Chris Matthews Calls Michele Bachmann a 'Zombie'
Echoing his Election Night accusation that Michele Bachman was "hypnotized" Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, called the Minnesota Republican congresswoman a "zombie" as he insultingly asked GOP strategist Todd Harris to identify who Bachmann is getting her "orders from?" Matthews made the comment during a discussion about raising the debt ceiling and the Hardball host, who is fond of making cinematic comparisons, even referenced Hollywood horror screen legend Boris Karloff in his over-the-top slam of Bachmann, as seen in this exchange from the January 4 edition of Hardball:
(video after the jump)
CHRIS MATTHEWS TO GOP STRATEGIST TODD HARRIS: Let's listen to Michele Bachmann, your new boss. By the way she may be a zombie answering to somebody out there, Boris Karloff, I don't know who's giving her orders but here she is on the debt ceiling. Let's listen to her.
(Begin clip)
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN: I am not in favor of raising the debt ceiling. As a matter of fact I have a petition that I'm urging people to sign at MichelePAC.com to urge their member of Congress not to raise the debt ceiling.
(End clip)
MATTHEWS: Do you hear that? Who she get her orders from?
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Listen to Matthews.
Submitted by NeoKong on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:01pm.
He obviously thinks he's much much smarter than Michele Bachman as his little insults demonstrate. It must be because he has a show with his name in the title. If memory serves me there was once another guy on MSNBC who was convinced he was the smartest guy in the room at all times but then he got fired. David I believe his name was and now Mr. I have my own cable news show is reduced to begging to guest host on radio shows no one has ever heard of. Somehow I don't think Matthews would fare any better.
Time to Play "Name That Hypocrite"
Submitted by IrateNate on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:02pm.
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
Sen. B.H. Obama, 2006
What is Matthew's problem
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:04pm.
What is Matthew's problem with attractive conservative women?
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
Simple: Tingles was a Princess Boy back in the 50s
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:43pm.
It was a lot tougher back then.
Nbb,
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:15pm.
Because deep down, Prissy knows the only women he attracts are lefty fem-hags who all look like Bella Abzug.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Hey Dave
Submitted by the struggler on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 9:34pm.
...or as my Mother used to say........Zsa Zsu Pitts...Ha!
I hear Tingles has some hot pics
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 9:52pm.
of Helen Thomas. With her teeth in too.
She's a zombie?
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:12pm.
Not so sure about that, but pretty sure that Tingles is a suppository.
Tingles
Submitted by FOXFAN on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:21pm.
"What is Matthew's problem with attractive conservative women?"
Maybe they don't have an affect on him anymore. After all, it was a man who gave him a "thrill up his leg".
Well connect the dots
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 9:53pm.
He gets tingling up his leg when a male speaks... Hint:DADT.
The truth is Chris Matthews,
Submitted by shannon76 on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:22pm.
The truth is Chris Matthews, after a number of years of being considered a 'fair/objective' journalist who 'calls it like he sees it', has been called to the mat the past few years for being the Peace Corp Lefty hack that he really is. And he's been rightly butchered and beaten for all of his faux pas, particularly over the past few years. It eats at him too. You can tell he HATES being called out for his love for Obama. Look back and see how ticked off he gets if you tell him how he had a 'tingle' up his leg. He'll roll his eyes, as if saying, 'oh brother, not that again...', and then he'll scream, "I said 'thrill'. Not tingle!" Every time.
The guy's reputation has gone through the blender.
And I suspect that's why he's so brazen about using ad hominem's on Republican elected officials. He's using adolescent schoolboy tactics because there's no use in pretending to be a by the book journalist. Why pretend...
Such a vicious little man, such a sick little man,...
Submitted by BBallleaper on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:23pm.
makes you wonder how he treats his wife (who must have suffered a psychotic episode to cause her to marry this pant-load!)
Her Orders?
Submitted by Cyborg 0427 on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:29pm.
Does anyone think it just may be the American people? Maybe the people from her district? I think the question is 'who is Matthews getting his orders from?" To consider or even suggest raising the debt ceiling at this point is is literally moronic. Just how much more of this country do goofballs like this idioit want to sell to China? He needs to change the name of his show to GOOFBALL.
There seems to be alot of
Submitted by Snappy on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:31pm.
