Matthews Calls Limbaugh and Republicans 'Trolls Under the Bridge'

Photo of Geoffrey Dickens.

What's with Chris Matthews' fixation with comparing Republicans to trolls? Back in September he called a then presidential candidate John McCain "troll-like," after one of his debate performances, and then over the weekend, on the syndicated "The Chris Matthews Show," he applied the monstrous term to Republicans in the following intro to his February 23 episode:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: And finally trolls under the bridge. Is that what Washington Republicans have become? Gremlins hiding along the pathway, nipping at the Democrats. And are Republican governors saying, "That's not my job."

A little later, going to break Matthews teased the upcoming segment with video of Rush Limbaugh, with an on-screen headline reading: "Trolls Under The Bridge."

MATTHEWS: Anyway when we come back Rush Limbaugh wants Barack Obama to fail. He's honest about it. Are Republicans letting Limbaugh speak for them?

At the opening of the segment Matthews drew guffaws from guest panelist, NBC News' Norah O'Donnell when he mocked Limbaugh again:

MATTHEWS: Welcome back. That was "Saturday Night Live’s" take on the Republicans these days. They’re not sure what to do about Obama’s popularity. One guy, Rush Limbaugh, says just pray for failure.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: I’ve been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don’t want them to succeed.

MATTHEWS: He always talks like he’s had a really big breakfast.

NORAH O’DONNELL, NBC NEWS: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

—Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Liberal tolerance on

Liberal tolerance on parade.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

more like...

More like the pot calling the kettle black. Hey, I'm getting a TINGLE up my leg!!

These children need to grow up

Biggest deficit in US History, unprecedented nationalization of banks, nuclear Iran and these stupid retards sitting around laughing at Rush Limbaugh?  They remind me of this idiot kids in my High School sitting around in Chemistry lab trying to light farts with the bunsen burner rather than learn anything.

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

Under the bridge?

 

No, I would say that Mr. Limbaugh is not some troll hiding under the bridge, but up front, out in the open, and HONEST in his commentary on the events of the day, whether they be on political events of other areas of interest th the host of the most POPULAR show on the airwaves.

 

Far more popular than any of the losers hiding behing political correctness.

 

 

http://gjresult.com

 

I saw the show

I saw the show yesterday...as usual with the O-swooning crowd, Matthews misrepresented what Rush said again quite a few times during his show with his teases for the segment about Rush, saying that Rush hoped O failed, instead of saying what Rush said, "I hope his programs fail."

Never-ending with these POS...I couldn't even get angry about it yesterday, it is typical of Matthews and his ilk.

What is really under Matthews skin is Rush kicked his teeth in last week on his show...and it was priceless.

I don't even watch, and I

I don't even watch, and I long ago lost any interest in what Chris Matthews has to say about anything.

He doesn't even bother pretending any more.  After all, he is just doing "his job."

He is shameless, and a disgrace.

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

My sentiments

My sentiments exactly.

 

And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.   -- Edgar Allan Poe

Matthews needs his mouth

Matthews needs his mouth slapped several times to straighten him up.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

kg... I think Matthews is

kg...

I think Matthews is a goner...far too late for any sense of any kind being knocked into his head.

I heard him early last week using the words Helen Thomas did when speaking of the terrorists....he kept using the phrase "so-called terrorists" on Morning Joe during a segment...3 times within a few seconds....it was infuriating.

He is a goner as far as I am concerned...too late for any kind of help...he's gone far 'round the bend.

pure jealousy

Matthews wished he had 1/100th of the audience Limbaugh had.

2010: A GOP Hill

Agent

You've hit the nail on the head. That's what is behind all of the fairness talk lately. The Leftists are jealous of the conservative audience sizes when compared to their meager MSM and Radio audiences. How is it that they have so many potential commentattors out there yet the Conservative hosts garner the greatest market share? Still they are all over any MSM broadcast channel or MSM cable channel that comes with the regular package. You'd think that they would have a bigger fololowing because they have the majority of the programs out there.

This is NOT news. And does it matter what Mathews says?

Think of everything adolescent, pouty, ignorant, malicious, slanderous, mean-spirited and just plain old dumb--and, sooner or later, Mathews and his ilk will say it about Republicans, conservatives and every other person in America not like them.

 

Actually, the only time Chrissy sees a troll

is when he looks in a mirror.

Chai

“When all government...in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided...” Thomas Jefferson

Diagnosis of a lunatic lib

I've come to the conclusion that the only explanation for the likes of an Olberman, Matthews, or Sean Penn type is that they have some sort of chemical imbalance; need a (or have had a failed) lobotomy; or they're possessed. Notwithstanding it could be a combination of either.

OK, let's play hardball

I don't know Chris -- you tell me.  Are Democrats letting Matthews and Olberman (the Head Cheerleaders "gimmie a D!", "Go Donkeys!", posing as news reporters), Penn, Stone, Springsteen, Babs, Baldwin, Judd, Damon, Thomas (another "reporter"), Stephanopolis (another "reporter"), Moore, Stone, Maher, et al., ad nauseum) speak for them?

Dumb ass.

 

And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.   -- Edgar Allan Poe

Matthews looks like a troll, himself

A big, tingly-legged troll.

MSNBC

I changed my cable/phone/internet supplier and to my surprise and delight, they dont carry MSNBC.

What's the fuss,Chrissy just regurgitated on himself again.

This is just the pissy one's recycled vitriol, old news, sour milk.

Those animal sounds you heard were not guffaws they were Norah O'Donnell's snorts.

