Attention Chris Matthews: 'Slim' Pickens Rode the Bomb in 'Dr. Strangelove' Not 'Sam' Pickens
Just how totally out of touch is MSNBC's Chris Matthews?
At the beginning of Wednesday's "Hardball," he said the actor who famously rode the bomb at the end of the classic film "Dr. Strangelove" was "Sam" Pickens (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Good evening, I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight: Republicans gone rogue. If this deficit crisis were a game of chicken, by now the Republicans would have tossed the steering wheel out the window, dumped a cinder block on the accelerator, and be yahooing like Sam Pickens riding the bomb at the end of "Dr. Strangelove.”
Nice job, Chris.
Try to keep this in mind the next time you devote an entire segment to a teleprompterless misstatement by Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, or any other conservative you despise.
Sam Pickens...sheesh!
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You Know That Chris Matthews Does Not Have A Firm Grip.
Submitted by Avitar on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 1:19am.
Just grin, Chris Matthews is an ignorant buffoon. Serous subjects and details give him MEGO.
(MEGO - My eyes glaze over)
I like Slim! Especially in
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 1:22am.
I like Slim! Especially in Blazzing Saddles!
Slim Pickens for President!
Submitted by Texndoc on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 2:49am.
I used to have that button. Chris Matthews probably hates "Blazing Saddles", one of the funniest anti-racism movies that never ever could have been made today, for the scene:
"This town will accept convicts, robbers, kidnappers, rapists. But we DON'T want the Irish!"
What in the wide, wide world of sports is a goin' on here ?
Submitted by AGreer on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 3:51am.
I hired you people to get a little track laid.Not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City fa**ots.
The whole point of the TEA Party !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7QF32mxftE
BeeP BeeP
Submitted by Caringwhiteguy on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 7:11am.
Too bad it's impossible to watch Blazing Saddles on TV without the censors bleeping every reference to Cleavon Little's race. I can't even type the word here or some do-gooder will rush in to close NewsBusters down for being overtly racist.
You can use the French pronunciation, Guy.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 9:58am.
Niger (a country somewhere in Africa. May even be one of the 57 states for all I know)
Well, if this whole debt
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 1:29am.
Well, if this whole debt ceiling crisis WAS a game of chicken..........Boy Barry wouldn't even have a car in it!!! The Leghumper comes up with some absurdly stupid analogies ......but the guy is delusional, so what would you expect??
I think Sam Pickens is some natural gas and energy tycoon......
I'd say the Leghumper is easy pickens' for ridicule.
→ T. Boone Pickens
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 1:39am.
Or maybe it is Sam.
→ Slim Pickenpah?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 1:37am.
Didn't he direct "The Oiled Bunch"? A cinematic masterpiece about the effeminate elite mainstream media being led from behind by newcomer, Barry Chiselpecs?
Matthews is not a complete idiot...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 2:39am.
A little-known piece of movie trivia...prior to mounting the nuclear warhead for his memorable 'ride 'em cowboy' descent, Pickens was indeed known to close friends by his given name, "Sam". After impact, however, his remains were for obvious reasons more commonly referred to as Slim Pickens--and subsequent roles limited to bit parts.
Okay. I made that up. Just trying to cut Matthews a little slack.
Jer
Jeez Jer..................WHY
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 2:55am.
Jeez Jer..................WHY would you want to cut the Leghumper any slack??? I think you've got a lot more class than that!!!!
This guy is a delusional moronic idiot.............and I wouldn't say the same thing about you.
Relax, killa...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 3:03am.
Just a little late night fun. This isn't an issue of monumental importance.
Jer
I know...........I
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 3:15am.
I know...........I know............I was just jiving with you. I took a lot of heat the other night for writing 24/7/365!!! Apparantly it wasn't 'correct', or something..........but it wasn't worth quibbling over either..............
aloha from an outer island of Hawaii,
Killa
Aloha...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 3:47am.
Jer
Another little bit of Dr. Strangelove trivia . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 8:35am.
. . . According to producer Sidney Lumet, Peter Sellers, who starred as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffly, and Dr. Strangelove, was also cast to play Major Kong. But he had difficulty getting the cowboy accent down, and when he fell off the A-bomb in rehearsal and injured his leg, it was decided to bring in another actor.
Someone recommended Pickens to director Stanley Kubrick, and Slim was hired to play Major Kong.
Pickens arrived at the studio in London wearing cowboy boots, bolo tie, and a cowboy hat, and his Western accent was an instant hit. "Oh, look," one of the crew commented, "He came in character," not realizing that Slim Pickens came as Slim Pickens -- he was very much like the characters he portrayed.
Slim Pickens didn't play Cowboy he was Cowboy.
Submitted by richb313 on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 8:49am.
Slim Pickens will always be one of my favorite actors. In his way he brought more authenticity to a part than all the other so called masters. Heck, he was just being himself he would probably say and that was his gift. Slim had zero artifice. There was no style or method there was just Slim, and people just liked him. His natural speech patterns and timing was something to behold but it was Slim just being Slim, after all who else was he going to be.
I remember Mel Brooks in an
Submitted by Reaver on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:19am.
