Crazy Chris Matthews goes for a twofer...

...as MSNBC leans forward and trips over an ugly stick
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More Palin derangement from MSNBC's loosest cannon (he is, now that Olbermann's gone to Gore some oxen elephants):

MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday decided to wade into the Rick Santorum-Sarah Palin-CPAC dust-up by cherry-picking what the former Pennsylvania Senator told S.E. Cupp on Glenn Beck's online program the day before.

Not surprisingly, by presenting only his biased and abbreviated side of the story, the "Hardball" host attacked both Palin and Santorum...

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Matthews and Company chose to air only fifteen seconds of a 44 second video. They apparently didn't have an additional 29 seconds of air time for "Hardball" viewers to see Santorum's entire response to Cupp's question...

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Matthews, being the spectacular investigative journalist he's known to be, chose not to inform his small viewership of this fact, or that this was the third year in a row that Palin turned down an invitation from CPAC.

Such inconvenient truths would have gotten in the way of his ability to besmirch and degrade two conservatives in one fell swoop.

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NewsBusters Noel Sheppard says we should just imagine how ugly Matthews will get when the 2012 primaries get into full swing. We don't know, for it's hard to imagine the "civility" of Matthews and MSNBC getting much uglier. But as for it getting more unhinged and probably certifiable, not much imagination is needed. The cheese fell off Matthews' cracker long ago.

- JP

Armey says Matthews is losing touch with reality

"Uninformed pejorative"
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FreedomWorks chairman and former Texas Congressman Dick Armey says MSNBC host Chris Matthews is losing his grip on reality. Asked by Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade to comment on Matthews recently comparing the Tea Party to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, Armey replied,

"I don’t know whether it’s his age or what, but he just seems to be slipping out of touch with reality."

Lachlan Markay of Newsbusters writes that in addition to repeatedly implying Republicans are racists, he has called Glenn Beck "absolutely crazy", compared the Tea Party to "Nazi stuff", and has done his best to connect Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann to the tragic shooting in Tucson.

So numerous are Matthews' attacks that Newsbusters has an entire section highlighting his vicious rhetoric.

It's not like Matthews' descent into madness is anything new. We've been reporting on his hate-filled and misogynistic attacks on Gov. Palin for years. So as far as Matthews "losing touch with reality," that trainwreck left the station a long, long time ago.

- JP

Newsbusters: Palin Nitpicker Matthews Puts Panama Canal In Egypt

Tweety's Instant Karma Moment
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Chris Matthews spent much of his MSPDS talking head time over the past week repeatedly attacking Gov. Palin and Rep. Bachmann with what NewsBusters Associate EditorNoel Sheppard reports were "cherry-picked and distorted quotes far afield of their intended meaning." But on Friday's edition of his “hardball” program, the heckling host stepped in the donkey dung, saying that the Panama Canal is in Egypt:

Someone must have spoken in Matthews’ earplug, for he corrected himself moments later

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In fairness, I know full well that Matthews is aware of what countries these respective canals reside in.

This was a mistake. People make them.

The problem is that folks like Matthews, who so desperately hate Palin and Bachmann, are hanging on their every utterance looking to pounce on anything that can be twisted and misconstrued to embarrass and defame these conservative women.

As we demonstrated last week, this is even when the comments aren’t nearly as out of line as people like Matthews claim.

Contrary to the prevailing liberal meme, Bachmann did not state last Saturday that the Founding Fathers ended slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War.

Unlike what Matthews reported Thursday, Palin did not say the Russians beat us in the Space Race. Even the perilously liberal Tommy Christopher admitted as much Saturday.

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When Sarah Palin had a slip of the tongue and said "North Korea" when she meant to say "South Korea," the left refused to give her a break, even though -- as was the case with Matthews' gaffe -- she corrected herself almost immediately. One of the memes that the Democrat/Media Complex pushes hard is that she doesn't know geography and is unfit for high office. But when Obama said that there were 57 states, and Matthews manages to magically transport the Panama Canal to the land of the pharaohs, it's not a problem. Joe Biden is so prone to gaffes that he's been issued a permanent pass by his fellow liberals, no matter what he says, including his latest outlandish uttering that Egypt's Mubarek "is not a dictator."

