Posted on 02/17/2006 6:52:24 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
February 17, 2006
It wasn't enough for Chris Matthews to analogize the Bush administration to a family of Mafia killers. He had to call President Bush "Fredo," the weak brother. Matthews' theory was that Bush was unable to control Cheney's handling of the shooting incident in a manner similar to which Fredo was unable to control his wife.
As he amply demonstrated at his press conference today, Harry Whittington is not on life support, but Matthews was working as feverishly as an EMS on a heart attack victim to keep the Cheney story alive. And in doing so, Matthews managed to be ungracious to perhaps the most gracious man in America, the very same Harry Whittington himself. Said a sneering Matthews:
"They dressed up Mr. Whittington rather well with a lot of make-up he looked great, I'm glad he's back, but he walked right back into the hospital again. What was that? "
Chimed in a 'helpful' Margaret Carlson: "I think he had his PJs on underneath."
Matthews stuck his dagger a little deeper: "He reminded me of Chernenko [the moribund Soviet leader] voting a couple years ago in Russia when the guy goes into a room next door, they made it look like a voting station, and the guy goes right back to bed."
So intent was Matthews on spinning current events into an omen of an impending annus horribilus for President Bush that he wouldn't take 'no' for an answer from his other guest, Mike Allen of Time magazine.
Matthews tried painted a grim picture: "This sixth year [historically for presidents] is the real sixth year problem and here we have it being kicked off with gunfire, the Vice President shoots someone, by accident, and with lots of questions lingering about it. Is this the beginning of the big, bad year for Bush?"
When Allen answered "not necessarily," Matthews cut him off: "don't say that. Help me out here!"
Well, they could be talking about their ideas....................................................
Excuse me, but is it Scott McLellan's PLACE to be STRAINED because of something the VP did? Isn't his job to do what they tell him to do?
And I sure as hell don't remember Bush answering any questions about this.........or even offering to.......LOL.
"Well, they could be talking about their ideas...................................................."
I get your point. They don't have any ideas! LOL
Carl Cameron traveled around with the demo nominees in 04 and took a few sips of the koolaid. He seems to want to be a commentor rather than a reporter (don't they all?). He has ticked me off more than once.
For a short while.
There has never been a time when I have viewed Margaret Carlson on tv that I didn;t want to smack the H out of her.
PJ's underneath. What a crappy comment.
All Ron Reagan's shows have been cancelled, but I'm guessing he's still on the MSNBC payroll, and available whenever Matthews is desperate to find a Friday night, "beat the dead horse" echo for his amen chorus.
Proof that the MSM didn't heed Alvin Toffler's warning about the de-massification of the media he predicted some 26 year ago in the book The Third Wave.
Carlson generally seems to think that a large, toothy smile will distract people from the nastiness of what she says.
Her PJ comment wasn't merely unkind, it was also fundamentally false. Any objective person who saw the interview had to be struck by how hale and hearty Whittington appeared. Not only wasn't in PJs, he was discharged from the hospital later that day because the doctors determined he was in "excellent health."
Straightening the bedroom in the morning.
Folding laundry.
Waiting for hubby to arrive home from work in the evening.
LOL That amounts to less than an hour a day, if that.
Mostly I read the info on FR and have a pretty good picture of who is saying what..to whom!
Like everyone else, I'm sick of the media.
This hysteria sounds a lot like YELLOW CAKE YELLOW CAKE YELLOW CAKE
Clearly he's abusing some sort of substance.
These people belong in straight jackets.
I wonder if he's married. I wonder what it's like at the dinner table.
"PASS THE SALT."
Here you.."PASS THE BUTTER."
Okay, I.. "HOW WAS YOUR DAY!?"
It wa..."MINE WAS MISERABLE. THE LIES, THE DISTORTIONS, IT WOULDN'T STOP. MY MAKEUP GIRL WAS IN A BAD MOOD. BLABLABLABLA
These people need to totally get a life.
Last time he took a leave of absense he said it was for malaria he got when he was in the Peace Corps. I suspect it was a drying out session.
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