In A Three Minute Monologue, Matthews Gushes Over Bush’s ‘Great Neo-Conservative Mind’

[babylonsister]

This was truly...distasteful.


http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/09/matthews-bush-monologue/

In A Three Minute Monologue, Matthews Gushes Over Bush’s ‘Great Neo-Conservative Mind’

Immediately following President Bush’s press conference today, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spent three unbroken minutes fawning over the president’s “powerful rendition” of his “philosophy” without uttering a single critical word. “I thought in listening to the president, I was listening to one of the great neoconservative minds,” gushed Matthews.

Calling Bush “powerful” on three separate occasions, Matthews marveled at the president’s defense of his foreign policy:

We were given a rare opportunity to hear the real philosophy of this administration with regard to the war in Iraq. A powerful rendition by the president of why we’re there. When he talked about the fact that we can support emerging democracies in the Middle East, and that’s the only way we can prevent future 9/11’s, you’re getting to the heart of why this administration is fighting that war in Iraq.

“This president is ready to fight like a rock through the rest of his term,” Matthews proclaimed. “He made it clear that he’s going to fight as long as it takes to develop a democracy in Iraq. There’s not going to be any change come September.”

Watch it at link-see Tweety drool~

Bush’s comments today, which contained at least one untrue assertion, were nothing more than a rehashing of his tired old rhetoric. Yet somehow, Matthews, who is labeled a liberal by partisan conservatives, only saw it through rose-colored glasses.

Matthews’ monologue is unsurprising, however, given his long record of hero worship for Bush and his supposedly “powerful” presidency:

– “We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical.” {5/1/03}

– “Sometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility.” {10/25/05}

– “I like him. Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left.” {11/28/05}

– “A little bit of Lincoln there, I think,” referring to Bush finally admitting that telling Iraqi insurgents to “bring it on” in 2003 “sent the wrong signal to people.” {5/25/06}

Given the president’s track record with the truth on Iraq, Matthews should check his uncritical awe at the door.

[malaise]

1. I turned him off at the beginning and switched to Thirteen

Now I'm watching Bill Moyers on CSpan. Fugg Tweety. He's a hack.

[crikkett]

2. Well, he's in mourning, since that beautiful mind has been melted by lyme disease.

[rodeodance]

3. love does strange tings.

I was listening to one of the great neoconservative minds,” gushed Matthews.

[tularetom]

6. Great neoconservative minds?

A double oxymoron at best.

[LSparkle]

4. Tweety has COMPLETELY sold out - he IS a neocon

He worships BIG BEEFY *STRONG* MEN, bristles at women who *P.W.* their men (example: John/Elizabeth Edwards interview), bullies his guests ... I've watched him for "comic relief" while sucking on a grain of salt up until now but I've HAD IT with him. End of story.

[Gman]

5. Isn't that an oxymoron?

[rodeodance]

7. and here is an example that MIND: THE PRESIDENT: I haven't seen it. We don't torture.

Q Thank you, sir. A two-part question. The New Yorker reports that the Red Cross has found the interrogation program in the CIA detention facilities use interrogation techniques that were tantamount to torture. I'm wondering if you have read that report and what your reaction to it is? And the second part of the question is, more than a year ago you said that you wanted to close the detention facility at Guantanamo, and a year later nothing has actually happened in that regard. And the Vice President, Attorney General and Homeland Security Secretary are reported to be resisting such a move. I wonder if you could tell us who's really in charge on this issue, are you doing anything about it, do you expect Guantanamo to be open or closed when you leave office?

THE PRESIDENT: I did say it should be a goal of the nation to shut down Guantanamo. I also made it clear that part of the delay was the reluctance of some nations to take back some of the people being held there. In other words, in order to make it work, we've got to have a place for these people to go. I don't know if you noticed a resolution of the Senate the other day, where all but three senators said we don't want these prisoners in the country. I don't know if it was a 97-3 vote, but it was something-to-three vote. In other words, part of the issue, Peter, is the practical issue of, what do we do with the people. And you say nothing has taken place. I strongly disagree with that. First of all, we are working with other nations to send folks back. Again, it's a fairly steep order. A lot of people don't want killers in their midst, and a lot of these people are killers.

Secondly, of course, we want to make sure that when we do send them back, they're treated as humanely as possible. The other issue was whether or not we can get people to be tried. One of the things I'm anxious about, want to see happen, is that there to be trials. Courts have been involved with deciding how to do this, and Defense is trying to work out mechanisms to get the trials up and running. And the sooner we can get that up and running, the better it is, as far as I'm concerned. I don't want to make any predictions about whether Guantanamo will be available or not. I'm just telling you it's a very complicated subject.

And I laid out an aspiration. Whether or not we can achieve that or not, we'll try to. But it is not as easy a subject as some may think on the surface. Again, I refer to you to the Senate vote. When asked whether or not you want to shut down Guantanamo, and therefore receive some of those prisoners in your home state, there didn't seem to be a lot of support for it. Like, three people said, it's okay by me, in the Senate.

Your other question, sir?

Q Red Cross report?

THE PRESIDENT: I haven't seen it. We don't torture.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070809-1.html

[bdamomma]

13. oh, just reading what he is trying to say makes me want to do this

:puke: what a liar.

[Buzz Clik]

8. Maybe we're missing the irony.

If Tweety had said that David Duke had a great white supremacist mind, we'd know that he was saying that, among ignorant racist assholes, Duke was the smartest ignorant racist asshole out there.

Perhaps, just perhaps, Tweety was doing the neocon equivalent. All tongue-in-cheek? It's certainly more palatable than nose-in-ass.

[babylonsister]

9. Did you see the video? It was 'nose in ass' time for Tweets. nt

[Buzz Clik]

10. I know. I have no use for Matthews.

Do you know the first time I ever heard Matthews name or heard his voice?

On Limbaugh's show. Limbaugh brought him on to criticize something some Democrat was doing. The Bloated Pig introduced him as a die-hard liberal; the reason of course was to give major creds to the upcoming criticism. My reaction was that there was no way that anyone to the left of Bob Dole would ever appear on Piggy's program.

I have NEVER believed that Matthews was anything but a fake.




Rush Limbaugh: The Bloated Pig Who Learned to Speak into a Microphone

[Buzz Clik]

11. Tweety: "This president is ready to fight like a rock"

Great metaphor, Tweety.

Rocks have been known as rugged:


beautiful:


challenging:


and picturesque:


But they just aren't good fighters.

[book_worm]

12. Bush and great mind in the same sentence!?

[warren pease]

14. A couple of quotes from the commander guy and his love slave...

The commander guy, back in October 2001, showing off his great neo-con mind regarding how to deal with suspicious evil-doers piloting crop dusters of doom:

"Well . . . you know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop duster that doesn't belong to (them), report it. If you see suspicious people lurking around petrochemical plants, report it."


And here's what Matthews said when the commander guy managed to find home plate throwing out a ceremonial first pitch in November 2001:

“There are some things you can't fake. Either you can throw a strike from 60 feet or you can't. Either you can rise to the occasion on the mound at Yankee Stadium with 56,000 people watching or you can't.

“On Tuesday night, George W. Bush hit the strike zone in the House that Ruth Built . . .

“This is about knowing what to do at the moment you have to do it -- and then doing it. It's about that 'grace under pressure' that Hemingway gave as his very definition of courage.”


:puke:


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