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Chris Matthews Rants: The 'Tea-Bag' Conservatives Don't Get Complexity of Egypt Crisis

By Scott Whitlock | February 10, 2011 | 17:39

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Chris Matthews on Thursday used the ongoing developments in Egypt as a way to bash conservatives, deriding the "tea-bag" types who don't fully grasp the situation.

Matthews appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports and described how he perceived the conservative response to Egypt: "And conservatives are very fearful of this. They look at crowds like this, they don't like the looks of them. They don't like protests. They don't like people in the streets."

Trying to create an ideological divide in how Americans are responding, the Hardball host attacked, "...More often than not, the thoughtful progressive sounds very much like the thoughtful conservative. And the thoughtful conservative, like a George Will, not a tea-bag person, sort of person like that, a tea-bag, a tea party person, but a thoughtful conservative knows that you have to make changes to accommodate the people or you'll lose all legitimacy."

The MSNBC anchor then offered an incoherent historical comparison for Egypt. Highlighting China's turn to communism, Matthews spun, "We saw the Chinese change their form of government in the late '40s and thought, 'oh, it was the mistake or the collaboration or the treason, even, of a number of China hands.' The John Stewart Services, the Fairbanks and all that."

Matthews added, "They were all humiliated by our establishment, buy our right wing-led establishment." John Stewart Service was An American diplomat. According to the book China Misperceived by Steven W. Mosher:

[Service] returned from a visit to that country to declare that "life is obviously better for the grea majority. There is no longer starvation and bitter poverty...Perhaps the single word that best describes [the prevailing attitude] is egalitarian.
 

Mosher said of John Fairbank, a Chinese historian who was one of the so-called "China hands" in the 1940s:

By 1972, Fairbank was sounding like the most infatuated of political pilgrims: "The people seem healthy, well fed and articulate about their role as citizens in Mao's new China."

Mao Zedong's regime killed an estimated 40 to 70 million people. So, perhaps these aren't the best examples Matthews could come up with.

A transcript of the exchange, which aired at 1:48pm EST on February 10, follows:

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RACHEL MADDOW: But the American people, I think, we have to separate our own feelings of sympathy with what the people of Egypt are trying to do. Sympathy, fear, the fact that we're impressed by what they've been able to accomplish, we need to separate that from whether or not our own government achieves American national security aims by voicing similar emotional feelings that are own population might have.

ANDREA MITCHELL: And in fact, as Rachel and Jamie Rubin have just pointed out, dictatorships where people are locked up in jail and interrogated doesn't translate into security. That's not stability. As the President said, "we're following today's events in Egypt very closely, we'll have more to say, but what is absolutely clear is we are witnessing history unfold. It is a moment of transformation that is taking place, because the people of Egypt are calling for change."

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well, you know, occasionally, in fact, more often than not, the thoughtful progressive sounds very much like the thoughtful conservative. And the thoughtful conservative, like a George Will, not a tea-bag person, sort of person like that, a tea-bag, a tea party person, but a thoughtful conservative knows that you have to make changes to accommodate the people or you'll lose all legitimacy. You have to make change. So you have to make change. So change is a progressive impulse and it's a conservative calculation. And sometimes the calculation merges with the impulse. Rachel is a progressive, a thoughtful progressive. George Will is a thoughtful conservative. They both realize, hands off, number one. And two, the people do want change over there. Recognize it, accommodate it, either cheer for it or whatever, but accept it. And I think that's what we're doing now. Americans are growing up. We saw the Chinese change their form of government in the late '40s and thought, 'oh, it was the mistake or the collaboration or the treason, even, of a number of China hands.' The John Stewart Services, the Fairbanks and all that. They were all humiliated by our establishment, buy our right wing-led establishment, I should say, when all they were doing was recognizing the nationalism of the Chinese people after years of the war lords and collaboration with the west. And, so, interesting now, we're looking at this, I think. But the interesting thing we didn't bring about, but we'll have to talk about it tonight in the prime-time shows as this develops and matures this story, the Republicans in the Democratic Party as people in this country disagree on this. Democrats are relatively mixed in their views. They say, "Well, there might be something here, something progressive, something American, if you look at it broadly." And conservatives are very fearful of this. They look at crowds like this, they don't like the looks of them. They don't like protests. They don't like people in the streets. So, I think there's a different political reaction, as we get closer to our election next year.

— Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.
 

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Go! Don't go!

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 5:43pm.

He's a dictator!  He's not a dictator!

