As the saying goes, 'twas a thing of beauty.
>> May 15, 2008
>> Chris Matthews Eviscerates Right-Wing Host Kevin James Over Obama
>> "Appeasement" Claims
>> By Jason Linkins
>> Utterly insane goings-on tonight on Hardball, where, for the second
>> night in a row, the "Hardball Sideshow" segment was preceded by a
>> scene that way outfreaked it.
>> Tonight, host Chris Matthews took up President Bush's pointed attack
>> on the Democrats in the Knesset today, asking if Bush was "out of
>> line."
>> Radio talk-show host Kevin James didn't think so, saying - and I'm
>> paraphrasing - "RRRRAAAAAHHHH! OBAMA BLAAAAHHHH! HAMAS LOVES BARACK,
>> YAAAAHHHH!" Chris Matthews was quick to ask, "Why are you screaming?"
>> But the best was yet to come.
>> Matthews, convinced that James was being a fatuous ass, called him
>> out on his knowledge of geo-political history, asking James if he
>> knew what Neville Chamberlain did at Munich in 1938.
>> If you answered, "He signed the Munich Agreement, conceding a portion
>> of Czechoslovakia to the Nazi regime," you are right.
>> If you answered, "He talked to Hitler, and caused 9/11 to happen and
>> made the Statue of Liberty cry, just like Barack Hussein bin Laden
>> wants to!" then you are Kevin James.
>> The ensuing melee is just far to shouty and unhinged to transcribe.
>> Basically it ran like this, over and over again:
>> MATTHEWS: WHAT DID NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN DO? WHAT DID HE DO? YOU
>> DON"T KNOW WHAT HE DID, DO YOU?
>> JAMES: WUBBA WUBBA HUH?
>> Until finally, James conceded, sort of, that he didn't know.
>> Matthews replied:
>> "Your problem, is, Kevin, you don't know what you're talking about.
>> You don't understand there's a difference between talking to the
>> enemy and appeasing. What Chamberlain did wrong was not talking to
>> Hitler, but giving half of Czechoslovakia."
>> He then growled, "This is pathetic," tossed it to Air America's Mark
>> Green, who told James, "Kevin, when you're in a hole, stop digging."
>> [WATCH. THIS GETS TOTALLY BONKERS ABOUT FOUR MINUTES IN.]
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/hardball-shoutfest-matthe_n_...
>> 20.html
>> You sort of have to love the way he worked in a shot at Dana Perino
>> there at the end.
>> Anyway, as a famous newsman once said:
>> "F*** it! We're doing it live!"
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
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>> Luuuuuuuuuuuuv it
>> Harry