Fuck Chris Matthews...what a terrible, terrible interview...

[HardWorkingDem]

I simply can't believe Matthews had MN Rep. Michelle Bachmann on and let her spew her fucking lies for almost fifteen minutes. Even though to intelligent people, she came off as small, ignorant and a hate mongering asshole, she should not have been given fifteen fucking minutes to spew her crap.

Not only that, when an asshole like her is on, a counter balance should be present.

She had me seething and fucking Matthews played that robo call three fucking times!


I'm livid and will be sending off emails....

[sickinohio]

1. How about Pat Buchanan?

He's spewing evil too!!

[political_Dem]

4. I couldn't agree more. He is simply disgusting too.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. I cannot wait until his head actually explodes on the air...

[sickinohio]

21. I wish he would get off the airwaves!

Along with Joe Scumbag.

[Johonny]

17. I don't get his point

He compared Bill Ayers to a clan member. Says there's no unAmericans in Congress. Says we can't associate with people like Bill Ayers. Yet doesn't know there's ex-clan member in congress. Pat's point is impossible to follow.

[sickinohio]

31. Katrina was extremely upset

about this hate-mongering. She said she was having a hard time breathing because of this crap. F-those people. Please let November 4th get here quickly - please !! And please let Obama win the election!! I can't take any more of these F-wads. I just can't.

[BrklynLiberal]

37. i can empathze with her. I feel like I am getting heart palpitations when I hear that RW crap

[sickinohio]

51. I do believe they are all crazy.

I mean really crazy. Why isn't McLame repudiating this crap? I thought he said in the debate that he ALWAYS repudiates this crap, didn't he? I thought his feelings were so hurt with what Lewis said. Yeah, RIGHT!!

[BrklynLiberal]

76. Since he sold his soul, he has no principles whatsoever.

[BrklynLiberal]

34. The Church bomber killed little girls...The Weather Underground never killed anyone..

Buchanan is such a total asshole that I just cannot bear to listen to him.

[Johonny]

69. well themselves...

which I guess Pat would be for. When Pat gets ugly he shows how horrible a human being can be. Lesson from Pat, if you can help poor children take a pass if one of the many members of the charity has a pass you might now agree with. Pat the catholic that believes in Jesus forgiving all sins, apparently only believes this intermittently.

[jjanpundt]

41. I've gotten to the point where I detest Buchanan! He's totally

lost whatever passed for his mind over the McCain/Palin ticket.

[Redbear]

2. I think he was giving her enough rope to hang herself

I think he did well.

[Genevieve]

50. TOTALLY! eom

[Heather MC]

65. I agree

I was getting angry at first, but if you watch the rest of the show, it's clear what he was doing
allowing her to look foolish. It was hard to watch live

[youthere]

87. That is EXACTLY what he was doing. He was horrified at what she was saying.

[Cosmocat]

98. BINGO - I am not a Mathews fan, but you hit the nail on the head ...

I think Mathews in his bizarre way, was GENUINELY perplexed by what this lunatic was saying, and was in actual journalistic mode, and IMO, she came across as a complete and total freakshow.

The more that crackpot spewed the BETTER, it is RED MEAT for the 30 percent, but what I am seeing here is that these clowns are like flies to a flame ...

1) the more behind they get, the more desperate they get ...
2) the more desperate they get, the more they go back to the well that worked in 2000, 2002, 2004 - characer assassination and trying paint the D as unpatriotic ...
3) it fires up the "base" to no end ...
4) but, more and more, and more, it turns off the middle, and puts the Rs in an ever shrinking corner ...

[JerseygirlCT]

101. Yes. And she did just that.

And funny enough, her opponent just raised more than 40k tonight...

[LooseWilly]

114. I also agree.

He heard McCarthyism... and he probed... and rather than it just sounding that way... he just kept hearing more and more of it... so he kept asking questions just to see how fully she was embracing the ugliness.
It was a lot like interviews with Palin. "uh... what... how do You interpret the Bush Doctrine?" ...

It wasn't Mathews that was detestable... it was the answers he was getting, and any shortening of the interview would've been doing Bachman a favor.

[H2O Man]

142. Exactly. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I agree with the poster who felt that he was just giving her enough rope to hang herself.

I( do not believe that Matthews agrees at all..and that is why he had Katrina Vanden Hueval on to counter the insanity.

[Joe the Revelator]

5. Matthews gave her enough rope then spent the rest of the show burying her

[LSK]

15. exactly

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

43. I concur

Tweety let her hang herself several times over.

