4/13/2008

Let Us Now Praise a F*****g Liberal

The despised (well OK, vomit inducing) Chris Matthews has a terrific blog. He writes satirical stuff that is sharp as a surgical cutting tool. If he ran his TV show the way he writes he'd be a ratings giant. Sample:

(Picture of Obama speaking to a crowd) Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) floating above a monster rally of heavily armed, Bible-wielding white trash protectionists outside Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Having rebuked the awestruck mob for their religious sectarianism, racial bigotry and murderous gun mania, the future President instructed them all to bathe in the cleansing waters of the nearby Susquehanna river while singing the inspirational Civil Whites anthem "We Have Been Overcome".
That is just a sample of a totally clever piece of writing. Here, from another piece referring to an unfortunate monkey misstatement by an Obama supporter:
And so at the very moment the fateful Word "monkeys" was uttered the stars stood in their courses and the planets ceased to spin. The sun dimmed. Nature itself shriveled. Beneath the neat pavements the earth grumbled. The Word took wing and like the Angel of the Lord passed over the whole land. Freeway traffic halted. Workers laid down their tools. Planes made emergency landings on the nearest airstrips. The Stock Exchange stopped trading. Kindergarten children grew still and silent. Captains of industries canceled meetings, withdrew takeover bids, left off ogling their personal assistants. Some even phoned their wives.
His show is just awful, not funny, not even pleasant a lot of the time. There is a disconnect of epic proportions between the way he writes and the way he conducts his show. Read him. He's good. Pretend his show has been canceled.

OH OH, NOT THE SAME CHRIS MATTHEWS. SEE COMMENTS. EVEN THOUGH IT'S A FUNNY BLOG I QUESTION THIS GUY'S ETHICS.

1 comment:

liamascorcaigh said...

Hi, Howard.

Many thanks for the words of praise for my blog. The disconnect of epic proportions you mention is bcos I'm NOT Chris Matthews. I thought up the title 'Chris Matthews Other Leg' to mock his ridiculous 'tingling leg' remark and to imply that my blog is the sane sensible in-touch-with-reality leg, as it were.

I write under the pseudonym 'liamascorcaigh' and am the sole author of the blog in its entirety. Others have made the same mistake, a natural enough one, so I've taken steps now to clarify things on the blog itself.

Many thanks again for your kind words and prominent link on your own blog which is terrific.