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Hardball Panel Desperately Seeks A Way To Stop FL Pastor (Hint: Don’t Have The Damn Discussion!)

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Today on Hardball, Chris Matthews ran a panel on that awful Florida pastor who, for the rest of this post, will be referred to as Pastor Walrus-Face (because he kind of looks like this). The segment started off absurd in a good way as Dearborn, Michigan Mayor Jack O’Reilly defended his town by pointing out just how many strip clubs it has. Things ended absurd in a bad way though when everyone was left scratching their heads and trying to figure out how to make sure Walrus-Face stops causing trouble in the Middle East. Ooh ooh, I have an idea! Don’t talk about him on national television!

The whole situation started with Walrus-Face beginning his latest attempt to gain headlines (walrus-faces gobble up media attention like regular walruses eat clams). The Pastor was in court today to defend his right to hold a huge rally protesting the Sharia Law threat in Dearborn (which, by the way, exists entirely in his walrus-like head).

The town is trying to stop him because his rally plans went against Dearborn’s extremely lenient event guidelines which, of course, is one of about a million reasons to not let Walrus-face hold a rally in your town. Another good reason is that some believe the last rally he held caused the deaths of at least 20 people due to protests in the Middle East. It’s this reason that got Matthews’ hands a wringin’. He asked guest Irshad Manji from NYU what could be done to stop the pastor from causing trouble on the other side of the world. Her response was just a tad bit infuriating.

“Chris, there is no magic bullet answer to all of this. If there was, we probably wouldn’t be having this conversation.”

What are you talking about?! Of course there’s a magic bullet answer! Don’t have the conversation anyway!

Why is Walrus-face still in the news? What is the purpose? When I finish this post and leave the office, I’m gonna get into a subway car that will have at least 20 people more interesting and relevant than this guy. And half of those people will be homeless!

A few months ago, when Walrus-face first burst on the scene, it was dumb to cover him because he was an irrelevant nobody. Now it’s really dumb to cover him because we know for a fact that doing so leads to people dying. Dying! Every time we say this guy’s name, we give him power. He’s like Beetlejuice only he doesn’t cause quirky musical numbers set to Harry Bellafonte. He causes death. The country already has a crazy church of horrible bigots (You know their name. I’m just gonna call them Freddy Fred and the Funky Bunch). We don’t need another one.

So. Just. Stop. Talking. About. Him.

Problem solved. Magic bullet found.

Watch the segment from MSNBC below. Or don’t. Preferably don’t.

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  • writer

    So you’re telling us that great white sharks target walruses because of their political views.

  • timzank

    Your suggestion to simply stop making the rev the issue is the answer, however it goes against the very fiber of Matthews being to not beat this dead horse until it is pummeled into dog food.

    He most certainly will not spend his political show talking about deficits, Libya bombings & drone attacks, deaths in Afghanistan, $5 a gallon gas, 20% real unemployment, NLRB squashing thousands of jobs, justice dept failures, campaign finance investigations of Obama 2008, etc etc etc ….the list of valid issues is endless….

    No he’ll instead focus all his journalistic resources and panels on a nut preacher with 50 followers.

  • TfT

    So, Jon is telling Matthews to stop talking about this, while talking about it in an article on a web site? Don’t tyou think more people will see this article than saw ChrisMatthews show?

    If you wanna give advice, you need to not break your own advice while giving it.

  • writer

    MSNBC’s philosophy is to constantly discuss things they don’t deem worthy of discussion.

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    I realize that Matthews is desperate for relevance and ratings, but going on about an obvious loon is just pointless. Every time this idiot pastor gets any attention, he just keeps pushes further. Maybe if Matthews was willing to tackle the real issues of the day (unemployment anyone?) he wouldn’t have to resort to glorifying fringe whack jobs.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Somebody wake me when they have this discussion about Islam.

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    writer said:
    So you’re telling us that great white sharks target walruses because of their political views.

    No. Great white haired morons target walrus like psychos because of their relative ease.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Keeva,
    Tingles thinks that by talking about it, people will associate this loon with the right, even though we think he’s a moron like everyone else.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    ps, But even though he’s a moron, the First Amendment give him that right.

  • writer

    Yes, Keeva. Chris is a perfect engine. A babbling machine.

  • chatmandu002

    According to Chris Matthews, Pastor Jones, aka Walrus-face, is part of the religious right and he can’t not speak about him. All is apart of his effort to portray anything on the right as extreme. Typical of the liberal/progressive/socialist MSM.

  • Arkansas Steve

    TfT said:
    If you wanna give advice, you need to not break your own advice while giving it.

    For once I disagree with you TfT. Jon, from Mediaite, has written one of the best headlines ever!!

    It is OK for Jon to point out Matthews hypocrisy, it’s even very good.

    I particularly liked the absence of type after the headline. Outstanding Jon.

    Oh, and Jon, please be careful around the Mediate offices. Tommy may be jealous and planning to hurt you.

  • black and WHITE

    Matthew’s is just the leading soldier ( cheerleader ) for the Obama Socialist Regimes attack on the right or anyone ( including everyday America citizens ) for that matter that refuse to submit and fall in line.

