Tweety doesn't understand what a populist is....got embarrassed...

[Peregrine Took]

Ron Fournier (editor of National Journal) was a guest and told him that a person doesn't have to be a liberal to be a populist which Matthews had just stated as a fact He (Tweety) went after him like a dog on a bone. Relentless. Awkward to watch.

http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/populism

[malaise]

1. I disagree

It was his guest who does not know the meaning of liberal

[randys1]

2. This is far more likely. Wish I had seen it.

Tweety can be annoying, but he is almost always the smartest guy in any room he is in.

[malaise]

4. Tweety nailed his a$$ to the point that

he was stammering. The moron could not give one example of how ReTHUGs would deal with the income gap. Watch the repeat.

[FSogol]

8. I could have helped him. How will the GOP deal with income gap? By cutting taxes on the rich!

GOP Modus operandi

[malaise]

15. He knew that answer

but it wouldn't be 'populist' to say it

[FSogol]

16. Whatever that word means....

[leftofcool]

26. yep

[Peregrine Took]

5. Really? I don't think he's very smart at all. n/t

[H2O Man]

13. silly

[FSogol]

3. That's how I saw it too. n/t

[malaise]

6. To be kind Tweety tore him a new one

It was first rate Hard Ball (for a change)

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Wrong, populism can exist, very well thank you very much

among the LW and the RW.

It is a fact jack. Just that most people do not understand this.

Yes, Scott Walker is a populist, and yes, the tea party are populists. It is not the type I like, or prefer, but they are.

Hell, Perry just launched a great rebranding with RW populism at it's core.

[hedda_foil]

22. Exactly. It's telling the people (99%) what they want to hear. Usually about econ fairness.

Huey Long was a racist populist. Hitler was a fascist populist early on. It's about presentation, not generally sincere, but occasionally so.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Huey Long

a chicken in every pot Long. Indeed.

[hedda_foil]

24. Fixed! Thanks, Nadine.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Not a problem

it is amazing to me how people do not know that history.

[LuvNewcastle]

32. Huey Long wasn't particularly racist,

at least when you account for the place and time where he lived. Other southern politicians often used racist rhetoric in their speeches, but Long made sure to put the blame for the poor's problems on the wealthy. He was unusual about that, at least in the South, and I think he should be considered a LW populist.

[onecaliberal]

7. I don't agree with you, it was his guest struggling to answer what cons will do about

Income inequality.

[Peregrine Took]

9. Populists - not Dems/liberal or Rethugs/conservatives - people power.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Populist_party.aspx

[malaise]

17. Liberal policies are populist

You cannot say the same for conservative policies

[valerief]

19. That's how I see it unless most people are morons or masochists. nt

[malaise]

20. Sadly some are both

[valerief]

21. Ha!

[jberryhill]

10. Tweety doesn't understand a lot of things

He went waxing on about St. Anthony's church and the Little Italy neighborhood of Wilmington last week, in the apparent belief that Joe Biden lived in that neighborhood and attended that church.

It was painful.

Yes, it is an important church in the diocese and, yes, it is a neighborhood with which everyone in the area is familiar, but it was not the church the Biden's attended nor the neighborhood in which Biden ever lived.

[merrily]

31. Or, Tweety just could have been rambling down memory lane, as he is wont to do.

After all, know one Delaware Catholic and you know them all, amirite?

[uponit7771]

11. Conservatives are trying to grab liberal positions as populist, the guest was in trouble because....

... the couldn't explain how in the world conservatives were going to make policy for liberal positions

[malaise]

14. You nailed it

You win the thread

In case you didn't know Scott Walker is the new JFK or so he claims

[merrily]

30. Smells like Koch. Scott Brown tried hard to position himself as the new JFK

when he first ran for the Senate, too.Brown's first run was also backed very heavily by the Koch brothers. Of course, that was a better fit from Brown, given he was running in Massachusetts and for Teddy's seat.

Fact is, the Eisenhower administration could brag about guns and butter in great part because the war tax that had been imposed to pay for World War II had never been repealed. JFK lowered taxes. He also said that the New Deal, in which his father had famously played a very significant role, had saved capitalism in America. So, if you forget a "few" things, including an amazingly brilliant mind, you could mistake JFK for someone the Koch brothers might like to have in office And, he is certainly a way to try to appeal to Democrats--assuming they know much of anything about him, by experience or study.

After all, his assassination was over a half century ago. Someone who is sixty now probably remembers the assassination vividly, but not his actual policies.

[merrily]

29. Easy. They just keep helping the "job creators" and big business and that helps everyone.

Kidding, of course It' doesn't help anyone but the rich, much as we've done for most of our history.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Liberalism, conservatism, and populism are different ideologies but all this gets muddled./NT

[merrily]

28. Throw in the word "progressive," which many (but not I) see as a synonym for liberal and

you will really ensure absence of actual communication.

[merrily]

27. Spittle hurling blowhard.