Uh oh: Matthews sounding fed up with Obama’s earmark hypocrisy
posted at 8:24 pm on March 4, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Buckley turning on him was predictable, Brooks turning on him was a pleasant surprise if not unthinkable — but Mr. Leg Thrill? This isn’t the first time he’s expressed exasperation with The One’s performance lately, either. If he’s losing Matthews, whither the rest of the media’s Hopenchange sycophants?
As Ace notes, Obama’s not indifferent to all extravagant spending. Just the kind that might improve America’s defense.
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On the one hand, it’s rather sad to see a tv show host watch the candidate he worshiped and adored (and cast aside any journalistic integrity he may have had for) for almost two years crumble before his very eyes. It’s like a kid being told there is no Santa. But then I remembered this is Chris Tingle and I got over it.
scalleywag on March 4, 2009 at 9:33 PM
He’s still an enemy collaborator. Regardless of what he says now he is a propagandist and his job is “to make sure that this administration succeeds.” Those are his words and I will keep them in mind everytime he says anything.
thomasaur on March 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM
That was refreshing. Kind of surreal.
Imagine if the entire media just woke up one day and started acting like real journalists. Talk about Hope and Change,,, well,, that would be it.
JellyToast on March 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Are most conservatives already at Unambigusousville? I’m looking for a City on a Shining Hill.
terryannonline on March 4, 2009 at 9:35 PM
I like around 2:20 on the video where the apologist says that Obama’s got a lot of things on his plate like economy, the Dow….
What about Rush Limbaugh?
LevStrauss on March 4, 2009 at 9:36 PM
That would be ‘Shining City on a Hill’.
thomasaur on March 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM
I knew I got that backwards. Doh!
terryannonline on March 4, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Good grief, I almost forgot about that. That was pretty pathetic. Imagine Walter Cronkite saying something like that, he would have been ushered off the set.
scalleywag on March 4, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Well I can understand Obama’s reluctance. That has got to bring negative flashbacks.
MB4 on March 4, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Matthews is a hack who sold his objectivity and moral compass long ago, but then that is obvious by watching his show. As to his remarks today:
“even a blind squirrel finds the occasional acorn”.
mad scientist on March 4, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Hell, even DAN RATHER wouldn’t have said that, I don’t think. At least, back when he was an anchorman he wouldn’t have.
scalleywag on March 4, 2009 at 9:41 PM
I remember Matthews from the OJ days. I never missed his show. I haven’t watched him on MSNBC because he’s a nut now. Irrelevant.
suzyk on March 4, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Isn’t is also kind of creepy that he says that as if Obama were sitting there, tuned in to his every word? It would be hilarious if he didn’t even know who Matthews was.
scalleywag on March 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I can only speak for myself. I am sure of my beliefs and the foundations thereof. I am open to challenges and willing to listen to opposing positions and give them due consideration. I suspect most of my brethren feel the same.
There’s a lot of room in the Republican Party for all sorts of pick-and-choose appetizer menu kind of folks.
But …
hillbillyjim on March 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I’ve got a pornographic memory- I remember every f-ing thing. (Especially when my country is at stake.)
thomasaur on March 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Schmucks like Chrissy voted for the magical color of his skin and now they’re stuck with the disillusioning content of his character.
Shallow stupid suckers.
profitsbeard on March 4, 2009 at 9:45 PM
I agree with the posters who’ve speculated that Chrissy is probably losing his retirement cash just like the rest of us. Even the biggest Obama-drones can recognize that Obama’s laughing at our financial ruin- why shouldn’t he? His paycheck is guaranteed by the gub’mint.
anniekc on March 4, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Da dun tsht!
Tacitus_SGL on March 4, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Fickle. Now he has transferred the tingle to McCain.
OmahaConservative on March 4, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Well, you can’t expect the guy to go through it line by line. I mean, there are parties to attend and those flights on the oh-so-cool Air Force One. (”I am the MAN! Yeah, babayyyy!!!”)
ddrintn on March 4, 2009 at 9:48 PM
The line by line campaign promise: #954 broken.
ammon_of_cs on March 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM
I give him some credit. The One is being a hypocrite here.
tdavisjr on March 4, 2009 at 9:51 PM
If only life were fair…
you know the rest.
hillbillyjim on March 4, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Matthews is acting.
This fake outrage will purchase him 5 to 10 future fawns.
blink on March 4, 2009 at 9:53 PM
I do remember hearing a story that as a teenager some girl said hello to Chris Matthews once and he went around telling all the other kids that he was engaged. When word got back to her she didn’t even know his name.