    Obama has,even since before he had taken office, employed the very same insidious tactics ranging from inuedo, to guilt by association, all the way up to the dissemination of outright lies about his opponents throughout his regime’s vast network, which has all the same evilness of McCarthyism.

    The ” real ” American people and even you liberals need to rise up and take our country back before it’s too late. Barack Obama does not have ANYBODY in America’s best interest at heart. We are all simply a ways to his means.

    I believe most in this country in your ‘ heart of hearts ‘ know this to be true, but he’s got us so outside of our normal comfort zones ww do exactly what he planned for us to do. That’s to take to the streets ( first by internet ) then the acual streets, while he robs us blind.

    First stage he took all of our money, now he’s taking our confidence & dignity ( almost completed ) then all that’s left is to take the United States of America itself… THE END.

  • Nacho

    Pastour Terry Jones is a perfect example of the extreme xenophobia of the right.

    It is constantly fed to them from the pulpit and conservative talk radio.

  • jo hoochie

    Barack Obama does not have ANYBODY in America’s best interest at heart. We are all simply a ways to his means.
    Worth repeating Again and again!!! And…..
    May the dung of a thousand camels fall on Chris Matthews dinner plate!!!!

  • timzank

    Nacho said:
    Pastour Terry Jones is a perfect example of the extreme xenophobia of the right. It is constantly fed to them from the pulpit and conservative talk radio.

    Uh, sorry nacho dip, he’s not one of ours. He’s all on his own.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Keeva,
    Tingles thinks that by talking about it, people will associate this loon with the right, even though we think he’s a moron like everyone else.

    chatmandu002 said:
    According to Chris Matthews, Pastor Jones, aka Walrus-face, is part of the religious right and he can’t not speak about him. All is apart of his effort to portray anything on the right as extreme. Typical of the liberal/progressive/socialist MSM.

    Nacho said:
    Pastour Terry Jones is a perfect example of the extreme xenophobia of the right.

    It is constantly fed to them from the pulpit and conservative talk radio.

    see….it works.

    so, can we say that Tingles, in his efforts to smear the Right by using this guy to paint conservatives in a bad light, is responsible for the deaths caused by riots over the actions of Walrus Face?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    I love how these insane liberals act as if the Islamic extremists have no control over what they do. Its as if the pastor somehow controls their minds and forces them to commit violent acts.

  • Pokerdude777

    sarainitaly said:
    see….it works. so, can we say that Tingles, in his efforts to smear the Right by using this guy to paint conservatives in a bad light, is responsible for the deaths caused by riots over the actions of Walrus Face?

    While I would love to agree with you on this, because I agree with 100% of your previous posts, I must denounce walrus-face but this is the product of inbreeding. How about we all agree that Walrus-face is an inbreed moron and tingles would love to portray anything and everything moronic as right wing based. But let’s stop there and lay the blame of the violence and dead people squarely on the hands of the islamic extremists where it belongs.

  • Zandandido

    Who in all of Christ cares about this story anymore? Oh yeah, that’s right, Chris Matthews. Another reason why his ratings are (almost figuratively) in the crapper. Before I saw this on here, I had completely forget the idiots name.

    Nacho said:
    Pastour Terry Jones is a perfect example of the extreme xenophobia of the right.

    It is constantly fed to them from the pulpit and conservative talk radio.

    Oh that’s just funny. I guess you have yet to hear about the Muslims who don’t want a Christian governing them in Southern Egypt, because he is a Christian. Muslims must be xenophobes as well. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42633257/ns/world_news-africa/ (and not from Fox News, but… MSNBC)
    Quote: “The protest took a more aggressive turn as some radical Salafi Islamists in the crowd demanded a Muslim official, saying “we want it Islamic.” Some even threatened to kill Mikhail if he came to his office” Mikhail is Emad Mikhail this Christian governor appointed.

  • Jaurez

    Zandandido says:

    The thing about “nacho” is he’s a hard core terrorist sympathizer and would NEVER criticise the Izzies or the Muzzies.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    What is sad about Matthews is that he knows better…
    every once in a great while, he gives a solid political analysis… then like a light switch he returns to the shtick that MSNBC pays him for…

  • jrcmi

    Karl Rove Krazy-Glued the political right to the evangelical right a decade ago. Like it or not they’re stuck together, thanks to Karl.

    Rabid right-wingers don’t think twice about linking progressivism, liberalism, Marxism, Leninism, McCartneyism, communism and everything short of astigmatism – even though there are often significant differences between them – yet their panties bunch up when they suffer guilt-by-association with THIS nutjob.

    Ignoring Pastor Walrus Puss won’t make him go away. Ignoring the Wasteboro Baptist “Church” didn’t make THEM go away. Showing up BOTH as the phony opportunists that they are is how you make them go away.

    Speaking of phony opportunists, see the Rep. Alien West article elsewhere on Mediaite.

    “I am the egg man, I am the egg man, I am the – ” . . . you know.

    Coo-coo-ca-choo!

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    jrcmi said:
    McCartneyism

    what’s that?

