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Tea Party Leader Takes On Chris Matthews: ‘It’s Not Our Job To Make The Deal’

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Chris Matthews welcomed to his show Mark Meckler, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, in order to learn what it might take to satisfy the Tea Party and avoid a government shutdown. The debate got a little feisty, especially when Matthews didn’t like Meckler’s response and he yelled “can you answer a question, did you go to the Michele Bachmann school?”

Matthews suggested to Meckler “it may be that you’re in charge of the United State government . . . you guys are calling the shots.” However, Meckler responded “it’s not our job to make the deal, our job is to reflect the American people.” Matthews didn’t like how the Tea Party was negotiating, by basically being unwilling to compromise, yet Meckler kept reminding Matthews that the Tea Party and the Republicans are not one and the same. When Matthews asked about Republican policy riders to stop funding planned parenthood and certain EPA programs, Meckler demonstrated his differences with the GOP by stating that the “Tea Party Patriots have not taken a position on those, and we’re looking for fiscal responsibility. The riders are something the Republicans are pushing for their base.”

Meckler argued that even if there is a government shutdown, there still should be funding provided to the military and that social security checks should still go out as well. This allowed Matthews to conclude that “deep down” Meckler is truly a politician.

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  • Liberal Tormentor

    And according to Tingles, HIS job is to make sure Obama succeeds.

    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

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

  • NeoKong

    So outta’ nowhere he takes a shot at Michele Bachmann?

    Obsess much …?

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Damn he’s pathetic. He gets his ass handed to him by a tea party guy, and then he’ll probably wonder why he’s been doing crappy gigs his whole life.

  • Jaurez

    NeoKong said:
    So outta’ nowhere he takes a shot at Michele Bachmann?

    Obsess much …?

    That’s what libs do when they’re losing an argument like the spitter was. They resort to personal attacks.

  • Bill Huggins

    Matthews OWNED this guy.

    Hilarious how these Teabaggers spin like tops.

  • WCinWI

    Bill Huggins said:
    Matthews OWNED this guy.

    Hilarious how these Teabaggers spin like tops.

    Please stop using sexual terms.

  • Jaurez

    Bill Huggins said:
    Matthews OWNED this guy.

    Hilarious how these Teabaggers spin like tops.

    Can you tell us how he “owned” him? You know you can’t.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    The iconic picture of the April, 2009 rally in DC was the older lady in glasses, Her close-up was on every network and the front page of almost every newspaper. She was wearing an open weave straw hat with tea bags stapled around the brim.
    Like it or not, the name stuck.
    “Honi soit qui mal I pense.”
    Evil to him/her who evil thinks.

  • Wallycrawler

    No it’s his job to go to work! 1 term’r. Done in 4. Don’t get comfy.

  • grafxmail7

    WCinWI said:
    Please stop using sexual terms.

    CAN WE SAY THAT THE TEA PARTY’S MEMBERS SUCK KOCH?

    HOW ABOUT THE KOCH BROTHERS SUCK THE TEA PARTY’S MEMBERS???

  • illusive man

    Bill Huggins said:
    spin like tops

    Is that what your dad made you do during his late night visits to your room as a child?

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Joseph Glackin said:
    The iconic picture of the April, 2009 rally in DC was the older lady in glasses, Her close-up was on every network and the front page of almost every newspaper. She was wearing an open weave straw hat with tea bags stapled around the brim.Like it or not, the name stuck.“Honi soit qui mal I pense.”Evil to him/her who evil thinks.

    I give this comment four Glackins for stupidity .

  • Barack Must Go

    Every ” real ” American politician, pundit, expert and the viewing public need to immediately & completely boycott Chris Matthews. He, along with his handlers over at ObamaVision need to learn a lesson or two about how to treat ” real ” Americans.

    It’s not like they’re incapable. Just watch how they treat their own kind. It’s disgusting Tv at it’s sleeziest.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tucker-Peterson/721293033 Tucker Peterson

    WHY does anybody go on MSNBC . Why ?
    Chris the (D) lost . The (D) just spent two years shoving Bills they want .
    The GOP will probably cave in in the end . They always do . Makes me sick . If the GOP caves in… The Tea party needs to support the (L) or (I) parties . Chris is beating the Hell out of Mark . And Mark should tell him ” Hey Chris I don’t really care if you like my answers .