It's the hypocrisy, stupid.

- JP

Noel Sheppard: Matthews is bashing Palin and Bachmann - again

Divining meaning isn't Matthews' strong suit
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NewsBuster Noel Sheppard comments on Chris Matthews' Thursday attack on Gov. Palin for her "WTF" quip about Obama's plagiarized State of the Union slogan "Winning the Future" and his equally obsessive bashing of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann for three consecutive nights:

Matthews, much as he has been doing with Bachmann and Palin for quite some time, took two sentences from the former Alaska governor's lengthy interview with Greta and turned them into a federal case that he and the rest of the so-called journalists in America today will likely lambaste for weeks until the next time Palin utters something they can take out of context, misconstrue and ridicule.

Let's be clear: Palin didn't say the Russians won the Space Race. She said, and I quote, "their victory in that race to space."

As Matthews certainly knows, that's what Sputnik represented at the time and still does now: the Soviet Union beat us into space with the launch of that satellite, and it was a seminal moment for the United States because it started a larger Space Race between the two countries to see who could get a man out there and back while eventually going to the moon.

As such, the Soviets DID win the first round, and any third grader knows that's what Palin meant.

But divining meaning isn't a strong suit for Matthews or most of his liberal guests, especially when the object of their disaffection is a conservative being cherry-picked.

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- JP

Quote of the Day (January 22, 2011)

Did we not hear day and night that this symbolism is unacceptable?
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HotAirPundit:

"Why is Chris Matthews Displaying A Target and Crosshairs on the U.S. Capitol? ...After all we've been through the past two weeks and all the nonstop criticism of Sarah Palin for using crosshairs on a political map from this very person and his colleagues at MSNBC, Matthews tosses this out there."

- JP

Moonbat Matthews: The fact that Sen. Demint 'has a mind is news'

Showing how low MSPDS can go
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The clowns at MSPDS demonstrate on a daily basis why the leftist cable network's ratings are down in the sewer along with its program hosts. A prime example is provided in the following clip, in which "Hardball" host Chris Matthews can't just disagree with Sen. Jim Demint about Sarah Palin, but has to engage in an ad hominem attack on the intelligence of a sitting U.S. Senator who has an undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee, an MBA from Clemson University and years of experience as a marketing research professional:

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As is so often the case with elitist liberals, Matthews didn't listen to what Demint said. The Senator did not say that Gov. Palin has done more for the GOP than Ronald Reagan; he said that she has done more for the party since Reagan. But leftists aren't exactly known for being attentive listeners. They are too busy trying to think of something snarky to say as a putdown than to pay attention, and more often than not, they beclown themselves with their catty responses.

h/t: TheRightScoop

- JP

GOP strategist schools Matthews on Gov. Palin's qualifications

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Journolist lives, although under a new name that shall not be revealed. The lamestream media isn't straying far from the script. Case in point: whenever a Republican appears on a cable news panel, the liberal host is now obligated to ask the panelist whether Sarah Palin is "qualified to be president." NewsBuster Noel Sheppard reports that Chris Matthews must have expected GOP strategist Ron Christie to dodge the issue on Tuesday's "Hardball":

Much to the MSNBC host's surprise, Christie not only said she was, but also pointed out, "She's certainly had a whole heck of a lot more experience than a particular junior senator from Illinois":

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Notice how quickly Matthews cuts off Christie and goes to his other guest when the Republican starts talking about Obama's failure on the economy. That's one of the many things the left doesn't want to discuss these days, so they always try to steer any discussion away from that topic.

- JP

Noel Sheppard: Matthews Accuses Palin of Aiding and Abetting Terry Jones

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Not that we needed further proof, but here it is. Chris Matthews and MSNBC are hopelessly delusional when it comes to anything Sarah Palin says or does. NewsBusters Associate Editor Noel Sheppard catches "Tweety" in a Big Lie on his "Nutball" program on MSDNC:

Chris Matthews on Thursday accused Sarah Palin of aiding and abetting Pastor Terry Jones, the man threatening to burn Korans on Saturday's ninth anniversary of 9/11.

For days, Matthews and his colleagues on MSNBC have been calling upon Republicans to speak out against Jones.