[KoKo]

Just remember the DEVIL can "quote scripture, too, when it suits their purpose."

think about it...

[TuxedoKat]

48. That's how I read it too.

He seemed pretty offended by her idiotic comments under the surface.

[Hamlette]

132. bingo, that's how I saw it too. He got her to say we need a new McCarthyite witch hunt in the US

He made her basically say liberal means unAmerican and there are members in Congress who are traitors and who should be investigated.

She came off looking a loon and only because Chris gave her the rope.

It was brilliant, mesmerizing television and raised a couple hundred thousand for her opponent.

Chris is my new hero.

[calico1]

7. I think he was letting her make herself look

as ignorant and stupid as she is.

[yellowdogintexas]

93. yep that is totally it....Matthews has been on sort of a crusade on this issue

all week.

[sickinohio]

8. Pat Buchanan is an F-wad too!!

Bas!ard :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[RepublicanElephant]

9. it seemed like chris was holding back.

what a lame interview.

[KoKo]

75. Holding Back? Maybe he's watching the value of his Nantucket Mansion dive down....

Jack Welch is his nearby neighbor....he was selling his property not to long ago...

You think Tweety works for US? You think that? :eyes:

[Honeycombe8]

96. Lame? He was livid. The angriest I've ever seen him. He nailed her. nt

[BadDog40]

10. You can't teach a pig to sing

It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

[ShortnFiery]

11. Mathew's could have figuratively eaten that fly-weight fascist congresswoman for lunch.

But he OWES the power elite "a horse race" for this upcoming Presidential Election.

Mathews is a brilliant journalist but his loyalties lie with the uber-power political elites who NEVER FORGET to invite him to their soirees. :eyes:

[nannycee]

12. I couldn't disagree more! He let her show who she was and ...

...got her to say the disgusting truth herself! No excuses, nothing. She can't deny it. I agree that Buchanan could have been shut up sooner...tho.

[kikiek]

13. He was giving her enough rope to hang herself. Her McCarthyism views will haunt her.

It highlights how the Republicans are dividing the country by their ridiculous claims.

[barack the house]

27. Yep he seemed to be doing good to me.

[LSK]

14. you got it all wrong, hes giving the GOP rope to hang itself on

The whole show is about what crazies the right wingers are!!! Its a giant commercial for us.

[AllieB]

22. I see it that way too. Katrina vanden Heuvel is so good on her feet!

Tweety is disgusted with the crypto-fascists in the GOP.

[Marsala]

33. There's nothing crypto about their fascism. n/t

[notalemming]

16. That's silly. If he hadn't let her spew her shit, nobody except her own supporters would ever see

it.

He did us a favor.

[KoKo]

54. NO! He let her "Spew her Shit" to prop up Right Wing...going for the Ratings!

It was disgusting...and I've been a watcher of his when he did take down a Repug or two...but, he was in MEGA WHORE/GE/BUSH Form tonight. It was disgusting.

[notalemming]

62. I thought he did a great job exposing her insanity.

:D

[KoKo]

80. Well...as I said below on this thread......

You truly believe that "GE/Nantucket McMansion Matthews"gives a SHIT about "YOU!"

[notalemming]

85. What he thinks about me is completely irrelevant to the fact that he exposed the silly bitch.

Maybe you should worry about your own tender psyche and let me fret over mine. :D

[Quantess]

133. "prop up right wing" at the expense of looking like a lunatic to the other 80%

How are we reasonable people supposed to know Michelle Bachmann is a McCarthyesque wackadoo unless she gets her chance to speak on a national news program? I'm glad Tweety let her tell us all about it.

[Window]

18. Absolutely. He should have shut her down way before he did.

And. as you say, at the very least, there should have been someone on for rebuttal.

[rch35]

28. he spends nearly the REST of the show rebutting it.

are you even fucking watching it?

jesus

[HardWorkingDem]

38. The point is...he should never have let her on or if the opposite thing happened..

He would have interjected and shut it down FAST.

When have you EVER seen a guest on claiming McCain was a POW traitor like some fringe people claim?

[Window]

72. Thank you.

[rch35]

140. Whatever, her saying this has been the best thing thats ever happened to her opponent

i hear hes raised about 80,000 dollars now

Chris matthews did the same thing i would have

give her the rope to hang herself

[Window]

66. Yes, I'm fucking watching it...for the second time tonight. And, you can leave Jesus out it this.

Rest of the show my ass, he should have shut her down while she was spewing her shit on the damned show, not after she left.

