Matthews vs Rep John Campbell re: Rep Posey bill

July 22, 2009

Updated list of birth certificate posts
Matthews & Rudy Giuliani (video/transcription)
Matthews, Dee Dee Myers & Blankley (video)
Matthews & Axelrod (video/text/body language)

Chris Matthews going full bore at the birthers trying to protect barry. He doesn’t even stop to question why barry hasn’t just released his actual birth certificate like he has been claiming for the last year he did. Here he’s going after Rep John Campbell (R-CA), who is one of the nine co-sponsors of Rep Posey’s birth certificate bill that would simply require FUTURE presidential and vice presidential candidates to present their birth certificates. It has nothing to do with barry (this term) but the democrats and barrymedia want to make it that way. Matthews shows his lack of knowledge by calling it a birth CERTIFICATE and sayong NATIVE-born not natural born. Somebody should really clue him in.

MSNBC TRANSCRIPT & Video

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MATTHEWS: Plus, we‘re going to look at the so-called “birther” movement, the people who somehow believe that Barack Obama does not have a birth certificate and therefore isn‘t a U.S. citizen, certainly not a natural-born U.S. citizen. Most of those birthers are Republicans, and this is becoming a big problem for the party.

MATTHEWS: Take a look at this incredible video from a recent town hall meeting in Delaware with Republican congressman Mike Castle, in which a woman brandishing her own birth certificate makes her case.

MATTHEWS: I think we‘re in an insane asylum. Anyway, it gets worse. The real problem is that what‘s left of the Republican base is very open to this kind of fringe talk. We‘re going to talk and show you more about that video, more of what you just saw from that person later in the show tonight.

MATTHEWS: You think right-wing conspiracy theories about President Obama calmed down after he was elected? Well, think again. Moderate Republican congressman Mike Castle, the former governor of Delaware, held a town hall meeting in his state and he got more than he bargained for from some of his constituents. Take a listen to this.

Video of Rep Castle’s Townhall meeting.

MATTHEWS: Well, they‘re just giving the Pledge of Allegiance apropos the sort of the nut case going on there. Anyway, nutty questions about the president‘s birth certificate are being raised not only at Republican town meetings, but also in Congress, where a group of Republicans are sponsoring a bill to require future presidential candidates to provide their birth certificates. One of those Republicans is Congressman John Campbell of California.

Congressman, thank you for joining us. The reason this is fascinating is that meeting. But let me tell you, the prime sponsor of this, your colleague, Bill Posey of Indiana—[It's Florida] here‘s what he said. “I can‘t swear on a stack of Bibles whether he‘s a citizen or not.” He‘s talking about the president of the United States. His spokesman says, If the guy would produce an authentic birth certificate, an authentic birth certificate, we could stop all this. And then Congressman—Congresswoman Blackburn says people in her district in Tennessee are losing faith in the American system because they don‘t believe this guy is a citizen.

[He puts the bill together with barry]

What is going on that so many Americans doubt the obvious, that Barack Obama is a citizen, to the point that you felt it necessary to co-sponsor this crazy proposal?

REP. JOHN CAMPBELL ®, CALIFORNIA: First of all, Chris—we‘ll get to the proposal in a minute. The proposal is not crazy. The proposal is just looking forward, and I want to get to that. But wouldn‘t you like to put all this to rest? That‘s what this proposal is about.

MATTHEWS: How does this put it to rest?

CAMPBELL: This controversy—let me first say this controversy is not new. Remember there was questions about John McCain. Had John McCain become president—I remember then Senator Obama had to come out and say, Look, I don‘t think John McCain‘s eligibility to be president is an issue, and he was able to put it to rest. But the fact is, if John McCain had become president, you‘d be having this issue on the other side. If you want to go back, people thought that Barry Goldwater was not qualified because he was born in the Arizona Territory and that Mitt Romney‘s father, George Romney, was not eligible to be president because he was born in Mexico.

[McCain brought the issue up himself and provided his birth certificate.]

So, this is not a new issue. What this bill does is very simple.

It‘s only looking forward, as you suggested. It‘s 2012 and beyond.

MATTHEWS: Right.

CAMPBELL: And it just—it—well, let me back up.

You know, the Constitution, as you know, there‘s lots—most elements of the Constitution have implementing legislation. This particular element of the Constitution does not. And this is just implementing legislation…

MATTHEWS: Right.

CAMPBELL: … just saying, look, before you run for president, let‘s make sure—let‘s have you substantiate that you meet the constitutional requirements, that you‘re 35 years old…

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Why is that crazy though, Chris?

MATTHEWS: Congressman, nice try. But what you‘re doing…

CAMPBELL: Well…

MATTHEWS: It‘s a nice try, what you‘re offering. And I‘m laughing with you only to this extent, because I know it‘s a nice try.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: What you‘re doing is appeasing the nutcases. As you just pointed out, this won‘t prove or disprove whether Barack Obama is a citizen. By the way, let me show you his birth certificate.

CAMPBELL: Right.

MATTHEWS: That‘s the way to deal with it. Mail this birth certificate to the wacko wing of your party, so they see it and say, I agree with this. It‘s over. What you‘re doing here is doing what the Republicans did after Roosevelt got elected to a third and fourth term. You said, you can‘t do it again. You‘re verifying the paranoia out there. You‘re saying to the people, you‘re right. That‘s a reasonable question, whether he‘s a citizen or not.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Is it a reasonable question, Senator—Congressman? Do you believe it‘s a reasonable question whether Barack Obama is a legitimate native-born American? Is that a legitimate question?

CAMPBELL: Chris, isn‘t it a legitimate question? And, let me ask you, isn‘t it a legitimate question to know…

MATTHEWS: Is it? Here is his birth certificate.

CAMPBELL: Chris, Chris, if—anybody who runs for president, you, me, whoever, that we meet the constitutional requirements, 35 years of age, been a resident of the country for 15 years, whatever it is, and a natural-born citizen. Don‘t you think anybody that who runs for president should—wouldn‘t you want to know that, that they meet those requirements before they run? What‘s wrong with that?

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: OK. Let me ask you this. Do you have any doubts, Congressman, about the authentic native birth in this country of our president? Do you have any doubts?

CAMPBELL: Chris, my—it doesn‘t matter whether I have doubts or not.

MATTHEWS: Do you have any doubts?

CAMPBELL: It doesn‘t matter at all.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Oh, you won‘t answer the simple question. See, that feeds this.

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: I agree with what…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: No, no. You are feeding the wacko wing of your party. Do you believe that Barack Obama is a legitimate native-born American or not?

CAMPBELL: That is not what this bill is about, Chris.

MATTHEWS: No, what do you believe?

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: As far as I know, yes, OK?

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: As far as you know?

CAMPBELL: Yes.

MATTHEWS: I‘m showing you his birth certificate.

CAMPBELL: Oh, I can‘t—I‘m looking at a camera right now.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Oh, you want me to mail it to you?

CAMPBELL: No.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: It‘s on the screen now. Take a close look.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: It says Barack Hussein Obama. He was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu. Is that a state? Yes, it is. His mother was Caucasian. His father was African. What more do you want?

