“We’re all neo-cons now”

[CatWoman]

One of the most gleeful commentators on network television was MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews. “We’re all neo-cons now,” he crowed on April 9, 2003, hours after a Saddam Hussein statue tumbled in Baghdad.

Weeks later, Matthews was still at it, making categorical declarations: “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.”

Simplistic was more like it. And, in the rush of stateside enthusiasm for war on Iraq, centrist pundits like Matthews -- apt to sway with the prevailing wind -- were hardly inclined to buck the jingoistic storm.

Pseudo-patriotic hot air remained at gale force on Fox News Channel, still blowing strong. “Tommy Franks and the coalition forces have demonstrated the old axiom that boldness on the battlefield produces swift and relatively bloodless victory,” Tony Snow told viewers in late April. “The three-week swing through Iraq has utterly shattered skeptics’ complaints.”

What passes for liberalism on Fox also cheered and gloated. Sean Hannity’s weak debating partner, Alan Colmes, threw down a baiting challenge on April 25. “Now that the war in Iraq is all but over,” Colmes demanded, “should the people in Hollywood who opposed the president admit they were wrong?”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-solomon/warloving-pundits_b_17424.html

[MadMaddie]

1. If we had complicated Guys like Clinton, Dukakis, Gore, Mondale

this country would not be slipping into hell!!


<snip>
who’s not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale
<snip.

[0007]

2. God! How do you remember all that garbage about Chris Matthews?

Hey baby, I just seen that you got it from Huffington Post, which BTW I haven't read yet, but will. 'Tis one of my favorite blogs.
:hi::loveya:

[CatWoman]

5. what makes this so funny

is the way Tweety looked last night as he was reading Bush's shitty poll numbers.

Tweety was on the verge of tears!!!

:hi:

:loveya:

[calimary]

8. CNN's Bill Schneider looked that way, too, earlier this week when I

went to the bank and watched the monitor while waiting in line. Sure enough, there he was, parsing the numbers of the then-new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll that showed their darling boy king sinking farther down into the dumper.

Bill Schneider could NOT be more transparent. His facial expressions could NOT be more clear or easier to read. He was a sober as an undertaker. Usually, he smirks a little, his eyes twinkle a little, and he gets this almost impish look about him whenever he's on camera. When the news is good for republi-CONS and/or bush and bad for Dems, he's quite ebullient. When things don't look so good for bush and friends, he's as somber and serious as can be. This most recent time made me think he looked like he'd just come from his doctor's office, after being told he had a terminal disease. The boy did NOT look happy, AT ALL. In fact, he looked a little stricken. He looked as though this was bad news that was SO bad it wasn't expected to perk back up again anytime soon - as though in his view this looks awfully permanent, just isn't gonna get any better for the boob-in-chief. They never introduce him as being a partisan with the American Enterprise Institute, but he is. So it's not surprising he'd look like he'd just been read the Last Rites. Didn't even smile when he finished his report and handed off, either, and ordinarily even when the news isn't to his liking, he bounces back fairly gamely by the time he signs off. Not this time. He knows bush is in DEEP trouble, and is gonna drag the whole works down with him. Makes me wonder just what they're handwringing about over there in that think-tank home of his these days.

[CatWoman]

10. Bush's poll numbers have never been anything to be proud of

and starting with Cindi, the public is seeing the REAL Bush, not some invention of Karl Rove and the RNC.

Katrina really, utterly pulled back the curtain.

What support and/or popularity he did enjoy at one time was built on deception and lies. And the "war".

[0007]

15. Wish Tweety would drop dead!

Perhaps I can get the video?

[CatWoman]

19. .....

http://www.canofun.com/cof/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=17755&mid=103835#M103835

[0007]

20. Pat Buchanan fits right in on MSNBC, this guy is so yesterday

I thought he'd had died.

[AX10]

3. Just vile!

But, Tweets is always vile.

[0007]

4. You can say that again!

He makes me :puke:

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Matthews should know that was a lie. I never was, am not now, nor

never will be a neo-con.

[AX10]

7. 25% of the nation always opposed the war in Iraq.

Bush's highest approval rating during the Iraq War in March-April 2003 was 72%. 25% disapproved.

[neuvocat]

9. Here's my prediction:

Matthews will eventually get booted and then hired on Fox a-la O'Reilly.

[CatWoman]

11. agreed

after all, he IS trying to get his brother elected.

Fox is the one and ONLY place for hard core Bush bots.

[specimenfred1984]

12. They Pulled That From This Story Yesterday

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2842

--- "The Final Word Is Hooray!"
Remembering the Iraq War's Pollyanna pundits ---

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

13. I wonder if this is what Al Franken was reading from this

morning. He was listing all the 'whoop whoop' comments from the bloviating idiots about how the war was soo frickin' easy. (of course, none of them were in it). It was just shamefull. How those asshats can look themselves in the mirror, much less show back up in front of a camera absolutely boggles my mind.

[Coexist]

14. k & r

[SoCalDem]

16. "...we like having a hero as our president..."

Kennedy was the last war "hero" we had...

He saved his men's lives even though he was injured...

Carter served, but no special heroics were attruibuted to him..
Johnson..no war hero, but I think he did serve in the military
Nixon...nope
Reagan..(he played them in the movies, but didn;t serve..even though he said he did)
Poppy..bailed out..saved his OWN skin, but left two to die when the pilotless plane crashed..I always wonder what they though when they looked out and saw Poppy's 'chute..
Clinton never served
*² deserted the cushy NG spot Daddy bought him..(standing on the remains of people killed in the WTC does NOT make one a hero)

[Iris]

17. That makes me want to hurl.

God, how just disgusting and juvenile.

[Lars39]

18. Garrison Keiller said "We're all Republicans, now." a few years ago.

Satire, though. Not the sycophantic yearnings Matthews emits.

[ContraBass Black]

21. When the time comes to pay the piper,

We'll all be held to account, like neocons.