Chris "Tweety" Matthews: midterms a referendum on Nancy Pelosi

[AX10]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609050006

"On the September 5 broadcast of NBC's Today, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews, discussing the November elections with host Matt Lauer, asserted that "the stakes" in the midterms would include "whether we want Nancy Pelosi to be the first woman speaker of the House or not." Matthews predicted that, in the event that Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in the November elections, "that iconic fact of that woman sitting behind the president during a State of the Union address is an enormous change in our culture," referring to Pelosi."

This election is s referendum of *!

:eyes:

[FrenchieCat]

1. Matthew don't care....he just says what he thinks will help his ilk....

and that ain't US!

[dorktv]

2. Chris Matthews...please tell me he has not bred.

[rodeodance]

3. he does come up with some dussies!

[Jack Rabbit]

4. It seems the last thing people have in mind when voting for Congress

. . . is who will be speaker.

I'll bet most people have only a vague idea who Nancy Pelosi is and it wouldn't make a lot of difference in the coming election if more people did.

[tanyev]

5. Oh, yeah, it's all about Nancy Pelosi.

How many people outside of California have ever even heard of Nancy Pelosi?

[FrenchieCat]

6. When up against a hard wall.......folks will try the damnest things....

no exception here!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. It was PELOSI, all along! Tattaglia was a pimp, he NEVER could have

outfought Santino!

Sheesh, I never realized that it was actually Nancy Pelosi, and not a Republican President and Congress, that was running the country into the dirt all this time!

[K8-EEE]

8. OMG--What A Sexist Jerk!!!

Forget the fact that a crook and liar has been in that spot all this time, we can't have a WOMAN...i can't stand Tweety!!

[Captain Hilts]

9. 9 out of 10 United Statesians probably don't know who she is.

That's not a rap on her, it's just that they probably don't. I was in polling, it's astonishing what folks don't know.

[MaineDem]

13. Exactly

The average Joe or Jill Sixpack has no idea who Pelosi is and certainly doesn't consider the leadership of the House when voting for Congress.


PS. Your nickname still gives me nightmares. ;)

[stopbush]

10. Politics as midrash - derash & sod.

[leesa]

11. I don't think this Pelosi spin is working out for them. Their

constituency is not bright enough to understand it.

[marions ghost]

12. cheap shot

oh dear, a woman sitting behind the president. Isn't that what they always do?

Who'd want to sit any closer--you might get a neck massage.

After all these years, women are fair game. "An enormous change in our culture" --gimme a break. Fearmongering for fundies.