Hardball has completely gone right wing -=-- Right now he has

[Jon8503]

Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson and Rita Cosby on and they are bashing dems good.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. 20 bucks will get you good press with these non-thinking parrots..

they are fretting now because Blum's book has moved to 37th.... cutting it up, labeling it anti-American. In other words.. Americans are too stupid to read and understand the book for themselves, they will read it (figuratively) evaluate it and pass judgement on it for you all in the matter of 30 second soundbites.

[AX10]

17. What Matthews, Carlson, Scarbourough, and Cosby are doing...

is not better than what Hitler, Stalin, Pol-Pot, and Milosvich did. All of them are demonizing their "opponents" with pure and blatent propaganda.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

20. It was quite whorish to say the least. nt.

[pdxmom]

2. This is the most blatant one-sided hatchet job I've ever seen

Why the heck do you need 4 people on all agreeing and saying the same things? And it's so biased. Un-freakin'-believable.

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

27. listened to the opening statements of the 3 media whores

and changed the channel immediately.

Joe,Tucker and the FOX Blond (no offense to normal blonds), this is CNN's idea of balanced journalism???

:argh:

[Bluzmann57]

3. Stop watching it!

Stop watching it before you fry your brain. And besides that, they don't need the ratings.

[LSparkle]

10. I'm with you ... NO MORE

Not after the recent wall-to-wall focus on Hillary's "plantation" remarks while ignoring other critical political stories (like how many times and with who did ol' Abramoff meet at the White Haus). I AM SICK AND TIRED OF TWEETY AND HIS FUCKING MOODSWINGS! Today's he's center-left, the next day he's hard-right, the next he's libertarian ... GIMME A BREAK, YOU ASSMUNCH!

[Guckert]

4. Pretty un- biased, Huh. *BARF*

WHy cant Usama and the rest of the world leaders all have the same view of Bush?? he is the most corrupt, arrogant, inept, leader on this planet today.
Chris has hit a new LOW today.

Maybe Monday he will have AL Franken, Michael Moore, and Alan Colmes on? NOT.

[Servotron]

48. Alan Colmes would agree with the Repuke talking points

Hell, Franken would probably agree with half of them.

[Syrinx]

5. Scarborough says bin Laden tape will help Bush get more power

Carlson says bin Laden's words come from the Democratic playbook.

Interesting they don't mention the observation by the expert on Leher last night that the speech appeared to have been written in English and translated to Arabic.

Hmmm.

[Guckert]

9. Because it shows how he is still breathing after killing 3,000 of our

own people. I don't get how this would help Bush at all . Why dont they play the dead or alive quote from the COWARD in Chief.

[LSparkle]

16. You shoulda seen Rachel Maddow last night

She was ready to have a coronary the way Fucker was comparing the Dems' positions with what was on the OBL tape. I used to watch FC just to catch Rachel, but I doubt she'll be gifting him with her presence much in the future ...

[Syrinx]

46. Rachel's not a regular anymore?

When that show first came on, I watched it sometimes mainly because of her. But I stopped because they changed the timeslot so that it conflicted with Nightline/Letterman.

[Sparkly]

6. They aren't even pretending anymore.

I saw it, too. :puke:

[movonne]

7. I think this has to do with all the scandals and elections. the white

has put out the word no liberal talk.. just like the run-up to this war..

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. Rita Crosby

sounds like the cafeteria lady at school when I grew up. She dished out food and smoked at the same time. Those were the days, huh?

[stopbush]

12. Rita has a voice for the print media...

sort of like bush saying people have "a face for radio"...

[LittleClarkie]

13. I'd like to know how a woman with a voice like that got a job in tv

I mean, she can barely talk.

[FreedomAngel82]

26. I guess they were desperate

[goclark]

30. Maybe she "knows" somebody really well

She must because she is pitiful, as are all the ret of them!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Ever since Iraq "elections" it's as if a switch has been thrown (Hardball)

I don't watch this anymore, but read about it here. I DID see the Iraq elections coverage, where Matthews was suggesting that perhaps shrub deserved to be on Mt. Rushmore... Ever since then, instead of the usual vacillating back and forth, it seems like it's been all kneepads for shrub all the time, for Matthews...

