Great Tweety article in Slate!

[deaniac21]

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

[AlinPA]

1. Matthews is nothing but a loudmouth slobbering fool.

[ThomWV]

2. I'll second that ....

[ErinBerin84]

3. it bothered me

How he said the other day (and repeated this a couple weeks ago ) that there was a reverse Bradley effect in PA bc "polls showed Obama only three points ahead the week before". Uh, I do not remember those polls, Chris. I think that they were a figment of the RNC's imagination. Also, he seems to want to give credit to these racists instead of call them out for it (did not say as much the other day, but he had before. "The white voters who didn't say that they wanted to vote for Obama and didn't want credit." Oh yeah, real fucking act of bravery there.)

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

4. "where they steam like hot lava in untouchable heaps"

They said "lava" but they are depicting something else.

There are some really mixed up metaphors in that writing. It will become one of those teensy items in the New Yorker where they make fun of tortured prose.

[Tatiana]

5. This piece is hilarious, in part, because it is so true.

Matthews' colleagues laughed at his story, and taking that as encouragement, he continued: "And he gives me one of those things that only a great jock hero can do, those great winks. Great jocks can do, because they know you're a fan."

Olbermann did the only thing a sane man can do in a case like this. He said, "Right," which Matthews took as an invitation to repeat the "kicker" to his inconsequential brush with Ali.

"And he gave me one of those great Muhammad Ali winks. I'll never forget that," Matthews said.

So funny!