Gotta watch the replay!! Tweety almost made Peggy Noonan cry!

[grasswire]

Chris Matthews gets my full respect tonight for going after Peggy Noonan like a pit bull. I never saw him so rough on a guest (and she's one of his favorites.)

I'll bet she reams him a big one.

He pressed her on the issue of WHY Americans still believe Saddam is directly involved in 9-11. He pushed her over and over again.

She hemmed, she hawed, she lied, she whined, she pleaded, she nearly cried. She could NOT TELL THE TRUTH. And he called her on it.

And then after the break, he came back to the same issue. Over and over again, he shamed her and exposed her hypocrisy.

MUST WATCH TV.

Please, someone. Make a clip of that for us all!

[proud patriot]

1. Woo Hoo

It was a beautiful thing to watch .

[Sugarbleus]

27. Yes it twas............. woohoox2

[grasswire]

2. I realize there's another hardball thread...

...but I wanted to call attention to those who have a chance to watch the replay of this dramatic exchange.

Tweety's always been sweet on Peggy. He's off her A list after tonight!!

[Granite]

41. Gotta admit

I've got a thing for Peggy Noonan - don't know why, but I think she's kind of attractive, especially for a repug.

Does that make me weird or something? :)

[Jack_Dawson]

43. I feel the same way.

I might be into H.F.'ing her.

[thebigidea]

44. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

shudder

[Skittles]

58. GRANITE AND JACK

I AM GOING TO KICK YOUR NOONAN-LOVING ASSES

[thebigidea]

61. can I tape it?

[Virginian]

71. If you like her,

Do you also like Laura Ingles and the super Stepford wife Ann Coulter?

They are all good at memorizing the party line, but Chris turned the question around so that she couldn't use the rehersed responses to common questions. He played Hardball. She was so angry with him she called him "Christopher."

"If the American voters knew that there was no evidence connecting Saddam with 9/11, would they still say they felt more safe now that Saddam has been captured?"

Rove is counting on the average American to be too busy earning a living and taking care of the family to read past the headlines and front page. This way, they could morph Osama into Saddam. (Some of the same letters)

Bush's speaches put 9/11 and Saddam in the same statements, but never linked the two together, the minds of the listeners concluded that the two were linked because they were mentioned together. The speaches were designed for the audience to draw false conclusions.

I don't think it registered with the average working American that Bush actually came out and said there was no connection.

[Granite]

85. Virginia

Just injecting a little humor into the thread. I thought Matthews did a great job trying to shed light on the 9/11-Saddam thing. I never could understand how anyone couldn't see through the repub strategy there. They denied that they ever said Saddam had anything to do with 9/11, but everytime they discussed Saddam, there was a 9/11 reference made soon after. Say it enough, and when people think Saddam, they think 9/11. I thought Matthews did a good job trying to get Noonan to admit that there was no connection, and that the connection was oversold. So we agree! :)

And no, I'm not into Ann-thrax or Laura-whatever.

[Timefortruth]

89. Yes it makes you weird.

I would worry about my mental stability if I found someone so despicable attractive.

Seek psychiatric help now! Tomorrow may be too late!

[SeveneightyWhoa]

3. People tell me that Matthews is pretty liberal.

Is this true?
I hear nothing but bitching about him here. I've heard that he loves Bush, even sexually.

But does he really do this kind of thing on a regular basis?

[evil_orange_cat]

5. Matthews berades everybody... he's okay in my book...

but I am not sure about his political leanings... I know he worked in the Carter administration. I suspect he's just one of those political junkies who looks at the individual, rather than the party.

[thebigidea]

8. he looks at the paycheck, then goes to the parties, you mean

he's a manic whore who does what he's told, who plays to what he thinks the audience wants to hear. Don't fall for his act.

[evil_orange_cat]

10. lol Tweety haters crack me up

because there are just as much lefties that hate Chris as righties... lol...

[thebigidea]

12. those that are swayed by Tweety crack me up more

perhaps both sides hating him means that he's equally reprehensible to all, not that he's "doing something right."

But by all means, put your faith in the Tweetster... I'm sure you can't go wrong with his MSNBC coverage of the upcoming election.

Sufferin' succotash!

[PaDUer]

17. Did Noonan think

that calling him CHRISTOPHER that he was going to stop asking her the same question...He got her good! Bet she's still foaming at the mouth.

[alcuno]

19. That's her "school marm" tactic.

She does that when reprimanding Matthews. Isn't she just totally awful? I wrote to Matthews, again, begging him to give her the boot.

