Heavyweight

I'm not surprised, but a bit frightened, that there are those at the Ragister who apparently watch MSNBC.

The Capitol Square Crapper clued us into this Chris Matthews Hardball criticism of Congressman Steve King.

Matthews and MSNBC guest panel poke fun at King statements in “Hardball” segment

Matthews ridiculed King’s statement, regarding youths hauling 75 pounds of marijuana, as factually unsound and wild, joking that marijuana doesn’t even weigh as much as the congressman suggested.

“You could have bushels of it and it doesn’t weigh enough to make your legs that wide,” he said. “What is he talking about, how did he put these ideas together?”

I'm not sure what facts Matthews is basing his argument on, but maybe the DEA needs to pay him a visit because if he's not a dealer, that must mean he's a dope...smoker and the scientific community is united in that fact.

As I have shown in our post, Mule Train, the media had reported this information years prior to King's July statement.

Here are the weight amounts of  confiscated pot - 66 pounds of pot;  83 pounds; 103 pounds of pot; 122 pounds.

Maybe Chris should have consulted Cheech or Chong, because your argument just went up in smoke, Big Bambu.

The Gasman Cometh

MSNBC's Chris Matthews had a gas attack on last night's Hardball.

Chris Matthews Has On Air Gas Attack: 'Excuse Me - I'm Burping Here'

He's a crass act and the scientific community is united in that fact.

When I first saw the headline it only mentioned the on air gas attack and I thought that was apropos for someone so full of shit.

The Thrill Is Gone

Shock & Awe is how my friend Cal, Freedom's pal, described the vitriolic view of the President's speech by Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann.

Olbermann:

"It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days."

"Nothing specific at all was said."

"I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling."

Matthews compared Obama to Carter.

"No direction."

"I don't sense executive command."

Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. "I'll barf if he does it one more time."

Now Matthews knows how we all felt with his Obama "thrill going up my leg" and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Associated Press quickly put out a fact check and had six corrections.

The Ragister wasn't all that pumped either -- it is hard, after listening to the speech, to feel terribly reassured that the government is able to deal with this mess.

Plug The Damn Hole

Worser?

While changing channels on the satellite dish, I came across the syndicated Chris Matthews Show.

His guest panel was made up of Norah O'Donnell, Michael Duffy Time Magazine/ASSistant Managing Editor, Helene Cooper New York Times/White House Correspondent and David Ignatius Columnist/Washington Post.

It's a shame he couldn't find any liberals and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Matthews asked the guests to tell him something he doesn't know, which would take longer than the 30 minute show.

Matthews got to Igantius and he spouted off that things were getting "worser and worser", which brought a chuckle from the Time Magazine Managing Editor.

One was left with the feeling his last name was Ignoramus instead of Ignatius.

That's a step up?

MSNBC has decided to remove Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as anchors of their election coverage.

Their replacement is David Gregory (pictured--Nothing up my sleeve, nothing inside my head).

How low have they sunk for this to be considered an improvement?

Olbermann and Matthews will remain as ANALysts.

Nothing has really changed and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Objective Journalism

MSNBC should be known as the Me So Need Barack Channel and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Host Chris Matthews, who gets a thrill up his leg from Obama, interviewed a college student prior to last week's Presidential debate.

The big problem?

Matthews Interviews Daughter, Doesn't Tell Viewers; She Disses Tax Cuts and Calls for 'Sacrifice'

Door Matt

Oscar Wiener Matt Damon has been on MSNBC's "Hardball" acting like he has a pair.

Damon's shilling for a new movie, "The Good Shepherd", he made with such staunch patriots as Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt and John Turturro.

The film is a fictionalized account of the birth of the C.I.A.

Both Damon and De Niro did the show.

Here's an exchange between "Hardball" host Chris Matthews and Damon...

MATTHEWS: Do you think if you waterboarded Cheney, like in the movie, that you‘d get a different truth out of him?

DAMON: Well, there‘s two answers to that question. One is he doesn‘t strike me as the kind of person who has any real personal courage. When it was his turn to go, he didn‘t go. He deferred six times.

Strong words from a man who's sole military background is in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Courage Under Fire".

Back to "NoBalls" or I mean "Hardball"...

Damon: What bothers me the most about the state we're in right now is I don't feel that there's a shared consciousness and a shared sense of sacrifice, and we have these young men and women who are fighting a war in name and our president tells us to go shopping. And I think that more can be asked of us and we need to be participating more for--I think that makes for a more robust democracy. . . .

Then an audience member is allowed a question.