[rch35]

141. like i say right above, her opponent has raised 80,000 dollars since this

she dug her own fuckin grave, this is goin to be great for the opposition campaign, and since the american people by and large havent been reacting to this shit anyways, and the people that would dont watch hardball with chris matthews anyways. he devoted the rest of the hour to completely shutting down every argument she had.

the best thing chris matthews could have done for this woman was shut her down quickly

[cjsmom44]

40. All I could think of...

All I could think of is someone putting duct tape on that psycho woman's mouth...

[Window]

71. LOL! Me too. If ever there was a use for duct tape, it was then.

[FlaGranny]

143. Well, my DH was

agreeing with you, and at first I was getting pretty angry too, but then I realized what Matthews was doing. He was playing out the hanging rope and the look of disgust on his face for that woman was priceless. Matthews did us all a great favor last night. He may have helped get this woman OUT of Congress.

I agree with everyone who said that having her on the show was the the right thing to do. If people don't see and hear these nutjobs, they don't know they're out there. They don't believe you when you tell them that these are the kinds of people running the Republican party. That female McCarthy being on Matthews' show exposed another nut to the world. Cheers for Matthews. I don't always agree with him, but he doesn't suffer fools lightly - of either party.

[jberryhill]

108. Oh hell no... Folks Like Her Should Be Given Every Chance To "Let It All Hang Out"

I trust the electorate to find that kind of thing repellant.

[Lucy Goosey]

19. Thank goddess for Katrina Vanden Heuvel

srsly

[billyoc]

20. Best interview I ever saw him do.

He let her talk herself into a fascist feeding frenzy, and right onto the unemployment line.

[Cha]

30. Go El Tinklenberg!

http://www.tinklenberg08.com/

[RepublicanElephant]

23. if ayers is such a horrible human being...

why did raygun's friend annenberg choose him to sit on an education panel?

why won't chris ask the wingnuts this simple question.

[sohndrsmith]

24. I am furious too. The counter balance is on after her, I believe.

This is why we need to take heed, and thus action: Obama is right.
Two words: New Hampshire.

The crazies and uglies are going to come out en masse. They're desperate and unethical and they have zero consideration for fairness, propriety, honesty or rules at this point. They've proven they find threats to kill Obama do little but make them sneer, maybe giggle, and roll their eyes if/when they are cornered into saying it's a bad thing. It isn't harmless and it isn't a joke.

---------------

Why the HECK don't these people (Matthews) do his freaking homework? Ayers DID write about being repentant for what he did years ago! Jeez, this is so irresponsible it makes me ill.

[OKNancy]

25. He was great!

He kept drawing her out more and more. He WANTED her to say that claptrap to show
just how awful that line of thinking is. He has been on this for a few days now.
You could tell he was disgusted with her.

[HardWorkingDem]

32. For all of you who think he was giving her enough rope...think of this...

He would never even have had some asshole on that said things like this about McCain.

Imagine if some Dem Congress person got on and started spouting off the fringe beliefs that McCain was a traitor to his country and on and on.

Matthews would have intervened and pounded the person.


Her views were bullshit and should have been discounted right there and she should not have been unchallenged.

[rch35]

26. what the fuck are you anti matthews people raving about all the time?

he has her on there, and then spends the majority of rest of the show bashing it, and playing the robocall and bashing it to, you have to present the opposing argument in order to dismantle it.


jesus fucking christ

[HardWorkingDem]

45. Do you really think he would even let this happen to McCain?

Hell no.

If some fringe person got on there and started the same shit with McCain, he would have put a stop to it. He gave this woman fifteen minutes to yack her stuff and I don't care that he devotes more time to let others debunk it.

He should have let Katrina tear her throat out while she was there.

[KoKo]

55. So...WHO do YOU THINK...Matthews works for? Who pays for his two homes? (the ones we know about)?

:shrug:

[Marsala]

67. The same people whom Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow work for

GE may be a huge corporation and therefore evil, but they do give some of their MSNBC pundits some slack in airing leftist views.

[KoKo]

70. HA! You have much to know........n/t

[rch35]

139. who pays for his two homes? you tell me

because, last i heard, he had this gig on tv. probably gets paid pretty well for it too.

chris matthews ran for congress years ago, on a clean money campaign. I don't agree with him on everything, but hes not a bad person.

[vanderBeth]

29. He let her hang herself

And he had just the most disgusted face on his face.

[KoKo]

60. You know...I thought that was what he was doing in the first part of the interview...

but when he kept on baiting her...getting her to call out liberals...going back to "McCarthy" type "Communist Stuff" ...I suddenly realized "Tweety got the Message from his Corporate Masters" and was allowing her to spew out the most filthy, biased, baiting diatribes I've seen in years on his show.

