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Schoolmarm Chris Matthews Scolds Student David Weigel for “Chuckling”

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On today’s Hardball, the discussion was on Newt Gingrich’s “Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior,” something Chris Matthews called “tribal politics.” When it came time for guest David Weigel to speak on the issue, he let out some knowing chuckles at Gingrich’s uber-planned strategy. Suddenly, Matthews transformed into an angry Catholic School teacher who just caught a student giggling during her descriptions of Hell.

The best part of the situation is that Weigel (already a bit babyfaced) matched him beat for beat by quickly squeezing his mouth shut like an embarrassed schoolboy. After his apology, the segment went on as if nothing happened however, we have to assume that Weigel’s knuckles got a harsh ruler beating during the commercial break.

Check out the bizarre clip below:

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  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Matthews defends Obama over the most trivial things. Newt was correct. The dems are just so paranoid.

  • JimBob

    If Weigel or anyone is dumb enough to appear on that very stupid show with that very stupid
    loudmouth spitting fool, after watching and listening to Tingles make an ass out himself night
    after night—-then he deserves that treatment!
    Stupid, stupid show..Zero viewers! What’s the point?

  • stoogedudes

    Wow, grasping at straws for a story, looks like.

    If I was Dave Weigel, I would have told Chris to go fork himself. What Newt said was so ridiculous, how could you not chuckle? You can’t take much of what Newt Gingrich says seriously. If I was Weigel, I would have been a cackling hyena.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    Good grief, what a donk Matthews has become. And his guests are Howard Fineman from Newsweek and some dolt from Slate. Fineman sayd Gingrich’s comments make him “depressed.” Jesus, I’m laughing to the point that it’s hard to type. Anyone who watched Matthews a few years ago when he had a real show knows what I’m talking about.

    I liked the pukefest the other night between Fineman and Matthews –

    FINEMAN – “Well, sitting there in the press conference today with President Obama, you could almost hear sort of the classical music in the background. It was a stately thing, and a mature discussion.”

    MATTHEWS – “I get you. This is an Oxford don, he’s so well-turned, he comes in there elegantly, presenting himself elegantly, presenting himself on a very high-level tone.”

    FINEMAN – “That’s why I’m saying, those people that you cited, Boehner and Gingrich and Palin, are not playing the same ballgame that Barack Obama is.”

    I think it was right after that Matthews spoke of still having leg orgasms when he sees Obama, hears him speak, or watches him run shirtless on the beach.

  • Sambeaux

    Andy Lamb said:
    Anyone who watched Matthews a few years ago when he had a real show knows what I’m talking about.

    I’m with you Andy, same here. As my crazy old aunt would say, “He’s gone around the bend” Almost unwatchable

  • JimBob

    Fineman has never seen an ass he wouldn’t kiss or suck up
    if it can get him some face time on TV! Even MSNBC . He is a dork !
    It is almost sad to watch guys like him in action, night after night.
    No shame

  • felixw

    I see CNN also devoted a lot of its prime time coverage to parsing Newt Gingrich’s words. Funny how these “journalists” never spend any time analyzing Obama’s countless broken campaign promises. But, heaven forbid, if anyone criticizes Barack Obama, every word gets analyzed, critiqued and second-guessed.

    These media elites are sure in for a painful surprise in November, when voters actually respond to the Obama-Pelosi-Reid track record. You know, the stuff about unemployment, GDP, healthcare, foreign policy, etc. that CNN, MSNBC, CBS etc. want to hide from view.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    I hate when Chris scolds people for chuckling. I’ve seen him do it half a dozen times, even to Jane Hall. It makes him sound so pompous and self righteous.

    That being said I think it is valid to cover the outrageous comments by Newt since he specifically says them to dominate a couple of news cycles. As a guest said on Hardball today,’Obama is not that far removed from Mondale so what does Kenya have to do with it?’

    I think we all know what Kenya has to do with it as far as the Right is concerned.

  • Powerslave

    YOU DON’T CHUCKLE WHEN SOMEBODY SAYS SOMETHING NEGATIVE ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THE TINGLE UP CHRIS MATTHEWS’ LEG!!!