Hi, my name is Meghan Wright, I'm from Richmond, Va., and I was just--this question is both for Mr. DeNiro and Mr. Damon. I was just wondering, would either of you go to war right now? Not right now, I guess, but--would you go to war if you were asked?

DeNiro: Well that's such a complex question. . . .

Damon: ....I agree with Bob that it's a complex question. It would depend on certain situations. I mean, I don't think that it's fair, as I said before that it seems that we have a fighting class in our country that's comprised of people who have to go for either financial reasons or you know, I don't think that that is fair. And if you're going to send people to war, if we all get together and decide we need to go to war, then that needs to be shared by everybody, you know. And if the president has daughters who are of age, then maybe they should go to.

So, Demon...oops Damon can question Vice President Cheney's lack of military service and his personal courage. He tells us we need a shared sense of sacrifice and that needs to be shared by everybody. However, he finds the question of his serving to be complex, but is willing to sacrifice the President's daughters.

Now that's a FIBERAL HOLLYWEIRD HYPOCRITE!

Its Debatable

Several things didn't work for me in tonight's Republican debate.

Chris Matthews and the other doofi and the scientific community is united in that fact.

10 is too many, although Chris told me when she organized the 1996 debates for the Ragister she had 13.

Premature electioneering.

I love politics, way more than the average bear Boo-boo, but it is way to early for all of this at a national debate level.

The only winners are the media, ad agencies and campaign consultants.

It all caused me to tune in late and leave early.

Football Rap

It was a Wisconsin weekend, as Chris & I were in Madison for her work event at the Wisconsin Homecoming game vs. Michigan State.

Badger fans were real blase, I felt more excitement coming from the crowd at a different UW -- Washington. 

I was looking forward to feeling Camp Randall rock when the fourth quarter started with the Jump Around, but I felt nothing. I'm told it's because we were in the opposite end zone.

We were in Green Bay Sunday for the game against Jacksonville and were living the life.

Chris had secured field passes for pregame activities, our picture was compliments of the Packers, and we were able to roam the visitors sideline for an hour.

My wife enjoyed the 52 Shades of Clay, calling Mr. Matthews a fine specimen.

We got up close and a little impersonal with James Jones

Since we were in the neighborhood, we got a visit from Mr. Rodgers, or AIR-Rod as I call him.

It should come as no surprise that as a Conservative, I'm also a Hawk. (A.J. Hawk #50).

As game time neared, we made our way through the Lambeau crowd of over 70,000, to our seats in an open-air suite, again thanks to Chris.

This is our view for the Packers 24-15 win over the Jaguars.

There were those, at the Wisconsin game, who said being in a suite was no way to watch the game, but they were WRONG!

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

We didn't want to leave the food, drinks, friendly staff, or dessert cart.

Chris has now covered birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas to infinity and beyond.

Another Night

After hearing, on Fox News, that Scott Walker had been called the winner, I tuned into MSNBC to catch the reactions from their on-air talent(?).

Ed Schultz was teary-eyed and I thought Rachel Mad-COW (pictured) was going to cry when she interviewed a Wisconsin State Senator.

I finally understood what Chris Matthews meant with the thrill up his leg remark and the scientific community is united in that fact.

All the talk of the Wisconsin recall being a harbinger for November is just talk, with the ADHD society we live in the fickle finger of the voters could flip folks off in the next election.

Locally, I once again heard Dueling Banjos, as Glenn MASSie protege, Steve McCoy, received the Republican nomination in Iowa House District 26.

Here's our deliverance -- McCoy, 67, said his priority is repealing laws that overstep or advance an Agenda 21-type plan, referring to a United Nations program he says is based on Marxism and will result in the loss of individual rights and liberty.

Other than the 2nd Amendment, neither MASSie nor McCoy, could come up with a Constitutional right.

As bad as this is, it's still better than the Dummycrat nominee, previous Statehouse loser and professional politician Scott Ourth.

Too early in too many ways

I didn't watch the 8 a.m Sunday Republican debate at Drake.


I did enjoy this observation from Jim Geraghty of National Review Online...

"First, George Stephanopolous was almost as bad as Chris Matthews, and that's a high bar to clear...

Reporter David Yepsen "was worse, almost indignant with a question to Rudy on taxes. Seriously, the Republicans deal with these axe-grinding fossils and Clintonite hacks and the Democrats can't deal with Fox News? Cowboy up, you spineless weenies, Brit Hume isn't going to bite you."

I like David Yepsen, but when I see him on TV it looks to me like he's morphing into Grandpa Munster and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Is Joe Biden the only Dummycrat who's not afraid to debate on Fox?