MB4 on March 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM
chrissy,
that wasn’t a thrill up your leg…it was a poke in yo ass.
now you know how the rest of us feel…
regards,
The Fly-ovas
sandlin71 on March 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM
With earmarks, sure there would have been some differences. On everything else, not really. McCain’s answer to everything was always govt help. Maybe the stimulus would have been $700B instead of $800B. But that’s about it.
angryed on March 4, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Chrissy is only riding the boogie-board of state-sponsored stupidity.
That’s all.
That’s it.
hillbillyjim on March 4, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Obama will not go line by line in this bill because he wants to minimize the opposition on ‘larger’ issues like nationalized healthcare: “I gave you your pet project, now support me on this unpopular-socialist-national-healthcare bill.”
It’s the Chicago way.
LEBA on March 4, 2009 at 9:59 PM
“The president is going to draw some very clear lines about what’s going to happen going forward,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. “The rules of the road going forward for those many appropriations bills that will go through Congress and come to his desk will be done differently.”
Do you think Obama and Rahmy told Gibbs to make this statement in anticipation that the media, (and Chrissy) would buy into the “this was last years business” so it’s o.k. to let the pork slide? Who does Obama think wrote this bill? (hint: it wasn’t a Republican controlled House)
Rovin on March 4, 2009 at 10:00 PM
At this point, I’ll settle for a Shining Light at the End of the GDamn Tunnel.
hillbillyjim on March 4, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Listening to Cilizza and his New York Mag pal try to soft peddle the collapse of their messiah makes my hair hurt.
Obama is the same as any other politician. He said what he needed to to win the election and all his promises come with an expiration date.
Also, Cilizza must have missed Obama’s comparison of the Dow with a tracking poll. Obama doesn’t give a rat’s @$$ about the 70% of Americans who are losing their shirts in the market.
sdun1 on March 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM
If you don’t like my responses, please send your replies to: Dumbass@D.HellYouSay.com.
hillbillyjim on March 4, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Me thinks,that a faction,of Obama,have seen the light!
This small group,are starting a backlash(no pun intended),
they have begun,
starting with,the watering-down of the,
KOOL-AID!
Chris Matthews office was the first delivery!!!!!!!!!!!
SSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,be very quite about this new
developement!!!!!!!!(Snark!).Hehe.
canopfor on March 4, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Holy cow–that’s not an actual link!
hillbillyjim on March 4, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Shoot, a faint flicker from a candle would be nice. ; )
thomasaur on March 4, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Momentary flash of clarity to end in 4,3,2,1….
“Do you feel the tingling sensation again in your leg Mr Matthews?”
“yes”
“Good. Good. You had us worried there for a moment. You had an “episode” but you’re better now.”
moxie_neanderthal on March 4, 2009 at 10:17 PM
I don’t think Matthews realizes Obama is a liar and a hypocrite.
YoungAmerican on March 4, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Maybe Cwissy is making good on his pledge to “help Barack succeed.” He wants Obama to succeed by doing what is right. He’s helping him in his mind by giving him good advice. He sdaid it several times – that Obama would be a hero if he cut the pork.
Mr_Magoo on March 4, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Terry,
If you’re looking for a “City on a Shining Hill”, or a Shining City on a Hill, or something in between, you’re in the right neighborhood. There are plenty of reasons for you to be here, but I’m afraid I’m not one of them.
During the run-up to the election last Nov., it seems that you couldn’t be bothered to take a stand against unlimited immigration or even against O-friggin-bama.
But I don’t do “in between”.
But that’s just me.
hillbillyjim on March 4, 2009 at 10:24 PM
*looks around* At what point did I enter bizzarro world?
boomer on March 4, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Am I watching invasion of the body snatchers?
For a few minutes there Chris Matthews was starting to look like a jounalist and not a freshmen cheerleader at Obama High. Of course he had two guest to tow the party line for him. Those guests sounded like morons and made really pathetic arguments, but it is NBC so someone has to do it. John and Chris C., just seemed to be very resistant to the idea of changing the corruption in Washington.
On a side note I am glad to see that McCain is actually doing his job and listening to his constituents this time. Maybe he can do it again sometime soon. Based on just this one instance it could be that he listened to his people because they happened to be supporting his pet issue. If it happens a few more times I might really start to believe that he is honestly listening to America.
