometimes Chris Matthews really pisses people off but sometimes he hits a home run. This is a great interview. Good to see someone in the media stand up to the fuckwads.


Chris Matthews calls climate change deniers ‘pigs’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/31/chris-matthews-calls-climate-change-deniers-pigs/

Matthews asked Oppenheimer who he thinks, at this point, could look at the kind of devastation the world is seeing, and deny that anything is going on.

Oppenheimer said that people who deny climate change have “different motivations.” Some, he said, don’t want to hear about global warming because because it’s just more bad news that they feel they can’t do anything about. Some people don’t want to hear about it because “it gets in the way of their economic interests.” Others, he said, are skeptical and mistrust “experts.”


“Well Professor Oppenheimer, back in the ‘60s, we called such people pigs,” Matthews said. “Pigs. No, really. They don’t care about the planet, they don’t care about the destruction of war. All they want is what they got, their stuff, and they want more of it. Is that what we’re facing here, just greed? I’m not talking about the guy at the coal mine—that’s hard work. I’m talking about people who won’t listen to you, won’t listen to science because they want more stuff.”

be sure to watch the video clip at the bottom of the story at the link. well worth your time.

Thank you Chris Matthews.

[grasswire]

1. Is Tweety the new Olbermann?

He's starting to show a real commitment to truth. He has a way to go yet. But these flashes of bold truth are great.

[PatSeg]

2. I think he's recapturing

his liberal youth. He still annoys me a lot of the time, but lately he has had some stunning moments.

[Indpndnt]

6. He has a loooooong way to go, but he does have his moments - brief though they may be.

I don't watch him anymore, but tuned in to see more updates on the NE. If he would just shut his mouth and let his guests answer his questions without talking over them and answering for them, he would do so much better. Ugh.

[Auntie Bush]

3. I think Tweety has been excellent for a long time.

What does the guy have to say to convince people he's a Liberal Democrat and against the pigs or the "Crazies" and he calls them regularly? Give the guy a break and give credit where credit is due, damnit.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

4. He's an unabashed Catholic,

I think that makes some people nervous. I agree with you, for the most part he has been excellent...in non-election years he gives conservatives too much leeway, but he doesn't give them an inch when it counts.

[Honeycombe8]

16. Nothin' wrong with being Catholic. nt

[Sekhmets Daughter]

17. I thought I had made it clear in my post that I didn't there was. :-)

[_ed_]

11. How long? Chris Matthews voted for George W. Bush in 2000

Do you know any other "liberal Democrats" that were Bush voters?

A long time? How about these quotes from the early 2000s?

"We're all neo-cons now."
(4/9/03)

"Why don't the damn Democrats give the president his day? He won today. He did well today."
(4/9/03)

"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits."
(5/1/03)

Yeah -- really sounds like a "liberal Democrat!" Are you fucking kidding me?

[Honeycombe8]

15. Everyone makes a mistake now and then. I bet you have, too.

Other Dems voted for GWB, too, over Gore, or it wouldn't have been that close. Gore even lost his home state.

He didn't vote for GWB in 2004, I'm sure.

He's helping to win this election. He almost singlehandedly put the birther movement out of mainstream media. He was the ONLY media calling them out as wackos, crazies, when other networks would have those jerks on as serious guests.

[_ed_]

21. Everyone makes mistakes

but I never said anything this misogynistic:

"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits."
(5/1/03)

[Sekhmets Daughter]

19. Tweety sometimes gets lost

in his own narrative. I voted for Gore, but with reluctance and I remember thinking, as I watched the Towers come down, that "perhaps it is better to have a cowboy in the WH at this time" As to April 9, 2003 when Saddam's statute was knocked down...well, it was another year and a half before we learned there were no WMDs in Iraq. Frankly, Matthews is no better or worse than any of us....he is neither omniscient nor prescient so he sometimes gets it wrong. He believed the country was center/right and has come to see it is center/left...he learns, he grows that's more than some.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Tweety at his best; passionate and outraged for the right reasons

Pigs. Indeed.

[H2O Man]

7. I like Mr. Matthews.

And I respect him as a journalist.

Recommended.

[yellowcanine]

8. 'Others, he said, are skeptical and mistrust “experts.”' BS. The climate deniers don't distrust

experts. They just want to believe some other "expert" who tells them what they want to hear.

[hifiguy]

9. He seems to be tacking decidedly leftwards again.

A few weeks ago he absolutely destroyed some reichwing radio troll on the Maher show. He burnt the guy to the waterline and pissed on the smoking ruins. It was a thing of beauty to see.

[Squinch]

10. I like him too. I think of him as that uncle who sometimes embarasses you in public but then really

has your back when you need him.

[_ed_]

12. You're thanking a Bush voter?

Chris Matthews voted for George W Bush.

The man worked for years for GE before MSNBC got sold to Comcast. How many stories did he do about the contribution to global warming that the GE corporation did in that time?

Don't make me laugh. If you like corporate propagandists like Matthews, that's your business, but don't pretend he's a liberal. That's a fucking joke. He's a millionaire conservative Beltway hack.

[Honeycombe8]

14. He's a Democrat. Some Democrats voted for GWB over Gore. Tweety's great. nt

[Honeycombe8]

13. He's got a way with words, all right. That Tweety. Gotta love him. nt

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

18. It wasn't too long ago that he was tweeting...

...that the country is center right. Always seemed like such a silly notion to hold--that eleceted officials represent the values of the society at large.

Way before that, he was on the fence over the Iraq war.

All that being said, I do watch his show every night and have noticed that Ed and Rachael have pulled him to the left.

[patricia92243]

20. Tweety is not consistent, therefore difficult to watch all the time. Right this minute, he is doing

an excellent job - but you just can't count on him to continue.

I remember when he ranted and raved over Prez Clinton. Now he is in love with him. As I said, Tweety is inconsistent.