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Chris Matthews Expands Bizarre Obsession With Bachmann To Now Include Palin Too

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The most entertaining segment of Hardball the past few nights has been watching host Chris Matthews consistently seethe at the mere mention of the name Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. And with Sarah Palin‘s “WTF” moment, she too has re-entered Matthews’ zone of contempt, a place where Matthews seriously serves up an endless supply of eye-catching insults.

For the past few days, after a clip of Bachmann played, smoke would nearly come out of Matthews’ ears as he then proceeded to mock her as a “balloon-head,” yelled at Tea Party leaders for refusing to admit she’s ignorant, or worried she might lack the comprehension to know when she is “making an ass” out of herself. And who can forget old classics like Matthews suggesting she acts like a “zombie” and wondering if she’s persistently “hypnotized.”

In today’s clip, Matthews wonders why “know-nothings” Bachmann and Palin are so celebrated by Republicans. His guests attempt to soothe Matthews with the fact that, in their opinion, neither are serious candidates for President, and that by comparison, Bachmann and Palin make people like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty look so much better. However, Matthews more accurately comes to his own conclusion, which also gives us a peek into the rationale behind his obsession with the dynamic duo: “I’m afraid [Palin and Bachmann] make [people like Romney and Pawlenty] look boring.”

Therefore, I offer up this column as a pseudo-intervention of sorts in an effort to merely draw attention to the fact that Matthews’ obsession does indeed exist, yet in my opinion, it’s not a problem that needs to be fixed. You see just like Palin and Bachmann are more exciting than most Republican candidates, Matthews, with his absurdly over-the-top rants and breathless verbal assaults, is in fact the most exciting liberal commentator who consistently attempts to trash them.

Although this is likely the subject for a different column, I personally think there is a huge difference between Palin’s entirely defensible, witty, and even inspirational “WTF” response to Obama’s State of the Union Address (yes, I’m not backing down from this), versus Bachmann’s speechifying which I consistently find similar to watching an elephant cross a frozen pond. Yet despite one’s personal preference about either woman, there is no denying that Matthews unleashing an uncensored smackdown on these women that he finds so unintelligent, might be bizarre, it might even reach levels of misogyny according to some, yet overall it makes for great television.

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  • Big Eddie

    Now Chris , no need to go all Noland every night .

    http://www.facebook.com/dave.noland

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Bua/1007153239 Joe Bua

    Obsession? What is he supposed to talk about, the relative merits of community service? These women both talk about Presidential runs yet they apparently haven’t taken American History in high school.

    I’d do an hour weekly on each of them.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Joe Bua said:
    Obsession? What is he supposed to talk about, the relative merits of community service? These women both talk about Presidential runs yet they apparently haven’t taken American History in high school. I’d do an hour weekly on each of them.

    well he does a hour daily, two hours if you watch him at 7 too.

  • Ninja

    Remind me to never mention the word tingles around this lunatic. Talk about holding a grudge.

  • treecutter

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 20l0 From My Window) said:
    “You see just like Palin and Bachmann are more exciting than most Republican candidates” ANd the SMARTEST TOO!!!! Sarah P told us all about SPUD NET and how it brought down the Soviet Union and Michelle B had to explain to all the STUPID LIBS that John Quincy Adams signed the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION!!!!!

    Somebody is waaaaaaaay too jealous of these two powerhouses!

  • ImNotBlue

    There was a question (from me) over what would happen to Matthews post-Olbermann.

    Pre-Olbermann, Matthews was left, but not angry left. He was the star of the network for a long while, until KO stole the crown. Now, we already know the two didn’t much get along, but never enough for KO to have Matthews fired. Part of that, I believe, came from Matthews undeniable move leftward… more in line with KO’s stance.

    Once KO was booted, Matthews could make two choices: he could either go back to his more moderate self, or he could push harder to regain the crown. From this, it’s obious which path he’s chosen.

    IMO, Matthews wants to be the MSNBC face, once again. To do that, Matthews believes (IMO) that he must be louder, angrier, and more obsessive… ie: follow in the KO mold. But frankly, I just don’t think it’s going to work at all… and will most likely lead to his MSNBC end. It’s a shame. Matthews used to be decent… the transformation has not been a positive.

  • AngelPeters

    I agree he has been over-the-top, but I understand his point. Both these women have demonstrated a serious lack of basic American history education. That they have been, are, or may be in positions of leadership is mind boggling and demonstrates the poor education of those who hold them up as an example.
    I wouldn’t want my daughters to look at either of them as a role model

  • WildMan

    I honestly think Chrissy ‘Thrills & Tingles’ Matthews obsession with Michele Bachman is showing this sissified girlieboy pervert has the hots for her. Chrissy is having some kind of mental and emotional breakdown right in front of our eyes. He is yelling at everyone who comes on the set of LSDnbc’s Softball show. He gets very bloody red in the face and neck which is not good…’stroke’ raising its ugly head. Watch his mouth and you’ll see a ton of spittle spewing out of his mouth. I don’t know if he wears dentures or not but he is old and his upper lip never moves. Chrissy is a very sick wacko. Too bad Keith is not around to put Chrissy and Edith Schultzie on the ‘Worst Person In The World’ part of his show. Somebody better get the guys in the white coats to get Chrissy a Straight Jacket and a rubber walled room at the local Insane Asylum.

