Chris Matthews, on Wednesday night's "Hardball," fell into the same trap many other journalists have in misunderstanding the term "Dittoheads," to describe fans of Rush Limbaugh as having no minds of their own that, as Matthews claimed, "repeat every word he speaks as gospel." Of course, as Limbaugh himself points out, fans of the radio talk show host are a varied group, that listen to him because he expresses the opinions they already share and/or just because he's entertaining and the term "Dittohead" is merely shorthand for saying you are a fan, not some "mind-numbed robot." However that fact was lost on Matthews who went on to patronize the audience saying Limbaugh acts as "a support group for guys, mainly men," who, "feel underappreciated by their families, by their bosses."
Matthews' slights against Limbaugh and his audience came in several segments devoted to Republican Congressman Phil Gingery coming on the talk show host's program to apologize to him for a criticism he made of him earlier in the week. In one of the segments Matthews threw the following question to Salon's Joan Walsh:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Okay here's a great philosophical-, Joan you have opened a can of worms here. Why do libertarians and I respect a lot of libertarian philosophy. It's, at least, in ideal terms the Ayn Rand stuff. It's-, I love the idea it's romantic. If everybody could live on themselves, and take care of themselves, if that could work, it doesn't, fine. But why do people who say they're individualists, cowboys, out there all alone, refer to themselves as "Dittoheads?"
Story Continues Below Ad ↓Why would you take pride in being a ditto of what Rush Limbaugh says? In other words, repeating after him, every word he speaks as if its gospel? And, and, it doesn't make any sense. How can you be both a "Dittohead," and an individualist? It makes no sense to me!
Then a little later in the program Matthews insulted Limbaugh listeners when he made the following observation to guest panelist liberal New York Times columnist Bob Herbert:
MATTHEWS: The Limbaugh constituency and it is a support group. He's a support group for guys, mainly men, I think, traveling around the country trying to sell product between 12 and 3 Eastern. They're out they're working hard, they're trying to meet sales quotas. I guess they feel underappreciated by their families, by their bosses. And he says, "Look you're the guys carrying the load. It's those people out there, that aren't working the ones who are getting a free tax ride. They're the ones we gotta get." Right? That's what he's playing to.
BOB HERBERT, NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST: That's exactly what he's playing to but I think what is interesting is apparently the "Dittoheads" are in Congress as well. So you have Republican members-
MATTHEWS: Ha!
HERBERT: You have Republican members of Congress who feel free to openly criticize President Obama but if they criticize Rush then they have to genuflect and kiss his ring. I find that fascinating.
The following exchanges were aired on the January 28 edition of "Hardball":
CHRIS MATTHEWS: But Joan what do you make of the politics here? This is a pretty strong charge from Rush. I think it was backed up, well I guess it's, in effect backed up by people like Phil Gingery, the congressman, because he come back and groveled before the altar of, of, of, God, of Rush Limbaugh. What a sight!
JOAN WALSH, SALON: You know, with all due respect, with all due-
MATTHEWS: You see who got the power here.
WALSH: Yes he's licking his boots. Let's be honest. Have you ever seen anything more pathetic than that display? And with all due respect to Dick Armey this is not about the tax code. This is not about smart tax policy. This is not about the stimulus. This is about the politics of resentment. And this is about Rush Limbaugh playing up Democrats against Republicans.
MATTHEWS: Okay.
WALSH: I mean you know we haven't talked about the most disgusting thing that Rush said which is that we should-
(DICK ARMEY INTERRUPTS)
WALSH: No, no, no let me finish. Let me finish.
MATTHEWS: No, no, let's hear...No, no, no! This show is "Hardball." Joan, you have cued me. Here he is. The most disgusting thing he ever said last week. Last week-
WALSH: Oh good. My..
MATTHEWS: Thank you for cuing it. Here it is. Here's Rush Limbaugh last week.
(Begin clip of Limbaugh on Fox News)
RUSH LIMBAUGH: We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds. That we have to bend over, grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward whichever, "because his father was black. Because this is the first black president."
(End clip)
MATTHEWS: What, what do we make of that? That we have to, "bend over, grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward whichever because his father was black?" What is this? What is this?
