Is anyone watching Hardball? Tweety is being interviewed by his wife.

[Stinky The Clown]

I didn't know Tweety used to be a cop. As in carry a gun and wear a badge. Did anyone know that?

His wife, Kathleen, is a long time DC local teevee news anchor (who is no longer doing that).

Its pretty interesting.

[shaniqua6392]

1. They are really cute together.

He gets this silly smile when he looks at her. I did not know he used to be a cop either.

[Bucky]

12. Plus he has a book to sell. And cute sells.

Man, Jon Stewart ripped him a new hole the other night.

"That book has already been written, too. It's called The Prince."

Stewart is the only "news" anchor in the business who trusts his audience enough to get that reference.

[niyad]

2. somebody married him???? (shudders) can't see him as a cop, either.

[shain from kane]

4. She married him at gunpoint. n/t

[UTUSN]

22. He was a RENT A COP for about THREE (3) months. Capitol policeman.

Now, before somebody decides this is a slur on Capitol policemen, Tweety himself never brought it up UNTIL those shootings of 2 or 3 Capitol plicemen in (1997?) and when he saw that they were being called "heroes" all over the media for days. THAT's when he decided to bring it up.


Everything about Tweety is about SELF-promotion!!1 When SNL -------*satirized*------ him, he took it as being a TRIBUTE, and he couldn't stop saying, "I. Am. An. ICON. I have been 'done' on SNL!!1"

[spanone]

3. he's a shameless huckster

bring your wife on to 'interview' you?....c'mon chris

[durrrty libby]

6. Yes, he told her to hold the book up as many times as possible

Everything he learned about politics is in that tiny book

He didn't learn much, that's for sure

[dkofos]

5. He couldn't handle Jon Stewart, maybe this will go better for him!!

[Democrat 4 Ever]

8. This is nothing but damage control after his pathetic little ego

was stomped on by Jon Stewart the other night. He is the only news person I know of that always plays his appearances on other shows (I'm betting The Daily Show classic won't be airing), throws himself a week long anniversary party every damn year and he, along with Lou Dobbs, gets off reading their fan mail on air as if to assure themselves they are still relevant. Not. Pandering, thy name is Tweets.

If you can't get a soft interview from the gal who was stupid enough to marry you...

[Common Sense Party]

9. Until his wife, too, tells him his life philosophy is a recipe for sadness.

Tweety's head will explode.

[radfringe]

7. ohhh pulllleeesseee

did they change the name of the program to puffball?

[SoCalDem]

10. It's what MSNBC does best

they invite each other to be on their shows..and then play nice with each other.. especially to hawk their books :)

[chaumont58]

11. Is this a joke? Tweety interviewed by his wife?

This is the fuckin' guy that has spent years trashing both Clintons and Al Gore, doing everything except an on-air fellating of chimpie and now, we would be subjected to a hard hitting interview by his wife? I say would be because I turned soon as I figured just how hard hitting it was.
Next, Andrea Mitchell will do an indepth interview of Allen Greenspan. Dan Abrams is off his medication.

[Nimrod2005]

13. I liked watching it, yes I knew he was a cop......nt

[Totally Committed]

14. Did she ask him about those pics of Fred Thompson she found under his side of the bed yet?

That would be pretty interesting. :)

TC

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Hahahaha

You mean the ones with the crusty stains?


Ewwwwwww!


:rofl:

[Totally Committed]

17. Ya... those ones!

:rofl:


TC

[spanone]

16. rerun here....HE LEADS WITH THE CRAIG STORY bwahahahaaahahahaa

so did NBC Nightly News

[KoKo]

18. HA! My hubby drove Cab in NYC...but was Accepted & Attended Yale Medical School...

Don't cry for me...Chris Matthews...you rode in on a BUNCH OF PERKS and SO DID YOUR WIFE!

What a bunch of crap....after Jon Stewart Interview you call in your wife to interview and go off in dialog about how "I Always Wondered about the person on the other side of the bed." SHEESH...can Tweety go any lower?

[Bumblebee]

19. are you kidding? Why would I want to see it?!

