Nice word, is it yours?

out of Tweet's mouth----his mindset is not very stable---he's been all over the place, from one extreme to the other during these unglorious Bush years.  That's why I always believe him to be just another one happy to be there, playing the game, going with the flow, with no real set of standards.
 I have heard him in the past defend the media's role, or lack of it, pre-Iraq---as in, 'Some blame the media, but that's baloney'.
 I noticed the other day when he was talking about Hamas, and he said that sometimes with democratic elections you get something you don't want.  And he said, "It happens here too" and smirked at a producer off-camera, without seeming to realize his role in that outcome, or the lack of amusement of same.

makes for good shouting head teevee, no one can deny. I saw it in real time and almost spewed my cheap Chardonnay across the room laughing. But I just wish someone would take Tweety to task and ask him to explain the rationale behind his Old Spice and cigar scented man-crush on Fred Thompson.

Now that would be entertainment. Pass the popcorn.

tipped and rec'd.

...made me throw up in my mouth just a little. :/

"my stuff is stuff, your stuff is shit."

and nice diary, Jeff. (That's some funny-ass shit you got going here, with the beer-bong-dude and the cartoon-triple-take and whatnot.)

In any event, I quite clearly remember Didby covering, with a kind of detached horror, the singularly uncritical coverage Tweety provided of Bush's aircraft-carrier-codpiece moment. I believe her reminiscences about Tweety's lame-ass coverage came up in the context of... what was it again? Oh yeah, it came up in the context of a netroots-wide campaign to censure Tweety for what continued to be his singularly uncritical coverage of the Bush administration.

But this wasn't merely "uncritical" reportage. It was deeply infused with one of Tweety's occasional bursts of obsession with the "manliness" of the Codpiece-in-chief:

MATTHEWS: Let's go to this sub--what happened to this week, which was to me was astounding as a student of politics, like all of us. Lights, camera, action. This week the president landed the best photo of in a very long time. Other great visuals: Ronald Reagan at the D-Day cemetery in Normandy, Bill Clinton on horseback in Wyoming. Nothing compared to this, I've got to say.

Katty, for visual, the president of the United States arriving in an F-18, looking like he flew it in himself. The GIs, the women on--onboard that ship loved this guy.

Ms. KAY: He looked great. Look, I'm not a Bush man. I mean, he doesn't do it for me personally, especially not when he's in a suit, but he arrived there...

MATTHEWS: No one would call you a Bush man, by the way.

Ms. KAY: ...he arrived there in his flight suit, in a jumpsuit. He should wear that all the time. Why doesn't he do all his campaign speeches in that jumpsuit? He just looks so great.

MATTHEWS: I want him to wa--I want to see him debate somebody like John Kerry or Lieberman or somebody wearing that jumpsuit.

This interview goes on in a similar vein, with Matthews in awe of Bush's knack (that is, the knack that Bush's people had much earlier on in his presidency) for the snappy photo-op, blethering on about his ability to pitch a strike at some Yankee's game where he threw the opening pitch or something. Of course, only a couple of years later, Bush would return to Yankee stadium to a chorus of boos -- but I digress.

No, the real problem with this, of course, is that such highly complimentary segments of news "analysis" devote zero attention to the issues behind all this political theatre. Matthews, back then, was so mesmerized with Bush's flightsuit that he gave no thought at all to what inconvenient truths that flightsuit appearance was designed to cover up. But Tweety has never had the time of day for such unsexy questions.

Obama is the presumptive nominee.  Just like Joe Scarborough, he likes the platform he has and doesn't want Rachel Maddow to take it away from him now that KO has made him look like a tool of the right wing media, night after night after night.

Tweety is all about what is good for Tweety, and this miraculous confrontation with this assclown is just the beginning of the transformation.  

Another one who has certainly turned the corner is Andrea Mitchell, and look for others who have cushy gigs to do the same.  

... Squirmy Rooter