Tweety on NBC saying the media has an Obligation

[saracat]

to call Cheney on his lies. He is hammering away and talking about video of Cheney and Edwards together on Meet the Press! He is yammering about the Sadamn Osama link lie too and that video. Says media should make and issue of this. What did he drink last night? He certainly is doing a 360 this morning.Says Edwards won on domestic issues. Weird. What gives?

[Maestro]

1. Well

he sure let Scarborough show some lovin' to Cheney last night while hardly anything on how well JE did or maybe I missed that part.

[jayfish]

2. He Was Thinking With The Wrong Head After The Debate-NT-

Jay

[realFedUp]

3. maybe he should adjust his meds

well, that's what happens when you
only have the White House talking points
and have to give some kind of response
right after these are finished.

Any intelligent person would have said there
wasn't enough time to go over point by
point everything said and what was true
and false.

[aquart]

4. Rat. Sinking ship?

I'd like to believe he's throwing himself overboard before he goes down with them.

[Supersedeas]

31. My thoughts more succinctly expressed

[ProfessorPlum]

5. The media should debunk politician lies?

Has Tweety been watching the Daily Show? What ever could give him that idea?

[krkaufman]

14. Stewart: "Chris Matthews for once actually playing 'hardball'"

(following the Zell Miller RNC interview on 'Hardball')

Matthews better be careful; he's dangerously close to actual journalism.

[bloom]

26. It would be awesome

if more journalists would follew Stewert's suggestions (like those he made on the Charlie Rose show - journalists moderating for truth). And actually competed with each other in search of the truth.

:bounce:

[ProfessorPlum]

32. Yeah - everyone acts like what JS is advocating

is revolutionary. I suppose it is, in today's environment.

But that's what the media actually used to do. Try to sort out the truth. That really isn't such an earth shattering idea, or it shouldn't be.

[mmonk]

6. Maybe he has someone overseeing his show

but feels emboldened on other shows?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. or maybe tweety is the final throes of personality desintegration (nt)

[RoundRockD]

7. I could not believe what I was hearing on MSNBC last night after..

the debate. I thought John Edwards was very effective and strong. I had to turn the channel as soon as they started drooling over Cheney's performance. How in the world could they say that Cheney clobbered Edwards?

[MidwestTransplant]

8. I think he runs his mouth without considering facts

and then is later forced to confront them and changes his mind accordingly.

[blitzen]

9. i guess he read my e-mail!!! lol

This is what I sent him last night:

Subject: Ha Ha ...Edwards won!
You guys are amusing with your feeble attempt to keep Bush in the race with a predetermined spin that Chee-ney won because of gravitas! Face it: the people preferred Edwards! And while you're licking your wounds, why don't you track down some of Chee-ney's lies? At least then you would be reporting news rather than trying to shape it.

[Brotherjohn]

10. I watched very little last night. But he was onto it then, asking Leahy...

... (the Sen. who was the recipient of Cheney's foul mouth) if that was even POSSIBLE, to be head of the Senate for almost 4 years and NEVER even meet each one of the Senators.

Leahy was pointing out that Cheney meets with the Republican Senate leadership weekly, but not the Dems. He said this was unlike every other VP ever.

I don't know if they managed to get video by last night, but the whole thing was shaping up to make Cheney look pretty bad. Matthews just could not buy that what Cheney said was true.

[krkaufman]

16. Dems need Leahy to hit the talk circuit.

Cheney needs to be underscored as a big "part of the problem."

[Booster]

28. I think I'm the only one who saw Chris interview the

Republican Attorney Ben Ginsberg. Chris lit into him about Cheney saying he never said Iraq was connected to 9/11, and pointed out that NBC had tape of Cheney doing just that. By the end of the interview, Ginsberg was sputtering and at a loss for words because they had been caught red-handed with a blatant lie. Chris was very good with this idiot.

[ClassWarrior]

12. Tweety flip-flopped!!!

23.

[apnu]

13. Is Tweety changin' his spots again?

Last night he slobbered on Cheney so much, that he was about a second away from pulling out his manhood for a couple of strokes. It was that disgusting!

Now he's calling Cheney on BS?!?! WTF?!?! The chameleon must be working over time!

[marlakay]

15. I guess he saw the polls after his show!

Real news at its best! Why we blog...

[ewagner]

17. Group-think

Picture this:

Pre-debate blather declares that Cheney is going to rip Edwards a new one, talking heads sitting together watching the debate, Scarborough starts raving about Cheney "mopping the floor" with Edwards, Mitchell joins in, Newsweek guy doesn't want to object, Tweety joins the pile-on. By the time they get back on the air they are in full feeding frenzy and only Ron Reagan objects (in a mild-mannered way).

