WTF, Tweety Spouting Off, Saying NOW The Repukes

[ChiciB1]

have a GREAT issue to run against the Democrats because of the terrorist threat in Canada! Even said there's been a 9 pt. turn around with women who now are willing to support Repukes. Dems were up by 2 pts. but now Repukes up by 7!

Did he really have to make such a huge deal with this? He actually said this is terrible for Democrats who are perceived "weak" when it comes to protecting this country! What a swell guy!

[JaneyVee]

1. A shooting in Canada?! Here in America we call that "Wednesday".

[mucifer]

2. Well it is true. That's the perception. The media loves it. He's part of the media.

Because it was george bush who killed bin laden right?

We are so screwed.

[ChiciB1]

5. Don't Know How Many Saw It, But Did He Really

need to sound so enthusiastic? I can't believe how he made this such a BIG DEAL! I just don't have enough words to say how disgusted I am! Talk about throwing Democrats in tight races under the bus, well he sure sounded the alarm bell... BIG TIME!

[Dawson Leery]

3. You (Chris) mediawhores push this nonsense.

Fear! Fear! Fear!

[madashelltoo]

4. I often wonder about old Chris.

He flips more often than the pages of a book in a windstorm.

[elleng]

6. Don't LISTEN to him!

[ChiciB1]

8. Hey, It's Not Me That's Gonna Believe This Stuff...

Too many others WILL listen to him! That's the reason I'm talking about this. He almost sounded happy. Don't think he was, but it sure came off that way.

[TwilightGardener]

7. We can stop a terror attack in Canada--perpetrated BY Canadians?

Did not know that...

[Recursion]

9. No, but if even our genial tundra-bound neighbors to the north face a threat

then it makes selling fear easier.

[ChiciB1]

10. Some One Else Just Jumped the White House Fence!!

Guess I'll just sit back and watch the show... coming to all of us soon and guess who's to blame! Just keeps getting better and better and too many of our own Democrats don't have it in them to stand up for Obama or even their own constituents.

Maybe I'm calling wolf when I shouldn't, but somehow I think this is going to be shouted out loud and clear from the Repukes! I doubt they'll miss a beat. Can almost hear them now!

[Fred Sanders]

11. I am sure Canada wants nothing to do with importing American paranoia or American media.

And exactly how does America propose to help or have anything to do with a native borne Canadian doing a criminal act in Canada?

Keep your mitts off of the only sane nation in the Western Hemisphere.

[UTUSN]

12. Tweety is a Known-known, for years

[font size=5]Chris MATTHEWS [/font]

Etymology of "Tweety". During Campaign 2000 the media noise machine was swooning over the nicknames Shrub was giving some of them. Media Whores Online ran a contest to nickname Chris MATTHEWS. In the first three or so weeks, there was no clear, catchy front runner, with "The Screamer" sort of leading. Then one of MATTHEWS's own Hardball staff leaked to MWO that they themselves called him "Tweety" because of the Clairol shade of hair coloring he favored. This was immediately declared the winner. But in some quarters, it wasn't entirely satisfactory. For one thing, by the time the name was declared, the shade had changed to platinum, leading to a suggestion he be called "Carole LOMBARD".




Plus, "Tweety" sounded too affectionate.

Then M-TV held its 20th or 25th or whatever anniversary, and all the cable echo chambers were doing segments of Britney shedding her duds down to almost nothing. Not to be left behind, Tweety followed suit, with a guest "culture" commentator from Time Mag, the young humor columnist, Joel STEIN. The staff kept re-running the Britney clip, and Tweety was clearly DROOLING disgustingly. STEIN said, "You're beginning to creep me out." Tweety responded, "Yeah, well, wait till YOU're 50." This led to the suggestion that "Tweety" be modified to "Tweezer" to retain the hair reference while canceling out the affection factor and also adding the (dirty old) "geezer" angle.

Darrell HAMMOND "Doing" Tweety on SNL. Tweety's ego was massively stroked after the debut of HAMMOND's impersonation of him, either in 2001 or 2002. He said, "I am now an ICON: I have been 'done' on Saturday Night Live'." The funniest line in the debut was HAMMOND as Tweety, cracking himself up with, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]"For the ... FIFTY ... people who watch this show[/FONT]...” (Hardball, not SNL). In the first few times HAMMOND featured him, the target was Tweety himself -- manically interrupting, spitting, and drooling. However, the characterization evolved, not true to the original, where Tweety became the "rational" character surrounded by oddball, extremist "guests", with HAMMOND-Tweety shaking his head in disbelief at their partisan spin.