WALSH: Did anyone, did anyone think? Did one person, did one Republican think of apologizing to President Obama for such an obnoxious, sickening thing? I mean c'mon! This is what we're talking about.
...
MATTHEWS: Okay here's a great philosophical-, Joan you have opened a can of worms here. Why do libertarians and I respect a lot of libertarian philosophy. It's, at least, in ideal terms the Ayn Rand stuff. It's-, I love the idea it's romantic. If everybody could live on themselves, and take care of themselves, if that could work, it doesn't, fine. But why do people who say they're individualists, cowboys, out there all alone, refer to themselves as "Dittoheads?" Why would you take pride in being a ditto of what Rush Limbaugh says. In other words repeating after him, every word he speaks as if its gospel? And, and, it doesn't make any sense. How can you be both a "Dittohead," and an individualist? It makes no sense to me!
...
MATTHEWS: The Limbaugh constituency and it is a support group. He's a support group for guys, mainly men, I think, traveling around the country trying to sell product between 12 and 3 Eastern. They're out they're working hard, they're trying to meet sales quotas. I guess they feel underappreciated by their families, by their bosses. And he says, "Look you're the guys carrying the load. It's those people out there, that aren't working the ones who are getting a free tax ride. They're the ones we gotta get." Right? That's what he's playing to.
BOB HERBERT, NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST: That's exactly what he's playing to but I think what is interesting is apparently the "Dittoheads" are in Congress as well. So you have Republican members-
MATTHEWS: Ha!
HERBERT: You have Republican members of Congress who feel free to openly criticize President Obama but if they criticize Rush then they have to genuflect and kiss his ring. I find that fascinating.
...
MATTHEWS TO DAVID SHUSTER: I think Rush Limbaugh plays brilliantly to his constituency - traveling salesmen. I know how he does it. He's a support group. Nobody else roots for him, he does. Everything he says is brilliantly tuned to that constituency against-, the trouble is I have with people like that is they, they're never as tough on the rich people as they are on poor people. And I think it's easy to go after the poor people. People that have nothing, who get a tax break or a tax credit. And they're struggling, and they get to work.
By the way, I always say to people, you think poor people don't work? Come to Washington at six o'clock in the morning and see who's waiting for a bus to go to work. Every street corner people are waiting on busses to go to work in the morning. These are poor people working for very low income. They work 40, 50, 60 hours a week and they make very little money to come home with. But they show up for work every day and they get up very early after taking care of their families. Then they gotta go home and take care of their families when they do get home at six o'clock. They work very hard.
The idea that poor people don't work as hard as rich people is crap. And I, and I think a lot of the people on the right sell that argument all the time. That somehow people are richer because they work harder. A lot of people work very, very hard. They just haven't had the breaks. Sometimes the education. Whatever? Maybe the parents, somebody let them down somewhere along the line. But you can't-, life is not a beautiful meritocracy. It just isn't. It doesn't work that way.
—Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.
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→ Uninformed Matthews
January 28, 2009 - 19:28 ET by Cool ArrowA calle, years ago suggested the opening greeting to Rush should be "Dittos, Rush" in order to save precious time rather than fill with "First time caller, longtime listener, love your show and all the good you are doing for America"
Matthews once again puts his ignorance on display.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
Matthews knows d@mn well what it means
January 28, 2009 - 19:40 ET by thebutlerdiditAs I am fond of reminding people, Matthews used to do fill-ins for Rush all the time, before he got the job at Fox, then MSNBC. Before he was this far left. He knows what it means, he is trying to deny his past, so the "cool kids" on the left might not remember he used to grovel to Rush for left-overs. As for him doing this stupid psychoanalysis bit on who Rush's listeners are, and what they think, what an idiot. Perhaps we can see who watches your show, Chris, and hear all about what kind of background and jobs they have, eh? What kind of people watch a show filled with hate and derangement? As for this heifer, I have already said what I think of her on the other thread. She tries to act so holier than thou. I have read the crap in Salon. She is all for the Bush bashing, just don't say anything "icky" about Obama!
Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke
Let me correct just one specific point Butler
January 28, 2009 - 23:17 ET by bpjamChrissy guest hosted Rush Limbaughs show at least once. He was not a regular guest host. During that time period, Sean Hannity was the most regular guest host when Rush was off getting his hearing issue fixed in L.A.