[PaDUer]

47. She's the biggest

lying bitch going...wonder WHO she's doing?!!

[Q]

76. The Tweet is an 'infotainment specialist'...not a 'journalist'...

...which seems to confuse those who want/need to believe that he's 'on their side'.

- He may press buttons on both sides...but you can count on the fact that he'll never expose the truth about the Bush* junta.

[Sugarbleus]

25. EXCELLENT!

[chromotone]

32. Matthews lost my respect during sElection2000...

...when polls showed Bush winning the popular vote and Gore winning the EC. Matthews ranted and raved about how Gore would need to concede the election to Bush "for the good of the Nation." However, when just the opposite occurred, he remained silent:

RIGHT UP UNTIL Election Day, we heard over and over about the “legitimacy” questions that would arise should Al Gore win the electoral map as George Bush won the popular vote. Chris Matthews, writing contemptuously of the vice president’s political morality, noted, “Al Gore, knowing him as we do, may have no problem taking the presidential oath after losing the popular vote to George W. Bush.” The Bush camp, according reports in The New York Daily News, were busy planning to challenge such a result. “The one thing we don’t do is roll over,” one Bush aide promised, “We fight.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views/111000-106.htm

So thanks, in part, to the Whoreth Estate, we have an illegal, unwinnable war that has already claimed 450+ Americans and 1,000s of Iraqis.

I hope the lying Corporate Media Whores rot in Hell :mad:

[Zolok]

88. I don't like or trust the guy...

just because he beat on Peggy Noonan like a gong, doesn't make him trustworthy.
A scant eight months ago he was happily masturbating on the public airwaves with Don Imus when Bush did his flight suit routine on the Carrier Abraham Lincoln.


www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com

[jonnyblitz]

13. cool pic!

:hi:

[Justice]

56. He Worked for Tip O'Neill

It was a power thing - working for speaker of the house.

But Matthews said his father was/is republican - so the brief foray to the correct side of the aisle was just that.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

73. He claims to be a Democrat but then I heard he voted for Bush. He very

obviously despised Gore - that's for sure...

[spotbird]

95. Criticism of a RW position on Tweety’s show is so rare

that it is truly remarkable when it happens.

The guests from the right are normally double teamed, or triple teamed against any sort of moderate who they will normally claim is representative of the left. He has said that he was a Democrat, but there is almost never any evidence of that on his show.

[thebigidea]

4. Peggy Noonan always struck me...

... as someone who smelled like my grandma's house.

[AnnabelLee]

20. HA!

My thoughts exactly!:yourock:

[kanrok]

28. More like my Grandma's bathroom

if you ask me.

[Military Brat]

40. Thank you for saying that!

My Grandma's house always smelled wonderful, but she was poor and had an outhouse.

Hmm, now I understand why that outhouse had the letters "PN" tacked onto it.

:evilgrin:

[BackDoorMan]

48. HA! She smells more like, well...I may get thrown off DU again, if I

speak my mind. But imagine, even worst, (if you can.)

[chaumont58]

80. How about

the story of blind man walking past the fish market, and proclaims: "Morning, girls!"

[Blue_Roses]

50. what a freaky pic

n/t

[Cha]

6. Will Wonders Never Cease?

:toast: What's got into him?

[Terwilliger]

7. Noonan wanted to tow the Repug line...Saddam wasn't directly involved...

but she didn't want to say that because it undercuts the idea that Saddam's capture was anything more than media hype. She hemmed, she hawed...she kept trying to talk about 9/11 itself and how those events changed the...etc. etc. etc...blah blah blah... And Tweety kept coming back "Answer the question...answer the question...just answer the question"

[LiberalVoice]

9. That sucks...

I missed it. :(

[Cush]

11. repeats at 11 pm

Its during the last 15 minutes

[shoopnyc123]

14. Mathew's is a Dem...

But HATES THE CLINTONS. And it's over something really petty, like Hill never appearing on his show. He apparently underwent surgery once, and Hill called him, but he still hasn't forgiven her, or her husband. I hear he tends to hold a grudge.