"Turning" from Being a Democrat. He (like G.E.RUSSERT and Pat CADDELL) still trades on having been a Democrat in the CARTER/O'NEILL era. In the hothouse of big time political flunkydom, STATUS and POWER come from the SUCCESS of your boss. RAYGUN kicked Tweety's bosses' rears, and Tweety gravitated to admiring that "success". When he started up his media career he was mentored by G.E. RUSSERT, who had himself already started "turning" by "reaching out" to LIMBOsevic and expending his formerly-Lib-bleeding-heart on those poor wingnuts who had been maligned and marginalized by the Liberal Elite, lo those many years. Tweety started doing video valentines to RAYGUN, promenading arm in arm with Nancy. He might have tapped into the frenzy of the FAKE impeachment, but "hatred of the CLINTONs" isn't what made him turn. The last time he was identifiably a Democrat was sometime around 1988 when Hardball (the book) was published. Throughout the year of Campaign 2000 he savaged the Dem candidate daily and went on to years of bromance over Shrub, renouncing any Democratic heritage. He said his parents were “cloth coat" (Rethugs), and that basically what first drew him to the Dem side was Irish-Catholic pride over JFK. Not ideology, not idealism. He said the reason he joined the Peace Corps was specifically to avoid going to Vietnam.

How Tweety "Executed" DONAHUE on MSNBC. Tweety was on his book tour for another one of his "books" (large type, wide spaces between lines, blank half-pages). It was in the jingoistic hysteria in the run-up to the illegal Iraq attack. The book was about supposed "Americanism" -- an American Civ 101 ripoff about books and movies and cultural stuff that are essentially American (think, "The Great Gatsby&quot . So Phil welcomed him as a colleague and peer on Phil's show for the full hour to plug the book. From the moment he appeared, there was a strange, deadly snake look in Tweety's snake eyes. Phil was walking around the audience, apparently not sensing anything, while Tweety was motionless, following him only with his eyes. Phil brought up something or other questioning blind, kneejerk jingoism, and Tweety STRUCK! He started out with venom dripping, "You see, THIS is EXACTLY what's wrong with YOU Liberals: You are NEGATIVE about this country, you find NOTHING good about it," and on and on. It took awhile before Phil figured out what was happening. Later, Phil, devastated and spent, was sitting at the table with Tweety and, weaker and weaker, did some of his trademark shoulder shrugging and arm waving. Tweety delivered the coup de grace, "What's THIS (mimicking the movements)??!! What's with the --APE-- movements???!" Days or a week or two later, Phil's cancellation was announced and took effect.

How Tweety "Triggered" a Gun Incident (re: Kathleen WILLEY). At the height of the FAKE impeachment, Ms WILLEY claimed that a mystery jogger had threatened her or her cat or somebody, with the insinuation that there was a CLINTON connection. Several months later, there was gossip that the jogger had been identified. Tweety hosted her and it appeared they had discussed the identity off camera. He tried mightily to get her to say the name on the air, which she wouldn't do. Finally, he himself blurted it out, "Was it (Name/Surname)?" She wouldn’t confirm it. Within days there was a bizarre incident, with the mentally disabled brother of Pat and Bay BUCHANAN going with a gun to the house of the supposed jogger named by Tweety, where there were only some foreign exchange students present. Later it was determined that the person Tweety named on the air had NOTHING to do with the supposed jogger incident.

"Heroes" Tweety and Tom DeLAY. In the aftermath of the 07-24-98 shooting of two Capitol police officers when the slain officers were duly eulogized and called heroes, Tweety latched on to this, the way we have seen him attempt to glorify himself in other instances: Like saying he was assigned to Africa in the Peace Corps and "WALKED THE SAME GROUND" THAT CHURCHILL had passed through. Or when he said, "I am an ICON! I have been 'done' by SNL!". So now that the Capitol policemen were being called heroes, Tweety came forward to say that HE had been a Capitol policemen, TOO, JUST LIKE THEM, when he was starting out. It turns out that he had worked a (temporary?) job for three months as that. In all the years before the officers were shot and eulogized, he probably NEVER referred to that job, most likely thinking of it as a rent-a-cop turn, until he could see in retrospect the glory that he had been DESTINED to from the beginning.

