Tweety Condescending

by digby

So, it turns out that almost half of Republicans still don’t know that Rudy Giuliani is pro-choice.

Could somebody please tell Tweety?

ZUCKMAN: Well, it‘s still early. Maybe they don‘t really know what his record is. They just know…

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Oh, you guys, you—you people…

(LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS: You people are so condescending.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: You think they don‘t know that he‘s pro-abortion rights and pro-gun control, if he‘s mayor of New York? You don‘t think people have any common sense?

ZUCKMAN: Chris, as—as voters have gotten—have learned more about Giuliani‘s record…

MATTHEWS: Oh, I have heard this. And his numbers keep going up.

ZUCKMAN: … his numbers have been going down.

MATTHEWS: No, they aren‘t. No, this is such C.W. They keep going up. Come on.

He attacks his guests like that all the time saying they are being snotty elitists by assuming that members of the Republican base don’t know jack about their favorite candidate. Well, nearly half of them don’t.

As for his numbers being unaffected, I think Tweety may be right. They won’t care much about blastocysts as long a Rudy is willing to kill as many humans as possible. Priorities.

Oh, and this comment about Giuliani, from the same show, is just precious:

FINEMAN: He doesn‘t—he looks like a guy who, if he had had the opportunity to grow up as a hunter, would have been a great one.

MATTHEWS: Yes.

FINEMAN: He just gives off the aura of a guy who wouldn‘t be afraid to use a gun, you know? That‘s just—and that‘s the record that he had in New York.

Oooh baby.

Paul Begala said this earlier today:

BEGALA: He does, although most policy experts, including the former head of the bin Laden unit, said, in fact, Congressman Paul was right; Mayor Giuliani was wrong.

Rudy does have this knack, shall we say, this proclivity for giving sort of sanctimonious speeches, especially about these horrific emotional events — 9/11 not the first. In 1997, a Palestinian man with a gun shot seven people at the observation tower of the Empire State Building, killed one, wounded six.

Rudy was the mayor. He gave one of those emotional, sanctimonious speeches, calling for — get this — licensing every gun owner in America and — and outlawing every assault weapon, popular, maybe, among liberal Democrats, but death among conservative Republicans.

Just don’t call him a flip-flopper.

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