On Wednesday, the former Alaska governor did exactly that at her Facebook page and at Twitter.

But this wasn't enough for Matthews who repeatedly on the 5PM installment of "Hardball" attacked Palin for being too "soft" in her admonishment of Jones, and actually accused her of giving the Pastor the linkage between burning Korans and the controversy surrounding the Ground Zero mosque.

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MATTHEWS: So, is Sarah Palin one of the 50 crazy people in the mosque, or what?

How disgraceful!

SANCHEZ: I think what is interesting is that Sarah Palin is brought up again. She puts a tweet out there. She starts talking about it, and everybody wants to say she has directed and shaped this debate.

MATTHEWS: "People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive" -- I would say it`s more than insensitive -- "and an unnecessary provocation."

That`s pretty soft language compared to the way she talked about the mosque.

Actually, why don't we look at Palin's entire posting at Facebook:

Book burning is antithetical to American ideals. People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

I would hope that Pastor Terry Jones and his supporters will consider the ramifications of their planned book-burning event. It will feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance. Don't feed that fire. If your ultimate point is to prove that the Christian teachings of mercy, justice, freedom, and equality provide the foundation on which our country stands, then your tactic to prove this point is totally counter-productive.

Our nation was founded in part by those fleeing religious persecution. Freedom of religion is integral to our charters of liberty. We don't need to agree with each other on theological matters, but tolerating each other without unnecessarily provoking strife is how we ensure a civil society. In this as in all things, we should remember the Golden Rule. Isn't that what the Ground Zero mosque debate has been about?

That seems like a pretty strong condemnation of Jones's plan, doesn't it? Yet Matthews never once read the entire thing to his viewers. Instead, he continued with his pathetic plot:

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SANCHEZ: But why pick out Sarah Palin? I guess that`s my point.

MATTHEWS: Because I`m looking at the news that came in this morning. And, all of a sudden, she`s getting her fingers into this thing.

Your thoughts, Steve.

I think it`s incredible that she would be so soft -- taking such a soft line on this guy burning the Koran, because you never attack to the right when you`re on the right. That`s what I think is going on here.

Excuse me! Matthews and his network have been criticizing Republicans for not speaking out against this guy. Now that some have, he accuses them of aiding and abetting the Pastor!

How pathetic:

SANCHEZ: But for what political purpose? That`s what I`m saying.

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MATTHEWS: -- with as far out, with as far out with the fringe as she can, because that`s her base.

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STEVE MCMAHON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: That`s right. It`s not just her base. It`s the people that are taking over the party. It`s the Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh --

MATTHEWS: You can`t hurt by being friendly with the right.

MCMAHON: --. base of the Republican Party.

Exactly. You cannot be too far right, because especially if you`re thinking about running for president or if you want to have a controversial talk show on FOX, you need to do these things. And they generate headlines. They get people like us talking. And it works for Sarah Palin, who wants to be an entertainer and a provocateur.

I`m not sure it works very well if she wants to be the president of the United States.

MATTHEWS: Do you think that`s a statement you could live with, Leslie, people have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to? Do you like the phraseology there? People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to? Do you like that...

The hypocrisy on display here was astonishing. For weeks, folks like Matthews have been telling the American people that the backers of the Ground Zero mosque have a Constitutional right to build it there, and this supersedes the public's overwhelming opposition.

By contrast, the conservative position has been to recognize the Constitutionality in play while questioning the wisdom of doing something that would offend so many Americans.

As such, Palin - and Boehner... - were making the exact same argument concerning Jones: he has the right to burn these Korans, but they wish he wouldn't.

Not only didn't Matthews see the consistency in these positions, he was the one being inconsistent by now claiming Jones's Constitutional rights were irrelevant and represented a "soft" position on Palin's part.

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I ask you: do you need a better example of liberal media bias?

Matthews and his colleagues complain for days that Republicans aren't doing anything to stop Jones from burning Korans on Saturday. Two top GOP figures do, and they're accused of helping the Pastor.

Sarah Palin, or any other Republican who is anything less than a DNC collaborator, will never get fair treatment at MSDNC. Matthews, like the other unhinged leftist program hosts there, are so deep into the tank for the Democrat Party that even a nuclear submarine couldn't approach them, lest its hull be crushed by the unbearable pressure of leftist hypocrisy.

