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Aha, so indeed it was Chris Matthews who said “oh god” as Bobby Jindal came out to deliver his prepubescent speech from the Plantation Manor. This wasn’t so hard to predict since (a) Chris Matthews has no filter mechanism and (b) he was already LOSING HIS MIND over the very concept of Bobby Jindal earlier in the evening’s programming. Ha ha why does Tweety have such vociferous hatred for Gov. Piyush “Bobby” Jindal already? He’s just some random guy. [YouTube]
Unless you make Chris’ leg tingle he hates you.
Even David Brooks was ripping Jindal on the Charlie Rose Show tonight.
He was incredibly incensed when Jindal said government failed during Katrina & then forgot it was a Republican government that failed!
Brooks essentially said that Jindal’s incompetence was the best thing that happened to Obama!
Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Yeah maybe 2nd or third best after Sarah Palin and Jamakain?
And Chris Matthews swooned over the very idea of Fred Thompson as a candidate in a way homo-erotic by even Chris Matthews’ standards. His bullshit detector is so fickle.
Of course our man Barry is makin’ it look easy, because against these guys, it IS easy.
Datsun510: That shouldn’t be hard to do. Gov. Jindal should invest in some Aqua Velva and cigars and do whatever it is that makes a Republican politician seem really masculine…I don’t know, propose a bill to legalize rape?
Wait, wait. I just slowed down the video clip and listened to it really closely. Matthews isn’t saying, “Oh, God.”
If you listen carefully, he’s actually saying, “Exorcise this, Apu.”
bobby jindal is kenneth the page from 30 rock. 538 has it, TPM has, WaPo has it… now there’s a facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53556541031
It’s because Matthews was butthurt that “Benjamin Button” didn’t win Best Picture…
On a different note: Now that Funky President O’Bama has mapped out our financial and personal Salvation, those of you (yes, you) who persist in wallowing in the sick sinfulness of Bush-era greedheadishness had better get your Federal Bail Outapplication sent in before Hopey wastes that sweet sweet moolah on nonsense like industrial infrastructure, national investment, defense projects that actually might work… you know - SOCIALISM!!!1!1!
I hope I live long enough to witness the next Republican presidential primaries. The possibilities are extraordinary. Suddenly, Joe the Plumber looks like he has a chance.
Ya gotta love Tweety.. C’mon
TeddyS: Everyone has a chance..
*white males with similar stories need not apply.
“Oh, Ganesha!”
and so, we lay to rest, the national political career of The Jindalmeister
Tweety didn’t say anything the rest of us weren’t thinking. He might be an asshole, but he’s our asshole.
Bobby Jindal should have just gotten some Bollywood dancers and done that “Jai Ho” number from the Oscars. That would have been much better received.
Until Jindal I wouldn’t have thought it possible for a human being to sound smarmier than Vinegar Joe.
Fer cryin’ out loud, why is everyone hatin’ on Governor Jindal? Just ’cause he swishes in with the candystriped tie like a 14-year-old representative from Botswana at his first Model UN convention, is that any reason to ridicule him? I mean, unless he actually is a 14-year-old representative from Botswana at his first Model UN convention. Otherwise, I guess — have at it.
Damn, the GOP is so fucked.
After listening to Jindal’s speech, that he was apparently delivering to some mentally challenged 2nd graders off screen, who doesn’t hate him? Well, besides Sarah Palin, that is…
I had thought that was Keith but Tweety makes so much more sense.
So much for Jindal, who sounded like Mister Rogers on crack. The Caribou Barbie Express is looking unstoppable for the GOP nomination.
This is so unfair to Mathews. It had nothing to do with Gov. Piyush “Hussein” Jindal. Chris was just relieving the sexual tension he builds up whenever he hears Obama speak.
Am I the only one who heard Tweedy say: the republicans have outsourced their respond to a governor?
And, so Jindal’s point is that we should elect Republicans so that they can prevent Republicans from Destroying New Orleans and the economy again?
Personally, if he had any balls, he should have started his speech by whipping out his birth certificate and screaming “Suck on this, Muslim Man!” and then gave the rest of his speech in Latin.
