Chris Matthews Letting Fly on MSNBC

[rustysgurl]

Post speech, Chris Matthews sure said a mouthfull on MSNBC. I don't have quotes and am paraphrasing here, but he hit the nail on the head when he said the group that are against our President think they are 'more American' and 'more Patriotic' than the people who voted for him. Chris said that they discount President Obama's 2 victories because the people who voted for him are 'just minorities' and live in the cities and they are 'less American' and 'less patriotic' than the small minority that are so against him and anything he does. Chris believes we'll be doing this all again in 90 days, not because the small radical minority wants the country to be better, but because they hate President Obama so much. Did my heart good to listen to him, although what he said made me sad.

[BluegrassStateBlues]

1. Chris Matthews is right when he's right. nt

[dorkzilla]

6. Which sadly, ain't often. n/t

[BentleyJD]

49. The other night

After the useless Ed Randell said he had a lot of personnel respect for Boner Tweety replied that Boner reminded him of Winston Churchill
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[dorkzilla]

50. Ugh, I KNOW I heard that and laughed so hard I thought I'd pass out!

So...you've been hiding out, eh? Hopefully you'll stick around for a while, though I take a break every once in a while too.

[grantcart]

8. For example he just said that the President is weak on immigration enforcement.

Which of course is not true.

[BluegrassStateBlues]

10. And horribly wrong when he's wrong. nt

[ForgoTheConsequence]

27. Another example...

He voted for Bush.

[bullwinkle428]

2. At what point in his rant did he begin hawking his book?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

54. Nice catch!

[NCLefty]

62. That's his second most annoying feature.

Interrupting people who are actually making good points is his first.

[rustysgurl]

3. LOL ... Actually he didn't

It wasn't until they were saying goodbye that the other moderator (don't know his name) brought it up (with a picture).

[calimary]

35. Welcome to DU, rustysgurl!

Glad you're here! That's technically true. But he's all over his new book, everywhere.

Thing is, though, the theme of the book actually happens to be remarkably relevant to the discussion now - how opposing positions in Washington USED TO be able to work together somehow. Nobody was more oppositional, agenda-wise, than reagan and Tip O'Neill. But somehow they got along and respected each other. Or at least Tip O'Neill respected the office of President enough to accord that same level of respect to whoever occupied that office, whether friend or foe. We don't have that anymore. How many GOPers in the House and Senate actually respect President Obama? Their behavior LOUDLY telegraphs that they don't. (And they're just plain ol' Sore Losermen ASSHOLES if you ask me.)

[cui bono]

55. And respected the will of the people, who voted Reagan in as president.

This bunch doesn't care what the people want, just what they want and it's all based on irrational hatred and disregard for any rules or decorum, it's an infantile "I want what I want when I want it" attitude that comes with the infantile methods that are the equivalent of throwing a tantrum.

[SummerSnow]

4. He was right...

These fools have been trying to destroy the country since 2008. Patriotic my ass.

[City Lights]

5. It was a thing of beauty.

He also said PO nailed his speech...hit the right tone, etc. Said it was a "3-pointer."

[flamingdem]

23. 3 pointer is a great reference

I still am awed by that 3 pointer Obama did on camera, effortless

[City Lights]

36. Didn't see it, but I'm sure it, too, was a thing of beauty! nt

[lostincalifornia]

7. Actually, what he said hit the nail on the head, but I do not think this will repeat itself in 90

days. Because of what happened most of the republicans are going divorce themselves from the tea baggers. That will take some time for them, but the process has started because of the disastrous results that happened.

[bushisanidiot]

9. That kind of separation will be near impossible considering Boehner announced that there was

that there was "no daylight" between the tea party and the republican party.

[lostincalifornia]

12. perhaps, but when you had a senator essentially take over the speaker's job, no matter what boehner

may say to the public, he and the republican party was directly being threatened by the tea baggers. If they do not do something, their party will become obsolete

[Bandit]

16. I think if America learned anythibng during this, it is Boehner can not be trusted.

He doesn't really speak for his Party or the House. He is spoken to and then he does as he is told..

