ATTN: To the DUer to whom I semi-defended Tweety week-before-last ...

[DemoTex]

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea maxima Culpa! I grovel in your your garden of forgiveness. I am, indeed, new to the Tweety show. I have not owned a TV for 13 years until recently. In the couple of months I have been watching him, Tweety sucked me in (great nightly coverage of Abu Ghraib, the "Jersey Girls," Richard Clark, and other Bu$h scandals).

Then came Reagan. The week of Reagan. The $500,000,000 week of Reagan.

Then came tonight. He asked some repuke if Bu$h stood to gain from the Reagan "legacy" (read hoopla, circus stunt, and revision of rather recent history), and that GOPer - natch - said "yes." Tweety, under his embarrassed, lie-fetid breath, mumbled "I agree." Well sing it loud Brother Matthews, if you truly believe: "I AGREE!!!!! AMEN!!!"

Then came the interview with the only woman in the world for whom I might consider leaving my wonderful wife (just kidding, but you know what I mean, Vern), Katrina vanden Heuvel (Ed., The Nation). Tweety snubbed her, cut her off, and called her "sweety" (or some such inappropriate, chauvinistic, term of endearment). He "balanced" the interview with a fat-faced white GOPer. He constantly cut to the GOPer, resulting in a "balanced" interview giving the high-voiced chipmunk about 75% of the time to Katrina's 25%. She was gracious to Tweety to the end. Better man than I, she was.

Again, please forgive me for my dangerous level of character misjudgment. It is not typical of DemoTex. I'm changing brands of wine, and going for less of it. I was fooled too easily by a sycophantic fool.

[Don_G]

1. As I Recall

You can get some mighty fine "shine" in them thar NC hills.

It might be easier switching to that until November.

[DemoTex]

5. I live on "White Whiskey Way."

There are shards of an old still on the cold-water creek on my place, and a rusted out "revenu-er's" car ('39 Ford?) on the down-side of the distillery's dam. The old car is really there, but the tie to the licker revenu-ers is mere local lore.

I'm growing a lot of corn now. Guess I'd better be careful about buying sugar by the 50-pound sack. Eh?

[Don_G]

19. I Wouldn't Be Too Sure

There's a lot of tradition and family lore floating around.

I never had a problem finding it in the '70's when I first attended college in NC and I'm always handed a Mason Jar visiting my Aunts on the NC/VA or KY/TN borders.

It's a Republican thing anyway: good product, cheap to make and keeps "them" off welfare.

Besides, Elijah Craig was a pioneer of Kentucky Bourbon and preached a hell of a sermon as a Baptist Preacher.

[hlthe2b]

2. Don't worry... You aren't the first or only DUer to get sucked in...

As I posted earlier to someone questioning who "Tweety" is, I noted that he is the "blonde-haired" media whore of all time...Supposedly a Democrat, having come through as a key aid to Tip O'Neill (who must assuredly be turning in his grave). But, Tweety has sold out big time and waxes near homoerotic when Bush* pulls one of his stunts (like the flight suit incident). He is also known for rudely interrupting everyone on his show, never letting them finish a single sentence, but far more so with libs & progressives.

More to the point, though, is that on rare occasions, he has a schizophrenic "break," and actually says something negative about the Bush* administration, which seems to reel in some of our DU colleagues, since it is so unexpected and unpredictable.

[librechik]

3. it's possible to catch the little feller on a good day

when the straight truth pops unexpectedly out of his beak, instead of the usual vapid features-section clowning around. At those moments one almost dares to hope that at last, this is the turning point, Chris is about to swear off his evil boot-sucking ways that so twist and pervert America's discourse! He might even start talking like the guy that writes his columns, whoever that is!

Alas, one is always betrayed and disappointed. The little birdy hops off again to the nearest friendly shoulder and chirps away loudly, as if he didn't have a brain in his widdow head.

[azmesa207]

6. The little feller on a good day

99.9% of the time tweety is pro Republican >0.1% he goes democrat he a Jerk Most of the time his guest are Pro Re puke 2 To 1 and he give all the benefit to the Re pugs.

[slor]

4. It was not me...

but he was rude to the wonderful Katrina ( I too hold such praise for her, I happened to see her on C-SPAN in May 2002, while on my honeymoon in Key West, she cut down so many freepers with her calm and devastating intellect, all while being so incredibly beautiful, I was smitten and re-energized politically speaking, and I needed it, at that point I had given up hope for America and my wife and I were discussing Canada as a new home ). In fact, he is always rude to her, and I so wish she would drop her decorum once and slap the sh*t out of his big-ass tweety head!

[DemoTex]

7. Which begs the question:

Why does Katrina (and so many other good people of the relative left) come on Tweety's show?

BTW: Do you happen to read the print The Nation? They often advertise a late-fall cruise with various liberal columnists, lecturers, editors, and the such. Katrina vanden Heuvel and Molly Ivins always seem to be on the scheduled trip. One of these days ...