  • PoliticalPAW

    At least one Mediaite author rips that delirious old fool/propagandist Matthews…and yes, “misogyny”…yesterday Matthews busted out the “THIS WOMAN!” slur on Bachmann

    @PoliticalPAW

  • TangledThorns

    Chris has a severe case of PDS, he needs help.

  • WCinWI

    ImNotBlue said:
    There was a question (from me) over what would happen to Matthews post-Olbermann.

    Pre-Olbermann, Matthews was left, but not angry left. He was the star of the network for a long while, until KO stole the crown. Now, we already know the two didn’t much get along, but never enough for KO to have Matthews fired. Part of that, I believe, came from Matthews undeniable move leftward… more in line with KO’s stance.

    Once KO was booted, Matthews could make two choices: he could either go back to his more moderate self, or he could push harder to regain the crown. From this, it’s obious which path he’s chosen.

    IMO, Matthews wants to be the MSNBC face, once again. To do that, Matthews believes (IMO) that he must be louder, angrier, and more obsessive… ie: follow in the KO mold. But frankly, I just don’t think it’s going to work at all… and will most likely lead to his MSNBC end. It’s a shame. Matthews used to be decent… the transformation has not been a positive.

    If I understand the internet rumblings, it will be mere months to a year before Comcast does a good shuffle of MSNBC. I can’t see them keeping Matthews or Ed for sure. I don’t know why they would want to keep O’Donnell from a branding perspective (the guy has come out and called himself a socialist) but I could see them keeping Maddow.

    Matthews is suffering from Misogynistic syndrome and is starting to enter that “creepy old man arguing for the sake of arguing” syndrome. I used to “like” him – disagreed with him, of course – but now he’s just a blowhard that won’t let anyone talk. O’Reilly used to have that quality and now Matthews has taken that mantle.

  • The Real Royal King

    I tend to think Christ gets a bit too passionate about certain matters, but the key here is that we need someone in the media who exposes fools like Sarah Spudnut and Mad Michelle. Chris is providing a public service for which we must all be thankful.

  • WCinWI

    AngelPeters said:
    I agree he has been over-the-top, but I understand his point. Both these women have demonstrated a serious lack of basic American history education. That they have been, are, or may be in positions of leadership is mind boggling and demonstrates the poor education of those who hold them up as an example.
    I wouldn’t want my daughters to look at either of them as a role model

    You should want your daughter to emulate a person that is constantly backed down for being conservative or liberal or whatever they believe. I myself am a female and can relate to Palin, as a conservative.

    Palin is finally bringing feminism to the forefront and I can’t wait for the debates.

  • WCinWI

    The Real Royal King said:
    I tend to think Christ gets a bit too passionate about certain matters, but the key here is that we need someone in the media who exposes fools like Sarah Spudnut and Mad Michelle. Chris is providing a public service for which we must all be thankful.

    Do you not respect the Presidency? I guess not, with your uncivil tone.

  • The Real Royal King

    WCinWI said:
    Do you not respect the Presidency? I guess not, with your uncivil tone.

    I didn’t know that Sarah Spudnut and Mad Michelle were presidents. When did this happen?

  • BFD

    “Palin’s entirely defensible, witty, and even inspirational “WTF” response to Obama’s State of the Union Address ”

    No one agrees with you on this, not even Pat Buchanan, who is one of Palin’s biggest defenders. He was literally speechless by her latest display and said it will definitely damage her.

    Only a teablogger could think it was witty and inspirational.

  • BFD

    Big Eddie said:
    Now Chris , no need to go all Noland every night .

    http://www.facebook.com/dave.noland

    You sir, are real piece of work.

  • billyweeds

    A presidential candidate saying “WTF” is suicidal. What is she, in middle school? What a complete moron.

  • WCinWI

    I heart Breitbart…

    Seems like Matthews needs to stop drinking his own kool-aid as he let another guest just roll with a similar acronym…

    http://www.breitbart.tv/msnbcs-matthews-slams-palin-for-wtf-gave-rep-grayson-a-pass-with-stfu/

  • WCinWI

    billyweeds said:
    A presidential candidate saying “WTF” is suicidal. What is she, in middle school? What a complete moron.

    Please stop with the uncivil tone. :)

  • WCinWI

    The Real Royal King said:
    I didn’t know that Sarah Spudnut and Mad Michelle were presidents. When did this happen?

    I think you need hobbies. Or at least better comebacks to statements talking about your uncivil nature.

  • The Real Royal King

    WCinWI said:
    I heart Breitbart… Seems like Matthews needs to stop drinking his own kool-aid as he let another guest just roll with a similar acronym… http://www.breitbart.tv/msnbcs-matthews-slams-palin-for-wtf-gave-rep-grayson-a-pass-with-stfu/

    You “heart” Breitbart? Are you a 12 year old girl?

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Matthews has a “Bachmann Jones”!

    What a Clown he’s devolved into…a perfect fit for the plummeting MSNBC!

    …and it was “win the future” Palin referenced, billyweeds…is your President a “complete moron”?

  • WildMan

    That picture of Chrissy ‘Tingles’ on top of the page is so damn funny. Talk about an angry OLD man. That goofball needs to get back on his meds. This clown has had a mental breakdown.

  • AngelPeters

    WCinWI said:
    You should want your daughter to emulate a person that is constantly backed down for being conservative or liberal or whatever they believe. I myself am a female and can relate to Palin, as a conservative.

    Palin is finally bringing feminism to the forefront and I can’t wait for the debates.

