That man is an idiot.

His man-crushes are starting to get very disturbing.

His sexism is getting less and less excusable.

doesn't he?

Pot shots at Chris Matthews for his usual dumb observations are way too easy. And mostly irrelevant. Compared to his previous dorkiness, it sounds like Matthews restrained himself.

How does he continue to have a platform? The man is deeply creepy.

Alex, I think you're doing a good job balancing that out.

Okay so I admit Matthews is kind of suspiciously over-concerned with manly men. I think he secretly wants to be carried off and ravished by a truck driver.

But what you really should have had your DVR record were the closing moments of last night's "American Idol." I am not a fan but my lady friend forces me to watch from afar, and let me tell you, Paula Abdul was higher than a kite. Nothing new of course, but what's-his-face British guy at one point forced her to sit down and held his arm nearby in case he needed to restrain her.

Let's get Paula Abdul and Chris Matthews on the same analysis team and see what happens.

Chris Matthew's opinions about anything political seem so contradictory to his earlier experience as a staff of the House Speaker and as an occasional presidential speech writer (don't know if any of them were delivered). He seems totally ignorant of the political process - and his comments show it - not because he is sexist and racist, but because he just doesn't seem to know what is going on in the real world. His show should be called "Squishy Ball." And he doesn't know much about Pennsylania "Beef" - as a native Pennsylvanian I am embarassed for him and his family.

If I were as bad at my job as he is at his, I would have been fired long ago.

He would know something about "beefy" since he's nothing but a fat, flatulent failure.

With him, it's not about being a journalist or reporter-it's simply about him wanting his bloated, narcissistic ass on television.

Is this guy not a case study, at least a term paper, waiting to be written? He reveals so much about himself, his delusions, his self-loating (I'm not a bloated social climber! I'm a beefy rustic he-man! It's not at all effeminate that I go to the same colorist as Sally Quinn and Peggy Noonan!) every time he opens that gaping maw to show us the churning, fetid miasmic swamp that is his psyche.

I know I should feel sorry for him, but I really don't.

I know the pundits will laugh themselves silly, but then again they laughed at my prediction I made over a year ago that McCain would be the nominee. With Hillary's win in Texas and Ohio, the super delegates will be much less likely to commit to Obama and risk pissing off Bill to whom many of them owe their allegiance. Hillary and Barack will trash each other over the summer, much to the delight of McCain et al, and they will go to the convention with no clear leader in delegates but lots of negatives about each other. The convention will deadlock on at least the first ballot with neither side willing to concede and guess who will come riding to the rescue: the man who has run the most subtle campaign for the last 4 years - Al Gore. He beat Bush once and has turned himself into the statesman for environmentalism. He will be acceptable to everyone and a Gore/Obama tkt will look unbeatable. He will also have the advantage of forcing the McCain campaign to completely change tactics.

Plausible? I think it's very likely.

The Frat Club at MSNBC along with their enabling soriety sisters is looking so silly as to be a parady of itself. Among the many ironies of this campaign is that Pat Buchanan ends up being the only objective grown up the network can offer.Rachael Maddow must be suffering the Stockholm Syndrome. I don't know what their ratings are at the present but I would venture a guess that they are shrinking.

... it's usually because it works for them. The question to ask is how does this behavior work for Chris Matthews?

I'm oversaturated, sure, but I took a break from the Sunday shows for a period of time and it helped. I can't watch them now because it's...nothing, and a waste of time.

It's the same group of people that appear to have sketchy credentials, really. They went to college? They work at a paper? He has a TV Show?

It's all gas, time-filler. These are terribly NON-expert opinions given the context and these people are bald careerists, supercilious and silly.

How is it allowed that Tim Russert moderates a "debate". That Bret Hume gets to have a presence anywhere?

They think they're kingmakers. That's their dirty little secret. They'd like us to think them ennobled by the ethics of their profession when it's only so much window-dressing.

This is why they congratulate each other and chortle at the "gotchas" and cozy with the political class. They think they're them....

....and so they are and what they all are in aggregate is the Corporate Enabling Machine, shoving it down our throats, sticking it up our asses 24/7/365.

Dig it.

Tweety must be totally high to spout this nonsense. Maybe he was confusing elected officials from Pennsylvania with members of the Steelers or Eagles? Perhaps the Flyers or Penguins? Those are usually some "beefy" guys.

I wonder if MSNBC has any kind of random drug test policy, because Chrissy is definitely going to fail.

And Gov. Ed Rendell would like right at home in an NFL offensive line. Big guy. And his size is totally irrelevant as I suspect he'd say.

3rd generation Annapolis, short, wiry, prickly, flies off the handle, lives in Phoenix for god's sake. His great great grandfather was a Mississippi plantation slaveowner who died as a CSA officer in the Civil War. John McCain even claims royal decent from Robert Bruce.