Yeah, we should cover all bases like the Administration does.

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Reduced to babble

Submitted by StarAZ on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 1:01pm.

 If you don't listen to the people, you lose legitmacy...Is that referring to Egypt or here? The election, remember it, the many many marches in the streets by the Tea Party? No wonder this admin can't find a "safe" side to be on.

 

 

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Again with that?

Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:05pm.

I would pay good money, bad money, funny money, even a Greek Drachma to see someone haul off and smack Prissy for saying that about the Tea partiers.

Quite honestly, given the situation over there, I would rather have a military dictatorship versus a Sharia government in Egypt.  And it wouldn't be totally a dictatorship, but it would keep those Islamic bastards(the brotherhood, al qaeda, Hamas) out of power, they are the far bigger threat to THE WORLD than a so-called dictator keeping the peace with Israel. 

I say "so-called" because there may be bigger things going on than we know of.  The reveal of the Saudi King telling DuhOne to back off shows that.  I think the Saudi King knows that too and even if he were Muslim, he knows all hell would break loose and he'd lose big time.  There's an even bigger picture that hasn't been made known yet, and it's not the "complexity" that Prissy is talking about, hell, HE doesn't get the problem of why it's bad the Brotherhood would be involved.

I'm thinking that The Chairman thought he saw an opportunity to bring the 12 imam in and jumped the shark for it and got bit.  George Soros was pushing for this as well, so I wonder how he'll handle this and what he will tell Bambi to do next.  I really think they are trying to bring about the Apocalypse or something along those lines.

On the US side of things, it's pretty obvious Shillary and DatOne got slapped for their involvement.  Watch for them to pull something if they do anything.  Some people seem to believe that the US wanted Muburak to stay.  Well, if the US was not the federal government, that might be true.  But DuhOne and Shillary are supposedly representing the US(Fed Gov't) and they wanted Muburak out and wanted him out last week.  That's to anyone who believes the US wants Muburak to stay.

-Jon

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This is going to end badly

Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:11pm.

Obama's going to "lose" Egypt, and maybe a whole lot more.

I cannot understand why he (and Hillary, and BiteMe) feel so compelled to run their mouths in front of a microphone every day. 

What is truly frightening is the incompetence of this administration.  James Clapper, Obama's Chief of Intel, flatly stated that the Islamic Brotherhood is a SECULAR organization.

SAY WHAT? 

I think we've discovered Biden's "test"....and here we are.  Palin was right, the 3 a.m. call went directly to voice mail.  This is going to be a huge fiasco.

Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)

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Blonde, it is because these

Submitted by bassndude on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:27pm.

Blonde, it is because these people are real light weights. They are the political follies gone wild. And Egypt just so much as told Obama to mind his own business. Obama should not insert himself into the fray. He has no idea what he is doing. These things are best left to the professionals. The sad thing is tho, there are none left in the Obama administration. He will lose Egypt, he will lose Israel and England and perhaps even France.

Obama is a political disaster...

 

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Thank you bass

Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:28pm.

....for expanding upon my thoughts.

I think maybe Jordan falls to the islamists as well.

Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)

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Well, Obama has---

Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:19pm.

obviously had to let his international chops fade far into the background in order to concentrate his mighty intellect on domestic problems in this country. What a magnificent job he has done in that area, eh? Aggravating said problems instead of alleviating them, I mean.
"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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Did you see the Fox Panel tonight, MD?

Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:33pm.

Some heavy hitting foreign policy experts, including Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams, and a guy (I forget his name, from the democratic Woodrow Wilson Policy Center).

Even the democrat said "He needs to shut up, and I voted for the guy".

This whole Egypt thing is beginning to spin wildly out of control.

And Obama today, invoked his "Hope and Change" thing....projecting it onto the Egyptian people, and by inference, urging the young kids he was speaking to (college crowd) to get behind him again.  Obama's little "talk" today was all about him, and it managed to piss off probably every ally we [still] have.

Charming.

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Blonde---

Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:40pm.

I did see that, but must admit that I allowed the red hedges that bald guy had in place of eyebrows to distract me from what he was saying. MD
"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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Thrown under the bus

Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 12:36am.

If his own voters are throwing the Chairman under the bus so to speak, this is even more reason that the usurper must be removed because he's endangering this country YET AGAIN.  I read the transcript of what he said and it made me want to PUKE!  NPD in full display!

