The moment of Zen at the end of the Daily Show was a clip of Chris Matthews talking to Bob Casey, and he stated that “Hillary Clinton is the Al Sharpton of white people.”
WTF does that mean? Does that make Al Sharpton the Hillary Clinton of black people? Seriously- wtf is he talking about?
** Update ***
Colbert just described the movie Recount as the Democrat’s version of the Titanic, only in this version the Supreme Court names the iceberg President. I lol’d.
Gus
Who the fuck cares? Who listens to that dipshit anyways?
Incertus
It’s Chris Matthews. It’s not supposed to make sense. Maybe someone will do a dance mix of him saying that the way they did on the archival footage of BillO’s explosion.
nightjar
I doubt Tweety even knows. It takes no brain cells to talk out your ass, but I’m guessing he was claiming HC is now the spokeswoman for the average racially oppressed white person, or something.
scarshapedstar
David Duke is the Barack Obama of Chinese people.
Figure that one out.
calipygian
I think it means that Geraldo Rivera is the Hispanic Joseph Stalin.
Dreggas
she’s a gender pimp?
Incertus
How about Bill Belichick is the Tony LaRussa of the Atlanta Hawks?
flavortext
Screw identity politics.
Gus
Now Grover Norquist is on Colbert. How I’d love to punch that bitch right in the mush.
The Grand Panjandrum
Sounds like Matthews is now the Al Campanis of establishment media.
scarshapedstar
Imagine all the #1 Google hits we can create in this thread!
AnneLaurie
Insofar as anything Matthews says can have ‘meaning’, I think he intends to use Hillary Clinton as a
blunt objectdistraction whenever feminists / Democrats / humans complain about the latest Republican/Media Village Idiot shenanigans.“You think Cheney shooting Dubya in the face during a Rose Garden press conference is bad for the Republicans? Well, how about when Hillary Clinton refused to sufficiently denounce the rumor that incoming President Obama might actually be a MUSLIM?!?”
Matthews spent too much of his time as an altar boy hanging around the priest all the other kids knew to avoid. Women in general scare him, but strong women in particular bring out a very weird side of what passes for his personality.
calipygian
Chris Matthews is the white Urkel?
Dreggas
I still think it’s funny that we’re the number one search result for skull-fucking kittens.
KC
Honestly, it’s amazing that Matthews is still on television.
Incertus
His contract is apparently coming up, and MSNBC has hinted that they don’t want to spend $5 million a year for Tucker Carlson quality ratings.
r€nato
On November 5th, the tears of Republicans will be the Mentos of the Liberal Fascist.
Conservatively Liberal
He was making the observation (his own, I assume) that at the rate that Hillary kept saying “white”, that she was starting to sound like Rev. Al and his “black” spiel. His words were to the effect:
‘If Hillary keeps saying ‘white’ people, she is going to be known as the Al Sharpton of white people.’
Actually, I thought it was pretty funny when I heard it. With ol’ Al, everything is race, race, race, and so it seems it is becoming so for Hillary.
Rev. Al, the defender of the poor black people. Hillary, the defender of poor white people. Two peas in two different pods in two different gardens. What a match made in heaven!
;)
rob!
I hope Matthews does as he said he might, and run for Senate. I think he can do less damage as a US Senator.
Then MSNBC should FINALLY give Rachel Maddow a show, or maybe pair her up with David Schuster?
Jeebus–no more Broder, no more Bush, President Barack Obama, all Dem house and senate, and no more Hardball?
2009 = Best. Year. Ever.
John S.
Way to Googlebomb, dude. You might as well type “skull fuck a kitten”.
Seriously.
P.S. skull fuck a kitten
r€nato
P.luk is the gender-pimp of the Hillaryfascists.
Mary
The ObWi kitteh says you can have his skull when you pry it from his cold, dead paws.
Dreggas
that was one of the funniest days here, I swear people thought I was insane at work.
Josh E.
Who’s our Tawana Brawley? Susan Smith?