    You are drawing a false argument. My educated daughters wouldn’t back down. They doesn’t have to sacrifice their intelligence and education in order to stand up for their convictions. A woman can be both strong and educated. It’s not an either or situation.

  • WCinWI

    The Real Royal King said:
    You “heart” Breitbart? Are you a 12 year old girl?

    Read above. You need hobbies. :)

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

    Chris “I have an Obama shaped tingle running up my leg” Matthews.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    SarahP. said:
    Now see if you can put the round peg in the round hole. Take your time.

    C’mon Sarah, that’s the best you can do?
    Do I have to start rebutting my own posts to show you what a cogent response looks like?

  • WildMan

    What would be funny as hell is to get Michele and Sarah as in studio guest and right after the super mouth introduces them they both stand up and knock the wimpy, sissified, girlieboy Chrissy on his ass in front of a live TV audience. You could sell tickets and get filthy rich. Be better than a UFC match.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Big Eddie says:
    Now Chris , no need to go all Noland every night .

    Dude, you are ruthless! He will rue the day he provoked Big Eddie!

  • Carol West

    Palin and Bachmann are the best thing that has happened for the Democrats. Please keep up the good work girls. Chris has a lot to work with everytime either one speaks publicly,

  • Carol West

    billyweeds said:
    A presidential candidate saying “WTF” is suicidal. What is she, in middle school? What a complete moron.

    Definately 7th grade behavior.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Hey Carol West, I’d rather have Palin and Bachmann speaking for me than Jerry Springer. He’s actually the perfect spokesperson for your side.

  • billyweeds

    Palin and Bachmann–the perfect Republican ticket for 2012. Let the games begin!

  • Dsiscokid

    Methinks Christopher is still mad at Bachmann for zinging him back on Nov. 2
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ4WtoFNPss

  • The Real Royal King

    WCinWI said:
    I think you need hobbies. Or at least better comebacks to statements talking about your uncivil nature.

    I’m sorry if I seemed uncivil. It’s just that you don’t seem to ever make any sense. I can’t imagine what you were trying to say. Again, I’m sorry. Sincerely. Truly. Honestly. Profoundly. Intensely. Please let me know if I should ever be uncivil again, Dummkopf. I’ll be completely civil at once, Grand Imbécile.

  • Dsiscokid

    Oh, if only the ladies were as charming, wise, dare I say as brilliant as Hillary Rodham Clinton…………

  • cjd ohio 1

    The Real Royal King said:
    I’m sorry if I seemed uncivil. It’s just that you don’t seem to ever make any sense. I can’t imagine what you were trying to say. Again, I’m sorry. Sincerely. Truly. Honestly. Profoundly. Intensely. Please let me know if I should ever be uncivil again, Dummkopf. I’ll be completely civil at once, Grand Imbécile.

    yeah dont you know the king is a good christian lol

  • NeoKong

    Does he ever get tired of making a fool of himself…?

  • WCinWI

    AngelPeters said:
    You are drawing a false argument. My educated daughters wouldn’t back down. They doesn’t have to sacrifice their intelligence and education in order to stand up for their convictions. A woman can be both strong and educated. It’s not an either or situation.

    I’ve got two degrees and would love my 2nd advanced degrees. Just because you respect Palin doesn’t mean you’re a hillbilly. You prove the point of assumptions.

  • WCinWI

    WCinWI said:
    I’ve got two degrees and would love my 2nd advanced degrees. Just because you respect Palin doesn’t mean you’re a hillbilly. You prove the point of assumptions.

    *degree

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    You know every night in bed Tingles wife has to say, “Honey, will you please stop shouting out the names Sarah and Michelle?”

  • The Real Royal King

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    You know every night in bed Tingles wife has to say, “Honey, will you please stop shouting out the names Sarah and Michelle?”

    How terribly, terribly clever, witty and amusing, Michelle-in-Utah. No wonder everyone who knows you thinks you have such a great sense of humour.

  • The Real Royal King

    WCinWI said:
    *degree

    Thanks for that clarification, Water Closet!

  • AngelPeters

    WCinWI said:
    I’ve got two degrees and would love my 2nd advanced degrees. Just because you respect Palin doesn’t mean you’re a hillbilly. You prove the point of assumptions.

    I would not want my daughters emulating women whose basic knowledge of American history is horribly inadequate regardless of the strength of their convictions. I want more for my daughters.

  • AngelPeters

    AngelPeters said:
    I would not want my daughters emulating women whose basic knowledge of American history is horribly inadequate regardless of the strength of their convictions. I want more for my daughters.

    Example. I would hold up Condi Rice long before I held up Palin or Bachmann.

  • Ninja

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    yeah dont you know the king is a good christian lol

    No one would ever confuse him for a misogynist either right? Except for any female poster on this site. Maybe this clown is related to Matthews?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Steele/1147844375 Chuck Steele

    As his ratings have plunged in to the toilet, Chris Matthews has become more of a pussyfied moron just spewing his vile crap in an effort to find some relevance for his very existence. He is not going to find it. He is another has been just swirling away, at the bottom of the crapper.
    The guy really should see his Doctor and try to get some testosterone artificially injected into his old body Since the real man is long gone, maybe the Doc can help him to pretend there is something left of him.
    I just can’t find any other reason for the guys fear of strong women.

  • WCinWI

    The Real Royal King said:
    I’m sorry if I seemed uncivil. It’s just that you don’t seem to ever make any sense. I can’t imagine what you were trying to say. Again, I’m sorry. Sincerely. Truly. Honestly. Profoundly. Intensely. Please let me know if I should ever be uncivil again, Dummkopf. I’ll be completely civil at once, Grand Imbécile.

