Reply #36: Did anybody else notice... [View All]

...that Tweety (my Mother, who absolutely loathes Matthews, almost split a seam when I relayed that little nickname to her) seemed to have NO idea what a single payer system was? He kept asking Al about it and Sharpton was trying valiantly to make him grasp it, but Chris just kept staring at him as if he was speaking Tagalog. Finally he sputtered out "Oh, like with payroll taxes..." or something like that. This is typical for him, but nonetheless appalling.

Did anybody see him last year, being interviewed on another MSNBC show, trying to claim that Madison and Monroe were Federalists? It was after Clinton had made a statement about how Jefferson had persevered in spite of vicious attacks on him and his successors carried the party's legacy forward. Tweety goes off on a mini rant (he did hedge his bets by saying that he wasn't sure), about how he thought they were Federalists. This is really appalling in a political reporter. It's not an unimportant aspect of history, like the precise sequence of Plantaganet kings, it's pretty damn vital.

I don't usually do things like this, but I had to e-mail his dopey show and correct him. You don't mess with the Virginia dynasty and get away with it.