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Close Encounter With Craziness (Chris Matthews vs Head of Texas Tea Party)
Powerline ^ | 10/18/2009 | JOhn Hinderaker

Posted on 10/18/2009 1:44:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Candor7

Chrissie is so loopy it’s pathetic! Dennis keeps answering Chrissie’s SAME question repetitively: we should cut taxes, cut spending and the size of government. Chrissie’s repeating: so, you want the president to do nothing!

When Dennis told him that we don’t agree with you LIBERALS, Chrissie was startled for a couple of seconds then a nervous chuckle.


21 posted on 10/18/2009 3:26:27 PM PDT by melancholy (Hey Marxists, don't Crap & Tread on me. Zer0's defeat is now in progress.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fabulous job, Philip


22 posted on 10/18/2009 3:35:54 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Promoted by God to be a Mother!!!! Thanks, Susan)
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To: SandRat

He was great, he made Mathews look like an idiot.


23 posted on 10/18/2009 3:42:42 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: OafOfOffice; USAF70
Of course there is a promised pay-off. Will he get it? Doubtful. Obama makes a lot of promises and doesn't keep them.Thats how he works.

Chrissy and all like him will be dropped like yesterday's used condoms, once their usefulness is at an end.But still that does not discourage them. They got that old timey religion.

Obama plays them like a fiddle. Its actually quite disgusting.

Some will commit suicide.

Its a kool-aide thing.

24 posted on 10/18/2009 3:45:12 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, an d truth (Member NRA)
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To: McGavin999

Sissy Chrissy is an Idiot.


25 posted on 10/18/2009 3:45:31 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

Is your link a transcript?


26 posted on 10/18/2009 3:47:30 PM PDT by duckln
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To: duckln

Nope just takes you to the video.


27 posted on 10/18/2009 3:49:02 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Candor7; null and void; flat; unkus; 2ndDivisionVet; freekitty; SouthTexas; romanesq; ...

The Tea Parties across this country and the two million patriots that showed up in DC on 9/12 are makng these Liberals into becoming even more wacko then they were. Don’t believe for one second that they can ignore We The People. These vermin will be dumped from office in disgrace. That’s a vow from We The People and they know it. They can continue to be in-your-face arrogant, but, in the end, they’re TOAST. Apparently, these vermin haven’t read American history. We’re as determined as our forefathers and We The People don’t give up. Liberals can take that to their empty bank.


28 posted on 10/18/2009 3:59:41 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Ozarkie

Matthews self-righteous ignorance about what Hoover did is truly revealing and breathtaking. With all the staff he has he can’t get basic history right while trying to sandbag a very decent and intelligent guy with absolutely false assertions.


29 posted on 10/18/2009 4:01:41 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s see PMSNBC is failing in ratings big time, NBC should’ve been sold by GE years ago, why they didn’t is because GE management has turned sour. I sold my small holding years ago, before it went into the tank I bought it from.

PMSNBC is dropping so low in ratings it’s got to be an embarrassment to both GE and MS, guess they don’t care.

They have two a**clowns Chrissy and Keith Olbermann who are a disgrace as Americans and should be incarcerated for sedition.


30 posted on 10/18/2009 4:02:38 PM PDT by Eagles2003
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s see PMSNBC is failing in ratings big time, NBC should’ve been sold by GE years ago, why they didn’t is because GE management has turned sour. I sold my small holding years ago, before it went into the tank I bought it from.

PMSNBC is dropping so low in ratings it’s got to be an embarrassment to both GE and MS, guess they don’t care.

They have two a**clowns Chrissy and Keith Olbermann who are a disgrace as Americans and should be incarcerated for sedition.


31 posted on 10/18/2009 4:02:38 PM PDT by Eagles2003
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Bump the Red Headed One!!!


32 posted on 10/18/2009 4:07:22 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, an d truth (Member NRA)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

C’mon leftists don’t need support. All they need is their hands on power.
They will use it ruthlessly.

Best not be complacent. The battle is well underway.


33 posted on 10/18/2009 4:14:00 PM PDT by romanesq
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To: SeekAndFind
That is ONE OUTSTANDING VIDEO!!!

Poor Chrissy was turned into a rag mop.

34 posted on 10/18/2009 4:17:19 PM PDT by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: melancholy
Thats the way fixated emotions work. They go round and round in circles, Thats what is happening with Chrissy Matthews. He is addicted to the tingle in his leg!