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: He‘s male. He was born, by the way, at 7:24 p.m. in the island of Oahu. But what more do you want? I‘m serious. You say as far as you know. You are playing to the crazies.

CAMPBELL: Chris, what is wrong…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Just tell me—OK, give me…

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: No, you tell me what—that—because that bill is not about Barack Obama. The bill is about anybody—the bill is about anybody who runs for president.

MATTHEWS: Well, then what about you? What are you about? I‘m asking you, Congressman. You know what? You have a lot of authenticity. You‘re a U.S. congressman. Say it now. He‘s a legitimate president of the United States. He was born in this country.

CAMPBELL: He is president of the United States.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: No. Was he born in this country?

CAMPBELL: Yes, I believe so.

MATTHEWS: OK. You‘re—I‘m glad we‘re making progress here.

CAMPBELL: OK.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: You know, your colleague who put this bill in a—no, but the reason your colleague—you co-sponsored a bill by this guy Posey.

Posey‘s spokesman said, we want to see an authentic birth certificate from this guy. His people said, he—his—this is what the congressman said. “I can‘t swear on a stack of Bibles whether he is or is not a legitimate native-born American.”

You guys are playing to the wacko wing. Now, I‘m glad that you have just left the band of merry men and women who are out there jumping up at hearings of people like Mike Castle, who is a normal person, and raising what is really not a good question to raise.

Now, the reason I bring this up with you is, you say this will put the issue to rest. Do you think barring a president from serving more than two terms put to rest whether Franklin Roosevelt should have been elected a third and fourth term? Do you think it really put that to rest, or was it a way of whacking the guy on the way out the door?

CAMPBELL: No. It—he did serve more than two terms. You mean…

MATTHEWS: And why did you guys on the Republican Party side pass a constitutional amendment to say you couldn‘t do that again?

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Because you wanted to say, let‘s not have this happen again.

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Right. And that‘s…

MATTHEWS: Right.

CAMPBELL: And what we‘re saying here is, let‘s not have questions about it again. As I said…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: There are no questions.

CAMPBELL: No, no, but…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Here is his birth certificate. Where are the questions?

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: But, Chris, the questions, even those questions will go away if there‘s a process, because, if John McCain had been elected, people would be questioning him, too.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: OK. Congressman, one last question.

CAMPBELL: Sure.

MATTHEWS: Do you believe, by passing a bill, that no more presidents, no future president can be elected without showing a birth certificate will put to rest whether Barack Obama was born in the United States or not?

CAMPBELL: I believe…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Do you think that will put it to rest?

CAMPBELL: It—yes, it probably will. Yes, it probably will.

MATTHEWS: How will it put it to rest? How will it put it to rest?

CAMPBELL: Because—well, because he will probably run again in 2012. Is that what you mean, or what?

(LAUGHTER)

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: OK. You‘re saying that he has to show a birth certificate to get reelected president? Is that what you‘re saying?

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Chris, it‘s about going forward, OK?

MATTHEWS: OK.

CAMPBELL: It is about ensuring that anyone who runs for president meets the constitutional requirements, so we don‘t have that problem.

MATTHEWS: OK. OK. OK.

CAMPBELL: You have a major in the United States Army now saying he‘s not going to serve because—there‘s a lot of this rippling out there, and this would put it to rest in the future, not now. You‘re correct.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Let me tell you how to put it to rest.

CAMPBELL: OK. I‘m listening.

MATTHEWS: Get a copy of Barack Obama‘s birth certificate, which, by the way, you didn‘t have to have—to be on this show to get a copy of it…

CAMPBELL: No, I know. I know.

MATTHEWS: … if you had any interest in finding it, because, before you signed onto this bill, I would have recommended to you, if I were one of your staffers, find out if Barack Obama has a birth certificate that shows he‘s born in this country before we proceed in this wacky direction, because this will send a signal to the whole world—if the U.S. Congress passes a bill and asks the president to sign it, that says no future president can get in the door without proving he‘s a citizen, I think he might get the message that he‘s just been profiled as a suspect in this case.

[Who's connecting the two? And barry doesn't have to sign it.]

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Chris, let me let you think about who is—whether it‘s wacky to say that you shouldn‘t have to prove you meet the constitutional requirements before you run.

MATTHEWS: OK. OK.

CAMPBELL: Why—what‘s—I‘m not sure that‘s not a wrong thing to say.

MATTHEWS: OK. I want to see the letters that you send to your constituents. And I want to know whether you tell them, you know, sir, I have a copy of his birth certificate. We really don‘t need it for this president, but I understand the need for future presidents. But I just don‘t want to see people playing to the nut wing, and you say you‘re not doing that.

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Absolutely not doing that.

MATTHEWS: OK.

CAMPBELL: In fact, it‘s the opposite, Chris. It will shut this stuff down.

MATTHEWS: No, it won‘t.

(LAUGHTER)

CAMPBELL: All right. Well, we can disagree to disagree on that.

MATTHEWS: No, no, it won‘t, no.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: If this shuts it down, I will be shocked.

CAMPBELL: OK.

MATTHEWS: Thank you for—you‘re a great guy to come on the show, Congressman John Campbell, who does believe—watch the rerun at 7:00 — he does believe that Barack Obama is an American.

So, those wackos in your district out there, don‘t vote for this guy, because he fundamentally disagrees with you. Anyway—I‘m just kidding.

Matthews: “The reason I brought this up is the guy who shot at the Holocaust Museum”

July 22, 2009

Updated list of birth certificate posts

Matthews vs Rep Campbell re: Rep Posey’s bill (video)
Axelrod re: birth certificate issue “silly” & “trite” (video)
Matthews, Dee Dee Myers & Blankley re: birthers (video)

Chris Matthews with Rudy Giuliani chatting on Hardball. Out comes the “issue d’jour” which has been going on for a year. Right away barama shows he has no grasp on the legal – Constitutional – aspect of the issue – which has no emotional or fringian aspect to it. He says “native born” not natural born. It would be one thing if they had control of the facts but they aren’t even close. They don’t even know what the “birthers” want. And wanting the man who claims transparency to be transparent–to just keep his word is not a conspiracy, or racist, or hate-based or anything else.

No one can say” “it will never be enough” until he actually produces it and the mere fact that he hasn’t gives legitimacy to questioners.

Say what you want, rant how often and how furiously you like – not a single person can justify or even explain why he has not just produced the real thing. Something that he admitted was in his possession at one point. So, it’s not like he doesn’t know what’s on it.

Until he presents his long form birth certificate – it will remain a legitimate issue based on barry’s own claims of transparency. Period.

HARDBALL

Video MSNBC – hand-transcribed

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(6:45)

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about this native born thing.

GIULIANI: Yeah, we should get off that.

MATTHEWS: What do you make of people like Shelby — a ranking top Republican saying things like he’s saying?

Sen Shelby made his remark FIVE MONTHS AGO. His full sentence: “Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate.”

GIULIANI: We all make mistakes – we all say things that are wrong.

