who is this Mike Smerconish goof that Matthews keeps fawning over...

[bridgit]

http://www.mastalk.com/mastalk x( Chris Matthews, bringing hate radio to hate TV :shrug:

[julialnyc]

1. he just praised Michael Savage too

the guy who calls democrats demoncats, homosexuals sodomites and lost his show on msnbc for telling a gay caller that he hopes that he gets AIDS and dies........... Tweety just praised that evil man for getting the port deal killed

[bridgit]

4. Matthews!?! Matthews will do & say anything for ratings...

:thumbsdown:

[LittleClarkie]

11. Gee, I thought that was Dobbs

myself, who helped kill the port deal

[salin]

25. says volumes about Matthews

that he views Savage as having more influence than Lou Dobbs. :shrug:

[MrSlayer]

2. He's a Rush/Hannity clone based here in Philly.

He's a total propagandist hack.

[bridgit]

3. my god, you poor people...

only half kidding :hi: the guy is freaking difficult to absorb x(

[MrSlayer]

7. It's not really that bad. No one listens to him here.

Philly is as blue as blue can be. He's seen as an idiot and a Bush apologist. The only problem we have is that there is no liberal alternative to listen to. The "Big Talker" is straight neo-con talk.

[bridgit]

9. bwahaha, good one...

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[LSparkle]

5. OMG, no WONDER Tweety's drooling over him ...

Tweets' brother is running for Lt. Gov. (as a Rethug) in Pennsylvania -- Smerconish is probably talking his candidacy up on his show.

[MrSlayer]

8. Could be. I don't listen to the idiot.

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if that was the case.

[Eurobabe]

6. Smerconish is a fucking goon

'nuf said.

[bridgit]

10. he does have that 'shell shocked' look in his eye, all tweaky-like...

:scared:

[brucefan]

12. I don't know,but,

that guy sure has a face for radio.

[bridgit]

13. good one2, yet Matthews keeps bringing his ass on TV...

:shrug: the guy won't shut the hell up x( it's a hallmark of hate radio = just keep flapping your gums :thumbsdown:

[BlueManDude]

14. Tweety's brother is running for office in PA and he's currying favor

with Smerconish who is a local talk show host.

[bridgit]

16. ah haaaaaa thanks for the soap dish, i think we have a winner...

:hi: :thumbsup: maybe he doesn't want smerconish to dump on his bro too fucking bad, so he's making the rest of us, the nation so as to say, pay the price in the form of having to listen to his psychotic gibberish coast to coast = classic Matthews indeed, using public airwaves for the personal aggrandizement of myself & his family

[PCIntern]

15. Smerconish is on WCAU AM in Philly...

a real schmuck and a dittohead. A sanctimonious fool who thinks he's on his way to the big time like Rush and Savage and those other fools. He ain't gonna make it because not only is he not particularly bright, but he has our horrible Philly accent and sounds like a two-digit IQ 2-Streeter (gotta be from here to understand) who got sent to college on a City Councilman's scholarship program.

Other than that, he's a great guy...

[bridgit]

17. i've only seen the guy like 2 times and i have already had quite...

enough of his dumb-ass x(

[julialnyc]

21. so Mathews is working on good PR for his brother

who is running in PA?

Can you imagine if a talking head had a democrat relative running in New York and had Randi Rhodes on their show talking about what a great voice she is.

[0007]

18. Here ya go!

[bridgit]

19. the guy looks like a meth tweak to me...

x(

[PCIntern]

20. Typical!

So sanctimonious. Always talking about people who agree with him as heroes, right-thinkers, sane, religious, logical, insightful.

[Poiuyt]

22. Media Matters calls out the Matthews-Smerconish connection

Why is Chris Matthews -- whose brother is running for Pa. lt. gov. -- touting "all" his family's love for Philly radio host Smerconish?

Summary: On MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews praised conservative Philadelphia-based radio host Michael Smerconish, despite Smerconish's history of controversial statements. But as Smerconish has made several recent appearances on Hardball, neither he nor Matthews has mentioned that Matthews's brother Jim, who is the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania, appeared at a political event in Pennsylvania that Smerconish moderated.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603090013

[bridgit]

23. matthews is disgusting...

[TorchTheWitch]

24. I had the displeasure of having to work with him

back in the mid-later 90's. Anyone who's had to deal with him knows that he's a sad camera chasing dork. He's one of those people that is DESPERATE to be the center of everyone's world, and it actually bothers him if a lowly doorman or janitor (who he will probably never see again) doesn't think well of him. He would far rather that you hated him then didn't give a crap about him one way or the other. I always thought of him as never growing out of that popularity game that is played in junior high. He was actually a fairly decent attorney... no better and no worse then anyone else in med mal or personal injury niche. Pretty much anyone who has ever had to deal much with him in person would wonder about the germaphobia thing... he's EXCESSIVELY clean and tidy... a bit Howard Hughes-ish, but either not that bad or he hides it well (but not well enough). He's polite yet arrogant enough to be insulting... tell him once to bite your ass, and he not only backs down, but goes out of his way to try to make you like him afterward (to the point of fawning). For some hysterical reason he thinks he's a studmuffin. The single biggest feeling he seems to generate in people that deal with him is probably pity.

[bridgit]

26. when you put it that way, i feel sorry for two things: i feel sorry for...

him cause i suppose we'd all like to be liked...but then i feels sorry for the nation for his, and so many others in hate radio like him, for foisting their negative, anal retentive gibberish on what will in the end be this entire nation; with the likes of him riling up parents & students, as a mere for instance, to go into classrooms and tape what they consider to be 'ill words' against their fuhrer.

i don't care how popular they want to be, they should not be able to accomplish that end at the expense of american freedom & liberty imo

[salin]

27. sounds rather pathetic

thanks for the description.

[TorchTheWitch]

28. He is Mr. Pathetic

There is no question that he still pushes that boulder uphill in Philly is because he has zero competition in that area here... if your dog wanted to be a right wing nut on the airwaves here, Mikey would be back in his old office (which he still has) lawyering full time again because even your dog would generate more interest then him. I almost feel sorry for him because once his face time with Tweety comes to an end, that'll be it for him... and Mikey will be utterly and completely crushed, yet he'll continue slogging away because he's just one of those people that needs recognition so badly. No doubt in my mind that if he thought he could do it, he'd try to become a rock star... even though he has no more interest in music then he does in politics. Mikey just wants to be famous... period.

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