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Chris Matthews Suggests Tea Party Influence On GOP Is Like Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

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Prompted by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch‘s uncharacteristic tirade against President Obama’s healthcare reform program, Chris Matthews unveiled his theory about what is happening to the Republican party: it’s just like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. According to Matthews, formerly intelligent Republicans are having their bodies “snatched” and what’s left behind in the case of Hatch or Senator John McCain is a “zombie” who mindlessly recites hard right positions.

Matthews describes the Tea Party’s influence as a “weird force taking over” and wonders “will the invasion of the body snatchers continue until its snatched every single Republican in the U.S. Senate?” Matthews worries that endangered Republican Senators Dick Lugar and Olympia Snowe could be next. However, despite the Tea Party motivating Hatch’s “gross comments,” is it really a “spook show” for such a force to make incumbent politicians fearful for their jobs and thus more responsive to active voters?

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  • Liberal Tormentor

    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

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

  • WCinWI

    Those are some sexy Body Snatchers. *wink*

  • same2u

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

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

    I hope the awful people of Utah will replace Hatch with a more authentic tea bagger.

  • writer

    Chris, you didn’t have to wear that death pallor makeup to get your point across.

  • cjd ohio 1

    i hope the awful people at MSNBC will replace Matthews with a real reporter

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Same2U, I guess if the people Utah are so awful, we don’t have to fear you coming here? Thanks, that’s a load off my mind!

  • grafxmail7

    SNATCHED!!!!

    TEA PARTY = BRAINWASHED ZOMBIES

    MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!!!!

    HAHAHAHAHA!!

  • same2u

    same2u said:
    I hope the awful people of Utah will replace Hatch with a more authentic tea bagger.

    Okay but you stay the hell away from Seattle.

  • Arkansas Steve

    Chris just gets more desperate every day.

    Maybe he’s the political version of Charlie Sheen. It’s not as big a reach as it may seem.

  • Grammie

    I was thinking, in the interests of efficiency, Mediaite could just have a regular column that says:

    Chris Mathew rails wildly against – fill in blank here – and in other news Charlie Sheen simply railed wildly again today on – fill in blank here’s – show.

    That should be good for at least a few weeks or until Sheen finally crashes and burns.

  • Grammie

    Arkansas Steve said:
    Maybe he’s the political version of Charlie Sheen. It’s not as big a reach as it may seem.

    .
    As you can see, my thoughts exactly!

  • OxyCon

    Well, we finally figured out what has been making Matthews so bash*t crazy…he’s on that new drug called “Charlie Sheen”.

  • rover37

    Hey MR. TIngles…. your show is about to be SNATCHED from the MSNBC lineup becasue your ratings suck and nobody wants to listen you your slobbering( literaly you slibber when yo talk) love affair with Obama and Clinton…

  • im_lovin_it

    grafxmail7 said:
    SNATCHED!!!!

    TEA PARTY = BRAINWASHED ZOMBIES

    MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!!!!

    HAHAHAHAHA!!

    You have NO IDEA how right you are!!! LOOK!!!!

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/10/04/swing-vote-newly-dead-now-oppose-obama/

    ZOMBIES!!!!!!

  • More Liberty4

    Well at least Mathews admits that it is a conservative principle, not republican or democrat, to believe that maybe we should live within our means and balance a budget.

  • BlueBunny

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    that’s a load off my mind!

    YOUR MIND HAS A BIG LOAD IN IT! PAVLOV’S DOG POOP! BLIND LEMMINGS ON A LEASH!

  • Big Eddie

    It’s the hardworking , decent Americans who have put their foot ( feet ) down and said ” ENOUGH ! ” . So , a Matthews or an O’ Donnell will never understand it . The more these whack jobs howl , the better .

  • BlueBunny

    WCinWI said:
    Those are some sexy Body Snatchers. *wink*

    MAYBE THEY WILL SEND A PHOTO OF THEMSELVES TO YOU CHEESE HEAD! MAYBE WITH NO SHIRT ON IF YOU ASK THEM SWEETLY! *wink*

  • Big Eddie

    It’s the people , Chris , and they won’t be stopped .

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmaTNf4YhEs

  • BlueBunny

    same2u said:
    Okay but you stay the hell away from Seattle.

    NON OF THESE LEMMINGS WOULD MAKE IT IN SEATTLE!

  • Scott_in_MI

    Chrissy rants that some members of Congress are being possessed by the Tea Party, yet 3 yrs ago, this man heard Obama speak and he turned into a teenage girl at a Beatles’ concert.

  • OxyCon

    I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try it you will become batsh*t crazy like me. Your legs will tingle off and your show will be the lowest rated showed on the lowest rated cable news channel. – Chrissy Matthews

  • BFD

    Yes, Chris Matthews is wrong and GOPers are not swinging hard to the right because the party is being taken over by extreme teabaggers.

    I wonder where he would get such a crazy idea?

  • notsofast

    Chris, didn’t they make a horroe movie about you with Vincent Price called “The Tingler?”

    Watch for Chris at the end of this clip!

    LOL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FQm30eQn7I

    Scream! Scream! Scream for your lives!