[UTUSN]

45. Tweezer "Turned" Against Dems with RAYGUN

He was a political flunky/operative under CARTER and O'NEILL. In the hothouse of big time political flunkydom, STATUS and POWER come from the SUCCESS of your boss. RAYGUN kicked Tweezer's bosses asses, and Tweezer gravitated to admiring that "success". When he started up his media career he was mentored by G.E. RUSSERT, who had himself already started "turning" whore by "reaching out" to LIMBOsevic and expending his formerly-Lib-bleeding-heart on those poor wingnuts who had been maligned and marginalized, lo those many years. Tweezer started doing video valentines, walking arm in arm with Nancy. He might have tapped into the frenzy of the FAKE impeachment, but "hatred of the CLINTONs" isn't what made him turn. When he's around Senator CLINTON, he is gushing as much as with Nancy. And he tried to be the Press Secretary for CLINTON and got turned down. Can you imagine what a disaster he would have been as Press Secretary?-----making policy on his own, soon resigning over being disciplined. Anyway, he was LOST to us Dems LONG AGO, back around 1988.

[ErasureAcer]

15. I refuse to watch matthews because he keeps calling

Dean "liberal"

Dean isn't liberal, he said so himself.

Tweety needs to do some fact checking or just stop lying to promote whatever agenda he has.

I'm happy his sorry ass is at the bottom of the cable rankings.

[eleny]

16. Her "eyes closed" dramatics were over the top - even for Peggy

Usually, I can't even watch her without wanting to reach out and give her a slap.

[shoopnyc123]

18. How about the ....

"Christopher, Christopher" part! I was dying!

[alcuno]

21. Sycophant, thy name is Peggy!

The "Christopher" stuff just makes me ill.

[Robb]

22. Made her cry? Big deal.

Peggy's last lift stretched her so far towards the ears a stiff wind would make her cry.

(Rowwrrrr!! Kinda catty, I sorta apologize.)

[calimary]

24. She's still Reagan's Monica, as far as I can see.

That "Christopher, Christopher" crap makes me want to heave.

[Ksec]

23. I saw it

All he wanted was for her to answer the question, and she showed she didnt have the character to be honest in the face of reality.

I was surprised he actually got real with a right winger. Maybe media is starting to realize what theyve done with this love fest.

[CatWoman]

26. I missed the first part

but after the commercial, it was poetry in motion :D

[Cocoa]

29. try to catch the replay

the best thing to me is that she obviously did not see this thing coming, she was all smiles in her opening remarks, but the smiles went away when Tweety and O'Donnell went after her.

The other good thing was the reaction of the other woman, from Business Week. She was thoroughly enjoying this unexpected treat. :-)

[grasswire]

30. tomorrow.....

....I'm sure I'll hate him again...but tonight was one of the priceless moments of cable television.

ALMOST as good as the night when David Brock made Joseph diGenova turn purple and blow up like a ball park frank (on Geraldo Rivera's gig).

It's on twice more tonight. Wheeee!!

[Fixated]

33. I don't recall that...

Tonight was classic, but when did the Brock show occur?

[BootinUp]

34. This thread has lifted my spirits

Especially your unabashed glee at the smack down of Noonan.

:hi:

[buycitgo]

42. di genova.....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have that one on tape! and MWO showed a progression of stills, shot from the TV screen itself, IIRC, showing that shill getting more and more purple with each shot.

he well and truly lost it that night, to the point where Brock couldn't really respond, he was so stunned at the explosion taking place in front of him.

I remember the discussion that little episode generated; highly entertaining, including speculations into the awful nature of diG and his ophidian bride's sexual adventures.

[BurtWorm]

91. I saw that one! I still quote it

when I'm making fun of freepers' avoidance tactics, saying "As Joseph diGenova might scream, 'ANSWER THE QUESTION!!'"

[Bozita]

31. I hope that WONK reads this thread

He's good with the Quicktimes.

[Missy Vixen]

35. It was positively inspirational!

>Chris Matthews gets my full respect tonight for going after Peggy Noonan like a pit bull. I never saw him so rough on a guest (and she's one of his favorites.)<

Tweety opened the can of whup-ass on pooooooor Peggy, poured it all over her, and went back for another canful!

YEEEE-HAW!

If you can see the replay, it's worth setting the VCR for. Unbelievable. She completely unraveled under his questions. She then tried to placate him by being cutesy and flirtatious, he stepped up the attack!

Tweety, let's hope this is the start of good things to come!

:toast:

Julie

[Ksec]

36. I did, with Dennis Kucinich

He lit into him even worse than he did Noonan about answering a question that DK was trying to get out of.

I wrote him one angry letter that night

[mandyky]

37. It is funny how the "black and white" GOP

try to go all gray when it comes to Saddam. Poor Peggy refused to give a yes or no answer, insisting Saddam was a bad guy who was "probably" involved with other bad guys. Kudos to Tweety on this interview!

