Matthews: Bush sometimes "glimmers" with "sunny nobility"
MSNBC host Chris Matthews stated that President Bush sometimes "glimmers" with a "kind of sunny nobility." Matthews, frequently characterized by conservatives as a "liberal," made the comment during a discussion with Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley of the effects on the Bush administration of the investigation into the leak of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
From the October 24 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:
BLANKLEY: Well, there are bad and there are worse. First of all, I think that perjury proven beyond a reasonable doubt is a serious felony. I thought that seven years ago about Clinton. And I will think it this week, if that charge comes down and if the evidence supports it against Republican officials. But I think that the real question the White House and the president, personally, has to decide, presumably in the next several days, is how they're going to respond to whatever does come out, presuming it's not going to be a total clearance. And in that regard, I think the president would be ill-advised to try to minimize anything. I think he needs to make a clean break and set his administration looking forward and not get defensive. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen. The evidence is either going to be there or not. And if he continues to try to defend what is something which will be, you know, indefensible, if in fact there are indictments -- is going to be a mistake, and it will drag him down. What he needs to do is put together some new staff, admit whatever mistakes have to be admitted, and start moving forward. He's got three years left in his administration, and it's important for him and for the country that he be functional.
MATTHEWS: You know, Tony, there is in the past, it's not always there, but sometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility. How does he bring it back, because it hasn't been apparent for a while now?
BLANKLEY: Well, he's had a very, very hard last three months, and he's had a pretty difficult administration because of all the -- well, the way it is. But I think that if he is straightforward with himself first, and then with the public, he can get back to an agenda and start moving forward. But if he gets locked in to defending the indefensible, then it's just going to get -- go from bad to very worse.
Sunny nobility or gin blossoms?
Sunny Nobility? Really?
Jovial Indifference, maybe.
Disconnected Cluelessness, perhaps.
Detached Incoherence, most likely.
Nobility? Sorry, I just can't see it.
nerzog,
Your desriptions of Bush are pretty good, actually. I would disagree with the "perhaps" and "most likely", but rather put "maybe" in all of them......nice use of words nonetheless.
Arrogant indignance?
Malevolent disgust?
nerzog:
"Nobility", in that he feels entitled to rule based on bloodline. Maybe?
Or Divine Right?
"Bloodline"?
Via a recently discovered nobility gene?
The only "glimmer" rightfully associated with Duhhbya is from the gold he's pouring into the coffers of his "base."
That and/or the sun reflecting off the pools of oil that drives Duhhbya's Neocon foreign policy.
And, "nobility" has at least two meanings - the one that's a compliment doesn't apply to Duhhbya.
Maybe Matthews meant Sonny Nobility?
LMAO While I enjoy Matthews' Hardball, I howled when he tried to describe Bush as this. Matthews and his wife were invited to the White House and Bush was very kind to his Mother apparently.
See, IMO< I don't think many conservatives realize just how far in the middle Bush truly is. He's definitely NOT going to be remembered for his intelligence or brilliance, in fact, Rove and Cheney will be the doing and undoing of this President and its presidency but to Matthews, who is fairly moderate and personally likes Bush but doesn't agree with his politics, is just IMO his way of admitting once in a very very great while......Bush can hit one out....Roberts....bernanke....then he does a Miers....in other words.shades of Reagan for Reagan democrats then........zzzzzzzzzzzzz asleep at the wheel.
JMHO
Sunny nobility or just another happy go lucky clueless rich guy that has no idea what it means to struggle?
Yeah I'd be all a glimmer too if I'd been "to the manor born" ;-)
it's the pills. rush has a nobel glow too. check the wife. 100% stepford. the look like the walking dead. a kind of shopping mall shine. if they keep him blissfully buzzed he can't screw it up too bad.
LOL - omg yes! Laura Bush - stepford wife - nice one!
Not really. She's pro-choice.
Some Hardball. Chrissy and Dubya, sittin' in a tree, N-O-B-I-make me ill-ity!
"it's not always there, but sometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility. How does he bring it back, because it hasn't been apparent for a while now?"
Please explain to me how this description of Bush has anything to do with reality. Reality being policy. Abosolutely nothing. It is complete propaganda and rhetoric from the overpaid talking heads who keep being called "liberals" by conservatives but strangely seem to go soft on conservatives. They are definitely not journalists either. A journalist is someone like Robert Fisk or Seymour Hersh.
