Bachmann to Matthews: Hey, how’s that tingly thrill now?
posted at 11:20 pm on November 2, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
An amusing moment here at MN GOP HQ, where Michele Bachmann managed to get a little payback on Chris Matthews two years after he goaded her into a faux pas just before her last election. Matthews accused Bachmann of being in a “trance,” to which Bachmann replied by asking whether Matthews ever got rid of that thrill up his leg. Matthews answers with his usual graciousness:
The floor erupted in laughter after this exchange. So far, the mood here seems rather festive, even though Teresa Collett and Joel Demos have apparently lost their long-shot Congressional bids. The gubernatorial race saw the urban areas report first, but now we’re getting the suburbs and exurbs, and Tom Emmer is gaining rapidly. Erik Paulsen won MN-03 by a landslide.
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I love how it sets him off in an indignant tirade and then he tries to deny knowing what she’s talking about. He’s so full of crap. Hahaha!
Vegi on November 2, 2010 at 11:22 PM
I like Eric Cantor too: “It’s sooooo nice being on MSNBC tonight!”
PattyJ on November 2, 2010 at 11:22 PM
He’s an Azz
dangitt on November 2, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Michele has already reported as having won, but that’s the NYT.
We’re beating the he1l out of this keg over here, if more results don’t come in soon there will be some anger.
Bishop on November 2, 2010 at 11:23 PM
Oh Chris, nice try.
The thrill up your leg wasn’t just because Obama was talking about this country. You wouldn’t haven’t had any such thrill if Sarah Palin had been saying the same exact words.
blink on November 2, 2010 at 11:27 PM
I Found My Thrill!
Kini on November 2, 2010 at 11:27 PM
MSNBC is a blast tonight. O’Donnell is all red faced. LOL
Go RBNY on November 2, 2010 at 11:30 PM
msnbc jumped the shark tonight.
completely classless. said she was in a trance simply cause she didnt want to have an ad hominem attack.
picklesgap on November 2, 2010 at 11:30 PM
Chris Matthews, Royal Asshole.
infidel4life on November 2, 2010 at 11:31 PM
MSNBC election night coverage desk has a collective IQ of about 150. Where’s Chuck Dodd? He’ll bring it up another 50 points … he’s their political guru.
jdflorida on November 2, 2010 at 11:32 PM
rachel maddow thinks they arent in the tank for obama and the dems? how stupid is she? maybe i should taped their coverage to sit down and go over it with her.
Daveyardbird on November 2, 2010 at 11:32 PM
Chrissy’s a pennis
CWforFreedom on November 2, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Hopeys——————WaterLoo
Chrissy,aka,’Tingles’,
———————”TINGLE-LOO”!
canopfor on November 2, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Did anyone else see Schultz and that Maddow dude talking about how the only reason Feingold lost is because he was outspent? Clueless.
Tio on November 2, 2010 at 11:35 PM
PMSNBC is a total disgrace.
Captain Kirock on November 2, 2010 at 11:35 PM
MMmmm mmmm mmmmMichelle Bachmann. Wow. Talk about a tingle.
smellthecoffee on November 2, 2010 at 11:38 PM
there’s got to be major tears tonight behind closed doors…Bachmann was like public enemy number 1…they were going to get her big time…lots of money…crush her like the racist little redneck trailer trash they think she is
r keller on November 2, 2010 at 11:38 PM
The fraud tried to claim he never said it.
What a total lying sack of sestak he is.
TheBigOldDog on November 2, 2010 at 11:40 PM
Who was the wheezy douchebag laughing in the background?
clearbluesky on November 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM
None of these “confused” MSLSDers have the cojones to run for office but all are know-it-all smirking jackasses. I wish Deion Sanders was around to douse them all with water as he did McCarver years ago.
50sGuy on November 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM
Michele is getting hotter as she gets more powerful.
rickyricardo on November 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM
Have you ever seen such a group of petty,infantile losers as the group of useful idiots that make up the MSNBC panel.