    Ich spreche Deutsch. I had to laugh at the Dummkopf. I also laugh at the notion that I don’t make sense. Are facts really that hard to understand?

  • Obeezy

    Mathews is a woman hating pig who should slit his wrists on tv, and if you dont agree with me i’ll sock ya in piehole

  • WCinWI

    AngelPeters said:
    Example. I would hold up Condi Rice long before I held up Palin or Bachmann.

    Do you have the same disdain for liberal women such as Debbie Wasserman-Schulz and Sheila Jackson Lee that thinks her constituents are stupid? I’m sorry that you have disdain for a strong personality like Palin but at least call Matthews out for being a dunce.

  • wayback

    Chris Matthews is a creepy, uninformed, vicious little man who is getting more and more upset that his leg tingles have disappeared. He looks like a guy from Megan’s list , he whines like a little girl and without personal attacks he has nothing to say. Sarah Palin and/or Michelle Bachman could both kick his ass but would have to shower for hours on end after touching him.
    The guy is obsessed with Obama (in many ways) and is extremely insecure and fearful of women. Dr Freud would have a field day with Chrissy.
    He should be the next victim of the Comcast purge but there are many losers around him so it would be hard to pick one.
    Matthews is from Philly but he is certainly not in the mold of any Philly guys I ever knew. Take a hike Chris and stay away from school yards.

  • TristramShandy

    Chris Matthews is a women on the verge of her nineteenth nervous breakdown.

  • Old Duffer

    I understand that Chrissie is going to take a sabbatical, so he can search all the 57 states looking for Obama’s Austrian speaking corpse man.

  • AngelPeters

    WCinWI said:
    Do you have the same disdain for liberal women such as Debbie Wasserman-Schulz and Sheila Jackson Lee that thinks her constituents are stupid? I’m sorry that you have disdain for a strong personality like Palin but at least call Matthews out for being a dunce.

    You are missing the point. I disdain inadequate education, either in leaders or the average American citizen

    If you go back to my original point you will see I said I thought Matthews was over-the-top but that I understand his point. These women, strong personalities not withstanding, demonstrate a serious lack of education. This was all about Matthews point of lack of education in these two women

    “I agree he has been over-the-top, but I understand his point. Both these women have demonstrated a serious lack of basic American history education. That they have been, are, or may be in positions of leadership is mind boggling and demonstrates the poor education of those who hold them up as an example.
    I wouldn’t want my daughters to look at either of them as a role model”

    If you are comfortable holding these women up as role models for your daughters, fine. I am not. I would much rather have educated and strong women.

    Debbie Wasserman-Schulz and Sheila Jackson Lee don’t have the standing that these women have, so I take that point of your argument as wanting to take the focus off of Palin and Bachmann profound lack of basic American History.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    LOL I love that picture of him. Looks like his sitting on the throne trying to pinch off a log….

  • AngelPeters

    WCinWI,

    I’m guessing you really are fine with their obvious lack of a decent education. I think that is very sad for you, and for any young woman in your circle of influence.

    I want more, much more, for my daughters and all young women everywhere, and I want it to begin with an excellent education.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Chris Matthews is dead on in his assessements of both Palin and Bachmann. There’s no curing stupid hence there’s no curing BAchmann/Palin. Idiots marketing to idiots – these two are Idiocracy come to life.

  • BatBoy

    It must be hard to be a lefty these days….so many stupid people and not enough hours in the day to write how stupid they are.

    Moto of the America Lefty: WE BUILD OURSELVES UP BY PUTTING OTHERS DOWN!

  • TfT

    NBC must be so proud to have this woman hater on their team. Just imagine, a conservative host, any host, make similar statements about Nancy Pelosi – clearly one of the dumbest members of congress – and there would be calls for firing, even a firing squad. you just don’t about democrat women this way – only conservatives.

    I’m surprised that NBCU hasn’t said to matthews – STFU you are making a fool of yourself and of this network.

    Oh well, woman hating creep that Chrissy is, he is really heading to the sick-house; he has let his MDS/PDS destroy him and his credibility.

    Joke – MSNBC is in meltdown, and Chrissy is now the leader of the misogynistic pack. Good lord, how the hell does his wife put up with this crap?

  • Nacho

    WCinWI said:
    You should want your daughter to emulate a person that is constantly backed down for being conservative or liberal or whatever they believe. I myself am a female and can relate to Palin, as a conservative.

    Palin is finally bringing feminism to the forefront and I can’t wait for the debates.

    Palin is taking feminism 10 steps back.

    Palin perpetuates the stereotype of the “mouthy uppity know nothing b!tch that will have her say no matter what she doesn’t know or is unaware of how wrong she is no matter what anybody else thinks around her” lady.

    Ignorance is NOT the model for feminism in our society.

  • da-wdc

    Chris Matthews has issues with female politicians. Palin and Bachmann are unserious but there are plenty of male politicians who are clownish as well, and the amount of time he spends attacking the women is disproportionate. He trashed Hillary Clinton for months because, frankly.. he just has issues. Why doesn’t he spend his time attacking Paul Ryan’s roadmap or something?

  • beamangrow

    he is right.

  • Nacho

    da-wdc said:
    Chris Matthews has issues with female politicians. Palin and Bachmann are unserious but there are plenty of male politicians who are clownish as well, and the amount of time he spends attacking the women is disproportionate. He trashed Hillary Clinton for months because, frankly.. he just has issues. Why doesn’t he spend his time attacking Paul Ryan’s roadmap or something?