No better than a 4 year old hustling his next lolipop. Its sick to think that is what we are seeing, but its true. Round and Riound goes Chrissy. He is insane. And its on display for ALL the world to see.

The additional sicky is that its all perfectly acceptable to a vast number of emotionally enthralled viewers. It is now standard form for television,( which I must plead ignorance of, I haven't had one at home since 2004.)I did happen to see the nut at a hotel recently that had a TV, and since I had not seen him for a few years, the difference from when I last saw him on T.V is all the more stark. Astounding in fact. Definitely a few cards short of a deck, and thats WITH three or four jokers. Why would anyone want to watch THAT?

A person could see similar conduct by doing volunteer work at their nearest mental health treatment facility, why bother with it on television?One wonders who his therapist is, he surely must have one, or he would have crashed long ago.

35 posted on 10/18/2009 4:18:51 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, an d truth (Member NRA)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder if Chrissy hollars all the time...or just on TV?


36 posted on 10/18/2009 4:29:32 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
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To: Candor7
One wonders who his therapist is, he surely must have one, or he would have crashed long ago.

It must be Soros, no doubt!

37 posted on 10/18/2009 4:38:33 PM PDT by melancholy (Hey Marxists, don't Crap & Tread on me. Zer0's defeat is now in progress.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Chris Matthews backside must be stinging from the kickin’ it just received!


38 posted on 10/18/2009 4:38:59 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: SeekAndFind
Matthews: Welcome back to Hardball. President Obama’s in College Station Texas tonight, talking about public service at the invitation of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, Bush 41. How will the bi-partisan buddy show we’re going to see tonight square with the folks down there?

Let’s talk with Philip Dennis, he’s an organizer of the Texas Tea Party Patriots; Thank you very much sir, Philip, I really want to hear from you. What do you make of the President, President Obama, meeting up with the former president George Herbert Walker Bush at Texas A&M tonight?

Dennis: Well President Bush…

Matthews (interrupts): … what do you think about that?

Dennis: … President Bush can invite whoever he wants to Texas A&M, and has done so; he also has a history of hanging out with Bill Clinton, so that’s his discretion to do so.

Matthews: What's your feeling about it?

Dennis: Personally I’m neither here nor there about whether President O… President Bush associates with President Obama, or anyone else, that’s his right to do so, and, I mean, I have friends who don’t agree with me politically and so, that has nothing to do with the matter…I think what people are protesting down in College Station today is President Obama’s politics, in that we are not pleased with what he is doing politically, in Washington DC.

Matthews: OK let's get the politics of Texas figured here. Governor Rick Perry has been elected now a couple of times down there… here he is in April. Governor Rick Perry of Texas:

Rick Perry: We’re still part of the union down here in Texas, and our folks would like to keep it that way, but we see some things going on that are peculiar, they’re frustrating, and I think that Texans are… you know, we’re an independent lot, and we’d just as soon Washington not be mortgaging our kids’ futures and ours, for that matter.

Matthews: Well here he is a couple of days later, Governor Perry again on the issue… secession:

Rick Perry: Texas in a unique place. When we came in the union in 1845, one of the… ahh.. issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that…

(obvious editing splice here)

Rick Perry: My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We’ve got a great union. Ah… there’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it, but if Washington continues to thumb their nose at… at the American people, who knows what may come out of that?

Matthews: Well, ah, Philip, that’s strange talk for a guy like me, I grew up in Pennsylvania, I never heard of the governor of Pennsylvania talking about seceding from the union. What does it do to you when you hear your governor talking like that?

Dennis: Well, it’s election time… (laughs). I can speak for the…

Matthews (interrupts): Well, is he a nutcase or what? I mean, you think he’s OK, is he on the level, when he says secession does he mean it, or… what’s he doing?

Dennis: Personally, I believe he was patronizing people that… something that people wanted to hear. I can speak for the Dallas Tea Party, which is one of the larger Tea Party groups in the country, is that we don’t advocate secession, listen, we’ve lost a couple of elections, and we’re going to fix that starting in 2010, but we’re not talking about seceding from the country.

Matthews: Well, he was doing this at a Tea Party event. You say he was patronizing… was he patronizing your crowd? I’m just asking who he’s talking to here. It sounds crazy to me… you say it doesn’t sound like anything more than politics, but what’s he talking about, and what is your reaction to that?