  • OxyCon

    BlueBunny said:
    NON OF THESE LEMMINGS WOULD MAKE IT IN SEATTLE!

    SHADDUP AND GET ME A BLUE BUNNY FRAPPUCHINO ICE POP!

  • OxyCon

    notsofast said:
    Chris, didn’t they make a horroe movie about you with Vincent Price called “The Tingler?”

    Watch for Chris at the end of this clip!

    LOL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FQm30eQn7I

    Scream! Scream! Scream for your lives!

    LMAO! Someone should add Matthew’s face to the end of that.

  • perceptorii

    I’d say that more accurately describes what’s happened to Chris Matthews since MSNBC decided to be the liberal Fox News.

  • ImNotBlue

    perceptorii said:
    I’d say that more accurately describes what’s happened to Chris Matthews since MSNBC decided to be the liberal Fox News.

    Double thumbs up!

    Perhaps he’s trying to telegraph his personal experience, but can’t quite say it outright. Is he blinking Morse code?

  • Sidhekitten

    Oh no, oh my god no!!!!!!!

    Run for your lives, some Republicans are not going to do what Democrats tell them to do. Some Republicans are no longer going to drop to their knees and (censored for family hours) until the Democrat (censored for family content).

    Body Snatchers Chris, really? Sounds almost as over the top as my previous sentence. Hey, just because they stopped agreeing with you does not mean that their souls have been destroyed. If that were the case, people like President Clinton would have to be counted as among the snatched when he tacked to the right after 94. OK, you may have me there (just kidding, put down the keyboard lefties).

    So again we come to the age old question that has plagued thinking people for a long time. Why is it that the left only considers people who agree with them to be sane, bipartisan, or worthy of the freedom of speech. And no, the answer, “because we are always right” no longer cuts it.

    The middle east is on fire and Mathews is talking about body snatching. Well Chris, if Sharia law ever gets to the U.S. as the radicals in Tunisia, Iran and Egypt would like, there will be some snatching all right, except that they will just take your soul and your body as a package. Then they will remove the head for their trophy case and send your soul straight to Allah.

  • Liberty_Hound

    If the Tea Party were the next invasion of the body snatchers Chris would not be here.

    Having said that, I can see were people like Chris thinks the Tea Party movement is weird. I mean having a large contingent of congressmen elected by the people who are at least trying to get serious about fiscal responsibility must seem weird to him and other lefties.

    Do they really think we can go on forever having China finance our debt and or have the Fed keep printing money.

    I’m glad those Tea party congressmen and women and senator are keeping those progressive Senators in line. It shows at least in part those guys are doing what the voters wanted them to do.

    To me, what’s really weird is how the democrats have allowed their party to be over ran by hardcore socialist and marxist.

  • BlueBunny

    Liberty_Hound said:
    serious about fiscal responsibility

    WERE WAS ALL THIS FISCAL CRAP WHEN BUSH AND HIS WAR MONGERS WERE IN OFFICE!

  • notsofast

    Well, they could only snatch Chris’ body because there is no mind there at all.

  • notsofast

    BlueBunny said:
    HIS WAR MONGERS WERE IN OFFICE!

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Barry is still prosecuting those wars, and thinking about a no-fly zone over Libya.

    talk about a war monger!

  • BFD

    The funny part is that if Beck had said the same thing you teabloggers would be slobbering all over it.
    You are usually proud of the fact that you have morphed your representative hard to the Right.
    But alas, Matthews said it so you guys knee-jerk.

    If Matthews uses a Body Snatcher analogy he is a dumbshit (even when you agree with him), if Beck cooks fish sticks and cookies on the same pan he is a genius.

  • Liberty_Hound

    BlueBunny said:
    WERE WAS ALL THIS FISCAL CRAP WHEN BUSH AND HIS WAR MONGERS WERE IN OFFICE!

    Bush wasn’t real conservative on fiscal policy. I’m no fan of Bush. He was a Progressive too. He was just a lesser evil over Kerry or Gore. Bush could have used a little Tea party enlightenment himself.

  • DEFENDER-90

    BlueBunny- if you were listening to am talk radio the last ten years you would know.

    Glen Beck

    Neal Boortz

    Jerry Doyle

    Mike Savage

  • ChrisNH

    Mr. Tingles obviously has no problem with the ‘influence’ that Union hacks have on the Party whose mascot is a Jackass. Unions are the Dems’ ‘Tea Party.’

  • Davo

    Sidhekitten said:
    Run for your lives, some Republicans are not going to do what Democrats tell them to do. Some Republicans are no longer going to drop to their knees and (censored for family hours) until the Democrat (censored for family content).

    Very descript. But really, it’s the old Communist “to do” list from the early 1960′s that instructed their dupes to act like people are crazy who disagree with them………………to act as if people who believe in the Constitution, God, and personal liberty are the oddballs instead of the anti-Americans. Matthews is just the current fool dutifully obeying his “thinkers.”

  • The Real Royal King

    same2u said:
    same2u said:
    I hope the awful people of Utah will replace Hatch with a more authentic tea bagger.
    Okay but you stay the hell away from Seattle.