  • jo hoochie

    Bill Huggins said:
    Matthews OWNED this guy. Hilarious how these Teabaggers spin like tops.

    It’s the SorAss socialist left that is on the spin cycle and you don’t know how to handle it except to name call all the time. It doesn’t work anymore.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    WCinWI said:
    Bill Huggins said:
    Matthews OWNED this guy.
    Hilarious how these Teabaggers spin like tops.
    Please stop using sexual terms.

    Did you chartise Michelle-in-Utah when she was writing about how much she likes the Donald’s spunk today? Perhaps you did, and I missed it. Get back to me on it.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    I have to say Chris is doing a great job today.

  • illusive man

    Joseph Glackin said:
    The iconic picture of the April, 2009 rally in DC was the older lady in glasses, Her close-up was on every network and the front page of almost every newspaper. She was wearing an open weave straw hat with tea bags stapled around the brim.Like it or not, the name stuck.“Honi soit qui mal I pense.”Evil to him/her who evil thinks.

    If you think of that woman when you think of the Tea Party.
    Then it is only fair we think of these people when we think of a typical Obamabot, Deal?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVX-c07uefc&feature=related

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

    SHUT IT DOWN BABY!

    You’ll see how many of these Government Freeloaders we wouldn’t miss one bit!

    Hey, take your regulations with you when we SHUT IT DOWN BABY!

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    SHUT IT DOWN BABY! You’ll see how many of these Government Freeloaders we wouldn’t miss one bit! Hey, take your regulations with you when we SHUT IT DOWN BABY!

    I think I know you well enough to say that you are not including our troops, the INS, ATC, DHS-TSA and the like in the class of “Government Freeloaders”. They are going to be hurt as well, as is our economy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    illusive man said:
    If you think of that woman when you think of the Tea Party.
    Then it is only fair we think of these people when we think of a typical Obamabot, Deal?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVX-c07uefc&feature=related

    12% of the population is black. Obama got 53% of the vote. So, no, that is not a tape of typical Obama supporters.
    Sorry you aren’t proud of the lady, she seemed happy to be there.
    Face it, your folks embraced the name until they learned of an alternative meaning.
    Does it stick in your craw?
    I don’t like “Obamacare”. It’s inaccurate (a nice way of saying it’s a lie).
    L have to put up with your choice, put up with mine.
    Grow a pair. Get a transplant. Hope you have good insurance.
    It’ll be a LOT of work fitting them in next to your head.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    Representing the American people? The American people by a majority don’t like you. All you’re representing is the self serving interests of wealthy America you sheep.

  • SmartAlec

    fgkl said:
    we have many jerseys

    I ordered a jersey from this company. I told them to make sure it was a new one.

    The bastards sent me a map of New Jersey. Do not buy from them, they are crooks!!

  • avoidswork

    WCinWI said:
    Please stop using sexual terms.

    Please educate yourself as to the origin of the term “TeaBagger” in the context of the Tea Party.

    jo hoochie said:
    It’s the SorAss socialist left that is on the spin cycle and you don’t know how to handle it except to name call all the time. It doesn’t work anymore.

    When chiding for name calling (especially on a term originated by the Tea Party to call themselves), you might want to not include one, SorAss, in your criticism.

    But, hey if you are okay with a Government shutdown, where Congressmen get paid, but our servicemen and those on SS do not, so be it. If the Tea Party GOP base does not approve of the riders, they should be against it. But the base likes their socially conservative agenda, so…

  • Jaurez

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    I think I know you well enough to say that you are not including our troops, the INS, ATC, DHS-TSA and the like in the class of “Government Freeloaders”. They are going to be hurt as well, as is our economy.

    The troops not getting paid is in the control of Obama. He said he would veto the budget that INCLUDED paying the troops. Educate yourself for your own good.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    The original Tea Party was against corporations. You all fail so hard that I can hear future generations laughing at you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    SHUT IT DOWN BABY

    Hey, take your regulations with you when we SHUT IT DOWN BABY!

    Norbit, we’ve got a bet going here. I’m getting 10-1 that you had your photo retouched.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    I give this comment four Glackins for stupidity .

    No content. No refutation. Just the usual “mock the messenger”.
    You should sign up at Palin U. for a crash course in “refudiation”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Jaurez said:
    The troops not getting paid is in the control of Obama. He said he would veto the budget that INCLUDED paying the troops. Educate yourself for your own good.

