Good News/Bad News?: Tweety Re-ups w/MSNBC for 4 Years
Arlen Specter can presumably breathe easier. Chris ‘Tweetybird’ Matthews has signed an extension w/MSNBC that will keep him there until after the 2012 elections.
Mr. Matthews said that he had been serious about the Senate seat, now held by Arlen Specter, a Republican, and took umbrage at any suggestion that he might have been using the idea as negotiating leverage.
“I think it’s unfair people think like that,” Mr. Matthews said. “That’s sacrilegious.”
He said he had held a lifelong love affair with the Senate. “I grew up reading ‘Advise and Consent.’ (Well, it was a long book.)
“I would go to Washington on high school trips with the band and I would see senators just like in ‘Advise and Consent.’ Humphrey, Dirksen, Goldwater.” He added, “To be a senator was the greatest thing in the world.”
So, whaddayathink? Would you rather have seen Matthews run for the Senate? Would you prefer to see someone else in his place on MSNBC? Does he need to switch to Decaf? Inquiring minds want to know.
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He needs to get out of the bubble. He sometimes has glimmers of sense and then goes back to being just like the rest of the beltway journalists.
“And one time, on a band trip in D.C. …”
question
in olberman’s special comment the other night, he mentioned tv hosts who rip apart office holders, than offer themselves up as a candidate for that office… use their show as a campaign ad….. Chris has been critical of spector…. do you think Keith was speaking directly to chris? or maybe he took it that way?
I didn’t see Olbermann’s spot, but who else could he have been talking about? Scarborough WAS an officeholder, but he’d be an idiot to jump back in with the dough he’s making now. I mean, who was he talking about – Dan Rather?
i though it may have been a shot at Murdoch or someone over at fox, but it seems to apply to chris. i dunno. would one MSNBC anchor go for the jugular of another?
Let’s see:
NBC is owned by GE.
GE took bailout money.
That means that Chris Matthews’ salary is being paid with taxpayer money, just like those AIG execs.
Is Matthews being paid more than the legal maximum of $250K? If so, is he subject to that 90% tax on excessive payments to senior employees of firms that have been bailed out? When will we get the hearings? When will he and Olbermann be frog-marched into court as enemies of the people?