Baxter Greene on November 2, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Jeeze…if you could some how harness the absolute hate from that ‘star’ studded panel and successfully fuse it with the Butt Hurt….the possibilities are endless.
BigWyo on November 2, 2010 at 11:44 PM
Bath boy….
You know…the man child that disappoints women in bed so badly that they create websites to warn other women about this loser.
Baxter Greene on November 2, 2010 at 11:44 PM
Great night Canopfor…..West is in….Grayson is out.
Obama is a lame duck…..
“Yes We Did!!!!!”
Baxter Greene on November 2, 2010 at 11:45 PM
Poor Chrissy looks like he’s gonna cry. That’s probably the longest exchange he’s ever had with a good looking woman.
Fighton03 on November 2, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Matthews feels warm liquid down the leg tonight.
seven on November 2, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Michele Bachmann doesn’t pull any punches: “We’re coming out of our trance, really, we’re coming out of our nightmare.”
Cara C on November 2, 2010 at 11:48 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ClcIZjmlo&feature=related
Did Chrissy work to make Bush successful.
He actually said in the youtube video that it was his job to make Obama successful. What a joke.
CWforFreedom on November 2, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Bachmann is so right…..and so incredibly pretty. *sigh*
Bee on November 2, 2010 at 11:50 PM
That is a sitting US Congresswoman you are calling stupid, Mr. News-reader.
How much more of that kind of misogynist nonsense do women need to see before they realize the left doesn’t care about them, they just care that they vote the way they want them to.
GopherCon on November 2, 2010 at 11:54 PM
To be fair, Chrissy never did say “tingle;” he did say “thrill.” And that, my friends, is far, far worse. I get a tingle up my leg when my leg falls asleep; when I get a thrill up my leg, Mrs. john1schn gets chased around the master suite…
john1schn on November 2, 2010 at 11:54 PM
For some ungodly reason, I was watching MSNBC the night Scott Brown got elected. Rachel Maddow looked like she was going to go home and do a suicide pact with her cat.
They should probably keep an eye on her tonight.
BigWyo on November 2, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Don’t you worry Chrissy boy…..the investigations are coming.
…Obama’s DOJ…..where the money for the stimulus and tarp went…..the billions that went to the black farmers…..
…..you will get your hearings and investigations…..
Baxter Greene on November 2, 2010 at 11:55 PM
He keeps insisting she’s in a trance?
(a) Why does he keep saying that?
(b) Why did he say it in the first place?
It doesn’t even make any sense.
Alana on November 2, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Fox just called it for Brewer.
keep the change on November 2, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Good to see you!..I don’t know if that message got thru on the other threads..:)
Dire Straits on November 2, 2010 at 11:58 PM
Alana…he is projecting.
CWforFreedom on November 2, 2010 at 11:58 PM
What are you guys over there on MSNBC, the hallway bullies in school? Geez, classless and not funny.
hawkdriver on November 2, 2010 at 11:59 PM
I give you Alan Grayson…and Debbie Wasserman Shultz….
Both are sitting congress things and both are complete Toilet Bugs.
BigWyo on November 2, 2010 at 11:59 PM
Ah.
Alana on November 3, 2010 at 12:00 AM
I loved MSNBC tonight. Olbie tried to claim this wasn’t an historic election because it wasn’t that much bigger than 94, despite the economy being much worse. They are so delusional that it makes my heart feel all warm.
kvader on November 3, 2010 at 12:01 AM
They all giggled and snickered when Bachmann spoke. NBC is a disgrace. Pitiful.
TN Mom on November 3, 2010 at 12:01 AM
I hate the politics of Chris Matthews, but as soon as Olbermann came on, I had to cut the feed. That guy is just psychotic!!!
(in my humble opinion)
Vntnrse on November 3, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Hey Chrissy…..when you get to talk to your the botox queen Nancy tomorrow about how all these loses are Bush’s fault….maybe you should ask her about why she wanted Americans investigated just because they disagreed with the President:
Pelosi doubles down: Yes, we should investigate the opponents of the Ground Zero mosque
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/18/pelosi-doubles-down-yes-we-should-investigate-the-opponents-of-the-ground-zero-mosque/
Somehow I doubt chrissy boy here gets around to doing anything beyond kissing Pelosi’s butt when he talks to her.
