So.....about that Tweety "Tea Party" Special on MSNBC.....

[FrenchieCat]

I was going to watch it, and saw the first few minutes,
and then I noticed a picture that may have been stolen from
the Obama inauguration or some other gathering was used to
look like a tea party rally (a totally packed like sardine Washington Mall? don't think so),
and so I decided to turn it off.

In thinking about it, I realized that Chris Matthews had much to do with promoting these hate groups
during the run up to the Health Care reform vote, and now he is exploiding something
he helped create with a special. Yes, Mr. Chris I-forgot-that-Obama-was-Black Matthews!

Sorry, but I cannot help promote that kind of manufactured shit,
as I know that a lot of it will be "Made up", since Chris will
conveniently ignore his and the rest of the media's role in
giving these haters a platform and promotional hour upon hours
of free air time, including the pumping up of the numbers of
these racist assholes.

Can't do it.

The next time, they'll manufacture something else,
and then try again to profit from it.

Nope.

Don't want any part of that.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Those who happened to be watching can convey what they are seeing,

I'd appreciate if you could post your impressions here.

I was curious, just feel compelled not to allow myself to participate.

[rufus dog]

2. Watching - only because I am burned out on work

But that has been the only BS to date.

And that truly was a WTF moment usually reserved for Fox News. No way was it a slip up, and no way someone in a production meeting didn't raise a stink!

[monmouth]

4. Me neither and I do have another observation. Matthew's voice, his

cadence is totally wrong for a documentary-type show like this. The images of the Michigan Militia were excellent but the voice/cadence and nasally twang was so wrong. I went back to Leroy Jethro Gibbs...

[AlinPA]

19. Good point about his voice - it sounds like an ad to me, like he is celebrating the teabaggers and

their leaders.

[Cha]

27. I love Gibbs..

Both of them.:)

I think we had this discussion before, monmouth.:hi:

[monmouth]

29. We are consistent aren't we?.....LOL...n/t

[Cha]

30. Consistent in a few things..I finally

got my son turned on to it. He had gotten into his head that he didn't like it but I always thought he would if he gave it a chance and he spent Sunday off the computer watching a NCIS Marathon:bounce::)

[Nancy Waterman]

32. Cha and monmoth - I am a total NCIS addict

I got so mad at the endless carping on Olberman tonight, I went straight back to Gibbs.
I also skipped the Hardball teaparty event and watched Gibbs for that too. Nice to know I have company!

[Cha]

35. Too cute,

Nancy! What's not to love? Good writing(it's a dramedy), great acting, adorable characters and there's years of reruns that I can watch over and over 'cause they're like family.:P

[Nancy Waterman]

40. Like family - exactly!!

Every night at least one episode, sometimes two. I watch them over and over. But it is new for me to dump Olberman for Gibbs. That is new, but I am so tired of the same old, same old.

[monmouth]

51. Wish I was a redhead....LOL....n/t

[GentryDixon]

22. I watched until that disgusting

Dick Armey was previewed.

These people are poisonous. I told my husband I would watch murder and mayhem over Armey, so I turned it to NCIS reruns.

[akbacchus_BC]

45. Sorry Frenchie, cannot bring myself to watch that crap ,,,, just another

diatribe about right americans being wronged, just because President Obama got elected.

The worms who came out of the woood work are disgusting!

[saracat]

3. Some keep sticking their fingers in their ears.God forbid any new information should slip in.

I would think exposing teabaggers might be of interest. I wasn't aware that if the person doing so didn't agree with every blessed thing some think, it invalidated forever anything that might be discovered. Some would have rejected the Pentagon papers because they didn't like Ellsberg. I KNOW many would rather Watergate never have been brought to light because they now hate Helen Thomas. Without her, Nixon would never have resigned. Petty is as petty does.

[vaberella]

6. No need to be mean. But I do think it's worth watching.

:hi:

[HughMoran]

37. nasty again!

:wtf:

[vaberella]

5. I knew I saw that scene before. Ugh...Tweety. It's playing like the creation of Timothy McVeigh.

There's a lot of wannabes out there. However, yes he did conflate their numbers. But in a way it's good because it makes those of us fear and become proactive to stop their expansion...so I let the picture thing slide.

[rufus dog]

7. Understand the motivation angle

But it is still wrong and borders on propaganda.

[FrenchieCat]

8. Borders? I think it is exactly propaganda.

Regardless of the "agenda", information should be made up....
and small groups shouldn't be made to appear larger than they are....
certainly not by those who call themselves a news channel, anyways.

[rufus dog]

12. LOL

I guess that would be like saying that Ensenada is on the US Border. 60 miles is a bit too far to claim ignorance of what Country you are in.

[vaberella]

13. I know. However the greater load of the show does incite a sense of urgency from our part. n/t

[Uzybone]

9. Watching it and not impressed

same ol same ol. M$M blowhard overstating the importance of RW kooks.

[FrenchieCat]

10. They never did a documentary about the Left during the run up to the war,

did they?

Wonder why?

[jefferson_dem]

11. Meh.

Other than Rachel, MSNBC is not even worth the time invested.

