A Visit To The Land Of Truth And Understanding
by digby
I just heard Chris Matthews say that people don’t want the Sheriff of Nottingham to handle the oil spill, they want Robin Hood. (Obviously, Tweety just went to the movies.) I think BP was supposed to be the Sheriff in this tangle metaphor — but isn’t the Sheriff the government? I got the feeling he meant Robin Hood to be Obama, but then wouldn’t he actually be King John? I don’t even think there’s a Robin Hood in all this unless Tweety believes there’s some crack team of Roughnecks out there like in Armageddon — but I think they’d all work for BP, right? I’m guessing the answer to this conundrum is to not let Chris Matthews go to the movies.
Meanwhile, he’s still haranguing Richard Blumenthal for being a liar and says he couldn’t vote for him. Then he predictably characterizes the president as creating a “secret little story” and Alfred Hitchcock mystery around the Sestak non-scandal and compares Obama and Sestak to the Menendez brothers getting their story straight. Lovely.
And then he gave Jim Webb a big, slurpy, very macho, metaphorical soul kiss.
Finally, he featured Bill Clinton talking about Limbaugh and Fox News with John “Drudge rules our world” Harris, scoffing because Clinton’s been talking about this since 1994. Matthews, Andrea Mitchell,and Harris smirked and snorted at the ludicrous claim by “the Clintons” of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy at which point Matthews lets fly with this:
“it’s true now by the way. Just like Jerry Ford, it finally was true about Poland.”
Tweety just woke up about the malevolent noise machine but that means anything that happened while he was asleep was a dream. It doesn’t even occur to him that he might have been wrong. It never does:
CM: Michael, Michael, there’s a big difference between what happened to Al Gore and John Kerry. John Kerry got hit unfairly by the Swift Boats attacking his service to his country. They conflated his opposition to the war when he came back which we can all argue about, and his service to his country which is not really arguable. They trashed him.
But in terms of Al Gore, he’s the one who said he created the internet, he’s the one who put out the word that he’s the subject or the role model for Love Story, that he pointed the country’s attention to Love Canal. He stuck himself into that story.
And when Marty Peretz’s daughter wrote that story in Vanity Fair a couple of months ago, I’m sorry, she didn’t make the case. Gore got himself in those problem areas by vanity and showing off an trying to make himself cool. But John Kerry got unfair treatment. I think it’s a big difference guys.
Crowley: that may be so, but it’s not how many Democrats feel.
CM: Well, why would expect a partisan to think anything more than partisan? That’s what partisans think? Of course they think they were rooked. Everyone who loses an election thinks they were rooked and they blame it on the umpire.
Crowley: That’s the audience they’re speaking to.
CM: Yeah, well how about getting into the land of truth and understanding?
Vintage Hardball. Good times.
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