i wouldn't trust unnaturally blond tweety matthews to accurate report the results of a bingo game at an old folks home.

why the hell is this dimwit still given a soap box in the national forum?!

If it turns out that Romney was right about his father marching with MLK as is now being reported, will Tweety apply his own standard to himself and apologize to Romney?

Oh, Thank God Rudy "squared it", Chris. That makes it all better now.

I saw that article that Tweety is quoting and my question as always is why were ANY expenses tracked and paid by these smaller city agencies? The small per cent of them treated in that fashion is irrelevant as NO expenses for Rudy's security should have gone against anything that had to be hidden in this fashion.

My $.02 YMMV

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Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950

A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.

Matthews is without a doubt one of the most deceitful people I have ever witnessed. He will twist the truth with total disregard to the damage that is being done by his doing so. I can hardly bear watching the pitiful excuse for a journalist. He cares nothing about right and wrong, his only motive is ratings, and his are in the toilet.

...tweety was real excited by this 'exoneration' story, obviously, it meant he could possibly resume his man crush on rudy. What's wrong with rudy is explained by the families of the First Responders of New York, the kerik thing, the citizens of New York on September 9th, rudy's profiteering after 9/11. You could put his 'personal' life back in the closet. There is plenty in his public/political history to put this guy away.

I refer you to...

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/polls/slansky/071217sh_shouts_slansky1

besides that NYPD DID drive his girlfriend around, and he WAS sneaking off to the Hamptons etc....

I wish Chrissie would just come out and end the rumors. It's not a sin, except in HuckaBee's universe to be gay!

Just tell the people of your frustration that Dubbya won't get a divorce from the Xanax queen so you two kin git hitched Chrissie!

People are so sympathetic to a love gone bad tale I'm sure your ratings would go up!

Come Out Chrissie!

I can hardly wait 'til ya invite Steve Pierce, Billy Wild and Bret Wolfe onto your show to discuss the joys of oral sex.

That'll be soooooo Kewl!

Stephanie Miller needs to go back on and call him a rightwing tool again. That was a priceless moment.

I actually thought Matthews made a decent point about this.

I dislike Rudy immensely, but I don't think it's fair to hold a story against Rudy that isn't totally true. I love seeing Republicans (and Hillary) get nailed for all of the creepy things that they do, but I take no joy in them when they're false or greatly exaggerated.

In this case, there was A LOT of hub-bub made about this story and it definitely affected Rudy's poll numbers. Now it seems that this situation wasn't nearly as bad as it was all made out to be.

I've had no problem with Matthews as of late. I thought how he took it to Romney's guy was as good as it gets. Romney is the biggest fraud running right now. I have a pair of flip flops ready to take to the Democratic Convention this year.

Anyhow, I generally love C&L, but I don't understand what's going on here anymore. Seems like this election has whacked out its faculties or something.

Why does MSNBC lay this plague on us? Chrissie is the only person on TV that makes Bill-O look like a brain.

I wonder what kind of a snit Hannity's gonna throw when he finds out Giuliani is Chris Matthews[' 'Man'?

I hope someone gets it on tape, and we get to see in on YouTube, or maybe even here, on C&L, if Amato gives us all our raise, and C&L stays on the web.

Simply, turn him off. His ratings are hideous. Go over to TVNewser and look at his ratings--they post each day of the week--both his 5 p.m. and 7 pm hours and they are terrible.

Matthews has such a conflict of interest here (as does Russert) they were both attendees at a fundraiser for Guiliani on Nantucket that Jack Welch (former Chairman of GE/NBC/MSNBC threw in August. I understand that Scarborough and Gregory were invited and were there also.

I was at the gym when this was on and Tweety was apoplectic about this--he took it personally (so much for objectivity) yet the NY Daily News and the Bloomberg administration stand by the original investigation and story. I wouldn't believe Tweety if he told me the sun set in the west. He has zero credi
bility and his so is so passe and tiresome. Let me guess, he spends 95% of his time bashing the Clinton's now--like they give a fiddler's fart about that dweeb. I'll never forget John Stewart handing Matthews his ass back to him when he was on the DS. That was great television. Matthews is a psycho.
bility and his show is so tiresome. Let me guess--he now spends 95 percent of the show bashing the Clinton's--he is just soooo predictable.

(my 1.2 zillionth email) Dear MSNBC, PLEASE ax tweety so my fingers can heal.

DKarma@29 :
All great follow-up questions . You left out : " When are you going to give back the time we've wasted watching you, Chris ?"

Okay, I found it on YOUTUBE:

The Little Rudi Giuliani Sex Shoppe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iSkVvgHd5w

#34 Pericles....That vid just made my evening.This should be promoted everywhere,Thanx.

