Chris Matthews, One Obnoxious Dumb S--t

Oh yeah, the dude that has Hardball on OMNBC, er MSNBC, hosts The Chris Matthews Show, the left's version of the McLaughlin Group is one annoying dumb s--t.
Sorry for the blunt assessment. But the man that said former Alaska governor Sarah Palin couldn't hack it on the game show Jeopardy, well he could not hang at all.
Mr. Matthews should thank Almighty God that he was guaranteed $10,000 for his Charity as his pathetic performance netted a paltry $2,300 dollars.
Over at NewsBusters there is the video link and a literal blow-by-blow display of Mr. Matthews, er, how should I write this.
Dumbs--tery.
As a pretty faithful watcher of Jeopardy, let me explain the very basic of the game.
The host, Alex Trebek, gives an answer clue and the contestant must provide the answer in the form of a question.
Well, damn!
Mr. Matthews just did not get it.
Here is an answer clue provided by Mr. Trebek:

"At ____, soldier! Four letters."

And Mr. Matthews shot back:

"At ease, soldier,"

Now, what is wrong with Mr. Matthews answer?
Remember how the answer is to be provided?
In the form of a question.
Mr. Matthews does eventually redeem himself, bless his huge, massive brain:

 "What is 'At ease, soldier?'"

Oops! My bad! I am mistaken. It really is not the correct answer because Mr. Matthews added a word. "At" is already in the provided answer. But, Mr. Trebek and the judges took pity on the befuddled Mr. Matthews and let it go.
Now, keep in mind that Mr. Matthews had this to say about Mrs. Palin back in 2008 regarding her vice-presidential debate with then Sen. Joe The Brain Surgeon Biden:

"Is this [vice presidential debate] about her brain power?... Do you think cute will beat brains?...Do you think she’d do better on the questions on Jeopardy! or the interview they do during a half-time?...My suspicion is that she has the same lack of intellectual curiosity that the President of the United States has right now and that is scary!"

Well Mr. Matthews, you sure did not.
Because it just gets better as Mr. Matthews stumbles along.
Going back to the heady days of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, here is an answer clue Mr. Trebek gave:

"Full name of the U2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960."

And the question answer from Mr. Matthews:

"Who is Gary Powers?"

OK, that is part of it. And Mr. Trebek tells Mr. Matthews that he needs the full name. And Mr. Matthews continues to insist that Gary Powers is his full name.
Well too bad for Mr. Matthews because the full name is Francis Gary Powers.
Francis Gary Powers.
And it just gets worse from there.
I suggest reading the full link at NewsBusters for more.
But let me give you another bit of Mr. Matthews dissing the intellect of Mrs. Palin:

They find these empty vessels who know nothing about the world! Nothing about foreign policy! Who immediately begin to spout the neo-con line. I read her book — it’s full of that crap....It’s unbelievable how little this woman knows!...Don’t put her on Jeopardy!”
Chris, Chris, Chris.
Your went on Jeopardy and made an absolute fool of yourself.
Mr. Matthews, do you even actually watch the show? Do you realize you have to provide the answer as a question?!
As I wrote earlier, I watch the show. I get a lot of the question answers. Mrs. RVFTLC thinks that I should try out for the show. I think about it every now and then.
And I watched last night's show and realized, well hell yeah! I could do a better job than Mr. Matthews. Cashew, the Little Guy, could do a better job.
But what this does is show something interesting.
How the left loves to question the intelligence of conservatives and when push comes to shove, it is often in the case of a game show competition that they can show that they are not all that bright.
Could Mrs. Palin have done a better job than Mr. Matthews? I don't know but I think that it is way better than 75/25 she would have.
Remember back in the 1980s we were told constantly by the likes of Mr. Matthews and his boss, the former Speaker of the House, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill (D-Mass.) how dumb President Reagan was?
And move ahead to the 2000s and how dumb and stupid President George W. Bush was?
And guess what?
We are told how wonderful and brilliant President Clinton was.
How we just do not deserve the likes of the current occupant of the White House, the Dear Leader, President Obama.
Say, where are those high school records of the Dear Leader, President Obama? What about his college records? Have they all just gotten lost?
Knowledge, last I checked, is not based on partisanship and or political ideology. It is about a ability to absorb facts and deliver them. It is a natural curiosity about the world around them. Some have an amazing gift for absorbing and delivering knowledge. Some do not. But, I can assure you that there has not been, until recent years, anything remotely political about one's knowledge and by extension, intellect.
So, when a Leftywhore media maven like Chris Matthews dumps on Sarah Palin and  he ends up on the show he think she can't hang on, and looks like a dumb s--t, well should I say he is just not all that smart?

