Chris Matthews: Last Week Was 'Best Week Ever For The Country'
What would you say was the best week in American history?
If you're a man named Chris Matthews who gets a thrill up his leg for Barack Obama, you would say the week in which Osama bin Laden was killed by a Navy SEAL team in Pakistan (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Riding high.
Let’s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I’m Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight: Never been better. That’s bin Laden of course. Best week ever, I’d say, for the country. President Obama is coming off the best week of his presidency, certainly. Osama bin Laden’s been got, the economy’s creating jobs, the Republicans look, let’s face it, less and less able to find a presidential hopeful to even give a uniform to, much less put out there on the field.
And all that is giving the president a boost in the polls. Our new tonight NBC News/"Wall Street Journal" poll has the president’s job approval up to 52 percent -- it’s tough to get higher these days -- with just 41 percent disapproving. But that’s our top story tonight.
So, killing an unarmed terrorist, the unemployment rate rising to 9 percent, and Republicans seemingly not having a presidential candidate to oppose the current White House resident is what MSNBC's Chris Matthews views as the best week in American history.
Maybe I'm a tad biased here, but I would think: the week the Declaration of Independence was signed; the week the Constitution was ratified; the week the Revolutionary War ended; the week the Civil War ended, and; the weeks VE and VJ Days happened would all be far ahead of last week in historical significance.
But then again, I'm not in the business of making Barack Obama's presidency a success.
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Best week
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 8:55pm.
EVERRRRR!!!!! FER SHURE, GIRL!
My reply to that,
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 7:12am.
My reply to that, hob........AS IF!! LOL
"Grab his legs and bolt down anything that's loose!"
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:05pm.
With all that leg tingling going on, Matthews surely kicked over a couple of chairs and a camera during this Obamasm.
Well we know the 9%+
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:04pm.
Well we know the 9%+ unemployment, QE2, TARP, Obamacare aren't giving people "tingles" up their legs....
Best week. Binary statistic.
Submitted by Clutch1956 on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:09pm.
Singular. One week. Only one week and Teh Won's bounce didn't last it out. The economy is still in shambles and I can't fill my gas tank with Osama's blood. While I'm glad that Osama is getting a workout in the deepest pits of H3ll, back here on Planet Earth, Obama is still a loser when it comes to leading this country. The proles that would vote for Obumbles because he "took out" Osama would have voted for Obumbles anyways.
I hope Chrissy wiped up after himself after this broadcast.
also
Submitted by OffTheLows on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:12pm.
You could have Tweety on the defensive by mentioning the day Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, passage of the 13th and 14th amendments, Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, etc.
It was a big week and in the future when recounting Obama's presidency will likely be the first line item mentioned, but I think we elevate bin Laden's importance by claiming his death makes it the best week ever.
If this was his best week
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:13pm.
We will never survive his worst
Good thing Tingles is still taped up from last weekend.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:16pm.
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The Racer is correct
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:17pm.
The Racer is correct in saying that it is the best week of the Messiah's presidency. It is the only week that he has done anything that can be considered an accomplishment.
This isn't the best week.
Submitted by Calypso Jones on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:18pm.
The best week will be in November 2012. NoBama.
No, actually ...
Submitted by LibertyAtStake on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:19pm.
... that will be the first full week of November 2012.
d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"
It is just me or is he
Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:21pm.
It is just me or is he looking more like Dame Edna every day?
In general, it seems the liberal media is looking older and more weary by the day - as they work overtime to cover the lie-encrusted backside of their failed president. They seem floppy, limp, tired, bedraggled and just plain exhausted.
Lying in the faces of every american citizen every day will do that I guess...
Looking like Dame Edna
Submitted by Texndoc on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:29pm.
Hahaha, now that you pointed it out - no it's just not you.
lincoln bedroom for matthews
Submitted by scarletandgold on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:33pm.
the best week ever! PERIOD...tingles, i think its time u wear your really tight obama' yes we can' tee shirt and do a slut walk in front of the white house....you need it bad /// you go girl
No need to send the blue dress to the lab
Submitted by Clemenza on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:46pm.
When Barry is the topic, Chris ain't a spitter.
I think we all know that the
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 9:55pm.
I think we all know that the best week ever in America was when "Wipeout" debuted on TV.
I spent $100 filling my tank today.
Submitted by NeoKong on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 10:09pm.
Whoopeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
Wow!
Submitted by NL207 on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 10:17pm.
That's a lot of liquor.
Best week ever
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 10:40pm.
Yeah, that's what it would cost (at current prices) to fill my truck, so I keep topping it off after the first quarter of the tank gets used. Keeps the cost to about 27 dollars. Really pisses me off, I had to cancel a trip to Lubbock as it would cost me $200 round trip on the gas alone....at current prices. If I were to take the trip, if gas prices keep going up, it could be as much as 250. So the first time, my annual summer vacation gets reduced to watching Blu-Ray movies for a few days off instead of going somewhere to hang out with some friends.
As for best week ever...... Now I'm dealing with some major depression with all this crap going on(who the hell would be overjoyed about it??), so after what we saw last week, I say it was a good week because we are starting to see the house of cards begin its collapse.
