The old Phd of comedic relief, AKA Hardballs, Chris Matthews, hisself
Posted on 01/14/2006 5:10:23 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
January 14, 2006 - 07:55
You know the Ted, Chuck & Joe Show flopped when even Chris Matthews accuses the Dems of "buffoonery" in the Alito hearings. Yet that is exactly what Matthews did in his appearance on this morning's Today show:
"I don't think any points were scored by the Democrats, there was a lot of buffooney by Democratic senators. There was no coherent message, no coherent critique of the guy."
For whatever reason, Matthews was on his most 'fair & balanced' behavior. For example, in discussing Pres. Bush's joint appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday, Matthews described Merkel's predecessor, the left-wing Gerhard Schroeder, as "very obnoxious," having taken "one cheap shot after another at us" and exploited our tribulations in Iraq for his own political gain.
With one significant exception, give Matthews good marks too for taking the Iran nuclear threat seriously. Said Chris:
"In this case we're dealing with a very dangerous customer, Iran, a much more sophisticated country than Iraq."
On the other hand, Matthews has fallen prey to what could be a dangerous optimism as to the length of time it would take an unchecked Iran to produce nuclear weapons. Said Matthews:
"The good news is we're talking five-to-ten years before they can weaponize, and hopefully closer to ten."
Sounds like the same kind of wishful thinking in play at the end of WWII regarding the time-frame for the Soviets to acquire nuclear weapons, with some top officials at the time predicting it would take them as long as twenty years.
In fact, it took the Soviets only a very few years. By 1949 they had exploded their first nuclear weapon. Today's technology is vastly more sophisticated, and Iran has virtually unlimited oil revenues with which to buy technology - or perhaps even to buy a nuke itself from a rogue state like N. Korea.
It would be very dangerous to gamble that Iran's nuclear weapons capability is as much as ten years off.
And Andrea Mitchell was reassuring him the other night that the US and Israel have no military options available to them.
Today Show/NewsBusters Dem buffoonery ping.
Intelligence analyst Matthews should pass his this very important information along to the NSA and CIA.
What's this Matthews has a direct line to the mind and intent of the Iranians?
FANTASTIC, HOW DOES HE DO IT?
That's quite a leap. Matthews is really annoying me more & more. Watching Fox & Friends this morning. Almost as annoying. No Page Hopkins - Gretchen is sitting in with Kiran & Julian.
Kennedy used an article that was SATIRE for his accusations.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/012824.php
snip
Dinesh D'Souza was the editor of Prospect at the time, and he confirms that the article, by H. W. Crocker III, now an editor for Regnery Books, was a satire:
The essay may not have been funny, D'Souza acknowledges, but Kennedy read from it as if it had been serious instead of an attempt at humor.
"I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them," D'Souza said. "It was a satire."
snip
LOL
Five to ten years do not even pass the smell test.
If Iran were starting at ground zero they could develop a bomb in that amount of time.
is that the truth???
Ed Meese Takes Chris Matthews Head On 1/12/2006 (Cleans Matthews' Clock)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557514/posts
The airhead and the weasel declare bad things are 10 years off.
'Course, if they characterize the recent "disgrace" as buffoonery, then they must be right. Right?
How in this world did we get to the point of taking anything these America-hating types choose to say?
Better tap Chrissys phone. He must be talking to the Ayatola.....
I caught that...she also said that Bush was doing what the Dems wanted him to do...Chrissie then cut her off..Ya think the lightbulb may be going off..that W is right after all?......nah.
That is FUNNY! If a Pub had been so stupid, the press would have had a field day with it but, since it was "most of my brain cells have been killed by alcohol" Kennedy, it will never see the light of day . . .
But I loved Mitchell. How in Hades does she know what the US and Israel know?!
Oh yeah, I wouldn't bet on it andrea the airheaded one.
I watched that commie-bitch reassure 'the spitter' that we had absolutely NO options with Iran. No one who has hung around Washington latrines as long as she has would ever believe such nonsense... the bitch is pure disinformation.
Well, I hope that the Mullahs in Iran are confident, and sleeping well, becuase Andrea absolutely, positively said that were safe from military action..Look, this may not have been said publicly before..but if it were absolutely necessary, if there was no alternative..probably every pilot in the IAF woudl volunteer for the one-way mission..
The loons at D-kos and Moveon.org aren't ones to have a sense of humor
Listen to Air America a few times and you'll see what I mean
Hmmm ... maybe we should email Teddy a few articles fro, Scrapleface, just for fun :0)
The old Phd of comedic relief, AKA Hardballs, Chris Matthews, hisself
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