Posted on 02/13/2008 5:50:31 AM PST by notbuyingit2
During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's presidential primary elections, after the speeches of Barack Obama and John McCain had aired, Chris Matthews expressed his latest over the top admiration for Obama's speaking skills as the MSNBC anchor admitted that Obama's speech created a "thrill" in his leg: "It's part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often." Minutes later, Brian Williams poked fun at Matthews' confession: "Let's talk about that feeling Chris gets up his leg when Obama talks ... That seems to be the headline of this half hour." (Transcript follows)
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For the life of me, I don’t find anything thrilling or even remotely interesting in anything Obama has to say.
Or some other kind of "mark"....removing tinfoil hat...
That’s got to be the Mother of all Freudian Slips!
Oh, stop. That’s just ikky. Up his leg? Eeewwwww. (Better than down his leg, I guess.)
lulz
California public school syndrome.
I don’t dare touch that line!
That's kinda like that song by that Irish band, "Red".
Bet Chrissy likes that song, too. Betcha he and Olberclown dance cheek-to-cheek to it.
is it one of the ones Matthews wrote??
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918300/posts#comment?q=1
Don't worry, several fearless FReepers have already handled it for you.
It's well-thumbed, lol!
Couric....Hillary....munching......blind! I'm blind!!! OMG!!!
Always knew Matthews was queer. Glad he came out.
LOL, Rush just endorsed Obama because he “makes his leg tingle”.
The charge has been levelled here in this thread that his speeches are all atmosphere and essentially content-free. Theme music to excite the faithful of the Marxian Meme.
I listened carefully to Obama and Hillary debating (CNN put their debate up three or four times, weekend before last, and since I was in a hospital rack with nothing better to do, I paid attention), and they did talk substance on health care. Hillary and Obama tried to out-wonk each other on that one, because it's one of the few areas where they have substantive differences, but it's key that they were preaching to the choir, the faithful of the Left who are committed to Soviet medicine (and indeed a sovietized society).
How their discourse would sound in debate with a knowledgeable, briefed-up Republican who knows how to defend an idea is a very interesting proposition. Unfortunately for the Lords Ordainers of the GOP, McCain isn't that guy. He's an old fighter pilot, an airdale, not an idea guy either in general or at retail. Challenge him and he'll just get huffy and try to stare the other guy down. Either of the Democrats could make him look really bad in debate. I don't think they could do that to Huckabee, or for that matter to Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson. Fred cut his teeth on bull-steerers during Watergate; unfortunately, he couldn't do it again when the Dems loaded his committee with people like Richard Ben-Veniste and Jamie "Chinese Wall" Gorelick*.
*Ronald Kessler of NewsMax (and sometime contributor to National Review Online), in his new WoT book, says that the "Chinese Wall" concept actually started within the FBI as a means of protecting criminal convictions that could be thrown out if it eventuated in open court that wiretap/intercept data had been obtained by a FISA warrant aimed at foreign intelligence targets (rather than enjoying the more legally-antiseptic protections of criminal law). This of course was bent by the Bent One's DoJ (Reno Justice strikes again) with threats of career damage if anyone screwed up, so all the intel and criminal investigators just wound up refusing to look at one another's files. What Jamie Gorelick had to do with this, I guess we'd have to read Kessler's book to find out.
Thrills going up peoples LEGS?>..
That ain't no Persian rug, Doug.
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