Catching Up with the Derangement Channel on a Caturday Afternoon
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at February 20, 2010 2:16 PM
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Here's a few odds and ends I've failed to report in the past week.
MSDNC's Chris Matthews admits he doesn't know the meaning of the word "Patriot." Proving that he works for the right network.
Chrissy's MSDNC co-hort Ed Schultz says "Insurance companies are butchering people." I guess that's why Soylent Green is so cheap and abundant, even in these times of scarcity. He also thinks Democrats should be even more obnoxious than they already are. Where did this myth that Democrats are nice people get started?
CBS/NY Times tried to run a poll to see how viewers were responding to Chrissy, Ed, Rachel, and of course, Keith Olbermann's forays into hatred-fueled dementia. They ran into a problem. They couldn't find any people who watched them to poll.
Gee, I can't imagine why there isn't a huge audience for Rachel Maddow's new feature: Bad Partisan Poetry readings.
moonbattery.com
[The excerpts below show the above was no exaggeration: ]
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As the discussion turned to the document that the tea parties revere, Matthews repeatedly got confused, even stating that the GOP existed at the time of the Constitutional Convention.
MATTHEWS: If the original document, the Constitution, was so perfect, why did we need 10 amendments right up front Colin? Why do we need the 2nd Amendment for the gun guys, right up front, if it was a perfect document. We started amending pretty early, didn't we?
HANNA: Actually we started the amendments, Chris, if you, well before the actual document was made.
MATTHEWS: Well to get them approved because the Republican Party insisted on the amendments.
[ Yes, that was Chris Matthews saying the Bill of Rights were passed because Republicans insisted on them. No wonder he did so poorly on Jeapordy.
His point was basically, hey, that old Constitution wasn't so great anyway, we had to start amending it from the beginning. ]
HANNA: No, no, no. Many of those things that became the rights are laid out in the amendments, the first 10, the Bill of Rights were, in fact, derivations of other documents that actually predated the Constitution.
MATTHEWS: Oh sure, sure. The colonial documents. Well not colonial but the, the, the state charge. But look-
HANNA: Right. But look here's, here's, here's the point. Here's the point...
MATTHEWS: But here's the point. Don't we have, if you get into this first principle thing we can't even have an Air Force. There's no Air Force in the Constitution. Is there?
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MATTHEWS: Therefore you need some sort of net, safety net. That's, but here's what I object to.
Back in the beginnings of our country – and you're a student, we all are, of our history – there was a real honest debate between how strong a central government we have and how much should it be distributed among small farmers. The sort of Jeffersonians against the Hamiltonians. But Jefferson didn't accuse Hamilton of being unpatriotic. He didn't say "You're not one of us." He said, "You have a different view." The trouble with your crowd is if you take a strong big government view, if you think we ought to have a little bit more socialism like health care, which is a point of view, you guys say we're not American. And I've got say wait a minute, you can have people on the left who are just as American as people on the right. You've got people on the right who want to secede from the Union! Don't tell me somebody wants to secede from the Union is more patriotic than somebody who would like to see a national health care system like Tony Weiner. I'm sorry, just because you disagree doesn't mean the other guy ain't one of us! And that's what-. I hear this word "patriot," and I don't like it. I think it excludes people who aren't with your point of view. That's all I'm saying. And what does a patriot mean these days? This isn't a re-enactment play!
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newsbusters.org
Ed Schultz Says Health Insurers Are 'Absolutely Butchering the American People'
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How can Evan Bayh sit there as an honest player for health care reform when his wife works for an industry that is just absolutely butchering the American people, raising rates 100 percent on some people, and Anthem Blue Cross is a subsidiary of WellPoint. ....
newsbusters.org
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99. Do you think of shows hosted by people like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow more as news shows or more as entertainment?
2/5 - 10/10 Insufficient number of respondents
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documents.nytimes.com
[ Apparently the pollers couldn't find enough MSDNC viewers to poll. ]
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RACHEL MADDOW:
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So now, without further ado, we present Newsweek`s Jerry Adler reading his latest opus, "59 to 41: Filibuster this Poem," with a special assist from our own Kent Jones.
JERRY ADLER:
The urgent business of the people
Now must shuffle limp and creeple.
Three steps forward, three steps back,
Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq.
That crazy North Korean kook
With missiles and a suitcase nuke.
Thirty million uninsured,
Giant loans go unsecured,
Unemployment unabated,
Bankers unabashed, unsated,
Unwanting to be regulated.
Greenhouse gases in the air,
Bad news for the polar bear.
No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no.
Olympia Snowe.
MADDOW: Sort of can`t believe we did that. That was so awesome. Ladies and gentlemen, that was the news verse of Jerry Adler. And a big thanks to the Rachel Maddow Show’s official bongo boy, Kent Jones. Wow.
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