    So, the GOP is holding our troops hostage to their political agenda, and that’s a patriotic stance?
    “Give us our social goals or those soldier’s kids won’t eat.”
    Sounds like REAL Americans, circa 1890.
    Return of the robber barons.

  • illusive man

    Joseph Glackin said:
    12% of the population is black. Obama got 53% of the vote. So, no, that is not a tape of typical Obama supporters.Sorry you aren’t proud of the lady, she seemed happy to be there.Face it, your folks embraced the name until they learned of an alternative meaning.Does it stick in your craw?I don’t like “Obamacare”. It’s inaccurate (a nice way of saying it’s a lie).L have to put up with your choice, put up with mine.Grow a pair. Get a transplant. Hope you have good insurance.It’ll be a LOT of work fitting them in next to your head.

    Since the people in the video, Like you, Seem to have the mental and emotional attitude of a small child I will say my description of a typical Obamabot is quite accurate. Thank’s lab rat. :)

    And being a teabagger dosen’t stick in my craw, As a matter of fact you and the left being the ones teabagged means we are sticking it in your craw. (Or anywhere eles we please, it’s not like you have a choice or say in the matter)

    Nothing is more fun than teabagging a leftist.
    Now open your mouth-port Obamabot and say AAWW {:^O

  • moryoxon

    Typical Chris Matthews picks a “Tea Party Patriot” to guest his show. Matthews’ assumption is he can bulldoze said guest with diatribe. Looks like this Mark Meckler is pretty cool in his demeanor and refutation of Matthews’ usual lefty BS. What do you think Meckler’s chances are for an encore visit?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    illusive man said:
    Since the people in the video, Like you, Seem to have the mental and emotional attitude of a small child I will say my description of a typical Obamabot is quite accurate. Thank’s lab rat. :)

    I guess you just accused a majority of the country of being juvenile.
    BTW, we thought you ‘baggers hung out together. Never saw you at any of our rallies.
    We figured you were like spring training, taking turns pitching and catching.
    Logic and simple math seem beyond you, they must be too illusive.

    Took a look at the 2009 pictures of teabag rallies in DC. The hat lady fit right in.
    Still looking for that diversity, though.

  • illusive man

    Joseph Glackin said:
    I guess you just accused a majority of the country of being juvenile.
    BTW, we thought you ‘baggers hung out together. Never saw you at any of our rallies.
    We figured you were like spring training, taking turns pitching and catching.
    Logic and simple math seem beyond you, they must be too illusive.
    Took a look at the 2009 pictures of teabag rallies in DC. The hat lady fit right in.
    Still looking for that diversity, though.

    LOL, I’m looking through my “liberal” dictionary to find the proper response to your homophobic baby-drible in a way you will understand…………………….. one moment…………………………………….. Ok, here is one,
    Call a WAAAAAAMBULANCE. Do you understand Obamabot lab rat homophobe?

  • Jaurez

    Joseph Glackin said:
    So, the GOP is holding our troops hostage to their political agenda, and that’s a patriotic stance?
    “Give us our social goals or those soldier’s kids won’t eat.”
    Sounds like REAL Americans, circa 1890.
    Return of the robber barons.

    Are you blind and deaf, too?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    illusive man said:
    LOL, I’m looking through my “liberal” dictionary to find the proper response to your homophobic baby-drible in a way you will understand…………………….. one moment…………………………………….. Ok, here is one,
    Call a WAAAAAAMBULANCE. Do you understand Obamabot lab rat homophobe?

    Again, NO SUBSTANCE. NO REBUTTAL. Third grade humor. Par for the course.
    Homophobe? Because I said you fools hang out together? That you do your teabagging together? How is that , :Homophobic”? I don’t criticize what you do in private. Hell, I DON”T CARE! Got that? In fact, I DON’T WANT TO KNOW!
    It’s you kochers from the reich-wing that want to get inside other people’s bedrooms, not us.

  • glenn113

    Joseph Glackin said:
    Again, NO SUBSTANCE. NO REBUTTAL. Third grade humor. Par for the course.Homophobe? Because I said you fools hang out together? That you do your teabagging together? How is that , :Homophobic”? I don’t criticize what you do in private. Hell, I DON”T CARE! Got that? In fact, I DON’T WANT TO KNOW!It’s you kochers from the reich-wing that want to get inside other people’s bedrooms, not us.

    Plus the guy forget his Paul Revere hat.