Baxter Greene on November 3, 2010 at 12:02 AM
Hey Straights….
…….Great night!!!!!
We are not going to get everything we wanted…..but we still kicked some liberal a$$ tonight.
Baxter Greene on November 3, 2010 at 12:04 AM
It’s possible that they don’t think they are in the tank for the Democrats. They might rationalize it this way: they think of themselves as the hard left wing of the party that keeps the Democrats ideologically “on course.”
I have a few like them in my family. To them, conservatives might as well have come from another planet.
Aardvark on November 3, 2010 at 12:06 AM
MSNBC election night anchors: Maddow, Olbermann, Matthews
FOX election night anchors: O’Reilly, Beck, Hannity
Only one of the above happened
Chuck Schick on November 3, 2010 at 12:11 AM
They were pwned and there was nothing they could do but laugh like some high school clique that has been humiliated. Michelle was awesome, talking to the people and ignoring their petty BS.
pedestrian on November 3, 2010 at 12:11 AM
There it is. Mocking a Congresswoman on the air.
ronsfi on November 3, 2010 at 12:11 AM
Not one single solitary Conservative or Independent, or any other ilk for that matter, on that six person MSNBC election coverage panel.
Each and every one of the six person MSNBC election coverage panel is a hardcore thumb sucking Liberal deep deep in the tank for Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats. How’s that for ‘fair and balanced’ news analysis and news coverage?
I honestly can not remember the last time I ever watched MSNBC. But I definitely do remember precisely why I haven’t!
FlatFoot on November 3, 2010 at 12:11 AM
You know, they’ve done SO much horrible stuff and said so many things for so long now (from the President on down), that you can’t even remember them all. I’d forgotten this one.
Alana on November 3, 2010 at 12:12 AM
Don’t you worry Chrissy…
… the investigations WILL come!
Seven Percent Solution on November 3, 2010 at 12:13 AM
He didn’t. He said “thrill”. And Tingles hates the nickname “Tingles”!!!!
Marcus on November 3, 2010 at 12:13 AM
This – and ALL the mocking they seem to somehow feel free to do – is why I say they can go to h*ll.
Alana on November 3, 2010 at 12:14 AM
If you were writing a satire about a political panel and had ridiculous characters like this people would laugh at you.
This is like the Star Wars barroom scene except those characters were more realistic.
MSLSD is incapable of shame or embarrassment and seems to have no professional oversight of any kind.
ontherocks on November 3, 2010 at 12:17 AM
I don’t know why any Republican would go on MSNBC. They have been downright hostile this evening (which is normal for them), condescending, rude and unprofessional in their coverage. I know this isn’t a surprise. Would love to see Republicans “ban” together and refuse to go on.
There is a clear difference in the professionalism of Fox and MSNBC.
BruthaMan on November 3, 2010 at 12:17 AM
I actually flipped to MSNBC out of sheer morbid curiosity at the tail end of the Bachman interview. Matthews tried to explain the “tingle” comment to the panel. You should have seen Olbermann mug for the camera. He looked like he just ate a turd. Then they interviewed another Republican and Maddow started with some preposterous question. I think I lasted less than a minute.
4k78 on November 3, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Back in ’94, there was a great editorial-cartoon in the Washington Times, on the day after the election, that showed an elephant walking away with a flattened-donkey under his foot.
shorebird on November 3, 2010 at 12:25 AM
That seems to be their strategy tonight. Bring republicans on the show so they can pay retribution to them with their own brand of hostility.
Unquestionably the most unprofessional “panel” I’ve ever witnessed.
