Chris Matthews Facepalms When Andrew Sullivan Claims Catholic Bishops 'Set a Trap for Obama'
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Andrew Sullivan in his most recent Newsweek column claimed, "Obama Set a Contraception Trap for the Right."
Two days later when Sullivan, appearing on MSNBC's Hardball, flipflopped saying, "I think a lot of this was ginned up by the Bishops. They were the ones that set a trap for Obama," host Chris Matthews was seen on the screen doing a facepalm (video follows with transcript and commentary):
ANDREW SULLIVAN: If you could avoid a fight with religious people, you should. And I think it’s a very complicated issue. I might add also that in California and New York this was already the rule. This was already the law. In 2000, the Employment Equality Opportunity Commission [sic] ruled it had to be mandated in every healthcare plan because otherwise it would violate sex discrimination laws.
So I think a lot of this was ginned up by the Bishops. They were the ones that set a trap for Obama. They’re like Wile E. Coyote trying to blow up the Roadrunner only it blew up on them.
Huh?
Here's what Sullivan wrote in a piece available online early Sunday morning:
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama Set a Contraception Trap for the Right
Conservatives gleefully revived the culture wars. But they're not winning. How Obama set a trap for the right.
How did Sullivan go from "Obama set a trap for the right" Sunday to Catholic Bishops "set a trap for Obama" Tuesday?
It appears even Matthews noticed Sullivan's gaffe as the camera was on him part of the time showing the Hardball host in seriously embarrassed facepalm mode.
Of course, who can blame Sullivan? It must be difficult for a guy that professes to be a "conservative-minded independent" who is now working for Newsweek and beloved by liberals to know what he's supposed to say from one moment to the next.
Maybe he needs a teleprompter to keep his story straight.
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No surprise
Submitted by dmann on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:11pm.
Please, what can anyone expect from a Godless homosexual.
Wowee, Tingles really went verklempt there.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:27pm.
You can tell the director yelled: "Cut away, cut away NOW!!!"
When even Chris Matthews goes
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:30pm.
When even Chris Matthews goes "facepalm" on you, Andrew, you have a serious credibility problem.
Sullivan is obviously having an identity crisis. No, not that one.
Poor Tingles . . . .
Submitted by Clemenza on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:28pm.
His bone smoking guest did a Crazy Ivan on him. . ..
Wooooohhhh
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:34pm.
Wooohhhh, those wascally pwelates!
Sorry, I can't resist.
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:40pm.
Even a teleprompter can't keep Sullivan straight.
Ba-dum-bum.
Ohhh
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:40pm.
I'm sure he gets something straight once in a while.
. >kish< . rim shot!
The church set a trap for Obama?
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:40pm.
It is difficult to tell whether Andrew Sullivan has finally reached an acute manic stage or just is stupid enough to think anyone believes him.
When you lose Prissy Tingles, you know you are out in la-la land somewhere between Psychosis Street and Delusion Boulevard.
It does explain his twirling eyeballs
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:39am.
This guy has so much spin, he can't stand STRAIGHT...
⇒ Don't worry, Obama
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 9:00pm.
Just as those confessions are heard in secret, so is the ballot.
But you know that, don't you.
You know your sheep.
Hey Cool
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 4:18pm.
You never know, Obama may come up with a Voters Free Choice Act just before the election.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
There is no decency on the
Submitted by Soldat44 on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 9:25pm.
There is no decency on the Left.
It is obvious to a blind man that 'these people' have sold their souls.
Brain Rubber
Submitted by CJohnson on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 9:32pm.
Here is an example of an ill conceived comment.
Yep those darn Bishops
Submitted by ThePickle on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 9:42pm.
They just knew.......from the earliest formation of the Catholic Church and their beliefs that the needless spilling of a man's seed was evil in the sight of God, they just KNEW that Obama was a'coming and they stood ready to spring this despicable trap on him.....2000 years plus of Church doctrine FINALLY pays off.
Maybe they DID know!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:59am.
The church as been reading and writing about the "anti-Christ" for at least 2000 years. Maybe they are beginning to see that he may have actually arrived right here in DC City.
Pickle
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 1:39pm.
And they knew you would misinterpret the story of Onan just as they did
Being neither a Catholic nor
Submitted by ThePickle on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 11:21pm.
Being neither a Catholic nor a Christian, I simply looked up some the basis of the Catholics Church stand on contraception and found reference to the story thereby allowing me to engage in a little reductio ad absurdum in response to Mr. Sullivan's obviously damn fool statement.
But obviously you preferred to get in your own little dig at the Catholic Church's interpretation of the story rather than appreciating the sarcastic humor implicit in my post.
Damn shame.
Obama & the Bishops set a trap for Sullivan
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 10:16pm.
They exposed his lack of rational thought.
Ever notice how Sullivan seems to have a different employer every 4-6 months? I think there's a simple reason.
Hey Andrew,
Submitted by Wineguy13 on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 10:28pm.
Nice Marmot!
I can hear Brock now...
Submitted by gs-425 on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 10:40pm.
JESUS Andy.....I wrote it down for you this morning!!!
Prissy looks soooooo perplexed.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:02am.
I guess poor Prissy and Andrew won't be "Frank" with each other in the green room anymore.
Med confusion
Submitted by John21 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 10:23am.
Give old Andy a break, he took the wrong meds before the show, he figured on a propaganda show like Christy’s that it was safe to spout stupidity (it is so common).
Old Andy hasn't said anything intelligent in years whether because of the meds or from the social diseases, I am unsure. He has countered his own argument many times in the last few years, so that is nothing new. I suspect part of it is the social disease or the rapid onset of senility that has been showing for a number of years. The drugs are just to keep him at least lucid for parts of a conversation.
Ladies and gentlemen you too may someday reach the age of senility so be kind to the weak minded.
Set a trap??
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 1:06pm.
The Bishop is not driven by what he needs to do to get elected. He is driven by what he needs to do to try to keep everyone out of HELL.
Andrew has a good excuse
Submitted by jpwcpa on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:18pm.
He has been off his game for a few days now, ever since his mortal enemy, the housewife from Wasilla named Sarah Palin, received a lot of love during and after her stemwinder speech at CPAC on Saturday. On top of that, he learned that President Palin will be fighting a Nazi invasion from the moon in the movie, "Iron Sky", due in theaters in early April. And of course, whenever the topic of discussion has anything to do with pregnancy, Andrew's demented obsession with Trig Palin's parentage returns to his mind with such a vengeance that it is even able to temporarily overcome the powerful anti-psychotic drugs he takes in his feeble attempt to tamp down the obsession.