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They've gotten to Tweety! He's been replaced by a Hillary replicant!
Earlier today MSNBC put up a picture of bin Laden while talking about Obama. And chalked it up to a "technician error." I have a feeling today is penance for the Shuster comment and other slights. Perhaps a deal to keep the debate afloat?

Man, Chris Matthews seemed genuinely pissed off. "Now! List it Now!" That guy from Texas is a half-wit. Leave it to another old white guy from Texas to fuck shit up. And look ridiculously incompetant doing it. Awesome.

At 0:37 from the end he asks the senator to name Obama's accomplishments again, and you can hear people in the studio laughing.
Now that I think of it, I remember the last Texan to fail a pop quiz miserably in public, and it didn't hurt him any.

"Legislative accomplishments across this world."

Great job.

Accomplishments schmcomplishments ... Barack Obama speaks about uniting, and renewing, and reinvigorating, and changing, and mending! Oh yes, the mending!

Tubbs-Jones sez Hills has lejisschlativ ashcomplisments...jazz is like Jell-O Puddin'! Zip zop dooby dewop!

Oh, and thanks Jim. This made my night. Now I will go back to drinking myself to sleep.

The Texas senator is a double agent for Hillary. Has 2B. Now let's get a reporter to ask a pseudo Hillary supporter to name the presidents of Kenya and Indonesia. Now! Now!

Did they ever highlight any of Hillary's accomplishments? It is strange but besides her very well-known failures I can't think of any successes she has had, and she has been there longer.

Hardly fair to invite dumb Obama supporters onto your program and then ask them tough questions.

What a bully.

Well, CM must be really bummed that hiz gurl has lost again. Like the cold splash of water in the face that was dealt in Wisconsin, there are a lot of Dems who are possibly just starting to smell the coffee. Okay, I'm gonna stop now. Two metaphors be my limit.

That is a great interview. I'm starting to like Chris Matthews more now. Imagine him doing that to Condi Rice or Mitt Romney - pressing for specifics and not letting a politician get off the hook with a platitude.

Matthews and his ADD are in love with Obama, but he needed to get this clip on record so he could continue blowing him in the future. Also, Kurtzy's Wapo article didn't help matters with all its 'Matthews pinching Hills behind' and the like.

For the record, I fell deeply in love with CM the day I heard him describe Hillary's clapping at a rally:

"That clapping...I just don't get it. It's not appealing. It's Chinese or something."

That my friends, is journalistic poetry.

Hey, Chris says he gets sensations slithering up and down his legs. Wait until he outgrows these feverish adolescent years. He'll be able to focus. Maybe even do the tad bit of research that would reveal Obama's legislative record to be longer and vastly more substantial than Hill's.

He, for example, has authored and co-sponsored hundreds of Senate bills, such as the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act (became law), the Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act (became law), the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (passed Senate), the 2007 Government Ethics Bill (became law), the Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill (in committee), and on and on.

She has written 20 things into law, like naming courthouses and congratulating a college lacrosse team on winning a championship. A few are more substantive, such as a bill to assist landmine victims in other countries. And yet she voted against a ban on the cluster bombs that create many of those victims. (The U.S. is the world's largest manufacturer of cluster bombs.) Senator Obama voted in favor of the ban.

What has all this got to do with Chris Matthews's poor tired legs? Well, forget that uninformed guy Chris badgered. Any randomly selected Obama volunteer/caucus-goer/website visitor could rattle off a list of Barack Obama's accomplishments that would have Mr. Hardball on his feet, cavorting like a spring lamb and shouting "Yes we can!"

I'm an eternal Matthews apologist, so you should take this with a grain of salt, but in the grand scheme this is good for the Obama campaign:

Every fucking surrogate they put on TV ought to be able to answer these questions. This shit won't fly in the general.

This was tough love.

Oh, heck, let's just make it easy for Chris and Hillary and WALNUTS! and all the lazy gasbags who lie face-down in the snow moaning, "Obama gives us no SPECIFICS, we want SPECIFICS, for we are such SPECIFICS-LOVING POLICY WONKS!" Here are your specifics! But it will require you to click a button, Chris, Hill, John…

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Thanks for posting this!

I love how, immediately after this exchange, Keith Olbermann (co-anchoring with Matthews) gently pulled the rug out from his pompous desk-mate by asking (I'm paraphrasing here): "To be fair to Senator Obama, can you name anything that Congress has accomplished in the last eight years?" Matthews became visibly uncomfortable, and responded with something to the effect that "That's too broad of a question to answer here," and after a few more awkward exchanges, they were off to a commercial. It was a beautiful payback moment.

