Is Tweety well?

He doesn't look so good.

He's as pasty and slobbery as usual tonight. He won't let KO get a word in edgewise, either. He's fine, he just needs some sun.

Anyone?

:shrug:

Couldn't prove it by me.

Worked for Tip O'Neill and Carter. Old school insider though, from the days when Dems and Repugs in Washington used to party together.

Ronald Reagan's mother.

He wants someone from the "daddy party" to protect us.

He's ultimate politics-as-sports guy. So whatever evil shit politicians do to get elected, it's all good fun for Matthews. Since the Republicans have been the innovators in evil manipulative tactics lately, I think Matthews is kind of impressed with them.

He's claimed he is .... but he's also claimed to be an independent.

That said, on the day after the 06 Maryland primaries, he had on as a guest Kweisi Mfume, who lost the senatorial primary to Ben Cardin. Matthews live sin Maryland and told Mfume he had voted for him. Seeing as how you have be registered by party, if his claim was true, he's still a Dem.

He also worked as a speechwriter for Carter, worked for Tip O'Neill, and begged Big Dawg to be his press secretary, When the Dawg gave the job to Snuffleuffagus, Tweety went postal and launched his still raging jihad against Dawg and his missus.

he seems to take things personally, no grasp on the big picture.

He ate a large portion of crow this past week and is having trouble passing the claws and beaks!

I or II?

It must be I. He sucks, but I wouldn't wish that on the Chimp.

on that front.

overweight, but not to the extreme that causes diabetes. Surly, no one wishes him ill, he is just misguided, not bad.

He was off air and in the hospital a few months ago and it was reported it was due to complications from the diabetes. He looks to be losing weight since then. Sticking to a very controlled diet, perhaps?

I think someone here mentioned that Keith had to ask him if he "needed a sip of coke" on air a while ago.

I had no idea. He had malaria a while ago, which is unusual in the developed world, I guess it was because he is immune compromised?

I very rarely get the flu, but that's not exactly a medical study in itself! :)

That people who have a condition as severe as diabetes would be otherwise comprised, thank you for the correction.

He lost quite a bit of weight at the time and kept some?most? of it off.


eta:"I suppose Africa, too, is where I was bitten. My family and I were there at Christmastime. Though all the books say you get the bad symptoms within about two weeks, I may have taken enough malaria pills to suppress it all these seven months. "


http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008953.html

Type I would mean that he was born with it & nobody has ever said that, and it's heavy duty with finger-pricking all day and INSULIN. The only mention has been that hospitalization a year ago, when he was probably diagnosed, and is therefore Type II, Adult Onset. From Google, here he is saying he ONLY TAKES A PILL, doesn't even take INSULIN. He is NOT incapacitated/disabled or more in need of sympathy than the MILLIONS of people who have amputations, blindness, multiple INSULIN shots and multiple finger-pricking.


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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11256228/

.... MATTHEWS: Dr. Bailey, a lot of us are worried about diabetes. I have to take a pill every day. Aren‘t we better of skinnier just basically not eating a lot of fat food like ice cream and pizza and candy.

BAILEY: Absolutely. You are. Obesity is related to diabetes and lots of other diseases. So people need to count calories. Mike is right. You have to exercise. That is very important. You really need to know what kind of fats you are eating. Don‘t eat trans-fats. Be careful about saturated fats. And count calories because, yes, you want to keep your weight down.

MATTHEWS: OK. So what fats are OK now that weren‘t OK before this study came out today?

BAILEY: Fats like olive oil. Fats that are found in things like nuts. There are a variety of fats that can be a big part of your diet. They might be as much as 35 percent of the diet, according to the Department of Agriculture, which in 2005 rewrote things after this study was done. ....



MATTHEWS: Dr. Bailey, I think we are surrounding by people that the minute you lost 10 pounds, they go now don‘t go too far here. Don‘t overdo this thing, and you are killing yourself to lose another 10. And they just demoralize you.

BAILEY: Oh, Chris. They are jealous. So again they need to think about the same things that you are thinking about, adding exercise to their lifestyle, thinking about what they are eating and counting calories. That‘s what it is all about.

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Not unusual for poorly controlled type 2 diabetics.

"I stick to my diet and very small doses of insulin," said Matthews. This link is nearly two years newer than yours so it is likely his lack of control has since required the addition of small doses of insulin.

Just a note, though. Type 1's are not necessarily "born with" the disease per se, but may develop it at any age.

My larger point was to dispell the mythological sympathy being lavished on him. He's managing his diet, testing 4xDA, and one shot daily, hoping to correct back to JUST diet and exercise. My point is that many many MILLIONS are WAY worse off than he is, which would totally dispell most of the maudlin feelings for his condition as an excuse for his BAD BEHAVIOR and ENEMY POLITICS.

Your correction about "being born", fine. But HE is NOT Type I, which is (you'll agree?) very serious.


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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/89448.php

Playing Hardball With Type 2 - American Diabetes Association

Main Category: Diabetes
Article Date: 21 Nov 2007 - 2:00 PST


It took a trip to the emergency room for Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, to own up to his diabetes. In the December issue of the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) consumer magazine, Diabetes Forecast, Matthews talks about what it is like to work on a high profile television show while managing his condition-and taking control of his health.