I don't know if this scenario is true but I suspect something similar to that happened.

[madaboutharry]

29. Exactly

Tweety and Scarborough looked like they were leading a locker room circle jerk.

Andrea Mitchell is a fool today after she went on last night about how devastating it was for Sen. Edwards when Cheney pointed out that "they had never met before tonight." Ooops.

These people on tv are mediocre non-thinkers. Sen. Edwards is right, we deserve better.

[txindy]

36. Andrea Mitchell needs to start thinking

When the *ies are out of office and they try to spin the economy for some future candidate, they are likely to blame Mitchell's husband just as much as the Democrats. She's a fool. To be kind. ;)

Once JK gets into office, Greenspan will come to admire his mind as much as he appreciated Clinton's. Finally, someone who understands what the heck he's talking about! LOL!

[NYCGirl]

18. Olbermann scored it for Cheney last night, too

but changed the outcome for this morning. And he's hardly a White House shill.

Sometimes a fast decision isn't the right one, I guess.

Edited to add link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

35. But that's the real point, Cheney WOULD have won were he not caught in TWO

MAJOR lies on TWO of his major points..now he looks like a LIAR because he said they never met and he looks INCOMPETENT since one would expect him to KNOW it to be true before he used it to sink a blow. :-)

[Teaser]

19. Pollwhore.

Like Paula Zahn, Tweety's opinion of someone depends on their standing in the polls.

That Chris Matthews, he sure loves a good polling.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. I think Tweety realized his audience overwhelmingly disagrees with him

I think the hundreds of thousands who went on his website to indicate their feelings that Edwards won the debate might have had something to do with his sudden and untimely coming to his senses. I also imagine he got a lot of e-mails calling him far worse things than "Tweety" last night.

[MADem]

21. HE THOUGHT HE WAS TAKING COLD MEDICINE

..but in actual fact, he mistakenly took a few pills from Rush Limbaugh's hidden stash.

He's looking like a nitwit, and he knows it. Anyone who wants to vent should send him a little note to [e-mail] -- when you call him an idiot, or a weak reporter who takes GOP spin at face value without doing his own research, do it nicely!

But DO do it!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

22. It's Chris "Mirror Universe" Matthews speaking today.

I think he's either possessed half of the time, or there's an alternate universe, and that Tweety escaped into ours today.

[central scrutinizer]

23. as a math instructor, I must interject

You probably meant to say "he certainly is doing a 180 this morning." Bushco has done a 360 on the recession, however.

[ReadTomPaine]

24. My take, with a grain of salt...

I don't like Matthews very much, but he's not happy with Bush. My guess is that they are planning to call the next debate, in many ways Bush's last real stand in these confrontations, for Kerry.

To do this credibly, they need to have the appearance of balance so they gave the less strategically important debate to Cheney (Who Chris likes more than Bush).

RTP

[guntherconcept]

25. Full CYA Mode

So typical. He's a whore, and the truth of this can be seen in the way he and his ilk rep reatedly try to push certain story lines, and then reverse course when it's apparent that they're out of touch with reality. Last night was supposed to be "gravitas vs inexperience", or "experienced leadership vs pretty-boy", and the spin came out accordingly to support that pre-conceived plot. Now that it seems that (a) most polls show that people believe Edwards either won or held his own, and (b) evidence proves that Cheney lied, Matthews tries to adjust course, jump on the bandwagon, whatever. What a bunch of creeps.

[redstateblues]

27. Your analysis is dead on- I used to watch Matthews and since

I have shed myself of the nasty habit, it's easier to see his tactics more clearly. Fuck him- all he cares about is money.

[makhno]

30. I was somewhat surprised last night

After close to an hour of promoting the Cheney-as-authority-figure nonsense together with his panel, Matthews ripped hard into a couple of republican slimeballs. It reminded me of the bit with Malkin, when he literally reduced to her to tears after she spouted some nonsense about Kerry shooting himself to get out of the service.

He strikes me as more of a Buchanan type populist rather than a fundamentalist/corporatist republican of W's ilk.

[annabanana]

33. bipolar..........only possible explanation

He changes sides so often he's screwed himself just about into the molten center of the earth

[DURHAM D]

34. His wife spanks him about his b***sh*t when he gets home.

I have heard him make the comment that she really calls him out.

As for Tweety, Joe and Mrs. Greenspan, I think they get a real rush when they are in the presence of a bully. They were so excited that their brains quit functioning. I am serious.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

37. I think you are right, they like bullies

They did seem so strangely excited, like a bunch of immature people ganging up some person they don't like.