    GOT IT DAVID?

  • sticks

    Ok, I know off topic but… Is Matthews slurring or spitting or what the hell is that sound when he talks ?… Like he cant inhale all the way cuz theres a lil spittle stuck in there…

  • jrd

    Andy Lamb said:
    Anyone who watched Matthews a few years ago when he had a real show knows what I’m talking about.

    I miss that show.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    What did deserve a chuckle today was Dana Perino on Fox and Friends this morning. In her defense of John Boehner and all the talk about his tan she brought up MLK….
    ‘I thought we were supposed to judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.’

    I shit you not, she said that. With a straight face.

  • libra blue

    Thanks for reminding me why I don’t’ watch “Hardball” anymore.

    On AC360 last night Alex Costellanos, usually a weak panelist, had a pretty good response to this:

    COOPER: But it’s one thing to write a book about the journeying to find who your father was. It’s another thing to say that your father’s ideas, a man who you never really met, who was a Luo — descended from a Luo tribesman, are somehow basically running this country.

    CASTELLANOS: Well, actually, I think all of us are products of where we come from. And, actually, Obama does say in the book that he found out, this is an important part of who he is.

    COOPER: Well…

    CASTELLANOS: And I think it’s a fair discussion to have.

    BEGALA: Oh.

    (CROSSTALK)

    CASTELLANOS: And for Newt Gingrich to raise that — you know, if it’s there for Obama to write a book about it, why can’t Newt Gingrich raise the issue?

  • libra blue

    Correction: “Castellanos.”

  • jk76

    Weigel’s outie has become an innie …..basically he has a vajayjay now.

    I would have busted out laughing if someone gets mad at something that i find funny and have started to chuckle at. It’s as if people at BSNBC can’t understand that someone can have a thought about someone else, an opinion on the way they think someone’s views and actions are of. I’ve thought he’s had Daddy issues for a while, he even explains his past ‘looking for self’ and writes a couple books about it.

    Why would he have gotten rid of the bust of Churchill? He’s had animosity toward Great Britain for a while. I wonder if there’s socialism in heaven….

  • Some_Dude

    Wow Matthews pulled a real dick move there.

  • Dave Richards

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    What did deserve a chuckle today was Dana Perino on Fox and Friends this morning. In her defense of John Boehner and all the talk about his tan she brought up MLK….‘I thought we were supposed to judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.’ I shit you not, she said that. With a straight face.

    BFD, go buy yourself a sense of humor.

  • Penguin60

    Why doesn’t Chrissy Hissy Fit Matthews have Newt on his show? Now that would be good TV. My guess is that he’s too much of a puss, to have someone on their show that they could have a legitimate debate.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    David Weigel was chuckling because he suddenly realized he was listing to the most hysterical B. S. coming out of someones mouth. That mouth would be that of Chris Matthews Bwaaah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Scold that. Shite for brains. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA….

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  • Kinowolf

    If being anti-colonial is a bad thing, then it’s time to take down the Washington Monument.

  • J Baustian

    Wow, Matthews seems to have caught the Olberman disease — he’s totally flipped out. I had heard this was going on, but since I haven’t seen the show in 8 or 10 years, I didn’t have any first-hand evidence.

    I don’t know about the Kenyan thing, but it does explain Obama’s antagonism toward all things British. Evidence of this is his calculated insults toward Queen Elizabeth II, he return of the Churchill bust (a gift from former PM Blair, I think), and his attempt to punish all those who have BP shares in their retirement portfolios. If he hates the British because of the way his grandfather was treated by soldiers in colonial Kenya in the early 1950s, during the MauMau Uprising, it would explain something which is otherwise inexplicable. After all, Obama does not appear to be so hostile toward other former colonial powers like the French, Belgians, Dutch, and Spaniards.

  • CAconservative

    Much ta”do about nothing. Which is generally what Matthews shows are all about.

  • writer

    Just imagine if he’d been chewing gum. (Did you bring enough for everyone?)

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