[AlinPA]

14. 7:35 PM, and it still sounds like Matthews is doing propaganda for the teabaggers.

[rufus dog]

15. The housewife from Brazil was classic!

She might be a Democrat, but she would prefer W over Obama!

[flpoljunkie]

16. Speaking of Rand Paul, Tweety. How 'bout that rug!

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul addresses a luncheon meeting of the Lions Club in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, May 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

[rufus dog]

17. Here comes the Litmus Test - a segment on Glenn Beck

If he tries to represent him as anything other than bat shit crazy then he fails.

"I'll take arrogant Bat Shit Crazy assholes for $1000 Alex!" "WHO IS GLENN BECK" Um you have to wait until we ask the question.

[bigwillq]

18. Not watching it (nt)

[bigwillq]

42. or is this thread not about my issues?

:shrug: I don't know.

[FrenchieCat]

49. Stop messing with me!

This thread is exactly about everyone's take on this cable created Tweety "I forget about race, so I have to always remind myself, and you by the way" docudrama! :)

[Robeson]

20. Too much Dick Armey for me. I turned it off.

[otohara]

38. Thanks For Heads Up

This is bad timing for Tweety - the baggers are fading and nobody seems to care much anymore. I'm recording, but won't watch now that I've read some comments.

Dick Armey is an ASSHOLE - too much hate/stupidity - why relive last summer?

[patrice]

21. Chris Mathews is stupid.

[otohara]

23. I Await The DU Consensus

before I'll spend an hour watching the folks that HATE us!

[demhistorian]

24. I thought it was fascinating.

It might be easy to draw parallels to the New Left, but the 60s progressive movement was never this organized and entrenched. Same level of anger at the establishment, though, if for different reasons.

[newspeak]

41. well, the reason they're organized is because they are a

FAUX created organization. Why do you think the corporate media gives them so much attention? Hundred of thousands of people marched for peace against the war, millions all over the world. Barely a blip on our media. We had a teabagger rally near my town and the media made sure that you knew where, when it was going to be. It's like come and join the teabaggers--so, you really think this is a grassroots movement or a group who is being fronted by big business and repukes. Now some of those teabaggers just love deregulation, "buyer beware", type of business because ya'll know that government is bad, government can't do anything right. We just got to give all of those services to big business, because they really are interested in our welfare.

The progressive movement of the sixties had more people in the streets, like the peace rallies before Iraq, and they sure knew what the hell they were fighting for.

[AlinPA]

25. After running his teabagger ad for 29 minutes, he flips to warn us about Oklahoma City

and how violence can be done when people get rabid (redeeming himself somewhat and actually getting a bit of forgiveness from me!).

[Cha]

26. That is a good first clue that they got their

propaganda teabagger machine in full tilt.

[Top Cat]

28. I could not watch that Ass Chris Matthews

He is aiming for increased ratings maybe from the teabaggers.

[NatBurner]

31. totally fucking boring and forgiving

went on and on about how the tpm is about "spending" and "taxes" and "tyranny", and never mentioned the giant negro-hating elephant in the room

they even showed multiple clips of the notable chocolaty motisa alan keyes saying stupid shit about obama just to drive that unmentioned point home

fuck two thumbs down; i give it the finger

[Towlie]

33. So no more ads with Rand Paul droning Ben Stein-like, "I have a message for America..."?

Horray!

I have a message for Rand Paul: Your village called, they want their idiot back.

[UpInArms]

34. Tweety loved dimson's packed panties on the Mission Accomplished run and

then he declared that "we are all neocons now" after Shock and Awe.

What a pig.

I spit in his general direction.

[madmom]

36. First documentary (that I know of) to make you lose IQ points.

[David Zephyr]

39. I won't watch it. He's giving the racists what they want: attention and creds.

It's like everyone has forgotten that the "tea party" was fabricated by Roger Ailes and company. Sarah Palin, their "star" is a Fox employee.

I have no idea what his show will be about, but the promos did it for me. He's stirring a pot that should not be stirred. And he knows better.

[Tarheel_Dem]

43. Couldn't bear to watch Tweety spit all over the camera. But from what

I've read about him here, it seems that he's itching for an Obama v. Palin election. I think he'll be promoting this crap endlessly.

[Crunchy Frog]

44. Tried to watch it, but fell asleep during.

No depth or analysis at all that I could tell. Rachel's coverage is much better.

[Beaverhausen]

46. my husband watched the whole thing- said it was good and made teabaggers look nuts

I was at work. I'm recording it to watch later on.

[Awsi Dooger]

47. That was my impression also

Well done, made them look nuts without being blatantly sarcastic, and saved the biggest nut job for last, the internet radio guy.

Better than I expected from Matthews. He used just the right amount of historical references, but needed more analysis of how this era differs, other than more easily voiced through the internet and FOX News.

[and-justice-for-all]

48. Those assholes get enough air time, WAY to much air time...nt

[The Wizard]

50. He gave them too much respect

but on the other hand Alex Jones came off like a paranoid schizophrenic high on coke.