    Its because they’re pretty. Bill told me.

  • The Real Royal Queen

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    You know every night in bed Tingles wife has to say, “Honey, will you please stop shouting out the names Sarah and Michelle?”

    I feel her pain. Sometimes, KingyPoo mixes it up and calls me Brisket or Armando.

  • newsjunkie2011

    More people like him are needed. There is such a lack of honesty coming from the right wing right now — as everyone is so freaked out to upset the Tea Party (though their national favorability rating is at 18%). So when no ‘intellectual’ conservatives are willing to stand up to others in their party for making up history and talking about things they can’t even pronounce correctly, let alone understand — someone’s got to do it. Good on you, Matthews! I don’t always agree with you — but you’re absolutely spot on. People like Bachmann have no business representing ANYONE other than preschoolers. (Maybe she could take a fifth grade history class while she’s at it).

  • gar

    The Real Royal King said:
    I tend to think Christ gets a bit too passionate about certain matters, but the key here is that we need someone in the media who exposes fools like Sarah Spudnut and Mad Michelle. Chris is providing a public service for which we must all be thankful.

    When does it classify as overkill?
    BTW most sane people don’t dwell on individuals they think are moronic.

  • Grammie

    gar said:
    When does it classify as overkill?

    Nor do their supporters elevate them to a Diety as TRRK has with Chris. :)

    gar said:
    The Real Royal King said:
    I tend to think Christ gets a bit too passionate

  • moishe pippick

    Anyone concerned about a public figure using this kind of language on TV? If my kid said “WTF” to me, she’d be in a lot of trouble!

  • The Real Royal King

    LiberaI Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Tingles needs to get a life already.

    Project much, Michelle-in-Utah.

    Grammie said:
    Nor do their supporters elevate them to a Diety as TRRK has with Chris. :)

    Janet, you can be a surprisinly foolish woman at times. I tend to find Matthews boorish and irritating much of the time, and a terrible political prognosticator. I just tire of the same old repeated “Tingles” line from nincompoops like Michelle-in-Utah who can’t seem to form original thoughts.

  • The Real Royal King

    moishe pippick said:
    Anyone concerned about a public figure using this kind of language on TV? If my kid said “WTF” to me, she’d be in a lot of trouble!

    Well, we all know how Sarah Spudnut’s children “talk” on Twitter, so this foul language can’t be at all surprising. Coarse and trashy, to be sure.

  • Pablo

    TristramShandy said:
    Chris Matthews is a women on the verge of her nineteenth nervous breakdown.

    He needs a little Mother’s Little Helper.

  • Pablo

    AngelPeters said:
    These women, strong personalities not withstanding, demonstrate a serious lack of education.

    Both are college grads and Bachmann has a JD. Methinks you find them to have the wrong education.

  • ChrisNH

    Matthews dripping with Rabies. Again. And I absolutely LOVE it! The best part is that his next two years will be just the same. All Obama breast-feeders are going to be this way, livid that ‘their’ Obama is getting routinely trashed & disrespected. I think this is all terrific.

  • RunSarahRun

    Schneider, you’re such a clown with your “inspirational” Palin crap… seriously, how many bottles of lotion do you go through while composing these gems? It’s “inspirational” for a person who fancies themself the leader of the free world to use terms like “WTF” when describing a speech by the current President? Really? You think that?

  • WCinWI

    AngelPeters said:
    You are missing the point. I disdain inadequate education, either in leaders or the average American citizen

    If you go back to my original point you will see I said I thought Matthews was over-the-top but that I understand his point. These women, strong personalities not withstanding, demonstrate a serious lack of education. This was all about Matthews point of lack of education in these two women

    “I agree he has been over-the-top, but I understand his point. Both these women have demonstrated a serious lack of basic American history education. That they have been, are, or may be in positions of leadership is mind boggling and demonstrates the poor education of those who hold them up as an example.
    I wouldn’t want my daughters to look at either of them as a role model”

    If you are comfortable holding these women up as role models for your daughters, fine. I am not. I would much rather have educated and strong women.

    Debbie Wasserman-Schulz and Sheila Jackson Lee don’t have the standing that these women have, so I take that point of your argument as wanting to take the focus off of Palin and Bachmann profound lack of basic American History.

    The two women I mentioned are Congresswomen so how in the world do they not have a strong standing in the political world? You make little sense with this argument.

  • WCinWI

    AngelPeters said:
    WCinWI,

    I’m guessing you really are fine with their obvious lack of a decent education. I think that is very sad for you, and for any young woman in your circle of influence.

    I want more, much more, for my daughters and all young women everywhere, and I want it to begin with an excellent education.

    I have two degrees….your basic undergraduate from a Big 10 university and a masters from another fine institution out West. I’m interested in getting a second advanced degree. I find it interesting that you feel the need to attack an educated individual, but if that makes you feel strong so be it.

  • WCinWI

    Nacho said:
    Palin is taking feminism 10 steps back.

    Palin perpetuates the stereotype of the “mouthy uppity know nothing b!tch that will have her say no matter what she doesn’t know or is unaware of how wrong she is no matter what anybody else thinks around her” lady.

    Ignorance is NOT the model for feminism in our society.

    Are you a female? If not, then you don’t know a thing about feminism.