Dreggas
well there was that little lie Hillary told about the woman in ohio dying because she didn’t get medical care etc.
Dennis - SGMM
How dare you impugn the veracity of the Tuzla Tigress?
Incertus
Except that wasn’t a lie–she was refused care earlier and by the time she did get it, it was too late. Tuzla would be a better example.
Dreggas
My bad, guess I need a program, can’t tell the truth from the lies without a program.
r€nato
This one is for you, John…
The New England Patriots are the Rosie Ruiz of the NFL.
Cruel Jest
“At one point, Matthews suddenly became hypnotized by a TV over the bar set to a rebroadcast of “Hardball.” “Hey, there I am — it’s me,” he said, staring at himself on the screen. “It’s me.””
Also:
I’m stealing that one.
Andrew
Rosie Ruiz is the Tuzla Machine Gun of the Westminster Dog Show.
eglenn
Hope you’re happy. I woke the kids laughing. :)
Conservatively Liberal
Rabid Hillary supporters are melting down over the imminent loss for their candidate, and the right is melting down over their losses. Both sides are pointing fingers everywhere but at themselves. Both sides are in denial and foaming at the mouth, even attacking each other over any slight, however imagined it is.
I have to admit that I am enjoying myself tonight. After all of the fighting and crap in this primary, it is nice to feel that I can sit back and watch the implosions, imagining that I am getting it in THX surround sound.
Sometimes, life can be pretty damn good. I better enjoy it for now because I know that the real fight is coming up soon. There will be little rest for any Obama supporter when that fires up.
But it sure is nice tonight. I am on my laptop in the garage, the garage door open and a fan is running, the sky is clear tonight and the ocean is quiet, it is in the high 70’s still…
and the crazies are in full meltdown and Obama is winning the primary. Who can ask for more?
Time for a good toke and then head upstairs for a root beer float (made with real ice cream and root beer made with cane sugar, no HFCS!) to sip on while perusing the online devastation and destruction.
;)
cbear
THAT is hilarious. Bravo.
ThymeZone
Chris Matthews is funny when he talks to the airheaded Tucker Carlson and gets irritated with him.
Carlson deepens his frown, his tell that indicates mental activity, and gets irritated with Matthews.
It’s not Amos and Andy, or Bob and Ray, or Stiller and Meara, or Nichols and May ….. but it’s funny.
After seeing such a thing on Hardball, I have to go and take a big Pat Buchanan.
Conservatively Liberal
‘Why do people call it ‘taking a Pat Buchanan‘? You don’t ‘take a Pat Buchanan‘, you ‘leave a Pat Buchanan‘!’
H/T to George Carlin… ;)
Cain
I’m with ya buddy, I’m with ya. I’m enjoying that same weather here a couple hours drive from ya. I’m wondering why you haven’t gotten on that bike yet! :)
cain
Jon H
Matthews is the kwisatz haderach of doorknobs.
Hey, it makes just as much sense.
Conservatively Liberal
The wife is still up (day off tomorrow) and she was wondering the same thing…lol! I am still in the garage, the fan is still going with the door open, and it is still 75 outside. Nice warm breezes and the town is quiet. From the balcony, the ocean looks like glass and you can see a few ships lights off in the distance.
We decided to take off on the bike tomorrow and head down into California, maybe head to Eureka and have lunch at the harbor. Either way, it is supposed to be the same weather tomorrow, which means I get to take all of the liners out of our motorcycle gear (finally!).
Summer is on the way, global warming and all. NOAA is saying that we will have a heat wave inland for the next few days. It will be foggy here if that happens.
Hot inland = foggy in Brookings
Hot in Brookings = generally crappy weather inland
But we are on a sort of edge here in that we face south, so it can be socked in fog here and clear two miles north or south of town. Or the exact reverse. When we had the ‘Biscuit’ fires north and inland a few years ago, it got smoky here in the day, and the cool night air pushed the smoke northward until it warmed up the next day.
