Chris Matthews: Empty Vessel
Over at Newsbusters, Noel Sheppard documents Chris Matthews' incessant mockery of Sarah Palin's intelligence and his obsession with the notion that Palin would do poorly as a contestant on Jeopardy!
October 2, 2008, shortly before that evening's Vice Presidential debate, [Chris Matthews] said of Palin:
"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!"
Then on January 12, 2010:
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!”
And again on November 2, 2010:
“Senator, do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to be President of the United States?...If she were on Jeopardy! right now and the topic was national government, American government generally defined, would she look like an imbecile, or would she look okay? Does she know anything?"
And finally on January 19, 2011:
“I’d like to see her on just a couple of episodes of Celebrity Jeopardy! or It’s Academic Mac McGarry to just see if she knows anything.”
But when it came time to show off his own brilliance as a contestant on Jeopardy!, Matthews, well...see for yourself:
If he learned anything from his experience on Jeopardy! let's hope it was that a greater measure of humility is in order.
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Dec '10
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Empty vessel? You are too kind, but I suppose the editors must model CoC compliance...
Jun '10
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Diane Ellis, Ed.:
If he learned anything from his experience on Jeopardy! let's hope it was that a greater measure of humility is in order. · · 5 minutes ago
We can only hope. I, for one, doubt it. It couldn't have been his limitations, it was the dumb questions.
Aug '10
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I think we can safely bet his abysmal performance on "Jeopardy" will not deter his smug self-satisfaction on bit. Nor will it curb his ego at all.e
I saw the line-up on the program yesterday afternoon and immediately changed channels.
Alex Trebec is bad enough on his own. But adding Matthews and Gibbs - no way.
Nov '11
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Great stuff, but Wolf Blitzer's performance remains my favorite.
Jul '11
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Hilarious.
Jul '10
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Watch Chris laugh it off. To the buffoon any attention is good.
Edited on May 15, 2012 at 11:15pmSep '10
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Don't forget this.
Sep '10
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It looked to me like he got nervous. I think he knew what his trash talking would bring should he lose.
It was beautiful.
Jun '11
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God is indeed just.
Apr '11
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Jimmy Obama's stock - falling. Chris the thrill Matthews' stock - falling. Palin's stock - rising. We shall see how she did with her endorsement of Deb Fisher in Nebraska very shortly.
Jun '10
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Category: Stupid MSNBC Pundits for $200
Answer: He said "I felt this thrill going up my leg" as Obama spoke.
Edited on May 15, 2012 at 10:47pmDec '10
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What is comeuppance?
Mar '11
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Hopefully after Jan 20, next year, Mr Obama may find some time to appear on Jeopardy, and dazzle us with his brilliance (that had been so under-appreciated by bible-and-gun-clinging voters) - if the topics can be restricted to composite basketball, popular culture and dogs - without history, geography, math, economics or business studies.
Mar '11
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Those dog questions -- would they be on different breeds, or different recipes?
May '10
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Well...Dana Perino is worse.
May '10
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Calls for a rewatching of Weird Al's "I Lost On Jeopardy."
Try to ignore the annoying 30 second commercial upfront.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ&ob=av2e
Re: Chris Matthews: Empty Vessel
I'm glad he got his.
But honestly...who among us would go on that show? I get killed trying to play along.
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Tommy De Seno: I'm glad he got his.
But honestly...who among us would go on that show? I get killed trying to play along. · 6 minutes ago
I'd get slaughtered on that show. I'm so-so at trivia, but I can't come up with answers in less than a second.
However, the point is that Chris uses one's performance on Jeopardy! as a measurement of intelligence. And he performed abysmally.
What's that line about stones and glass houses?
Aug '10
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Diane Ellis, Ed.
I'd get slaughtered on that show. I'm so-so at trivia, but I can't come up with answers in less than a second.
Me, too.
When I was, oh, twelve, I was pretty quick on the draw with trivia. Not Jeopardy-quick, but good enough to dominate neighborhood games. And it's all been downhill from there.
I could blame premature senility, but the truth is more likely that the deeper I got into topics that were of real interest to me, or of real necessity to adulthood (like learning how to drive, how to keep track of loan payments and insurance claims, etc) the less room I had left over in my brain for trivial pursuits.
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Tommy De Seno: I'm glad he got his.
But honestly...who among us would go on that show? I get killed trying to play along. · 1 hour ago
We watch it every night and there is simply no way I would ever win. In a rare blue moon, if the categories are just right and the contestants particularly bad, I wouldn't particularly embarrass myself. I'm great at team bar trivia but bad at trivia in general. I can help people get the right answer but I am too slow and have too poor a memory to do it one on one.