  • mlb

    Matthews should be very afraid of the Tea Party- because of them the Dems took a gamble, focused too much on November’s election, and willfully CHOSE not to pass the budget last year when they held BOTH houses and the WH. The bottom line is they didn’t want to ANY budget cuts, so to get them to agree to one dollar is a Republican victory.
    Matthew tries so hard to fit his guests (who he doesn’t agree with) into his paradigm of what he thinks they should say he doesn’t bother to listen.

    BTW – A separate bill went on the table today to sustain funding for the Pentagon and all military funding including defense expenditures through September in exchange for 12 billion in cuts – It was passed by the Senate late today – Obama promised to VETO it. Way to lead the charge with bi-partisan support there Mr. President. Why does he perpetually stay out of negotiations until the last second, then step in and screw everything up.

  • mlb

    illusive man said:
    Is that what your dad made you do during his late night visits to your room as a child?

    You are so juvenile, are you sure you don’t blog for HuffPo?

  • illusive man

    mlb said:
    You are so juvenile, are you sure you don’t blog for HuffPo?

    I’m only talking to the left the only way they understand my friend.

  • WildMan

    As sad and pathetic a person OLD Chris has become Hopefully Comcast would be gentle with OLD Chrissy Tingles and fire his sorry OLD arse off the air on say a Friday when everyone has gone to Happy Hour or dinner or a movie or something along those lines. I would hate to think Chris would get the same childish, hateful, ignorant treatment he gives to good people like Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. At some point in the near future Comcast will see what the rest of America sees in Chrissy, a total waste of time for those of us who are serious about where America is heading. Chris is a low IQ, ignorant OLD clown…PERIOD.

  • got a grip

    What a classic example of what Tingles has become…. Meckler answers each question assertively, directly, briefly and to the point with answers like absolutely, etc. Nevertheless, Tingles responds with: “Would you please answer a question?’ Did you take direction from Michelle Bachman?” (at the end) “Well we see how they play the game…” Its like Tingles had to respond that way regardless of what Meckler said……Work that agenda…. pathetic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chucks-Steelstein/100000472305545 Chucks Steelstein

    I just thought it would have been funny if the Tea Party guy would have been a little more honest with Matthews. When Matthews made the comment that Boehner might be watching, Meckler should have responded that it was likely that Boehner probably was watching, like everybody else, Glenn Beck.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Inboca/1829370356 Dave Inboca

    Did Mediaite manage to overlook the funniest event of last night’s news when Matthews and Clarence Page were gloating about the Wisconsin Supreme Court win for Kloppenburg when the crawler underneath these two MessNBC fools announced that Prosser now was ahead by 7300 votes…!

    Classic TV bonehead imbecility by Matthews, but it doesn’t fit into Mediaite’s pathological agenda.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    The guy WAS telling ‘Tingles” to kiss his ass.
    My problem he was just trying to be too nice about it!
    Big mistake!

  • RichS

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    I think I know you well enough to say that you are not including our troops, the INS, ATC, DHS-TSA and the like in the class of “Government Freeloaders”. They are going to be hurt as well, as is our economy.

    Let’s see, the Wall Street Journal says a government shut down might help the economy and the real racist king says it will hurt the economy. Oh, who should I believe?

  • ChrisNH

    Chris Matthews, for the past eighteen months, has basically had one note: “Why can’t everyone make Obamo into the magical super-hero I declared he was?”

    I’m laughing at all Leftist media hacks. The big-eared cigarette smoker was ‘Their Boy’ and now he’s made them look like idiots (which, we all know, is what they are).

    Keep it up everyone. The angrier these Leftist media hacks get, the better off this country will be.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Corinne-Rodriguez/100000495127184 Corinne Rodriguez

    Read somewhere that future generations will be laughing. Got new for you dreamer, future generations will be scraping the ground for food and looking near traintracks for coal. Future generations won’t have cute little pets running around, because we would have make Fido and Kitty Kat our dinners.

    The United States of America will be some third world country and the very rich folks would have left this sinking ship with the money they made off of us. Beware my fellow americans… we are on the verge of destruction. This destruction is coming at our own hands. Shut down the government, don’t pay our troops, see how long we will be a superforce in the world. Not long.