Chrissy guested only one time that I am certain of and that was during the impeachment era when Chrissy was still being 'independent'.
But for him to know suddenly pretend that he thinks that Rush is running a cult is preposterous. Chrissy is doing this simply to continue whoring to his own base - the exact thing he just accused Rush of doing.
Gosh, that would be a stunningly abnormal activity - accusing a perceived enemy of ones own crimes.
Does anyone have audio of Chrissy subbing on Rush's show?
January 28, 2009 - 23:23 ET by Scout FinchThat would be hilarious to put out there on the Internet. Poor old Chrissy's leg tingle would morph into a tremor. Maybe even a palsy.
I am sure they can find it.......
January 29, 2009 - 05:59 ET by old croin the vast archives of EIB.
The idea that poor people
January 28, 2009 - 19:33 ET by motherbeltThe idea that poor people don't work as hard as rich people is crap.
And I, and I think a lot of the people on the right sell that argument
all the time. That somehow people are richer because they work harder.
A lot of people work very, very hard. They just haven't had the breaks.
Ah, the resurrection of Dick Gephardt's "winners in life's lottery." It's all a matter of "the breaks."
Sometimes it is. Life isn't fair. I would never say that a school janitor could be the Principal if he just applied himself. And the world needs school janitors too.
So whose fault is it if someone is born with less intelligence and fewer talents than someone else....God's?
But guys like you want to belittle the hard work of people who have succeeded, and say that they just got lucky.
When has he worked hard?
January 28, 2009 - 20:03 ET by FastEd"So whose fault is it if someone is born with less intelligence and fewer talents than someone else....God's? " This can be directed at little chris himself, no?
I've asked before if some of these cowardly boneheads ever read what's here - then I asked - do they know how to understand what they've read? Me thinks that they will only go and read the pron and profanity laced wapo, huffpo, dailykooks, etc.
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
I love the way he dismisses the notion...
January 29, 2009 - 00:57 ET by Army Bratthat we should all be self sufficient cause it doesn't work.
The strong prosper , the weak die. This is life. This is Capitalism. More chlorine for the gene pool please!
Happy Trails...
There it is....
January 28, 2009 - 19:38 ET by MidAmericaMATTHEWS:........The idea that poor people don't work as hard as rich people is crap. And I, and I think a lot of the people on the right sell that argument all the time. That somehow people are richer because they work harder. A lot of people work very, very hard. They just haven't had the breaks. Sometimes the education. Whatever? Maybe the parents, somebody let them down somewhere along the line. But you can't-, life is not a beautiful meritocracy. It just isn't. It doesn't work that way.
There is the Liberal justification that Rush is always talking about. Poor people are where they are because they have not had the lucky breaks or connections that successful people have. You know lifes lottery. This is how the left sees poor people, just unlucky. So it only stands to reason that if you take from the 'Lucky' and give some of that to the 'Unlucky' then life will be more fair and..... have less crime because those unlucky criminals are just acting out against an unfair system.
BT and MA
January 28, 2009 - 19:42 ET by thebutlerdiditGot to the heart of the matter. For the MSNBC viewers, it's all about one thing. CLASS ENVY.
Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke
Matthews knows better...
January 28, 2009 - 19:37 ET by jawebster1but like all Liberals he ignores the truth. The term "Dittohead" refers to people like me who said when he heard Rush on the radio for the first time, "Hey, at last, there is someone in the media who agrees with me!" It is also shorthand for, "Keep up the good work Rush and never go away. We are thankful your voice is out there and you are a great American!" BTW, I hardly ever agree with Chris Matthews and that is why I pay no attention to him except when he turns up on NewsBusters. Jim Webster
Definition of "dittos"
January 28, 2009 - 21:56 ET by nkviking75As someone who can claim to have heard Rush's very first network broadcast on WHO in Des Moines on 8/1/1988, I can confirm that jawebster1 has it exactly right. By the accepted definition in the Limbaugh Lexicon, you can say "dittos" and be in complete disagreement with the host because you love the show in spite of Rush's viewpoint.