Dennis: Well my reaction is that I disagree with that, and I… ah… you know, politicians say a lot of things, and do another, we see that all the time, I think, ahh… the Tea Party movement that he was speaking at when he said those things was… ahh… organized by the Republican party which does not take place in about 99.99% of the country, in fact that group has now been disbanded, so we do not allow politicians, elected politicians or people who have announced they are running for office to speak with our… to the Tea Party movement.

Matthews: I see.

Matthews: What do you make of those six Texas Republican congresspeople… congressmen who ah… who are birthers? They have real questions about Barack Obama’s being an American.

Dennis: Well, you know, I think we have a lot bigger fish to fry than that. When 46 (inaudible)... Matthews (interrupting) Is that one of your fish? Is that one of your fish?

Dennis: No. That’s not one of “my fish.” My fish is fiscal responsibility, and that’s the fish of the group that I represent, and the Tea Party Patriots, we are fiscal conservatives, and that’s what we are calling upon both parties, Republicans and Democrats, who have not acted responsibly…

Matthews (interrupting): OK…

Dennis: …in spending our country’s money.

Matthews: Who’d you vote for for president in 2000, and 2004?

(laughs) I voted against President Obama, and held my nose to vote for, ahhh…. someone I did not... Matthews: No, 2000. I’m sorry, Mr. Dennis, 2000 and 2004.

Dennis: In 2004, I voted for President Bush.

Matthews: Bush doubled the national debt. Doubled it. He spent $700 billion bailing out wall street, he bailed out AIG… when did you discover that you were concerned about fiscal responsibility, was it after a Democrat was elected president?

Dennis: (starts to answer) Matthews (interrupting): You re-elected the guy! You re-elected the guy!

Dennis: And I’m not a fan of what… he did some good things with cutting taxes and he did some good things with keeping us safe, but I am totally against what the Republicans did, spending money in Washington DC, when they were in power, and that’s why they find themselves in the minority. Matthews: Well let’s go through that, let’s do some real serious work here for a minute. The Republican president George W. Bush, and I agree with you, I thought he was doing a great job after 911 there I thought going after Bin Laden was dynamite, and I was with the 90%, let’s go get that bastard, I’m all for that but he never vetoed a single spending bill by the Republican congress. Where were you each time he didn’t veto, he let them spend the money on the pork, and all that crap, where were you guys?

Dennis: Where I was…

Matthews: … were you out there marching, and holding Tea Party meetings...were you out there holding meetings?

Dennis: no we weren’t at that point, we were just getting extremely ticked off, and we were… we were, as I mentioned we were not supporting the Republican party any more, we were not voting for Republicans, and we were not sending our money to the Republican party, and we’re still not doing so, and so… let me make this straight, cause I know where you’re going at with this, Chris, and it’s not fair. Is that, President bush, as bad as he was, in terms of the deficit, President Obama in six months quadrupled the deficit with an $800 billion stimulus bill that quadrupled the deficit, and that was in my opinion, the straw that broke the camel’s back, and they did that without even reading it, now, if our elected politicians that we send to Washington DC do not take that oath of office strong enough to read the bills that they sign, then we need to bring them home, and that’s what we’re going to do, Republican and Democrat.

Matthews (lecturing): Well the differences between Bush and Obama, is that when Bush came in, we had a balanced budget. When he left, he’d doubled the national debt. Let me tell you the other difference. When he left office we were going in to a great depression; many economists believe that the only thing that could be done at that point. So you’re right, Barack Obama did run up the deficit, he did it many people believe because he had to facing another great depression. Your reaction?

Dennis: Yeah, my reaction is, we’ve got a bunch of over-educated under-smart people in Washington DC, they don’t live like regular people do. We pay our bills on time, we go to work, we live within our means, not like the government borrowing trillions and trillions of dollars from people who are, or could be our enemies.

Matthews: So let me get this straight, you think the correct action for Barack Obama, coming into office, with a great depression facing him… well, you may disagree, you can certainly disagree… that his correct response was to keep the budget down… let the government just… laissez-faire… let the business community and the consumer bail us out… let the free markets operate. You think that was the right answer.

Dennis: I believe the free market always prevails, I believe he should have cut taxes, released restrictions on businesses that have run our businesses overseas and our jobs overseas now… for decades.

