Dude, I'm literally watching it right now. I'm sweating it's so uncomfortable to watch. But Matthews' response is brilliant: "He's as bad as the White House press secretary that doesn't even know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was. We're talking with people with blank slates in terms of history here." And they lowered the volume on his mic. This really was great TV.

Since Bush is so eager to bring up people appeasing Hitler, why is this off limits?

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep /25/usa.secondworldwar

Sooooooooooo uncomfortable.

That was awesome.  It's hilarious to see Republicans get called out for not knowing jack about what they're spouting off on.  Appeasement is NOT talking to your enemies.  It's giving stuff away.

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!  

My dad says Chamberlain was known as "snivelling" Chamberlain after all his peace talk and his statements "I have achieved peace in our lifetime" Germany invaded France.

I saw that live. Funniest thing I have seen in a loooong time.

At one point, the other talking head told him:

"When you're in a hole you got to stop digging" or something

like that. It was hillarious.

Hi fucking larious.  Best part: when he gets so flustered he just starts repeating the talking points, like it's all that's written on his notecard or whatever:  ENERGIZED!  LEGITIMIZED!  ENER . . . LEGIT . . . IMIZED!

pure gold.

You'd think that people in the party of moral values would see what is so wrong with what Bush said.

The James thing reminds me of the "Better Know a District" segment on Colbert when he asked that Repub to name the Ten Commandments, and the guy couldn't do it.

Lol.

Repubs are big talkers, don't know s**t, only greed and screwing people, literally and figuratively.

You reminded me why I love you tonight!

First of all it was an epic clip. Even Tweety occasionally has his day.

Second of all, note that what we're celebrating here is a defense of Barack Obama against an attack by the Republicans, and not a single comment seeking to make anti-Obama hay out of this.

We're going to heal here - like it of not - we're going to come together and we're going to continue to be helped in this process by the man who, more than anyone else, is responsible for bringing the democratic party back from pathetic irrelevance

... the man who has single-handed destroyed the neocon movement

... the man who has inspired people to understand and become involved in preserving the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

... a unique orator who has inspired and energized more democrats than anyone since JFK and MLK

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, the President of the United States: George W. Bush

Totally hilarious.  Matthews framed it very well when he pointed out that there's a difference between talking with someone and giving them half of Czechoslovakia.

Two things struck me.  First, Mark Green is a total idiot, even if he wasn't the stupidest person in this clip.  Matthews is making the guy look like a complete fool, and Green is all like "ooh ooh, call on me! I know the answer!"  The man desperately needs a personality transplant.

The other thing was how the wingnut snuck in the smear about Robert Malley, Obama's advisor who supposedly was discovered to be clandestinely working with Hamas.  We all know the real story about Malley, right?  Personally, I think it was a big error in judgment for the Obama campaign to sever ties with him, because it's a clear case of the GOP overplaying its hand, and if you embolden the McCain campaign they'll just be back tomorrow with a demand that you fire someone else.  I do not know a single person, all the way out to the wingnuttiest end of the spectrum, who would not agree that the GOP is lying if I explained to them what McCain really does.  I would love to be fighting over that issue rather than let wingnut idiots like Kevin James get in their cheap shots.

That interview was hilarious.  The guy would not shut up, he just kept saying the same damn thing in this high-pitch yap.  It was rather annoying and he wouldn't let the other guest talk without interruption.  He really is a proper representation of his party and today couldn't have been a better day for anyone not affliated with the Republican party.

Now if only they'd actually arrest Rove.

I want a high-rez picture of Matthew's face as he shakes his head and looks at the desk while that fool keeps yapping on. Best WTF moment in a while.

McCain is toast in November.

You know, I remember back in '03 when I was complaining to all my friends that the Democrats were engaging in appeasement to totalitarian fascists.  Of course, I wasn't talking about rhetorical fascists, I was talking about the real ones who've taken over our country!

TV really is going to the edge, and beyond.

Pat Buchanan as a regular.  All of Fox news.  Guests like this wingnut shouting like a maniac.

CNN.  That's all I can say.

I won't be too kind to the folks I'm in favor of either, it's as stratified and bizarre as one can imagine.  It seems that we are coming to the end of valid television news coverage.

There is a long thought-exercise on where this is all leading over the next years that I want to dive into when this political stuff (oh, and the day job) give me room...

-chris

wow.. Kevin James is a tool.

I hope SNL is doing a parody of the Matthews-James showdown, Darrell Hammond does a good Matthews impression and we can get Will Forte to play the puny Kevin James- who has the same name as the actor from KING OF QUEENS with George Constanza's Father.