MATTHEWS: This is what Shelby says – these are not mistakes – these are deliberate statements. “I haven’t seen any birth certificate.” That’s the Senator from Alabama. “I haven’t seen any birth certificate.”

True. No one has except two Hawaii officials. Even GIBBS admitted it’s not a birth certificate. barama gets Rep Posey’s name wrong and later calls barry a “she”.

MATTHEWS: Spokesman for Congresswoman Blackburn says, “People are losing faith in the system because he won’t show his birth certificate.” I mean these comments–Poser–this guy. Look at these! I’ve got the birth certificate right there!

GIULIANI: Show it to them!

Matthews holds up what I believe is the COLB with blacked out numbers. The camera does not get a good look at it.

MATTHEWS: There it is again — I keep showing it!

GIULIANI: Show it to them – they’ll keep quiet.

MATTHEWS: Posey says he can’t swear on a stack of Bibles she’s a citizen or not. You’ve got Rush Limbaugh out there saying Jesus – oh, he says God and Barack Obama neither one has a birth certificate.

GIULIANI laughs.

MATTHEWS: What is this about in your party?

GIULIANI: I don’t know.

MATTHEWS: What is it?

GIULIANI: I think it’s maybe something we should get off but –

MATTHEWS: But why, why does your Party–

GIULIANI: they all have a right to their own–

MATTHEWS: It’s the unAmericanization of presidential candidates. Why does your party do this? To Dukakis – every time–

GIULIANI: Oh, come on.

MATTHEWS: They do it over and over again.

GIULIANI: Look at what the Democrats did to George Bush. He a criminal, he should be investigated, he should be prosecuted.

MATTHEWS: No, no, no.

GIULIANI: …he should be impeached.

MATTHEWS: This undocumented alien crap that Rush Limbaugh’s pushing.

GIULIANI: Right.

MATTHEWS: That he’s somehow undocumented. Lou Dobbs does it. Everybody’s doing it on the Right now. He’s not documented. Why do you keep pushing it?

GIULIANI: I’m not pushing it! You mean why do some people in my party push it? I don’t push it.

MATTHEWS: They’re big shots!

GIULIANI: My Party-

MATTHEWS: Rush Limbaugh — you guys all think he’s great, Rush Limbaugh. He’s doing it.

GIULIANI: I think he’s great on a number of things, but I–

MATTHEWS: They’ve got nine house members pushing the story.

Rep Posey introduced the bill on MARCH 12, 2009. And it has to do with FUTURE presidential and vice presidential candidates – not barry. It is not in any way retrospective and yet who is linking it to barry?

GIULIANI: Every, every Party has disagreements–

MATTHEWS: Does it have wacky?

GIULIANI: Every Party has people who have–

MATTHEWS: Does it have whack jobs?

GIULIANI:–take up issues that aren’t the best issues and we can’t be responsible for all of it. The Democrats have plenty of that. Laughs.

MATTHEWS: But they’re in your playpen and you’re responsible for them.

GIULIANI keeps laughing.

MATTHEWS: So, let me just put this to rest.

GIULIANI: Nobody put them in charge of them.

What Matthews says next is just wrong and I take extreme offense to it. I am not a birther, a Right winger (not even sure what this entails outside hockey), a nutjob, a wacko, a conspiracist racist and I don’t wear tinfoil. I am an America citizen who is appalled at the media’s corruption and lack of vetting of barry, which has been made clear by the birth certificate issue. My questioning of why barry hasn’t just released his birth certificate – when he proclaims transparency – and when it is the media’s job to hold him to it – had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT THAT EVIL MURDERER PERPETRATED AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM. And it is beyond irresponsible for Matthews (and Rachel Maddow and many others) to continue to say such things. That man had been spewing his hate to any and everyone who would listen since before barry’s mother was even born. He spent hours and hours day after day after day on the internet on his own site, which had nothing to do with barry’s birth certificate. He was not set off by birthers and to say so is criminal and whoever continues to flat out say that should be sanctioned.

MATTHEWS: The reason I brought this up is the guy who shot at the Holocaust Museum – this isn’t a joke.

GIULIANI: Yes.

MATTHEWS: These full mooners are spreading this kind of talk and people who are lunatic pick up on it and they think God’s on their side in doing something about it. The guy shows up and blows away that African-American guy who is to protects the museum.

And 27 years ago the guy showed up in Washington DC at the Federal Reserve Building armed with a .38, a knife and sawed-off machine gun and threatened a security guard in an attempt to kidnap the Federal Reserve Board. He didn’t need anything more than had been festering inside his derganged mind for 88 years to do what he did. One could just as easily and irresponsibly say he was set off by Matthews’ professed love for barry or by Rachel Maddow’s professed love for women.

GIULIANI: I think the Republican Party would be much better off if we stuck to the issues.

MATTHEWS: Ok.

GIULIANI: I think there’s nothing wrong with Barack Obama. I think he’s a fine person. He’s got a wonderful family. I think he’s doing a — in certain respects I admire the things he’s been able to accomplish and do – I think he has the wrong ideas! This is a fight about principle – not about whether he’s a cit–I mean that’s over with – that’s already been–

MATTHEWS: Do you have more of an electoral future than Hillary Clinton?

GIULIANI: I have no idea.

Laughing.

Axelrod re: birth certificate issue “silly” & “trite”

July 23, 2009

Updated list of birth certificate posts

Matthews vs Rep Campbell re: Rep Posey’s bill (video)
Matthews & Rudy Giuliani (video/transcription)
Matthews, Dee Dee Myers & Blankley (video)

Hardball was on a full day rant yesterday against the birthers following his Tuesday attack on Rep John Campbell, co-sponsor of Rep Posey’s barry soetoro birth certificate bill. barry’s minions were out full force fighting for face time and Matthews asked David Axelrod what he thought about the birthers in Congress. His answer was revealing.

I can’t help but think of two things when I see Axelrod: Vampire movies and Just for Men hair coloring. Well, then there are all the lies and the fact that he’s a lobbyist and was working as one while barry proclaimed no lobbyists! except for those who work for him…

Video MSNBC – hand-transcribed.

Matthews still doesn’t understand the Constitutional difference between native born and natural born citizen.

MATTHEWS: What do you make of these members of the US Congress, including Senator Shelby, who are out there saying they don’t know whether Barack Obama is legitimate as president – that they don’t know whether he’s a native born American or not?

Axelrod seems to know the question was coming. He smiles [without showing teeth] and spews the usual line of The American People have better things to worry about…Thing is more and more of The American People are not only worried – they’re getting way past frustrated being called wackos and nutjobs for just asking barry to do what he claims he is doing: being transparent.

Axelrod’s body language is always fun to watch. With all the lying he’s done he still gives himself away. His main tells are his head movements and his (Pavarotti) eyebrows, which go up when he’s being deceptive. He shakes and nods the truth when the words are the opposite. He’s not much of a blinker – like Blagojevich – so it’s very meaningful when he does like this interview about Secretary Clinton – he was closing his eyes trying not to think about it. His speech pattern slows and he repeats words and uh, uh, uhs like barry. Watch with the sound off, then on without looking, and then watch and listen while focusing on his facial expressions as he speaks.

