In Honor of Tweety's Hilarious Smack-down of Kevin James, a question in the same line.

[Guaranteed]

Does anyone here KNOW why we call Chris Matthews "Tweety" here on the Internets?


Cuz I don't.


I think it's a good name for him, though.

[hisownpetard]

1. He looks just like Tweety-Bird, with his big yellow head.

[Guaranteed]

3. You think Chris Matthews looks like this?

???

[spanone]

9. dead-ringer

[zbdent]

20. somewhere, Tweety is knocking back some serious alcohol ...

loathing himself for being compared to Matthews ...

[LSparkle]

2. I think it's because he looks like Tweety Bird (from the WB cartoons)

"I tawt I saw a puddy tat!"

[Guaranteed]

5. I think it's got to be something else.

That really doesn't make sense.


It's probably some kind of inside joke that most of us don't even understand.

[lisa58]

7. No - he's called Tweety after Tweety bird...

...it's the yellow dye-job.

Really.

[Guaranteed]

11. I don't see the resemblance.

I don't see anything out of the ordinary about his...hair?

[Elidor]

18. His hair used to be much yellower

It was a reference to hair color. I forget who coined it.

[Guaranteed]

22. That sounds possible, but I'd like to see

a picture if we can find one. And the term's been around for years now.

[mikelgb]

put them side by side, I didn't get it at first either

[lisa58]

12. scary... isn't it?

[Guaranteed]

14. Maybe the forehead size?

I'm....very skeptical of this though.

[Guaranteed]

13. Hmmmm....

LOL....


Did some staring, still not really seeing it.


You don't think maybe this is one of those insider things that spread, but maybe people don't really know why they're saying it?

[RaleighNCDUer]

21. Oh, gawd. Why'd you do that?

I couldn't stop laughing.

It hurts.

[eleny]

4. Wow, you even got a Recommend!

:rofl:

[Guaranteed]

6. Do you know the answer to the question?

You don't....DO YOU?

[eleny]

15. Yes, I do in fact know and the others who answered you are correct

But I wasn't trying to make fun of you. The recommend only looked like you weren't the only one who is in the dark.

Chill!

[Guaranteed]

17. Well, it's not like it didn't occur to me that it might be a looks thing

before I posted this. But I failed, and still do, to see the similarity.


Could you describe how Tweety Bird and Chris Matthews look alike?

[eleny]

24. It's the big, round, yellow head

They both have one, sort of. :D

[lisa58]

8. That was indeed a great smackdown...

...I'm still smiling.

[DesertFlower]

10. me too. nt

[liberaldem4ever]

16. I saw Tweety put the whoopass on that RW blowhard

And it was sweet. That RW guy just wouldn't give up and kept on trying to justify not knowing what he was talking about. Go Tweety!!!! :rofl:

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Never confuse TPM willful ignorance with actual ignorance

and as I said in another post, if he truly didn't know, then we are truly in trouble as a nation

[colorado thinker]

23. Link?

I didn't see the put-down . . .

[Strelnikov_]

25. Linky to Tweety

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24655385#24655385

[colorado thinker]

28. Thank you!

(late, sorry)

[Initech]

26. Who is this Kevin James that everyone speaks of?

I keep thinking it's that big fat guy who starred on "The King Of Queens".

[JerseygirlCT]

27. Ever see the cartoon with Sylvester the cat and Tweety Bird?

Now look at Matthews.

[librechik]

29. because he flits from shoulder to shoulder like a little brainless bird

who can't make up his own mind and is in favor of whatever big animal will protect him from moment to moment, just like Tweetybird.