Breitbart.tv » Thrill Is Gone? Matthews Turns On Obama; ‘I Hear Stories That You Would Not Believe’

Can't stand rants.

Did he ever support Obama?

In January 2010, in Matthews's comments after President Obama's first State of the Union Address, he says "You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour."

What a gem.

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.

Oh, my dear...

He absolutely was one of Obama's biggest cheerleaders. He's well known for saying - after hearing Obama give an acceptance speech after beating Hillary in an important primary - that he feels a thrill up his leg when he hears Obama give a speech.

What he's saying in that clip - I believe - is that Obama hasn't followed through with a lot of things he said were important to him on the campaign trail, and that he wants an update.

I googled quickly, and found this on Salon.com from a year ago: The promises Obama wants you to keep forgetting - Barack Obama - Salon.com

“I’ll lead a new era of openness. I’ll give an annual ‘State of the World’ address to the American people in which I lay out our national security policy.”

“[Obama] endorses the goal of sending human missions to the Moon by 2020, as a precursor in an orderly progression to missions to more distant destinations, including Mars.” After the campaign, returning to the Moon faded from Obama’s agenda. Finally, in the 2011 budget, the administration completely abandoned the idea, calling the NASA Moon program “over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation due to a failure to invest in critical new technologies.”

”Barack Obama will double the Peace Corps to 16,000 by its 50th anniversary in 2011 and push Congress to fully fund this expansion, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.”


“Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”


”I cannot guarantee that it is going to be in the first 100 days. But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I’m promoting. And I want to move that forward as quickly as possible.”


Some of those are things that were important to Chris Matthews, I guess, and he apparently wants to know why they haven't happened...

I find commentators who rant obnoxious - on the left or the right.

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.

You call that a rant?

I guess I really don't. He goes on and on... but I don't think he's 'ranting'.

rant
verb (used without object)
1. to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way

Ah....the Nobel Peace Prize before he even took office......

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LOL, suezz!

Thanks for that hysterical reminder! :-)

Yep....and now it is not funny WOW..Who were those intelligent people and why were they so deluded by him? His speeches were pretty much "look at the left hand teleprompter, stick nose in the air and look at the right hand teleprompter" and people were in a quiver over him???

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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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I just hope we have some change left in our pockets by the time we're rid of him! :-)

Yes, I call that a rant. I think O'Reilly rants too.

I use the Merriam Webster definition, with the emphasis on declamatory:
to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

The Merriam Webster definition of declamatory being:
Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic

Bush drained our pockets and you expect Obama to refill them?!

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.

Bombastic - I believe that was one of O'R's vocab words last week!

Woot!

Really? He had to define bombastic for his listeners?!

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.

Nope. Every night he ends with a seldom-used word just 'cause his viewers are smart and appreciate the opportunity for the intellectual review.

I wouldn't call vocabulary "intellectual review," given that most "intellectuals" already own a dictionary. If they had any curiosity, they'd just look up and learn a new word on their own now and then. They wouldn't need a blow-hard like O'Reilly to do it for them.

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.

Oh, I didn't say they were 'intellectuals'.

Let's save that rather pompous term for the libs, shall we?

:-)

If he's providing something for "intellectual review", who's doing the reviewing?

If I provide something for "scientific review" I would be asking scientists to review it, no?

I think you just called yourself a pompous liberal, LOL!

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.

There are nouns...

And there are adjectives...

And there are words that can be used as one or the other...

No matter how thin you slice it, intellectuals are the target of "intellectual review." Bazinga!

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.

Of course you would put the emphasis on the word "declamatory". I would put the emphasis on excited (as in being passionate) in reference to O'Reilly.

Bazinga! Cracked me up, love The Big Bang Theory on TV too!