Tim Pancoast on March 4, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Wow, what a couple of mensas these two talking heads are. “I don’t think that earmark reform is going to fix our economy” ???? Are you freaking kidding me?
fazoolius on March 4, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Are these people just stupid or what? Anyone who really cared could have figured out that Obama was just messing with us all..with all that line by line. sheesh. People can be sooo dense.
Terrye on March 4, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Chris Matthews is himself, an Earmark for MSNBC, stuffed in to appease the management parent company NBC/GE.
TN Mom on March 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM
“The thrill is gone”…
paulsur on March 4, 2009 at 10:29 PM
You would think that someone with as much political experience as Matthews would hardly be surprised that a politician says one thing to get elected and another when he’s President. Man, did he have a crush on Obama or what? The bloom is off the rose, eh Chris?
When will people learn?
gordo on March 4, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Agreed.
As much as I’d enjoy an on air Bad Lieutenant moment for Chris, it simply isn’t in the cards.
moxie_neanderthal on March 4, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Tim:
One instant? McCain has always been against earmarks. He has never asked for an earmark in his entire career. There are very few Congressional reps of either party that can say that. So does that make fiscal conservatism a pet issue? That seems like a strange sort of criticism/compliment.
Terrye on March 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Chris hasn’t changed one bit .. he’s simply trying to look as if he’s objective. I think the thrill is as strong as as ever … shake your leg Chrissy.
ORrighty on March 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM
A lovers tiff perhaps? Or is The One going to get a dear Barry letter from Chrissy saying “Its not me, Its you”.
Dreadnought223 on March 4, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Matthews is either acting this rage out, or he’s off his meds.
I’m sure MSNBC will do everything they can to get his prescription back in order…
off-topic: Is Chris Matthews gay? Nothing against gays but I was just wonderin…
RedbonePro on March 4, 2009 at 10:46 PM
I love the worthless trash…
“He’s prioritizing”, “He’s focusing on the economy”.
Funny, last time I checked it took less time to NOT sign something that it did TO sign something. So how hard would it be for him not to sign the bill and take six seconds from his Wed. night party and say, “Congress, drop the pork and I will sign it.” The way these clowns talk about it, you’d think that the President had to physically go through bills, line by line, with a bottle of White Out.
That aside, isn’t this the same Messiah who claimed that he was a master of multitasking and could both campaign, debate and fix the economy at the same time?
Damiano on March 4, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Terrye on March 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Not one instance of being against earmarks but this is an isntance where he is clearly listening to the people back home, and acting accordingly. However, as long as this is just about earmarks he may be agreeing with the people simply because that was his possition to begin with.
I recognize that McCain is doing a good thing here, however I need evidence beyond the issue of earmarks in order to convince me that he is really listening to and representing the people of AZ. One thing I have never dissagreed with McCain on is earmark reform, but will he continue to be this responsive to his constituents on other issues? Sorry I have become a little jaded about these things. I will admit I my first reaction to hearing McCain was to get excited and ‘think this is the kind of senator I’ve been looking for’. Then almost immediatly the skepticism set in. Hopefully McCain will help cure me of it.
Tim Pancoast on March 4, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Well, I reckon the love affair is over with Matthews. Obama has so many other Newsies still fooled so it does not matter.
I never wasted any time watching Matthews anyway.
The Obama Cult worship is going to start fading like water colors in the rain when the new taxes get in place anyway.
The Russians punked him on the Missle Defense deal vs help with Iran. The Cap & Trade is going to break America. Poor Matthews. The bloom is off the rose for him.
old trooper2 on March 4, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Got bad news for you all…
No matter how many people finally admit that they made a mistake voting for the idiot he will still be the president, screwing up things until he is out on his ass.
Ltlgeneral64 on March 4, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Tom:
If the people of Arizona do not think McCain is representing them then they can replace him. They have been sending him back for decades so apparently they are not all that upset with him. It is their call.
Terrye on March 4, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Does Obama and Matthews realize you can’t go through it line by line? We don’t have line item veto it’s unconstitutional!
xler8bmw on March 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
those two FAGS cm was talkin with were bigger fags than cm, i think those two fags wanted to smoke a cigar in the Oval Office more than cm does, but whatever
cando333 on March 4, 2009 at 11:09 PM
I just got a chance to read the titles real quick and bet myself no troll would touch this thread with a 10 foot keyboard. I win. I guess this would have made (you know who) or (you know whos) heads pop. Alas, t’would have been so grand to see.
hawkdriver on March 4, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Keep talking like that you guys. Next winter, when the cap and trade tax has pushed ALL energy back through the roof, and the unemployment rate is over 10% nationally, and people are really struggling to keep gas in the car, let alone keep the heating bill paid, I want these little effete pr*cks to go out into the shopping mall where sitting on Santa’s knee will be about all a lot of people will be able to afford and remind everyone that they said this [small potatoes] about that [wasteful pork in legislation]. I hope they’ve got a whole gang Mike Tyson’s for bodyguards because they’ll need’em. If McCain’s constituents are that mad now, just wait til then.