AXELROD: Well, [shakes head] I gotta tell you Chris, given the problems we have to deal with in this country, and the struggles that people [eyebrows up] are going through in their daily lives, I would think they would be awfully frustrated [shakes head] that time [eyebrows up] was being wasted on something as, uh, [mini eyebrow] as, as, silly and, uh, [shakes head] uh, trite as that. [Blink]

Interesting how he makes sure to bring in McCain. Listen how he hurries past the words “constitutionally qualified” not pausing to end the sentence so he can get the “issues were resolved” in the same breath.

AXELROD: Uh, I thought [shakes head] we left this behind [eyebrows] when, uh, in the campaign when people were challenging [eyebrows up] both McCain and [nods] Obama over whether they were constitutionally [shakes head] qualified. [no pause] Those issues were resolved [brings hands forward] and it’s a heck [big eyebrows and head movement] of a time to resurface them.

I bet.

That’s another thing that is getting folks truly pist – it’s not “resurfacing”. It never went away and it certainly never got resolved. The media decided to get involved again. The question is why?

So they can say that it got brought up and they took a fresh look at it?

Has anyone heard a member of the barrymedia ask why barry doesn’t just produce it and be done with it?

Matthews vs Rep John Campbell re: Rep Posey bill

July 22, 2009

Updated list of birth certificate posts
Matthews & Rudy Giuliani (video/transcription)
Matthews, Dee Dee Myers & Blankley (video)
Matthews & Axelrod (video/text/body language)

Chris Matthews going full bore at the birthers trying to protect barry. He doesn’t even stop to question why barry hasn’t just released his actual birth certificate like he has been claiming for the last year he did. Here he’s going after Rep John Campbell (R-CA), who is one of the nine co-sponsors of Rep Posey’s birth certificate bill that would simply require FUTURE presidential and vice presidential candidates to present their birth certificates. It has nothing to do with barry (this term) but the democrats and barrymedia want to make it that way. Matthews shows his lack of knowledge by calling it a birth CERTIFICATE and sayong NATIVE-born not natural born. Somebody should really clue him in.

MSNBC TRANSCRIPT & Video

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MATTHEWS: Plus, we‘re going to look at the so-called “birther” movement, the people who somehow believe that Barack Obama does not have a birth certificate and therefore isn‘t a U.S. citizen, certainly not a natural-born U.S. citizen. Most of those birthers are Republicans, and this is becoming a big problem for the party.

MATTHEWS: Take a look at this incredible video from a recent town hall meeting in Delaware with Republican congressman Mike Castle, in which a woman brandishing her own birth certificate makes her case.

MATTHEWS: I think we‘re in an insane asylum. Anyway, it gets worse. The real problem is that what‘s left of the Republican base is very open to this kind of fringe talk. We‘re going to talk and show you more about that video, more of what you just saw from that person later in the show tonight.

MATTHEWS: You think right-wing conspiracy theories about President Obama calmed down after he was elected? Well, think again. Moderate Republican congressman Mike Castle, the former governor of Delaware, held a town hall meeting in his state and he got more than he bargained for from some of his constituents. Take a listen to this.

Video of Rep Castle’s Townhall meeting.

MATTHEWS: Well, they‘re just giving the Pledge of Allegiance apropos the sort of the nut case going on there. Anyway, nutty questions about the president‘s birth certificate are being raised not only at Republican town meetings, but also in Congress, where a group of Republicans are sponsoring a bill to require future presidential candidates to provide their birth certificates. One of those Republicans is Congressman John Campbell of California.

Congressman, thank you for joining us. The reason this is fascinating is that meeting. But let me tell you, the prime sponsor of this, your colleague, Bill Posey of Indiana—[It's Florida] here‘s what he said. “I can‘t swear on a stack of Bibles whether he‘s a citizen or not.” He‘s talking about the president of the United States. His spokesman says, If the guy would produce an authentic birth certificate, an authentic birth certificate, we could stop all this. And then Congressman—Congresswoman Blackburn says people in her district in Tennessee are losing faith in the American system because they don‘t believe this guy is a citizen.

[He puts the bill together with barry]

What is going on that so many Americans doubt the obvious, that Barack Obama is a citizen, to the point that you felt it necessary to co-sponsor this crazy proposal?

REP. JOHN CAMPBELL ®, CALIFORNIA: First of all, Chris—we‘ll get to the proposal in a minute. The proposal is not crazy. The proposal is just looking forward, and I want to get to that. But wouldn‘t you like to put all this to rest? That‘s what this proposal is about.

MATTHEWS: How does this put it to rest?

CAMPBELL: This controversy—let me first say this controversy is not new. Remember there was questions about John McCain. Had John McCain become president—I remember then Senator Obama had to come out and say, Look, I don‘t think John McCain‘s eligibility to be president is an issue, and he was able to put it to rest. But the fact is, if John McCain had become president, you‘d be having this issue on the other side. If you want to go back, people thought that Barry Goldwater was not qualified because he was born in the Arizona Territory and that Mitt Romney‘s father, George Romney, was not eligible to be president because he was born in Mexico.

[McCain brought the issue up himself and provided his birth certificate.]

So, this is not a new issue. What this bill does is very simple.

It‘s only looking forward, as you suggested. It‘s 2012 and beyond.

MATTHEWS: Right.

CAMPBELL: And it just—it—well, let me back up.

You know, the Constitution, as you know, there‘s lots—most elements of the Constitution have implementing legislation. This particular element of the Constitution does not. And this is just implementing legislation…

MATTHEWS: Right.

CAMPBELL: … just saying, look, before you run for president, let‘s make sure—let‘s have you substantiate that you meet the constitutional requirements, that you‘re 35 years old…

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Why is that crazy though, Chris?

MATTHEWS: Congressman, nice try. But what you‘re doing…

CAMPBELL: Well…

MATTHEWS: It‘s a nice try, what you‘re offering. And I‘m laughing with you only to this extent, because I know it‘s a nice try.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: What you‘re doing is appeasing the nutcases. As you just pointed out, this won‘t prove or disprove whether Barack Obama is a citizen. By the way, let me show you his birth certificate.

CAMPBELL: Right.

MATTHEWS: That‘s the way to deal with it. Mail this birth certificate to the wacko wing of your party, so they see it and say, I agree with this. It‘s over. What you‘re doing here is doing what the Republicans did after Roosevelt got elected to a third and fourth term. You said, you can‘t do it again. You‘re verifying the paranoia out there. You‘re saying to the people, you‘re right. That‘s a reasonable question, whether he‘s a citizen or not.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Is it a reasonable question, Senator—Congressman? Do you believe it‘s a reasonable question whether Barack Obama is a legitimate native-born American? Is that a legitimate question?

CAMPBELL: Chris, isn‘t it a legitimate question? And, let me ask you, isn‘t it a legitimate question to know…

MATTHEWS: Is it? Here is his birth certificate.

CAMPBELL: Chris, Chris, if—anybody who runs for president, you, me, whoever, that we meet the constitutional requirements, 35 years of age, been a resident of the country for 15 years, whatever it is, and a natural-born citizen. Don‘t you think anybody that who runs for president should—wouldn‘t you want to know that, that they meet those requirements before they run? What‘s wrong with that?