Sarah Palin NOT Running For President And Steve Jobs Dies

An absolutely amazing afternoon of news.
On the political front, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin formally announced that she will not seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012. And she said that she will not run a third-party because that would assure the reelection of the Dear Leader, President Obama.
On the technology front, one of the most innovative men to live in the 20tb and 21st centuries, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, lost his long fight with cancer as he died today at the age of 56.Back to Mrs. Palin.
I am not going to lie. I am disappointed that Mrs. Palin is not running this time around. I believe that she would have a positive impact in the GOP primaries and win and lose a big impact in how the party will run against the Dear Leader, President Obama.
And it kills my prediction of her candidacy!
But she has said many times that she does not have to have a "title" to have an impact. In fact, she said just that in her written announcement today. And she did indicate recently that a "title" would possibly "shackle" her.
And a reality is that while many of us had the fire in her belly, she did not have that fire in her belly.
That and the intense scrutiny of her family had to play a role in her decision.
In a sense, it is why I admire her even more. That she did not make a rash decision. That she put her family first. Regrettably, way to many pols put themselves and their careers over everything else.
And do not think that she will just sit back and let someone else do the heavy lifting.
Look for Mrs. Palin to back candidates as she did in 2010. And she will back in the primaries and general election campaign. She said in her announcement and subsequent interviews.
And yeah, i'll go out on the limb.
I believe that Mrs. Palin will endorse Herman Cain for the Republican nomination for president.
Mr. Cain is the candidate that is closest to Mrs. Palin's thinking. Firstly, he is the most outside of the GOP candidates. He is not a politician. He has not been elected to any office. He is a man of the private sector. He is a fighter. He is the American Dream writ large.
Now with the speculation of will she or won't she out of the way, look for a lot more from Mrs. Palin.
What can one say about Steve Jobs?
Again, a man who totally lived the American Dream and made our lives simpler and more interesting.
A man that dropped out of college and innovated the computer industry beyond many an imagination.
Mr. Jobs showed that with vision and people to believe in it, anything can be done.
We owe so much of our technological advancement to Mr. Jobs. And his Apple so-founders Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne also deserve a lot of credit.
But Mr. Jobs had the vision thing down. And that is why today we have such innovations as the Apple computer, the i-Phone, the i-Pad. Things that we seem not to be able to live without.
There are just not many people like Steve Jobs. And while he had an amazing life, no doubt it was cut short by the scourge of cancer.
And these events make today an amazing news day.

Is Palin Running For President? You Betcha!

I think that it is becoming more and more obvious to anyone with a clue, but so many do not, that the former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, is running for the Republican nomination for president.
While Mrs. Palin has not made any formal announcement, she hinted recently on Hannity on Fox News Channel that she is still thinking about it.
And there is this from US News and World Report. There is Peter Singleton a one-man shop in Iowa that is laying the groundwork for the Palin campaign there.
And radio talker Mark Levin is saying that he is certain Mrs. Palin is running.
I am with them both.
Folks, the one thing about Mrs. Palin is that she is unconventional. She does things the way that no one else in politics would.
Or to put it another way, she could jump in the race tomorrow and be in the lead very quickly.
Then there is Tim Palwenty.
He tried a conventional, very staged path to the Republican presidential nomination.
And as fast as it began, he is done.
A lot of people thought that Ronald Reagan was kind of crazy just two years in as governor of California to mount a half-hearted favorite son effort in 1968 against Richard Nixon. But that, and Mr. Nixon's vainglory, set the stage for the titanic 1976 struggle against President Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination.
It took Mr. Reagan three cracks at the apple but he hit it in 1980. And a lot of establishment Republicans, the RINOs of the day were just giddy about one George Herbert Walker Bush.
The point is that Mrs. Palin need not follow the leader. She is the leader.
I will go a step further and suggest that the announcement, which I believe will be unconventional, will occur around Labor Day. Which means only a couple of weeks.
And not by accident Mrs. Palin will be speaking at a huge Tea Party group in Iowa on September 3. And it is. . .Labor Day weekend.
Even Allahpundit at HotAir is jumping on the Palin is running bandwagon.
And also, to go back to Ronald Reagan, despite the fact that he won the presidency in 1980 by a landslide, it was not until the final weekend, and not better than 50-50 in polling that Mr. Reagan would be the 40th president of the United States. And yeah, he was considered a weak contender to then President Jimhah Carter.
So before all you Palin haters want to point out such polls as this, the similarities between Mrs. Palin and Mr. Reagan are rather striking.
So, my prediction is Sarah Palin will use the Tea Party speech on September 3 to began her quest for the Republican nomination for president.
Good luck to her. She will need it.