Matthews and his pals are not even in the same universe.
BLANKLEY: Well, he's had a very, very hard last three months, and he's had a pretty difficult administration because of all the -- well, the way it is. But I think that if he is straightforward with himself first, and then with the public, he can get back to an agenda and start moving forward.
"...because of all the...."???? Tony didn't finnish for good reason.
"..the way it is"? Thats nice Tony but Bush doesn't know what straightforward means, he hasn't been honest and get back to what agenda? Blankley and Matthews are great examples of cheerleaders posing as journalists.
I just love how they point out that Bush has had a tough few months but refuse to admit that it's been tough because he's a lying, incompetent idiot who's minions are so crooked that Nixon would be proud.
Matthews calls his show 'Hardball'. I have to laugh 'cause he doesn't have a clue about what hardball really is. His guests get to come on and spout nonsense, they know he won't challenge them. His comment seems about par for my expectations of him.
I lost all respect for Chris when he let Zig-Zag Zell Miller slap him around.
I lost respect for Matthews when he actually asked Zell Miller about the spitballs!
Isn't it funny how one statement can be viewed in such different ways? Bush sometimes "glimmers" with "sunny nobility" appears condescending and sarcastic to a conservate. The same statement appears to a Liberal as a compliment, to actually give credit to the President.
Think of this, most Conservatives think he's a Liberal. Most Liberals think he is conservative. I think at least both sides can conclude the guy's an idiot and sucks at his job.
WOOT! Spot on!
Chris Matthews is Washington's town bicycle--anyone of any affiliation can take a ride on him when they want. However, having read the text of the story, I am not sure that Matthews is paying Bush a compliment--I think sunny nobility is sarcastic, and I also think that he is referring to the idea that until very recently Bush always seemed to land on his feet, looking good when by all reasonable accounts he should have looked incompetant. I think saying GW "shines with sunny nobility," is the more diplomatic way of saying GW "is a teflon jackass." Also I think Matthews has done the left a favor by reminding them that they ought to get thinking about this situation. GW has fallen off message because more than "liberal wingnuts," at this point think GW couldn't find his own ass with a flash light and a map--and we need to figure out what makes this different from all the other times so we can keep GW and his band of followers from turning this to their advantage. I know the last thing I want to see at the grocery store is another picture of GW on the cover of Newsweek looking like John Wayne after personally beating up the Commies/Nazi's/Cattle rustlers with "No Apologies," stamped across his chest.
All I want to know from Tweety is where can I find a drug that would make me so deluuuusional
MMFA is wonderful, but very auditory/verbal. Think about this: graphs & piecharts, etc. demonstrating analyses of AIRTIME!
For ex., the PROPORTION of neocon guest-minutes on these shows vs non-neocon guest-minutes.
For Limbaugh - how about comparisons of callers in support of / opposed.
You can even hear the difference esp on Ho'Reilly, in how callers and his lackey chick can barely be heard - while the Clear Channel golden microphone warlord comes through twice as loud.
MMFA could show graphically (charts, etc.) how the corporate media lean hard right using data like this! For ex., stories could be rated as left/neutral/right, based on published criteria. I for one would love to see this!
Media outlets could be be color coded - like a terror-alert system to warn citizens of those most vehemently undermining our democracy.
We're being terrorized by the media & MMFA can statistically document this!!
Shannon has this nailed 'Think of this, most Conservatives think he's a Liberal. Most Liberals think he is conservative. I think at least both sides can conclude the guy's an idiot and sucks at his job.'
Anyone else getting increasingly confused or annoyed by how Chris keeps bringing up obscure movies, plays, books etc to wrap tortured analogies around current events?
"It's like that old movie - 'Work is a Four Letter Word' - remember his expression in the final scene - when everthing is just blowing up?"
All the guests respond the same way - listen - if there's a fluorescent light in your room you'll hear the response.. just a hummmmm - okayyyy, Chris...
Matthews seems to be truly saddened by the revelations of Bush's incompetence and deceptions and his administration's bad behavior. It does hurt when the guy you supported doesn't measure up to what you had hoped for. Matthews has made similar statements like this about Bush. When Bush did the 'mission accomplished flight suit theatre' Matthews was ‘glimmering’ with a ‘sunny’ admiration for his commander in chief.