It went from "bin Laden killed in a gun battle" Sunday night to "he was unarmed"(there was even a squirt gun in one of the pictures) to Pakistan threatening to retaliate if they (the US government which I don't consider part of the US, hence THEY instead of WE) ever do that again by Monday(today) of the following week.
So hell yeah, watching this house of cards fall apart is gonna be fun. SUCK IT, CHAIRMAN!
-Jon
Just took a trip of 4250
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 9:15am.
Just took a trip of 4250 miles and spent a lot on gas, probably more than the cost of lodging. I get 20 mpg and gas costs were around 4.10 average, low 3.60 in Texas and high 4.80 in San Diego, so 212 gallons at 4.10 is 871 bucks. And we intend to travel a bunch in the coming year. It was a great trip with my son and wife and me, sort of a last hurray as we become adjusted to being empty nesters.
Obama sycophancy.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 10:53pm.
Here we have Obama's most enthusiastic fanboy happily slobbering over the possibility Obama might be reelected because of Bin Laden's death.
Just wondering, but does Matthews actually still call himself a journalist? Because I really hope he doesn't.
Just looked at the link under "making". Wow! Apparently, full-time presidential turd polishing ages you faster than drinking from a fake Holy Grail.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
I could have done it - Noel could have done it - Blonde could ..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:19pm.
I could have done it - Noel could have done it - Blonde could have done it - Jer could have done it. Sitting in the briefing room, with the information that "they" presented to Obama, who wouldn't have done what he did?
OK - either you bomb him to smithereens, or you go after him and capture or kill him. He gets credit for making that decision. And now behind door number 1, number 2, or number 3 - which door do you choose? Easily, 85% of the country would have made the same decision - after all we all watched "Under Siege" (that was some cake) .
OK - He's president. His national security team - the CIA, NSA, military intelligence - whatever; they after more than a decade of working this "where is Bin Laden" thing," finally put the pieces together such that they had his location darn near for sure.
Side bar note: OK, so it's in a town, but low and behold the compound is nice and isolated. There are open areas surrounding it, and while it's a bit tight - two helicopters can land in the compound. We've been ready and training for years for such a mission. We have well understood agreements with the Pakistanis that when we find out where Osama is, we're going in, and they'll complain and life will go on.
I'll even grant that somewhere along the line, the Obama administration listened to the latest intelligence presented to them, and authorized specific additional resources. Who wouldn't?
But! What national policies - what directives - what additional funding - what major structural changes to the intelligence community did Obama and his administration propose and implement that led to the culmination of so many years of effort finally paying off?
Anything significant?
Isn't the larger question here more in the vein of how lucky we are that in the Obama administrations' never ending quest to tear down (legally, physically and psychically) so much that the Bush/Cheney administration had built up - and built up in the face of immense and constant criticism and attacks from the left and the national MSM - over 7-8 years, that they didn't manage to dismantle it past the point of loosing the ability to carry thru on a mission that they had reluctantly inherited?
Sign here Mr. President, but there is a big story out there. It's about the folks that tore down the wall, that enabled our intelligence agencies to get back to doing their job, that authorized warrantless wiretapping, that persisted in continuing Clinton/Gore's extraordinary rendition program until Gitmo was up and running, and that were willing, when necessary to get the information out of those that we had to get it out of, and in the process put the rest of the world on notice that we were dead serious.
(;~> gary
All of you would have done it far sooner ...
Submitted by NL207 on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 7:19am.
than incompetent, stumblebum Obama.
It took the posturing fool in the White House over 6 months to decide to take down bin Laden's hideaway. I doubt it would have taken you more than 6 minutes.
Obama or whoever was prodding him apparently ordered the SEALs not to take bin Laden alive, This was a blunder. What would we have done instead? Something like this :
We can agree that Obama is a fool?
actually...
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:25pm.
One of the reasons obama was able to get elected is because George Bush had put such a kibosh on international terrorism that bin Laden was not a factor in peoples worries about the country.
Outside of the media bubble the killing of bin Laden is of only passing interest. I have met no one who is now relieved from anxiety. People are just glad the SOB got what he deserved.
Not the best week but surely
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:45pm.
Not the best week but surely the most unqiue, first week in two years that obama hasn't said "bush did it''.
I enjoy the death match between special ed and crissy, fighting to the death for the coveted crown of "stupidest man on TV".
I have one word for Chris!
Submitted by ironhead4099 on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 12:18am.
Well 3 words actually, YOUR A MORON!
Let me get this straight:
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 12:43am.
Let me get this straight: grabbing alleged terrorists, putting them into Gitmo where they are overfed and pampered by the American PC police except for the moments they are waterboarded is a shameful and open gaping wound on America's soul...
BUT
Invading a foreign country's territory to invade a private phone so that our troops could murdering an alleged terrorist makes for the best week in American history?
Interesting...
And, yes, that's how it would have been phrased if Osama's death had occurred under Bush's watch,
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hopefully
Submitted by ctophfranko on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 3:10am.
Chrissy McTingles will be declaring the first week of November of 2012 as the Worst. Week. Ever. (As Comic Book Guy would say), when Fearless Leader is beaten by whichever Republic emerges from this morass.
Chris is right.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 11:02am.
The signing of The Treaty of Paris (ending the war of American independence), Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VE Day, VJ Day, the day man first walked on the moon; none of those compare to Obama actually being credited for accomplishing something that truly benefits our country.