If Congress doesn't get their act together and get their asses in gear, even the democrats who insist on following him off the cliff, all the liberals and democrats will be on the chopping block....by the sleepers in this country.

This is getting way beyond absurd and the brotherhood is trying like hell to takeover more than ever after that nonsense.

-Jon

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J

Submitted by Denny Crane on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 8:37am.

The Pharoh believes in peace through surrender. 

Be on the lookout for random acts of journalism from the MSM~h/t Rush

We Are The 53%

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No... Sandbox is

Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:47pm.

No...

Sandbox is 'lightweights'.

NOBODY in this administration has risen to the level of cat droppings in that sandbox yet.

Radical moslems murder and behead 'urinalists' every chance they get and krissy still thinks they are nice people.

Maybe somebody should explain that he is considered an infidel, and as such, expendable with the nearest scimitar....

End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.

If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?

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Several thoughts leaped into my mind

Submitted by TheHistorian on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:24pm.

Several thoughts:

  1. Prissy Chrissy is probably jealous that he ain't being "teabagged" so he keeps bringing it up.
  2. Chrissy's friends Andrew Sullivan and Bawney Fwank probably know more about teabagging than anyone on the conservative side of the aisle.

The real comment, though, is that Jimmah Carter II didn't get his dictator to step down.  The One and the White House Cookie Baker have now made every misstep that Carter and Vance did with the Shah of Iran.  However, Mubarak learned from the Shah's experience and refused to step down now because he knows that his country is the next theocracy if he does.

I don't see where the Carter speechwriter is so confused that this is hard.  HE is the one who has his head where the sun doesn't shine.

Maybe Obama can give away the Suez Canal like Jimmah did the Panama Canal?

“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”

Dennis Prager

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Good money

Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 5:22am.

I would pay good money to see Mathews haul off and shut himself up.  However, that is too much to hope for.

NotFondOfLibs
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Chrs Putz

Submitted by telecaster on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:02pm.

One of the most flacid, shallow minds in msm telling "tea bag" people, "tea party persons" what they do and don't understand.  I mean the arrogance is astounding....an arrogance minus any foundational intellectual weight.  This guy has absolutely no clue how stupid he sounds.

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So when the CIA chief

Submitted by ninerdog on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:12pm.

So when the CIA chief testifies before congress and says she doesn’t know anything more than congress does it’s the tea party that are the problem. When the white house says get out one day and then stay put the next it’s the tea party that’s the problem. This guys audience are the dumbest people on earth if they believe anything he says. 

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"But....but....but

Submitted by Bob K on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:37pm.

But they are the "leadership". They know the worlds issues are not black and white, simple matters of right and wrong, like we'uns think.. ****Sarcasm off****

Seriously.  Watching Clapper on TV prove how absolutely clueless he is scared the bejeebers out of me.  He is either a complete moron or typical of the Obama administration.  And i am afraid it is much more the latter.

Bob K
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  "Seriously.  Watching

Submitted by ninerdog on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 9:07am.

 

"Seriously.  Watching Clapper on TV prove how absolutely clueless he is scared the bejeebers out of me.  He is either a complete moron or typical of the Obama administration.  And i am afraid it is much more the latter."

 

Agreed. Very well said. Short and to the point. What else do we not know?


 

 

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Follow the money

Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:07pm.

Figure out what action most benefits Soros financially and you'll know what's going to happen next. With James Clapper as the administration's head of "INTELLIGENCE" does anyone wonder why we don't have a clue what's happening in Egypt? 

Call in John Lovitz to speak for our Prez- no one will be able to tell the difference. "Yeah, that's right."

"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." Barbara Jordan
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When?

Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:08pm.

When has Obama 'made changes to accomodate the people' when the people challenge his policies? Like Obama-care, which 60+% want a do-over.

Americans keeping their own earnings is a Civil Right! Demand your Civil Rights!
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Leon?

Submitted by Caringwhiteguy on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:08pm.

I hadn't heard CIA director Panetta had joined the Tea Party. 

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Conservatives Don't Get Complexity ....

Submitted by Chandran on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:33pm.

But Im sure you do Chris...... up your legs

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Incoherent is putting it very

Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:35pm.

Incoherent is putting it very mildly, this buffoon is  blubbering jibberish. His historical education consists of nothing more than reading the back covers of books. Also discussing anything with Ralph Maddow is a confirmation of his idiocy.

Non, je ne regrette rien. "You aren't angry because I might be a racist, you're angry because you know I'm right".
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And what do Obama and the liberals 'get', Matty?

