Chris Matthews remains an insufferable windbag. But this is funny — though I began to feel bad for the poor winger as the segment wore on and on and on.
Via TPM.
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May 15, 2008 at 6:25 pm
dude, stop digging. by surya yalamanchili’s weblog
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May 15, 2008 at 6:29 pm
surya
ari: my fave yet. i’ve posted.
May 15, 2008 at 7:36 pm
eric
Chris Matthews? You put up Chris Matthews for our 500th post?
May 15, 2008 at 7:45 pm
american | Chinese Medicine
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May 15, 2008 at 7:48 pm
ari
I know. Sorry. Where’s the fanfare? Where are the rose petals? Shouldn’t someone drop some balloons? All we get is Tweety blowing as hard as usual. And not even the good Tweety.
May 15, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Cala
toot!
May 15, 2008 at 8:25 pm
standpipe
Kobe!
May 15, 2008 at 8:26 pm
ari
Thanks, Cala and standpipe. You’re the bestest.
May 15, 2008 at 8:30 pm
eric
Yes, we ♥ you.
May 15, 2008 at 8:33 pm
eric
I actually quite like what Matthews decided to do there. He should do that more often.
May 15, 2008 at 8:43 pm
greg in ak
yes matthews is a jerk, but this is fantastic. imagine asking some blow hard to actually display actual knowledge instead of his insufferable opinions. this kind of thing should happen all the time. show some facts, some learning then you get to state your dumb opinion.
for today, only today, Matthews is my hero.
May 15, 2008 at 9:45 pm
urbino
Matthews just did this to appease the left-liberal leftosphere.
May 15, 2008 at 9:46 pm
urbino
More seriously, the problem with Matthews doing this more often is that there seems to be so much actual knowledge Matthews himself doesn’t possess.
May 16, 2008 at 1:33 am
andrew
Chamberlain was an appeaser. Enough said. You guys are all a bunch of elitist knowledge valuers.
May 16, 2008 at 2:14 am
Ben Alpers
More seriously, the problem with Matthews doing this more often is that there seems to be so much actual knowledge Matthews himself doesn’t possess.
Which is why Matthews instantly saw through Kevin James. Tweety is also a blowhard and a bully, so he knows one when he sees one. Chris Matthews is higher up the pundit food chain than Kevin James. He’s just asserting that status here.
Watching this is like watching two dogs sniffing each other, one figuring out that he can roll the other one, and then doing it just to assert dominance.
May 16, 2008 at 2:16 am
Ben Alpers
You guys are all a bunch of elitist knowledge valuers.
Indeed! And we’re all bitter, too.
Or we think that working-class, shot-and-a-beer types are bitter.
Or something like that, sweetie!
May 16, 2008 at 5:10 am
standpipe
My dad taught me how to shoot, and to drink shots, and to hurl, and to hurl the discus, and to do the shot-put.
May 16, 2008 at 5:40 am
Kevin Levin
I guess yelling at the top of your lungs is sometimes not sufficient.
May 16, 2008 at 5:59 am
CharleyCarp
Oh I’m sure the guy’s listening audience wouldn’t mind this at all.
Well, he may be a fool, but he’s our fool
And if they think they’re better than him, they’re wrong
May 16, 2008 at 6:28 am
Matt Lungerhausen
Wow, this is great!
I think I will show this to my western civ class in the fall. “See, this is why you need to know a little bit of history. So as to at least not make a fool out of yourself in public like that chump Kevin James.”
May 16, 2008 at 7:01 am
Addy
Was hat Chamberlain gemacht, das so falsch war?
May 16, 2008 at 7:47 am
Ben Alpers
Was hat Chamberlain gemacht, das so falsch war?
Was hat Chamberlain gemacht, daß so falsch war?
(I think this qualifies me as an Advanced Grammar Nazi!)
May 16, 2008 at 7:48 am
Ben Alpers
….though perhaps one who is forgetting his German grammar ;-)
May 16, 2008 at 9:05 am
eric
the problem with Matthews doing this more often is that there seems to be so much actual knowledge Matthews himself doesn’t possess.
Except you don’t have to know the answer to the question to know it’s a question you should ask. (Matthews didn’t have to know much—notice, for example, how he slides from Borah to Chamberlain, which I would guess he does because he feels on firmer ground with Chamberlain. But he could have achieved the same end by asking, simply, what is appeasement? what are you afraid will happen if Barack Obama has talks with unfriendly powers?)
And if you ask it, and your interlocutor has no answer, you’ve done a useful chore for the day.
May 16, 2008 at 9:16 am
charlieford
“I think I will show this to my western civ class in the fall.” That can be dangerously dispiriting, when they respond with a shrug and a “whatever.” What we’re seeing here is Ronald-”facts are stupid things”-Reagan’s brand of conservatism melding with post-modernism and cast as an X-er/slacker insouciance. At the moment this Jamesianism is chastened, thanks to Bush/Iraq, but we have short memories, and they’ll be back and running the joint in a few years. Oh, and by the way? For all of us enjoying the first blush of summer vacation? Just remember–fall term is right around the corner. Every day that passes takes you closer to it.
May 16, 2008 at 12:46 pm
urbino
But he could have achieved the same end by asking, simply, what is appeasement? what are you afraid will happen if Barack Obama has talks with unfriendly powers?
I’m not sure that’s true. If you don’t know what Chamberlain — for good or ill, “Chamberlain” = “appeasement” in our current discourse — did, you don’t know that what Obama proposes is not that. You can’t distinguish A from non-A, which, aside from revealing James as a buffoon, is the useful end Tweety accomplished.
Putting the question as you have it above only gives James an open-ended opportunity to continue braying.
May 16, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Matt Lungerhausen
Hey! Charlieford, lighten up on the insouciance comments… I’m a gen X-er with a PhD, so please go easy on our alleged slackness and inability to deal with the facts.
But yes, the Millenniums are chastened. Its like ‘91 when we all graduated into the worst employment market for 20-somethings since the great depression of ‘29 (as opposed to the Great Depression of 1873…) I watched ten seniors graduate into unemployment this May. They know what they score is and that they’ll have to work harder to get less. I think they have an appreciation for ‘the facts’ since they have no jobs.
My apologies for the comment about fall semester. The longest stretch of my summer was May 8th. It was terrible for me to mention the ebbing away of time. A thousand Pardons.
May 16, 2008 at 6:35 pm
charlieford
I think I’ll use it too, we’ll see what happens. And I didn’t mean all X-ers are insouciant. Heck, I don’t even know what that is.
May 18, 2008 at 4:43 am
Shawn
I didn’t feel bad for Kevin James at all. He walked into that with his eyes open, and got called on it. Unexpected!
May 18, 2008 at 12:12 pm
eric
Putting the question as you have it above only gives James an open-ended opportunity to continue braying.
I don’t know, I think it depends on the questioner; you should be able to tell if you have received a substantive answer even if you don’t know historical details.
I grant that what Matthews accomplished is better.