[Arugula Latte]

32. Although he did say that 2 1/2 years ago, so we shall see.

[Ikonoklast]

42. Boehner is correct on that score.

The abyss the Teabaggers dragged the Republican Party into is so deep they can no longer see daylight.

[Dawgs]

13. You're right, but I think it's more because it will be closer to the election. n/t

[CTyankee]

14. someone said today that when we have to deal withthis again, it will be 2014 and the looming

mid terms will cast a big shadow, that wasn't the case recently.

It seems to me that this is a big opportunity for Dems. We have to hammer home to the general public what the RW tea baggers actually DID, not just what we thought theywould do. Now we have actual proof of what you get when you think they are offering anything of value to you. Plenty of people were hurt by this whole episode and their stories are out there. It'll be hard for the RW to refute the real facts...altho they will try, of course...

[Jack Rabbit]

33. Don't bet the farm on it not happening again

I recall how our esteamed colleague, The Magistrate, abandoned what he called his "too stupid to do" test in the dark years of the Bush Junta because "there is nothing too stupid for them to do."

Never trust a Republican who's addicted to Koch.

[Cosmocat]

47. I don't know

They MAY avoid blowing up the debt ceiling again, but I think unless something miraculous happens in budget negotiations between now and then they won't be able to stop themselves from having another government shutdown.

This is scorpion and frog stuff ...

[onehandle]

11. He's been slipping on the brass knuckles lately, for sure. nt

[rhett o rick]

15. Good rant, but dont turn your back on him. nm

[Paladin]

17. Did he manage to say all that without pimping his new book?

If he did, color me surprised.....

[seveneyes]

18. Sometimes, the bandwagon slows down

Enough for anyone to catch a ride.

[a kennedy]

19. I just really like the show he's on.....Alex Wagner......love her.

[eissa]

20. Remember Palin's "real Americans" speech?

He's definitely right about this.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Tweety gets on and takes over everyone else's show

because his gums just can't stop flapping.

[Auntie Bush]

30. Maybe he talks a lot but what he says is true and steps on Rethug throats...hard!

[BumRushDaShow]

40. He also steps on Democrats throats...hard!

He's a damn weathervane and manages to triangulate any argument back to something that praises his own egotistical self because only he knows best.

[joeybee12]

22. He's only saying what intelligent have known for a long, long time...

I'm hesitant to give him accolades for this when next week he'll be mooning over Ted Cruz again.

[flamingdem]

24. Did he get a tingle over Cruz?

Yeech. When you Cruz yu Luze!

[joeybee12]

29. He's was going on about him not that long ago, about how Obama

had met his match with Cruz...talk about delusional.

[BumRushDaShow]

41. On Alex Wagner's show, he called Cruz really "hot".

[joeybee12]

43. Ted Cruz would not be hot even if he was on fire...nt

[BumRushDaShow]

45. LOL

[Rogerichard]

25. Patriotism

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Samuel Johnson (1775)

[AnneD]

34. I call it the Lapel Pin Principle...

The bigger the pin...the less principled/patriotic (name your country) they are. Just like a cowboys belt buckle-the bigger the size, the less endowed.

[gopiscrap]

56. Welcome to DU

[TBF]

61. Welcome to DU. nt

[TeamPooka]

26. i like a well caffeinated Chris Mathews.

[cilla4progress]

28. Yes - Alex Wagner - love her too; smart and sassy

Did anyone else catch it when Tweety chastised Karen Finney (I think it was) who flipped it to him about hawking his book? I guess she went too far for him!

He's very entertaining, bloviated ego and all! He thinks quite highly of himself!

