Tweety Taken To Task

[mooseandsquirrel]

Nobody in TV news stir-fries his ideas and serves them to the audience faster than MSNBC's Chris Matthews. Drawing from a larder filled with old anecdotes, unreliable metaphors, wacky intuition, and superficial observations, the always-animated Matthews steers whatever's handy into the hot wok that is his brain. The sizzling free-associations skitter through his limbic system, leap out his mouth, and look for a resting spot in the national conversation, where they steam like fresh lava in untouchable heaps.

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http://www.slate.com/id/2209405/

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. Tweety was a bit bizarre on Inauguration Day...

He kept saying the crowd loved the MSNBC booth more because they were the network of "change." Of course, that was likely true because of Keith & Rachel's presence in the booth, but you could tell KO was uncomfortable with Tweety's characterization of them.

[Submariner]

2. Yeah....he gets all goofy like around presidents

"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits."

(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 5/1/03)

[louis-t]

4. "The women like this war."???

I didn't know that.

[Buzz Clik]

3. That pretty well sums it up.

Tweety sometimes strikes the hammer dead on the head of the nail. Sometimes he strikes his thumb. And other times he forgets where the hammer is.