  • Snidely

    If the media would stop covering the looney tunes like Jones and the “church” that protests at military funerals, they would soon stop their nonsense. They want publicity for their obsessions. Ignore them and they will go away.

  • Who is Salacious Crumb

    Nacho said:
    Pastour Terry Jones is a perfect example of the extreme xenophobia of the right.

    xenophobia (ˌzɛnəˈfəʊbɪə)

    — n
    hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture

    Glass houses, and all that . . .

  • news_junkie

    Matthews is OCD. Once he starts on a topic, expect it to continue for a month. Usually saying the same lines day in and day out. Right now, it’s the birther thing. Just another in a long list of reasons that he has one of the lowest rated shows on cable tv.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

    That woman says some pretty disturbing things although I like her message on love.

    <a href="#comment-426247"Muslim woman said:

    “We are going to see more and more situations where rights conflict. So we constantly have to ask the question: “what is the greatest good for the greatest number?” At the end of the day, freedom is the greatest good for the greatest number because even offended Muslims still benefit from freedom of assembly and they are exercising that as we are going live right now, in holding a counter-protest to Terry Jones’. So I see that as they are using freedom and his freedom cannot be segregated from theirs. It is an indivisible whole. ”
    .

    So the only reason that Terry jones cannot be shut up is that freedom of speech also benefits Muslims? Freedom of speech should only exist when it benefits Muslims

  • jo hoochie

    Talk about a double standard…. Remember about 15 years ago or so, the Nazi party of the U.S. staged a march in Skokie Il?
    They were allowed to march even though Skokie has a large Jewish population and a large holocaust survivor population as well. The judge issued the march permit pointing to the first amendment right for the Nazis to march. Now if anyone has an excuse or right to riot it’s the survivors of the concentration camps. The Nazis marched and there were no riots. Why do the Muslims get to stop a constitutionally protected protest but concentration camp survivors can’t? How many servicemen died so that the first amendment is protected?
    Nazis CAN march in front of holocaust survivors but god forbid we insult the thin skin of a Muslim …. 1st ammendment? baah! who needs it when there is Sharia! And Sharia is worming it’s way in to America.
    The country is bankrupt, well almost,but somehow… with the fraud slithering through the white house…somehow, there are always funds available for Muslim causes!!!

  • AlexM3456

    I saw this and though, “wow, why are they mentioning him?” The media only adds fuel to the fire for these kinds of stories. Jones should be locked up in a crazy house.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Pokerdude777 said:
    But let’s stop there and lay the blame of the violence and dead people squarely on the hands of the islamic extremists where it belongs.

    i agree – it was sarcastic. you know how they love to blame conservatives for any kind of violence that occurs…

  • black and WHITE

    jo hoochie said:
    Talk about a double standard…. Remember about 15 years ago or so, the Nazi party of the U.S. staged a march in Skokie Il?
    They were allowed to march even though Skokie has a large Jewish population and a large holocaust survivor population as well. The judge issued the march permit pointing to the first amendment right for the Nazis to march. Now if anyone has an excuse or right to riot it’s the survivors of the concentration camps. The Nazis marched and there were no riots. Why do the Muslims get to stop a constitutionally protected protest but concentration camp survivors can’t? How many servicemen died so that the first amendment is protected?
    Nazis CAN march in front of holocaust survivors but god forbid we insult the thin skin of a Muslim …. 1st ammendment? baah! who needs it when there is Sharia! And Sharia is worming it’s way in to America.
    The country is bankrupt, well almost,but somehow… with the fraud slithering through the white house…somehow, there are always funds available for Muslim causes!!!

    The biggest terrorist related threat to us ” real ” Americans today is the fact that in the hearts & minds of the liberals in this country Osam Bin Laden won.

  • MTinMO

    black and WHITE said:
    The biggest terrorist related threat to us ” real ” Americans today is the fact that in the hearts & minds of the liberals in this country Osam Bin Laden won.

    That is a ridiculous assertion.

  • black and WHITE

    MTinMO said:
    That is a ridiculous assertion.

    Tell me about it. I hear what you’re saying, but it’s the truth.

    Liberals in this country today are just such a huge bunch of paranoid pussies, sadly a lost generation of losers wandering in the desert.

    There seems to be no way of snapping them out of it, as the mental illness has completely taken over what little bit of minds they had to begin with.

  • pinandpuller

    Snidely said:
    If the media would stop covering the looney tunes like Jones and the “church” that protests at military funerals, they would soon stop their nonsense. They want publicity for their obsessions. Ignore them and they will go away.

    If the Muslims would quit rioting and killing people Jones wouldn’t have a point.

  • pinandpuller

    AlexM3456 said:
    I saw this and though, “wow, why are they mentioning him?” The media only adds fuel to the fire for these kinds of stories. Jones should be locked up in a crazy house.

    They did lock him up, Over the possibility of other people being violent. That’s like the police chopping off your hand because your friend talked about stealing a candy bar-to put it in terms a Dearborn judge could understand.

  • pinandpuller

    Its almost as if the NEA gave Terry Jones a grant to study violence in Muslims. Mission Accomplished big guy!

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