Around that time he must have gotten the phone call from Rove reminding him they had pics of him, or tapes from their "NSA surveillance" of him, or he received his latest check.

[emulatorloo]

24. agreed, I think Rove has something on Tweety

have been following the Chris Matthews saga for a while, and I am pretty sure that Rove has threatened him/has some incriminating material on him.

[Ilsa]

14. I stopped watching tweety. No moe until he calls for

W's impeachment and admits he was a rw shill.

Bastards. goddam bastards.

[WinkyDink]

29. Same here. He used to be SOP at my house.

NO MORE!!

[Daphne08]

15. Complain. Send an email to Hardball. I just did!

Those were revolting comments and an insult to half this country!

[LSparkle]

19. Good for you! I cancelled myself off the "Hardball" mailings

months ago when MSRNC loaded up their brand-spankin' new primetime lineup with Faux wannabes. I still dip in occasionally to their programming but after yesterday and today, I think I'm going to need to detox myself again. Oh if only CNN had kept Aaron Brown and not put on AC360 for 2 hours ... All I can say is thank God for C-Span (the only honest network left).

[otohara]

32. I Will Never, Ever Watch That POS Prick Again

that's it! I think today's right-wing show of force was to back up POS for his remark yesterday about Michael Moore. My god - all right-wing pundits, what the fuck?

[AlCzervik]

18. No Olbermann? I guess Tweety was be scared for Bush and he needs

the yes men around him to soothe his asskissing brow.

[LSparkle]

21. I thought the same thing but Keith probably couldn't bear to be with them

Afraid he might catch something ... like STUPIDITY!

[AlCzervik]

25. i bet you're right, he wouldn't want to lower himself.

[Berry Cool]

40. No, the reason Keith wasn't on with them is because his show wasn't canned

on Friday nights, as theirs were.

Rick Kaplan at MSNBC made the decision a couple of weeks ago to dump Rita, Joe and Tucker from the Friday night lineup in favor of running "inside notorious prisons" documentaries and BTK Killer crap and the like. This stuff gets big ratings on the weekends so he decided that maybe it would get better ratings on Fridays. Tweety and Keith got to keep airing on Fridays but the rest of the gang was cut off.

At the time, Kaplan said they'd be available to other shows. Obviously this is what he meant (yuk). He's had to give them this gig as a sop. Unfortunately it means stacking the deck with nothing but bozos and attempting to pass them off as "Hot Shots." Please...

[Karmadillo]

22. Wow. This is really bizarre. Very Fox-like. Osama is leftist Dem.

Hillary engages in hate speech. Where did the word come from to go so blatantly right?

[Bluzmann57]

31. Please tell me you're kidding

Did he or they really say that Bin Laden is leftist Dem? That is a disgrace. Even though I haven't watched Matthews for some time, I may have to email him and protest. We should all do the same. In fact, the whole network should be contacted, since they had a whole gang of them on.

[Karmadillo]

37. They repeatedly noted Bin Laden was spouting (my word) the

"leftist" Democratic line. They referred to Michael Moore, John Kerry (I think), and Ted Kennedy as speaking similarly. It was really, really bizarre.

[Armstead]

39. Not kidding --- They really said that

It's the new Republican/media line.

I e-mailed MSNBC to complain. You should too

[FreedomAngel82]

23. Anybody who shouts

"liberal media!" always gets a freakin yell from me. Bitches. :mad:

[KoKo]

28. Digby has comments on tonight's show up now...

be sure to scroll down to see his halrious descriptions of Tweety as a "Closet Case" along with transcrips of Tweety and Imus discussing the "maleness" of "Brokeback Mountain." :D

Here's tonights post and commentary:

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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

Friday, January 20, 2006

HOTSHOTS

by digby


So Tweety introduced a new feature today called the "Hardball Hotshots" with Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson and Rita Cosby --- two wingnuts and a babbling tabloid airhead. They all agreed that bin Laden was parroting Michael Moore, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy in his tape yesterday.