  • Grammie

    Grammie said:
    The Real Royal King said:
    I tend to think CHRIST gets a bit too passionate

  • StandUp

    The Real Royal King said:
    I just tire of the same old repeated “Tingles” line from nincompoops like Michelle-in-Utah

    Brisket
    Drop-out Gov.
    O’Van Susteren
    Beckerhead
    Kumquat
    Michelle in Utah
    Il Douche
    Mad Michelle
    Toll Booth Perry

  • Grammie

    StandUp said:
    The Real Royal King said:
    I just tire of the same old repeated “Tingles” line from nincompoops like Michelle-in-Utah

    Brisket
    Drop-out Gov.
    O’Van Susteren
    Beckerhead
    Kumquat
    Michelle in Utah
    Il Douche
    Mad Michelle
    Toll Booth Perry

    Might I add:

    All the Mary’s in Heaven

  • WildMan

    The sissified girlieboy ‘Gay & Lesbian’ lineup on PMSnbc is just flat against women…especially nice looking women who are smarter than idiots like Chrissy ‘Tingles & Thrills’ Matthews and Edith ‘Fat & Angry’ Schultzie. They also can’t stand it that FOX News has FoXXXy women on all the time. If the gay & lesbian lifestyle is akin to the way Randy Madcow acts on his show then I don’t think it is good to mix them with our young Military men & women. Sarcastic Randy is so strange.

  • JamesA1102

    So covering two people who seek the spotlight and make political comments on a political talk show is an obsession?

  • OxyCon

    ChrisNH said:
    Matthews dripping with Rabies. Again. And I absolutely LOVE it! The best part is that his next two years will be just the same. All Obama breast-feeders are going to be this way, livid that ‘their’ Obama is getting routinely trashed & disrespected. I think this is all terrific.

    Know what’s really gonna cause the MessNBC Leftists to piss their pants?:

    10 states now developing eligibility-proof demands
    107 Electoral College votes controlled by Arizona, Texas, Connecticut, others
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=255965

  • WHarropson

    Matthews lost his case. I hope MSNBC never gets rid of him. He raged against Bachman reading very concise history from his own teleprompter, then listened to Bachman and I believe realised that everything she said was both true and historically correct. He conceded she was correct about Quincy Adams then called her a baloon head. He’s a sick man and I hope they never fire him. He keeps making the right look good.

  • Rusty Shackelford

    Its been reported in some quarters that the janitorial staff at MSNBC walked in on Matthews while he was masturbating in his office with pictures of Palin and Bachmann on his desk.

  • WHarropson

    Palin’s franchise is over..The three letter acronym just ruined it. Don’t make me spell it out for you.

  • WCinWI

    WHarropson said:
    Palin’s franchise is over..The three letter acronym just ruined it. Don’t make me spell it out for you.

    Oh – just like death panels ended her career? Funny stuff.

  • Grammie

    WHarropson said:
    Don’t make me spell it out for you.

    .
    Or you’ll what?

  • WildMan

    I believe I may have figured out old Chrissy’s problem. Enema…! Yes, an enema…like the kind we give a horse. Chrissy looks to have about a 5 or 6 day blockage and will most likely require the fire hose treatment straight from the pumper truck.

  • Yoda002

    Pablo said:
    Both are college grads and Bachmann has a JD. Methinks you find them to have the wrong education.

    She must of got one from the same place O’Donnell got one. Can we say mail-order diploma!! Both these ladies must of flunked history in High School.

    It must be really hard work defending these women.

  • Yoda002

    WildMan said:
    The sissified girlieboy ‘Gay & Lesbian’ lineup on PMSnbc is just flat against women…especially nice looking women who are smarter than idiots like Chrissy ‘Tingles & Thrills’ Matthews and Edith ‘Fat & Angry’ Schultzie. They also can’t stand it that FOX News has FoXXXy women on all the time. If the gay & lesbian lifestyle is akin to the way Randy Madcow acts on his show then I don’t think it is good to mix them with our young Military men & women. Sarcastic Randy is so strange.

    The righties don’t care about brains as long as they have looks thats all that matters to them. So why you’re looking at them they’re throwing out the propaganda.

  • Yoda002

    WCinWI said:
    You should want your daughter to emulate a person that is constantly backed down for being conservative or liberal or whatever they believe. I myself am a female and can relate to Palin, as a conservative.

    Palin is finally bringing feminism to the forefront and I can’t wait for the debates.

    I would say the feminist would be upset at the way she’s talking. A lot of them wish she would just go away.

  • Kat

    There is something to be said about education and there is something to be said about common sense. I believe an effective lawmaker and representative should have both.

    It’s obvious Palin lacks education. Which is why she speaks of commonsense solutions. But when is she going to prove she has any commonsense? Now that might be defined as a WTF moment.

  • Kat

    And Bachmann? She does not show much intelligence or commonsense if she can sit straightfaced and repeat the lie/rumour that Obamas trip to India cost 200 million dollars a day!

  • WHarropson

    WHarropson said:
    Palin’s franchise is over..The three letter acronym just ruined it. Don’t make me spell it out for you.

    OK The Joke’s on me. Go ahead Pile on.
    WTF” speech — short for “winning the future,” Took me a while but I finally got it. I guess I can spell that out.

  • Kat

    WHarropson said:
    OK The Joke’s on me. Go ahead Pile on.WTF” speech — short for “winning the future,” Took me a while but I finally got it. I guess I can spell that out.

    No, you were right the first time.