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: OK. Let me ask you this. Do you have any doubts, Congressman, about the authentic native birth in this country of our president? Do you have any doubts?

CAMPBELL: Chris, my—it doesn‘t matter whether I have doubts or not.

MATTHEWS: Do you have any doubts?

CAMPBELL: It doesn‘t matter at all.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Oh, you won‘t answer the simple question. See, that feeds this.

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: I agree with what…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: No, no. You are feeding the wacko wing of your party. Do you believe that Barack Obama is a legitimate native-born American or not?

CAMPBELL: That is not what this bill is about, Chris.

MATTHEWS: No, what do you believe?

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: As far as I know, yes, OK?

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: As far as you know?

CAMPBELL: Yes.

MATTHEWS: I‘m showing you his birth certificate.

CAMPBELL: Oh, I can‘t—I‘m looking at a camera right now.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Oh, you want me to mail it to you?

CAMPBELL: No.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: It‘s on the screen now. Take a close look.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: It says Barack Hussein Obama. He was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu. Is that a state? Yes, it is. His mother was Caucasian. His father was African. What more do you want?

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: He‘s male. He was born, by the way, at 7:24 p.m. in the island of Oahu. But what more do you want? I‘m serious. You say as far as you know. You are playing to the crazies.

CAMPBELL: Chris, what is wrong…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Just tell me—OK, give me…

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: No, you tell me what—that—because that bill is not about Barack Obama. The bill is about anybody—the bill is about anybody who runs for president.

MATTHEWS: Well, then what about you? What are you about? I‘m asking you, Congressman. You know what? You have a lot of authenticity. You‘re a U.S. congressman. Say it now. He‘s a legitimate president of the United States. He was born in this country.

CAMPBELL: He is president of the United States.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: No. Was he born in this country?

CAMPBELL: Yes, I believe so.

MATTHEWS: OK. You‘re—I‘m glad we‘re making progress here.

CAMPBELL: OK.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: You know, your colleague who put this bill in a—no, but the reason your colleague—you co-sponsored a bill by this guy Posey.

Posey‘s spokesman said, we want to see an authentic birth certificate from this guy. His people said, he—his—this is what the congressman said. “I can‘t swear on a stack of Bibles whether he is or is not a legitimate native-born American.”

You guys are playing to the wacko wing. Now, I‘m glad that you have just left the band of merry men and women who are out there jumping up at hearings of people like Mike Castle, who is a normal person, and raising what is really not a good question to raise.

Now, the reason I bring this up with you is, you say this will put the issue to rest. Do you think barring a president from serving more than two terms put to rest whether Franklin Roosevelt should have been elected a third and fourth term? Do you think it really put that to rest, or was it a way of whacking the guy on the way out the door?

CAMPBELL: No. It—he did serve more than two terms. You mean…

MATTHEWS: And why did you guys on the Republican Party side pass a constitutional amendment to say you couldn‘t do that again?

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Because you wanted to say, let‘s not have this happen again.

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Right. And that‘s…

MATTHEWS: Right.

CAMPBELL: And what we‘re saying here is, let‘s not have questions about it again. As I said…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: There are no questions.

CAMPBELL: No, no, but…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Here is his birth certificate. Where are the questions?

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: But, Chris, the questions, even those questions will go away if there‘s a process, because, if John McCain had been elected, people would be questioning him, too.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: OK. Congressman, one last question.

CAMPBELL: Sure.

MATTHEWS: Do you believe, by passing a bill, that no more presidents, no future president can be elected without showing a birth certificate will put to rest whether Barack Obama was born in the United States or not?

CAMPBELL: I believe…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Do you think that will put it to rest?

CAMPBELL: It—yes, it probably will. Yes, it probably will.

MATTHEWS: How will it put it to rest? How will it put it to rest?

CAMPBELL: Because—well, because he will probably run again in 2012. Is that what you mean, or what?

(LAUGHTER)

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: OK. You‘re saying that he has to show a birth certificate to get reelected president? Is that what you‘re saying?

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Chris, it‘s about going forward, OK?

MATTHEWS: OK.

CAMPBELL: It is about ensuring that anyone who runs for president meets the constitutional requirements, so we don‘t have that problem.

MATTHEWS: OK. OK. OK.

CAMPBELL: You have a major in the United States Army now saying he‘s not going to serve because—there‘s a lot of this rippling out there, and this would put it to rest in the future, not now. You‘re correct.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Let me tell you how to put it to rest.

CAMPBELL: OK. I‘m listening.

MATTHEWS: Get a copy of Barack Obama‘s birth certificate, which, by the way, you didn‘t have to have—to be on this show to get a copy of it…

CAMPBELL: No, I know. I know.

MATTHEWS: … if you had any interest in finding it, because, before you signed onto this bill, I would have recommended to you, if I were one of your staffers, find out if Barack Obama has a birth certificate that shows he‘s born in this country before we proceed in this wacky direction, because this will send a signal to the whole world—if the U.S. Congress passes a bill and asks the president to sign it, that says no future president can get in the door without proving he‘s a citizen, I think he might get the message that he‘s just been profiled as a suspect in this case.

[Who's connecting the two? And barry doesn't have to sign it.]

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Chris, let me let you think about who is—whether it‘s wacky to say that you shouldn‘t have to prove you meet the constitutional requirements before you run.

MATTHEWS: OK. OK.

CAMPBELL: Why—what‘s—I‘m not sure that‘s not a wrong thing to say.

MATTHEWS: OK. I want to see the letters that you send to your constituents. And I want to know whether you tell them, you know, sir, I have a copy of his birth certificate. We really don‘t need it for this president, but I understand the need for future presidents. But I just don‘t want to see people playing to the nut wing, and you say you‘re not doing that.

(CROSSTALK)

CAMPBELL: Absolutely not doing that.

MATTHEWS: OK.

CAMPBELL: In fact, it‘s the opposite, Chris. It will shut this stuff down.

MATTHEWS: No, it won‘t.

(LAUGHTER)

CAMPBELL: All right. Well, we can disagree to disagree on that.

MATTHEWS: No, no, it won‘t, no.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: If this shuts it down, I will be shocked.

CAMPBELL: OK.

MATTHEWS: Thank you for—you‘re a great guy to come on the show, Congressman John Campbell, who does believe—watch the rerun at 7:00 — he does believe that Barack Obama is an American.

So, those wackos in your district out there, don‘t vote for this guy, because he fundamentally disagrees with you. Anyway—I‘m just kidding.

Evan Thomas (re: barry): “He’s sort of God!”

June 11, 2009

No kidding.

I haven’t read anything at NEWSWEEK since we started this blog in August (moving here to WordPress in mid-December) and it appears they are as – I really don’t know how to characterize it anymore. It’s gone on too long to still be considered a mancrush or a lovefest. I guess it’s a full blown cultish delusion. Don’t these people have anyone living with them in the real world to orient them as to their madness?

