Maybe his leg has stopped tingling

[Monkeyleg]

Chris Matthews was ranting about Obama's speech, the teleprompter, and Obama's failure to connect with his audience.

I guess that thrill may be gone, huh?

A short clip is here

[Perd Hapley]

I can't really even focus on the topic, when Chris Matthews is rambling.  There's just too much frenzied frustration in his mannerisms.  It's as if his dream of a philosopher-king-black-avenger is being slowly beaten to death without even putting up a fight, as he is forced to watch.  And he can do nothing to stop it.  Is it panic I sense in his face and voice? 

And at the same time I'm giggling from schadenfreude, and because he says, "Your thoughts?" and keeps speaking for another twenty-five seconds. 

[Monkeyleg]

Not a Chris Matthews fan?

[Perd Hapley]

Dude, I saw him interviewed in a PBS show, and even there he looked like the crazed, paranoid, angry uncle you wish would stay home on Thanksgiving.

Kinda the way my neighbors must think of me. 

[dm1333]

Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow = 

[roo_ster]

Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow = 

[Angel Eyes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gDeGdQ3rM

[French G.]

Rachel does not have a crank...I think.

[roo_ster]

Rachel does not have a crank...I think.

Maybe not, but she IS a crank.

[RaspberrySurprise]

Rachel does not have a crank...I think.

Have you... checked?

[seeker_two]

Rachel does not have a crank...I think.

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/wp-content/gallery/media-hacks/rachel_maddow.jpg

Hard to tell....she looks like she graduated from the Janet Reno School of Beauty...

[grampster]

Every time I see that Matthews clip I'm reminded of a bit on SNL by Robert Klein, the comedian ......

Robert Klein: Give me some blues!

[ the SNL Band plays some blue sounds behind Klein, as he repeatedly raises and stomps his right leg to the beat. He raises a harmonica and maintains a rhythm with the band before singing the solo. ]

Robert Klein: [ singing ]
"I can't stop my leg!
I can't stop my leg, babe!
I can't stop my leg!
I can't stop my leg, pretty babe."

[ harmonica ]

"Can you stop my leg?"

[ the band strikes a beat, as Klein stills his leg on the stage ]

"My leg stopped!
Woo-hoo, thank the Lord.
I want to thank the Lord for stoppin' my leg.
Woo-hoo, yeah!"

[ his leg begin stomping again, as the band accompanies the beat ]

"There it goes again!
There, there it goes again!
There, there, there it goes
There it goes again..!"

[Scout26]

If the conservatives watching CNN, MSNBC, et al. just to keep an eye on them, ever stopped watching, they'd lose 75-80% of their audience/ratings.

[BReilley]

Dude, I saw him interviewed in a PBS show, and even there he looked like the crazed, paranoid, angry uncle you wish would stay home on Thanksgiving.

No doubt.  When I first saw him I thought:
He's the bug-eyed, pompous, guest-abusing, self-aggrandizing prick that liberals(in my experience) imagine that Rush Limbaugh is.

I thought he was the worst they could offer, until that Dylan Ratigan guy showed up.

Ugh.

[Hutch]

Ya can't compare then and now, but back in the Ould Dayes, Matthews was one of the few MSMers that was taking ol' Billy Jeff to task on his dalliances in the White House.  He even pointed out that if a Republican lawmaker or a CEO (almost said "head of a major corporation", mah bad) was caught in such circumstances, he'd have been poop-canned within hours.  I guess he's lost his way...

[dm1333]

Maybe not, but she IS a crank.

Winch cranks, crankshafts and all other sorts of useful cranks around the world are protesting being lumped in with these three!

[Perd Hapley]

Ya can't compare then and now, but back in the Ould Dayes, Matthews was one of the few MSMers that was taking ol' Billy Jeff to task on his dalliances in the White House.  He even pointed out that if a Republican lawmaker or a CEO (almost said "head of a major corporation", mah bad) was caught in such circumstances, he'd have been poop-canned within hours.  I guess he's lost his way...

He never knew the way.  He just feels special when he's "speaking truth to power." 

[Monkeyleg]

..."speaking truth to power."

If I hear that expression one more time I'm going to explode.

[Angel Eyes]

If I hear that expression one more time I'm going to explode.

"Speaking truth to power"

 

[Perd Hapley]

It doesn't make you feel special?

[sanglant]

how about we print truth out on card stock, and shove truth up power's.......

[Monkeyleg]

It doesn't make you feel special?

We have to think outside the box. If we can wrap our arms around the "truth to power" expression, we can pick the low hanging fruit, and make it a win-win situation.

We need to start with a blank sheet of paper and do some blue sky thinking about the expression. Let's have a brain dump and get first mover advantage.

[seeker_two]

"Speaking truth to power"

 

Way to break out the literary detcord, Angel.... 

[AmbulanceDriver]

We have to think outside the box. If we can wrap our arms around the "truth to power" expression, we can pick the low hanging fruit, and make it a win-win situation.

We need to start with a blank sheet of paper and do some blue sky thinking about the expression. Let's have a brain dump and get first mover advantage.

OK, seriously?  I think I had three, maybe four aneurysms reading that paragraph.


I need something in about an 80 proof or better now....

[grampster]

We have to think outside the box. If we can wrap our arms around the "truth to power" expression, we can pick the low hanging fruit, and make it a win-win situation.

We need to start with a blank sheet of paper and do some blue sky thinking about the expression. Let's have a brain dump and get first mover advantage.

Not sustainable, Monkeyleg, not sustainable.