MSNBC: ‘Impressed’ by ‘Intellectual’ Obama, ‘I Love to Think with Him’

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Shortly after President Obama’s Monday press conference, during a special abbreviated edition of Countdown, MSNBC's Chris Matthews effused that he was "very impressed with [Obama's] amazing ability," opining that the President was "at his best intellectually." After reciting one of Obama’s answers, Matthews further gushed: "What a mind he has, and I love his ability to do it on television. I love to think with him."

Keith Olbermann also alluded to his perception of Obama being "intellectual" as the MSNBC host put down President Bush’s past performances. After referring to a Woody Allen joke about people’s standards being lowered over time, the MSNBC host continued: "This is an entirely different experience for anybody who really perhaps only knew in their young lives President Bush ... This news conference in which a President will answer a multi-part question with a series of four different answers, all of them absolutely common sense and also intellectual and will take seven minutes to answer them. Is he going to adjust to where people were with George Bush’s, kind of, more truncated performance, or is he anticipating the democracy to be participatory and people are going to go in there ... is he going to demand of, you know, citizens, to go along with him and listen for the whole seven minutes?"

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Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the discussion which aired at about 9:05 p.m. on Monday, February 9, on MSNBC:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think our breed looked pretty good tonight. I think the press looked very good tonight. I think they asked great questions. I loved, I would be very impressed with the press tonight. I think Mara Liasson’s questions, Jake Tapper’s questions, Chuck’s questions were very sound. I thought they asked interesting questions. They covered a range of American topics – from the stimulus package to the situation in Afghanistan, the Pakistan border, even to the question of A-Rod, they were asking questions that most people want answers to. So I think the press looked very good tonight.

Secondly, I thought the President showed his analytical mind. I think there is a challenge to the presidency right now. These are complicated issues. We want to hear the President’s mind working. We don’t just want to just hear his final decision, his bottom line. That’s useless to us. We want to know how he gets there. How does this decision to push this stimulus package get us down the road to a turned around economy? How’s it, he tried to explain that. He said we’re trying to stop the downward cycle, the downward spiral. We’re trying to put money in people’s pockets, we’re trying to loosen up the credit markets. We’re trying to get public works going out there to get jobs created. He said the benchmark, the metric he should be judged by in the first instance is three to four million new jobs. After that, certainly the credit markets loosening up. And after that, the housing situation stabilized.

He was very precise, and I was very impressed with his amazing ability standing in front of the American people on a road block – by the way, you couldn’t find a channel hardly he wasn’t on tonight – a road block of American intention, and he was at his best intellectually. I thought it was a great example of how his mind works. And I think we’re going to have to know that the next four years, how’s he thinking on this thing?

KEITH OLBERMANN: And there was nothing cut out. "At this particular moment, with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back to life," that is a pretty strong statement. You just hit on something here that’s almost, it’s half a question of style points and half a question that evokes the old Woody Allen joke about how people’s standards have been lowered systematically by television over the last 50 years. This is an entirely different experience for anybody who really perhaps only knew in their young lives President Bush, and didn’t know anything before that. This news conference in which a President will answer a multi-part question with a series of four different answers, all of them absolutely common sense-

MATTHEWS: Right.

OLBERMANN: -and also intellectual and will take seven minutes to answer them. Is this-

MATTHEWS: Right.

OLBERMANN: -is he going to adjust to where people were with George Bush’s, kind of, more truncated performance, or is he anticipating the democracy to be participatory and people are going to go in there – and, believe me, I’m the last person to criticize anybody for being expansive on television – but is he going to demand of, you know, citizens, to go along with him and listen for the whole seven minutes?"

MATTHEWS: Well, he’s asking us to touch on all the points and agree when he does that it’s worthwhile to do so. I think it was the difference in the old quiz shows between the $64,000 question when there was a multi-part question. By the way, some of that was rigged, obviously, but a multi-part question which required knowledge in a number of areas and you had to put it together as opposed to Jeopardy where you quickly give an answer. I think he showed his ability to go around the room with a flashlight to the question you put. You ask a question which is a holistic question. He goes, "Well, let me look at this part, that part." He does, what a mind he has, and I love his ability to do it on television. I love to think with him. I think the more we get through this thicket of economic quandary right now, the more we’re going to need to hear how our President’s going at it, and he showed us tonight.

—Brad Wilmouth is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Jeez.  This is just a bit

Jeez.  This is just a bit too blatant. I think I'll go to the Democratic Underground and get some less biased reporting on the Bamster.

