Chris Matthews mocks panelist for bringing up Iraq

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in a discussion of John McCain.

Check out 7:45 if you're interested: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/

It's a relatively lighthearted discussion of McCain, but there's nothing at all out of line with what Ed Schultz says here. All he says is that, in response to a question about whether McCain might not have voted for Bush in 2000, Schultz says, who cares, his Iraq policy is the same.

Then Matthews goes off on him. Says Schultz is no fun, has no sense of humor. Says mockingly that Schultz sounds like he's on NPR. He continues mocking him until the end of the segment, where he tells Schultz to lighten up.

Matthews tries to make it sound like he's just playing around having fun, but he really is mocking Schultz and I think it does mean something. Schultz laughed along, and it looks like he won't make the mistake of mentioning Iraq when the host doesn't feel like it and risk looking "uptight" in front of Tweety. This does not say a lot about Schultz to me, by the way.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Good catch...

...without a real sense of humour, the GOP laugh at inappropriate times.

Someone needs to call him on his psychopathic behavior.

[liberal N proud]

2. Tweety always laughs at the guest when they don't stick to his script

That is his tool to minimize the dissent

[Sam07]

3. Conversely, just now on Morning Joe

Tweety called out Craig Crawford for being in the tank for Hillary... he's in a serious mood today (and obviously rooting for Obama).

[NNN0LHI]

9. Tweety has said Mccain deserved to be president in the past

I doubt he he rooting for Obama.

Don

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4. it's interesting that Tweety bills himself as being against the war

and criticizes the media for its coverage of it.

But then he attacks a guest for merely mentioning it, in a discussion of the presidential election.

I agree, it is a tool, and so is he.

If you want to be one of the Kool Kidz, you don't talk about Iraq too much.

[hokies4ever]

6. Tweety's gone off the deep end

I hadn't watched him much before this primary season, but he's clearly not operating on all cylinders. I think he makes other guests uncomfortable because they're obviously thinking the same thing. I remember one time he asked an absurd question about a serious issue to Rachel Maddow and she did one of her short laughs to start off her answer. Her laugh was clearly to show a slight bit of disdain about the absurdity of the question and not the seriousness of the issue. Yet Tweety yelled at her, "What's so funny?!?" You could clearly see that Rachel Maddow was thinking, "This man has a TV show and I don't?" And to think that this man wants to be a PA senator.

[Frustratedlady]

5. Too many of these hosts lack the ability to listen to others.

They just want a sounding board so they can give their view and have someone to argue with. Chris and Lou Dodds are rude. I can't even watch Dodds anymore.

Does Dodd have a short-circuit? He'll say 4-5 words and stumble over the next, so he has to pause and/or find another word he can say. I think he must have had a stroke a couple months ago. He was gone for a while and came back with this problem.

[Echo In Light]

7. It's not their job to listen, and they only have "safe" guests that they needn't worry about...

...saying anything that isn't "safe," scripted, acceptable, a given cliche-talking point, etc. That's the entire point of the corporate media.

[hokies4ever]

8. Lou Dobbs is an idiot

I came to that conclusion after just watching a couple of his shows. His on-air chemistry with even his on reporters looks very shoddy. You can tell that he's like O'Reilly in the sense that they both have monstrous egos. Lou Dobbs comes across as someone with heavy ideology who's pissed that hardly anybody agrees with him.

[ashling]

10. Says mockingly that Schultz sounds like he's on NPR.

And this is bad how , exactly? :shrug:

[KharmaTrain]

11. Remember...We're The "Elitists"

Tweety thinks he's the "common man"...whatever pops into his short attention span theater brain and "conventional wisdom" tell him all he needs to know...no matter how wrong he is. Tweety lives in the beltway fishbowl of impress and be impressed...power and money are the do-all, end-all and politics in general is treated like a bloodsport. Tweety's been in the bowl too long...his "radar" has long picked up Martian ICBMs. Schultz sits out in Fargo...outside the fishbowl...a different place that Tweety has no clue about.