Read Noel Sheppard's full debunking of Matthews' latest attack on Sarah Palin at Newsbusters.org.

- JP

Jeff Poor: Time’s Joe Klein Cheap Shots Sarah Palin...again

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Jeff Poor is a NewsBuster, which means he watches the drooling leftists on MSNBC so we don"t have to. Whenever clueless Joe Klein appears on rabidly pro-Obama Chris Matthews' "Hairball" program, it's a given that the two snarky liberals will try to tag-kneecap Sarah Palin:

On the July 11 broadcast of his weekend show, Matthews and his panel analyzed Palin's "Mama Grizzlies" ad spot and attempted to determine what Palin's end goal was with the ad. And Time magazine's Joe Klein attributed credit to Palin's charismatic ability.

"The most important thing about Sarah Palin is that she's a great stand-up politician," Klein said. "I mean, when you hear her talk - this is not a woman who has sat in a room with a political consultant telling her how to pronounce words. It's just her voice."

"There's something in the inflection which is provocative," Matthews replied.

But then came the eventual expected cheap shot from Klein. Klein had once said Sarah Palin and Fox News host Glenn Beck should be tried for sedition on that same program and he didn't disguise his disdain for Palin on this episode either.

"But I think that's balanced against the fact that she doesn't know anything," Klein said. "And that's a big problem."

Klein is notorius for his comment that criticism of Obama by Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh was "close to being seditious."

- JP

Chris Matthews admits 'media will try to destroy' Gov. Palin in 2012 race (Updated)

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On the DNC's favorite network MSNBC, "Hardball" host Chris Matthews appeared on "Morning Joe" and predicted that Sarah Palin would run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination and outlined how she could win. Matthews also admitted that "the media will try to destroy her, of course":



NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein comments:

Note Matthews' blase "of course" appended to his observation that the MSM will try to destroy Palin. He takes it as a given that everyone knows the liberal media have it out for her.

Question: does Matthews envision himself participating in the media effort to "destroy" Palin?

Tweety has been doing his part to destroy Sarah Palin for the better part of two years, Mark. Why would the next two years be any different?

Updates...

Ed Morrissey weighs in:

"Notice that no one objects to this characterization of the media on this panel of, er, media personalities. No one questions whether that is actually the media’s job, to intentionally try to destroy political candidates. It’s all just a given. Palin runs, media will attempt to destroy her — and it serves as an implicit admission that the media did exactly that in 2008."

As does DaTechguy:

"Matthews and Barnicle are assuming that the nation won’t accept a Sarah Palin, they assume she is some kind of dunce that people will see right through. However what people see right through are the media types who think this."

"2010 may be 2004 redux but 2012 has the potential to be 1980 all over again. A Carter like president facing crises that he can’t cope with, a republican field with one or more established faces (Romney, Huck) and an outsider, a former governor who is considered by the intelligentsia just a lightweight celeb. The left was delighted when Reagan was the front runner, convinced that he couldn’t win, remember how that turned out?"

- JP

Matthews: 'Is Sarah Palin The Most Important Republican In The Country?'

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NewsBusters Associate Editor Noel Sheppard watches MSNBC so we don't have to. He observed some unusual activity on Chris Matthews' weekend show when Tweety asked his panel if Sarah Palin is the most important Republican in the country:

What made this even more surprising was how his guests -- CNN's Gloria Borger, Politico's John Harris, the BBC's Katty Kay, and former "CBS Evening News" host Dan Rather -- seemed to feel she was.

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DAN RATHER: Well, she's not running at the moment for President. But I wouldn't underestimate her. She's a version now of a Deacon with four aces. She can go a lot of different ways. She is playing an almost perfect hand. If she wants to stay a power in the Party, make a lot of money and not run, she can do that. I wouldn't underestimate her even for 2012 for one second. If she decides to run, it would be hard to bet against her for the nomination.

MATTHEWS: Good point. Is she Richard Nixon? Is she going around and picking up chits, proving that she can deliver, carefully selecting winners, avoiding losers when they're on the right, so that day after this election, like Nixon did in '66, "Look what I did for the party, I should be the nominee?"

