Tweety asks if Clarke is of 'sound mind'

[Teddy_Salad]

Asks his two guests if Clarke is of 'sound body and mind'.

WTF is with that?

When has he ever asked that question about say.....Bush.....Cheney.....or someone who I think this should be asked of, Rummy.

What a dick!

[Jack_Dawson]

1. I don't miss watching Whore Matthews

It's all about the NBA.

[Fenris]

2. Is Tweety?

OH SHITE! Trent "Hoodie" Lott's on!

[jrthin]

3. Tweety is absolutely disgusting.

On the other hand, Tweety should know something about losing one's mind, after all, he has lost his.

[robbedvoter]

4. Anyone has to be crazy to oppose the fearless leader...

The title of his book "Against all enemies" refers to the oath of PROTECTING THE CONSTITUTION. It's the loss of civil rights that set him off- so , of course he is nutz.

[Eric J in MN]

10. Matthews knew they would say yes. That was the point. See post 5. nt

nt

[Eric J in MN]

5. It helps us. It was actually a good question.

Chris Matthews was letting them respond to a smear of Richard Clarke by Jim Wilkinson.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

More on just how feeble the White House anti-Clarke push-back is getting. This is Bush NSC spokesman Jim Wilkinson again on Wolf Blitzer last night ...

The terrorists weren't overseas, the terrorists were here in America. By June, the FBI says 16 of 19 terrorists in the 9/11 attacks were already here. I just don't see what this focus on process and titles and meetings. Let me also point something. If you look in this book you find interesting things such as reported in the "Washington Post" this morning. He's talking about how he sits back and visualizes chanting by bin Laden and bin Laden has a mystical mind control over U.S. officials. This is sort of "X-Files" stuff, and this is a man in charge of terrorism, Wolf, who is supposed to be focused on it and he was focused on meetings.

So now it seems the White House line is that Clarke is some sort of borderline personality or half-crazed crackpot. Here's the reference from the Washington Post ...

"Any leader whom one can imagine as president on September 11 would have declared a 'war on terrorism' and would have ended the Afghan sanctuary by invading," Clarke writes. "What was unique about George Bush's reaction" was the additional choice to invade "not a country that had been engaging in anti-U.S. terrorism but one that had not been, Iraq." In so doing, he estranged allies, enraged potential friends in the Arab and Islamic worlds, and produced "more terrorists than we jail or shoot."

"It was as if Osama bin Laden, hidden in some high mountain redoubt, were engaging in long-range mind control of George Bush, chanting 'invade Iraq, you must invade Iraq,' " Clarke writes.

X-Files stuff ...

When you have a good case, you make it. When you don't, you just talk trash.

Or as the lawyers say, when you have the facts on your side, you bang the facts. When you've got the law on your side, you bang on the law. When you have neither, like Wilkinson, you just bang yourself.
-- Josh Marshall

[bearfartinthewoods]

18. i agree,,,it was a softball set up

[Racenut20]

6. Tweety still is the only one who asks ANY hard questions

of the Repubs.

[brainoverload]

7. parden my newbie status...

But who the heck is Tweety?

[Metatron]

11. Chris Matthews

Welcome to DU!

[Eric J in MN]

14. Chris Matthews was nicknamed "Tweety" by some of his staff for

Chris Matthews was nicknamed "Tweety" by some of his staff for coloring his hair yellow, supposedly the color of the cartoon character "Tweety Bird."

Chris Matthews is a talk-show host on MSNBC who used to be a Democrat, but voted for Bush in 2000.

[PeanutOne]

15. Look here and learn all the insider lingo

http://dug.seattleactivist.org/#t

[Cocoa]

8. I've seen many Clarke interviews

he's utterly credible and sane.

Tweety, on the other hand, has some sexual hangups going on, very creepy to see it come up now and then.

[bamir]

9. Tweety is driven

by his hatred of Clinton. Same as Wolf Blitzkrieg. Nothing could be more clear and they do a piss poor job trying to be objective

[patricia92243]

12. Here they go!!

[bearfartinthewoods]

13. did anyone just hear bill richardson defending bush?

poo pooed clark's acusations and said bush did all that could be done about al quaeda??????? wtf?

[shoopnyc123]

16. There they go...AGAIN!

Folding!

[Lefty48197]

17. I heard it on Limbaugh, read about it on Drudge, and now you've

brought it to DU. Good job.

[HFishbine]

19. More to the point

did Richardson defend Bush or not? It's irrelevant who else may have been talking about it.

[bearfartinthewoods]

21. don't do drudge or limba

are you saying this wasn't a one time thing? he was sort of mumbling.
i

[nostamj]

20. look, they CAN'T savage the message

which the WH vetted prior to the book's release.

they HAVE to savage the messenger. and, it just ain't flying....

sorry bushies.

[revcarol]

22. Remember when they did this to McCain?

He had all those years in a prison camp, so he must be unhinged.

So predictable. And don't kid yourself that Tweety doesn't want this meme out there. He's predictable too.

[RobinA]

23. Why Would Anybody

ask if Bush is of sound mind. I think the answer to that is pretty obvious.

[DemoTex]

24. I watched Tweety until "Jeopardy" time.

I also watched NBC Nightly News. They had Tim Russert talking about Clinton. Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...