[slor]

10. Lol...

I got a subscription within days of returning to Cincinnati, and yes, I have had fantasies of that cruise.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. I think he's a self-loathing Democrat.

Self-loathing, because he's really a closet Republican and he can't admit the switch without losing his marketability.

[jdj]

8. I just read vanden Heuvel was summa cum laude from

Princeton. A real genius, but Matthews disarms her. (I don't like calling him Tweety, that's insulting to the real Tweety.)

He seems to do this weird gaslight thing with some women, I've seen him do it with Gloria Allred, too, where he insults them, flirts with them, interrupts them, insults them again, interrupts them again, and then reverses himself and pays them a compliment at the end to smooth it all over. Since Air America began I have not watched the cable clones at all, Randi Rhodes talked me out of it.

I'm so encouraged DemoTex spent 13 years without a TV. It gives me hope. I am one with a television now, and I want it surgically removed...I have gone for years without one before, but now I'm hooked again.

[DemoTex]

12. The only reason I have 5 TVs now is they came with the house.

But TV is a dangerous, ineluctable intrusion that I missed not one whit in 13 years. Read Don Delillos' "White Noise." Delillo blasts TV ("A thief of time") and other cultural (on edit: not cultural as much as consumer) icons of the last three decades.

Unfortunately, TV is as addictive as heroin. No surprise that both are controlled and pushed by the same people: the BFEE.

[SpiralHawk]

17. Cut the cable (or dish) and set up an antenna. It's a Trifecta!

You help starve the RW cable beast.
You save $40 or more a month - which you could donate to the candidate of your choice.
You free your mind and soul of a Collossal Heap of Propoganda Dung.

A Total Trifecta !

[DemoTex]

20. Not exactly ... here ... now.

I'm deep in the wilds. I tried antenna-only coverage and could get only a snowy picture at one station 50 miles away (WYFF Channel 4, Greenville, SC - which broadcasts it's signal from another mountain, Paris Mountain) Ironically, I have near-perfect 2-meter ham relay through the Paris Mountain radio-repeater network and stations from Greenville, Brevard, Asheville to - at times - Atlanta.

[Eric J in MN]

13. I've gone 4 weeks now without tv (nt)

nt

[alcuno]

9. I'm sorry. He's my favorite, for now, and I'll never apologize.

He often drops the hammer on the Republicans in a way that no one else does. He's in the afterglow of the Reagan lovefest. It will pass.

[peacetalksforall]

11. NBC-General Electric wants you to think they are balanced

because Tweety once worked for Dems. He's no Dem.

[MattBaggins]

14. high-voiced chipmunk

Let me guess, Terry Jeffries?

[KoKo]

15. Hey! Thank you for your "mea culpa" Understand it completely. You're

not the first person to discover Tweety is nothing but a paid off "media whore."

You have an excellent excuse not having had to watch him for many years (for lack of a TV) to see his twists and turns and "fingers in the wind" to catch the latest drift of which way the political situation turns.

Don't feel bad...so many of us have been snookered by his act. His "sidekick" Fineman from Newsweek is also the "master of slime," and twists and turns just like Tweet does.

Ugh...it's hard finding any political discussion shows in the "media" today.. Tweety, Crossfire and some of the others, are what we are left with..:-( It's just the way "THEY" want it, unfortunately.

[UTUSN]

18. It's Me, It's Me------I Forgive You

Katrina vanden Heuvel



During Campaign 2000 the media whores were swooning over the nicknames Shrub was giving some of them. Media Whores Online ran a contest to nickname Chris-the-Whore. In the first 3 or so weeks, there was no clear, catchy front runner, with "The Screamer" sort of leading. Then one of The Whore's own Hardball staff LEAKED to MWO that his own staff called him Tweety because of the Clairol shade he favored. This was immediately declared the winner. But in some quarters, it wasn't entirely satisfactory. For one thing, by the time it was declared, the shade had changed to platinum, leading to a suggestion he be called Carole LOMBARD. Plus, "Tweety" sounds too affectionate towards this JERK WHORE. Then M-TV held it's 20th or 25th or whatever anniversary, and all the cable whores were doing segments of Brittany shedding her duds down to almost nothing. Not to be left behind in any whore game, Tweety followed suit, with a guest from Time Mag, the young humor columnist, whassisname Joel STEIN. The staff kept re-running the Britany clip, and Tweety was clearly DROOLING disgustingly. The Time dude 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.

Just to round out the Tweety portrait: 1- He is our enemy. 2- The last time he was identifiably a Democrat was circa 1988 when his book, Hardball, was first published. 3- He's a political flunky who worships SUCCESS, and started "turning" through admiration for RAYGUN's kicking his Dem bosses' rears. 4- He was ABSOLUTELY VICIOUS to President GORE all through Campaign 2000. 5- He triggered a gun incident by naming, ERRONEOUSLY, Kathleen WILLEY's supposed "jogger" (Pat BUCHANAN's mentally ill brother took the gun to the house). 6- He is a de facto wingnut operative. 7- He voted for Shrub.