No apologies. In fact, quite the opposite. Chris did say that he'd been misunderstood, but he didn't elaborate. They all agreed that it was going to help the president.

(Remind me. Whose side is bin Laden supposed to be on again?)


They also agreed that Hillary was incredibly offensive with her plantation statement. Rita was particularly shocked because she's from the south. No comment yet from anyone in the media about all the prominent Republican references to the "Democratic Plantation." Perhaps those comments aren't offensive because it only refers to African Americans who are supposed to be too stupid to know which party better serves their interests. Hillary was beyond the pale. She accused white southern males of running a plantation. In Limbaugh Nation, that's racist you see.


Hardball:

[phone]

Tell Chris Matthews
what you think.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

[PA Democrat]

44. Call the number.

It is the show's producer's number. I called to let them know that I was a proud Democrat who feels that we never should have gone into Iraq and that we need to get out NOW. I said that to compare people like me to Osama bin Laden was about as low and as despicable as you can get and that I would be contacting their sponsors. I asked what they got in return for carrying water for the slime king Karl Rove.

[Catrina]

47. Ha ha ha! What a bunc h of idiots!! Of course Bin Laden will help Bush if

he can!! That's why there is always a tape when Bush is in trouble!! They are ULTRA stupid!

So, now on the word of Tweety and his hotshots, we can safely say that it has been confirmed. Osama made the tape to help an old family friend!! They're priceless. Thank god you all have the fortitude to watch that garbage, I just am not that brave anymore!

I will not email anyone at MSNBC. Stop the emails, stop watching, boycott their advertisers, and let them sing to the ever-dwindling, rightwing choir they will have to share with Fox, and, btw, the Fox audience is Bush's entire base, and that's not a lot of people.

Oh, and as far as Osama being 'left'? I didn't hear the tape, or read the transcript, I'm not into their federal fairy tales. So, let me get this straight, did Osama say he supports a woman's right to choose? Has he come out in favor of gay marriage?

God what a bunch of idiots. If they lived in I neighborhood I would avoid them like the plague. Why on earth would I invite them into my home?

[Mike Nelson]

33. i saw that and was shocked...

...they didn't even have one of them pretend to be "fair" I see they went big for the honeymoon hunk story, too

[Disturbed]

34. RW Presstitutes are highly paid.

I stopped being a voyer of these porno shows.

[Berry Cool]

41. I think Rita couldn't go a night without mentioning the honeymoon hunk

so she forced Tweety to bring him up as a topic of discussion. Can you believe it???

[SillyGoose]

35. I saw that, too. It was a blatant RW whore fest.

It was disgusting. Why in the world would anyone with half a brain put Rita Crosby on there to discuss politics?? Just before that I was fuming because Tweety covered Rove's speech today bashing dems without even mentioning Dean's rebuttal to Rove. I've emailed Hardball and msnbc about this whole disgusting display even though they don't give a sh* what we think - they got their marching orders.

[Marr]

36. It's always been like that.

Hardball is GOP/corporate trash.

[Jon8503]

38. Another thing. Have you noticed they never mention all the black

leaders such as Barak, Rev Sharpton among others that have come out and supported Hillary in her plantation remark and said they agree with what she said. Isn't it strange that the only ones upset about the remark are wealthy republican so called commentators who have never advocated or done anything for blacks.

It is no accident and without reason that over 90% of the black vote goes to the dems. There is a dam good reason why it occurs.

Also, Cosby & Scarborough's remark about her having to shore up her left base was rather ignorant and just plain stupid.

[Armstead]

42. Here's the e-mail address -- Send him a Nastygram

[e-mail]

[globalvillage]

45. done.

What a disgusting display.

[DemoTex]

43. GE Ho's

Reading the company script.

[lies and propaganda]

49. Tweety is a big POS is Dem-like clothing

He can kiss my ass and i DO NOT understand any legion he has here. He is not FOR us by any means.