BruthaMan on November 3, 2010 at 12:26 AM
53 seat gain. We have The House.
hawkdriver on November 3, 2010 at 12:40 AM
Madcow says because Reid won, this is a distaster for us. MSNBC just is so sad.
hawkdriver on November 3, 2010 at 12:44 AM
oh come on people, she really did sound retarded … if repubs wouldnt just spout off digressing talking points, perhaps they wouldnt be as easy a target for such condescension
treyevans on November 3, 2010 at 12:44 AM
Yea it’s to bad “repubs” can’t match this level of genius….
…we have had years of nothing but ignorant democratic talking points.
Baxter Greene on November 3, 2010 at 12:50 AM
Love Olby trying to tie in Matthews leg tingle and what Rubio said tonight…
Odie1941 on November 3, 2010 at 1:00 AM
I remember when he said it live.
So how many of the rest of you trolls wank off to speeches of the big “O”?
theCork on November 3, 2010 at 1:03 AM
It was so funny to see Madcow losing her mind there. Hahahaha. She looked like she just ate a giant sh*t sandwich, and she’s actually trying to say MessNBC isn’t a far-left Obama sock puppet organization? Wth?
OxyCon on November 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM
The thrill is gone.
Poor Chrissie.
hillbillyjim on November 3, 2010 at 1:25 AM
Bachmann illustrates why trying to have a conversation with Matthews is the same as ‘arguing with idiots’.
landlines on November 3, 2010 at 2:10 AM
The question about her being hypnotized is so offensively unprofessional that Bachmann was speechless for about 3 seconds. Bachmann refused to take Matthews’s bait on investigations and Matthews (who was a bit cranky anyway) simply just went nasty on her. He was trying to “create news” by shocking her into saying something just as ridiculous. She kept her cool and, thus, won the exchange.
Matthews is pathetic.
Pythagoras on November 3, 2010 at 2:15 AM
I want to comment, but I’m having a hard time deciding between
1. “Leg-humping liberal Blowhard Douche-bag”
and
2. “clueless, self-important, hyper-partisan libtard moron”.
Nice Job Ms. Bachmann. Way to kick it right back up his classless, smug flabby @ss.
Tim_CA on November 3, 2010 at 2:16 AM
I think she just scraped them off of her shoe and mover on…
shorebird on November 3, 2010 at 2:48 AM
-
Pegged.
RalphyBoy on November 3, 2010 at 2:48 AM
Aw, isn’t that special, Crissy? Defending your tingly feelings 2 years ago while your friends in the MSNBC studio have to prop you up emotionally to keep you from crying?
You dish it out nightly but you just can’t take it, can you? Boo-hoo. Were you actually gonna cry? Guess that sign in the background really got to you, leaving you visibly shaken.
This is Exhibit A in how to fight back against a bully.
Crissy McTingles, you’re a joke. The Tingle will be your legacy and will forever be a source of amusement to us all.
OneVision on November 3, 2010 at 3:11 AM
Misogynists!
How rude and crude they are at MSNBC!
Maddow, Matthews, Olberman, and whoever else is on that program, displayed childish, rude, disrespectful, biased behavior.
How unprofessional of the lot of them!
MSNBC and those hosts are downright unprofessional disgraces!
William2006 on November 3, 2010 at 3:27 AM
I still think that Rachel maddow should have got the part of
Mcgarrett in the new Hawaii 5/0
Sonosam on November 3, 2010 at 5:38 AM
Oh teah, she deserved that rude treatment….
Not.
I guess if you were a serious Republican you could call it “staying on point with your message” or not letting the liberal media rope you into things that they want to get out of you as a sound bite.
hawkdriver on November 3, 2010 at 6:31 AM
Why was Boxer on?
malkinmania on November 3, 2010 at 6:39 AM
MessNBC was indeed like a bunch of juvenile nervous gigglers, not knowing what to say so they made fun of Dick Armeys name, I mean…..jeez…i respected NBC when growing up, it was such a symbol of straightforward no-non sense. Schultz has a mental problem, he looks like he wants to burst, what a crew eh?
malkinmania on November 3, 2010 at 6:43 AM
Holy crap, I never watched those guys until last night & I have to admit I always thought HA posters were exaggerating about how bad they are. They are worse than I ever imagined!
