Chris Matthews Really Likes Calling Michele Bachmann A “Zombie”

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by Jon Bershad | 1:34 pm, January 5th, 2011

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Political pundits and hosts like to come up with little running insults for the people they don’t like. Not only does it help belittle and dehumanize your political enemy or rival, it also serves as a fun gag for your regular viewers. Some fun examples are Rush Limbaugh always calling Harry Reid “Dingy” or Keith Olbermann always calling Glenn Beck “Lonesome Rhodes.” Well, we can now add another pet name to that illustrious group. Apparently Chris Matthews is unable to discuss Michele Bachmann without referring to her as “a zombie.”

The first instance we could find came on election night when Matthews asked the Congresswoman if she was “hypnotized.” As fans of film know (and anyone who watches Hardball enough knows that Matthews makes at least two random movie references a night), the term “zombie” originally meant someone who was hypnotized, primarily by a West African voodoo trance like in the 1941 Val Lewton classic, I Walked with a Zombie. So, it was only a hop, skip, and a slow, trance-like stumble for Matthews to get to the term George Romero cemented in the public’s mind.

Last month, Matthews was saying Bachmann displayed “the behavior of a zombie” again when he was amused the woman could ever end up on something called an “Intelligence Committee.” And, last night, while discussing Bachmann’s comments on the potential raising of the debt-ceiling, Matthews went for the third, officially making this a trend:

“Let’s listen to Michele Bachmann, your new boss. By the way, she may be a zombie answering this. Somebody out there – Boris Karloff, I don’t know – is giving her orders.”

God, I love those random movie references.

Over at Breitbart.tv, they’re calling Matthews a “mean-spirited bully” for this. Nah, “Zombie Bachmann” is just entering the proud pantheon of pundit pet names. And, remember; he doesn’t mean she’s going to devour progressives’ heads because a space probe exploded. He just means there’s a voodoo chief in the GOP that’s controlling her.

There’s a difference.

Check out last night’s clip from MSNBC below:

Chris Matthews, Hardball, Michele Bachman, Zombies

The Real Royal King

I like it when he does, and you have to admit she has that zombiesque quality. A vacuous, empty look in her eyes ….
ROCKSTEADY

Love the picture you used ! Classic.
hanniballa

Real nice picture you posted for this article. Taking pages from the Chris Matthews book of journalism I see.
lazzzlo

Nobody Ever calls you a Zombie…unless you wan them to.
writer

If you want to see soulless, vacuous eyes, check out Robert Stephenson on You Tube.
writer

democrat06

“These are the eyes of a psychopath.”
lazzzlo

Chris Mathews is following a plot line that is dead. He is referencing people in power who don’t exist and he is committing the cardinal sin.

He is referencing things past, not things present and he is useless for anything future..
lazzzlo

writer said:
“These are the eyes of a psychopath.”

He’s just too dumb to notice that nobody thinks he is important. That’s rough and has gotta hurt.
lazzzlo

He’s not leaning forward.
lazzzlo

You just put him down.
The Real Royal King

lazzzlo said:
Chris Mathews is following a plot line that is dead. He is referencing people in power who don’t exist and he is committing the cardinal sin.

He is referencing things past, not things present and he is useless for anything future..

He really does seem to dwell inordinately on the past, doesn’t he?
Mr.Papshmer

The Real Royal King said:
A vacuous, empty look in her eyes

Okay, which left wing web site ran a column where the writer used to term “vacuous” in reference to conservatives or Republicans? That ‘s the fourth time in a day and a half I’ve seen the little proggies use the term, and that doesn’t happen by accident coming from lemmings.
OxyCon

Just a typical day at MisogynyNBC.
It’s kinda strange that sports announcers are getting fired for calling women “Sweetie”, yet Olbermann and Matthews still have jobs and have said far worse things, sometimes using violent rhetoric.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Remember, Chris’ show is “absolutely non-partisan”.
Calvin

God, I love those random movie references.

Here’s one for ya’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpU8sX10_4
The Real Royal King

Mr.Papshmer said:
Okay, which left wing web site ran a column where the writer used to term “vacuous” in reference to conservatives or Republicans? That ’s the fourth time in a day and a half I’ve seen the little proggies use the term, and that doesn’t happen by accident coming from lemmings.

It’s a rather common word.
Calvin

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Remember, Chris’ show is “absolutely non-partisan”.

It’s full of debate.

MATTHEWS: You know, you know on this network, on this network if you listen to this network, there’s a lot of debate on MSNBC about this health care bill. Left versus center-left, whatever.

Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2010/03/16/matthews-unlike-msnbc-and-cnn-theres-absolutely-no-debate-fox-news#ixzz1ABpF7qyY
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Yeah Calvin, that was a classic quote from Tingles.
dhg

I find it interesting that a sheep is calling another sheep a zombie.

Politicians are a form of cannibal but a zombie?I don’t know,zombies are living dead who eat the living living’s brains,maybe that’s a good idea since they don’t seem to actually have brains.

But Michelle,a word of advice,don’t eat Matthew’s brain,it’s pretty low in nutritional value.
Calvin

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Yeah Calvin, that was a classic quote from Tingles.

Tingles, Baghdad Bob, and Joe “Bite Me” are the gifts that keep on giving.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

She made a fool of him on election night and he can’t get over it. Plus, he’s a misogynist.
lazzzlo

What word again was an issue?

You guys argued against an “adverb” just be cause you could.

I believe the word was “vacuous”.
lazzzlo

Smile and take a deep breath.

Every retort that you feel like taking…

Think twice.
lazzzlo

You can get baited into anything.
lazzzlo

Lets discosse the the word “vacuous”
writer

My vacuous cleaner’s filter needs changing.
lazzzlo

I was just curious if the bait produced anything?
lazzzlo

RRK ran away.
writer

At his age, it’s more like a totter.
Obeezy

Christine Mathews would make the old Democrat KKk proud
lazzzlo

I actually listen to my link.

I forgot how I was back then…that is a very good “young” musical link

The Cranberries…1999 live.
Fused

Secret crush?
Just4thefax

Fact: Chris Matthews is mad that all the other anchor are getting high dollar Fox jobs and he’s stuck like Chuck were he’s at!
lazzzlo

lazzzlo said:
Nobody Ever calls you a Zombie…unless you wan them to.

One more time, I’m getting old bu that was pretty good music.
Kird

Dave Noland said:
Shut your idiot whole

Dave Noland said:
Sorry shut your idiot hole

Insulting someone and then apologizing for using the wrong iteration of the insult.

Classic.
The Real Royal King

lazzzlo said:
RRK ran away.

Do you know where I went?
Probably NOT wrong

Matthews will forevermore be known as “Tingles up
his legs” while listening to another man speak and he
finds humor in calling someone a Zombie.
You can’t make this shit up!
newzmaker

I hope Comcast eventually gets rid of Matthews and all the other low-rent bobbleheads, on MSNBC. Those idiots are all freaks.
TeaPartyPatriot

Ideologues with no foundation or logic to their positions have no way to defend their lunacy except by name calling.
tigerprez

Dang, Mr. Tingles must still be smarting (the only time you’ll see the word “smart” attached to him in any way) from Bachmann burning him with that leg tingle comment on his own show. Poor little fella. He got his feelings hurt.
bobmoses

Chris Matthews is probably the best known misogynist in the country.
felixw

This kind of name calling seems to be the only thing the Left can do these days. They clearly don’t know how to defend their big, bloated, bankrupt government programs — and even if the Republicans disappeared, the Democrat entitlements still would be in trouble, since the government can’t afford them. They are structured like Ponzi schemes — in fact, the accounting for them is precisely like Bernie Madoff’s approach to investments. It got Madoff sent to prison, but that’s the role model the Left follows for our retirement plans. So if Matthews wants to find true zombie behavior, he ought to start by looking at the economists who support these “walking but dead” programs.
Ajolily

lazzzlo said:
Chris Mathews is following a plot line that is dead. He is referencing people in power who don’t exist and he is committing the cardinal sin. He is referencing things past, not things present and he is useless for anything future..

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
J Baustian

Calvin said:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2010/03/16/matthews-unlike-msnbc-and-cnn-theres-absolutely-no-debate-fox-news#ixzz1ABpF7qyY

You forget, the left hates the center-left. It’s a meaningless argument for those of us not on the left, but for them it’s dead serious. For example, look what Stalin did to Trotsky with an ice pick (not personally, he hired a professional assassin).
Nahu Tuk

Dave Noland said:
Shut your idiot whole

Another victim of public education chimes in.
timcajun

OxyCon says:

Just a typical day at MisogynyNBC.
It’s kinda strange that sports announcers are getting fired for calling women “Sweetie”, yet Olbermann and Matthews still have jobs and have said far worse things, sometimes using violent rhetoric.

Sometimes using violent rhetoric, you mean the “teas party” at those hate, scare grandma rallies! No, you must mean the gun threats by tea partiers and the violence threat to take back our country, by an means possible! At least have “one example” when making a tea point that is worse than your own actions!
mrunpc

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http://www.zazzle.com/mrunpc*
mrunpc

Sorry, he’s
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Hey, no one’s perfect.