BREAKING: Jack Welch is about to Croak on Hardball/Chris Matthews Show

[itsrobert]

Looking like an old fool.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. What a dumbass. nt

[Rosco T.]

2. Chris is NOT BACKING down...

GET HIM!

[BumRushDaShow]

6. But Tweety needs to APOLOGIZE his own damn self.

His temper tantrum the other night was a fucking disgrace.

[elleng]

28. THAT's true, but nothing new for matthews;

happens ALL the time.

[CTyankee]

50. He does go all drama king on us, doesn't he?

We sure didn't need it, to say the least!

Nice to see him calmed down now. He's all smiles with these BLS numbers...

[Iliyah]

71. elleng

How is Powell doing against Cantor?

[elleng]

72. Not spending $$$ on polling,

but anecdotally, letters to editors/journalists in papers reviewing debate etc. are UNIFORMLY pro-Powell and anti-cantor, hundreds of 'likes' and fb comments.

Attending rally tomorrow, first and only BIG event, so will see what crowd looks like and what kind of coverage it gets.

Thanks for asking.

[INdemo]

63. True ..he did have a meltdown..and so did Ed

Its time to move on..
What he needs to do is watch a full length video of the Presidents campaign in Colo. and VA..
All is well...

[OldDem2012]

70. Damn right! See my post #69. nt.

[kentuck]

8. Didn't he use to be Chris' boss??

Most MSNBC folks don't talk to him like Chris is doing.

[DURHAM D]

35. Yes

and if I recall correctly Tweety owns a house just down the lane from Jack on Martha's Vineyard.

[spanone]

3. jack welsh knows more than the President. who knew?

fuck you jack.

i don't know you but you are a partisan asshole.

regarding his tweet 'i have no evidence to prove it'

'it seems coincidental that the number is 7.8'

again, fuck you jack

[Cha]

48. Poor Jack Welch..The numbers aren't what he wants to

see for his guy mitt so they're "cooked".

[HurricaneWarning]

67. I agree with the fuck you but.....

I'm thinking that he had some money in that game and was surprised this morning when the fix was not in. That's why he had a meltdown. Another silly old white man huffing and puffing.

[Indpndnt]

4. Sounds like he's about to croak for real. And I don't mean his voice.

He's freaking me out. He looks and sounds sick. And nuts. Definitely, nuts.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. More details please

For those of us not in front of a TV. Thank you in advance

[BumRushDaShow]

12. The former head of GE Jack Welsh

supposedly (I doubt he did it himself) sent out a tweet alleging that the UE report was fake and blamed the "Chicago guys".

And he's doubling down on his nonsense.

[avebury]

29. This from a guy that used to run a company

that does not pay taxes.

[Indpndnt]

13. He's defending his tweet saying today's jobs numbers were cooked by "those Chicago guys."

He says now he has no proof, but he wonders and his tweet was just a question. Except it wasn't. It was a statement saying the numbers were cooked by crooked Chicago politicians and Obama used them because he can't debate.

[itsrobert]

14. Tweety is being polite to him, but also letting him have it

n/t

[elleng]

19. Heard first couple sentences,

basically suggesting 'conspiracy' (my word) re: today's job numbers.

[sammytko]

20. He's not backing down from his tweet this morning

Tweety is asking how the president got to the bureau of labor statistics.

And welch's voice is really bad. Like they just pulled the trach tube out before they brought him over from the nursing home.

[Cha]

49. Brawawaaa This just makes Pres Obama Look

Even Better! Thanks Jack

[Cali_Democrat]

34. Thanks everyone for the details. n/t

[tarheelsunc]

7. This old fart is full of it

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Tweety is nailing his ass to the MSNBC door

[elleng]

10. SOUNDING like an old fool.

Surprised as GE was and is a pretty good company. Don't usually watch matthews; friend asked us to, but I've muted welch.

[Nostradammit]

38. "GE was and is a pretty good company"

Bovine Excrement.

GE has a history of some of its activities giving rise to large-scale air and water pollution. Based on year 2000 data,[48] researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute listed the corporation as the fourth-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, with more than 4.4 million pounds per year (2,000 tons) of toxic chemicals released into the air.[49] GE has also been implicated in the creation of toxic waste. According to EPA documents, only the United States Government, Honeywell, and Chevron Corporation are responsible for producing more Superfund toxic waste sites.[50]

In 1983, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York to compel GE to pay for the cleanup of what was claimed to be more than 100,000 tons of chemicals dumped (legally, at the time) from their plant in Waterford, New York.[51] In 1999, the company agreed to pay a $250 million settlement in connection with claims it polluted the Housatonic River (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) and other sites with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous substances.[52]

From approximately 1947 to 1977, GE discharged as much as 1.3 million pounds of PCBs from its capacitor manufacturing plants at the Hudson Falls and Fort Edward upstate New York facilities into the Hudson River.[53] GE fought a media and political battle to avoid cleaning up the river and countered that dredging the river would actually stir up PCBs.[54] In 2002, GE was ordered to clean up a 40-mile (64 km) stretch of the Hudson River it had contaminated.[55]

In 2003, acting on concerns that the plan proposed by GE did not "provide for adequate protection of public health and the environment," the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a unilateral administrative order for the company to "address cleanup at the GE site" in Rome, Georgia, also contaminated with PCBs.[56]

The nuclear reactors involved in the 2011 crisis at Fukushima I in Japan are GE designs,[57] and the architectural designs were done by Ebasco,[58] formerly owned by GE. Concerns over the design and safety of these reactors were raised as early as 1975.[59]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric

[amuse bouche]

68. Thank you

People need to be reminded that old Jack was a vile polluter. What a disgusting pig

[JI7]

11. Why do most of Romney supporters look that way, just look at SUnunu

[Indpndnt]

18. Demented and pissed?

Yeah, they do. Twisted in all kinds of ways, too, no doubt.

