Sunday, May 13, 2007

Hardball, May 11, 2007

Hardball, May 11, 2007

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Matthews: Iraqi parliament wants us to leave

Eugene Robinson: so why dont we leave

Matthews: its almost like we invaded

Brownstein: amazing that Dems are showing backbone it blows my mind

Matthews: bush isn't afraid of nuttin' - hes like teh cowardly lion

Tumulty: yeah

Matthews: bush is teh commander in chief - he needs no more power - the toothpaste is out of teh tubes

Tumulty: um yeah

Matthews: hes like Harry Truman he wants David McCullough to write a book about maybe call it Loserman

Robinson: he will never give in

Brownstein: Rudy is teh federalist

Matthews: hes jeffersonian - but will the crazies buy it

Tumulty: california is key to this strategy that’s where Rudy can win

Brownstein: no your wrong they're all wingnuts in Orange County

Matthews: i miss that show - that guy was hot

Robinson: calm down dood u still have one tree hill

Matthews: yeah

Robinoson: if abortion is murder why is it ok in California and not Montana

Lisa Myers: witness sez Governor of Nevada Jim Gibbons took bribes

Matthews: whats his evidence

Myers: dood saw teh briefcase full of money and casino chips

Matthews: buy maybe it was only singles

Myers: these were hundreds

Matthews: ok does he have an ax to grind

Myers: hes telling teh truth

Matthews: how can i tell if how old an an e-mail is

Myers: dood thats a science

Matthews: yur teh best

Miklaszewski: general Mixon was blunt - he said were not making any progress in iraq 60 deaths in diayla in 2007

Matthews: dood

Miklaszewski: he needs reinforcements its teh classic story of an empire trying to sieze territory thats not theirs

Matthews: yeah

Miklaszewski: we win in one area and teh insurgents move somewhere else

Matthews: well we always have teh iraqi government

Miklaszewski: oh i forgot Mixon sez they suck

Matthews: so we cant win

Miklaszewski: well militarily of course we need to cross our fingers and hope the iraqi government will solve every problem by September

Matthews: but Bush will just hold some stoopid press conference in September announcing victory is just around teh corner

Miklaszewski: dood its too late the iraqi government is so fucked up they wont even pretend to try

Matthews: its a revoltin’ development im quoting some stoopid cartoon from like 50 years ago

Ron Christie: we GOPers have been pushing for responsibility in Iraq for a long time - oh let me mention al qaeda

Robinson: dood u make me wish i wasn't black

Christie: im here, im weird, get used to it

Robinons: Shiites are going to piss on sunnis because they can

Matthews: Iraqi parliament 2 month vacation in France

Christie: for goodness sake they need to step it up -- u know they asked us to invade and greeted us as liberators the least they could do vote Republican

Matthews: oh shut up

Christie: support our troops and vote GOP

Robinson: what the fuck is victory anyway

Matthews: if they weren't brown we wouldn't be there

Matthews: and we're back with Michael Baschloss -- dood do any of they current candidates have the ability to give me a man-crush

Beschloss: u need more than testosterone u need judgement look at LBJ

Matthews: he wuz watching Patton

Beschloss: JFK supported the civil rights bill because blacks were rioting

Matthews: so what

Beschloss: but also he showed courage Dems lost the South

Matthews: Reagan sat down with Gorby

Beschloss: funny story - he though Gorby wuz Jack Benny

Matthews: will David McCullough write a book about Bush saying hez a hero

Beschloss: hell be dead first

Matthews: buy Beschloss's book for yur mother then she'll never call you again

Matthews: and we're back with a guy bashing Bush on teh war -- we were promised cheap gas dammmit

Hormats: yeah teh bush administration lied

Matthews: gee im shocked

Hormats: it was teh inconceivable

Matthews: so did we even try to get some $$$ from iraq

Hormats: dood unless u take rubble as currency i think you’re outta luck

Matthews: well i am from Philly

Hormats: u know Preznits used to tell teh truth about cost and sacrifice

Matthews: i miss FDR and WWII

Hormats: yeah bush hasn't even tried to get Americans involved in this war

Matthews: i beginning to think this war was a mistake
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

what an amazingly accurate transcript. Even better than the real thing. Thank you and thanks to that Atrios dood.

Anonymous said...

Lies, lies, lies. I watched that episode of Hardball, and it wasn't nearly as substantive as you would have your readers believe.

Anonymous said...

you make good words