RATHER: And goes into the convention with maybe thirty percent of the votes.

Imagine that.

For approaching two years, America's press have been mercilessly eviscerating this woman with every opportunity.

Now, with Obama plummeting in the polls, and Democrats looking like they're in a lot of trouble in the upcoming midterm elections, suddenly Palin is not only possibly the most important Republican in the country, but is also a legitimate candidate for President.

Is hell freezing over, or is something else at play here?

We seriously doubt that hell is freezing over. The moonbats, as they do on rare occasions, just want to build her up to try to tear her down. They will resume their usual attacks on the governor soon enough.

- JP

Lori Ziganto Eviscerates Chris Matthews' MSNBC Batumentary

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When moonbats try to put together a documentary, like a committee setting out to design a horse and delivering a jackass instead, they produce a moonbatumentary, or batumentary for short:

Last night, MSNBC aired a Chris Matthews special, labeled a documentary, called The Rise of the New Right. I decided to take a quick break from my radical right wing extremist acts like bitterly clinging to my guns and my Bible, whilst fiendishly drawing Hitler moustaches on Obama photos, to watch it. I know. Apparently, I’m a glutton for punishment. However, while absolutely infuriating, it was simultaneously hilarious and almost took my mind off the distressing shortage of windmills in this country.

Almost immediately, two things became rather apparent. Firstly, MSNBC’s NewSpeak definition of “documentary” is evidently “blatant fallacies and pure propaganda”. Secondly, it’s quite clear that Chris Matthews’ leg ‘tingle’ has moved into his brain, or what passes for some semblance of one. Either that, or he’s merely decided to embrace his cuckoo pants. Plus, he’s a big, fat liar. I feel no qualms about saying that, since Matthews spent a full hour demonizing me and people like me as violent, irrational racists. In fact, the entire show could be summed up like this:

Racists. Birthers. Guns! Evil scary militia groups that have the same “Don’t Tread on Me” flag!!! Chanting “USA, USA” and being fond of the Constitution and, you know, liberty is super scary and ominous. Also, racist. And violence fomenting. Plus, racist.

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It must be horrifying, as the entire show was scored with super spooky music. A video clip of Ronald Reagan? Cue ominous horror movie music! A Sarah Palin segment? Dun dun dunnnn. Matthews, of course, portrayed Sarah Palin as a dum-dum “failed candidate”, yet also somehow ominous and fiendish, accusing her of putting those who voted for Obamacare “in the cross-hairs.” Get it? She’s totally fomenting violence. From her facebook page.

Read the highly entertaining, complete skewering of Moonbat Matthews and his batumentary here.

- JP

Matthews: Sarah Palin issued a Facebook "fatwa" against Peeping Joe

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Not only has all the cheese slid off of Chris Matthews' saltine, but the salt went with it. NewsBusters managing editor Ken Shepherd reports;

Calling your political opponents Nazis can get old after a while.

That's why one needs to mix it up, perhaps by suggesting that they're akin to the radical Islamic clerics that inspire terrorism.

Just ask MSNBC's Chris Matthews.

During the "Political Sideshow" segment of his June 1 program, the "Hardball" host compared Sarah Palin's Facebook page posting about author Joe McGinniss renting the house next door to a "fatwa" aimed at "rev[ving] up anger at the author" from amongst her "mob" of followers...

Fatwa? Strange, we read her Facebook posts on the matter, and we didn't see any call by the governor for her followers to bring her the head of Joe McGinnis on a platter. In fact, Gov. Palin didn't even tell her Facebook friends, Obama style, to "get in his face."

PMSNBC should change the name of Tweety Matthews' program from "Hardball" to something which more closely matches his thinking. We suggest "Screwball."