"I was basically ignoring the situation," said Matthews. "I was told I was diabetic, but I guess we all grew up with the (idea) that if you weren't actually taking insulin, you weren't diabetic."

But the big meals and lack of exercise caught up with him, landing Matthews in the hospital with complications related to type 2. He realized it was time to make some big changes. A major challenge, he says, has been figuring out what to eat. ....

"I stick to my diet and very small doses of insulin," said Matthews.

He hopes to one day stop taking insulin and instead manage his condition through diet and exercise alone. ....


https://www.dagc.org/Good%20Company.asp

You're In Good Company

There are many people with diabetes. The latest numbers say that there are more than 21 million in the United States. Many celebrities and famous people also have diabetes. Obviously, they haven’t allowed diabetes to get in the way of their dreams and achievements. Here is a list of some celebrating a birthday this month.



Chris Matthews
Born: 12/17/45
The hard-hitting political pundit has hosted the tv talk show currently broadcast on MSNBC, Hardball with Chris Matthews since 1997. Chris recently “went public” with his diabetes after being hospitalized with complications. In an interview with D-Life’s Nicole Johnson, he admitted to being in denial for over 10 years, stating that his typical blood glucose readings were about 350. The hospitalization was a wake-up call. Chris is currently taking oral diabetes medication and a daily injection of Lantus. He is faithful about testing four times a day and keeping a logbook.. He now advises others not to be afraid of the disease and to “deal with it”.

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last year, maybe 6+ months ago.

His color looks off, and he looks tired and washed out. Maybe he is having a hard time sticking to his best diet if he is travelling with any of the campaigns. Is he?

He seems to vacillate between looking robust and looking washed out--like fellow diabetic Mary Tyler Moore.

:headbang:
rocknation

MOORE is a Type I, who has accomplished more, physically, while coping with her much more severe condition, plus has been a super activist in the Juvenile Diabetes organization, and yet finding the time and energy to be an activist for human and animal rights. Tweety just ain't EQUAL to that.


*******QUOTE*******

https://www.dagc.org/Good%20Company.asp

You're In Good Company

There are many people with diabetes. The latest numbers say that there are more than 21 million in the United States. Many celebrities and famous people also have diabetes. Obviously, they haven’t allowed diabetes to get in the way of their dreams and achievements. Here is a list of some celebrating a birthday this month.



Mary Tyler Moore
Born: 12/29/36
The famous actress received her “big break” playing Laura Petrie on the Dick Van Dyke show (1961-1966). From 1970-1977, she portrayed Mary Richards, a single independent, career woman, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The two shows garnered her 7 Emmy awards over the years. After the series ended, Mary went on to star in the 1980’s movie Ordinary People, a role that won her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Mary, who has Type 1 diabetes, serves as the International Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. She is also an outspoken human rights activist.

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And if my analysis is right, then I add ... fuck him .... he deserves it.

KO's rise. Maybe it's stressing him out.

But to dispell some of the supportive posts about him here:

1- He is not a Dem anymore. Besides bashing Dems since the '90s, he voted for Shrub in 2000 and has made various statements like, "I'm not the Dem I used to be" and (to somebody else) "Oh, you're STILL a Dem (unlike me)."

2- He has adult onset diabetes (Type II), which many many millions have, which many/most find to be manageable with exercise and diet plus pills or INSULIN. He shows that he is not dreadfully incapacitated by working full time and irritating the Hades out of us. There is no need for drama queen sympathy for him. He is not unusual.

3- He is not "old school Dem ... when Dems & Rethugs used to party together." He was a Dem operative/flunky in the hothouse atmosphere of D.C. where you get power and swag depending upon the SUCCESS of your boss. When RAYGUN beat the pants off of Tweety's bosses O'NEILL/CARTER, Tweety reassessed and discovered a deep love and admiration of RAYGUN. This was amplified by his mentor G.E.RUSSERT, who had parlayed his own Dem past into a new career in the media, where he had learned to get along just fine with his previous enemy-Rethugs.

4- He has done nothing but trash Dems for the past decade, being a de facto Rethug operative.

5- Just to throw in another debunking of another oft repeated revisionist myth about him: No, he has not always been against the Iraq Attack. In the run-up, he was indistinguishable from any of the most vociferous NeoCons. He viciously attacked DONAHUE as being anti-American in the weeks before DONAHUE was terminated. He has spent the past seven years licking Shrub's privates.

..... some of your facts are wrong. I posted above about a conversation on Hairballz that I saw first hand:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2722884#2722986

Either he's still a registered Dem and voted for Mfume or he lied.

That doesn't make him a Dem given the DAILY documentation that a large number of us here at DU post regarding the outrageous anti-Dem things he constantly says. Whatever his registration is, he does DE FACTO damage to many Dems and, in my book, is not a Dem. He grew up in a Rethug family, his brother is a Rethug politician and office holder. Yes, one of his kids worked for Howard DEAN, so what? I repeat, he has been licking Shrub's privates for 7 yrs. What part of that is a Dem?


What other of "some" of my facts are wrong? Since most of the statements in this thread consist of personal feelings and made-up statements about his being a Type I diabetic and so forth, how about correcting some of them?

For what it's worth. :shrug:

What was that dumb 70s song? "I'm not in love..." New lyrics from Tweety:

I'm not obsessed
So don't forget it
It's just a silly phase I'm going through...

He never was.