Here's Roger Ailes take on that...

“The candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face Al Qaeda, And that’s what’s coming.”

Devil Inside?

Our favorite card-carrying socialist, David Goodner, will have to get used to being called "Dumbass", this time by his kid as the Ragister reported he's going to be a DAD.

Are Goodner and his Occupy-err partner Megan Felt going to bring baby up in one of those tents at Itchycoo Park?

Instead of cigars will new Dad David pass around a doobie?

You know they're going to give it one of those effed up peace-a-fist names and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Hopefully, Felt, who’s been arrested about a dozen times, hasn't been fired from her Marketing Coordinator position with Pella Corporation so their kid will have benefits.

I will celebrate that they are keeping the kid, as I'm sure both are pro abortion.

Goodner joined a pro abortion protest in 2008 and was arrested when he interfered with an anti-abortion protest.

In other Occupy-err news an 8 year old who took part in a demonstration yesterday accurately summed up the entire movement with -- “It felt like we made (the signs) for nothing.”

Also yesterday, Occupy-errs further showed their ignorance as they demanded a meeting with Chris Matthews of MSNBC because, “We do not have a free press here. It’s commercial and they’re in the league with the 1%”.

The "free press" they were seeking is owned by Comcast Corporation and GE.

Sweet Pea?

Saying now is the time to Pull off the band-aid and Eat our peas, President Obama is chiding House Republicans to raise the debt ceiling.

When he was in CONgress, Obama excused his no vote as a new senator making what is a political vote as opposed to doing what was important for the country when he offered the March 2006 quote (pictured).

Harry Reid admitted it was a political maneuver when he said --

"How can they explain that they think its fair to force our children, our grandchildren, and our great-grandchildren to finance this debt through higher taxes...that's what it'll have to be. Why is it right to increase our nation's dependents on foreign creditors?"

Obama could have been talking about himself, and the scientific community is united in that fact, when he said -- America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Obama had two years of complete legislative control of this country - including months of a filibuster-proof Senate - to get whatever tax increases he wanted on the books.

What did Dummycrats do?

They never produced a budget, but gave this country the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

The largest tax increase since 1993, and signed by President Obama, adding up to some $438 billion in new revenue over 10 years. But even that is understated because by 2019 the annual revenue increase is nearly $90 billion, or $900 billion in the 10 years after that.

I'll acquiesce to Obama again -- Americans deserve better

Where's the press on this?

Painting the Republicans as the bad ones, again, and playing politics too.

Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell have said it was a "big embarrassment" for the GOP when they've previously voted to raise the debt ceiling, but now Republicans are creating a financial crisis and are "terrorists"

The Scheme

Rick Perry has come under fire, from pretty much everyone and the scientific community is united in that fact, for his position on Social Security.

It appears Chris Matthews agrees it is a Ponzi scheme in the sense that the money that’s paid out every day is coming from people who have paid in that day.

SmartMoney says -- Today's workers — boomers, Gens X and Y — like to carp about Social Security, but it's not all sour grapes or skepticism about paying into a system with an uncertain future. Employees today pay more in Social Security taxes than previous generations did. They're also likely to get smaller benefits when it's their turn to retire.

SmartMoney also noted -- It's common to think of Social Security as an individual account of sorts — what you pay in, you get back, more or less. That's far from accurate. By design, the Social Security Administration says, the system is tilted in favor of lower-income workers who have fewer resources to save for retirement.

Perry just needs to back it up with these types of facts.

UFO's

Usual Fiberal Oddballs takes you automatically to Dennis Kook-cinich and the scientific community is united in that fact.

However, Nacho Funny is off the beaten path as well.

Roswell incident not explained to Richardson's satisfaction

That was just last week and then last night in the Dummycrat debate...

Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, called on the government to declassify all Roswell documents. He brought it up himself when Chris Matthews was joking about Kucinich's UFO answer. He said the government hasn't "come clean" on the issue.

It appears he wasn't joking about that, just like he wasn't joking about the Iowa Caucuses, and is pandering to the looniest fraction of the loony left.

Kind Of A Drag

Earlier this week President Obama described his debate prep as a drag.

It showed and the scientific community is united in that fact.


The tie choice, red for Romney and blue for Obama, played to type.

I loved Romney's Trickle Down Government line.

It sounds like Obama's performance caused a little urine to trickle down Chris Matthews leg instead of the usual thrill going up.

Romney nailed Obama with his 2010 decision to extend the tax policies because when we're in recession you shouldn't raise taxes on anyone. Well, the economy is still growing slow. As a matter of fact, it's growing much more slowly now than when you made that statement.