- JP

Ignorant Chris Matthews calls Sarah Palin an 'ignorant'

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Suppose you were Chris "Tweety Bird" Matthews. Suppose you were ignorant. But I repeat myself. Ed Morrissey explains:

Let’s put aside the point Noel Sheppard makes about Matthews using the grammatically horrid phrase “a political ignorant” after praising himself as someone who constantly seeks knowledge. Let’s instead look at the journalistic standards at MS-NBC for political argumentation, as Matthews reports that Sarah Palin takes great joy in ignorance by quoting that rock-solid source - “somebody alludes to”

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Whether it’s energy policy, health-care reform, or even nuclear policy, Palin not only doesn’t avoid it but issues almost daily communiques on substantive policy from her platform on Facebook. In fact, her speech at the SRLC this month spoke almost entirely to policy, including Afghanistan and the foreign policy bungling of the White House, when many expected her to focus more on politics and the integration (or lack thereof) of the Tea Party and Republicans.

Certainly, one can disagree with Palin on policy, or demand deeper explanations. But the notion that Palin doesn’t address policy at all is an argument that qualifies someone as a “political ignorant” - but it’s not Sarah Palin.

The good news for Matthew is that he's on a network that's so bad that even his doormat ratings and nightly demonstrations of ignorance and stupidity aren't even an embarrassment. Another bright spot is he doesn't even have to put that on his resume. It's common knowledge to all but the 20 percent of Americans who fall under the demographic heading of "moonbat."

- JP

Stuart Schwartz: Chris Matthews, the Jews and Sarah Palin

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Good stuff from Stewart Schwartz on Chris "Tweety Bird" Matthews, who just can't abide those Joooos and the gentiles -- Sarah Palin in particular -- who love them. Excerpts:

Matthews has long used his television platform to spotlight the danger to the United States posed by Israel and American Jews who actively conspire against the country. Call it "The Protocols of Chris Matthews," or, perhaps, "The Protocols of the Elders of MSNBC." Rid us of Israel, rid us of Jews, and Pandora will return to its pre-kosher bliss.

He plays the same role on behalf of the Democratic Party that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion played more than a century ago for the Russian empire. This set of anti-Semitic documents was put together by a Russian government that hoped to blame Jews for the growing unrest it faced at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The problem, of course, was not Jews; rather, it was a Russian elite that acquired power and wealth by stealing from its citizens. In other words, we're talking early-day versions of Obama and Pelosi, in fur-lined hats and Coronation Herald boots, squeezing the rubles out of every Tom, Dick, and Ivan.

And now, a century later, Chris Matthews does the same thing for Democratic and media elites, attacking those with Jewish-sounding names who are behind Republican opposition, Tea Parties, and Sarah Palin. Especially Sarah Palin, she of the Israeli flag in her office and the Israel lapel pin that shouts "dual loyalty," a theme of Matthews.

Matthews hates Palin with a passion aroused, in part, by her admiration of the pluck, character, and accomplishments of Israel. Jews, she puts Jews first, he screams...but only because she is ignorant and illiterate, an "empty" head filled by Jewish conservatives with pro-Israel poison on those policy cruises hosted by conservative media.

Why, all those "neocons" with Jewish names, doing the bidding of the Israel Lobby and conservative media. You can't fool Matthews: He knows -- knows, I tell you -- that the Palins are always there with their nets when the gefilte fish are running in Bristol Bay off the coast of Alaska.

The full op-ed is worth the read at the American Thinker blog.

- JP

Chris Matthews has completely lost his mind...again

All of the cheese has slid off of Chris Matthews' Wheat Thin. We know that at one time, the man had some serviceable brain cells. He wouldn't have lasted six years as one of former House Speaker Tip O'Neil's top aides without them. It was not a job that a crazy or stupid person could hold down. But that was a long time ago...

In the radical leftist fever swamp that is MSNBC prime time, Matthews has lost his marbles - the entire bag of them. We're not sure at what point Tweety went 'round the bend, but the tingle up his leg was an indication that something was seriously wrong with the big lug. We never knew that insanity was contagious, but a great deal of Keith Olbermann's madness seems to have infected Matthews, and it just keeps on getting worse. And now with Ed Schultz freely roaming the halls of the network, the process can do nothing but snowball. Who would have guessed that when Rachel Maddow was brought on board, that she would be the least unhinged in the loony lineup of the Not Ready for Prime Time Pundits?

Matthews' latest PDS weirdness is documented here and here.

Perhaps there is something truly maddening about being paid good money and yet having cable ratings that are down there with The Origami Channel...

- JP