Then Tweety started to go after the Obama Op Spokesperson. (can't remember her name) who is always reasoned and measured in her statements and he went after her OVER AND OVER AND OVER ...baiting her until she finally got angry enough that she lost her earpiece and got rattled. She performed for Obama as a TROOPER...Tweety tried but he never got her to lose it.

In the end...Tweety was "working for "DA' MAN" while he promoted Repug Bachman's lies and tried to disrupt Obama Spokesperson who was sincere and honorable. Tweety went after the Obama Spokesperson in a way he'd NEVER touch Bachman...who is one of his Corporate Whore MASTERS.

Tweety works for the "DARK SIDE"...and the "DARK SIDE" is VERY GOOD at what they do. Just remember the DEVIL can "quote scripture, too, when it serves his purpose."

[anigbrowl]

79. You are paranoid, and mistaken

If you really think that Matthews comparing the GOP talking points with the worst excesses of Mccarthyism is 'working for the DARK SIDE' then I'd suggest leaving your TV turned off for a day or two and chilling out.

[DangerousRhythm]

137. Exactly. If he hadn't let her spew on his show, her opponent wouldn't be raking it in.

I say he did good. :)

[rufus dog]

35. I think the opposite

He just gave her opponent and the DNC soundbites for commercials for the last two weeks.

Did you catch his last line to Pat?

"You better be careful your instincts are coming out"

he just left out the word racist in between your and insticts.

Pat was well aware he was just called a racist.

[political_Dem]

47. I caught it.

And I thought to myself that finally, Toto is pulling the curtain to show the man working the levers.

Yes, indeed. As election day grows closer, Pat is heading toward showing us how he truly feels.

And I hope that it gets You Tube across the country and the world.

[always_saturday]

36. He shone a big spotlight on her as she showed her ass.

[lamp_shade]

46. Good one, always

:rofl:

[BklynChick]

39. He was trying to make her look like the psycho moron she is and he succeeded. The other guests

skewered her.

[lamp_shade]

42. That was Chris Matthews at his best. I applaud him.

[CADEMOCRAT7]

44. He allowed her to show what a nut case she is, I thought it was powerful.

I felt he let her self-destruct by letting her talk. She appeared as ignorant and crazy.

[Genevieve]

52. I thought Chris was great

and yes, it was powerful.

[Willo]

49. I thought Chris was holding back and letting her hang herself, but

I wish he had let her have it or brought up a couple of hypocritical examples like the AIP or Byrd.

I'll trust in the reactions of the viewers but it was really disturbing to watch play out.

[BurtWorm]

53. Amen. There was no good reason to put that shit on the air.

It's all lies. And if you're going to slam a liar, then fucking slam her already. Jesus Christ! Ask her where she gets her information and don't let up until she admits it came out of her ass.

[theothersnippywshrub]

56. He exposed her as a never been wiped asshole. And that was just her mind.

He exposed her heart as a deceitful and malignant cancer on the body politic. He exposed her soul as a disease ridden, oozing and painful pustule on the human race.

[RagAss]

57. I'm no Tweety fan...but the dude was in shock....n/m

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

58. If Bachmann is who I think it is, she's been one of the designated heavies for the Repub team this

election. And a particularly weak and lame one too, I believe she was the one who was stuck saying "I think that's terribly demeaning to women" when Carville made some criticism of Palin that had nothing to do with her gender. She seems very mechanical reciting her talking points. She was yet again one of those surrogates who refused to answer the question of whether Palin was the most qualified woman or person for the VP position.

Yup that's her:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj2dMb6fecY

[blaze]

59. The interview showed

what a hateful person she is. It prompted me to donate to her opponents campaign. http://www.tinklenberg08.com/

[theothersnippywshrub]

64. It prompted me to do the same. Go Tinklenberg! If you can, please give. n/t

http://www.tinklenberg08.com/

[TheKentuckian]

61. The Republicans will get pounded on this.

Are you kidding me? If we have enough people who wish to align with this insanity to give McShame a win, then we have bigger problems than any election.

[Danger Mouse]

63. I think this is something many liberals fail to realize..

you don't beat these people by shouting them down. You beat them by letting them show their true colors and making everybody feel nauseated, then you dismantle them when they're done.

