Chris Matthews Eviscerates Right-Wing Host Kevin James Over Obama "Appeasement" Claims

Utterly insane goings-on tonight on Hardball, where, for the second night in a row, the "Hardball Sideshow" segment was preceded by a scene that way outfreaked it. Tonight, host Chris Matthews took up President Bush's pointed attack on the Democrats in the Knesset today, asking if Bush was "out of line." Radio talk-show host Kevin James didn't think so, saying - and I'm paraphrasing - "RRRRAAAAAHHHH! OBAMA BLAAAAHHHH! HAMAS LOVES BARACK, YAAAAHHHH!" Chris Matthews was quick to ask, "Why are you screaming?"

But the best was yet to come. Matthews, convinced that James was being a fatuous ass, called him out on his knowledge of geo-political history, asking James if he knew what Neville Chamberlain did at Munich in 1938. If you answered, "He signed the Munich Agreement, conceding a portion of Czechoslovakia to the Nazi regime," you are right. If you answered, "He talked to Hitler, and caused 9/11 to happen and made the Statue of Liberty cry, just like Barack Hussein bin Laden wants to!" then you are Kevin James.

The ensuing melee is just far to shouty and unhinged to transcribe. Basically it ran like this, over and over again:

MATTHEWS: WHAT DID NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN DO? WHAT DID HE DO? YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT HE DID, DO YOU?

JAMES: WUBBA WUBBA HUH?

Until finally, James conceded, sort of, that he didn't know. Matthews replied: "Your problem, is, Kevin, you don't know what you're talking about. You don't understand there's a difference between talking to the enemy and appeasing. What Chamberlain did wrong was not talking to Hitler, but giving half of Czechoslovakia." He then growled, "This is pathetic," tossed it to Air America's Mark Green, who told James, "Kevin, when you're in a hole, stop digging."

Watch the video:

You sort of have to love the way he worked in a shot at Dana Perino there at the end. Anyway, as a famous newsman once said: "F*** it! We're doing it live!"

Comments

[Genisa]

02:09 PM on 05/21/2008

"RRRRAAAAAHHHH! OBAMA BLAAAAHHHH! HAMAS LOVES BARACK, YAAAAHHHH!"

This is classic! I read this article a few days ago, but came back to it again today because I needed a laugh. Honestly, the way you summarized Kevin James, not knowing what the heck he was talking about is EXACTLY how I would have described it. I swear, it brings tears of laughter to my eyes every time I read it. Jason, you are good. And one thing I really like about you, is that you are not afraid to use hip-hop references, and you always use them accurately, you never come off corney or trying to hard. Keep up the good work.
"RRRRAAAAAHHHH! OBAMA BLAAAAHHHH! HAMAS LOVES BARACK, YAAAAHHHH!" This was soooo funny!!!

[RageAgainstTheNeoCons]

07:57 PM on 05/19/2008

Total smackdown!!!
This new mix is funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BI6zoYbg-A

[mrmemory]

06:32 PM on 05/19/2008

Yep, that's the next senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. GO CHRIS!

[Kurt]

06:30 PM on 05/19/2008

At least maybe by the end of the campaign people will learn the different between talking and appeasement. Or maybe notm of Jhn McCaign gets elected,

[Yukon Jack]

05:24 PM on 05/19/2008

When Hannity, Limbaugh or O'Reilley insist on a straight answer from a liberal guest, it is called badgering and an unforgivable journalistic faux pas.

When Matthews does it, it is courageous and praisworthy "evisceration".

GO FIGURE!

[clearthinker2008]

04:43 PM on 05/19/2008

First, this never gets old. Funny, funny, funny,. When Kevin started he was shouting and getting a chance to talk all kinds of stupid stuff about Obama...then it all went downhill from that. Ok, I'm only going to watch it one more time. WHAT DID HE DO? WHAT DID HE DO? lol

[NyPrincess]

04:34 PM on 05/19/2008

I can't stop watching this clip!

[carlosb00]

02:25 AM on 05/20/2008

Same here. it just gives me inmense pleasure to see this joker get Owned! If this could only happend every week!!!!!

[BroMan]

05:06 PM on 05/21/2008

I thought I was the only one who keeps watching this clip. Let's start a support group.

[Tommygun264]

04:26 PM on 05/19/2008

So does Kevin James still have his own show? Something tells me he'll soon be standing outside with his nose pressed up against the glass begging to be let back in along side Michelle "Anchor Baby" Malkin.

[screaminmeme]

06:36 PM on 05/19/2008

Will he still have a show? Are you serious? Read the post from "Yukon Jack" three comments up from yours, Tommygun -- there are plenty more where he comes from. Heck - the dittohead brigades will probably invite James to be their guest of honor at this year's DittoFest. These guys (James, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al.) confirm their embrace of the old admonition issued to young lawyers starting out: "When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have neither, take off your shoe and pound on the table!" In James' case, however, he moved right past pounding the table to shoving the shoe in his mouth -- with his foot still in it.

[Lagrangian]

03:51 PM on 05/19/2008

Mathews did, however, let him get away with citing "Pathway to 9/11", a fictional propaganda film that has been thoroughly debunked, as a source. Specifically, for how Clinton allegedly let 9/11 happen by "appeasing" the terrorists. Clark's "Against all Enemies" that Green cites, while perhaps not squeaky clean of a political agenda, is mostly accurate, referenced and corroborated by independent sources.

[philosopherkingtomas]

02:53 PM on 05/19/2008

Repubican fools! thanks for $4 a gallon gasoline !
and thanks for breaking our Nation's economy!

[Yukon Jack]

05:38 PM on 05/19/2008

Thank for the $4 a gallon gasoline those who oppose:

Drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
Drilling for oil in ANWAR.
Drilling for oil anywhere in America.
Building windfarms at Cape Cod.
Building new refineries, dams and nuclear generators anywhere.
Legislate to make ethanol from food, thereby making the price of both food and gas higher.

They are the same people who break the back of thousands of small businesses by imposing unreasonable minimum wage and even more unreasonable taxes.

Who are these people, you ask?

Why, it is the DEMOCRAT FOOLS and their acolytes like you.

[teemunney]

01:58 PM on 05/19/2008

I never knew news could be THIS entertaining.

[RageAgainstTheNeoCons]

01:48 PM on 05/19/2008

I don't know about you people, but I feel "energized and legitimized"!
GO CHRIS!

[phoffman]

12:27 PM on 05/19/2008

This guy isnt "the King of Queens", WTF.

[slope142]

12:20 PM on 05/19/2008

It's difficult to believe that nitwit neocons still believe they can shout the american voting populus into submissive obedience. Thank God these people don't think these things through.

[wsblake]

04:10 PM on 05/19/2008

Slope,
It's not that difficult to believe. Voters in Pennslyvania are still asking why Obama doesn't wear a flag pin. The average American voter is a moron.

[ladyfractal]

11:36 AM on 05/19/2008

Watching this is NEVER going to get old!