Now. come. on. Chrissy, the. details. about. the. creative. financing. are. so. unimportant... What's. absolutely. important. is.t his: Rudy. was. CHEATING. on. his. then-wife. with. a. then-whore, Judith.Nathan (now. Rudy's. wife)... He. was. breaking. his. Catholic. wedding. vows. and. breaking. a. commandment. each. time. he. cheated. with. Judy... Hey, Chris, if. youre. Catholic, and. I. believe. you. are, shouldnt. the. infidelity. part. of. this. story. be. MUCH. MORE. IMPORTANT. than. the. creative. financing? Even. as. a. reporter. you. should. know. the. infidelity. trumps. to.infinity. the. financing. part. of. this. story... Get. a. clue, Chris... From. this. you. should. know:.. Rudy. is. a. failure. of. a. man, a. failure. of. a. husband, a. failure. of. a. father, and. failure. of. a. Catholic... And. yet. with. all. that. he. staggeringly. presumes. that. he. can. actually. be. President. of. the. United. States... NEVER, NEVER, and. NEVER.

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I really wish I could comment on this guy but like OReilly,Hannity,Malkin, etc. I no longer listen to anything this mother fucker says.

When will Chrissy deliver a grim-faced retraction, apology and supportive act of contrition to Bill and Hillary Clinton for repeatedly denigrating Bill Clinton's recent statement that he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning? Whenever Chrissy gets the opportunity, he chortles his disgust with that statement as a sign of familial, "Clintonian" lying.

Well, it turns out Bill Clinton DID oppose the Iraq War from the beginning and said so publicly about a week before the invasion, which is a daring public position for a former President to take while a current President is so clearly mongering up for a war, as Bush so clearly was at the time.

The Los Angeles Times even reported it on Dec. 4th, WEEKS ago, Chrissy.

Another question: When will Keith Olbermann award Chrissy at least one level in his Worst Person In The World segment for NOT delivering such an apology to the Clintons for this?

Clinton Opposed The War In Iraq From The Beginning:
http://facts.hillaryhub.com/archive/?id=4406
Fact Check: Bill Clinton On The Iraq War
11/27/2007 7:22:53 PM
On the eve of war with Iraq, former President Clinton said we should avoid war and seek a new U.N. resolution. Here's what he said in New York on March 14, 2003, less than a week before the war began:

“Do you believe this matters? If you believe it matters—as I do—then you have to decide if it matters whether we bend over backwards to try to disarm him in a way that strengthens rather than divides the world community. If you don’t think it matters, then you’re with a lot of the people in the current administration who think that we’ll just go over there and this will take a few days, after we win—victors always get to write history—everybody will get over this and we’ll get everybody back together and they’ll be glad he’s gone because he’s a thug and a murderer. That’s what they think. If you believe it matters to keep them together, then you’ve got to support some version of what Prime Minister Blair’s doing now, which is to say, okay, he’s finally destroying his missiles. And the administration, to be fair, is nominally in favor of what Blair’s trying to do.

“He’s finally destroying his missiles, so let’s give him a certain date in which, in this time, he has to destroy the missiles, reconcile the discrepancies in what we believe is the truth on chemical weapons, reconcile the discrepancies on biological weapons, reconcile the issue of the Drones, and offer up 150 scientists who can travel outside of Iraq with their families for interviews. If you do that, then we’ll say this is really good-faith disarmament, and we’ll go on without a conflict. Now if that passes, however, then you have to be willing to take yes for an answer. You see what I mean? I’m for regime change too, but there’s more than one way to do it. We don’t invade everybody whose regime we want to change. There’s more than one way to do this, but if that passes and he actually disarms, then we have to be willing to take it, and then work for regime change by supporting the opposition to Saddam Hussein within and outside Iraq, and doing other things.”
After the war commenced, President Clinton repeatedly said he would not have invaded Iraq; he would have waited for inspectors to finish their job.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-billclinton5dec05,0...
Clinton says his Iraq war remarks were misconstrued
The former president, in a campaign swing in New Hampshire on behalf of his wife, also defends her attacks on Obama.
By Michael Finnegan
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

9:01 PM PST, December 4, 2007

LEBANON, N.H. — A week after causing his wife's presidential campaign a headache by saying he had opposed the Iraq war from the start, former President Clinton accused the news media on Tuesday of misrepresenting his remarks.

In brief comments to the Los Angeles Times, the former president also defended Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's attacks this week on Sen. Barack Obama, her chief rival for the Democrats' White House nomination.

"She has been steadily attacked publicly and privately by candidates and surrogates for months," Clinton said after giving a speech here.

He said the accuracy of his wife's statements slamming Obama's record as a state and U.S. senator "has never been disputed," but did not mention the Illinois lawmaker by name. "Why don't we just have a little debate? She didn't do anything wrong."