Surely NBC News has the resources to research these things, but I am certain no one bothers.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
We have to also keep in
January 28, 2009 - 19:46 ET by MidAmericaWe have to also keep in mind all the professional Bush haters need a replacement target for their wrath to stay in business. Rush will do but it can get pretty bloody for them to take him on. Bush was the ideal target he wouldn't fight back.
Listen to Matthews....
January 28, 2009 - 19:47 ET by supercon"repeat every word he speaks as gospel."
As if he doesn't slobber all over Obama and Hillary on a daily basis. If the lefties are in a tizzy then I know that something is going right in this country.
Because with a name like Obama... you know it has to be good.
Lauging again
January 28, 2009 - 19:54 ET by tmullen20736Well I am one person that kinda dispells CMatthews theory of old white salemen guys. I am a white female and I don't sell anything just a regular citizen trying to crawl my way out of the future tax hikes and the obvious inflation that will inevitablly hit after the so-called stimulus (spending spree) packages passes.
Oh yea it just passed by partyline vote all Republicans in congress voted no along with 11 blue dog dems. So much for bipartisanship. His royalty will indeed be looking down his nose once again at us peasant folk - but he will still take that little crumb off of our table.
And they call this change - NOT
January 20, 2013 - Nobama
Chrissiesaid: Limbaugh acts
January 28, 2009 - 20:18 ET by USA4freedomChrissiesaid:
Limbaugh acts as "a support group for guys, mainly men," who, "feel under appreciated by their families, by their bosses."
Chrissie say what you want, I have never looked at another man and had a tingle running up my leg..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Me too, t
January 28, 2009 - 21:17 ET by DEVILDOCMOMAnother white female here who has listened to Rush from the start. As his ad states about remembering where you were when you first hear him...I do remember driving down Division St. in Spokane WA in 1988 and just being blown away. As a Master's prepare nurse, I do think for myself, thank you crissie...
Dittos!
January 28, 2009 - 21:39 ET by MichelleCOops, does that mean I'm a blind follower of yours now?
Anyway, I too am a white female and have listened to Rush since I was in my teens. I have a college degree and don't blindly agree with what Rush says. I happen to have the same views as he does, but that does not diminish my views or opinions. It simply means that I'm smarter than Chrissie (which isn't hard).
Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July. Democrats believe every day is April 15th ~ Ronald Reagan
The Rabbit says:
January 28, 2009 - 20:21 ET by Trix RabbitTingles says: and I respect a lot of libertarian philosophy.
Trix Rabbit says: You're a liar. You don't believe any of it. You believe that the era of big government is NOT over. Just check with your friend BJ Clinton.
Tingles says: I love the idea it's romantic.
Trix Rabbit says: I'm glad you find libertarianism so quaint. But you still are enamored with big government.
Tingles says: In other words, repeating after him, every word he speaks as if its gospel?
Trix Rabbit says: I'll tell you what Chrissy, old son. The day you stop groveling before the altar of the Obamatron, is the day I will no longer listen to Rush.
Tingles says: A lot of people work very, very hard.
Trix Rabbit says: Of course they do. That way they can buy the wretched products that are shilled on YOUR crappy network. They work hard so YOU don't have to.
Of course, I can go on and belabor the point, but why bother? If nothing else, Tingles is always good for milk through the nose humor.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
If Chris Tingle Is So Smart . . . .
January 28, 2009 - 20:21 ET by DoktorFranken. . . . . Then why doesn't he realize that most people don't give a rat's butt about what he says? Isn't he smart enough to read his own ratings? Most people don't watch you, Crissy!!!! Time to get a life and a real job. (And get your nose out of Olby's butt.) Sheesh! Give it a break.
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, Rush has taken a lot of the usual heat off of Governor Palin.
Thanks, Rush. Kick butt. You got 'em wailin' and cryin' and moanin' - just like they always do.
Matthews is confused between Conservatives and Libertarians
January 28, 2009 - 20:29 ET by PopularTechRush is a Conservative who holds some Libertarian positions, mainly on economics. Ayn Rand is an Objectivist not a Libertarian and the philosophies while often confused as the same are not.
"If everybody could live on themselves, and take care of themselves, if that could work, it doesn't, fine."
