Chris Matthews Tears Right-Wing Dufus a New One »
Posted By AnnP30 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsDon't tick off Chris Matthews. On Thursday's edition of his MSNBC show Hardball, Matthews humiliated clueless Los Angeles right-wing radio host Kevin James over the "appeasement" uproar President Bush started in Israel during the state's 60th anniversary celebration.
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
I can't believe Kevin James made a complete ass of himself, um oh wait, yes i can! What else do you expect?
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ETproductions1 year, 1 month ago
Just goes to show you should never try to shout down the guy who owns the switch to your microphone. James proved he was a babbling idiot with no earthly idea what appeasement even means. All he knows is it's a talking point the RepugniCons are supposed to tar their opponents with.
It was truly fun to watch Chris Mathews take the blow hard apart.
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jordan111 year, 1 month ago
OK. These talking heads need to do this. Turn off the loud mouths so that the public can HEAR the facts between the rantings of the loud mouths. CONS are loud mouths who don't want anything to be heard but their rhetoric. They yell, talk fast, interrupt, and babble. It serves NO public good to allow the to continue to yell, talk fast and interrupt.
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
I think the idea is.... If you scream loud enough, it doesn't matter if you actually know anything or not, and at the very least you can keep the ones who do know from being heard. They're idiots!
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Spadecaller1 year, 1 month ago
The title of this article is most informative, funny, and pathetic -- all in one.
CNN and Fox have slid into a morass of squid scum; their coverage of the candidates and campaigns are reminiscent of 3rd grade schoolyard scuffles.
MSNBC has a few programs that are almost tolerable... but if one wants to exchange ideas and learn what is really going on, they need to read more and use the internet.
I watched how Matthews dismanteld that ignoramus. It was both a necessary and an embarrassing display.
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
I agree SC, however my sister says everything on the internet has been tampered with to make repubs look bad, lol, can you believe the way they think?
Oh and she also says that none of the things that Cindy McCain has done are true because they weren't reported on Fox! She says that Fox is the only real source of news!
See what i have to deal with?
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chuck-the-canuck1 year, 1 month ago
It must be apparent by now that most right wing dolts don`t really know what they are talking about. It`s all about spouting the party line, mindlessly reciting the current talking points.
Context and facts be damned. I guess it really isn`t all their fault, look at who they have been using as a role model, the great decider.
In the land of the witless, the half-wit is king.
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Dicax_Maximus1 year, 1 month ago
Aplogies if this comment appears more than once, but props having a bad day losing posts !!!!
So, in context, how many people of the age of the "smackdown" victim (without imediate recourse to Google) would know exactly WHAT Chamberlain did (and WHEN) ? I doubt if it would be more than a few percent IN ENGLAND, let alone the US..... At least the "victim" knew that the word appeasment applied to one of the worst politicians the UK's ever had....
Er, can anyone remember "Peace In Our Time" ?????
This "interview" looked more like a shooting gallery to me....
Negged for the above, as this was NOT what I'd call an interview / debate, it was purely amd simply an effort to discredit.......
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david_nwpa1 year, 1 month ago
I know...in part because I teach German and am a history buff. Furthermore, he should have looked stupid. Kevin James brought that upon himself. I believe an old proverb says, "Better to be a fool and remain silent than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
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bruhaha1 year, 1 month ago
Anyone who took a history class that included world war II and the period and events leading up to it would know what Chamberlain did and what appeasement really means. Not knowing what occurred is no excuse for going on the air pretending like you do know what happened.
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Lurch1 year, 1 month ago
Chris gave the moron every chance to admit his mistake/Bush`s/McCain`s mistake with dignity. But the guy chose the shouting no-nothing approach.
Appeasement; giving up something.
Talking, discussing, negotiating; something a decent president uses to avoid wasting GI lives and limbs on unnecessary and counterproductive battles.
No, Kevin James, attacked Obama over appeasement without even knowing what it means. Like every neocon moron who makes this fake argument, James deserves every bit of every ounce of national embarrassment they so eager seek.
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lovemylibs1 year, 1 month ago
I'm glad that Matthews made a comment about getting someone on there who had a knowledge of history. I'm equally glad that he did not make a comment about Khrushchev and Kennedy meeting immediately before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Or about how FDR met with the enemies of the US to make things better. Or how Truman used these meetings with enemies to lessen wars effects. Those comments would have been absurd. Especially if they were made by a right wing radio host, but not so much if they were made by a liberal presidential candidate.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/...
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 1 month ago
well man, there's a couple ways to look at it
if you were going on a national TV show, your credibility on the line, and were going to talk about Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, wouldn't you take those 10 seconds to Google exactly HOW Chamberlain appeased Hitler?
so like I said on the first page, I didn't know it
but if I was going to talk about it, you'd better believe I'd do the research
so It's not that he didn't know, it's that he wouldn't admit that he didn't know
and he kept sticking to his guns even tho he had no idea what he was talking about
that's the shameful part, not his not knowing something
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david_nwpa1 year, 1 month ago
Chamberlain not only handed away Czechoslovakia to the Nazis, he was a wet noodle throughout Europe when Hitler took the Saarland, annexed back parts of former Prussia, and committed the Anschluss against Austria. I remember "Peace in our Time." How do people without an historical knowledge whatsoever end up as radio talk show hosts? We need a support group called BA...bloviaters anonymous.
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mesodude1 year, 1 month ago
david, I wondered if you happened to catch the 74 yr old woman caller on C-SPAN this morning who shared her resignation over the gay marriage ban being lifted. She starts out sounding halfway intelligent and then she drones on to say that she is fine with gay people being married but then quickly adds that she wishes she *wasn't* fine with it. Hmmm. Ok, lady--no more Centrum silver for you. LOL Oh and for the piece de resistance, she ends her thoughtful comments with that question that's on the mind of every American (not)--"what will happen if a father and daughter decide they want to get married....blah blah blah" before getting cut off (deservedly so, I might add) by the host.
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Shadowolf1 year, 1 month ago
Rating: 20 ( 21/-0) | 2008-05-16 19:37:51 david_nwpa Send Message
I know...in part because I teach German and am a history buff. Furthermore, he should have looked stupid. Kevin James brought that upon himself. I believe an old proverb says, "Better to be a fool and remain silent than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Sam Clemens...EXCELLENT quote!!!
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Mdiar1 year, 1 month ago
Many would have to join it... I was watching this when it happened and it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen! I had to take the equivalent of two classes over that time period when all was said and done in High School... Russian History spent a semester going over WW2, so did World History, American History and a history of the Near-East! I never took the European History course...
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bruhaha1 year, 1 month ago
I was actually just reading through one of my wife's books (she's teaches French and and has also taught history....she studied a lot on World War II and the nazi's....one of her professors was a survivor of the holocaust).
As for how they end up with talk show hosts without any historical knowledge....some do have knowledge, they are just liars. Others probably didn't (don't) think history is important.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 1 month ago
We apparently are doomed to repeat this bit of history again and again. Der Neocons!
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Spadecaller1 year, 1 month ago
The only good news is that Chris Matthews ripped Kevin James a new one on prime time tv. The neocons should know enough to at least hire creeps who have studied history thoroughly enough to converse intelligently. Even the Mafia knew enough to hire professionals to operate their business.
Our latest batch of neocon thugs seem to be the last of the boat rats that are too crippled to jump ship.
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
hahaha!! SC! They picked the cream of their veritable crop! That's as good as it gets, he's the rightwing brainiac! EGAD.
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Mdiar1 year, 1 month ago
I saw this while flipping through the channels, as it happened. I was laughing... it was brilliant!
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