Watching Jindal mince to that podium, can you really blame Tweety? He just couldn’t hold it. Kind of like what happens to him when he sees Hopey walking, but different, subtly different.
Jindal is an anchor baby, he admitted it.
And, if you accept the “birthers” arguments, he’s not qualified to be elected in 2012.
Do I detect an oopsie moment?
Chris was going a bit crazy in the leadup to Hopefest. Earlier in the day I distinctly remember hearing him use the phrase “dicking around.” Chris Matthews is going to hell.
It sure didn’t show tonight, but at least he seems to have a brain, unlike that box of hair governor from Alaska
Rush was right. The fairness doctrine sucks. I do not want to see Jindal man ever speak again.
Dorje Chenmo: Does he keep his brain in the same box he keeps his balls? Cos he might wanna find the key for that sucker ASAP.
I just made myself watch the whole “speech” … & I’m deeply disappointed that I didn’t get a strawberry lollypop at the end.
Matthews probably just got the transcript of the “speech” & didn’t know which bit of egregious horseshit to call him on first.
The kid’s got a unique talent there - Jindal actually makes Mumbles McCain look smooth.
Even more profound, the off-mic guffaw @ 0:11..who’dat?!?
And it is in the room with Jindal.
Laissez les bon temps roulez!
Lionel Hutz Esq.: “Hussain” Jindal?? You mean he is a Pakistani Taliban Arab Muslin Full-Breed Terrorist? I knew there was something about him I didn’t like. I just couldn’t put my finger on it until you pointed it out.
People were comparing Barry to Jeebus.
Who can beat Jeebus in a Celebrety Death Match? God. Bobby is God.
(but, which God? My favorite Hindu god is of course Ganja)
Bali mangti Palin ma!
Palin ma!
Palin ma!
Palin ma!
ohm numa shi vaiyay!ohm numa shi vaiyay!ohm numa shi vaiyay!ohm numa shi vaiyay!ohm numa shi vaiyay!
Am I the only one who heard Tweedy say: the republicans have outsourced their respond to a governor?
Oh, uh… not cool, Chris
Maybe you meanies would have done better on your first national TV appearance? Look, here’s him giving his practice speech, and it isn’t half bad:
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/bobby_jindals_practice_speech
I tried to watch a bit of the response this morning - turned it off because it was embarrassing. Voice like Gomer Pyle with a dash of Troy McClure.
It reminded me of a community theater production of Obama’s earlier speech.
Did anyone else get the feeling that Jindal was auditioning for ‘Blues Clues’ last night?
The talking heads were saying that he was going to be speaking directly to the Republican base, so I suppose he chose to deliver his speech in the appropriate intellectual framework.
Either Jindal is not a Aqua Velvet guy , or Matthews has just never smelled Jindal up close.
Suggested campaign slogan: “Bobby Jindal, the other dark meat.”
As far as I can tell his argument is that Louisana is an amazing model of success?
Holy shit, I thought you people were joking about the Kenneth the Page thing. Even after only ten seconds IT IS UNCANNY.
The only “news” here is that Tweety said (even though it sounded more like KO) what millions echoed at home about Jindal’s mincing, clownish entrance. He’s going to have to butch it up next time, if there is a next time. I thought he was going to start with “Hi everybody! Watch what animals I can make with this balloon!” Mr. Rogers looks like Gov. Arnold compared to him.
Geez, what a bunch o’ haters y’all are.
Poor baby Bobby was given a thankless task. You think it was easy for him? Let’s see YOU try to stretch six minutes outta “What he said. Only pretend I’m saying something different from what he said, so we can pretend the GOP offers an alternative to what he said.”
The man stands on principle. Which is why he boldly declared he’d only accept $3.7 billion of the $3.8 billion he was being offered by DC. How can you ignore such gutsiness?
Y’all wouldn’t act this way if Jindal were WHITE! Fuckin’ Dem racists!1!1
Also.
This speech was a moment in American history that made the docking of the Hindenberg look good.
CaliforniaMike: Last night was a good night for Tim Pawlenty. Also.
Josh Fruhlinger: He *does* remind me of Kenneth the Page. Oh, if a Palin/Jindal ticket runs in 2012, Tina Fey and Jack Brayer are assured of long careers.