  • got a grip

    The problem is MSNBC’s coverage is agenda driven- the logic is selectively applied to support the place they had already decided they wanted to end up at- results in an unending stream of double standards and hypocrisy. Latest example: as Chrissie pounces on a few slip ups like mispronunciations of Iwa Jima to mean they are “bubble heads”, he conveniently forgets the Annointed One mispronounced corpsmen and said we had 57 states. Can you imagine where he would go if Palin said we had 57 states?

  • Michael_T

    Memo to Mediaite’s Matt Schneider.

    Please do me a favor and post a link to your similar article castigating Bill O’Reilly for obsessing over Nancy Pelosi with a similar “zone of contempt”.

    Oh, there was none you say.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Michael_T said:
    Memo to Mediaite’s Matt Schneider. Please do me a favor and post a link to your similar article castigating Bill O’Reilly for obsessing over Nancy Pelosi with a similar “zone of contempt”. Oh, there was none you say.

    Noted.

  • placebodomingo

    See it’s like this….Chris knows the only time he made real news was when he got the tingle…since then its been down hill for his show, his network, and probably his love life. He cannot believe that two beautiful women that individually have more brains, charisma, charm, and popularity than he and his entire network can muster are more exciting…I mean WTF Chris…Get Hypotized….

    P.

  • chris87654

    “…a peek into the rationale behind his obsession with the dynamic duo: “I’m afraid [Palin and Bachmann] make [people like Romney and Pawlenty] look boring.” ”

    Actually, I think normal voters/people find Palin and Bachmann boring – most have had enough of the sideshows. EVERYONE wants what the Tea Party wants – lower taxes, cut government waste, “smaller government” (still not quite sure what they mean by this – give all policy and cost responsibility to states? which might mean pay less fed tax, but higher state tax? and if not the fed, someone’s got to pay for AK handouts). I’m ready to be “bored” with any plans for solutions, but can be pretty sure they won’t come from teabaggers.

  • rogersnowden

    Of course, Sarah Palin was right. The USSR did win the race to space, by virtue of being first to launch a satellite, Sputnik. And, in doing so, they launched an economic race– to the moon, and later toward “star wars”– they could not possibly win. And thus, they collapsed.

    Chris Matthews is something of a lunk, in that he cannot comprehend any of this. His cognitive dissonance predisposes him to completely misunderstand what female conservatives say.

  • Old Duffer

    Tingle Leg, dems in general, and the LSM are declaring Obama as the new Reagan?

    http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2011/1101110207_400.jpg

    Obama in his books hated Reagan’s guts, the dems and LSM detested him, called him an idiot, a fool and dumb, ya know, like they say about Palin.

    Hey Obama, conservatives knew Reagan, he was a friend of ours, and you are no Reagan.

    Now OTOH, this is reality.

    http://iranpoliticsclub.net/photos/sarah-palin4/images/Sarah%20Palin%20&%20Ronald%20Reagan%20cheers.jpg

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Glenn Beck just completely destroyed Tingles on his radio show. Will Mediaite report it? We shall see.

  • chai

    Hmmm… what happened to the new trend towards civility among politicos and Talking Heads??? Guess that does not apply to the liberal MSM, especially to the likes of Tingles and Olby…

  • Tina Ferrer

    Mr. Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast is in a difficult position here. If MSNBC continues in suit as to MSNBC’s form and content created by Mr. Olberman will cause at the very least a drop of 20% in Comcast subscribers. Yeah, I want to continue a business relationship paying my cash to an entity that keeps calling me crazy, racist, part of a mob, ignorant, moronic and off base, insecure, my Mother didn’t breast feed me, etc., etc., etc.? Not a chance…..diversification is good Mr. Roberts but I seriously think taking over a boat anchor manufacturer would preserve your current business model and unequivocally be more profitable. I don’t get it. A politically agnostic business that provides all with a service that deliberately castigates half their customer base is beyond me. I’m not certain this is what will happen but should it manifest? Satellite providers need to get a bit more muscle in their terrestrial feeds because I have a feeling this will be a growth area in the last three quarters of fiscal 2011.

  • Oregon Conservative

    Tingles goes after Bachmann because she made a complete fool of him on Election Night. For Chris, it’s personal. Also, Bachmann is running for POTUS.

    What a sad sack douche Chrissy boy is.

  • FredCPA

    i have never seen a reality show. that island thing. jersey shore. my wife sometimes does, so i know they exist. and in the culture people talk abut them. but i have never once had the inclination to look. its just seems sad and creepy. gross. and i dont have the time really. kinda busy at that time of day, between 7pm and 10pm. i guess thats when they come on. ok, so the feeling i have about those shows, that those poor people are kind of like the retarded looking circus animals that stumble around the ring looking dazed. poor dumb animals that are trapped and fallen and just have given up. sad creatures. i dont want to view that kind of thing. mathews is like that to me now. that elephant that is just wandering in a circle in the ring. dazed. no “life” left in the eyes. a zombie. a tragic figure. so my inclination is to pitty but avert my eyes. i am sad to say with him, i look. i wish i didnt. i wish i could just say “that poor man”. and listen to somethnig else. i listen to him usually on XM, or watch occasionally on internet; at work. but i do look. its so sad. the disintegration of a human being. like watching a bull fight. and mathews is the bull. but his is also the picador. slipping into madness. slobbering and ranting. while the cameramen in the studio watch. no one stops him. no one comforts him. no one gets him medication. they just run the cameras. like the porn director who hands the “starlet” another blow for her nose, then sends her back to humiliation. mathews, a coked up porn star. star 80 chris. doomed, trapped. pathetic. just gross. but i do watch it. and i am ashamed. thank you for listening.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clough/1419363514 Arthur Clough

    Chris can you say “Misogynist”.
    Can’t help stalking Palin and Bachmann, Eh!