[calmblueocean]

77. I would like to think that, but Hannity shows his "true colors" every day. And he's changed the race

This whole Bill Ayers nonsense had it's genesis on Hannity's radio show, and just grew and grew from there as Hannity repeated it endlessly. It eventually found its way to McCain's campaign advisers, and now it's infected the entire mainstream media and the political process. It's garbage, all this nonsense about "palling around with terrorists" and how Ayers and Obama were "friends", but in today's media age, it doesn't matter. Perception is reality, and the more media time you give these folks to regurgitate their lies, the more you legitimize them.

If you're going to have someone like Bachmann on, a rabid right-winger who will say anything, then you at least need to have the balance of a strong liberal advocate -- someone like Cenk Uygur, to pick a name -- who will defend against those attacks and give as good as they get. It's nice to think that Matthews was just "giving Bachmann the rope to hang herself with" as some here have said, but honestly, he's just giving Bachamann the rope she needs to hang our democracy with.

[Danger Mouse]

83. I don't think anybody takes that idiot Bachmann seriously that isn't already in the tank for McCain.

Just like I doubt that anybody who takes Hannity seriously would vote for Obama anyway.

[jberryhill]

109. Amen...

You'd think folks here were more familiar with basic principles like that.

Folks, read your Gandhi.

[gmoney]

68. Plus, he seems to be unfamiliar with satellite delay...

He'd ask a question, and while it was transmitting to her, he'd get impatient and ask it again over top of her response... repeatedly. Ask it and shut up, or get a satellite feed with lower latency.

I guess he's still pretty new at this. :eyes:

[Peregrine Took]

73. I guess he just wanted to let her speak and, thereby, hang herself with her

own words. I was hollering for him to smash her down (as he has been known to do in the past)but he chose not to.

[gabby garcia]

74. Chris Mathews rocks!

he is exposing exactly what the far rightwing base is trying to pull - an "anti American"/left/liberal witchhunt - and they are starting with Obama, Palosi, and others. It's exactly these kind of people who make up Palin's base right now, spewing their polarizing hatred and ignorance, and ignoring them is the LAST thing we should do!!

[KoKo]

78. You truly believe that "GE/Nantucket McMansion Matthews"gives a SHIT about "YOU!"

or YOUR CONCERNS or OBAMA? He's interested in KEEPING HIS FUCKING MEDIA WHORE JOB to TRASH OBAMA just like they did CLINTON IN FIRST TERM BEFORE CLINTON HUNG HIMSELF WITH MONICA!

You've gotta be clueless to post this kind of statement!

[gabby garcia]

86. easy on the caps lock there Koko....

we all know you hate Matthews. that doesn't mean he can't conduct a thorough and revealing interview/exposure of a borderline fascist congresswoman (soon to be booted I would hope). bitterness only leads to unhappiness - why don't you get yourself a nice bowl of applesauce and have a nap.

gg

[theothersnippywshrub]

84. He rocked tonight. Matthews exposed the Reich wing base in that interview.

Bachmann is a never been wiped asshole with 1930's German shit still clinging to it.

[asdjrocky]

81. Shortly after that I heard Pat Buchanan defending David Duke.

Yes, you heard me right, David Duke.

[rcrush]

82. I must have been watching a different interview

From what I saw he let her talk but then spent the rest of the show trashing her.

[otohara]

88. Dramatic Underground

that's what happens when you don't watch the entire segment.

[rainman99]

89. He just LOVES to pretend he doesn't like anti-Obama stories

but he just forces everyone to keep talking about them. Remember, he's received tons of money for speaking at Republican conventions on how to beat us

[Matariki]

90. I think he actually did a great job.

He coaxed a lot of really ugly stuff out of her. It was impressive.

[Honeycombe8]

100. I agree. He nailed her. AND he was genuinely ticked at her vile statements. nt

[Matariki]

91. What's Matthew's email, btw?

Or the main MSNBC television email?

[rainman99]

92. [e-mail]

[Honeycombe8]

94. Really? I thought he did a great job. He didn't let her get away with general hate statements...

He called her on it, saying (I'm paraphrasing)...Senator, which of our Senators and Representatives in the U.S. Congress are you saying are anti-American?

Silence.

He repeats..."Senator, you just said that one of our U.S. Senators, Senator Obama, is anti-American and those like him and on the left are anti-American, so I'm asking...which other of our Senators and Representatives are you saying are anit-American? I mean, are all the ones on the left anti-American, just some of them, or which ones exactly?"

She spews some more generalities but doesn't back off her general hate statements.

He goes back to the main question at hand. Senator, you just accused a sitting U.S. Senator and others who think like him and on the left of being anti-American, so I'm asking.....