What a bunch of immature, unprofessional morons. Wow.
kg598301 on November 3, 2010 at 7:40 AM
MSNBC is in the tank for Obama and Soros.
Chris Matthews did say “I Got A Thrill Up My Left Leg” He’s right wasn’t a “Tingle” It was a Thrill….I notice he didn’t volunteer what he really said. So he is embarrassed and he should be.
Good for Michelle she didn’t give him anything to blow up he had to make up “Trance”
I hope they do start investigations as soon as they get sworn into office January 2011…look into the GE bailout of with tax payer money, and how much of it went to MSNBC’s leaning against the floor for ratings branding….we are propping up this dog of a network. I want my money back.
Dr Evil on November 3, 2010 at 7:49 AM
Hitler Finds Out that Republicans Won Control of the House
Nearly Nobody on November 3, 2010 at 7:56 AM
“BUT THEY DO IT TO!” is not a winning argument.
its hardly unreasonable to expect our national republican figures to have the ability to take on an idiot like Tingles … if they can’t, then perhaps they do deserve to be patronized.
treyevans on November 3, 2010 at 8:33 AM
LOL, men are so funny! My husband has the same inclination, sometimes I even let him catch me ;)
FLKraKa on November 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM
Matthews flat out lied at the end of the clip.
He said it was Obama’s Boston speech in 2004 (at the DNC) that gave him the “tingle.” When in fact it was Obama’s acceptance speech in 2008 in Denver.
Big diff!
But nice try.
kevinkristy on November 3, 2010 at 8:51 AM
Lets not forget what Mathews said after Obama won the Presidency.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFJvlzDpey4
jaboba on November 3, 2010 at 8:54 AM
He’s a thin-skinned weasel on a failed network.
jbh45 on November 3, 2010 at 9:02 AM
Your ‘concern’ is noted.
fossten on November 3, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Noted, Mr. Daschle.
Inanemergencydial on November 3, 2010 at 9:23 AM
Heh. I don’t think the world has seen that expression from Olbermann, since about 30 seconds into his evening with Karmabites1.
MNHawk on November 3, 2010 at 9:33 AM
Chris Matthews has mis-remembered the timing of his “leg thrill” comment. And his explanation of it implies that Obama is a foreigner. I wonder if he’ll issue a correction today.
Strange.
Oh, and his statement that the “tingle” sign is an ad hominem attack is especially ironic coming after his claim that Bachmann is in a trance. Does he even KNOW what ad hominem means???
stevezilla on November 3, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Outstanding! Is Bachmann going to get a leadership position in the House? She’d better.
james23 on November 3, 2010 at 10:34 AM
It really makes me laugh, with Crissie’s fat man jokes. It makes me laugh that mr. BMI 50 (except when he feels that warm tingle down his leg) has the chutzpah to call christie fat. You know that mr. BMI 50 worked for the fat drunkard speaker (big Tip). I bet mr BMI 50 never called him fat to his face.
What is with Michelle Bachmann? Why didn’t she tell the tingly BMI 50 to pi$$ off after the way he treated her last night. Why would she even agree to the interview?
Old Country Boy on November 3, 2010 at 11:17 AM
No, he didn’t.
What he actually said was, “The feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama speak … my … I felt this furrowing up my leg, and I don’t have that too often.”
Trochilus on November 3, 2010 at 1:11 PM
I love the “I never used the word tingling” whine from Chris…obviously this really ticks him off.
right2bright on November 3, 2010 at 1:41 PM
Matthews… what a jackass.
Olbermann… the toughest woman on the set.
Maddow… the toughest man on the set. (Does anyone doubt who wears the pants in her relationships?)
Someone blew it on tat set last night. Should have padlocked those morons inside with a case of Jack Daniels and a few Colt 45 revolvers..
Danny on November 3, 2010 at 6:13 PM
Chick looked high as a kite to me, and what the hell was she wearing. Stepford wife. She’s a robot.
dakine on November 4, 2010 at 12:47 AM
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