All these A-holes think that Obama’s policies are going to work. Obama is counting on it, but he’s like the guy who goes to the track today to try to win the money he owes to Guido tomorrow. When tomorrow comes, Guido isn’t only going to break his thumbs, he’s going to break his legs, too. Now try go out and earn the money, genius. You can’t now, can you, with two broken legs? When Obama has finally broken this economy he won’t be able to turn around. Having bled white the only people who could have helped him, where is he going to turn? What’ll it be–more taxes? More spending? Having betrayed all of the promises he made to the middle class, he won’t get any help from them either. The only people who will still believe in him will be the same people who believe that OJ is innocent, and for the same reasons.
smellthecoffee on March 4, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Matthew’s guests are morons. There is no case to be made to just get it off his desk and move on to more pressing matters. Did you see the both of them shake their heads no when Chris Matthew’s said it will help the ecomony? Are they idiots, the govt spending is causing part of the markets collapse. Like these two morons, obama does not seem to notice or care that these huge spending bills are causing unrest in the market, or more importantly to us.
momof2 on March 4, 2009 at 11:42 PM
What’s up with Chris Matthews English public school-boy hair cut? Why is a guy that looks every bit of 60 trying to look like a twink? And why do people go on his show, when all he does is talk over them? Do you know anyone who would put up with that shite? I guess if you’re a major beta-male you’d just sit there and take it. He’s insufferable.
smellthecoffee on March 4, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Damn! It is starting to look like the emperor’s clothes are starting to disappear!
Star20 on March 5, 2009 at 12:16 AM
The question is, do the press love Obama like a mother loves her child or like a woman loves her man?
If it’s the first, they will make excuses for his lies and trickery until the end of time.
If it’s the second….”Hell hath no fury….”
29Victor on March 5, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Word. If Matthews is any indication. . . the stove is beginning to get hot.
smellthecoffee on March 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM
took everything inside me to watch crissy ass.. still a pathetic liptard butt boy
hawkman on March 5, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Because, Chrissy, he knows that morons like yourself will never under any circumstances hold him in the least bit accountable for what he says or does because he’s black.
You got what you wanted, Tingle Boy.
northdallasthirty on March 5, 2009 at 1:06 AM
Maybe that tingle was urine.
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on March 5, 2009 at 1:10 AM
If you’re gonna make a blanket statement like that one, you should attempt to back it up.
To borrow a word:
Moron.
hillbillyjim on March 5, 2009 at 1:11 AM
I guarantee that as Wall Street goes, Ogabe’s reputation goes. The stupid people who don’t have a dog in the fight in Wall Street who voted for him will never care. But I guarantee that the rest of us real Americans who have a dog in the fight with Wall Street will realize that he is not the dear leader they expected.
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on March 5, 2009 at 1:15 AM
If you’re gonna make a blanket statement like that one, you should attempt to back it up.
To borrow a word:
Moron.
hillbillyjim on March 5, 2009 at 1:11 AM
He was referring rather speciously of the affirmative action thingy. That if Ogabe was a white dude during the campaign we would be saying Madame President.
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on March 5, 2009 at 1:17 AM
I got it the first time.
There is stupid. And then there is purposefully stupid. And then came …..
hillbillyjim on March 5, 2009 at 2:07 AM
In other words, if I ever decide that I need you to interpret for me, I will do us all a favor and stick my head under an operating pile-driver.
In case you didn’t understand that last bit, fuck yourself.
hillbillyjim on March 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM
Shoulda listened to MLK…profitsbeard @ 9:45 p.m. did.
He needed to be Jackie Robinson not Urkel. Now, we’ve got our pants yanked up a bit too high for comfort…
Gohawgs on March 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM
Chris’s two guests I’m sure have a promise of some special one-on-one time with Barney Frank following this appearance! Good job Dick Smoker and Ben Dover!
sabbott on March 5, 2009 at 6:01 AM
Hey, Matthews, is your leg still tingling?
herself on March 5, 2009 at 6:02 AM
Buyers Remorse
+
A Huge Dose of “We told you so!”