Aw, he just heard too many bedtime stories

The Bros Grimm made a big impression on the little fellow. It's kinda funny, actually.

Great Idea for a real Poll

After seeing the farce from the Spawn of Stan her self, Alexandra Pelosi, on HBO. I would like to get a real poll on camera of the people that voted for the Messiah and ask them, "Was this the change you wanted?" "How does that Kool-Aid taste now?" "How does it feel to live in the USSA instead of the USA?"

Romney/Jindal 2012

Matthews is how old?

It sounds like my 8 year old grandson. NANA NANA NANA NANA Rush is a troll!  

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. RWR

Note to Chris Matthews:

Maybe you didn't read the memo, but there are actually people in the media who don't believe it is their job "to make this Presidency work!", as you so famously described your own job.

 By the way, chubsy-wubsy, I suspect you didn't get your  fabulous figure by eating lettuce and tomato sandwiches, either. 

 

DA... LOL...right you

DA...

LOL...right you are...obviously he doesn't hold the mayo or bacon either.

Acting President Obama

Thinks pissy Mathews is a frog.

So if the electorate votes that the world is flat, does that make the world flat?

If Acting First Lady Michelle Obama wears a dress that makes her look like a sausage, is she a sausage?

So that makes...

So that makes the Dem Donkey...a what...a pet goat?

 

Rush cussed on Air.

Uh-Oh...

Rush cussed on the air a few seconds ago...

Let the msm pile-on begin!

It was funny actually...he said it was the second time he has ever slipped on air....he said Bull Sh!t instead of BS...which he hurriedly corrected...just can't help but wonder if Olbie, Matthews and other talking heads are going to try to make a big-deal out of this...I really wouldn't go there with some on their own networks track-records in the past.

Matthews doesn't have the brain of a troll

Maybe, with any luck, one of those little trolls will eat Matthews. But then again they are probably more discriminating than to do that. He probably tastes as bad as he sounds.
TSF Protests!

Designated Punching-Bag

MATTHEWS: Anyway when we come back Rush Limbaugh wants Barack Obama to fail. He's honest about it. Are Republicans letting Limbaugh speak for them?

Lib-weenies like Matthews are always looking for a Republican boogie-man.  After the Republican victory in Congress in '94, Gringrich became the target.  He was mean, maniacal, and sought nothing less than to destroy the Constitution.

During the Bush Administration, it was Karl Rove and in close second, Cheney.  They were conspiring with the neo-cons to take over the world, and even bring back slavery.  They still want charges brought against Rove in the Valerie Plame affair, even though Fitzgerald never even established that a crime had been committed.

Now, with the Republicans out of power across the board, they need a new punching-bag.  So Matthews and ilk select the biggest talk-radio guy they know (and fear):  Rush Limbaugh.  The only problem with their selection is . . .

1.  The GOP never said that Limbaugh speaks for the party.

2.  Limbaugh has distanced himself from the GOP; he has adamantly stated that he obviously ISN'T the spokesman for the GOP.  He's angry that Bush and McCain abandoned conservative principles.  As Limbaugh notes, the GOP doesn't listen to him, or they'd have changed their governing and campaigning.

 The Left probably also has this tied to their campaign to reinstate the infamous Fairness Doctrine.

 

Didn't Matthews tell Scarborough...

that his job was to make sure that Obama succeeds?  Not report the facts.  Not inform the public.  Not ask tough questions of our leaders.  No, his job is to make sure "this works".  So who is he to deride Limaugh for hoping O's socialism fails?  Hyprocrite.

  Rush is now driving

  Rush is now driving crissy into another homosexual frenzy. Maybe he wants Rush to spank him.

MATTHEWS: He always talks like he’s had a really big breakfast

Matthews always talks like he's fallen inside of a whiskey bottle (hic).

tingle guy

Who is even ignorant enough to even listen to this nut. Except for a good laugh.

mmdnc

With Mr. Tingly leg and whora just whooping it up as if someone , besides us, was paying attention.  Rush gets more audience than the 2 of them combined, with all of their various shows and appearances. "He always talks like he's had a really big breakfast". What the hell does that mean, tingle boy?

And the Dems are highwaymen

And the Dems are highwaymen who will tell you to 'stand and deliver' at gunpoint and charge a hefty toll for crossing said bridge.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Republicans are Shrek

Republicans are Shrek democraps are the donkey. Works for me.

This is sweet. Mathews

This is sweet. Mathews can't get the same viewership in a years time, that Rush get's in listeners in 2 weeks, and he wants to act all big and bad. Talk about a troll.

 

I Hate AP News Service

 

 Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

Wrong! Again!

  Are Republicans letting Limbaugh speak for them? 

  No. It is me. Everyman. I want him to fail too. 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

If Rush is a troll under a

If Rush is a troll under a bridge, then Tingles is a creepy, corpulent colostomy bag behind a TV screen.

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 Rush is a Troll Under a Bridge....

Then I'm going to find that Bridge and offer the man a nice Havana.

And pull up a beach chair....and listen to all kinds of great stuff.

I just find it hillarious that the leftards are so scared of such a nice guy.  Rush....I hope your bridge is in SoFla where I can join you, dude!

 

The only reason "Tingles"...

mentions Rush is because he hopes he can get Rush to respond so his name will be heard by millions of listeners thereby giving him free publicity.  Fortunately, Rush seldom responds.  Jim Webster

Chrissy M as the Scarecrow

Everytime I see Chris Matthews I just envision him singing the song "If I Only Had A Brain" from the Wizard of Oz.

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.