Submitted by Slyrr on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:46pm.

So you think 'dem hayseed hick 'kensurvativz' are jus' too plumb stupid t' git all dem complee-kated foreign policies, huh Chrissy-boy?

Well what does that say about your 'sort of god' Obama, the guy who gives you thrills in your pants?  Obama, the guy who's just soooooo smart with all that edjemma-cashun and smarts.  The guy so smart he doesn't even need to say 'corpsman' correctly and can't deliver a speech to grade schoolers without his teleprompter along for the ride?

Well Chrissy-boy, why don't you tell all your 11-or-so viewers all about how brilliant your sort-of-god Obama has been with the Egypt crisis.  Tell them all about his he's flip flopped, bungled, botched and screwed up the whole thing from Day1, just like he did with the oil leak last year.

Yes, the brilliant Obama.  His administration and his thugs have been issuing conflicting statements every day - almost every hour - giving the whole world the appearance that Obama the man-child and his whole sorry lot have no idea what they're doing.

First it was 'he has to go now', then 'has to go yesterday', then 'no he should stay', then 'no, he maybe might possibly have to go but probably maybe perhaps not'.  Obama and his lot have been so stupid, wishy-washy and moronic about this whole thing that they could be said to be responsible for all the voilence that has broken out.  It might not have happened of Obama had kept his fat mouth shut.

Fat lot of good all that fancy liberal college edjemma-kashun did them, and us, huh?   Obama's incompetence and community organizer group think of rushing out in front of every mob to try and seize control of it has taken a bad situation and made it ten times worse. Now Egypt's president is having to tell the rest of the world to buzz off and let him and his army handle things.

Way to go, college boy.  Is this how you and Obama measure your 'success', Chrissy?   By counting the number of corpses you leave strewn in your wake?

If a Liberal/Democrat politician/media figure wants to put their arms around you, or pat you on the back, all they're doing is looking for a good place to stick a knife.
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Slyrr, you say "His administration and his thugs have been

Submitted by virginia republican on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:35pm.

issuing conflicting statements every day - almost every hour". Very true, but that way they can pick out some statement (after it's all over) which turns out to have been right and show what geniuses they were all along. Count on it.


 
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I am so sick of being called

Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:47pm.

I am so sick of being called a tea bagger I'd like to kick Chrissy in his tea bag.  It's also clear that this administration, and MSNBC, have no idea what's going on in Egypt.  They are saying what they want the situation to be, and ignoring what it actually is.  No doubt when all is said and done, the new government of Egypt will kick Obama in his tea bags.

Proud member of the 53%!
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Rad79

Submitted by MrShy on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:07pm.

"I am so sick of being called a tea bagger I'd like to kick Chrissy in his tea bag."

Gosh, Rad, such violent rhetoric. Please, we right wingers need to tone things down and be more civil. Our dear leader, Jug Ears, gave us the memo at his SOTU speech.

:p

- Shy Bagger

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He has nothing in the "tea bags"

Submitted by TheHistorian on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:28pm.

Moochelle and the White House Cookie Baker have them in Al Gore's lockbox.

“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”

Dennis Prager

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ummm. The conservatives don't like protests?

Submitted by Lipton on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 6:50pm.

Conservatives supported the protests in Iran.  Conservatives were protesting Obamacare, Stimulus, Govt. overreach.  It is the left that don't like conservative protests. 

I am not inclined to support class warfare, but it drives me nuts that this clown makes so much money for sayign so many dumb and mean things. 

I'd like to thank Hollywood for renewing my interest in reading.
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This administration is against people who EARN big money

Submitted by TheHistorian on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:30pm.

They are just fine with the Hollywood, athlete, and media crowd that collect the big bucks for being dumb.

“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”

Dennis Prager

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Good grief!  Almost the

Submitted by stratman on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:32pm.

Good grief!  Almost the entire diatribe by Matthews is either cock-eyed, revisionist or patently false and oftentimes plain insulting.  The shortest rebuttal to Matthews is this.  (The full video here with salient comment at the 12:53 mark)  A longer reply is as follows.