She didn't back off the talking points memo she'd rec'd earlier in the day, but judging from her frozen smile and inability to dance around his questions well, she will be more careful in her next interview, wherever it is. She'll probably stick to Fox.

Good going, Chris!

[Raine]

95. TOTALLY disagree

Matthews let her expose herself and I'm glad that he did because after seeing her dozens of times her real agenda was made public! :thumbsup:

[orestes]

97. Considering how much money this interview by Matthews

has raised for her opponent, I think he deserves some props. This is pretty much the text book definition of giving someone enough rope to hang themselves with.

[WinkyDink]

99. IMO, Matthews kept her talking so she would finally say what he wanted. But she didn't.

To wit: All Liberals are traitors.

[Honeycombe8]

102. Instead, she just sat in silence after a couple of questions, unable to answer. Priceless.

It was a great interview. She'll be more prepared next time, I'm sure. And she probably won't spew her talking points in QUITE the same way.

[jenmito]

103. I disagree. It was one of the best interviews he's done. He was obviously incredulous

about what he was hearing from her. He seemed ANGRY about what she was saying. And playing the robocall over and over gets it out there so people know what it is when they hear it and know it's a bunch of bull.

[Swede]

104. You are dead wrong,on this one.

He lifted a rock and exposed what was underneath to the sunlight.

[johnlucas]

105. Actually it was probably good that he didn't interrupt

It was probably good that he let her go on and on like that for the simple fact of exposure.
I always say once you shine a light on something the object becomes clearer to all observers.

People are cagey with expressing these kinds of viewpoints and come up with all kinds of sly ways to get the message across. It lowers resistance to acceptance of the idea and wins more followers. Padded with the proper storefront you can get more people to subscribe to your ideology behind the curtain when you employ these methods.

But when it's naked and open people are either forced to agree or disagree. It's made more digital than analog. Binary. This is why racist John McCain supporters (or better phrased that unspecified percentage of McCain supporters who are racist) when confronted by a camera and asked to express their views, all of sudden get shy and inarticulate. They know that openly that view won't be supported which is why there is so much code. In order to win more supporters they have to present that storefront and get more shoppers into their ideology store bringing out what's behind the curtain gradually.

Some people are naïve and don't think this stuff really goes on that much anymore so it's best to give open mic to fools to show the reality. It's not to say everybody will be sharp enough to pick up on that reality but some will and it will alienate them. Perhaps they will begin to reflect on old commentaries from political adversaries accumulated over the years and say, "you know, maybe those people were right about these guys all along."

Sometimes the best thing you can do is let fools hang themselves with their own rope.
John Lucas

[Claire Beth]

106. Chris was letting her hang herself....

anyone with an inkling of sense now thinks the woman is NUTS...and they would be right. I have to ask the mcshame campaign "are these the kind of people who vote for you?" Are these the types in your crowds"....Mccain is a whore for power.

[jberryhill]

107. Are you kidding? Folks Like Bachmann Need LOTS Of Exposure

Mad props to Tweety for letting her strut her unAmerican stuff!

[HardWorkingDem]

128. Then let her unchallenged ass go to FauxNews to speak to the wingnuts there...

People just don't get it - let her go to FauxNews and Glen Beck for her shit. When she appears on MSNBC, her ignorance and vile crap should be confronted.

[electron_blue]

110. He did us a favor

Those of us who suffer with her as our rep have tried to raise awareness and money for Tinklenberg for the last several months with modest success. Matthews' interview provided enough exposure to generate action from enough people to raise $70K for Tinklenberg today! And maybe more through the weekend. Also, surely Bachman spewed enough bizarreness and vile that can be useful for ads. Republicans in central Minnesota, by and large, are not the kind that want to "get" liberals, they're of the live & let live variety. Think Lake Wobegon. She does not *really* resemble them, and she sure doesn't appeal to the DFL and independent voters. Now is the time to get her out. We can do it.

Have you no doubt that if she gets re-elected, she'll be a national problem down the road and not just a Minnesotan problem?

[bluedawg12]

111. It was a far rw infomercial- sorry, too much exposure

of lies and hatred and propaganda is just allowing more propaganda.

The far rw alreay knows her crap, the left is immune, but there is a percentage out there that follows politics loosely and hears buzz words and takes them to heart.

She would have been something to expose, after President Obama thanked the newly elected strong Democratic majority in Congress!

[Left Is Write]

112. We'd like her to be voted OUT the same day Obama is voted IN.

There's no reason to let her get re-elected and expose her later.