EVAN THOMAS is as enthralled as ever. He still believes barry is actually who NEWSWEEK has propagandized him to be: the obamessiah! The one the cosmos has been waiting for. The one who will make the oceans rise up and celestial choirs sing! The one who will bring Muslims and Jews together in harmony.

Here he is on Hardball with another poor delusioned soul, Chris Matthews, who agrees with him.

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EVAN THOMAS:

We were the good guys in 1984 – it hasn’t felt that way in recent years – so Obama’s had really a different task. We’re seen too often as the bad guys, and he has a very different job than Reagan. Reagan was all about America, and he talked about it.

Obama is ‘we are above that now’. We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama is standing above the country, above the world. He’s sort of God. He’s gonna bring all different sides together.

Matthews: “I’m thinking of bad names to call Michael Steele”

May 22, 2009

Chris Matthews gets things going with Michael Steele and terrorists coming to the mainland. Then Larry goes off about Cheney and Tenet and Pat Buchanan for believing them, who then reminds Larry that the Dems in the senate don’t what the detainees in their backyard.

CHRIS MATTHEWS:

I’m thinking of bad names to call Michael Steele because I don’t know what to say about this guy tonight. He’s accusing the President of “allowing terrorists into the United States.”…It is as close to a lie as I can think off.

O’DONNELL:

It’s breathtaking how stupid they can be in the way they talk about this, and Pat Buchanan, I guess, is the only guy left in America who believes these people when they talk. To believe Dick Cheney on this subject, when for credibility he goes to George Tenet.

GEORGE TENET WHO SAID IT WAS A SLAM DUNK THAT THERE WAS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ!

Those are the people you want to believe, Pat?!

Guy in the middle is laughing and so does Pat and MATTHEWS chimes in with:

We don’t do ad hominems here. We don’t do ad hominems here.

What? Is this a new policy? I don’t watch him anymore.

BUCHANAN then mocks Larry by saying you want stupid? I’ll give you the dem senators who don’t want them either.

MATTHEWS says they don’t want it because of the ads their opponents will make.

BUCHANAN:

Larry has already told you I’m the only one who believes that Chris. The ads won’t work against the heroic senators.

MATTHEWS has to put his head down so Larry won’t see him laughing, while the other guy has no problem laughing, nor does Pat.

ODONNELL meanwhile looks like he is going to explode and says what a disgraced CIA director Tenet is while the other three laugh.

Larry O’Donnell: Cheney is a sleaze! a liar! and an abomination!

May 22, 2009

but what’s really making him mad is Cheney’s picking on barry. Which is why Cheney is doing it and Larry’s reaction is why Chenye isn’t about to stop.

What is going on with Larry O’Donnell? He have a bad case of Irish flu and not enough hair of the dog? And where did he get the hair on his head? He’s been rampaging for a while now and who he’s really angry at is barry. As are a lot of people and it’s only 4 months in. Larry can yell at Pat Buchanan all he wants and Pat’ll laugh right back and say: See, it’s working or See, I told you so. Just like he did this video segment where even Matthews had to laugh at Larry.

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Transcript

LARRY ODONNELL (2:00):

Well, he came today to — obviously to do nothing much other than defend torture, which he calls ‘tough questioning.’ This was as sleazy a presentation by a vice president as we’ve had since Spiro Agnew. This was an absolute abomination. He cannot, ever, frame the other side’s position honestly.

Here’s the real anger. barry played nice and came off as rather neutered. Cheney has absolutely nothing to lose and from Larry’s reaction Cheney’s doing a bangup job.

Why is barry even engaging Cheney?

LARRY ODONNELL:

…What you saw with Obama earlier was Obama describes the other side’s position fairly. He then goes on to advance his position. Cheney comes out and lies about the other side, it’s the only way he can talk. He says that Obama will not use the word ‘terrorist,’ when Obama does indeed use that word. He pretends that all we did was tough questioning. He says that 9/11 — he says that 9/11 made everyone take a second look at the threat. That is a lie.

(3:25) This guy just has to lie from beginning to end through his setup of his opposition’s position in order to advance any of his ideas at all, none of which have any proof to them at all.

ANDREA MITCHELL (7:30) Seems to have the most rational understanding of the potential violence.

So here you’ve got the former vice president saying they worked, the current president saying, they — ‘you don’t need those techniques in order to keep America safe.’ And you can’t bring those two sides together. We are at a real impasse here and I’ve never seen the debate framed more divisively than we’ve heard it today.

CHRIS MATTHEWS (8:20)

Now the Vice President, the former Vice President, joined in the fight with those 90 senators, clearly exploiting it, saying today, just now, ‘Attorney General Holder and others have admitted that the United States will be required to accept a number of the terrorists here in the homeland,’ you got to love this language, ‘and it has even been suggested U.S. taxpayer dollars will be used to support them.’ As if we’re setting up some sort of happy hunting ground for these people. We’re putting them in prison and feeding them, and giving them pajamas. What is this ’supporting them’ about, Pat?

LARRY O’DONNELL (9:50):

Exactly. The President said very clearly he’s not going to release any terrorist — and he uses the word terrorist — who could endanger Americans. Now Chris, you’ve pointed out another very clear Dick Cheney lie. It is just a lie. Who is paying for the daily existence of the terrorists in Gitmo now? Who is paying for that? The American taxpayer. This is the kind of sleazy arguing that this guy does in these speeches. It is just ridiculous. It is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who’s listening to him.

ANDREA MITCHELL:

There was one clever thing, also, that he did do, was to challenge the President to declassify those memos, which he claims prove that he’s correct, that the techniques worked and kept us safer.

LARRY O’DONNELL:

But after objecting to the release of top-secret information. The Vice President objects to the release of top-secret information. In the next sentence, he advocates it.

PAT BUCHANAN:

Lawrence’s reaction tells you that Cheney’s speech worked.

Axelrod: Madame Secretary is doing "Great!"

April 29, 2009

Now ghoulish David Axelrod is singing the praises of Madame Secretary Clinton. Just listen to his words. Clinton- notice the tense - HAD A GREAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD. Yes she did. Even when she was lazily sipping tea with the ambassadors.

Maybe he thinks she acquired it while she was out stumping for barry before he was nominated while he took a vacation and hid out in Hawaii. Or maybe he thinks she acquired it between the Convention and Election day while she worked selflessly to recruit her voters while being trashed in the media for having ulterior motives. Without her voters barry would not have won. Period. Peraps he thinks she acquired her great knowledge under bary's tutelage during the transition phase.

Truth is she had it all along and only now when it's politically expedient, when she's helping barry and when he can no longer deny it does Axelrod admit to it. Says alot, doesn't it?

Barama Matthews is talking with Axelrod. Interesting first question. He's not so sure barry can handle the economy...why he just gave him an A minus.

MATTHEWS:

Is there a sense that she could be helpful to this and on the economic front politically at home. If it is rough going - that she could bring the Clinton coalition to bear on behalf of the president?

DAVID AXELROD:

I don't know. She's got her hands full. We've got a lot of challenges in the world and she's working tirelessly at them. So were not thinking about ancillary uses of the secretary of state. When you think about Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Middleast her dance card is pretty full.