[FarLefty]

38. ITS A KEEPER

Now that was what I call HARDBALL. Its about time. Maybe Kristin being on before Noonan opened Tweetys eyes. Think theres hope afterall and the media wakes up and starts reporting. I can hope anyway. I did tape it.

[alcuno]

39. Welcome to DU, FarLefty

It never lasts long with Matthews, but he does ask the best questions on cable. Last summer he asked the chairman of the RNC if * would try and "dodge" the debates next year. I thought Gillespie's eyes would pop out of his head.

[grasswire]

46. the freepers are hoppin' mad

+++Peggy is an intellectual giant next to him. I can't believe she could have had a chance to adequately respond and not crush him like a bug. More info please. Thanks.

+++He shouted over her quite a bit and came back after the commercial and demanded that she answer him "yes or no". What was at issue was a poll about Saddam and his involvement in 9/11. Peggy correctly had a more complex answer that was perfectly comprehensible, but Matthews wanted her to say that Saddam had no involvement in 9/11 and therefore we had no right to go into Iraq. He demanded she name what act of war Saddam had ever perpetrated against the U.S. It went on and on and I'm leaving out lots of detail, but as was said, it was quite heated. Laurence O'Donnell was the other guest and he stated flatly there is ZERO evidence that Saddam was involved in 9/11, so they wanted Peggy to agree with that.

+++It was awful!! He was taunting her and making fun of her and puttng her down saying she couldn't come up with an answer. He was laughing AT her with Lawrence O'Donnell....and she is supposed to be is FRIEND! I DETEST Chrissy Matthews...he is a BULLY with NO CLASS!

+++Anyone see Crisssy Matthews just beat up Peggy Noonan?? What an ASS he is. I detest him now

+++You all should quit watching that spitting, socialist, drunken sissy Chrissy. Even 10 freepers watching drives up his ratings to dead last. Chrissy's wife pushes him around and puts liberal pressure on him otherwise he gets cut off under the sheets. He probably secretly lusts for Peggy.

[grasswire]

49. one thing about tweety...

...he REALLY hates the fact that Bushco has bamboozled half of the country into believing that Saddam was involved in 9-11. He has consistently been a bulldog on that point.

[Fenris]

51. "Intellectual giant"? Peggy Noonan?

Oh, that is rich.

He was laughing AT her with Lawrence O'Donnell....and she is supposed to be is FRIEND!

That reminds me why I enjoy Lawrence O'Donnell so much. Poor deluded Peggy - so loyal to her masters. Like an affable Eva Braun.

[rumguy]

54. "Peggy Noonan is an intellectual giant"

Idiocy knows no limits.

[BurtWorm]

92. To a flea, an ant is a giant.

;)

[Hoppin_Mad]

67. Hey ! *I'M* 'Hoppin Mad' ! ;-) Have a link to the Fleaper thread ?

I can never find my away around in that dungeon of depravity !

[oasis]

68. I saw the segment. It was priceless. Reminds me of the time Barbara Olson

got her comeupance by a C-SPAN caller.

[JHB]

79. "Chrissy"?

That's their idea of a put-down skew of his name? Merely feminizing it?

[UTUSN]

84. "Chrissy" = Tweety? Oh, Thought They Were Calling NOONAN

"Crissy" from 3's Company. Actually, NOONAN is a pretentious, social climbing wannabe. She acts like she wannabes Grace KELLEY-----give it up, fraud.

[NNN0LHI]

52. When does this come on? I won't believe it until I see it

Hard to make the wicked witch of the west come close to crying.

Don

[WillyT]

53. Comin Up In A Few Moments !!!

After the break!

:kick:

[NNN0LHI]

55. Kristin Breitweiser was really great. She was worth watching n/t

[UTUSN]

57. High Poll Ratings - "You can only catch Saddam ONCE"

NOONAN: "Chris" not "Christopher" yet. Saddam "a HISTORIC BAD GUY. Another good news, economy picking up considerably. (Shrub) WELL situated."

[UTUSN]

59. Tweezer, "If you believe Saddam was personally involved in 9-11

then of course capturing him is a boost."

O'DONNELL: "It's the saddest thing" (to have this false link). If the bump were based on (right reasons for the attack), great, but otherwise SAD."

NOONAN: "American people are not DUMB. They know SH was a bad guy."

Tweezer: "Back to the question."

NOONER: "That IS the question."

Tweezer: "You're not listening. Do YOU think he was personally involved."


NOONER: "I don't think it can be asked as a crystal question."