Matthews: what did Hoover do?

Dennis: I wasn’t around then.

Matthews: (snarky tone) Well, you know history, sir.

Dennis (inaudible): Matthews: (interrupts) What did Hoover do? He did what you prescribe right now, which is to do nothing, run a balanced budget, try to deal with it the old conservative way…

Dennis… and didn’t, and haven’t they come out now and said that FDR’s policies of Keynsean politics extended the depression by at least seven years? (Matthews laughs on his side of the screen) What we’re saying is that, if we had never gotten ourselves into this situation if big-spending politicians hadn’t been allowed to run wild in Washington DC while we stay at home and pay the bills.

Matthews (laughs)…

Matthews: OK. Well the only thing… you have a theory there that… I’m all for any theory that can be proven, but Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected with all but two states, I think he carried 46 states in 1936 against Alf Landon, so whatever he did restored public confidence that people believed in what he was doing to the point where Vermont and Maine voted against him, so your theory that somehow he deepened the great depression wasn’t believed at the time.

Dennis: Well… (laughs) well who cares what he believed at the time, when it came out… when the proof is now showing that it is. I mean…

Matthews: (interrupts)… Well…

Dennis: … that doesn’t …

Matthews (speaking like a judge in black robes): Well, Mr. Dennis the problem is that history shows that the great depression was about to turn this country into probably a revolution, the Communist party was building up support, the socialist party, and what saved the country is that the… Dennis (interrupting): sounds familiar…

Matthews: Democratic party at that time did something, right?

Dennis: Yeah!

Matthews: Do you disagree?

Dennis: Well, (laughs) they did something, absolutely, but it’s very debatable whether that was the good thing for the country… all we’re saying... I don’t care to, but I will, debate about President Hoover...

Matthews: when you’re holding Tea Parties and condemning this President for taking dramatic steps for dealing with the Great Depression that was facing us, you’re calling that socialism and whatever, and I’m just asking you what was the alternative, when he faced what he faced, what was left over from Bush...

Dennis: ...

Matthews (running over him): Well let’s look at… Bush did $700 billion in bailouts and then let the President, coming into office on January 20th, facing a great depression, he took dramatic steps. Normally, no president should’ha run the deficits we’ve had this year, I agree with you completely, but your answer was do nothing.

Dennis: and look at the success he’s had. Since he’s signed the stimulus bill to create jobs, we’ve lost more than 2,000,000 jobs. Look at the great success he’s had. What we say is cut taxes, give us more liberty and freedom, at the ground level here in the red states or in the flyover country as you New Yorkers call it, and let us live our lives like we do, but the government…

Matthews (interrupts): well, I’m not a New Yorker…

Dennis: Well…

Matthews: Well, basically, you’re saying to do what George Bush did, a big tax cut, and then lots of speeches about the free enterprise system.

Dennis: A big tax cut, with dramatic cuts in government spending, and dramatic cuts in the size of our government, that’s what we advocate.

Matthews: OK, and…

Dennis (continuing): We just don’t agree with your ideologies, Chris. It’s not the fact that we’re racists or red-necks, we just don’t agree with your liberal ideology, and in 2010, we’re gonna’ see what happens.

Matthews; Hey look, fair enough, let me ask you this, if you think doing nothing for this new president to come in, I think there would’ve been a lot of Republicans on the other side, a lot of critics like yourself, who would’ve attacked Barack Obama had he come in, and done the usual smooth sailing and say “we’ll get through this and just “hunker down,” I think a lot of people believe if he had done that we would be in real trouble right now.

Dennis: That’s crazy talk. That’s crazy talk. I’ll tell you this: if Barack Obama would cut taxes, and if he would reduce the size of government and secure our borders, I would have his face tattooed on my chest, and that’s an open offer to President Obama right now.

Matthews: well thank you very much, and I think I agree with you about the borders.

39 posted on 10/18/2009 4:41:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ya wanna see something that happened in Texas that’ll make you really sick...

Watch this:

Watch Mexican Flag-Wearing La Raza Member Attacks Texas Town Hall Attendees

http://www.breitbart.tv/mexican-flag-wearing-la-raza-member-attacks-texas-town-hall-attendees/


40 posted on 10/18/2009 4:43:48 PM PDT by dragnet2
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