It's official - * too much of a man for Kerry

[Doctor_J]

heard it on tweety while flipping (will soon be taking the "news" stations out of the flip rotation).

Tweety - "Out in the real world you have to be macho, and John Kerry hasn't proven himself yet".

That's right, gang. The golfing cheerleader is more of a man than the wind-surfing, snowboarding hockey player. The draft-dodging deserter is tougher than the 5-medal VN vet. The pansy who lets others throw mud is more studly than the one who wants weekly debates. The guy whose daughters are drunken floozies is more virile than the one whose daughters are successful adults.

Either that, or Chris is REALLY excited about learning that * might be gay.

:puke:

[A_Possum]

1. UP is DOWN, Black is White

The guy who stuffs socks in his drawers is the macho man.

Yeah right, Chris.

[rocktivity]

2. I concur with your diagnosis, Doc

"We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical, who’s not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who’s president. Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war."

-- Chris Matthews, May 1, 2003

:headbang:
rocknation

[Minimus]

9. "women like this war" -wtf?

tell me he did not say that.

[rocktivity]

19. I was so apalled by it I tracked down the transcript

Keep in mind that this was during Georgie's flight suit stunt.



:headbang:
rocknation

[DemBones DemBones]

23. Somebody needs to send a certain photo to Tweety:

http://www.wonkette.com/archives/kerrys_hidden_strengths_013443.php

[rocktivity]

27. Oh, now, really! That's just a trick of the light--isn't it?

:headbang:
rocknation

[DemBones DemBones]

31. Whatever. . .

it does seem the sort of image that grabs Tweety's attention, don't you think?

[Ishoutandscream]

37. My God!! No kidding

I personally don't like any women who like war.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. Matthews loves to talk shit about anything

We have seen him take any side just to be able to talk more shit. He can't be relied on to stick with one side or the other, the zell deal is an example.

[JohnnyRingo]

20. Also not as complicated....

I think the word "simple" is a more apt description of Buxh.

[kwolf68]

3. What is macho about

Employing a trillion dollar military to bomb little brown people 5000 miles (or whatever) away?

HOW THE HELL IS THAT MACHO? How Tweety? HOW is it?

You know what is tough...Doing the difficult thing. Bombing the shit out of inferior opponents is easy.

[NMDemDist2]

4. tweety is a tool

[hlthe2b]

5. Dodging shrapnel in Vietnam, not manly enough for Tweety?

Needs the sock in the crotch with a dress-up flight suit and a cowboy hat before Tweety will deem a guy manly? Good God....

[ezee]

14. Tweety has no room to talk

he "served" in the Peace Corps. NOthing wrong with that ,but he couldn"t muster the courgage that John Kerry has.

[librechik]

6. Shrubbie is full of macho posturing, but he is really a girly man

although I don't mean to be insulting to girly men.

I just think it's totally hypocritical. Tweety says Kerry hasn't proved himself yet. When did the Chimp prove himself? When he was running away on 9/11? When he was hiding out in Alabama? When he was cowering behind a bottle of beer rather than become a self sufficient adult?

Tweety just has a hard on for Bushie.

[elperromagico]

7. How's this for manly? Bush is scared of horses.

:D

[Old and In the Way]

8. Matthews is either bi-polar or a schizophrenic

not sure which.

[ezee]

16. Probably Both

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. BLUNDERWOMAN

[goclark]

12. Tweety is a whore

How could he say something like that!

Have you noticed that ALL of the members of the Media have lean waaaay into the Bush camp since the Republican convention?

It was bad before but this week end is the absolute pits.
Karl Rove must have promised Tweety some private time in a candle lit room with Georgie.

What is this Macho stuff all about? The nerve!!

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. But, but, but....isn't Bush gay? n/t

[Erika]

15. In the Last Days

good will be known as evil, and evil known as good. The GOP are truly evil. They kill the innocent, they take from the poor to give to the rich. The certainly not are Christian.

[fairfaxvadem]

17. By what standard is Bush manly though???

I mean, you hear this crap and all the attendant characteristics that include the swagger and the shoot from the hip nonsense.

But what concrete evidence is there that George Bush has a manly bone in his body??

Kerry shoots (I can't recall ever seeing Shrub with a rifle, has anyone else?), knows how to clean what he shoots, does all these very high-risk sporting activities that The Doctor mentioned, is well-read, well-educated, well-spoken, intelligent, well-groomed, well-mannered, DANG!!! Where can I find another John Kerry for myself???

That is a turn on, not some lazy, smart-ass, holier than thou, clumsy fool.