At least we got a break from six weeks of smoke, but only at night…lol
I have some pics from the trip to Spokane to put up on my PhotoBucket account, and we are taking the camera with us tomorrow too. The coast is a great place to be if you like to take pics, which I do (still an old school 35mm SLR nut, but like digital photography too).
One thing I really like about Oregon is the diversity of the weather, and the fact that I get to wear shorts just about year round and I never have to shovel snow. Ah, the good life…lol!
While it has been peaceful at BJ tonight, the Hillary and right wing blogs are in full meltdown. I just have to enjoy this while I can, so back to the fun!
:)
jake
OT:
Sound the alarm! There’s a traitor in our midst!
/Hillsteric
Wheeeee!
Conservatively Liberal
Something rare in a politician; he holds his private vote and his delegate status as two separate entities. Nice to see that.
While it may piss of the rabid Clintonistas, they will be just as happy to let him vote for Obama and take his super delegate vote for Hillary…lol
One big improvement with the news from yesterday; Hillaryis44 came to a near screeching halt, posting wise. Normally, they are posting crap all night long, but tonight they must be sleeping off the cheesecake overdose. Seven posts over the last five hours, that is all.
I know it won’t last once the cheesecake wears off, but for now…
Silence is golden. :)
cleek
to paraphrase Gary Farber, the Clintonites are in the bargaining stage. look at them trying to make the case for Hillary as VP: she’s the only one who can “heal” the wounds; she brings X,Y and Z to the ticket; she’s this and that, etc..
they spent 5 months in the denial stage (“she’s gonna win!!”); just a few days in the anger stage (“GANG RAPE!!!”); and now they’re trying to find a way to make sense of it.
expect them to soon enter the depression stage, where they’ll talk about how pointless it all is, and how they’ll never support anyone else again, how they’ll need to take some time off from blogging, etc..
TR
Don’t worry. The November election results will do that nicely.
rachel
Grover Nordquist is due for a pie-ing too.
Conservatively Liberal
I can agree with the time off from blogging for them, no problem with that! ;)
Some asshat named “Indiex” at TPM Cafe commented on a thread, saying:
To which I responded:
And Indiex responded with:
Since I have been hanging out at the Hillary/NoQuarter sewage treatment plants (that are broken), I am well aware of the meme they are pushing regarding that Sinclair fruitcake, the gay choir director who was killed and how Obama is supposed to be a drug abusing bisexual. I have read their comments where they make the same snide “Both Ways Barry” and “The Dirty Down Low” bullshit comments.
So I responded with:
Oh well, the break, however small, was nice while it lasted…lol! Back to the trenches!
Davis X. Machina
It’s only a little over ten years since “The Clinton Chronicles”.
What’s that mot about the Bourbons? “They forgot nothing and learned nothing”?
Davis X. Machina
Here’s what mystifies me about the Clinton hard-liners.
As near as I can tell, the only thing that consistently motivates all politicians, of any party, in any year, is the prospect of winning elections.
And one of the things many of them admire about Mrs. Clinton is that she’s apparently ready to do damn near anything to win.
Yet, all over the country, I am told, Democratic politicians, knowing what it takes to win — nominating Mrs Clinton (this is supposed to be self-evident), are taking calculated steps to deliberately not win an election — to wit, not nominating Mrs. Clinton.
So those politicians must be acting in such a way to reach some more important goal.
Here’s what mystifies me. What’s in it for them? Where’s the patronage payoff from a losing presidential campaign? How does having a defeated presidential candidate come to your district help you in fundraising for the next cycle?
What would that more important goal be?
Conservatively Liberal
Let Hillary run loose long enough and she (with the help(?) of her supporters) will destroy her candidacy all on her own, leaving them the easy task of choosing Obama.
Hillary has been her own worst enemy, and her more rabid supporters are not helping her one bit. The party can see that she can not manage her message, her supporters, her campaign or her finances. She has been one disaster after another, with brief periods of calm in between, and she shows no signs of changing that any time soon.
