Chris Matthews on Woody Harrelson in 'Game Change': 'It's the Role of the Century'
As NewsBusters has been reporting, Obama-loving media members have almost been orgasmic in their adoration for HBO's new Sarah Palin-bashing film "Game Change."
Firmly on the bandwagon is Chris Matthews who on the syndicated program bearing his name this weekend actually said that Woody Harrelson's performance as McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt is "the role of the century" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: John, I love that movie.
JOHN HEILEMANN, NEW YORK MAGAZINE AND CO-AUTHOR OF "GAME CHANGE": And that means more to me than anything in the world.
MATTHEWS: Anybody that doesn’t watch this movie you’re crazy. It’s wonderful. And by the way, Julianne Moore IS Sarah Palin, and Woody Harrelson I think it’s the role of the century.
"It's the role of the century."
Really?
What's fascinating about this film - despite the Palin-bashing which is all over the place regardless of media claims that the movie presents a warm side of the former Alaska governor that will be endearing to some of her critics - is that the hero is Harrelson as Schmidt.
Yet lost in all the idol worship is that Schmidt managed the worst presidential campaign since Michael Dukakis's failed bid against George H.W. Bush in 1988.
McCain lost in a landslide in 2008, and the manager at the helm of the disaster is being idolized by the Left with Matthews now saying, "It's the role of the century."
It appears failed GOP campaign managers - especially ones who many think were responsible for leaking real or imagined slights on Palin to the press before and after the election - are held in higher esteem by America's media than successful ones.
Makes total sense, doesn't it?
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One douchebag
Submitted by fivestring_assassin on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 12:21pm.
would certainly be able to recognize the performance of another
Man hugs
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 11:39am.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: John, I love that movie.
Of course you do. You loved it before you even saw it.
JOHN HEILEMANN, NEW YORK MAGAZINE AND CO-AUTHOR OF "GAME CHANGE": And that means more to me than anything in the world.
Really? Is it enough to give you a thrill up your leg?
MATTHEWS: Anybody that doesn’t watch this movie you’re crazy.
Okay, I'm crazy.
MATTHEWS: It’s wonderful. And by the way, Julianne Moore IS Sarah Palin, . . .
Isn't that exactly what he said about Tina Fey a few years ago.
MATTHEWS: " . . . and Woody Harrelson I think it’s the role of the century."
Yeow. Really? If it is the role of the century, drug-saturated Harrelson wouldn't have gotten it.
Matthews = Doofus
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 12:28pm.
The fact that they used the debate as the script for the debate prep, doesn't mean the film is accurate.
Harrelson, playing the pig Larry Flint as a freedom fighter will never get another nickel of my money.
Gotta give Schmidt a little slack here (but not much).
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 12:28pm.
After all, he was trying to manage a total loser in McCain. That would be difficult for even a reasonably competent campaign manager.
Palin being on the ticket was about the only reason I got up off my bar stool and voted for the bastard.
Woody is the perfect guy to play Schmidt. It was a way for him to revive the role he played in Cheers, as the simple-minded moron, Woody the bar back. Of course, that didn't take much acting for the real Woody, since he had most of the characteristics to play a simple-minded moron.
On a lighter note, I heard some lady on Fox News this morning talking about her new candy company which has products like, Government Cluster Fudge, and others to reflect her "respect" for our current administration and government in general.
I'll have to try it.
oh chrissy
Submitted by midwest lady on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 12:36pm.
What you got running up and down your leg now? You're giving Maher a run for his money as a comedian.
HBO Gives up on Conservatives
Submitted by rwnewsnut on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 12:51pm.
Of course no one would think to make a documentary showing the raw emotion toward Republican candidates at Democrat events. I'm sure there was/is plenty of booing and hissing at those events.
I am disappointed HBO would represent the crowds of McCain/Palin supporters as they did. They have thrown some portion of the HBO audience 'under the bus'. I hope those viewers remember that.
The only way out of this mess is to...
Submitted by MacWell on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 1:03pm.
remove the present guard. it's easy to do, the answer is right before our eyes.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
We the people, the former silent majority, are tired of the few, (sometimes less than 1% of the population), telling the rest of us how we MUST live. We MUST bring about REAL change in November.
I rest my case
Well done...
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 5:18pm.
I'll bet 1/2 the people in the White house wouldn't recognize this for what it is. They probably see it as treasonous and aimed at their dear leader.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down.'
Oh, please!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 1:21pm.
The role of the century???
At least until HBO makes its movie about Barack Obama.
This just proves how narrow Matthews' mind is. I guess Woody Harrelson's acting gives him a thrill up his leg too.
Exactly!
Submitted by Kleenex on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 2:33pm.
Notice how Matthews cheers for this yet hated the recent book exposing JFK's deviant lifestyle. The bowling ball with the blond wig will probably wet his pants watching the Obama "documentary". The only way I'll watch that Obama thing is if I know I'm going to vomit and need that extra little push to get things started.
Suddenly, None Of This Petty Stuff Matters
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 1:38pm.
H.CON.RES.107 -- Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high... (Introduced in House - IH)
HCON 107 IH
112th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 107
Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 7, 2012
Mr. JONES submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.CON.RES.107:
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
When will this end?
Submitted by GG_NB on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 1:29pm.