Spoken like a true socialist. Nothing like declaring something based on absolutely no evidence just to push the imaginary need for more government.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution
→ I'm behind the curve PT
January 28, 2009 - 20:33 ET by Cool ArrowMy son just finished "Atlas" last week and gave me a copy for Christmas.
I just started it, but my son is suddenly a lot more enlightened about our country's course.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
Rand does a good job making the case for Capitalism
January 28, 2009 - 21:25 ET by PopularTechJust be warned that it does not make the case for religion.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution
Spitting into the wind
January 28, 2009 - 20:34 ET by SouthernRootsMatthews has an audience of what, 500,000? Rush has an audience of 20+ million.
I'd say that Rush has a broader sense of who the American people are and he has a more diverse listenership. Matthews is limited - in more ways than "The One (TM)"
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. - J.B. Books (John Wayne)
Chrissy Chrissy
January 28, 2009 - 20:35 ET by cocodrieJesus Loves You
→ Here's a trick coco
January 28, 2009 - 20:40 ET by Cool ArrowWhen you want to write in verse, instead of hitting enter, hit <ctrl><enter>
That way
your lines
are not
double-spaced.
It works when you indent as well.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
Thanks Cool
January 28, 2009 - 20:52 ET by cocodrieI know as much about computers as I know about brain surgery. And that ain't much
Give me a call if you ever need surgery.
Jesus Loves You
Thanks also, Cool...............
January 29, 2009 - 06:12 ET by old croI will try to remember
those days in September
when Chis in his splenor
was tingling, tingling, tingling
I don't know cool, it didn't work for me.
Coco
January 28, 2009 - 20:40 ET by thebutlerdiditHi, Coco! Cute ditty, about a big titty.
Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke
Coco, Are you trying to
January 28, 2009 - 20:41 ET by Trix RabbitCoco,
Are you trying to be the bard of NB? Good one on you. LOL
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
coco... ROFL! I love
January 28, 2009 - 20:53 ET by bigtimercoco...
ROFL!
I love it...true too...
Thanks so much, we need more of that around here at times.
Coco, That was
January 28, 2009 - 21:42 ET by MichelleCCoco,
That was GREAT!
Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July. Democrats believe every day is April 15th ~ Ronald Reagan
Excellent! I nominate you
January 28, 2009 - 23:21 ET by stratmanExcellent!
I nominate you for poet of the next inauguration. You kicked the butt of the Obama inauguration poetress whose name I'll never remember, just like her "poetry".
Chis TINGLE is a DooDooHead who CANNOT understand ...
January 28, 2009 - 20:44 ET by Jayke... a DITTOHEAD like me. You see I'm a network engineer and a minority caste member (as DEMS would classify me). I can SOLVE more problems in five minutes than Chrissy can in a week. He is nothing more than a BULLY with a PULPIT who SPITTLES all over conservatives because he is a COMMIE.
Jayke... He is nothing
January 28, 2009 - 20:50 ET by bigtimerJayke...
He is nothing more than a BULLY with a PULPIT who SPITTLES all over conservatives because he is a COMMIE.
You said it ALL!
BEAUTIFULLY!
Jayke is a MASTER
January 28, 2009 - 20:54 ET by choselife3xOf HYPERBOLE. His posts bring me GREAT JOY.
In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.
Matthews' accuracy average
January 28, 2009 - 20:54 ET by HockeyKidMatthews' accuracy average remains at 0. Keep swingin' Mr. Tingles; the Law of Averages says you gotta get something right eventually.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Envy
January 28, 2009 - 21:11 ET by doug1950The bottom line is; Rush has more full time, loyal, consistent listeners than all them combined times 5 and they just cannot believe it or wonder to themselves why it isn't them with a huge audience. It is the typical petty liberal jelousy but they can not or will not admit that most thinking people just do not want to hear what they have to say because they know it is a load of BS or nonsense. I for one feel very uncomfortable around people who gush, or fawn over others. Probably why I have such a distain for Hollywood and their followers. Mattthews is lucky to have the few listeners he currently has. How would you like to have Thanksgiving dinner with that crowd? It would be one dog faced boy shy of a freak show.
I would venture to say many of us probably thought the way we did before we ever heard of Rush but once we found out there was voice in the wilderness saying what we were all thinking and saying it was natural to gravitate towards him and other like minded people. I was accused of being a Rush listener before I ever was. All the accuser did was turn me on to him.
Amen, doug1950
January 29, 2009 - 00:47 ET by Scout FinchI knew I was a conservative in Jr. High, when the election was between McGovern and Ford. I knew I was a conservative when Carter uttered his first word. I knew I was a conservative when I voted for the first time....for Reagan.
I always knew that hard working people would triumph over lazy people. From the time I could think and reason.
Doug.... Beautiful Bulls-
January 29, 2009 - 00:57 ET by bigtimerDoug....
Beautiful Bulls-Eye.
Perfection at it's best.
As Rush said on his program today . . .
January 28, 2009 - 21:33 ET by CKA in Red State USAHe's kept NBC and MSNBC in business for a while, especially of late.
Without him, Matthews and Olbermann, but especially Matthews, would have nothing to talk about.
dupe of first poster.
January 28, 2009 - 23:47 ET by JWFDittoheads Faithful listeners to The Rush Limbaugh Show. As Limbaugh often explains in his books and radio show, these are not necessarily those who agree with his views. Rather, he believes they are people who love the show and what he's doing, and hope he never stops doing it. The term came into use because callers would frequently begin by giving praise and thanks to Limbaugh. Knowing that the caller’s and listener’s time is valuable, one caller simply said roughly "ditto to what those guys said (how much they enjoyed the show)." Thereafter, callers were encouraged to simply say, “Dittos,” and then get right to their point. Thus, long-time listeners would begin their calls with “Dittos, Rush,” leading to the term “dittoheads.”
It came from the "dittos rush" that callers would say.
We'll apologize to Obama...
January 28, 2009 - 22:48 ET by Lord Erond...when the Dems apologize to GWB for all the disgusting insults, lies, slurs and smears thrown at him for 8 years....
....Yeah, I didn't think they would either....
"What you can not enforce, do not command" -Sophocles-
OMG Chrissy
January 28, 2009 - 23:19 ET by candanceThe idea that poor people don't work as hard as rich people is crap.
How does Chrissy know this? Does he frequent trailer parks, projects, homeless shelters? Does he have a lot of poor friends who are wise and intelligent but still hopelessly poor?
He wants to talk about parents letting people down? Don't even get me started on how badly my parents raised me and how far behind I started out. But I don't sit around bellyaching and I don't use it as an excuse to stay in poverty!!
I can take Chrissy to people right now who started out with nothing, didn't even graduate from high school, but through sheer hard work they make good money. I can introduce him to folks who went straight to work after high school and now own their own house with all their bills current.
Take a walk through any random trailer park and you will quickly find that most of the people there suffer from a little more than just bad luck. Kids being raised there always end up separating after school - the smart ones move on and the lazy ones stay behind.
I am *so tired* of pretentious people in the media speaking on behalf of working class people when they don't know crap about the working class.
*pours water on head to put out heat*
This typical white girl will always embrace what's right.
Actually
January 28, 2009 - 23:40 ET by well99There is nothing wrong with trailer parks.I dont know why there is a stigma attached to living in one.Anyhow because someone makes low wages doesnt make them stupid either.Barney Franks,Raines,Dodd are educated and look at the mess they made.Because someone doesnt have a mercedes or desire one means nothing.There are people who may not make millions but they take care of their families pay their bills and do their job.I agree the media and all these elitist act like they know what is good for folks.Wrong answer.Those yutts dont have a clue.
you missed my point well
January 29, 2009 - 00:41 ET by candanceI never meant to imply that poor people are stupid by default or that it's bad to live in a trailer park. I know people who are content to work their jobs and raise their kids there.
My only point is that life is about choices. For better or for worse, most residents of a trailer park chose that lifestyle, so it's disingenuous of Chrissy to assert that they stumbled into it simply through bad luck.
This typical white girl will always embrace what's right.
Candance
January 29, 2009 - 01:26 ET by well99"I never meant to imply that poor people are stupid by default or that it's bad to live in a trailer park."
I wasnt implying you did.It may have came out that way.Thats on me.Some forums you hear all about trailer trash and all this other bigotry.That somehow they are lesser beings because of it.My statement was in reference to that.As far as Chrissy he may of read about working class but that is as close as he got to it.