MATTHEWS: How's she doing?

No hesitation.

AXELROD: GREAT!

I think it's been a wonderful partnership. The president chose her because he knew her as a rival and a colleague as someone who is smart, tenacious, well-prepared, HAD A GREAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD and all of that is coming into play.

And she's been a great, a great leading light in this administration.

Leading light. Not subservient light or rogue light or out for herself will only sabotage barry light. She actually cares about The American People and that is clearly evident in the way she conducts herself.

barama asks him about a scene from West Wing about Jimmy Smits picking Alan Alda and something about being inspired by it.

AXELROD:

You know that one of his favorite books is Team of Rivals. And I think he was inspired by that--mostly he was inspired to make that appointment by his knowledge and his sense of then Senator Clinton. And I think his instincts have been proven right.

barry and his instincts had nothing to do with anything. Madame Secretary is no different than she was in the July 2007 debate when all she knew was sipping tea with the ambassadors. and barry understood African villages because his father's mother lives there. And people bought it because of his "superior judgment".

And what did he do? Couldn't even conduct himself on the world stage. He said he would sit down with Chavez. Clinton said absolutely not - it'll be used propaganda. barry backed off during the campaign and first chance he gets he bows to the beast and shakes hands and yuks it up with the dictator, who called barry's predecessor the devil. Couldn't have asked for better propaganda footage - including their little not so private, not so genial chat.

I sure hope someone out there has the time and wherewithal to put together video sound bites of what barry and his camp -- that includes the media -- said then and what they're saying now. That's all that would be needed to prove their castration anxiety and gyne envy.

They want something - she does it.

She does it - they want more.

But before she started doing the very job she is doing for them - she wasn't capable of doing it.

The difference?

She was fighting for the same job.

Says all you need to know about barry and the rest of them.

Of the People, for the People...Madame Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

barama matthews goes after Rick Santelli

April 13, 2009

Chris Matthews had Rick Santelli on (2-20) to discuss the rant. Santelli said it was more philosophical: a card laid is a card played. The government shouldn’t get in the middle of a contract. He also slips in the word “redistribute” and matthews doesn’t even notice.

barama: Who did you vote for?

Santelli: Mr McCain.

barama: I wanted to know where you were coming from politically because you’re coming down on Barack.

It’s always the same. Someone speaks out about something barry does and it’s a personal attack on barry, which sets off his botlets who then attack the one who dared say something. It’s so predictable it’s funny…unless you’re the heretic.

barama calls him “Ebeneezer Scrooge Rick Santelli”.

Santelli has a solution. Take all the money and divide it up equally among the people with mortgages - behind or not.

barama says it’s crazy then he says to Santelli that his name is personally iconized because the president has sent his spokesman after him.

barama: You’re up there with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. It’s quite a team. You’re probably the smartest in that group. I’ll tell ya.

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Robert Gibbs, WH Press Secretary goes after Santelli in his charateristc middle school sarcastic manner. How long before this guy learns decorum? See separate post for the transcript of Gibbs’ comments.

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Warning: Tea bags threat to Senate
Cort Wrotnowski’s papers sent for Anthrax quarantine
Newt Gingrich re: Tax Day Tea Party
Tax Day Tea Party Revolution Evolution
Rick Santelli's rant (video/transcript)
barama matthews goes after Rick Santelli
Robert Gibbs unprofessional remarks re: Santelli
DontGo: Steele welcome to listen
Steele denies request to speak at Chicago Tea Party
DontGo: Steele requested - we denied
About: National Tax Day Tea Party

barry in a loin cloth = Chris Matthews' daydreams.

April 11, 2009

Funny they joke about it now.

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update

SETH MEYERS:

A new comic is coming out this summer called "Barack the Barbarian" which features the President in a loin cloth.

Also featuring the President in a loin cloth - Chris Matthews' daydreams.

barry flashback: Madame Secretary’s foreign policy experience

March 1, 2009

It’s a new month and time for a new feature: barry flashbacks. A look now at what he said then to demonstrate what the mindless chanters bought into. The most ridiculous, of course, was the notion that Hillary Clinton had no foreign policy experience save sipping tea with ambassadors - even though she had traveled to 43% of the countries on the planet and is the most recognizable female face on the global stage - and that barry was ready to lead because of his “judgment on Iraq”.

Which judgment? Which plan? The one that would have gotten all the combat troops home before the Pennsylvania primary? The sixteen months he swore by? Or his most recent plan for withdrawal - what President Bush had agreed to do with Iraq?

Taken from 11-7-07 post

BARRY: Sen Clinton is claiming basically the entire eight years of the Clinton presidency as her own, except for the stuff that didn’t work out (laughs dismissively) in which case she says she had nothing to do with. (laugh)

SCHUSTER: She picked up the support of 60 black ministers.

CLINTON: There are lots of ways in which what I did was the face of American when I was there, when I was representing not only my husband but the country.

SCHUSTER: Obama then pounced.

BARRY: If she wants to tout her experience by having visited countries - that’s fine. I-I-I don’t think that Madeline Albright would think that Hillary Clinton was the face of foreign policy during the Clinton administration - but maybe she’ll disagree with that.

ALBRIGHT statement: Hillary Clinton represented American interests and values in her visits to more than 80 countries with presidents, prime ministers and leaders of civil societies…her seven years as US Senator has further deepened her experience…she will be ready from the very first day to lead our nation in a very difficult and dangerous world.

what about barry?

February 10, 2009

Yes, I have gotten off the beaten path. I needed a break from the utter madness that is the obamahoax so I could read, write and watch something 100% true and good. It's a relief from the bot attacks. Makes you wonder why they're still at it considering barry is the president and the Supreme Court knows and doesn't care. Watergate is going to seem like a kid stealing a gumball. The serial botters are for sure official barrybotters as they have all the same "rebuttal" arguments replete with phone numbers to Hawaii and the Supreme Court!

I don't know how many times we have to tell them that our beef is with the media. barry is a fraud and it has been proven over and over on this site and many others. It is fact. It cannot be changed. The media is biased towards barry. It's been proven over and over with polls and examples and the media itself has admitted to it. It is fact. It cannot be changed.

Now it's just a matter of continuing to document, but what's the point? He is a national and international security risk. They counted on it and it worked.

The birth certificate issues are dead. But the weird and wacky facts about his mother are coming to light and so are his "clean" Illinois politics. It cracks me up that came out of barama matthews' mouth. Yo, Chris, give us a shout out. That reminds me I have to get the polls together. Rezko is being reinvestigatged in earnest now that barry is "safe" and blago is handing out subpoenas. Anyone hear barry's top aides have been subpoenaed? Can't imagine a judge allowing barry to be subpoenaed when he has the Supremes in his corner. It will all come out and a see I told you so will mean nothing compared to the rage of the nonobamerized masses.

Anyway. Yes we will be getting back to barry and the media - it's not like they're about to change. chuckie T is in a state of ecstasy lately. His biased reporting didn't have an ulterior motive Mr Chief White House correspondent? And Mika is ready to take over for Morning Hangover Joe.