I remember Mel Brooks in an interview talking about the making of Blazing Saddles said that when they did the location shooting in the desert the rest of the crew would go back to the motel at the end of the day but Slim would just pitch a tent and start a campfire and that’s where he’d be the next morning when they all came back.
Like Prissy Chrissy.....
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 12:39pm.
knows anything.........................
oh come on - C. M. is
Submitted by jwm45 on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 2:47am.
oh come on - C. M. is ridiculous but picking on this is ridiculous too.
Matthews leaves himself open to this type of criticism . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:34am.
. . . because he scrutinizes Republicans the same way.
A rose by any other name
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 5:23am.
Sam, Slim, Obama, Osama. What's the difference?
Excellent, Troll!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:00am.
.
LOL
Submitted by CaptHerp on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:04am.
Someone REALLY needs to say that to Matthews and watch him freak out, lol.
"What in the Wide World of
Submitted by rockyracoon on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 5:56am.
"What in the Wide World of Sports is a-going on here? I hired you people to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City f****ts!
Oops sorry, wrong movie.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Why Does Anyone Care?
Submitted by Bourbeau on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 6:46am.
We all know Matthews is a deplorable anchor, overpaid, and unbearable to watch. Why does anyone care what spews out of his mouth, no matter the stupidity? My guess is we don't, we shouldn't and Newsbusters should try and have a more important lead in the AM, then this crapola.
Why Does Anyone Care?
Submitted by Bourbeau on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 6:46am.
We all know Matthews is a deplorable anchor, overpaid, and unbearable to watch. Why does anyone care what spews out of his mouth, no matter the stupidity? My guess is we don't, we shouldn't and Newsbusters should try and have a more important lead in the AM, then this crapola.
Why Does Anyone Care?
Submitted by Bourbeau on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 6:47am.
We all know Matthews is a deplorable anchor, overpaid, and unbearable to watch. Why does anyone care what spews out of his mouth, no matter the stupidity? My guess is we don't, we shouldn't and Newsbusters should try and have a more important lead in the AM, then this crapola.
Better question:
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 7:14am.
Can't Matthews come up with a more current cultural reference? Sheesh.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
A really good day for Matthews
Submitted by Boil It Down on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 7:43am.
If this is the only screw up Matthews made today, he had a great day. -bidn-
Ironic
Submitted by Paul M on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 8:08am.
Pretty ironic comming from one of the biggest bomb throwing hacks I've ever seen.
Ironic
Submitted by Paul M on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 8:06am.
Pretty ironic comming from one of the biggest bomb throwing hacks I've ever seen.
I thought
Submitted by TenSigh on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 8:16am.
it was Homer Simpson who rode the bomb! (This was how the opening theme ended once)
Homer wrote The Iliad
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 1:53pm.
but OJ Simpson might have caught a long bomb or two.
Is it worse than Palin's
Submitted by wiwf on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 8:22am.
Is it worse than Palin's "Paul Revere warning the British"?
Illustrating idiocy
Submitted by outamyroom on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:04am.
Well yes, Mr. Genius, it is just a tad worse. You must've missed the memo:
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/137011636/how-accurate-were-palins-comment...
So you see professor, there's a reason that the Paul Revere story instantly, totally disappeared from LSM coverage. Governor Palin was 100% correct, as proven by those right-wing rednecks at NPR.
Illustrating idiocy indeed.
MSNBC's entire program lineup.....
Submitted by Forbus on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 8:24am.
reminds me of the campfire scene in "Blazing Saddles."
Can it be?
Submitted by PJMan on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 9:12am.
It's twu, it's twu, it's wewee twu, the late great Madelon, from B/S, and Jer, I'm still chuckling at your essence of mr. tingles!
maybe he didn't
Submitted by ron on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:11am.
want to say slim pickens because it would remind us of what his tingles hero is giving the nation....slim pickings
That was the movie?
Submitted by guefy on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:24am.
Oops. Messed up what I said.
1941, Slim Pickens. "You ain't getting s*** outa me!"
Anyone who can't remember Slim's name
Submitted by cocodrie on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:36am.
Anyone who can't remember Slim's name has been breathing too many bean vapors. Considering where Chrissy's nose has been these past few years he has had more than his share.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
And to finish it off ...
Submitted by Fredy on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:43am.
Mathews even got his reference WRONG!
In the movie, Slim actually was doing the RIGHT thing! He was not the wild eyed fanatic going off of the cliff, he was the soldier at the end of the line doing his job the best he could.
Slim had NO POLITICAL agenda in this movie!
With his ignorance, Mathews shows he does not understand what the job of a soldier is!
Louis Burton Lindley, Jr.
Submitted by E.S.Blofeld on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 12:32pm.
Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. was the real name for "Slim Pickens".
Samuel T. Lindley was the brother to "Slim". Sam's stage name was "Easy Pickens"
Ernst
"Isn't it pretty to think that way?"-EH
What?
Submitted by TheReal_mojo on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 4:27pm.
Major T. J. "King" Kong: Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?
Slim Pickens
Submitted by packman on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 5:42pm.
really played the part of Major T. J. "King" Kong well. Epitomizing the dedicated and unstoppable American fighting man, he could actually find a pony in a room full of horse manure:
"...Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on them Rooskies. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen!..."
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson