Reply #27: Apparently, Tweety has changed his tune

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Matthews Rants About Empty-Headed Bush, Wants 'Smarter' President
Declaring that "I think the next President's got to be stronger and smarter than this one," on Tuesday's Imus in the Morning, MSNBC's Chris Matthews went on a tirade for over two minutes against President Bush and those around him who filled his intellectual vacuum. "All they care about is ideology," Matthews fretted as he charged: "The President bought it hook, line and sinker." Matthews delivered insults as he asserted that Bush "trusts the intellectuals....they're a bunch of pencil-necks and now he buys completely their ideology because he didn't have one of his own coming in. That was his problem. I don't know what Bush stood for except 'I'm a cool guy and Gore isn't.'" The Hardball host yearned: "I hope the next election isn't a problem of who goes to bed with their wife at 9:30 at night or who knows how to tell a joke on a stage, but it's who has the sense of strength that comes from having read books most of their life, tried to understand history." Though Matthews didn't warn of "every single" bad development in Iraq, he contended that "every single thing that's happened in Iraq was predicted by history" and lamented that "Bush didn't have the academic background to challenge" the ignorant ideologues who ignored history.

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060726.asp