Matthews: Wheelchair = low self-esteem?

January 24, 2009

MSNBC Inauguration coverage

What can you say about chris matthews? Does he even listen to what comes out of his salivator? I was shocked to learn: a) he's married, b) he has an accomplished wife and 3) he has a lovely daughter. How selfish is a father who continues to denigrate women and say other foul insensitive things on the air every night for her friends and future whatevers to hear? Especially after he introduces her on camera?

No sense in even describing this. Just listen. I have a bunch of other quotes from that day I'll have to post. I though he and Olbermann weren't going to work together any more.

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MATTHEWS: And I can tell you again that metaphor here of the Vice President in that wheelchair. It is a metaphor, for the low esteem with which he's held in this country. His numbers are pathetically low.

Eugene Robinson: "tired old argument of the past"

January 20, 2009

This is what Eugene Robinson heard in the speech. He never got around to mentioning that Rev Lowery brought up that tired old argument mired in the sixties.

MATTHEWS: Eugene Robinson - What you heard from the President of the United States.

ROBINSON: What I heard was a fascinating speech in which he did a lot of things. Number one, he wanted to turn the page from what he called the tired old argument of the past that we have been mired in since the sixties. It was the theme of his campaign. He struck that theme again today.

And Reverend Lowery?

What campaign was Robinson watching? barry used that tired old race card at every turn. He finally had to admit to it when he tried it against McCain but he found the "kill him" myth instead.

When are folks going to see reality as it exists?

What is it going to take?

Inaugural Address video & transcript

Rev Lowery Benediction transcript & video

Why are they still surprised about the power of Sen Clinton?

January 13, 2009

Hardball

They're commentating along with Sen Clinton's testifying.

MARK WHITAKER: She is putting not only Congress but the rest of Washington on notice that she's going fight for the State Department turf, and also that she is-when you listen to these questions-that she's going to do more homework and know more about all these issues than anybody else. This is really an very impressive performance in terms of showing that she is really going to be strong in reasserting the prerogatives of the State Department.

MICHELLE BERNARD: Prior to recent history we didn't make women's rights a part of our foreign policy. It will be very interesting to see what she will do with her new power and her managerial skills in Islamic countries where women's rights are a major issue. And she's going to make it a part of our national security efforts at the State Department.

barama talks about how the Prime Minister of Israel made fun of Condolezza Rice by talking to Bush to make Rice abstain on the agreement she helped craft.

MATTHEWS: Don't you have a hunch Hillary is not going to allow that to happen?

WHITTAKER: Another source of power is the power of her personality. And in talking to people in the transition, close to obama about why he wanted Hillary--obviously there are political reasons--but there's also just her appeal around the world. And when -- he's not going to be able to travel that much in his first year. He's going to have to focus on the economy. But when Hillary Clinton arrives representing the United States, that is going to send a very powerful signal, because people around the world know who she is, knows she's powerful, and know that she will be able to pick up the phone and talk to obama whenever she wants.

BERNARD: She is a very commanding presence - very intelligent - and I think she gives off an aura that says 'I'm in charge - don't mess with me.'

They watch more live testimony by Sen Clinton.

MATTHEWS: Mark Whitaker, how's she doing?

WHITAKER: I think she is doing very well. She clearly knows her stuff. I mean, I keep thinking about how the job of Secretary of State is to sit there and go head to head with world leaders. And we're seeing a little preview of that today. Here she is with all these powerful senators, looking them in the eye, and you really can see that she is going to be very effective as our top diplomat.

BERNARD: When Madeline Albright became the Secretary of State, the big news was the nation's first woman as Secretary of State. We're not looking at Senator Clinton today as a woman. We're not talking about her jewelry or how she is dressed or anything like that. Where talking about the power that emanates with this woman.

I think she is doing an excellent job. I think she is going to make a very effective Secretary of State. I think we're going to see a very, very different Department of State - very strong, very powerful. I'm forward to seeing the tension between the department of State and the Department of Defense, if there is any, on how we're going to handle issues such as Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

MATTHEWS: Well, she walked in the door with 18 million votes.

...the same amount barry got. And it sounds like she's got a lot more going for her on the foreign front than having tea with Ambassadors.

"Mommie, I need an enema!"

courtesy of NewsBusters

Quote of the day: "He just lost his virginity"

January 7, 2009
MSNBC

barama matthews, Michelle Bernard and Buchanan are sitting around like gladiators waiting to see the show. Chuckie T is all aglow because barry called on him and called on him by name. C'mon - he knows everyone at MSNBC. He has also (for the first time I have heard) - mentioned barry's obamanating. He called it wiggle room. Before is was "redefining his position". But now Chuckie's upset because it's happening to him. Why do these people think barry thinks anyone is special other than himself?

CHUCKIE T: He is very adept at this - at leaving himself plenty of outs. He doesn't seem very often shut doors. It's tough, of course, when you only get four questions to try to and shut off a door as a question.

barama then asked him about Gaza and whether chuckie got something out of barry in terms of his questioning.

CHUCKIE T: Not enough. I'll be honest...he used one president at a time, but it's still in contradiction to what he's doing with the economy. And he tried to explain the difference between the economy and Gaza....But then is his silence delaying the cease fire because the parties at the table are saying, well it sounds like obama has his own opinions, let's wait till he's in office...

In this case, I think barry's silence was prescripted. I believe the US is using this transition to their advantage to not have a set plan forcing the arab world and Europe to handle something alone for a change. Anyway barama has to open his big mouth though I wasn't expecting this.

BARAMA: Chief White House correspondent for NBC News, Chuck Todd, who just lost his virginity, I think it's fair to say out there. I love the fact you're out there one on one with the president.

CHUCKIE T: You know, Chris, you just did a You Tube moment [or a quote of the day] You're killing me. You're killing me with that You Tube moment. I think Jon Stewart just got his clip for the night.

I'll have to go look to see if Chuckie was right...

barry finally comments on Roland Burris

January 7, 2009

barry gives another press conference and takes one question on Burris.

REPORTER: What about Roland Burris - would you like to see him seated in your seat?

BARRY: That is a senate matter. But I know Roland Burris. He's from my home state. I think he's a fine public servant. If he gets seated, I am going to work with Roland Burris like I work with all the other senators to make sure that The People of Illinois and the people of the country are served.

End of story. No follow ups. Walked off.

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MSNBC

Michelle Bernard finally speaks up and says that Burris was legally appointed. Duh. She said that Jimmy Carter called Roland Burris that he will be a great US Senator and told him to hold his ground. Burris endorsed Carter early on. barry will listen to Jimmy Carter.

CARTER: Roland, you will make a great senator.

jonjon alter chimes in and says that Dick Durbin was pist that Burris accepted the appointment over his objections. What power does Dick Durbin have over the governor? He can't even vote for impeachment.

video of the day: Mika Brzezinski channels Mrs Spitzer

Watch. Decide for yourself.

courtesy of ShutTheFreudUp

Mika Brzezinski channels Mrs Spitzer.

Video of the day: Barama Matthews' mini swearing montage

December 19, 2008

Video of the day: Barama Matthews' mini swearing montage