Chris Matthews Attacks Gingrich as 'Evil Joker,' Praises Obama as 'Our Hero Batman'
By Noel Sheppard | May 18, 2011 | 18:58
Just when you thought MSNBC's Chris Matthews couldn't stoop any lower he magically finds new ways to trash his political opponents while praising the man that gives him a thrill up his leg.
On Wednesday's "Hardball," the host in his concluding segment attacked Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich as the Joker looking "for ways to manipulate public opinion, interrupt the TV news, and bring his evil intentions and motives and instincts into reality" while praising President Obama as "our hero" Batman full of "goodwill, generosity and glamour" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with the Joker. Remember him? He was played by Jack Nicholson in that great “Batman” movie by Tim Burton. He was the key to the movie. Why? Because his dark world of malevolence and revenge set in contrast the goodwill, generosity and glamour of our hero. He was to the movie on the bad side what Batman was on the good. Batman stands on tall buildings looking for evil to be perpetrated, people to be saved. The Joker looks for ways to manipulate public opinion, interrupt the TV news, and bring his evil intentions and motives and instincts into reality.
Maybe the President today is our Batman, trying to do good, a bit mysterious, a bit cool and technocratic, a bit removed from the world of emotions, but right, right there on the side of good, always using his brains and wit to look out for the people in trouble. Well, maybe he's not that good.
No, Newt Gingrich is a far better Joker than Barack Obama is our Batman, that wide demonic smile of his, too much smile, not even a twitch of heart behind it, all guile, all dark delight in the menace he can dredge from the afternoon newspaper, the fears of people on the street, the midnight dread of what might be coming in an uncertain world and time.
Newt Gingrich, like all the bad guys of the Batman world, has now gotten caught up in his own nasty ploys. He’s just so instinctively looking for the next chance to attack he loses control even on his own bad attitude. “Life’s been good to me,” the Joker tells us on his comeback from the past, his face repainted to cover the horror, his smile deluding none of us instead being an unintended warning.
The joker is out there again, and no one's safe from his menace, least of all himself.
Are you kidding me?
The former Speaker of the House is a malevolent, vengeful, manipulative, evil, demonic, heartless menace and Obama is our hero?
Is this really the level of discourse acceptable to a division of NBC News?
Where does this end?
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Good thing I believe in an afterlife
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:17pm.
Otherwise I'd probably be going through this one taking fools like this out. Besides chrissie, even the left isn't buying the hero worship.
Here's video. Liberals are really a weird bunch.
HA, riddle me this, HA..............
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:11pm.
No fan of Newt, but he forgot more about "PICK ANY SUBJECT" than this d-bag.
Imagine a Fox commentator like Hannity going on a three minute speil like this and spittle and hate and tired old cliches and lies flying about?
Nah, me either.
For this POS who laughably says he is non-partisan, WHERE are you non-partisan A-hat, WHERE and WHEN?
Hannity at least admits he is a Conservative, this gutless POS "thinks he is down the middle".
I would like to continually "kick him down the middle".
Prissy Tingles is right in one sense
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:19pm.
Obama is definitely bat-something.
As for Newt, if I were Prissy, I wouldn't waste any more time worrying about him, 'cause he done gone and newtered himself.
Big time.
-Dave
Holy Crap Batman!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:52pm.
You ever notice how liberals will pick out the heroes that are the EXACT opposite of who the people they compare them to? Remember the Spock comparison? WAY opposite! I'm kinda versed in the DC heroes and villains but for the life of me, I can't imagine which villain suits the Chairman the best. Any DC comic readers here got any ideas?
As for Newt, you're right, no amount of back-pedaling and apologizing on his part is going to do him any favors. That bridge done burnt to ash.
-Jon
jon,
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 8:59pm.
I can't imagine which villain suits the Chairman the best.
Neither can I. Perhaps they haven't been invented yet.
As for Newt, he's so over.
Sad in a way, as I used to have a lot of respect for the man, and I still think he has some very good ideas that would have come out in the upcoming debates.
But as someone living in East Cobb County, Georgia, I can tell you with 100% certainty that he's finished on the national stage politically, as he slapped his local base right in the face this past Sunday.
Twice.
-Dave
Quit picking on Chris
Submitted by krendler on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:20pm.
...After all, as he said right after The One was elected, it's his job to make sure the Obama presidency is a success.
For all intents and purposes, Matthews is part of the Obama administration as well as the DNC, along with the ultra-biased and outed Obama advisor Fareed Zakaria.
Both posing as journalists.
Speaking of clowns…
Submitted by Reaver on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:35pm.
The court jester of MSNBC is at it again I see, this man is not running on fresh air and sunshine. He must be using some mind altering substances to get this loopy.
If Obama is "Batman"....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:39pm.
... then Chrissie is "Throbbin'"...
Excellent, big!! Just f-ing excellent!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:52pm.
Has Prissy gone racist on us? He calls Da One Batman. Hmmmm. Bats be black thangs wif pointed, funny ears, yo?
This has to be a racist remark if a conservative says it. Why not Chrissy?
That's the first thing that
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 10:24pm.
That's the first thing that came to my mind, bubba..................the ol' Leghumper compare Boy Blunder to some black creepy insect-eating blood-sucking black rat with scary looking wings!!!
Imagine if you or I had said this!!!!
Just when you think Tingles can't get any crazier...
Submitted by Phryj1 on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:45pm.
