Posted on 08/31/2012 6:16:31 PM PDT by chessplayer
Just hours after a producer for deranged MSNBC host Chris Matthews was accused of physically assaulting Republicans outside the party’s national convention last night, Matthews himself has admitted to verbally confronting several GOP delegates at a restaurant in Tampa, Florida calling them a “douchebag convention.”
According to The Hill newspaper, the perpetually angry liberal television host confronted the delegates early Friday morning following taunting questions they asked about whether he felt “thrilled” following GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech.
The controversy began, according to a witness interviewed by The Hill when Matthews twice refused to acknowledge a New York delegate named Eric Ulrich who had greeted him. This prompted other Republican patrons of the restaurant to begin heckling him for the perceived slight:
He headed back into the restaurant to mix it up with them. “I wanted to confront them,” Matthews said, describing his exchange with the men as “towel-snapping” among guys.
Matthews said he told the rowdy group, “What’s this, a douchebag convention?”
The Republicans became angry and retorted back.
“I told him that’s next week," said New York delegate Anthony Nunziato, referring to the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C., that will start on Tuesday.
Comcast Employees Top Donors to Obama
ABC News’ Devin Dwyer (@devindwyer) reports:
Employees of media giant Comcast have contributed more money to President Obama’s reelection bid than employees from any other organization, according to a new analysis of Federal Election Commission data by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Comcast employees contributed nearly $80,000 directly to Obama for America and roughly $200,000 to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint account benefitting both the Obama campaign and Democratic National Committee, through the first half of 2011 records show.
Comcast, the nation’s largest video and internet services provider, is the parent company of NBCUniversal, which owns broadcast networks NBC and Telemundo among other assets.
President Obama has recently spent time with top Comcast executives, attending an intimate fundraiser at the home of Comcast executive vice president David Cohen in Philadelphia in June and a private “social reception” at the Martha’s Vineyard estate of Comcast CEO Brian Roberts earlier this week.
Nunziato should get Delegate of the Year. Brilliant comeback.
Damn, I ain't that civil.
He will be institutionalized at some point, although it might be done quietly. Once upon a time he struck me as a reasonably amicable lefty, but he has become an addled viper.
“That confirms it; he’s queer.”
He does seem like a more feminine Eleanor Clift.
Fortunately, I can name only four of those barking moonbats...well maybe five.
I think that speaks well for me.
They need to get him some psychiatric help or just fire him and ban him from their buildings before something really bad happens. He is showing signs of a mental breakdown.
Sort of sad. He’s starting to drink his own Koolaid.
There is probably some psychiatric name for it, when you repeat your own lies so many times, you start to believe them and become paranoid.
Matthews is truly one of the least intelligent people on the “news” sites. I don’t understand how he has gotten as far as he has. I’ve watched him numerous times where he just doesn’t seem to “get” things, and I’m not even talking about politics. I heard he was on Jeopardy and bombed, and my first thought was, “Of course”.
Someone at the table should have just punched Chrissy in the face.
Chrissie grew up near me, but inside the city limits. If he started “snapping towels” in bars around here, he’d be in a heap. You don’t start things in bars. I guess he moved away before he could get into the bars and learn some manners.
He was lucky I wasn’t there as I grew up in Tampa and know places Chissy would still be lost for months
Speaking of douche-bags ... I think it’s marvelous if we’re making Chrissy lose his temper in public. This douche-bag must have no self-control at all.
Tingles wouldnt’confront a two day old kitten.
Chrissy filled in for Rush long ago, before he became mental!
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