Wow, talk about being obsessed with Sarah Palin. Good gosh, if they worked as hard at being decent human beings or doing something truly productive with their time as they do in bashing someone who isn't even running for President...the comtempt/"stick it to her" attitudes that continue toward Palin is just plain stupid/sick.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
GG
Submitted by botg on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 1:53pm.
or even just doing their jobs and looking at, even briefly, the current POTUS
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
botg~
Submitted by GG_NB on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 2:32pm.
That would just be waaaaaaay too complicated for them because there is soooooooooo much legitimate news that needs to be told on O.
Oh, and when it comes to him, their philosophy seems to be: "if you don't have something truthful to say, don't say anything at all."
;)
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
GG
Submitted by botg on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 2:43pm.
when it comes to Obama and the media, i think you mean:
"if you DO have something truthful to say, don't say anything at all."
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
botg~
Submitted by GG_NB on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 2:52pm.
LOL.
Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Thanks!
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Didn't even watch it.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 1:31pm.
If it has some stoner liberal idiot like Woody Harrelson, I'll watch something else. Julianne Moore is not my favorite actress, and certainly her playing Sarah Palin is about as interesting to me as watching paint dry. Same for Ed Harris, who tried too blatantly to get conservatives to watch the piece of trash with his preaching about the movie's depiction of Sarah Palin and how awful the things she endured. Did Ed ever make the connection that it is people like him who put Sarah Palin through this?
John Podhoretz has an interesting take on the HBO horror at Weekly Standard: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/back-stab_633411.html - he labels it as a "cautionary tale" about political loyalties and trust. Seems that John places the villain position clearly at Nicolle Wallace and her machinations behind the Couric interview, something that is completely reversed in the HBO train wreck. I would have to ask John if really thought that HBO would turn this any other way?
The mediation of showing Sarah Palin as a wonderful mother supposedly balances out the mishandling she endured thanks to the incompetence of Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace. Problem is it just points out that Hollyweird is hypocritical about its treatment of women, particularly its problems with its continuous enablement of misogyny. The Home Bolshevik Organization (thanks to another poster on another website for that turn of phrase!) could not possibly have done anything but, because they wished to portray Sarah Palin as negatively as possible, essentially saying she should just stay at home and she was too incompetent for politics. As long as the Hypocritical Bastards Organization (my term for them) continues to bust a spleen towards conservatives, there is absolutely no point in watching them. Any organization which mitigates its co-conspirator relationship with the worst misogynist on television, Bill Maher, then they will remain on my no-pay, no watch list. Even when they have good works like "Taking Chance" and "John Adams", two examples of good programming don't erase a heaping pile of anti-conservative polemics and diatribe at the hands of such incompetent and idiotic show business apparatchiks.
The HBO John Adams miniseries
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 4:37pm.
The HBO John Adams miniseries and the movie Taking Chance are available at my local library. Maybe they are available in yours.
role playing and lying.. Match made in heaven.
Submitted by Less1leg on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 1:38pm.
Hollywood loves to role play and lie through their teeth. And what better than just before an election and you can smear Sarah Palin and conservatives.
Lineage
Submitted by Nosmo on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 2:08pm.
Woody comes from good prison stock...
Yes, and the media loved the Iraq war movies during the W era
Submitted by merly1 on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 2:20pm.
that were major box office bombs. That is why they dont even try this piece of crap in the
theatres. At least here, nobody knows or cares how few people see it or like it.
Our adoring and infallible
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 3:20pm.
Our adoring and infallible sounding press can use their words,, but at some point the people will react just like the American soldier in Afghanistan.
all I can say liberals, it is your life, keep pushing and pushing and the reaction can become horrifying.
In Texas over the last 24 hours, the liberal mayor just told a person expressing their free speech, to take their free speech outside. Keep pushing and pushing and their won't be anything to save you.
infallibility or expressions of the press deeming themselves infallible can have horrific endings.
The libs 'pushing' has resulted in patience being ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 5:13pm.
stretched like a rubber band.
The question is not if it will snap back, but when?
MD
Role of the century?
Submitted by JohnP in OK on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 3:48pm.
I guess it would be too much for Matthews to realize that there are still eighty-eight years left in this century. There are a lot of roles left to be played in that time.
But then, that would require thinking, not emoting. Not exactly Tingles' strong point. ;-D
Woody
Submitted by oldfart on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 4:04pm.
I am sure the film will sweep next year's academy awards.
LOL
Wow....an idiot......
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 4:38pm.
portraying an idiot.........yep "role of the century for Harrelson".
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Has anyone here seen it yet?
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 6:19pm.
Has anyone here seen it yet? I'd love to read a review by someone on this site.
Game Change
Submitted by rusino on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 12:24am.
I could not get past the first hour. What a disgusting hatchet job. I will not watch another production of any associated with this mischaracterization
Woody peaked in 'Zombieland'.
Submitted by wizardjr on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 1:18am.
He's a third rate actor in second and third rate movies. I'm sure he thinks this was a real career enhancer considering the leftards running Follywood.
HBO, Chrissie, and Harrelson,et al libs
Submitted by hughg on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:45am.
Pigs- all, in the pile of mud holes, without slop to feed on must necessarily consume the mud. The end result is undernuorished minds and dead bodies. Liberals left without a conservative to feed upon will most assuredly famish because of a lack of vital sustenance. Such people (libs) are very common among Hollywood, Washington, and other progressive types. All lead to death and self-destruction. What a pity. I choose to live.......