Posted on 03/05/2009 5:23:43 AM PST by Zakeet
On Wednesday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews used several different animal references to depict the battle between Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh as he likened the fight to wrestling with "a walrus," and getting into "a peeing match with a skunk," and claimed Limbaugh thinks he is Charlie Brown's dog: "He's Snoopy! He thinks he's taking on the Red Baron."
Matthews devoted several segments to the Democratic strategy of attacking Limbaugh and opened the show with the following monologue/diatribe:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Leading off tonight. Pomposity on parade! Not since Snoopy challenged the Red Baron in the Peanuts cartoon have we witnessed an episode of such preposterous pomposity. Rush Limbaugh today challenged the President of the United States to come and debate him in his Palm Beach radio booth. What's the radio man thinking of? What were the Democratic wags thinking of when they invited themselves and the President into this walrus wrestle? Was it poll data that convinced them of the smart politics in matching themselves against the man with the mic, passing over such dashing conservatives of Congress like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell? However it started it's come to this to what happened today, to this ultimate jumping of the shark.
And before Matthews concluded his show he had one final cheap shot at the conservative talk show host's expense:
We're gonna have an award tomorrow night, a "Hardball Award," tomorrow night. And I think everybody who's watching knows who's gonna get it for dominating the news the last week. Somebody who's never been elected to anything, has no responsibilities on this planet except talking. Who has no duties whatsoever except to talk. Has dominated the world stage. He has dominated the debate with the White House. He has made himself bigger than even he was before and I mean in every way bigger. We're gonna give a "Hardball Award," tomorrow night to somebody really big, in more ways than one.
The following are just some of the Limbaugh tidbits from the March 4, edition of "Hardball":
MATTHEWS: Leading off tonight. Pomposity on parade! Not since Snoopy challenged the Red Baron in the Peanuts cartoon have we witnessed an episode of such preposterous pomposity. Rush Limbaugh today challenged the President of the United States to come and debate him in his Palm Beach radio booth. What's the radio man thinking of? What were the Democratic wags thinking of when they invited themselves and the President into this walrus wrestle? Was it poll data that convinced them of the smart politics in matching themselves against the man with the mic, passing over such dashing conservatives of Congress like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell? However it started it's come to this to what happened today, to this ultimate jumping of the shark....
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: The President is gonna encounter real opposition to his agenda among Republicans. What they want to do is spin that opposition to appear as if it's coming from nothing but the nutty Limbaugh section of this party. If they can associate it with that, then that will help them overcome that opposition.
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MATTHEWS: I tell ya it's Snoopy and the Red Baron, there's no doubt about it. Nothing like it. He's up there flying around with his goggles on and his hat. He's Snoopy! He thinks he's taking on the Red Baron. I'm not gonna stop with that one.
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MATTHEWS: Here's Rush Limbaugh, I compare him to Snoopy thinking he's fighting the Red Baron up in the skies in World War I. This pomposity, this notion that the President of the United States is really gonna come down to your radio booth, down in Palm Beach and sit there and talk to you because you invited him in this sort of macho man number is only not funny to the people who call themselves "Dittoheads." I mean they take this guy seriously, don't they? I mean they really believe this is a serious, sort of challenge. Throwing down the gauntlet or whatever.
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MATTHEWS GOING TO BREAK: I think the old line is don't get in a peeing match with a skunk, right?
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MATTHEWS CONCLUDING SHOW: We're gonna have an award tomorrow night, a "Hardball Award," tomorrow night. And I think everybody who's watching knows who's gonna get it for dominating the news the last week. Somebody who's never been elected to anything, has no responsibilities on this planet except talking. Who has no duties whatsoever except to talk. Has dominated the world stage. He has dominated the debate with the White House. He has made himself bigger than even he was before and I mean in every way bigger. We're gonna give a "Hardball Award," tomorrow night to somebody really big, in more ways than one.
I know what I'm talking about this time because nobody is a bigger expert at getting a thrill down their leg, peeing their pants, and wrestling walrus than me.
The Democrats anointed Rush as leader of the Republican party. Obama can’t seem to stop talking about Rush.
But now that Rush has courteously offered to debate him, why, he’s a ‘skunk’ and a ‘walrus’.
That’s it. That’s the whole Liberal game-plan. Shriek abuse!
What would Christ do once MSNBC sinks? His only experience is towel boy in a male brothel.
Like the whole Obama acceptance speech and inauguration?
We’ll see who has the last laugh dirt bag. Zero’s plan was a failure out of the box. I guess ideology and allegience to your master of tingle is more important to you than your own children’s futures. It’s because of creeps like you, olberman and hardwood that we are in this mess.
Who considers Chris Matthews serious or worthy of discussion?
Mathews is trolling for a position in the Obama administration...maybe Minister of Propaganda.
Yeah....we know.....because you're so impressed with yourself for thinking of it. It wasn't clever or funny the first time.
How’s those ratings doing Wiley Coyote?
Pray for America, our Troops and obama’s Failure
Well, the Red Baron was a very effective enemy of America, so the comparison of 0bama to him holds some water.
Let's see a comparison of the charitable giving done by Chrissy and Rush.
Get with the program, Chrissy, if you're going to insert yourself into a Rush skirmish.
And, always remember... and never forget that Rush is just funnin with Obambi who takes himself way too seriously.
Obambi needs a team to rant at Rush while Rush is off the cuff...
I’d like to see Matthews in a room with Rush, a microphone and a camera for 3 hours.
He’d wind up in the corner in a fetal position.
I have a Beagle who nearly ripped my husband’s lip off. Libs underestimate everyone.
Don’t I recall Chris Matthews serving as a guest host on Rush’s show some years back? What’s the deal now?
I also agree with those who are saying Matthews has the Red Baron analogy backwards. Limbaugh is the lightning; Obama is the lightning bug.
Yeah, if we really want to beat the left in elections, we ought to let them pick our leaders.
STFU you leftists.
More like 1 hr., with Rush returning to his regular show with the occasional audio capture of the wimper of Matthews...for “entertainment” value, you know.
Mathews=BLIVOT
mathews, every the mental midget, misses it.
Obama has no gravitas.
Rush has mega gravitas.
Obama was attempting to show he was relavent by attacking Rush.
remember obama’s faux state of the union was about obama looking like it was HIM in charge and not pelosi and reid.
obama is the shrinking president.
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