There seems to be alot of "talk" around cutting the deficit. Appearantly thats all it is though is talk, the consenses is that the debt ceiling must be raised (why?) and the only sensible way to cut the deficit is to raise taxes on the rich. Bachman and a few others on the other hand seem to think that cutting spending will reduce the deficit, what a novel idea. If spending is cut then there really is no reason to raise the debt ceiling is there? But no, Mathews subscribes to the all talk and let someone else (the rich) bear the brunt of the spending binge that has occured in Washington for quite some time.
Well hold on let me get a piece of paper
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 9:59pm.
You say if I don't spend I am actually saving. Gee, I gotta get out a calculator or sumpthin like that to figure this one out (sarc off).
This is the spend and print administration. If I had known, I would have bought all the gold I could and see if I could invest in the company the FEDs buy the ink and paper they use to manufacture the toilet paper that used to be out currency.
I know....seemed a little
Submitted by Snappy on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 10:28pm.
I know....seemed a little tough to swallow myself, but after running the numbers 2 or 3 times I cant seem to argue the facts. If spending is cut, savings do occur.... who would have thought
Bela Lugosi, not Karloff
Submitted by The_Pumpcrop on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:43pm.
Like most things Spittin' Chris is wrong about this too... Bela was the one who commanded Zombies in WHITE ZOMBIE.... Spittin' Chrissy and the whole bunch on this network are such a sack of hypocrites and frightened morons, it scares me that such people out there speak for and, in a lot of cases, if you're not always on Comedy Network, lead Obamies like... BELA LUGOSI!!!! Moron.
Misogyny thy name is Chris Mathtews
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:47pm.
And his middle name is hypocrite.
The ONLY place he could still have a job is on MSNBC.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
She's a rather animated Zombie.
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 9:09pm.
If Michelle is a Zombie, she's far more animated than one would expect.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Earth to Matthews. Bachmann
Submitted by GregE on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 9:40pm.
Earth to Matthews. Bachmann a zombie? Have you ever heard of someone named Nancy Pelosi? Apparently not.
You know with all that botox
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 10:00pm.
she really is the living dead isn't she?
Right, Unlike Pelosi, Bachman
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 10:04pm.
Right, Unlike Pelosi, Bachman is able to blink her eyes. Maybe the voodoo zombie drug is botox.
The only zombie seems to be in Tingle's head
Submitted by neutron on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 9:41pm.
Tingle repeated his dull knife poke at Bachman several times on election night, and each time the jab fared less well than the previous one. All around the blogosphere, including lefties, told Tingle that he was wrong on his Election Night harrangue.
Recycling long-dead lines that dropped dead on the night he first tried them, several months ago... there's the zombie, the reanimated dead, staggering, drooling, and moaning to the annoyance of people who still are alive enough to think of fresh material.
The only zombies seen here are Tingle's brain and the tired dead dull knife pokes he won't let go of.
Classic Sour Grapes
Submitted by KyWriter on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 9:49pm.
Matthews denigrates what he cannot have: Bachmann, Palin, Haley; all professional, respected, successful, very attractive women who would not give him the time of day. The women who would all look like Will Ferrell dressed up as Janet Reno packing a whip. "C'mon Chrissy. It's time for your therapy."
Chrissy Tingles still can't sit down...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 12:07am.
...without a big fluffy pillow after the total a$$ kicking that Ms Bachmann laid on him back on election night.
Chrissy is a Sad Old Man!!
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 9:47am.
I pitty the woman who married this old hag! Calling women names does not help you score points with the public. If you have a point to make, make it without insulting someone's intelligence. Then again, Chrissy was probably a bully in elementary school, high school and probably in the work place (MessNBC).
His disdain for intelligent, attractive women is so obvious one has to wonder what happened in his childhood that turned him into the sad and vile idiot he is today.
Note to Crissy: Life is too short dude - you are not getting any younger. We are supposed to get softer, respect people and embrace life as we get older; not turn into a miserable old cook like yourself...but, I digress. Why are liberals such unhappy, miserable people?
Chris "The Thrill" Matthews
Submitted by Airforce_5_O on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 12:25pm.
Obama-Crush Chris is really having a hard time with this new Congress. They want to cut Government spending (which goes against every Progressive ideal out there), get rid of earmarks (again cutting spending), adhere to the Constitution (another problem for the progressive agenda), and repeal health care. She is getting her “orders” from the people who elected her Chris. It is an amazing concept that she is actually fulfilling her Campaign promises to cut wasteful Government spending, unlike Chris’s Honey Bun in the White House. I bet you that isn’t a thrill running up his leg anymore. It’s more like some pressure from the back side.