  • Penguin60

    Oregon Conservative said:
    Tingles goes after Bachmann because she made a complete fool of him on Election Night. For Chris, it’s personal

    Very True.

    Oregon Conservative said:
    What a sad sack douche Chrissy boy is.

    Very, very true.

    FredCPA said:
    mathews, a coked up porn star. star 80 chris. doomed, trapped. pathetic.

    um….wow….that’s all I got to say about that.

  • Kat

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Glenn Beck just completely destroyed Tingles on his radio show. Will Mediaite report it? We shall see.

    They did and as far as Beck goes all he did was go off on some bi-polar manic rant. He is in serious need of a mood stabalizer. I have lost all respect for Dr Ablow who sits by and watches this mans mood swings cycle faster than a washing machine. Maybe he wants to be the next Dr. Phil riding on Becks coat tail?

  • X-3

    Tingles “No Balls” Mouthewes is a sick puppy.

  • WHarropson

    Kat said:
    No, you were right the first time.

    (About the three letter acronymn)

    I was hoping I wasn’t right the first time. I don’t like reality TV but I endured one of Palin’s Alaska episodes. It was a cut above that genere in that, at least for that episode there was no bleeping and no occasion to do that blurry camera thing when inappropriate body parts are exposed. I thought, you know, there is a real part of america where profanity is not the norm and her franchise would capture the embrace the leave it to beaver innocence that symolizes the goodness that many enjoy. If she starts talking like a teenage slut twitters, she has lost the franchise.

  • Kat

    WHarropson said:
    (About the three letter acronymn) I was hoping I wasn’t right the first time. I don’t like reality TV but I endured one of Palin’s Alaska episodes. It was a cut above that genere in that, at least for that episode there was no bleeping and no occasion to do that blurry camera thing when inappropriate body parts are exposed. I thought, you know, there is a real part of america where profanity is not the norm and her franchise would capture the embrace the leave it to beaver innocence that symolizes the goodness that many enjoy. If she starts talking like a teenage slut twitters, she has lost the franchise.

    I don’t like her and can’t pretend to even a little. But when she started that show there was a part of me that wanted to watch it because I have always been fascinated with Alaska. Such a beautiful place. Finally I gave in and turned it on one night. I kid you not in that episode she and her family were getting off the plane at the dock by their house. Short story long she said there’s our neighbor who is always spying on us. blah blah blah. Look he’s doing it now. The camera panned up and the man was sitting on a lounge chair, on his deck, clearly reading his book. He looked no more interested in what was going on than if he was taking a nap. In fact he probably was. Once again poor Sarah Palin always the victim. Now maybe that neighbor does take to spying. I can’t say that he doesn’t. But clearly at that time he was not, all the while she was insisting he was. I had to turn it off while calling her a liar at the same time. She’s a media hog, plain and simple. Nothing more.
    I’m sorry but i think her stock is slowly dropping each time she opens her mouth these days. She’s good cheerleader material, though. I’ll give her that much.

  • Kat

    Kat said:
    Short story long

    long story short i meant. lol

  • WildMan

    Chrissy Tingles is like that science teacher most of us had in high school who was about 90 years old and the only science he new was pre 1900 science. He’d get all upset with students who kept proving him wrong and it was because the teacher was too damn hardheaded to get caught up to the present time and the millions of science discoveries made since he graduated back in 1888. Chrissy is imploding before our eyes because he is so upset and jealous that everyone else at PMSnbc has higher ratings. Trouble is all those others are still millions of viewers behind FOX News. I fully expect Comcast will clean house and start with more mainstream commentators and not the radical wackos PMSnbc now has on the air.

  • twin1616

    …and the beat goes on. Yet another story about the most brillant person in politics, male or female, Sarah the Great,

  • CAconservative

    Playing to the peanut-gallery? Isn’t that what Matthews does every day? When is this jerk going to invite people on who can effectively argue the opposite position instead of the “yes” people he likes to have on to stoke his ego?

  • FredCPA

    Penguin60 said:
    Very True. Very, very true. um….wow….that’s all I got to say about that.

    just painting a word picture man. the idea of the cameramen watching this the whole time. voyeuristic. creepy. while he, chirs, in front of the camera, screams for help. and no one does anything. very sad. i will retire from the word picture gig. stick to numbers. probably better for all concerned. thanks for reigning me in! :)

  • Paladin

    There’s no misogyny here…only ignorantogyny. Mr. Matthews is right to call them out. For those of you who are Bachmann and Palin fans…well bless you anyway.

  • FredCPA

    Paladin said:
    There’s no misogyny here…only ignorantogyny. Mr. Matthews is right to call them out. For those of you who are Bachmann and Palin fans…well bless you anyway.

    so can we hate obama for being an idiot, and advocating idiotic policies, and not be racists? or is that too much to ask? i mean its just idiotogyny, not racism. we’re cool, right? peace bro.

  • hooter

    I watch Chris Matthews at times when he goes on one of his many “rants”
    I am waiting to see a team doctors rush on the set to medicate him & or put him in a
    straight jacket!!! I know people in the crazy house that has more sense than he does!!!!!

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