[BeyondGeography]

31. Just once I'd like one of these cable guys to properly call out the Republicans

The last two Democratic Presidents have been treated the same way; you could say Obama has had the worst of it, and you could also say he's just getting the end result of tactics that have naturally evolved (or devolved) with the help of RWNJ telecom networks and the Supreme Court. Personally, I think we could elect a Democrat named Whitey McWhite and they'd be selling Randian racist bullshit to their increasingly narrow base and doing whatever they could to frustrate and undermine him. The Republicans are a disaster for America. Full stop.

[calimary]

37. TOTALLY!!! THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!!!!

For heaven's sake - look at how they're talking impeachment again now. AGAIN??????? What? We're moving toward the fourth quarter of a two-term Dem, so that means bring on the impeachment crap again???? AGAIN??????? Zat all you've got, assholes? Ooops - the clock on the wall says time for impeachment. You did it with Bill Clinton. Now you wanna bring it back up with Barack Obama? Is that the default position every time a Demcrat of any sort or color or category gets into the White House? Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

And they called OUR side Sore Losermen.

[question everything]

38. Still, he cannot let others talk

He interrupts his guests, and he would not let the host - Thomas Roberts, I think - finish a question.

And, of course, hawking his book. On this program and later, on Alex Wagner's NOW.

Wonder whether all the MSNBC hosts got a directive to invite Matthews to "talk" about his book.

[anniebelle]

39. Matthews in a self-centered talk show host.

I saw him on ColbertReport a couple weeks back and when Stephen asked him who he thought was the better president, Reagan or Obama, Matthews spits out Reagan. Anybody that any sense of history knows what a conniving, lying, race baiter he really was. They built him up in their little fantasy world so now he looks nothing like the nasty, vengeful, grade-B actor that he was. He was the start of all this race baiting, belittling people that were so destitute they had to turn to welfare, tried his best to destroy all unions and workers' rights and on and on it goes. Part of his staff wound up in jail. Oh, and get this, now they have their own talk shows.

[randome]

44. Let Chris Matthew loose with one question directed at a GOPer.

"How are you going to make up this 24 billion dollars you pissed away? Huh? How are you going to do that? What's your plan?"

Go, Chris!
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[blackspade]

46. I agree w/ Matthews.....but...

he is still a corporate hack.

[L0oniX]

48. Don't care what that fuck wad says ...and never will. Wrote that fuck off a long time ago.

[Cleita]

51. He did tell it like it is yesterday,

but I couldn't help but think about the years he spent with Republican tools on his show tearing down the Clintons and other elected Democrats he had a bone to pick with.

All I could think of was he was partially responsible in bringing the country to this with the help of the rest of the librul media and now he doesn't like the beast that emerged when the egg hatched.

[indepat]

52. And those who would shut down our government and default on its debt are Jesus-loving,

God-fearing patriots who love America. Right. Got it.

[Sedona]

53. The TEA/GOP is punishing the whole county for electing an African American President.

Twice

[Fumesucker]

57. I hope the front five rows of the audience were wearing raincoats n/t

[IronLionZion]

58. does anyone have a link to video for this? nt

[L0oniX]

59. A sailboat with no tiller = Chris Matthews

[TBF]

60. It took me a couple years to believe it -

but they really are THAT racist. Obama is a conservative guy (in my view) and many of the things he has signed, Lily Ledbetter and LGBT rights aside, are straight out of the republican arena. NOT teabaggerati arena (as that is a whole new world of crazy), but Obama definitely supports the free market.

So, what else could possibly make them so crazy against him? That's right, color of his skin. This is very blatant and anyone who doesn't see it really is kidding themselves.

I looked up demographics and found out that African Americans comprise 13.6 percent of the total U.S. population (Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmcensus1.html#ixzz2i5LOMG21). You don't get elected twice in this country with only 13.6% of the population in your corner. Many of us of varied backgrounds voted for Obama because he was simply the better candidate and we generally support him. Well, I don't support some of the policies - TPP is most worrisome right now - but generally when I look at capitalism and helping the most people that I can with my vote I picked the best choice offered.