In other words, Hillary (and Bill) are history, and Obama is making history. Enjoy the ride. :)
But if you are saying that they are giving up a win in the fall by not choosing Hillary, then I want some of whatever you are smoking.
A week old tuna sandwich will beat McCain this fall.
SteveinSC
No, Nancy Grace is.
TR
OT, but in a speech to the Israeli Knesset, Bush just likened the Democratic proposals for Iraq to the appeasement of the Nazis. He made dismissive comments about Americans who, in the run-up to World War II, thought they could negotiate and work with the Nazis.
Weird. I never thought he’d through his own grandfather under the bus like that.
Neal
Beautiful.
bernarda
How did you miss this Obama ad?
http://race42008.com/2008/05/12/barack-obamas-pitch-in-kentucky/
I can only hope that Obama is being cynical.
dslak
OMG we can’t have religious people running for office!
rob!
as a committed atheist (most of the time, unless i want something really bad), i don’t have that much of a problem with Obama using his religiosity (?) to “sell” himself to voters. its part of who he is, clearly.
now, if a President Obama started rejecting/pushing initiatives because of his faith (i.e. Bush’s No Stem Cell garbage) that would be more troubling.
but if they’ve determined large chunks of the electorate cares deeply about whether Obama is religious, i don’t have a huge problem with them talking directly to those voters on those terms.
the comments posted on that link are hilarious, in a tragic way. apparently only war-loving, prisoner-torturing, gay-hating Republicans are authentically religious.
dslak
I think it was Jesus who said “Fuck the fags! Blessed are the warmongers. Did I mention those who suffer? Fuck them, too!”
cleek
seems to me that he’s simply trying to counter the “Obama’s a Muslim” idea that’s out there.
dslak
That may be part of it, but it’s probably also to show evangelicals that he “shares their values.”
If somebody thinks he’s a stealth Muslim, there’s really nothing that can be done.
Dreggas
Despite my dislike of public religiosity, I am not as bothered by it from Obama probably because he speaks of it in personal terms and doesn’t exclude anyone who doesn’t believe as he does. Nor does he proselytize and throw it in anyones face like the fundies and evangelicals. He also respects the seperation of church and state and while morals may guide him he doesn’t make decisions based on the bible or what some crack-pot at a mega-church says.
jake
In other news, some hard working white Americans are traitors!
Tax Analyst
Well, he’s certainly got the “necessities”…
They should change the name of his show to, “Have Yap, Will Babble”.
mrmobi
Amen, and I’m especially comfortable with Obama’s use of his religion because of the kind of denomination he worships with/in.
The United Church of Christ is a truly liberal denomination, welcoming all, includes gays, lesbians, and people of all races. The one redeeming factor about the Wright affair was that I found out just how great a church Obama attends.
I, too, have invoked the deity (although mostly it’s the Flying Spaghetti Monster) when I really want something. But there are some instances when the presence of god seems almost a certainty to me, such as when I’m listening (as I am at this moment) to some particularly spectacular piece of music, like Ottorino Respighi’s “the Pines of Rome/The Fountains of Rome,” performed by my hometown orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, in 1954.
If god does exist, I know at least one place he visited in 1954. Orchestra Hall, in the mixing room below the stage.
Nice work, big guy.
Davis X. Machina
I know at least one place he visited in 1954. Orchestra Hall,
Q. What’s the difference between God and the music director of the Chicago Symphony?
A. God doesn’t think he’s the music director of the Chicago Symphony.
rob!
nice post, mrmobi. i’m pretty sure i can hear God in there somewhere during Dylan’s Blood on The Tracks album.
and you know, even though i’m not a religious man, i want one as president.
eventually every president has to deal with some horrible tragedy (natural disaster, school shooting, etc) and since a vast majority of this country IS religious, i think its important to have a president be able to comfort these people in terms that speak to them. so i don’t have any issues with Obama’s faith.
of course, when the cross is used as a bludgeon and/or crowbar, then i get mightily pissed.
1/20/09 can’t get here fast enough.