OBAMA: MORE BALONEY

 OBAMA: MORE LIES AND BALONEY

No class no sense no guts…

Wants “to look forward” but trashes the past 8 years (not ever mentioning his party controlled congress the last few)…
Calls “for bipartisanship” but never crossed the aisle in congress and
never pressures his party to do so now (3 mod NE Repubs is not
crossing… over)…did not open his mouth when Pelosi made new House rules
to cut out Repub input…
Does not want “to go back to the failed policies of the past” but never
says what they are (maybe they are tax and spend, trust govt?)…
Elevates radicals like the kook Huff Post “reporter” who wants to prosecute the previous administration…

Continues to say there is “no pork” in the trillion dollar borrowed to buy votes Pork-u-Lus Bill that is 80% pork…
Does not admit the govt extended the Great Depression and the average recession is less than a year long…

Continues to whine that the sky is falling week after week while
preferring the govt to spend instead of letting you keep more of your
money…
The worse baloney is all this crybaby stuff when the socialist Party
has the votes and can pass whatever they want NOW…they want shared
blame down the road come campaign time…hey, its so great and so need
now…so pass it now you big sissies…take ALL the credit…
=====
Do you think for a second if Repubs had the votes to cut our income
taxes 10%, eliminate death taxes and cap gains taxes they would whine
and cry that the Democrats where “not on board”? No way. So run with
your secular socialist principles democrats…NOW. Don’t drag thinking
people with a sense of economic history into this foolish trillion
dollar borrowing scheme to buy votes (AND change Health Care forever).

Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)

Whenever I see Chris Matthews on TV...

...I need to send the kids to bed to avoid seeing all that sucking and licking of Obama going on.  It's like he's an ice cream cone for God's sake.

 

"What you can not enforce, do not command" -Sophocles-

Have to Agree

In a twisted yet totally true way, I'd have to agree that Obama is an intellectual giant compared to these two (and many more) moronic, bumbling, idiotic, buffoons...perhaps, they were comparing Obama to their on intellect.

If Olbermann and Matthews

If Olbermann and Matthews could breed, their offspring would possess empty craniums.  Ya know, like their fathers.

I love to think with him...

Translation...

I love that he thinks for me.

Yep...keeps those two brain cells he has from gettin' tired.

Happy Trails...

SO let me understand this, a

SO let me understand this, a 4 part SEVEN minute long answer as to why we need to place a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR (Dr Evil voice) debt onto out children and grandchildren is a good thing???

Barack Obama= Half Honkey...ALL Donkey

Did these guys mention that

Did these guys mention that the answers take 7 minutes because of all the um....uh...uuuuh, and fumbling?

Matthews:  I love to think with him!

Translation: This guy is brilliant!! And I'm just like him!

Olbermann wonders if he's going to "demand" that people listen to his wanderings.  The people in the press room have no choice...the rest of us can change the channel.  That is, if we have tuned in to beging with!

Well Michelle did say that Barack (paraphrasing) will not let you go back to your lives as you know it, living in ignorance....

So can we expect weekly lectures from the Intellectual-in-Chief?

 

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

Love Fest

I guess these guy's have no clue how utterly stupid they look and sound. It's enough to make a grown man throw up I swear.  What is it with the pointless rhetoric, and word gushings? Is that how a Lib asks for an invite to the White House? I don't remember, was Matthews this bad when he worked for Carter? I thought the 60's love fest was over a long time ago, guess these two mouth sockets really need loving.

I guess these guy's have no

I guess these guy's have no clue how utterly stupid they look and sound.

Evidently they don't. 

Their problem is that they think that Obama is their intellectual equal.  No longer will they be forced to listen to that inane and intellectually challenged Bush.  

MSNBC should be embarrassed. 

They are fools.

 I would rather listen to a President who acknowledges that he doesn't have all the answers, than one who waffles on and on and is clearly just a politician, who sucks answers out of his thumb.

The blindness of people like these two are astounding.

I'm still trying to see what people see in this man, Obama....

Dry cleaning . . . . Not needed!!

There will be no DNA laced blue dress after either one of these two leave teh oval office.  They swallow everything Obama puts out to the last drop.  

 

The real question at MSNBC is, who will be the Linda Tripp that outs what really went on behind the scenes at that disfunctional cable channel.