[aletier_v]

22. My parents support Romney. They're from a different time.

Welch and my parents understand the post WW2 era and today's world is considerably different.

They just really don't understand a lot of things.

[Indpndnt]

30. Mine are older than Welch, but they loathe Willard and deeply despise Lyin'.

I've been very impressed, really.

[aletier_v]

40. There's no point in attacking Welch now

He's irrelevant and his time has passed.

It just makes Matthews look spiteful.

[catbyte]

45. I disagree. We must loudly call out GOP bs whenever & wherever we find it

I'm glad Tweety nailed his ass to the wall.

[aletier_v]

46. There's no point in looking spiteful

Young people rarely understand that, though.

[Indpndnt]

53. Lol! I'm probably older than you.

And I don't think Tweety was spiteful. In fact, he kept saying how much he liked Welch and how he was sure Welch would revisit this later and change his mind. Especially since Welch predicted 7.9% which is damn close to 7.8%! That was funny!

[aletier_v]

58. 54. But I still think he should have left Welch off the show

He should have known better, especially after Clint Eastwood.

I know Eastwood's head was on right, unlike many other people, but Eastwood doesn't understand the world now, how much more conformist it's become, how easy it is to twist uncoformity into "an issue".

Welch's mentality was shaped by an economy which was production-constrained.

Today's economy is not production-constrained, it's consumption-constrained and he's never seen that and doesn't understand it.

[Indpndnt]

59. Ooh, you just squeaked in before me. Probably by a few months or so.

Good points about Welch and Eastwood, btw. I hadn't considered the issue of constraints on Welch's POV. Although, to be honest, I think he was determined to tweet something, anything, in support of Willard. His own guess of 7.9% is .1% off of the actual numbers and he's screaming conspiracy?? lol

[aletier_v]

60. Like I said, I deal with it with my parents

And I know from my own experience in the job market and dealing with 30-year-olds.

You and I, all of us, are raised in a certain context that sets basic belief parameters. And everything else is built upon those over time and there very, very difficult to change.

My parents hate Obama with a passion and it can only be from listening to Rush, Beck, etc.

They really do not understand how much the world has changed since 2001.

[pacalo]

62. I agree it needs to be addressed. It's refreshing to see more of the media calling out their b.s.

[darkangel218]

15. He sounds drunk to me

[Godless in Seattle]

64. His voice sounds like a boy hitting puberty

His words sound like an old man hitting senility.

[malaise]

16. Sounding like a bigger one

Not one shred of evidence - fuck him.

[DURHAM D]

17. I love that Tweety

is letting this guy show his ignorant ass on the tv.

[Indpndnt]

25. Tweety is nailing him to the wall over and over again. And smiling about it!

The old guy is gonna stroke out on TV. Lol! He keeps saying, "C'mon, Chris!"

[BumRushDaShow]

31. But then he praised him at the end.

And bragged about how much money he made for them.

[Indpndnt]

37. Yeah, but by hammering him like that it was clear this is outrageous behavior by Welch.

A guy who has the experience to know better.

That's the way I read it.

[BumRushDaShow]

54. I think it was done in exchange for getting the exclusive interview. n/t

[Indpndnt]

56. Yeah, there is that. True.

Although, I think Welch will scarper off to Faux asap. He didn't look good on Tweety's show. He wants to score points for Willard.

Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to Faux he goes!

[BumRushDaShow]

61. LOL

Maybe Neil Cavuto.

[Gabi Hayes]

66. you missed my anderson cooper thread, I see

[BumRushDaShow]

73. On days like this, the threads move fast

but I did find it and I think Tweety would have been the 1st to get him live - being NBC Universal was Welch's former property. Anderson comes on @ 8 ET.

IMHO, Anderson doesn't belong on the Conservative News Network but I think he has some clout thanks to his Mom.

[PA Democrat]

21. Good for Tweety.

He is not cutting him any slack. Asks Welch for proof of his accusation that the numbers were cooked. And gave him several opportunities to retract his accusation.

[Egalitarian Thug]

23. And only 35 years too late. Scum of the earth. n/t

[swayne]

24. Jack Welch can't CROAK his way out of his TWITTER LIE. GOOD JOB Chris Matthews!

[Bigleaf]

26. There was no problem when the monthly jobs numbers had unemployment >8% eh Jack, you senile fuck!!

Fucking beat it, asswipe!!

[Skidmore]

27. His iggest beef appears to be that Romney has been

called a liar over the past few days.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

33. He and Romney probably have their asses wiped by the same attendant at the country club

That has brought them close.

[doublethink]

44. He said it ...

best take-away clip from that encounter.

[spanone]

32. this bastard is making some serous allegations. he's accusing Obama of cheating the numbers.

these are serious allegations. he's a total fucking wingnut

[porphyrian]

36. *sigh*...he didn't.

I am so going to hell...

[spanone]

39. add my 'sigh' and save me a seat!

[porphyrian]

41. ...

[darkangel218]

42. lol!

[porphyrian]

43. ...

[JoePhilly]

47. That was great.

[spanone]

51. maybe jack & clint should go on the road together....'wingnut and empty chairs'

[LongTomH]

65. +1000

[MADem]

52. He needs to shut up and take his aracept--no fool like an old fool. nt

[liberalmuse]

55. I can't wait to watch Letterman.

He should have a few things to say about this.

[Cirque du So-What]

57. Get back to us

when the old bastid finally croaks for real. As Mark Twain said, 'I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.'

[OldDem2012]

69. Tweety has a good way to go before I ever watch his show again....

....his performance after the debate has been a major negative spectacle, IMHO. He's done nothing but give aid and comfort to the enemy.

The same goes for Bighead Ed.