  1. Conservatives, thoughtful or not, bear little governing semblance to Progressives of any form.  The ideological underpinnings and political overtones are vastly different.  Another example of faux equivalencey from the Left to gain traction.
  2. Matthews can not help himself to not make disparaging remarks about the Tea Party - eg "tea-bag", and insinuates that there is no thoughtfulness in the Tea Party as well.  A two-fer from an MSNBC demogogue.
  3. Raising Maddow up by comaparing her to Will is another lie.  There are multiple videos displaying Maddow's ignorance and weak commentary, including an effortless and polite smackdown or two of Maddow by Will on the Sunday morning ABC show.  Once again a faux eqiuvalency attempt by the increasingly radical Matthews.
  4. The China example was patently absurd and would be comical except for the up to 100 Million that died at the hands of Godless Communists, you know, the kind of people that Matthews, Maddow, and many MSNBC hosts appear to have a warm spot in their heart for.  (see Cuba)
  5. Perhaps the most risable comment from Matthews, domestically speaking, was about Conservatives "fearful" of protests, of people in the streets.  Maybe he can explain the duplicity of the Left's fear concerning the Tea Party gatherings.
  6. Speaking of protestors, the Media and the Obama Administration have been consistently wrong in their predictions and explanations.  Mobarak stating he will stay in power until the September elections is final proof of this.  The hubris in stating they know what the protesters are all about, and then generalizing it to the rest of the country, is stupidity filling a void.  Our own Intel people saying the Muslim Brotherhood is secular is truly bizarre.  HELLO!?!  Did he not hear himself talk?  MUSLIM is in the name of the group!  Then there are the actions and language of this sect.  It's an Alice in Wonderland menagerie in charge of America,
  7. While not explicitly stated, Matthews and his fellow Leftists have repeatedly pushed the idea that Mobarak step down immediately.  This would include our President and SOS. Only Biden called it the other way, and may be the only semblance of loyalties towards allies and recognizing what may be in America's best interest.  The Left have been consistently wrong, including nearly every foreign matter Obama has been involved on, resulting in American interests and influence degrading to the point that I doubt any world leader believes they can count on us to help them in a jam.  Finally!  An equivalency the Left manipulated/manufactured into reality.  They should be so proud. 

2012 can not come soon enough.

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What type of idiot?

Submitted by Agnostic on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 10:17am.

Mindless Useful idiot - thinks that a socialist utopia can be reached without the iron hand of a dictator

Uselss Idiot - knows that a dictator will have to cause the deaths of many in order to establish the socialist utopia but believes it will be worth the cost

plain idiot - says, "give me my free stuff no matter what it takes"

Liberal Media idiot - a combination of all of the above that also believes they are brilliant while supporting a movement that would have them jobless or dead as soon as power was solidified.

. . Socialist = Modern Liberal = Parasitoid
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"And conservatives are very

Submitted by the struggler on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:45pm.

"And conservatives are very fearful of this.They look at crowds like this,they don't like the looks of them."

 

 I thought it was crowds of black people we didn't like.

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What is Matthews smoking?

Submitted by Red Jeep on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:58pm.

Does he think anyone cares in Egypt what a Tea Bag Party Conservative thinks about Egypt?

When is someone at MSNBC going to be courageous enough to take Chris by the hand and say, "It's time, Chris. Time to leave...?"

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On Tuesday the Obama

Submitted by Van Halen on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 7:58pm.

On Tuesday the Obama Administration asked Hosni Mubarak to step aside.
On Wednesday they said that transitioning power “now means yesterday.”
On Saturday morning the Obama Administration said Mubarak must stay.
On Saturday evening the Obama Administration said Mubarak should step aside.
On Sunday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Mubarak must stay in power.
On Tuesday the Obama Administration said that political reform will be a gradual process.

Today, we were told that Mubarak was resigning. Then we were told that the Panetta CIA didn't know what was really going on.

Chrissy, are you sure you REALLY want to argue this with us?

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A potential co-star to work with Olberdork

Submitted by Bob K on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:28pm.

So how long will it be before Chris is given the boot and he is also a Current TV rising star?  One year? The day after the 2012 election?

Bob K
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Matthews The Incoherent Attack Dog

Submitted by Boil It Down on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:38pm.

Matthews seems to have taken some partially formed thoughts and mashed them together with some rewritten and poorly studied history for a rambling diatribe with the expressed purpose of attacking the Tea Parties and Conservatives. Through the entire time he completely misses that his object of adoration, Obama, has foolishly tinkered around and helped exacerbate the bad situation in Egypt. He also proved that he has not studied the Muslim Brotherhood as much as the average blogger.

Matthews doesn't see that Egypt is to Obama what Iran was to Carter in so many ways. What will Obama's next step be to insure that Islamic radicals take over Egypt?