 

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY...

 gkm1959,

You nailed it, they will swallow it whole. No spuzzy blue dress to see here like we heard about will Bubba.

BTW, when the DNC/Pelosi/Obey/Reed/Kennedy/MoveOn/DU/ThinkProgress/HuffPost/MediaMatters/A.C.O.R.N.  porky $1trillion+ "stimulus package" fails, & it will because crap like this has a proven track record of failure, Obama, the Dems, the lefty progressives, & the MSM types who have not only covered his @$$ all along, but have pimped him to the people, will be done. WE WILL REMIND THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED THIS TURD, & WHO HELPED SHOVE THIS TURD DOWN AMERICA'S THROAT. Both Obama & this "porkulus" package of bribes.

 

 

"...it's still We The People, Right?"  Megadeth 

tingles

 sounds like a few guys want to have sex with the President, too...

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/sometimes-a-president-is-just-a-president/

More homoeroticism..

.. from the MSM. Not really a surprise though.

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

More is not always better

Just because you take 5 minutes to answer a yes or no question does not make you smart or Presidential.

Is this from Rules for Radicals? "If you can't dazzle them with logic, baffle them with bu!!&h!$"

NO PORK???? Is he freaking kidding?????

The measure of intelligence

  • Intelligent people take complicated things, and make them seem simple.
  • Stupid people take simple things and make them complicated.

Which did you hear from Obama?

I just wanted to say that I

I just wanted to say that I refuse to listen to or comment on these two idiots anymore.

I got better things to do.

 

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who

Obama's Facts Aren't

Is Matthews gay? He says things often that imply an infatuation with Obama. Maybe his wife should be concerned.
But as to Obama's facts, they were a tad off. His scare tactics are getting stronger and more deceptive.
I thought the questions were planned by the group, it was not authentic at all.
Obama is clearly saying there will no longer be the government designed by our founders. It was designed to move slowly, causing grid lock for a good reason, so a socialist or any other kind of scoundrel, could not take over easily and force a destructive government on us.
The nonsense about Japan was exactly the opposite of what happened. They were tail spinning with all of the government intervention. They didn't recover until it stopped.
And he keeps repeating this lie about the failed policies of the past eight years. The Republicans spent like drunken sailors which is why they were fired. They behaved like Democrats and sold us out. The policies of the past eight years were socialism-lite. Obama is doing exactly that...socialism.
He is what he said he is but he is redefining terms and labels. And he is purposely making Capitalism and those that believe in a 'republic' as it was formed by Jefferson and our founders, the enemy. Many so called Capitalists voted for him, believing he is something else. He said every day on the campaign trail exactly what he is. Were these so called Conservatives listening or are they stupid?
Obama Still Lying About The Past

Glad that I skipped the propaganda session last night.

Matthews and Olberman obviously have a bad case of hero worship. It's really sad to see "journalists" fawning over a socialist President who is attempting to steal our future prosperity so as to make his Presidency seem that much better in the present. Obama is so scared about presiding over a serious recession that he is demanding that we mortgage our future so he can feel better about himself.

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012

Yeah, I tuned in for 1

Yeah, I tuned in for 1 minute, just long enough to hear him say... "Only the GOVERNMENT can resolve this problem...".   

Only the PEOPLE can resolve this problem, that is, if the dang government (D) gets out of our pockets, and the dang MSM (D) would take a long walk off a short pier.

When asked if he went to war with Iraq  to derail the impeachment vote:  “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

What I heard was

A guy without any leadership ability, blatant lying and a bunch of ah ah ah ahs to cover up his lack of preparedness even though the questions and questioners where most likely screened well ahead of the show. Where's the intellect?

Blabberin' Barry

I go out of my way to avoid hearing this stammerin' idiots voice. I'd rather hear fingernails on a chalkboard myself.

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

the other male host rachel

i bet she wishes she wasnt a lesbian so she could enjoy the obamacicle like chrissy and olberhack do..slurp slurp!!!!

Proving again that any attention is bettter than no attention...

Proving again that any attention is better than no attention, Matthews removes all doubt. He is a blathering idiot.

um....

To the rest of us, taking seven minutes to answer a question is called rambling.  

 

 

But acts of kindness and generosity must be free and voluntary; no man has a right to compel another to follow his conscience. This is a concern which lies between a man and his God.

-Richard Fuhrman, pro slave advocate, 1823

Umm.. yeah.. I'm gonna need you to come in on Saturday.. yeah..