Blend Mr Rogers with Mr Garrison, add a little meth, brown sugar, and a candy cane and you have our new GOP drink: The Mint Jindal
Vanity Smurf: I’d like him better if he had, but noooo, he had to convert to “traditional Catholicism” (meaning, Vatican II was an abomination, and we didn’t burn enough heretics back in the day, so let’s start up again!). So he is a nice, tame, safe brown feller for the Repubs. If he were Hindu, he would not be Gov of LA.
Okay, the Palin thing didn’t work out. The Jindal thing didn’t work out.
Who will the Republicans trot out next?
I really think that “oh god” from Matthews was of hopes dashed. He had thought that Jindal might be a bulwark against the Obama Socialist Juggernaut, but his heart sunk when he saw that teenager bopping up to the podium, a spring in his step as if from a new pair of PF Flyers.
Peanut Inspector:
Alan KeyesMicheal SteeleMichelle BachmannTrig Palin!
When I heard the “Oh god” as Piyush was walking out I assumed it was Piyush himself who said it, as he crapped his pants finally realizing he’d been set up to fail by his republican “friends.”
And that’s the story I’m sticking with. Sometimes fiction is truer than the truth.
Was it just me, or did he sound like he was speaking to us like we were a bunch of 5th grade special needs childeren?
“It’s story time at Grampy Jindal’s!”
I wanted to punch his face in through the radio so bad right after the first time he said “Republicans believe Americans can do anything!!!!
Also.
That bizarre speedboat story. I don’t get it. Was he saying, George W. Bush’s govenrment was demanding speedboat registrations while black people drowned in New Orleans and that’s why I’m a republican? And I thought Kanye West went a little over the top with that song he did.
schvitzatura: All I got out of that was something about Palin’s vajayjay.
He is not Tweety’s kind of Catholic. The internecine warfare is the most deadly kind.
Peanut Inspector: I am guessing an Asian lesbian in a wheelchair.
The “oh God” was unrelated to Jindal’s speech. It was at that precise moment that Scarborough got Tweety to glaze his ass.
Vanity Smurf: I’m still suffering my Bell’s Palsy afflication and since it makes me so fatigued, I take my Slumdog music everywhere I go. It charges me with the energy of those hotel laundry dobis (sp) that beat your socks on a rock until they resemble tube socks. Piyush better grab the chance to jump onto the Slumdog bandwagon before the critics who loved it start deciding that, since everyone loves it, that the movie isn’t that good, after all.
Piyush’s lackluster performance could have been totally lifted into the public consciousness if he had just done a good choreographed Bollywood dance to Jai Ho. The vibe won’t last, man–grab it now before Americans start watching real Bollywood films and discovers how weird they are.
Bruno: Somebody clarify this for me: Is Piyush Muslim or Hindu? And no one cheat and say Catholic, ’cause I know that’s just political horseshit.
MSNBC was one fire last night. Also up there was Rachel Maddow being “speechless” after Jindal’s speech:
http://gotchamedia.blogspot.com/2009/02/rachel-maddow-speechless-after-jindals.html
Doglessliberal: Do you mean he’s in that weird catholic sect that Pope Benedict Arnold is repatriating?
OT–Gary Locke is perfect for Commerce. It’s the most boring cabinet position, when I worked in city govt with Gary Locke, he was incredibly boring and he was an incredibly boring governor.
chris has already picked his ethnic named brown guy in this fight, and it’s not piyush. of course given that this is the ever principled chris matthews we’re talking about, by this time next week he’ll probably have done a complete 180.
Bobby, be proud of your blue scrotum, and make it work for you, honey.
Jindal is NOT Kenneth. He’s this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5hNXsK0uEk
Leave Jindall…here’s Mccain still fighting it out…guess he still “hopes” for the next presidency…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/23/mccain-grills-obama-on-ma_n_169267.html
Also no ones talking bout Jindal walks…also…
Could it be Chris Matthews is now stalking Rush Limbaugh? Our security cam image seems to show Chris Matthews, but we’re not sure. Mysterious blonde stalking Rush Limbaugh. Could it be Chris Matthews?