Prima facie.

Prepare to have your world rocked. “[I]t’s like he didn’t see what he knew people certainly right, left and center could see, that when you target particular groups, you’re targeting particular groups. I mean, if this were on the other foot, and this was a George W. administration, they were targeting groups that were calling [...]

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Oof.

Of course a day like today — replete with the incoming details of administrative scandals fraught with authoritative overreach and corruption — could, for this guy, only end with one possible explanation for all of the complaints about President Obama’s governing prowess. When in doubt, revert to that ol’ progressive standby: Racism and white supremacy, [...]

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Er...?

I think maybe he pounced on the 43rd’s joke earlier today — “there was a time in my life when I wasn’t likely to be found in a library, much less found one” — maybe a little too literally. I present the original analytical stylings of Chris Matthews, everybody: Make sense of it if you [...]

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Historic.

Presented sans comment. Reminds me of another second inaugural — Lincoln’s. So much of Lincoln in that speech, the Gettysburg address to the second inaugural itself. I thought was interesting was an attempt to draw a balance. Of course, he’s a man of the progressive side, but, he tried to draw a balance there between [...]

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"Very messy and hot, and not helpful.”

When even Chris Matthews can see the dangers in pushing Susan Rice as Hillary Clinton’s replacement, maybe the White House should pay attention. Via Eliana Johnson at NRO, the second term hasn’t yet begun and Barack Obama needs as much political capital as possible to win on the “fiscal cliff.” Why take on this fight, [...]

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Contrition.

Via Mediaite, effusive regrets for his Kinsleyan gaffe . Go watch the original clip at the DC if you haven’t yet. He’s waxing rhapsodic about the country’s magnificent noble willingness to re-elect a guy who’s overseen four years of grinding unemployment and exploding debt, and he just kind of wanders into the idea that that [...]

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"They want him out of the White House more than they want to destroy al Qaeda."

How can you tell an election is going well for Chris Matthews?  The country suddenly becomes a beacon of light and hope.  How can you tell an election is going badly for Chris Matthews? We’ve suddenly become a bunch of racists.  I’m pretty sure that his post-debate analysis tells you more than the polls which [...]

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Pinocchios and tingles.

Put this another way.  When your campaign strategy loses Matt Lauer, Chris Matthews Bob Shrum, and earns four Pinocchios from the Washington Post, where exactly does that leave you?  In a fine, feathered mess, that’s where.  Lauer interviewed Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs this morning on Today, and asked, “Is that the kind of political [...]

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Bonus... S.E. Cupp!

The recently reinvigorated cast of Saturday Night Live has been having a field day with the 2012 election and their ratings have shown a payoff for their efforts. Yes, the majority of their skits still tend toward skewering conservatives and Republicans, but to give credit where credit is due, they do take some shots at [...]

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"I don’t like the look of it."

Via Mediaite and the Right Scoop, he hasn’t reached the point of insisting that the mere act of challenging Obama in an election is racist, but he’s right on the doorstep now. We’re maybe two weeks away from that argument. Less, I figure, if Rasmussen’s tracker is right about Romney inching back into the lead [...]

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"The moderates will retake the party if you smash the right."

I know the oh-look-more-Chris-Matthews-ridiculousness posts can be tiresome, but the fact that this person has a nationally televised platform from which to spew this type of absolute nonsense never ceases to amaze me (and I have something of a difficult time allowing even the most trifling bits of populist lunacy pass me by without comment, [...]

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Hardball.

You need to look at it from their perspective. They’d been pushed to the breaking point by having to listen to three days of hate-code, words like “Constitution” and “the.” If you were as pure of heart as an MSNBC producer, you’d be frazzled and angry too. Besides, as Matt Sheffield reminds us, it’s a [...]

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Dogged.

Via the Right Newz and Newsbusters, this one’s much easier than Lawrence O’Donnell’s tortured “golf = racist” theory last night. Just a few easy steps: Obama administration –> corruption –> “Chicago” –> black neighborhoods –> racism. Say this for Tingles: In a week packed with moronic media race-baiting, with his co-hosts at MSNBC locked in [...]

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Yeah, no one gets him, Ms. Rice.

Talk about your Rorschach moments. Condoleezza Rice gave a stirring speech that touched on the necessity of American engagement abroad, a need for education reform, and the true meaning of American exceptionalism.  She talked about transcending a childhood in the Jim Crow era in Birmingham, Alabama to become her nation’s chief diplomat, and spoke hopefully [...]

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"Why do you assume food stamp refers to black? What kind of racist thinking do you have?"

Via News Busters, you’ll enjoy watching Matthews being given a taste of his own medicine but this clip is more useful as a demonstration of why it’s pointless for the two sides to talk to each other. The problem isn’t that Tingles is willing to presume racism; the problem is that his presumption is irrebuttable, [...]

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"If it was a serious show, I'd more concerned."

Via Guy Benson, live on the scene in Tampa, simple truths from a man who was informed this morning on “The Place for Politics” that he’s “garbage.” Say this much for Tingles, though: His devotion appears to be true. There’s no one else in cable news who would have gone to bat for O the [...]

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"You got your monologue in. Congratulations."

I’m posting this for two reasons.  One, everyone’s talking about it anyway.  Two, the sheer nonsense from Chris Matthews in this segment killed those brain cells I used to have that would have otherwise kept me from posting it.  Be warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiet_fyN_ng&feature=player_embedded I think Matthews is actually right.  Here’s the Romney campaign playing the race [...]

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Lockout.

I don’t blame him. What if Tingles surprised him with a tough question about how difficult it is to deal with Republicans? “I just think it comes down to their overall strategy, which is to be low risk, to play it safe. They feel like they’re ahead and there’s no need to put the president [...]

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"This may be the worst merger since AOL bought Time Warner."

Via Newsbusters, concern-trolling so lazy that it doesn’t make sense even on its own terms. His point, per this morning’s Politico piece on “the Republican Party’s Bedwetter Caucus,” is that Ryan could be poison for the GOP. Okay, then … why cite Quayle? Bush 41 won in a landslide, remember? When push came to shove, [...]

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"He doesn't like those people."

Behold, the self-deceiving power of unswerving progressivism on an ideological tear. Joe Scarborough’s face, at least, seems to suggest that he’s thinking somewhere along the lines of “Is this crackpot for real?,” but Matthews really steals the show here. You know what Ryan believes in? Getting rid of the cap-gains tax, period!  So he’s a [...]

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The thrill is ... back.

Earlier today, I advised those who engage in politics as a vocation or an avocation to keep Psalm 146 in mind — Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.  The worship of political figures leads to very bad results, and among the more minor of [...]

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Tingles.

Via Newsbusters, this is the only part of today’s fallout that I can’t bear. ObamaCare can still be undone this fall and we did, in fact, win the Commerce Clause argument, in case you’re one of those people who thinks that’s important despite losing the big one. But please, spare me the Strange New Respect [...]

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"Why are we talking about George Bush?"

Heh. “Give me the profound differences between the presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, and former President George W. Bush when it comes to economic policy?” “That is an irrelevant comparison,” answered Steele. “Well, no, but it’s my question for you,” Matthews responded. Steele attempted to respond, “I’m not answering that question simply because..” “I know why, [...]

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"Nobody even remembers the environmental cost, you just know the benefit was kissed goodbye to."

Indubitably. As much as President Obama likes to claim that approving of pipelines and issuing drilling permits won’t do anything to lower gas prices in the near future (which isn’t true, by the way — the confirmed prospect of an expanded oil capacity tomorrow can incentivize speculators to release oil into the market supply today), [...]

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