The Great Orator? Sorry, Hussein Obama... you are no Reagan!

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

That's it!  Public

That's it!  Public speaking, Lumbergh style.

TPS Reports..

You had sex with Lumbergh?? Lumbergh??

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

I am SOOOO tired....

...of Matthew's man-crush on BO....and KO....not gonna waste my time.....

How long...

..before the people who voted for this stuffed suit realize he hasn't a clue what to do with the economy?  He is dredging up old Billary tactics that WORKED when the economy was already in the midst of the dot com boom..that is over.

We are going to hurt like never before.  Bury gold in your backyard.

The Slobbering Love Affair

The Slobbering Love Affair continues....read Bernie Goldberg's book.  The best chapters are the Chris Matthews and KO chapters. 

Chris is gay for BO, and KO is mentally ill.

Chris, KO Get a Room!

This has moved well beyond the "Man Crush" that accompanied their "coverage" of his accession to the Presidency. I seldom watch MESSNBC, occasionally I will stop by, probably because of the same hideous compulsion that causes you to look at a traffic accident when you slowly roll by in your car... I just can't believe people fell for this crap!

"The Rules are what make us Better….Not Today!” ...Jack Bauer

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

No Smoking?

I wonder if they enjoy a cigarette after the broadcast?

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

Hey Scott, I have the W pic

Hey Scott,

I have the W pic from your website as my screen saver. I think it's a fine tribute to a fine man. Thanks

M

Mathews & Olberman, are just

Mathews & Olberman, are just two closet homosexuals. Nuff said 

I "HEART" YOU...

Even Bill Mahar said that when he was watching Mathews & BathTubBoy on MSNBC, he thought they wanted to have sex with Obama. Too funny, & Mahar really does'nt need to prove his lefty "street cred"

 

"...it's still We The People, Right?"  Megadeth 

At least Matthews is a romantic

Sir Tingles and his Love ride their prancing twin unicorns thru a field of daisies, holding hands... 'thinking together' in a kind of twisted Vulcan mind-meld. They each breathlessly finish each other's sentences. They have sex often, and they LIKE IT.

Olbermann, on the other hand, is rapidly plugging in quarters and jacking off to the latest Obama clips in the last remaining porn booth in the Palace of Sex off 42nd Street. He cares not for romance, but only self gratification. He is left feeling lonely and hollow, and as always, in need of more quarters.

My dog respecfully disagrees with everyone here...

He loved the speech um, I mean news conference. He got to go out for his walk early last night. It also saved the TV from more dents from shoes and remotes.

 

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

The President really

The President really didn’t say much, but he spent a long time saying it.   

Matthews and Olbermann had no idea what Obama was saying, so they marveled at the man’s intellectual abilities.  

(So extraordinary was this cloth, it was invisible to anyone who was incompetent or stupid.  So the people were not willing to admit they hadn't seen a thing, lest to appear stupid or unfit.)  But the Emperor had NO clothes.

Meterosexual Castratti Love

Yikes!...These two need to get a hotel room, and share it with a blow-up Obama doll....

 

Long Live...THE REPUBLIC !

MS-NBC giving CNN's Obama-LoveFest a run for its money

1st CNN brings us the bold "The 1st 100 DAYS" ad campaign for The Exalted One.

Now, we get "From Lincoln to Obama" - all day Thursday (yes, ALL friggin DAY) - Hosted by nitwit Soledad O'Brien, of course.  With the promo graphic featuring Obama and Lincoln side-by-side.

Oh, and then we had CNNs other ad series laced w/ pictures of Barry: "CNN: As Diverse as YOU"

Like we saw during the campaign, it's still "All Obama, All the Time" at CNN.  They're not going to let MS-NBC's claim of being "The Obama Network" go unanswered.

What a charlie foxtrot

the the demented twins are broadcasting and my deepest sympathies to the NB staff that a subjected to it so I don't have to be.  Thankfully I can never be "forced" to "think" with The Stuttering One.  I would have to hose down the tv after this garbage.  

20 Jan 09:  The day the Republic died

David Cassidy

So where is David Cassidy singing "I think I Love You"? Or at least Donny Osmond and "Puppy Love"

i thought

i would die laughing when the aristotle and plato of our day was asked about the "war crimes" of the bush administration and he made the comment that no one is above the law. hey, anointed one, do tim and tom ring a bell? but then again, tax evasion is only tax evasion if you are a republican.

