This was the best tv I've seen all year. Kevin James, I'm sorry to say, is a moron.

Is Keith Olbermann and his Special Comment forcing other talking heads to find some backbone, too?

I hope this clip gets in front of every single voter by this fall. This is the Republican 'machine', motormouths and bullies.

Whatever you think of Chris Matthews, he hadnled this extraordinarily well. It was important to let this clown talk and talk and talk, until he had hung himself.

Outstanding, Chris!

That was beautiful. Penned another letter to Mr. Matthews; if he can keep that no-spin zone going, I might start watching again.

It's always good to get a reminder about what an asshole Bush is, how dangerous he is, and how important it is to keep his lapdog McCain out of the White House.

Granted it is about time that Mathews stood up to one of those empty-headed right-wing gabbers- but Kevin James is strictly a third or fourth stringer. I want to see a Smerconish smack-down. Then I would be willing to give Matthews some measure of respect.

Damn. What a moron.

But then like AudioGuy says, it would nicer to see Matthews do this to some of the more higher profile gasbags.

Chris Matthews can really burn my biscuit sometimes, but that was brilliant. That Kevin James guy CLEARLY didn't know what Bush was talking about and instead of admitting it (and looking like a fool) he just yelled a lot (and still looked like a fool).

That shit was funny. First Chris and Andrea are laugh at Pat Buchanons ridiculous stances...and the next day this.....Oh, and Hi KateO....It's a rackit. I don't agree with Dana Milbank on this one, Bush and them wanted to steal Obama's thunder. People have been ignoring Bush more and more lately. They created news, and we are talking about what they wanted.Yes all, I still understand it has to be talked about.

Due credit to Chris. Loved his link to Perino's ignorance of CMC. KJ will likely never see the light of day again. Green also comported himself well - the classic when someone is screaming, lower your voice and you're actually heard better. Wow - that's truly a career-stumbling, possibly ending moment for KJ - whatever that 'career' consisted of.

My fave Chris comment was, "Why are you yelling?" HAAA HAAA - he couldn't even finish that w/ a straight face.

Thanks for link - made my day. All I could do is salivate at the schooling smack-downs to come.

Chris was on fire. Love the face's he was making at the guy as he was schooling him literally. Poor (not really) Kevin just keep turning redder and redder to the point he couldn't even talk in sentence's anymore and he just keep saying "appeasement, 38, 39, whenever you want, appeasement he was an appeaser, appeasement"... Oh man was that fricken classic.

I watched it during the first showing, and then tuned in later to watch it again. Great stuff.
With this guy and McAuliffe, Chris has been pretty good dealing with that joker also in the past week on Morning Joe (he co-hosted this week) and Hardball during Tuesdays WV coverage.

As others have said up thread this guy is a minor leaguer. But, who know ANYONE could make Sean Hannity look like a member of MENSA?

Two comments:
1. How sad it is that this kind of simple fact-checking is something that gets celebrated. That is the press doing its job.

2. Sadly, this stuff does matter. When the Iran drumbeats start to roll, appeasement will be front and center and there will be dozens in the army of stupid repeating what that idiot had to say.

"the #1 job for any U.S. president is to let Israel get away with murder"

Hey, I'm as much of a lefty as anyone, but it's bonehead comments like yours which make people think that supporting a two-state solution in Palestine is equal to an anti-Israel position.

Listen, Israel does get away with a lot, but they are our allies for a reason. Hopefully, one day an official Palistine can be our ally, too. Despite its racial conflict (which Jimmy Carter rightly compares to Apartheid), it's still, by far, the most progressive democracy in the middle-east, for cryin' out loud.

The reason they applauded Bush is because they're (understandably) biased toward themselves, duh, not because they're warmongers, or as bad as he is.

"Also zero evidence that it has any role in attacks on US soldiers in Iraq."

Now that's just not true. Elements in Iran are sending supplies and provoking conflict in Iraq. Not as much as the Bush admin would like you to believe, but there is some evidence to suggest that a few attacks on US soliders have been "sponsored" by Iran. It's fine to say that it's a tenuous link, but this isn't false intelligence, and to say "zero evidence" is dismissive and argumentative, and makes the rest of us anti-war folk look bad.

Listen, don't worry, it's okay to admit that Iran has bad actors, it doesn't mean you have to cede the high ground, or that you support invasion or anything.

"US soldiers get to murder anyone they feel like in Iraq. But murdering US soldiers in Iraq is a big deal."

Uh, I would argue that both are a big deal. Of course, America and its media have, surprise!, a bias towards ourselves, but that's true everywhere, not just in Israel and the US, you know.

Wait... are you saying that murdering US soldiers *isn't* a big deal??!?

My favorite bit was when James's voice kept cracking and going up an octave the more panicked he became. I knew a kid in grade school who did the exact same thing when he was put on the spot.

how embarrassing chris behaved like a lunatic on that silly guy. too bad chris by defintion sort of wrong.

Appeasement, literally: calming, reconciling, acquiring peace by way of concessions ór gifts (the verb 'to pay' also goes back to the Latin 'pax' = peace). Most commonly, appeasement is used for the policy of accepting the imposed conditions of an aggressor in lieu of armed resistance, usually at the sacrifice of principles.


reconciling: put people back on friendly terms: to bring two or more people back into a friendly relationship with each other after a dispute or estrangement, or return to a friendly relationship
- end conflict: to solve a dispute or end a quarrel
- make somebody accept something: to persuade somebody or yourself to...

Kevin James (not the former sitcom star of "The King of Queens) is so damn loud. He's louder than Chris Matthews even. I didn't think that was possible.

Thinking out loud... the MSM do not lead, they follow. Chris Matthews will say and do anything that he thinks will get him higher ratings. It just so happens that right-wing loonies are a safe target now, with Bush's popularity tanking and Republicans bracing for a historic loss. Now it's okay to take part in the pile-on because more people will be pleased than outraged. The country is on a slightly leftward course and that changes what and how the MSM will write/say/show.