Alessandra Stanley and Tweety, Sittin' in a Tree...

[Berry Cool]

I guess now when Tweety foams at the mouth, we know who's holding the bucket:

For Happy Warrior of Political Coverage, Another Joyous Night

If Tim Russert of NBC News is the New Hampshire primary of political pundits — crucial, serious and august — then his colleague Chris Matthews, intense, voluble and unavoidable, is the Iowa caucuses. And it takes one to cover one, as Mr. Matthews demonstrated with his coverage Thursday night on MSNBC.

“I’m telling you, Keith, this is Lexington and Concord — this is going around the world,” Mr. Matthews told his election night co-host, Keith Olbermann, in describing Barack Obama’s victory. He announced that the nation was in a rut and that the Iowa vote signaled a craving for radical change: “It’s taking us to a new place. The biblical term, since we’re in a biblical era, is deliverance.”...

...Mr. Matthews, a former Democratic aide on Capitol Hill, is hardly neutral, but his chief passion is process. He seems pushily, happily obsessed with the art and science of politics and political drama.

There are more tempered, judicious narrators on television, like Wolf Blitzer of CNN and Charles Gibson of ABC, but few bring as much energy and flair to the complicated, volatile business of political reportage as Mr. Matthews...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/us/politics/04watch.html?_r=2&ref=politics&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Funny, Tweety actually reminds me more of that character "Brian Johns" on SCTV, who used to host a show called "Money Talks," in which he interviewed superrich people by following them around like an adoring little puppy and asked them things like "How much did this pool cost?" and "Are your neighbors really rich too?"

And I laugh when Stanley says that Tweety "blurted on about the Roosevelt election in 1932 and 19th-century races." Please. He did that because he was afraid Keith was going to get into historical references and he would look like an idiot, so he better start making them first.

"Happy warrior of political coverage"? More like the hyperactive schoolboy of political coverage, whose flecks of spittle never miss their mark.

[BlueManDude]

1. I like how they insinuate that he's biased toward the Dems by noting...

that he's a for Democratic aide. His stock and trade is bashinf Democrats and swooning for whomever the GOP hero of the day is.