"What a mind he has, and I

"What a mind he has, and I love his ability to do it on television. I love to think with him."

*snicker* That had better make Hannity's chris matthews love song thing. 

 

You know, the government said the same things about the TARP bailout.  'the world will end if this isn't passed today'.  'we haven't a clue what this will do to the economy, but we have to do something fast'.  IT HASN'T DONE S***!!!  It's already been wasted away and hasn't done a DAMN THING IT WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO DO!  It was supposed to take all the toxic debt from the banks and henry freakin'-paulson even came out and said after it passed that he wasn't going to use it for it's original purpose.  And now this "stimulus" (only because it stimulates liberals in that special way) has so much bulls*** in it it's going to crush what's left of our economy.  Oh sure, it'll have a few temp jobs for people to do for a month or two.  What happens when those roads are finished?  I guarantee you, they will try this again within 6 months.  And it will be bigger.  They got 700 billion through so they tried 1 trillion.  If they get 830 billion through they'll try 1.5 trillion, etc.  How can they say that this is what the public wants when poll after poll say that the AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT WANT THIS!  These demoncrats are going to crush the economy within a year.  And as for those 3 traitor RINO's, they are a disgrace to this country and I hope they lose their next elections to TRUE conservatives.  They shouldn't even be allowed to stay in the Republican party. 

If they pass this and try to pass another WHEN this bill fails, I'd be all for open revolt.  This moron of a chrissy matthews wet-dream has proved he is unfit and desires to destroy everything this great country stands for.  

 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are LIFE (Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional), Liberty and the PURSUIT of
Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends
, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes
; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed."

 

obama's notion of bi-partisanship is telling conservatives to shut up and do what he wants.

There's that expression again

Does Olberputz have his nuts in a bear trap or what.

Crissy and Over bite

Kenneth J Roberts

Can there be two people that are any worse then them to espouse Obama's tripe. Obama has made several rookie mistakes thus far and he has not been in office more then two weeks  . He has trashed the economy even further by fear mongering , which he espoused in his campaign the he hated that kind of stuff, so where is his campaign promise of no fear mongering . Obama has done more harm to the economy then all of the wall street melt down and the gas prices could do. Gasoline prices was more then anything responsible for the lack of consumer confidence, as most people do not worry about wall street,but what effects their bottom line week to week . If he would allow drilling now and any where you would see a rebound of the economy, if not you will wait many years to see a come back.  His spending plan will not help the economy , only common sense items will like drill here and drill now.

Why do people think he is so smart?

As far as I'm concerned, Obammy's status as an 'intellectual', or his intelligence or his IQ are all open questions. I see no evidence that he is above average in any of these areas.

During the campaign, any of his school documentation seemed off-limits, as did his bar exam results. In fact, we don't know if he ever took the bar exam. During Bush/Gore and Bush/Kerry, SATs, LSATs and other metrics seemed open for discussion. Not so in this case. Why is this?

He likely got into Columbia and Harvard on Affirmative Action, and graduated on an Affirmative Action program. (This also brings up the tasty question of how he paid for Harvard, also off-limits.) He doesn't write his own speeches, didn't write the 2nd 'autobiography' and anyone that thinks public speaking ability is a sign of intelligence just needs to look to Hollywood for a clue.

Any real evidence out there? Anyone?

"Why do people think he is

"Why do people think he is so smart?"

Because they are dummer than he is.

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

In the land of the blind,

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

 

obama's notion of bi-partisanship is telling conservatives to shut up and do what he wants.

Buffoons are easily

Buffoons are easily impressed. Crissy and Keith are merely two  submissive, white, closet homosexuals want to be dominated by a black ghetto thug.

So, How long before MSNBC launches Chrissy

So, How long before MSNBC launches Chrissy sporting a full tux with tails in "Dancing With The One", now that Immelt's got his ear? And quite an ear it is, I might add.

Reality T.V.

 Or better yet how about a reality T.V. show with Keith, Chris, George Steph. (name a few more...) vying for the affections of TheOne. We could call it: 'O'Please be Mine

Long Live...THE REPUBLIC !

Body Language

Has anyone besides me noticed the salacious drool out of the corner of Chrissy's mouth or the cross-eyed ecstasy in Keithy's eyes? As both their faces turn beet-red, each of them caught-up in their own personal Obagasim!

It's sick I tell ya...

Long Live...THE REPUBLIC !

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