But he is not the only glory hog. When that incident was happening, the news of the moment reported that Tom DELAY had hopped a plane out of town and immediately turned around in Houston when the incident was over. This show of courage is why he has been dubbed, "Tom-DePLANE!-DePLANE!-DELAY".

But searches of countless news reports of that time show no mention of the hopping-the-plane. Only this is left:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm /... "...House members, many rushing out of town, did not have to remain behind. DeLay slipped out the main door of the Capitol less than 15 minutes after the shooting. He looked stricken. Asked if he'd seen anything, he said, "Did I ever. I don't want to talk about it." Aides rushed him into his waiting car. ...."
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[ChiciB1]

13. Quite The Read Here, But I'm Aware Of A Lot Of It...

Not so much the Phil Donahue part, but it's quite evident when he appears on any other show. He always makes a BIG DEAL about mentioning it and the showing his own clip. Yes, he inflates his ego all the time and when it suits the situation. I've never been one that trusts him all that much. When he writes a book or does anything we're sure to hear about it over and over. While I can't prove it, I think he was extremely upset when they brought Ed Schultz back in his first time slot. Seems I recall comments made here about this. I'll take Schultz over him any day!

Thanks for all the information and I'm still pretty upset with how he was squawking tonight! Wanted to throw something at him.

[freshwest]

17. Remember most of that... He is NOT our friend. He's a cheerleader for the MIC.

[sabrina 1]

14. When will people finally realize that Tweety is a TOOL.

After his embarrassing, drooling nonsense over Bush in the flight suit, his claim that 'this is what women want' and his ignorant and shameful comparison of the AWOL Bush in the phony, staged 'flight landing' to a REAL WAR HERO, George McGovern, I turned him off permanently.

He stated, paraphrasing here as I don't want to waste time looking up anything this moraon had to say, that Bush was simply magnificent, a 'real hero'. Then he went on to 'wonder' if any Democrat could possibly do that. He listed George McGovern among the Dem 'wimps', clearly unaware of the fact that McGovern was an ACTUAL hero in WW11. Someone who ACTUALLY wore a real flight suit and didn't have to 'act' like a hero. He WAS a hero.

Tweety is a perfect example of the word 'phony' so it's no wonder he got 'tingles down his leg' watching a fake 'hero'. And hardly surprising that he had no idea that George McGovern was the REAL THING.

I am surprised that ANYONE watches him at this point.

[KingCharlemagne]

19. Bravo! (Brava!) I'll bet ole Tweety admired the way Saxby Chambliss cast aspersions

on Max Cleland's patriotism in the 2002 race for Senator from Georgia.

See, Tweety suckles at the teat of power, completely oblivious to what concepts like 'self sacrifice' and 'heroism' really mean . That's how it goes in late-stage imperial America. (See Nero and Caligula for Roman antecedents). Tweety reminds me, as few other media personalities do, of Virginia Woolf's quip about Oakland: "There's no 'there' there."

[spanone]

15. our entire media is formatted for profit...the truth can get in the way of commerce

[Cha]

16. I'll reiterate..Tweety's Full of Fucking Shite.. 9/11 A$$hole! CorporateMediaWhore$$$$ All Bullshit

goPropaganda!

[freshwest]

18. Don't hold back! How's the weatha? Raining nonstop, windy, cool and dark here. Got the heat on...

[Cha]

21. Way Past "Had IT!" with Tweety and his ILK! The weather is HOT, fresh~

What a Difference from Seattle~

[freshwest]

22. Well, of course, Kenya is always HOT this time of year, LOL!!!

[Cha]

23. Yeah, if one gets Kenya and Hawai'i mixed up because of certain mediawhore$ like Oily.. Rofl

[freshwest]

24. Oily was last sighted with Palin and Cruz this time last year with the Confederate crowd at the

White House... I think her major stomping ground is World Nut Daily or some other odious bastion of Reichwing idiocy.

[Cha]

25. That's right.. I remember that now.. who didn't see that coming? Oily fading into Obscurity where

she belongs? Metaphorical.

[Rex]

20. Tweety has a love/hate relationship with the GOP.

He pretends to root on Democratic hopefuls, but secretly lusts after the GOP. A RWing hack by and large is a RWing hack.