[UTUSN]

60. Tweezer, 'Do you have any evidence"

"Peggy, you can't handle this question."

[giantrobot_2000]

62. ...

Frrrryyyyyyyyy, Peggy!

[UTUSN]

64. She Just Did the CLOSED EYES Thing for a LONG Time

Tweezer, "I have to go back to you one more time. Do you think he was PERSONALLY INVOLVED in 9-11."

NOONER: "That's too complicated."

Tweezer, "What act of war did SH commit against the U.S."

NOONER: Sputters and spews.

Tweezer: "What act of war."

NOONER: "O.K., Kuwait."

Tweezer: "Kuwait was an act of war against the U.S.?"

O'DONNELL: "CHEENEE has been creating this fog. Saddam's trial will not contain any reference to 9-11 or else he will be ACQUITTED."

[Fenris]

69. What's a crystal question?

I think she's a meth head, personally, but that's just me...

[UTUSN]

86. "Crystal question" = Precious, Pretentious, Conceited Speaking

It's a made up, nothing phrase, like "thousand points of light". She's got the blarney.

[ClarkUeberAlles]

63. just saw it

It was wonderful, Matthews was on the attack! Noonan definitely looked like she was going to cry. I almost felt sorry for her. Almost.

[Hoppin_Mad]

65. He beat up Liberman regarding Iraq too

As much as Tweety irritates the shit out of me, he hasn't really swayed on his opposition to invading Iraq - unlike that whore Buchanan who did a 180.

[grasswire]

66. did you catch....

....her bitter "Thank you. Thank you." at the end? Hahahahahaha!

[madfloridian]

70. He did not let up on her, he pounded her. You are right.

She was unnerved.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

72. He beat up on her pretty good the last time too.

n/t

[Loonman]

74. I saw that ---- Noonan is a craven liar

She's a disgrace to "journalism".

[Norbert]

75. I got up early today for a second watch.

She dodged that question every way possible and he didn't let her off the hook. He actually said she doesn't care (that many people think there is a Saddam : 9/11 link without having evidence).Even when they were signing off CM half chuckled when reading her name.

Tweety, you are too cool.:bounce:

[JNelson6563]

77. I missed it all

But all these posts from everyone sure has me wanting to see it in a big way!!! I don't think I can derive the same pleasure from a transript! haha

Thanks all for posting so much of what happened.

Julie

[Cocoa]

94. Noonan doesn't care

that was great. After getting through with one round against Noonan, he turned to O'Donnell and asked if the American people care as little as Peggy does whether the link is true or not.

Peggy made a strange little noise at that point. :-)

[amber dog democrat]

78. Just wasn't her day

I see this as Karma. Only hope she gets MORE of this treatment.
So, why DID we invade Iraq? What is the rationale this week?

[CatWoman]

81. don't forget folks

MSNBC plays all previous week Hardball reruns over the weekend.

On Saturdays I believe.

Check your local listings.

[grannylib]

87. Ah, excellent! I need to see this and tape it! Noonan is one of the

biggest whores goin'...

[RebelOne]

82. Yes!!! Saw that.

I am beginning to like Chris Matthews just a little.

[UTUSN]

83. Let's Not Go Overboard in "Liking" or "Respecting" Tweety

Don ANUS played a clip of it this A.M., reaching a MUCH larger audience than Tweety's BeanBall show reaches. But when he introduced it, he misstated (on purpose?) that it was a clip of Tweety "accusing Doris Kearns GOODWIN of INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY." It's hard to believe that the jerk said it that way as a misspeaking. Somebody posted here the other day a quote from FDR saying that whenever anything happens you can bet somebody MADE it happen on purpose. But it was good to see that one or two of ANUS's stooges has come around, or at least just SAID fwiw, our position, that the Iraq attack was launched under FALSE PRETENSES irrespective of removing Saddam, that our kids have died, that there should be OUTRAGE.

[Ishoutandscream]

90. Around and around she goes. Where Peggy stops, no one knows

Just answer the damn question. Oh, that's right, you can't. If you answered it correctly, you wouldn't be touting the party line (or is it "lie").

[eissa]

93. I've never seen anything like that!

I usually cringe for someone in that position, even if I don't like them. But I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching her squirm last night! Oh, the pain on her face! It lifted my spirits -- I was grinning from ear to ear! Matthews has earned my respect (well, until he goes back to kissing *'s ass). And O'Donnell!! OMG! He was just brilliant! God, I hope we see more of this sort of grilling of repukes in the upcoming year.