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Panama Tingles

Submitted by Ashrak on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 8:52pm.

isn't making any sense here in this projection filled diatribe.  He has officially lost touch with all reality.  Conservaticves don't like people in the streets Chrissy? They don't like protests?  I guess you missed April 15th, 9-12 and 8-28 huh Chrissy? On the wrong side of history is he, again.

That an individual right exists requires that some policy positions be removed from the table of debate.
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Matthews

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 9:15pm.

After so many references to having a scrotal sac dangled into his mouth, it's fair to say Chris Matthews is at least bi-curious.

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They wanted "change" in Iran too

Submitted by boscokraft on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 9:26pm.

I think we saw the same reaction by the "progressives" in Iran when the Shah was removed.  All the happy "students" dancing in the street creating the joyous revolution that progressives love.  But when the Mullah came in and starting hanging everyone who disagreed with Sharia law, they sang a differnet tune.  Mubarck might be a bad guy, but he keeps the crazy muslims in check.

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Matthew of Egypt

Submitted by zachlind on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 10:07pm.

I have it on good authority that Matthews spent the morning at a local library going through old issues of National Geographic and their World Atlas section in preparation for tonight’s show. And he then spent the afternoon watching a DVD of Lawrence of Arabia so that he could better understand the people.

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It just amazes me that

Submitted by Reaver on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 10:23pm.

It just amazes me that liberals mock conservatives for being concerned about the unrest in Egypt while they are all doing their best Alfred E. Newman impression “What, me worry?” What could possibly go wrong?  

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The boy really likes his tea bags

Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 11:12pm.

Wonder why...

hbnolikeee
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Complexity???

Submitted by donabernathy on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 1:43am.

From Tingly... a guy who has to take off his shoes to count to 20

roflmao

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Taking himself seriously

Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 5:20am.

I am looking forward to the day when Chris Mathews treats the world to 24 hours without taking himself seriously and stops apologizing for being a white person.  The guy is unbearable to watch on television.

NotFondOfLibs
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Tingles logic

Submitted by ClinkinKY on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 6:51am.

"And conservatives are very fearful of this. They look at crowds like this, they don't like the looks of them. They don't like protests. They don't like people in the streets."


Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/02/10/chris-matthews-rants-tea-bag-conservatives-dont-get-complexity-egypt#ixzz1De7m9OuD

Kinda' like Tea Party rallies Chrissy?


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Chris is some kind of genius

Submitted by Cowboy on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 7:02am.

Chris is some kind of genius who understands the most subtle nuances of every situation.

"Should I drink the coffe or not? What are the implications of not drinking it vs drinking it? Wait, the coffee is looking black. It woukd be racist ti drink it. No, wait, would it be racist to refuse it? Hmm.... Maybe if it had creamer...."

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Chris now qualifies for the top spot at the CIA

Submitted by Crash on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 9:45am.

Who know's he might even outperform Leon's impersonation of Mr. Magoo!  

Chris, us outside the beltwayers understand the complexity of Egypt very well. If we had riots outside the White House demanding that Obama step down, he would  ... right?

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Anyone who continues to use...

Submitted by Hero Squad on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 10:00am.

Anyone who continues to use derrogatory references like "tea bag" when identifying people with whom they disagree, has lost the credibility to sit at the adults' table, as far as I'm concerned.

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"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will

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I feel the only person whom

Submitted by Colo43 on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 11:32am.

I feel the only person whom is out of touch is  Chris Matthews.

The Tea Party has gotten us this far with out his help and we are all of the age where  we  know exactly what is going on and what is to become of this outcome.

we can thank people like him for insecure statements and our Present Govenment for the actions which are now taking place.

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Chris Matthews is a douchebag

Submitted by Hologram5 on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 12:32pm.

Chris Matthews is a douchebag that doesn't understand the complexity of life in general, let alone the happenings in Egypt.  This fool couldn't investigate his way out of a wet paper bag.  What a tool.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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no.... not that...

Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 3:37pm.

A douche bag has a useful function in normal society.

It is desigend for a specific purpose and excels at its job.

crissy, on the other hand, is of far less value and purpose to the American people, regardless of race, color, creed or religion.

End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.

If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?

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And the tingler.................

Submitted by Patriot II on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 12:44pm.

"gets" it.....about 'ANYTHING'?     aha, ha, ha ha h a  ha ahm oho ho ho ah ha  ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahhahhaaahhaahahahahahahhahahahahah!!!!!!

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