Pundit Country

“Yeah, I will always have an asterisk after my name, but I hope I’ll have two asterisks: one is ‘they impeached him,’ and the other is ‘He stood up to them and beat them. And he beat them like a yard dog.’”

-former President Bill Clinton, during an interview for Ken Gormley’s new book The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
- Charles Austin Beard

Or go about misquoting and misinterpreting them intentionally for your own political ends (ala Beck and the Tea Party clan).

Somewhere in the afterlife, Theodore Geisel is looking down and laughing his ass off.

because a magic 8-ball is for wussies.

I don’t consider them Democrats, I consider them netroots, and they’re different. “And if I see that they vote in every election or most elections, I’ll be worried. But I’m not sure that they’re regular grown-up Democrats. I think that a lot of those people are troublemakers who love to sit in the backseat and complain. They’re not interested in governing this country. They never ran for office, they’re not interested in working for somebody in public office. They get their giggles from sitting in the backseat and bitching.”
-Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s show Hardball,  shares his thoughts on the netroots.

Shorter Matthews: These damn activists with their facts and stuff won’t let the political elite run this country the way we want to.

Related articles

• Chris Matthews, are You Talking to Me? (seminal.firedoglake.com)
• Ignoring Dean, Matthews claims that “netroots” critics of health care reform “never ran for office” (mediamatters.org)
• Will Obama Kill The Netroots? (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
• Chris Matthews Thinks Health Care Reform Is Being “Hung Up By The Left” (huffingtonpost.com)