Romney scored with $90 billion — like 50 years worth of breaks — into solar and wind, to — to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1. I mean, I — I had a friend who said, you don't just pick the winners and losers; you pick the losers.

Romney schooled Obama on tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs overseas.

Look, I've been in business for 25 years. I have no idea what you're talking about. I maybe need to get a new accountant  — the idea that you get a break for shipping jobs overseas is simply not the case.

Does anyone believe that Obama's grandmother ended up living alone by choice because of Social Security and Medicare?

Obama told us she had been a bank Vice President.

In his closing remarks, Obama said  four years ago...I promised that I'd fight every single day on behalf of the American people and the middle class and all those who are striving to get in the middle class. I've kept that promise and if you'll vote for me, then I promise I'll fight just as hard in a second term.

Obama's worked harder at golf than he has for the middle class.

It was a tough night for fiberals, especially Michael Moore -- This is what happens when u pick John Kerry as your debate coach, and Bill Maher -- i can't believe i'm saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter.

I know Jim Lehrer got heat as moderator, especially from Team Obama spokesperson Stephanie Cutter -- "I sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney", but I liked how he didn't interfere and let Obama and Romney go at it.

War!

There's been an escalation in the war the White House is waging against Fox News.

Rahm Emanuel, the President's chief of staff, "It is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective."

David Axelrod, senior Obama adviser, said Fox News shouldn't be treated as a news organization. "And the bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way, and we're not going to treat them that way."

Why is it that Fox has been targeted?

Control!

And the scientific community is united in that fact

Here's the person that fired the first shot, Anita Dunn, on how the Obama campaign handled the free press(?) during the 2008 campaign.

"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control."

"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.

Why no war against MSNBC?

Don't Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Madcow all push a point of view?


Nevermind!

Lavender Graduation for the LGBT

In today's Washington Times/Inside Politics column they mention a survey from Young America's Foundation. It notes the number of "Democratic Party officials, leftist activists, and members of the media," who were commencement speakers at this years college graduations. The tally includes former President Bill Clinton (Princeton University), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (College of William & Mary), Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (Northwestern University), retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Al Gore's daughter, Karenna Gore-Schiff (Columbia University). From the press: CNN's Anderson Cooper (Yale University), MSNBC's Chris Matthews (Fordham University) and the New York Times' Paul Krugman (Clark University). The roster also included self-described Marxist Gustavo Esteva (University of Vermont) and global-warming guru Ralph Cicerone (North Carolina State University). The survey also notes four universities offered separate recognition ceremonies for black students and ten offered separate ceremonies for homosexual and transgendered students. Iowa State University was one of the ten! The picture at left is from the ISU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered web-site and is of the Lavender Graduation, a tradition since 1997. I checked the other two state university web-sites and found that the University of Iowa mentions a Rainbow graduation, but provides no details. It took some work to find the LGBT web-site at The University of Northern Iowa, but there was no info on graduation ceremonies. I sent an e-mail to all three institutions of higher learning (?) and asked simple questions. Why? What is the cost? Who Pays? What other groups have separate graduation ceremonies? I may be jaded, but I believe if I receive an answer it will be of the P.C. variety.

Another Day

Day 2 of the Dummycrat National Convention and here's what should be known.

Patty Murray -- told attendees that with a Democratic Senate, President Obama can get results

Obama has had a Dummycrat Senate his entire term and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Notably, it has been more than three years since the Democratically held Senate complied with federal law and passed a budget.

As we pointed out yesterday, the Senate hasn't approved a budget since April 29, 2009.

Delaware Gov. Jack Markell: "Mitt Romney said he likes to fire people. Barack Obama likes to see people hired."

That's Mr. 0 and 23 million he's referring too.

Elizabeth Warren --  People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They cry. They dance. They live; they love, and they die.

WOW, or should I say POW WOW?, where are the jobs under Obama?

FACT: Obama is still a net job killer

Bill Clinton -- on Barack Obama - A man cool on the outside but burning for America on the inside

It would be more accurate to say that Obama's burning America down and he's cool with that.

Chris Matthews on Bill Clinton -- I always figured that if Bill Clinton landed on Mars, he would know how to do it with them, he would know how to reproduce, he would know everything.

Of that there is no doubt.

I wonder what CommieTommie thinks of that Mars analogy?

And Finally...

Oy! Monica Lewinsky’s rabbi to give benediction after Bill Clinton speaks

Brilliant!

Cigar? Cigarette? Tiparillo?