SouthernDem, you are absolutely right!

@Mass-hole: Can I get an a-men?

Totes.

Poor Kirk...poor, poor Kirk Watson. He's my state senator, a great human being, a fearless advocate for his constituency, a former mayor of Austin, a deeply savvy politico, but none of his training and experience prepared him for that crank-fueled slobber machine Chris Matthews. I pray to my ancient Babylonian god that he visit unspeakable and nameless horrors upon Chris Matthews, just to shut him the fuck up. If there is a worse blight upon American public life than that worthless turd, well then slap my ass and call me Sally, 'cause I can't think of one.

When Sean Hannity pulled this on the focus group, he was being a butt plug. But the total over the top deranged earnestness of Chris Matthews, as though he has just discovered the law of gravity or something, is just unspeakably hilarious.

@Blueland: Oh, silly man. They want to know what he's done specifically in the past, not what la-la-la fantasy things he might do specifically in the future, maybe.

When Bush lied about getting New York victims of 9/11 financial aid and then tried to skip town, Hillary basically grabbed his limp New England cock and publically slapped his face with it.

He coughed up the money.

See? That's one fun real-world example of accomplishing something, specifically.

Have you Obamatards bought your blimp yet? Word is there's a used one available at a similar cult near you!

@redjellydonut: Don't forget, he graduated first in his law school class at Baylor.

... it's like everybody lost the script. Nobody knew what their talking points meant anymore. The journalist wins, because all he had to do was ask questions. Which are ... I'm not sure if those questions really do matter, as far as judging who'll work as a president. Aren't we all just sort of gambling, hoping that the person we vote for has some kind of Solomon-esque wisdom? Because. Everything Shakespeare and Star Trek ever taught me about leadership on that scale implies it's something that most of us aren't really in a position to understand.

Does that sound like some kind of apology for G.W? It ain't meant to. I just mean. On some level, the president is going to be a monster, right? That's part of the job description, the engine demands it. We just have to hope s/he's a wise monster. And how can we really judge that except on some kind of instinct level?

I'm really asking. That question's not rhetorical.

@LumpyDumplings: I don't think Paultards are capable of cross-Paulination, so I believe the preferred nomenclature is Obamanians, or Obamaniacs. Here's an example of an Obamaniac answering the specifics shemifics:

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@hageesheart: That interviewer got totally owned.

OK, fine. So he isn't slogging away at the books 24/7. So what. Hillary was, which means she's just as much to blame for the country's present dismal predicament as our shit-for-brains President. I mean, really, if she knew we were going to hit an iceberg, she should've been more vocal about it.

@FloraWay: No shit.

Obama's accomplishments:

1) Not Hillary Clinton

Let's stop there. I'm sold.

It looks like you may have your Oblama and His big ole bad Michele for the nomination. Him, Patrick and Axleroads hot air ballon will be a little limp by November. I am sure John "carry his own luggage coach class with arms that were broken in Pow camp" will not be beat with words. He is doing quite well raisng money right now. So ya better start getting those Bam Bam accompishments down.

I understand we're all sick of President Mumbles but just cause Barry speaks pretty doesn't make him accomplished.

Baiowulf makes a much more convincing argument than Senator Watson does.

Truth is they're all going to give you the same thing; a false sense of financial security and years of national insecurity as they persue our 'divine' quest to run the world.

@Darehead's video...

That interviewer started out talking to Darrick like he was a petulant kindergartner. What a prick. At least he ended the interview with some semblance of respect.

It was a strain for Darrick but I will give him a B+ he came up with more substance than Mr Texas.

That respect thing is so hip hop old.

See, I think Matthews wants to not appear partisan, so he doesn't blindly rip into those who represent positions that differ from his (unapologetically) liberal sensibilities. That's when, y'know, ornary blue-dog senators challenge him to duels. But he obviously can't abide a hack who can't back up an argument. Which is fine. The problem last night was him giving the beat down to the Texas guy and leaving Tubb-Jones to build "Senator Hillary" into a Legislative Earth Mother.

@Darehead: He drank that guy's milkshake. He drank it up.

Look like Matthews just made Hillary's next TV spot for her.

@MedianHater:
Your notion reminds me of another well-spoken terror of the airwaves, the late Phil Rizzuto, who endorsed an entire book of his own chatter recast as "journalistic poetry" and gave the proceeds to charity. It's called "O Holy Cow" and you can still buy it. Matthews could do a great service for his favorite charity ("Logorrhea: No Cure, But Hope Through Research"?) by issuing a volume of his improvisational blank verse lifted from MSNBC transcripts. Unlike Rizzuto's, it won't be slim.