I was bought up in "the projects".........
January 29, 2009 - 06:24 ET by old cronot that it means anything. I only wanted to ask you to please use a space after your period ending a sentance, it is very hard to read and follow your flow of thought without them :) for me that is.....
Typing standards...
January 29, 2009 - 08:45 ET by Ron_servativeTechnically, it's a single space after a comma and two spaces after a period. See?
Old enough to have had typing class, not 'keyboarding'.
Ya learn something new......
January 30, 2009 - 05:17 ET by old croevery day. Thanks
old cro
January 29, 2009 - 10:29 ET by well99My cousins are from the projects. Most of them did good. Some went the other way and did hard time. Still on a whole they made a good life for themselves.
Although vocal and motor
January 29, 2009 - 00:19 ET by maggieqpublicAlthough vocal and motor tics are the hallmark of Tourette syndrome, such other symptoms as the expression of socially inappropriate comments or behaviors, obsessive compulsive disorder….
hmmmm
Poor Chrissie
January 29, 2009 - 00:21 ET by ToddonCapeCodMr Tingle up my leg wishes he had a fraction of the audience Rush has
Yes, poor Chrissie.
January 29, 2009 - 01:04 ET by maggieqpublicYes, poor Chrissie. Liberal talking heads are unable to acknowledge that Rush Limbaugh has been at the top of his game for years, and years, and years.
We can count on Rush for his sense of irony, his sense of humor, his charisma, his ability to entertain….. Matthews comes up way short in all of these categories.
There is More Kool-Aid at MESSNBC
January 29, 2009 - 00:38 ET by CapeCodScottA Cult of Personality at the Alter of Obama, aka / MESSNBC. Dittos to those who explained what Chrissy failed to comprehend even after being in the Attila The Hun Seat...
I wonder how his leg felt after sitting in that chair?
www.ScottOnCapeCod.com
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!
CHris Matthews is a dittohead
January 29, 2009 - 02:16 ET by Chattychitoyeah a dittohead of the facist leftest liberal media. but that's ok cause you see it allright if your a socialist fairy like Chris.
but if your a republican it just aint patriotic.
What Chris and all the liberal media junk salemen don't see is that this is an attempt to get the people to support "their fairness doctrine" by limiting who can speak publically. and if they get it passed they will find themselves on the Hangman's Noose of the "Fairness Doctrine" when they wake up one morning and find their freedom of speech has been taken away.
next the prez will say, "you can't read your Bible" or "you can't watch YouTube" or "you can't surf the Internet and get expect to get thing done"
It's not about Rush it's about our freedom to think, live and speak freely as we want under the protection of the constitution. which Obama doesn't care about because he already violaed it by running for prez as a non-natural born citizen. so if he steps on one part he steps on it all.
America voted for him and now they got him. we just have to live with him and hope he fails.
viva La Rush!
Matthews is nothing more
January 29, 2009 - 02:36 ET by rightwingchefMatthews is nothing more than blowhard hack. Trained by Jimmy Carter, that say's it all right there. Matthews is so pointless El Rushbo won't even make a comment concerning this idiot.
MATTHEWS TO DAVID SHUSTER:
January 29, 2009 - 02:48 ET by Jack BauerWho says "travelling salemen" anymore?
Is this clown living in the 1930s? He sees some guy in a wide-lapeled suit, a trilby, driving a Model T from dust-bowl to dust bowl.
Maybe he's just seen an Arthur Miller play recemtly.
Oh yeah .. and wasn't Matthews forced to apologize and GROVEL on his OWN show after he said something about Clinton last year?
Is Chris From Rio Linda?
January 29, 2009 - 02:57 ET by Cho Yi Fan"Why would you take pride in being a ditto of what Rush Limbaugh says?
In other words, repeating after him, every word he speaks as if its
gospel? And, and, it doesn't make any sense. How can you be both a
"Dittohead," and an individualist? It makes no sense to me!"
This is one of the most ignorant statement that I have ever read.Maybe that thrill that Chris got up his leg over Obama fried his brain.Limbaugh listeners are thinkers not robots. The problem is that liberals hate individualist and Chris has been reciting the liberal mantra for so many years that of course that concept makes no sense.