Her appearance on Hardball tonight raised tens of thousands of dollars for her opponent, and that's a GOOD thing. Her lunatic views will turn off all but the 20-percenters. Those who follow politics "loosely" are unlikely to be watching Hardball anyway.

[bluedawg12]

122. Good point- I just got so pissed off at her bull shi*t

that I couldn't bear to hear her rotting, hateful, divisive speech.

She has a prior history- blaming minorities for the greed on Wall Street.

[ecstatic]

113. does matthews only let loose on men? we've all seen him do it-

destroy someone who deserves it and /or destroy a good person simply to be a bully. but I don't recall seeing him do it to a woman before. (sorry my shift button is acting up)

[Jennicut]

115. Tweety was great. Give em enough rope and let them hang themselves.

Anyone who does not realize that Tweety wants Obama to win is naive. He won't come out and say it and he may say stupid stuff now and then but it is clear throughout this election season that he is excited by Obama. He wanted to see that nutball make a fool of herself and she did.

[HardWorkingDem]

116. Again, people like her should not be given free, unchallenged, alone air time...

I am stunned so many DUers are under the perception that this woman was "exposed" in the best way. As I stated in the OP, yes, he let her yak on and show her ignorance, but people who think otherwise, instead of the Choir here, got to see a rabid, ignorant hate monger get to spew her filth, unchallenged for almost 15 MINUTES.

It does not matter if the next 45 minutes were used to clean up her shit or not. She had 15 minutes of unchallenged time.


Matthews should have told her she was ignorant, full of shit and an embarrassment.

And like I also typed, I have SEEN Matthews put a stop to this sort of thing when people are talking about McCain. I have SEEN it. He will not allow it to happen, but he allows it to happen to Obama.

Bullshit.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

117. Chris has reached what I call the "Popeye point"

He's had all he can stand and he can't stand no more. He gave Eichmann, sorry, Bachmann, all the rope he could feed her so that she would hang herself, and she did. He let her spew all this insane and hateful crap to expose what the Pukes have been reduced to. He, Keith and Rachel buried her for three hours tonight. This was a masterful expose of just how crazy the 'pukes have become and Bachmann was Tweety's star witness.

[MadBadger]

118. People like you need to get over your Tweety hatred, cuz its blinding your judgement

Thats one of the best interviews he has ever done because he just let her hang herself. What the fuck does he have to do for people to believe he's on our side? Give Obama a BJ? No, people like you would complain hes using too much teeth...

[Sugarcoated]

120. I sure hope so

I was so angry watching that hate filled bitch steam was coming out of my nose. I think my husband was a little worried about me, but he kept saying Matthews was doing a good job, I couldn't see it, my judgment was definitely skewed. Even Katrina Vanden Heuvel was livid. I can't remember when I've been this angry over an interview, what a horrible, horrible human being. I hope to God that appearance sinks her.

[HardWorkingDem]

127. People like you should not assume the passions of others...or thoughts..

Guess where this harpy ran to next? Fox, CNN and other places....

He should have slammed her for her damned ignorance, but no, he let her go on and probably turn a few knuckle heads into some fantasy believers...

[progressivebydesign]

119. I was SO disappointed in him! Lately I've been warming to Matthews, but tonight he was awful.

I know that maybe he was trying to let her froth at the mouth to show what an ignorant asshole she was... but I was so upset that he REFUSED to correct her lies!! He told Buchanan that she had a "right to her opinion", but he should have challenged her on that Ayers bullshit. That is what they are going to hammer Obama with for the next two weeks.. create that fear, incite that racism and hatred, and that doubt.

A guy how owns an auto shop where we go our car fixed was saying they day after the debate that Obama made McCain look like he was "like 91 years old and very bad", but he couldn't vote for Obama because "no one knows anything about him!" WTF?? That is going to be their meme... "can you REALLY trust him?"

I have never hated the republicans more than I do right now. I though Bush and Cheney were filthy.. this crop is absolute pigs.

[Fluffdaddy]

121. Matthews Was fantastic

[StrictlyRockers]

123. Michelle Bachman is the problem, not Tweety.

God, she is infuriating. I didn't think the pukes could find a shill who was hatter and wronger than Palin, but there she is.

UGGGGHHHH!!!!

[milkyway]

124. Matthews was admirably restrained. Asked her some very pointed questions, but without histrionics,

that led her to say the media needs to look for un-Americans in Congress. His restraint reminded me of Biden's restraint in the VP debate. Not his nature, but exactly what the situation called for.