Clinton's comments came as he wrapped up a daylong solo campaign swing for his wife in snowbound towns of New Hampshire. The New York senator this week has hammered Obama's record on healthcare, Social Security, Iran and his history of voting "present" rather than "yes" or "no" in the Illinois Senate.

"I know there's a lot of dispute among the candidates now," the former president told students packed into an auditorium at Keene State University. "I actually think that's kind of healthy. I didn't like it very much for months, because it was just a one-way street. At least it's getting balanced up a bit."

In Keene, Claremont and Lebanon, Clinton called his wife the best candidate to address global warming, healthcare, education and the day-to-day economic hardships of the middle class.

He also reminisced about New Hampshire's role in reviving his troubled White House candidacy in 1992, when accusations of draft-dodging and an extramarital affair with Gennifer Flowers dogged him in the primary.

"Some of you who were around in '92 may remember that this part of New Hampshire saved my proverbial bacon," Clinton told several hundred people at a high school in this town near the Vermont border.

The former president's large and enthusiastic crowds attested to his value as his wife's chief surrogate. But the criticism sparked by his statement in Iowa last week that he opposed the Iraq war "from the beginning" underscored the risk. Obama, for one, laughed at the remark, saying, "If he did, I don't think most of us heard about it."

Obama, who spoke out against the 2003 invasion before it occurred, has often reminded voters that Hillary Clinton voted to authorize the war.

****Asked whether he had any concerns or regrets about the fallout from his remark on Iraq, the former president said: "Well, I regret that they were falsely represented by the press, who wants to make it a political story."

Clinton said he made clear before the war that United Nations inspectors should complete their search for weapons of mass destruction before any U.S. invasion.

He also pointed to remarks that he made in New York the week before the invasion.

"I'm for regime change too, but there's more than one way to do it," he said at the time. "We don't invade everybody whose regime we want to change. There's more than one way to do this, but if that passes and he actually disarms, then we have to be willing to take it, and then work for regime change by supporting the opposition to Saddam Hussein within and outside Iraq, and doing other things."

Clinton's comment on Iraq last week came in the middle of his remarks criticizing tax cuts for wealthy Americans like himself. "Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning," he said, "I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers."****

Tweety DOES love his man-crushes.
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Pericles @ 25:

Wow! Now Tweety thinks he's an 'INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST' because he managed to dig deeper than other 'journalists' and actually read the New York Times ALL THE WAY TO PAGE 32!

Man, this guy is really giving Michael Ware a run for his money!

Nah - his producer did.

I was interested in the bold "TELLING THE TRUTH" in the background. Like Tweety would know the truth if it bit him in the ass.

KISSman@22 said "In this case, there was A LOT of hub-bub made about this story and it definitely affected Rudy’s poll numbers. Now it seems that this situation wasn’t nearly as bad as it was all made out to be."

How bad would it have been if Monica's expenses had been charged to the WH expense account and the secret service had taken her on a shopping expedition out of Clinton's jurisdiction, like say Paris? I'm sure Tweety would have given him a pass - especially if the expense had been buried somewhere in the Department of the Interior budget.

Chris Mathews is right. Mitt Romney is a serial phoney. He is a phoney. P. H. O. N. E. Y. Why is this confusing?

The NY Times article shows that the strange expensing by Giuliani wasn't to keep his extramarital affair secret.

However, it may have been to avoid upsetting New Yorkers by letting them know they were paying for security when he made a trip to the Hamptons with the then-known woman he previously had a secret extramarital affair with.

The article doesn't address that NYPD were walking Judith Nathan's dog.

tweetybird will get his 1 day & i will be happist man in world. dan abrams must be braindead to keep tweety, tucky & joey on msnbc at 1 time a respected network. i wud rather watch paint dry. tks

i think the real issue here is that miss matthews has been gangbanged so much by all his man crushes .. startin' with jack walsh .. of course including thompson, mccain, guiliani, bush, and anything repiglican that he literally has had his 'brains fucked out' .. there is so much repigiclican cum inside of him from these gangbangs that he has been reduced to 'spluttering' .. trying to talk as the cum issues forth from his mouth ... and thus all the 'spit' that one see's as he 'talks' ... i mean look at his fucking head .. look at those pictures .... of his fucking head .. which now looks like a contorted hemmroid .. due to all the gangbangs .. and tell me this isn't true ? the best solution is for someone, anyone, to rush onto his msnbc set and smear him with a tube of preparation h .. that would solve the whole fucking problem ...

That this stupid shill is still on the air is an indictment against GE/NBC, which says pretty much everything that needs to be said against them.

"You gotta hand it to Tweety…he shows considerably more monogamous devotion to Rudy Giuliani than Giuliani has ever shown any person in his life."

