Pundit Miserably Fails Pop Quiz on Live TV
Recently, Media Mob had a bad dream in which we found ourselves back in our high-school Latin class, facing a pop quiz on—let's call it Cicero—and realized with growing dread that we hadn't picked up a Latin book in ages, and were on the verge of wildly failing said test.
Speaking of failing to prepare, knowing nothing about the subject at hand, and being humiliated as a result ... have you seen the above clip from yesterday's Hardball on MSNBC?
Yikes.
Therein, Chris Matthews repeatedly asks radio host Kevin James—who was trying to make a point about Senator Obama and appeasement—to explain what exactly Neville Chamberlain did in Munich in 1938.
How'd poor Mr. James do on the pop quiz?
Let's just say that if Mr. Matthews had asked Mr. James to recite in Latin the opening argument of the Pro Caelio, the flustered pundit probably would have performed just as well. "Your problem is, Kevin, you don't know what you're talking about," said Mr. Matthews.
[Via The Huffington Post.]
Good for Chris Matthews. Share this with friends in Kentucky and Oregon.
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Lou Dobbs was once my media champion until he turned, overnight, into a one-topic curmudgeon, bemoaning the illegal barbarians at our non-existant gates. Chris Matthews, I have now annointed you my personal media hero--I hereby charge you to lead and guide my mindless fellow Americans through the morass of tedious non-sequiturs and half-baked ideas, masked as "talking points" on to the land flowing with milk and honey: clarity of thought and precise use of language.
For once we see on TV a put down of a loudmoutn ignoramous. It is a rare occurence. In fact, Chris Matthews has been one of the greatest motormouths in TV history, but he is INTELLEGENT and WELL INFORMED even thoiugh his jaw velocity often runs him down the road to sillyville.
But this Kevin James, a Rovian buzz word freak (to whom we have been thankfully exposed so little on TV) is the quintessential example of the (usually far right wing) howling idiot repeating the same mantra endlessly hoping that he will succeed in shoving the verbal excrement down the throats of his listeners. I imagine he usually succeeds with his customary audience of ditto heads, but this time he hit a blank wall - someone who was capable of humiliating him and showing him the back door.
UNFORTUNATELY, most of the news "analysis" (which we quickly turn off) on cable TV and even by broadcast news shows, is the usual babbling contest of wits between two or more unarmed opponents. The pernicious spirit of Kevin James is far from defeated.
Matthews is abusive and rude and dumb. I saw this spectacle and Matthews was exploiting this guy to make yet another useless lefty point and to deflect the arguement away from Obama's foreign policy failings. We are not fooled, certainly not by fools.
This is another example of a loud-month, serial BSer conservative sociopath. Look how passionately he's trying to make his baseless points despite Chris Matthews proving that he doesn't know what he's talking about in the first place.
It used to be in the media that whichever pundits came off strongly, and loudly, enough would win the argument. I'm glad Chris Matthews is putting some sense back into the debate and shutting that idiot up.
Truths:
9/11 was primarily Bush's fault because his incompetant administration missed VERY obvious warning signs and instead focused #1 on the threat of the Soviet Union, I mean Russia, at the time.
Also, Barack Obama has one of the strongest positions in support of Israel. Any implications otherwise are typically driven by racial fears. And with the issue of talking to Iran, that's a better strategy to try in my mind in comparrison with John McCain's Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran song he sung. It's just more conservative fear-points that in this election, are largely out-of-date.