    I’m just afraid she’s going to come to Texas to be a character witness for Mr. Jeffs.

  • WildMan

    Chris is so out to lunch. The guy lives on his movies. It is his whole life. If he’s not promoting Informative, Fair & Balanced FOX News he’s living out his movie fantasy on the Softball show.No wonder he is the lowest rated talking head on such a low rated cable network (PMSnbc). Even though Chris Matthews is an old man and looking pretty bad these days he’ll probably get a gig on E TV as a street reporter for the Oscars. Anyway you look at it Chris is a loser.

  • Black and Gold Brad

    Hey — I kinda can’t blame ole tingles.

    Chris really really believed that Obama would ‘end the wars’, close Gitmo, try KSM in NYC, roll back Bush’s War on Terror, end the Patriot Act. Chris thought Obama honest when he promised 8% unemployment and the Summer of Recovery after the Stimulis.

    Chris really really believed in the fierce urgency of now, that we are the ones we’ve been looking for, and that we would begin to heal the planet and roll back the seas.

    He bought into all that Hopen Change. No wonder he’d prefer rail away about Body Snatchers and the Tea Party.

    I would too if I were so publicly duped…

  • CincySteve

    Just saw this over on TVbythenumbers.com:
    Red Eye on Fox News, airing at 3:00 AM gets more viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic than Hardball with Chris Matthews at 5:00 PM AND 7:00 PM. Tingles cant beat a show that goes on air AT 3:00 IN THE MORNING!!! Its time to put this sick dog down.

  • The Tea Weasel®

    CincySteve said:
    Just saw this over on TVbythenumbers.com:
    Red Eye on Fox News, airing at 3:00 AM gets more viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic than Hardball with Chris Matthews at 5:00 PM AND 7:00 PM. Tingles cant beat a show that goes on air AT 3:00 IN THE MORNING!!! Its time to put this sick dog down.

    Yes, we understand Fox Viewers are devoted. With all the rest of MSM being liberal, what else do they have to watch? Liberals have an entire spectrum of political/news shows to watch, so their viewership is diluted. I have figured out that this concept eludes most Fox apologist cheerleaders. What is the #1 positive attribute quoted by Fox viewers? “We have the most viewers (nah nah nah nah nah!)”

    Fox News is really the elevator music of news networks. Muzak for conservatives. But hey, some people like their news in pablum form.

  • Dem4Ever

    Tingles has lost it. Bring us some fresh meat.

  • CincySteve

    1.You are admitting that the media has an inherent liberal bias which goes against quality journalism.

    1.b) I know your reply will be: “And Fox News inst biased?”

    1.c) I watch all of the 3 big Cable News Networks objectively and Fox is a close second behind CNN in terms of being unbiased with MSNBC at a far, far third.

    2. So when Keith Olbermann famously claimed “We’re (MSNBC) number 1! Were number 1!” *
    Your telling me HE wasn’t bragging about ratings?
    *He excluded Fox News from the rankings because in his crazy world they aren’t a news organization.

    Conclusion: Your hypocrisy is BLINDING and even more important… you (liberals) are losing the battle on all fronts.

  • WildMan

    OLD Chrissy ‘Tingles & Thrills’ Matthews has about the same rating here as he does on sad, old PMSnbc. Nobody watches him on TV and he gets about the lowest postings on his threads here. He is one sad and pathetic old man. He should just retire and spend his remaining days watching the 2 or 3 films he hasn’t seen.

  • http://Mediaite.com uggugg

    Everyday they are finding more and more theft, graft and corrupton and it is not the $50,000,00 annual income of the middle class wage earner. I wonder how many of these million dollar debacles the Blue Cross deals with annually? When the Republicans say Medical cost are too high because the Democrats do not know how to implement medical coverage properly. Well, Well; when a Blue Cross CEO walks away with $11,000,000.00 and hundreds of other CEO’s bring home even more from other companies, not to mention the billion and millions each person takes home in the stock markets each year. All these ridicules annual incomes in America should be posted on a register available to the general public voters. Let the voters decide. Boehner would agree with this, he wants to do the will of the people that sent him there. The least he can do is keep them informed as to what each person in America brings home each year and claims on their income tax. These facts will help voters make much better decisions when voting. It will also help all of us to compare the ridicules wages the blue collar and middle class are bringing home annually. Oh God, this would solve a lot of problems. Everyone should spread this information far and wide; the picture of this informative; “Annual Income Register” “of everyone in America’s Annual Income” it would be the peace maker of our century. We really need to go for this. A picture is worth a thousand words.

  • CAconservative

    Boy, Peewee Herman has sure aged! That is him, going by the name of Matthews, isn’t it? Good to see, he’s just as wacky as he’s always been.

  • X-3

    Big Eddie said:
    It’s the hardworking , decent Americans who have put their foot ( feet ) down and said ” ENOUGH ! ” . So , a Matthews or an O’ Donnell will never understand it . The more these whack jobs howl , the better .

    Howl is correct. Hey mug, I haven’t seen you around much lately. You been hidin’ out on Key Largo again?

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