And Katrina was great, but she was unable to give a reason refuting Buchanan's comparison of the Weather Underground to the Klan. Matthews had the best answer I've heard on this kind of thing: one group had a good motive but the wrong means, the other group had both the wrong motive and the wrong means. It was one of Tweety's finest moments.

[truthisfreedom]

125. I don't understand why you think this is a bad thing. She needs to be exposed. She needs to seethe

on national television, and let everyone see what a rabid attack dog she is. She's full-blown batshit crazy, and all of us Minnesotans know it. I'm just happy that everyone could get a chance to see what we have to deal with!

This will be a game-changer for the Democratic candidate running against her this year!

[HardWorkingDem]

126. For about the last time....

Yes, she needs to be exposed, but Matthews gave her fifteen minutes of unchallenged time to go on and on with her vile bullshit. He should have hammered her to her face, like he has done others who have spread vile junk against McCain (like questioning his war hero status).

Now, one good thing that I do see is coming from this is the huge outpouring of support for her opponent. So she may have just cut her own nose off in spite of her face.


I just don't think ANY person should be allowed to go out in public and make statements like she did without being confronted.

[Bluebear]

129. My god, I thought he was goading and leading her perfectly!

YMMV

[Quantess]

130. Are you serious? I think he did the interview well.

He let her ramble her craziness like a lunatic standing on a soap box. He made her stay on topic, so that she was able to completely express her insane thoughts about anti-American liberals. What did you want him to do, shut her up? That wouldn't have been a good interview.

Honestly, I think she made Chris Matthews tired. He looked like he was sick of her, and who wouldn't be!

[FVZA_Colonel]

131. Well, if it is any consolation Tinklenberg has received $83,141 via ActBlue,

which is up from about $2,500 at the start of the day.

[grantcart]

134. here is the Matthews interview

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=218085&mesg_id=218085

[rufus dog]

135. Settle down on the Matthew stuff

Think about it logically.

He probably got taken to the woodshed for the Democratic Convention and his and Keith's perceived bias. He gets booted from the top chair and replaced by Gregory the tool.

If you watched him all week he pushed this same line of questioning on every McCain Surrogate, waiting for one of them to be ignorant enough to clearly but irrationally state their thoughts. He couldn't do this by making them overly defensive, he had to do it exactly the way he did. He also covered his ass with Brokaw and any other assholes up the chain that told him to back off. He wasn't aggressive, he asked direct questions and outed a crazy delusional bitch, and can walk in his Monday meetings and look the other assholes in they eye with a smirk on his face. If they are pissed TOO FUCKING BAD, he can say "you had a crazy delusional bitch questioning the patriotism of over 1/2 of the population followed by a crazy racist prick defending her by trying to make a David Duke comparison, why the hell do you book these crazies?"

[Awsi Dooger]

136. LOL a billion times over

That was a masterful performance by Matthews. I just saw it and I'm in awe. He maintained the most wonderfully stoic hintless facial expression and never changed his tone. His questions were wonderfully simple. Bachmann willingly marched smack over the edge, totally clueless she was in any peril.

In previous years I've seen Matthews perfect that little smirk of his in similar circumstance, and raise his voice in mocking fashion, essentially telling the guest to wise up.

He deserves an Emmy.

[rufus dog]

138. Final argument

So I am getting text messages and emails from fucking nuts all day long. How can you have an Obama sign in your yard, Obama is a terrorist, on and on.

One friend is a complete nut job, sends an email stating the whole economic crisis is due to Carter, Clinton, Maxine Waters, and Barney Frank. I send short responses back, he keeps going nuts. I send him the link to the Matthews/Bachmann interview, along with comments about how his repuke party is completely screwed up and under the control of the Christian right. His response:

At first glance she looked kinda hot......kinda like sarah palin with her glasses off......until the sound came on.....im glad the windows are shut in my apartment right now or i would have jumped out of the window after watching that video....holy cow what a loon.

McCain's an idiot, but Obama is dead ass wrong right now on how to fix the economy, he's definitely a very smart guy, and a quick learner, and hopefully he also has the balls to figure out the right answers and adapt, and I think he might, and if he surrounds himself with some good people, and distances himself from Pelosi, Reid, and Kennedy, and runs his own show it might be okay.........My gut tells me that Obama is definitely smart enough, to actually arrive at the correct answers with the right people in place. I get the sense he is saying what he needs to right now to win, and then we see some good decisions later on. He needs to throw those other assholes out and not listen to them, like Pelosi. I ordering my Rosseta "French" language software now.....


I rest my case.

[RBInMaine]

144. No, he was actually good. He slyly sucked her right into her crazy answers. She killed HERSELF.