  • Barack Must Go

    ………and BOOM goes the dynamite

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Corinne Rodriguez said:
    Read somewhere that future generations will be laughing. Got new for you dreamer, future generations will be scraping the ground for food and looking near traintracks for coal. Future generations won’t have cute little pets running around, because we would have make Fido and Kitty Kat our dinners. The United States of America will be some third world country and the very rich folks would have left this sinking ship with the money they made off of us. Beware my fellow americans… we are on the verge of destruction. This destruction is coming at our own hands. Shut down the government, don’t pay our troops, see how long we will be a superforce in the world. Not long.

    Well, shit Corrine! There ya go right there!
    Get a Press Release out on that>

  • BadGenome

    Snowspot said:
    The original Tea Party was against corporations. You all fail so hard that I can hear future generations laughing at you.

    No, it wasn’t “against corporations”. It was against corporate bailouts, and it still is. Try to keep up, you simpleton.

    OT: It’s hilarious how Screwball drags some unelected Tea Partier on TV and holds him accountable for Obama’s lack of leadership. When Matthews uttered the bizarre statement that “I want to do everything I can to make this Presidency work” I read it as a tacit admission that he will do propaganda work for this administration, and he has been proving that interpretation right ever since.

  • Penguin60

    Joseph Glackin said:
    Again, NO SUBSTANCE. NO REBUTTAL. Third grade humor. Par for the course.Homophobe? Because I said you fools hang out together? That you do your teabagging together? How is that , :Homophobic”? I don’t criticize what you do in private. Hell, I DON”T CARE! Got that? In fact, I DON’T WANT TO KNOW!It’s you kochers from the reich-wing that want to get inside other people’s bedrooms, not us.

    Typical homophobe response. LOL!
    And Godwin’s LAw wins again! You guys make it so easy to dismiss your diatribes, thanks.

  • glenn113

    Snowspot said:
    The original Tea Party was against corporations. You all fail so hard that I can hear future generations laughing at you.

    Absolutely. Especially when they have their name changed the The Tea Party Express Inc.

  • tatboy

    Chris is a moron. And the author of the “malaise” speech.

  • lane

    Mathews sounds a bit manic like Charlie Sheen. Kind of sad to watch his decent as well..

  • CAconservative

    It’s always entertaining to watch Matthews get handled. The more he gets handled the shorter his temper gets.

  • http://cbcf.groupsite.com Miss Capri

    Matthews bubbled up and spewed forth in a tirade: “Did you go the Michele Bachmann School?”

    Um, clue to Matthews, there is no such school. There are tons of schools all over the world and though I haven’t heard of them all, I doubt there is a “Michele Bachmann School” anywhere.

    Oh, wait, it’s a school in Matthews’s dim little head.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/520838437 Mark Williams

    Mark Meckler is a total fraud. Lombard Street should be so crooked. I blew the whistle on his ripping off of tea partiers in August 2009.

    Meckler has failed in every attempt to earn a living. He’s a failed lawyer. He’s a failed Herbalife salesman. He’s a failed GOP consultant. He was broke and had to move his family in with his parents when he stumbled on the tea party. First thing he did was trademark the material and start churning out t-shirts.

    Then he teamed up with tax deadbeat Jenny Beth Martin and her coyote husband. The 3 have never accounted for a single dime of the millions of dollars that they have raised. They charter private jets, maintain a DC apartment for themselves, commissioned a film crew to follow them around to make a movie about themselves and have never spent so much as a nickel on anything tea party other than to hold “rallies” to drive merchandise sales.

    This year they are holding their great tax day tea party in a venue where they will be charging admission.

    They have no organization, just a web site. They are so toxic that local tea parties around the country are bolting from their orbit and the larger ones going so far as to change their branding because they know that when these con-artists finally do go down the tea party brand will be worse than worthless.

  • http://cbcf.groupsite.com Miss Capri

    Actually Matthews is the failure, except at being a sad joke.

  • Tedderman

    Mark Williams says:
    April 8, 2011 at 7:22 pm Mark Williams(Quote)

    Thanks for the info on this guy Mark, America needs to know who’s pulling the strings of these Republican fools in congress.

  • Tedderman

    Oh and Miss Capri, the DJ is calling and your pole is waiting.

  • http://cbcf.groupsite.com Miss Capri

    Wow, actually it’s the democrats having their strings pulled, and trying to run the whole lot.. Dems just love to yell the usual things they fantasize about their opposition in a bid to discredit them.
    https://docs.google.com/View?id=dhsxmzm7_19fcdzskg5

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