Individualism vs. "Dittoheads" and liberal hypocrisy
January 29, 2009 - 08:55 ET by moderncommentaries83Liberals love to claim they are champions of "diversity" and that they - often hostile to religion or theologically liberal (a/k/a "spiritual") - are much more intelligent, free-thinking, and open minded than us "bitter", gun-clinging, God-fearing conservatives.
They rally against institutions and groups - like the Catholic Church and Rush Limbaugh - for "making" people think alike and denying the right to independent thought.
But - as countless stories here, and experience elsewhere shows - it is liberals who are truly incapable of tolerating or respecting independent thought. Dissent was "patriotic" when Bush was in the White House; now it's treason.
Indeed, most liberals embrace an ideology (socialism) that denies the individual and makes us all a collective, talentless mass. And one that brutally enforces such collectivism, throwing dissidents in jail, systematically starving them or driving them to poverty or dumping them in mass graves.
There are some liberals who are still, classically, liberal. Respectful of diverse thought, speech, ideologies and all that. But they are in the minority and it is an ever-shrinking minority as the intolerant ones run roughshod over the left wing and make it indistinguishable from most tyrannical political movements of the last two centuries.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
The only reason Chrissy
January 29, 2009 - 10:14 ET by fitzfongThe only reason Chrissy Matthews launches these weak attacks on his superiors like Rush Limbaugh is because he's a typical parasite. His lame show "Hardball" (snicker, grunt, chuckle) gets an audience of about 500,000...or 1/40 of the audience Limbaugh gets. The only way he can prove to himself that he actually exists is by trying to enter the consciousness of Limbaugh's audience...and the only way he's going to do that is to employ an ignorant, cliched attack on Limbaugh and his audience. If he's lucky, Limbaugh will play a clip...and Matthews will actually have an audience for a few seconds. Problem is, he's such an infantile buffoon, that he doesn't understand the damage he is doing to himself by sounding like such an uneducated dope. As for Bob Herbert and his tired "kiss the ring" reference...Congressional Republicans were elected by Rush Limbaugh listeners, not by mouth-breathers like Chris Matthews and you who support Barack Obama. Congressional Republicans owe their jobs to us...not to Barack Obama. And they'd be well advised to keep that in mind any time they consider "crossing the aisle" to vote with the socialists.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill
matthews, walsh and herbert
January 29, 2009 - 10:27 ET by east tennessee johnLet's see Rush has an audience of 20 million per week. Combined Hardball, Salon and the NYT might get to 10 million. In typical leftist fashion they can't accept the fact Rush has a bigger audience;earns more and has greater influence than they, combined do. So since they can't effectively compete, they psychobabble "analyize" Rush's audience and lo and behold, it's disgruntled white men. Their predicability is amazing. It's almost like predicting sunrise.
And chrissy wonders why we
January 29, 2009 - 12:01 ET by wiwfAnd chrissy wonders why we don't respect him.
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
Mr.Cris Matthews-Nationalization-Fairness Doctrine.Impeachmet
January 30, 2009 - 23:19 ET by Charles H. GarridoHello! Jan 30/09.-23:10
Mr. Limbaugh has read and study by years others diciplines but Conservative has been the best..//.- Also myself & wife we are conservative, and we study and read every day by our "Republic"- Fellows, I think... Cris, Schieffer, Couric,etc your Liberals, Socialism, is the populace and masses, you ever never learned about Communisn, only NYT, Miami Herarld Oh! for sure Readers Digest.-.President B. Obama, and the mayority Congress brought Stimulos Package, Abortion funding, Guantanamo"Jidah, Islam" Fairness Doctrine, Nationalization the Banks. Sooner that money will "GONE" .- Tomorrow. The Administration will take over "Socialism" ."What goes around comes around" .-The "PRESS" arrogant infatuated with Mr. Barack Obama & Congress.-Grounds for Impeachmentc.-Quote..."Impeachable conduct need not be criminal" with that advice. A staff report set the stage for wide -open inquiry and partisan dispute.-(US NEWS 3/04/1974.-
Thanks & Cooperation.-
Charles H. Garrido
Miami Fla.-