That's my favorite line in the whole media 2008 presidential run-up info-tainment extravaganza so far.

L.A. Confidential @ 7:

Whens Tweet going to talk about the Economy? Probably never. Tweet probably thinks we're all rich after 7 years of Bush.

eh? apperantly you weren't watching when he had jim cramer on his show all those times to talk about how messed up the housing industry got.

is tweets trying to say if he paid for it adultry, lieing, and blowjobs in the Governors mansion is A OKAY with Chris Matthews?

this is from the guy that bashed Hillary over the word cocaine. One of her people said the word.. and he called it negative campaigning.

breakspear @ 38:

Now. come. on. Chrissy, the. details. about. the. creative. financing. are. so. unimportant... What's. absolutely. important. is.t his: Rudy. was. CHEATING. on. his. then-wife. with. a. then-whore, Judith.Nathan (now. Rudy's. wife)... He. was. breaking. his. Catholic. wedding. vows. and. breaking. a. commandment. each. time. he. cheated. with. Judy... Hey, Chris, if. youre. Catholic, and. I. believe. you. are, shouldnt. the. infidelity. part. of. this. story. be. MUCH. MORE. IMPORTANT. than. the. creative. financing? Even. as. a. reporter. you. should. know. the. infidelity. trumps. to.infinity. the. financing. part. of. this. story... Get. a. clue, Chris... From. this. you. should. know:.. Rudy. is. a. failure. of. a. man, a. failure. of. a. husband, a. failure. of. a. father, and. failure. of. a. Catholic... And. yet. with. all. that. he. staggeringly. presumes. that. he. can actually be President. of. the. United. States... NEVER, NEVER, and. NEVER...

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What an egregious liar this guy is. There is no other word.
Any of use little people would be fired and blacklisted for lying like this.

It cannot be spun any other way. Period.

If it didn't happen, don't say it. Thank God this guy is not taken serious as a real contender for President of the United States.

Personally, I can't stand Chris Mathews. Or most inane media talking heads, for that matter.
But I never got the "Tweety" thing either. It's pretty moronic.
And I detest these scroll from side to side threads as well. Doesn't anyone know how to hit
"enter"?

Hunter Gatherer @ 71:

I notice alot of you become irate over whatever Chris Matthews says. if you think Chris Matthews is on the same level as other conservative pundits in Media, then it is my opinion that you are misguided. I give commentators more credit when they have a wide range of perspectives on the political spectrum. In my eyes it shows better character, not everything is black and white, and not everyone should just draw a line on the gruond and stick to that side. That is Matthews greatest contribution in opinion.

Where did you get the impression that Chris Matthews has a "wide range of perspectives on the political spectrum"?

Matthews' is every bit as lopsidedly negative toward the Clintons and the Dems and supportive of Bush and the Republicans as the most RightWing media pundits in Karl Rove's rolladex.

If the following link doesn’t stick, search this subject line on Mediamatters.com:

Chris Matthews on Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani
http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200712180005
[[Summary:
On October 4, MSNBC host Chris Matthews professed his neutrality in the presidential race. "I'm pretty independent, in terms of the two parties," he said. "I have been just as tough on Bill Clinton and Hillary and Rudy and the whole bunch of them."

In order to ascertain whether this claim is true, Media Matters for America examined every evaluative remark Matthews made on MSNBC's Hardball during the months of September, October, and November about either Hillary Clinton or Rudy Giuliani, the two national front-runners for their respective parties' nominations during that period. We excluded instances in which Matthews was simply reporting facts (e.g. "A new poll shows Giuliani leading ... ") and restricted ourselves to cases in which Matthews offered his own opinions or judgments.[1] We also excluded instances in which there was any ambiguity about whether the statement was positive or negative.

The results demonstrate that Matthews has been particularly friendly to Rudy Giuliani in recent months, and extremely hostile toward Hillary Clinton. Not only is there a qualitative difference between the kinds of praise and criticism he offers these two candidates, but a quantitative difference, as well: Matthews made 10 negative remarks about Clinton for every negative remark he made about Giuliani, and nearly three times as many positive remarks about the former New York City mayor as about Clinton. The ratio of positive to negative remarks was 3.5-to-1 for Giuliani, but 1-to-8.2 for Clinton.]]

The only time you'll hear Chris Matthews being anywhere NEAR as negative and critical of Republicans as he is of Democrats is AFTER an election when it no longer matters.

The fact that Chris Mattews claims that he is "neutral" (read:"Fair and Balanced") and that he once happened to be on a couple of elected Democrats' payroll only adds a bogus "credibility" to his lopsided negativity toward that Party and makes for a love-match with the RightWing much the same as Dick Morris has been.