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UTUSN

(70,696 posts)
Tue Nov 28, 2017, 11:14 PM Nov 2017

Tweety had an outbreak of his default misogyny in WARREN's face

I did my saturation monitoring of Tweety during the '90s through the Iraq Attack, and skipped off him when he supposedly turned on Shrub-CHEENEE in '06? or so, and afterwards couldn't quite swallow his rehabilitated self for OBAMA.

So back when, misogyny was a wink wink, smirk smirk thing among the old style flunkies like him, there were many examples of his, towards HRC for years until she was becoming a real contender.

But here's a vignette from back in the day, regarding his wife Kathleen. He deigned to host her or let her co-host a segment or so, this time with him and another recycled miscreant Mike BARNICLE. She was standing like at the front of a class and they two were sitting like smirking, spit-balling, Catholic schoolboy-jerks that they really are. She trudged through her presentation, taking her subject seriously while the two of them smirked and mocked all the way.

But here's one sign/characteristic of misogynists: They claim to adore, honor, put-on-a-pedestal women despite the hostile behaviors they demonstrate. And Tweety frequently does that over-compensating, protests-too-much thing by referring to her as, "MY QUEEN."

*************So tonight, besides a manic outburst of his sputtering interrupting, he was hashing over the TWITLER "Pocahontas" atrocity, but almost giggled every time he said that name, catching himself each time then protesting that it was a horrible thing.

So then he hosted WARREN, who was upbeat and on the high road about it all (for the umpteenth time), while Tweety was struggling to control his giggling every time the word was mentioned (more often than not by him), like Beavis/Butthead giggling at a dirty word. So WARREN went on talking about the bad tax bill, how much it was going to hurt anybody not in the Super Rich, and that TWITLER was not going to silence her, that she would be out there talking the real issues no matter what TWITLER said.

So then he struck, like when he lashed out at DONAHUE. While she was wrapping up her points, he was in bursting giggle mode, and said, "So, for you 'Pocahontas' will be like a clarion call for you to come charging out!1" and he busted his gut. WARREN looked sucker punched.

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Tweety had an outbreak of his default misogyny in WARREN's face (Original Post) UTUSN Nov 2017 OP
Tweety is an idiot SharonClark Nov 2017 #1
You stated a phrase that defines my perception of Tweety tech3149 Nov 2017 #2
Well said. As a lapsed Cath, I reserve my personal privilege to criticize my erstwhile self. UTUSN Nov 2017 #3

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
1. Tweety is an idiot
Tue Nov 28, 2017, 11:43 PM
Nov 2017

He did badger her about whether she was happy with the Democratic leadership on the tax bill. He practically accused her of not having people in the streets protesting the tax bill, because if he doesn't see something 'visually', as he said, it means nothing is happening. I thought Warren paused a minute before responding to his nonsense, but she did well.

tech3149

(4,452 posts)
2. You stated a phrase that defines my perception of Tweety
Tue Nov 28, 2017, 11:56 PM
Nov 2017

Catholic schoolboy jerk He turned me off years ago as too self impressed to understand any other perspective.

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