[calimary]

20. I'm afraid I found it rather deadly, myself.

But hey, that's nepotism for ya. It sure has worked well for the bushes.

[flordehinojos]

21. she is handling him with kid gloves. careful not to bruise/shatter his ego

which seems to be really frail, especially after the smack down JS gave him the other day. Also, they seem to think that he is some great deep intellectual guy, who likes to think a lot and likes to write books for "immortality's' sake ... the sad thing is, hardly will those books ever compare to the writings of great thinkers past or present ... although tweety wants it to ... and that is where his ego can be so easily bruised (like it was the other night during the JS show) , and that is where kathleen is so careful in her handling of him that it is pitiful. wonder what goes on behind closed doors. are they stilll so lovey dovey or the they throw the dishes at one another? he is so focused on the clintons. i wonder if he senses that the Clinton's' marriage has a deeper j'ai ne sois qua, or that the Clinton's, each, have achieved greater greatness (pardon the redundancy) than he or kathleen have or ever will. Sad.

[UTUSN]

23. Re-run at 7:31 ET right now. Repost from an earlier thread:

So he will FAKE call her "my queen, Kathleen" while he emotionally abuses her.

Will his bud the plaigiarist, whassisname from Boston, be there, too? When the two of them get together and Queen Kathleen is there, they carry on like the infantile schoolboys they are, making fun of her while she's delivering some straight reporting. He and O'LOOFAH are prisoners inside their clautrophobic cultural background.

Besides NOT listening to anybody, as Jon told him, the overly high flown rhetoric he uses is a sign of his noise-noise-noise signifying nothing in content.

[UTUSN]

24. He DID it!!1 He called her "MY QUEEN"!!1

Holy Zeus!!1 He says he comes across as "INSPIRATIONAL" in his book!!1


And she asked him, "Soulful?"


And Tweety the pig says, "I got YOU, didn't I!!1 HA!!1"

[Fredda Weinberg]

25. Hate to tell ya, but it's a winning argument. Cherchez la femme! n/t

[UTUSN]

26. "Back when I was drinking, you'd say, 'You really did it now!1' "

Yaas, it's just a barrel of monkeys at the Tweety and O'LOOFAH households!!1

[UTUSN]

27. Who has had a seminal experience? "Hillary. Surviving that marriage."

Yip, Mr & Mrs Tweety managed to transliterate a phrase like "seminal experience" into a raunchy pun.

"Bill made her tougher."

[Cameron27]

28. Why is Matthews being interviewed by anyone?

He's a tv "pundit" hawking his book. MSNBC is nuts to do this IMO.

[UTUSN]

29. She: "I go off to bed upstairs. You go off to your computer (to write book)."

Then Tweety brings up one of his man crushes, McCAIN. That might explain it.

[UTUSN]

30. "What's it LIKE being married to ME? Being 180 from ME? ME ME ME!!1"

[UTUSN]

31. Why write books: "Immortality!!1 I line up my books & say I-did-that. Want to write a BIGGER book"

"I've got all these THINGS in my head, well, you know."

[UTUSN]

32. She: "It's a CARTOON of what a book interview is supposed to be, Chris" HA!!1

[UTUSN]

33. "My heroes were MEN OF ACTION, that's why I went into the Peace Corps"!!1

"I wanted to match, in my moderate way, their arc."

[UTUSN]

34. Parting shot: Kathleen seems very nice. I have NO idea why she is hooked down to him.

There was a hint of problems while he was drinking. She plows through his over-talking and interruptions.


There must be some PTSD in her over what can EASILY be seen to be abuse from him, from his drinking, verbally, emotionally.

Is it ambition on her part, since it's not economics?

[bullwinkle428]

35. ZOMG..."I thought this war was a catastrophe from the beginning..."

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????

HOW DARE YOU ATTEMPT TO LIE TO US LIKE THAT!!

Do you really take all of your viewers for completely pathetic fools? :argh:

[UTUSN]

36. Thank you. There are plenty right here at DU who say he ALWAYS OPPOSED THE WAR

In the run-up, there was nobody who was drumbeating the war more than he was. And he performed the on-air execution of DONAHUE, who WAS against the war, off of MSRNC.