Everybody else: Obama's campaign is a learning machine. Lesson learned last night is to prep the spokesbots a whole lot better. I don't think this dude's admittedly lame performance will be repeated unless a Hillary plant or another 5th-generation Texan is involved.

since a state senator from nowhere, TX can't name Barack Obama's legischlativ accomprishmints, he musn't have any.

@Blueland:Time to kneecap his ratings.

@LumpyDumplings: Yeah, yeah. It's all about Hillz getting it done. Even better, she's about to become so available..

Tweety is trying real hard to get off the Media Matters shit list. Beating up Obamamiacs isn't going to do it. He needs to slap a big sloppy wet kiss on Hillary.

@The Neoskeptic: He legitimately doesn't have any - it's just indicative of the cult of personality that surrounds him that a supporter wouldn't know his record.

"Barack Obama has sponsored 129 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 120 haven't made it out of committee (Poor) and 1 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers). Obama has co-sponsored 545 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers)."

[www.govtrack.us]

What was with the phony southern accent Obama adopted during his speech last night? And that smug look on his face? He was also sweating profusely--must have been coming down from a bad trip. I am a diehard democrat and have never voted republican but I am voting republican in this election. Someone as inexperienced as Obama would be a complete disaster--even worse than Carter who at least had executive experience!

This is the new old msm triangulation "the enemy of my enemy is my enemy".

@JohnnyZito: If we were voting for president based on who sponsored the most bills, Robert Byrd would be our president for life.

Me, I'm voting for Hillary based on her accomplishments. Like that great 1994 health care plan that helped Newt take the majority.

And her vote for No Child Left Behind, which is a real feather in her cap.

Or the Iraq war - one more great vote right there. And that resolution made it out of committee too!

@DirkLeisure: I guess my point is that it sounds more like the legislative record of an opportunist than a leader who is running on the power of 'change.'

Hillary is a different story all together - she's a carpet bagger.

@JohnnyZito: To me it sounds like the legislative record of someone who has been in the Senate during a time when the body has been so gridlocked that it hasn't been able to do sh*t, but whatever.

OK, some of you don't want to hear from over-30 folks with expeeeri-unts. But if you do, you might recognize that this fixation with legislative experience is just one theme du jour. Back in the olden days, in 1999, briefly, reporters did similar aggressive reporting with 'knowledge of foreign affairs.' And our W, that is, himself, not one of his fans, failed miserably and could not even name the leader of Pakistan. See [edition.cnn.com]
So, OK, my point and I do have one, is, there are other accomplishments besides national legislative ones that will make a good prez. Like, local leadership, intelligence, diplomacy, plays well with others....yada yada.

@LumpyDumplings: Ahem...see comment above. That's about all she did the entire time she was in the Senate...that and naming libraries.
It's a Rovian tactic, so that the so-called "journalists" wouldn't ask a Hill supporter about all the legislation SHE introduced. Instead of laughing along, Stephanie Tubb-Jones could have mentioned some of Hillary's legislative triumphs, but she didn't have anything either. Just this vague word, "experience."
I don't get why no one calls her on her health care "experience." After all, she did go down in flames on that one.
Now, back to the snark.

Matthews pulled the same thing on Wisconsin Governor James Doyle just a few days ago and got a huge kick out of it. But that WAS on Hardball. I hope the next Obama supporter will be ready for this question.

@DirkLeisure: And that sounds like an excuse.

Where were all his efforts to defeat "poor" legislation?

He spent two years in the senate. that's as much time as any congressman gets and they're running for re-election for half of their term.

Obama officially is winning. Matthews only turns on the underdog when he's no longer the underdog. It's a tragic gene flaw of anyone born in Philadelphia.

one word
anomaly

jesus. he ripped that guy a new asshole...unnecessary?

@Darehead:

Hillary supporters:

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Sorry whats the dif?

What the fuck has Hillary personally, and not her husband, accomplished?

@ThatGuyFromNewHampshire: She successfully pretended to be from New York. They're all phonies and each one is going to give you the same thing; welfare and warfare.

@NBAWRITER1: That's the most accurate thing written on this thread.

Oh look, a list:

[www.dailykos.com]

@Darehead: yes...the old trying to trip up the black man in an interview trick...IT. DID. NOT.WORK.THIS.TIME!!!

Incredible. We have someone running for President and a supporter cannot name even ONE accomplishment.

@ProblemWithCaring: Well you do have a point. Neither Hillary nor Obama have ever accomplished anything. And they're running for President. Incredible.