[K. F. Gibbons]

18. Pathetic republicans

These pathetic chest thumpers must use a failed political ideology to define their own bizarre since of masculinity that boils down to simple talking tough. From welfare to taxes, these fake( pull you self up by your boot straps) dip shits talk tough, yet when push comes to shove, they run and cry like little girls.
The biggest pussy's I know are republicans.

[newyawker99]

39. Hi K.F. Gibbons!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[K. F. Gibbons]

40. spankyou very much

[VOX]

21. The infant who can't face a committee without Uncle Dick is more of a man.

* is so fucking "manly," he needs to be told where and when (and probably how) to piss!

Even then, Uncle Dick probably has to flush for him.

[John_H]

22. Tweet must get some of his material from convos he has on 1-900-hot-stud

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Are you saying Tweety's gay?

Next you'll say Ahnold used to strut around in a speedo in front of a bunch of admiring men.

[John_H]

33. LOL!

[dennis4868]

24. so where are the DUers....

who were calling him their god 2 weeks ago? hahahaha....people here were jumping on his bandwagon....i told them that they would be let down big time!

[vetwife]

26. Matthews is paid to play..its entertainment to these people

Bush is a cheerleader...chickenhawk...screwd Iraq and the economy
and Kerry has to prove himself? Yep let me run right out and follow chris's advice and vote Bush because he is so much of a man. ROFL..
I bet old Laura could tell another story about his macho manliness.
When Kerry was dodging bullets, Bush was dodging draft !
Hey...the man cannot even ride a bicycle. I say lets put this man on a Harley and see how long he stays up on the thing !

[ngGale]

28. Hey, I'm with you on this one...

macho want somebody ELSE to take the bullet, then put down the REAL man who took some shrapnel for him. That's what Bush needed in life, some shrapnel in the ass! Nothing macho about that *W* person.

[Union Thug]

29. The punk-ass little frat boy too much of a man..???

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! HAHAHAHHAA!!! Geezus, you can't be serious...

Here's the real George W. Bush - A microcephalic chimp:

[bklyncowgirl]

30. Image is everything

Bush has the macho image down cold.

The media lets him wear the mask and celebrates him doing so.

Kerry is a real man but because real men are not one dimensional, he comes off as somehow less of a man.

Bush is not a he man, he just plays one on TV. That for a great many people in this country is enough.

[daydreamer]

32. Bush macho image

Totally agree. Any idea how we can expose his fake macho image?

[BootinUp]

34. I guess Kerry should put on a cowboy hat

And say things like "We will smoke them out of their caves!"

[Sparkly]

35. Oh GAWD -- read Frank Rich on the "manliness" thing from today's NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/arts/05RICH.html

It begins:

ONLY in an election year ruled by fiction could a sissy who used Daddy's connections to escape Vietnam turn an actual war hero into a girlie-man.

As we leave the scripted conventions behind us, that is the uber-scenario that has locked into place, brilliantly engineered by the president of the United States, with more than a little unwitting assistance from his opponent. It's a marvel, really. Even a $10,000 reward offered this year by Garry Trudeau couldn't smoke out a credible eyewitness to support George W. Bush's contention that he showed up to defend Alabama against the Viet Cong in 1972. Yet John F. Kerry, who without doubt shed his own blood and others' in the vicinity of the Mekong, not the Mississippi, is now the deserter and the wimp.

Don't believe anyone who says that this will soon fade, and that the election will henceforth turn on health-care policy or other wonkish debate. Any voter who's undecided by now in this polarized election isn't sitting around studying the fine points. In a time of fear, the only battle that matters is the broad-stroked cultural mano a mano over who's most macho. And so both parties built their weeklong infotainments on militarism and masculinity, from Mr. Kerry's toy-soldier "reporting for duty" salute in Boston to the special Madison Square Garden runway for Mr. Bush's acceptance speech, a giant phallus thrusting him into the nation's lap, or whatever. ("To me that says strength" is how his media adviser, Mark McKinnon, forecast the set's metaphorical impact to The Times.) Though pundits said that Republicans pushed moderates center stage last week to placate suburban swing voters, the real point was less to soften the president's Draconian image on abortion than to harden his manly bona fides. Hence Mr. Bush was fronted by a testosterone-heavy lineup led by a former mayor who did not dally to read a children's book on 9/11, a senator who served in the Hanoi Hilton rather than the "champagne unit" of the Texas Air National Guard, and a governor who can play the role of a warrior on screen more convincingly than can a former Andover cheerleader gallivanting on an aircraft carrier.

It's all about ACTING macho. :puke:

[Cocoa]

36. any column that calls Bush a sissy in the first line

is a keeper. :toast:

[spooky3]

38. "So, obviously no woman could become Pres., Tweety?"