Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Chris Matthews and the "Human Vat of Vitriol"

I'm shocked. I know they don't really get along, but I didn't expect Chris Matthews to go off like this on Keith Olbermann.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Two facts are clear about this human vat of vitriol. He relishes the attention and he sells anger as a weapon....

[His] high-handed, melodramatic, off with their heads, oratory reminds me of those over-the-top movie villains. You know, the ones who issue ludicrous commands to snuff out the good guys, like James Bond's arch nemesis who wanted the supremely confident Bond - gone.

Piranha tank. That's what we do to "I don't know," people. Any way our guy [Keith] doesn't have a kitten on his lap when he's issuing those fatwas but he does have a certain satisfaction.

Oops! Matthews was talking about Rush Limbaugh, not Keith Olbermann. Sorry about that, my mistake.

I thought he had to be talking about Olbermann. The shoe fits. Perfectly.



Adapted from transcript: Geoffrey Dickens, NewsBusters

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