...he takes his crazy to a whole new level. I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified.
Then again, he's essentially a cartoon anyway, so comic book character comparisons are right up his alley.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
So now Obama is cool and glamorous
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:52pm.
Wow, this must be costing Matthews a fortune in knee-pads.
Nah, PA...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 9:58pm.
I understand he still has a closet full left over from Bush's first term.
Jer
perhaps...
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 7:55pm.
Chris is angling to secure a handicap parking place.
Know you know why the Huff Po crowd think he's WEIRD
Submitted by Texndoc on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 8:08pm.
Whenever Tingles is mentioned there, the regulars there wish he wasn't. They find him.........odd.
He wants O'Bozo to be Batman...
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 8:11pm.
So he can be Robin,with a hole in his tights, in the right place, if you get my drift! Then he can feel that tingle up his middle leg! Thats what he means when he says hes right down the middle!
Lame Attempt
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 8:27pm.
Nice try, Chrissy, but it's long established Obama is the Socialist Joker. Can't wash the lipstick off of that pig so easily.
Making It Up
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 8:53pm.
"You can't make this up folks" is no longer a relevant lead-in to a bizarre story, because they do make it up folks. MSNBC commentators must have a contest to see who can come up with the most fantastic BS every night. The losers buy the winner drinks all night long where they conspire on how best to smear the right.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
How unoriginal...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 9:34pm.
Not only is Mathhews noxious, he's unoriginal too. Good grief, hasn't the Joker comparison already been done to death?
Back in 2003: Same act...different subject.
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 9:44pm.
The groveling:
"...the president's amazing display of leadership..."
The fawning:
"...the president looking like a high-flying jet star..."
The sniveling idolatry:
"...he's like Eisenhower. He looks great in a military uniform..."
The barf-inducing bootlicking:
"...the president deserves everything he's doing tonight in terms of leadership. He won the war..."
The sycophancy:
"...the president's performance tonight...the best of Reagan..."
The brown-nosing:
"...the president there...look at this guy! He looks for real! Look at this guy!"
Maybe he most flagrant case of sucking-up and personal debasement ever displayed by a TV host:
"...We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical...Women like a guy who's president. Check it out!...I think we have a hero as our president..."
Yep...that's our Chrissie. Gotta luv 'im.
Jer
Jer,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 10:08pm.
Matthews says some creepy things, no matter who he is talking about.
He does seem to have some odd fixations, Chris...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 10:38pm.
One night he spent a good five minutes paying homage to Mitt Romney's chin.
Jer
Jer,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 11:30pm.
Okay, that's really sounds creepy. Matthews must have no capacity whatsoever for self regret. I don't imagine he goes home at night regretting anything he has said or how he has said it, or, if he does, he can't help himself from doing it again the next night.
Chris...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 11:35pm.
Right...no self regret plus a tendency for irrational exhuberance.
Jer
Jer,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 12:15am.
Irrational exuberance over Mitt Romney's chin? :)
I can't imagine even a love struck pre-teenage girl writing in her diary on the "dreaminess" of her latest crush's chin. :)
All Right. All Right. All Right. I get it.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 12:24am.
So I was voted best costume at the Halloween Regata at the Singapore Stamford Hotel in 2003. Yes. Yes. Yes. Sorry, it made the news and Chris Matthews talked about my Ronald Reagan costume. Yes, Mr. Matthews went overboard in gushing over my manliness and good looks in the costume. Must you bring it up every single year?
Chris Matthews is OBAMA's B*TCH
Submitted by MCLANTIERE on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 9:47pm.
Can Chris Matthews be anymore of a lap-dancing B*TCH?
Does Obama stuff Chris' tighty-WHITIES (is THAT RACIST, too, Chris??) with $3.00-bills?
mclantiere
How come Matthews can call
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 9:49pm.
How come Matthews can call the President of the United States of America a cartoon character, without someone saying something about it? This is as racist as you can get! How dare him to do this! Obama is a man! He might be an incompetent socialist puppet of George Soros, but to call him a cartoon character is an insult to his race!..........................This is what would be said about a conservative who tried this b.s. Two faced liberals.
Matthews gives me new hope.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 1:52am.
With this little jaunt into Batman/Joker fantasy land, I am once again hopeful it is a sign that Matthews will completely implode and we will not have to suffer his disorders any longer. I have been disappointed so many times before. -bidn-
Isn't it racist to call Obama
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 12:27am.
Isn't it racist to call Obama Batman? I get so confused by liberal invective and pc.
His leg is tingling again
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 7:48am.
I am glad I am not part of the cleanup crew that has to wipe up "Cristie" chair after one of these shows. I just wish someone told "Cristie" that Obama is married and oribably doesn't swing that way.
Somebody call the Mental Health Center!
Submitted by Tex Expatriate on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 4:25pm.
When I was earning my doctorate I worked in a Mental Health Center, and one of my jobs was to screen people for admission/commitment to the State Mental Hospital. I must have screened a thousand people in those days, recommending commitment for only a few. If I was screening Matthews today and totally unfamiiliar with America's biased and hate-filled media, I'd find his views so bizarre and irrational that I'd definitely recommend commitment. On second thought, the entire stable of commentators and hosts on MSNBC would find themselves rocketing off to the hospital too.
Watching (or as in my case, reading about) their remarks gives the clear impression of people either completely insane or insane because of crack cocaine.