=
1 Term Messiah
&
Return of Conservatism
Mark Garnett on March 5, 2009 at 7:03 AM
If it makes anyone feel better Matthews is ridiculed constantly on this side of the aisle too. He’s a moron and a blowhard. But….40% of the earmarks were put in by REPUBLICANS, so if Obama is going to get blamed for not vetoing this bill, blame your side too.
athensboy on March 5, 2009 at 7:06 AM
Republicans are bashing those Republicans who have earmarks in this bill. Those have been called out by many. Obama knows hes in trouble for this or he woudnt have removed his name from some of those earmarks. Time to lay this awful economy right at Obama’s feet…he cant be blaming Bush for the damage he has done.
btw..Republicans cannot veto this bill. That is up to the President.
becki51758 on March 5, 2009 at 7:33 AM
I doubt Mathews is serious. GE looking to get back over 600 Billion from some kind of climate fund it paid into the govt., over the next 8 years. GE owns NBCU who is getting paid back for being The Democrat’s Propaganda Channel?
Immelt thinks it is a good idea that the Govt and GE work hand in hand for Green Technology. GE’s stock is in the dumper they need a Government bailout looks like they found a back door. So Corporate America not the Poor is benefiting by the Democrats in office that is for anyone who has bought the redistribution is for the less fortunate….Why would GE get the money back for Climate control? Al Gore has been pounding the Sky is Falling for how long now? Now there is a Democrat President in office we don’t have to worry about the Climate anymore?
Dr Evil on March 5, 2009 at 7:34 AM
I do, big time… Republicans are HORRIBLY WRONG on this pork infested, radical left agenda providing, Socialist budget… We real Conservatives are calling, writting, e-mailing and melting their phones… They know we are pissed and from the grass roots we are working to replace and fight back against the RNC and the RINO’s… Our money is NOT going to the RNC and Steele, we are sending directly to the CONSERVATIVE cadidates to challenge these Republican idiots in primaries and put pressure on them with all means at our disposal… So for once, your correct…
Mark Garnett on March 5, 2009 at 7:39 AM
+100
OmahaConservative on March 5, 2009 at 7:59 AM
How can bozo’s approval rating be at an all time high?!?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493021/
Do they ever take any polls outside an asylum?
Too bad msnbc can fake their own ratings. Who’s going to fall first?
DanaSmiles on March 5, 2009 at 8:01 AM
as a GE stockholder, i wish the company would sell NBC. then they could use the cash to shore up their financing dept. & resume those nice dividends.
and i think Chris Matthews was acting.
kelley in virginia on March 5, 2009 at 8:05 AM
Probably pissed because the O hasn’t returned his calls and didn’t get to ride Air Force One. His words mean nothing and anyone who believes him is too stupid for words. Anyone know if he has been invited to one of the O’s parties.
hillbilly on March 5, 2009 at 8:06 AM
The earmarks, is the standard that many measure as to the effectiveness of congress and the president…it is not the amount of money, it is whether he can manage the office of presidency.
This shows he can’t manage, can’t be honest, can’t initiate change…
right2bright on March 5, 2009 at 8:09 AM
I would bet no. Even someone as egotistical and narcissistic as B Hussein 0 has to find Chrissy’s man crush unsettling.
OmahaConservative on March 5, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Matthews you fool, he lied . . . now how’s your tingle?
rplat on March 5, 2009 at 8:16 AM
I just love it when they refer to 9,000 earmarks totalling god-knows-what as ’small potatoes’, and then say that keeping a lid on this stuff just isn’t a priority.
blish on March 5, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Amen, brother. TIme to take back the party from the RINO infestation. As to Chris Matthews and anybody who supported Obrother, they will never admit they were wrong. Ever. (Alec Guinness as Col. Nicholson – “My g-d, what have I done?”)
J.J. Sefton on March 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM
How about a link to that…seeing as no Republican saw this bill before it was distributed for vote.
What you are referring to, and I am sure you got this off a “MediaMatters” type website is that 40% of the money may go to areas that are Republican (or states that are repbulican govs. like California)…that is, the dems want to win those seats.
Now show me where any Republican had a say of what was going in this bill…
Link please…
right2bright on March 5, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Mark Garnett on March 5, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Geez. Now I have to add Chris Matthews to the list of those I don’t want sharing my cell at Gitmo.
rbj on March 5, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Do not think Matthews turned. Think he’s just warning his buddy that there’s some things one cannot spin.
jeanie on March 5, 2009 at 8:39 AM
The thrill is gone?
RepubChica on March 5, 2009 at 8:44 AM
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