Future Nobel Prize Winner for Journalism and certified “genius” (according to one of the guys at Buzzfeed – probably the LOLcat Editor) Matthew Boyle has a lot of time on his hands after it turned out that Attorney General Eric Holder wasn’t the head of Mexico’s largest and most violent drug/gun/counterfeit plaster Hello Kitty piggy-bank cartel, so now Matt’s just kind of hanging around the office, checking out what everyone else is doing, sitting in his cubicle working on his paperclip chain-mail for this weekend’s Ye Olde Renaissance Faire & Car Swappe Meete, and seeing how many Rolos he can shove in his mouth at one time.
This is not helping the conservative cause despite the fact that this is also how Jonah Goldberg got started.
I mean, Matt could do some TV spots. Maybe something on Fox:
Okay. Maybe that’s not such a good idea even if we apply the Fox & Friends standard of competence.
So it is back to the old grind of ink-stained I-cover-the-waterfront investigative journalism and, OH BOY!, look what just dropped into his lap! SCOOP CITY, bitchez!
Vice President Joe Biden may have stuck his foot in his mouth again on Friday, using an awkward off-the-cuff phrase to compliment high school cheerleaders during a campaign stop.
According to a pool report from Biden’s stop at Newport High School in Newport, N.H., the vice president arrived to talk to “about 100 students in their sports uniforms waiting for him in a semi-circle.”
“He cradled a football under his arm as he spoke,” the pool report, written by The New York Times’ Trip Gabriel reads. “He began by asking which teams were represented — football, soccer, lacrosse and cross-country. Any others? He asked. ‘Cheerleaders,’ a group of girls shouted.”
“Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college,” Biden said. “You think, I’m joking, they’re almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.”
I’m not sure if this is an impeachable offense for Biden or if it’s an electoral game changer, but I definitely see clear sailing ahead for Mitt Romney because Matt Boyle is both the Woodward AND Bernstein of the right….




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Oh, my… You weren’t joking about how many Rolos he can stuff into his chipmunk cheeks at once were you? I made it through 48 seconds of the clip. Is that a record?
The presidency, lost for lack of a hyphen.
This is great news for John McCain.
Also the Obamas have yet to make a statement about how happy they are that Ann Romney was not hurt when her plane caught fire. IMPEACH!
This is what I love about America. You have people called “Trip”.
OK one of these days One. of. these. days. pleeeeze GOD some of this random made up shit that we are throwin up against the wall is gonna STICK
meanwhile im gettin really tired of cleaning up all this shit
ok then, if shit wont work then lets try PISS
Heh. You said WOODward.
TBogg,
how could you possibly NOT run the Malkin cheerleader video with this post?
doesn’t it just scream out for a “hard wood”/”soft wood” comparison?
Are ya losin’ it, old man?
That’s a gaffe?
A GAFFE?
Please, somebody. PLEASE. Somebody on this boat take a gaff to that guy’s ass.
Pull him up in the net. Lay him out on the deck. Let him gaffe his last. Floppin’ and coughin’ and gaffin’.
I’m sure what Biden really meant was that his marathon time was 2 hours and 50-something minutes. That’s how gaffes work.
Matty could sooo take on these kids…..
I think I’ve seen that Matthew Boyle “genius” dude at the opera.
Or maybe it was the monster truck rally. I always get confused about those two events.
He’s obviously never kissed a girl.
Lordy, I was afraid ol’ Thom was either gonna bust a spleen or punch Matt in the face.
And I’m not sure I can forgive you for the mental image of Boyle rubbing one out over the Biden ‘gaffe’.
Ugh.
I couldn’t watch for longer than the first 48 seconds because it was obvious that Matty was moving his lips while reading the host’s teleprompter lines OR is one of those people who echo what another person is saying. Either way, pretty dire behavior for someone who is in front of a camera.
So we’re tied for the record at 48 seconds. I’m old and cranky enough already, so I didn’t have to see just how high my blood pressure can really get.
I got to the first shot of the chipmunk guy, realized what the Rolo remark was about, and started laughing so hard there was no point going further. I think that was about 30. So I lose, but I win.
Growing up in Pittsburgh, there was a bald, scarfaced newscaster with what was described as “the voice of god” named Paul Long. He wasn’t fun to look at, but you took him seriously. Boy, those days are gone.
Now, Matty, this is how you make a dick joke:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/jill-biden-penis-joke_n_1904600.html
I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo looking forward to Biden just beating down Eddie.
I’m in a hazy, allergy medicine daze and that sentence gave me an instant mental image of Joe just wailing the tar out of that boy. Thanks(Really, I can just see Joe pounding his face, a big ol’ grin the whole time ….)
Joe Biden is a gentleman, good husband, loving father and grandfather, loyal friend. Hassle him or, worse, the people he loves and he goes honey badger on your ass.
Butthead “Huh, huh, huh,…He said ‘hard’…”
Beavis: “Heh, heh…And ‘wood’. Does that mean he’s got like a stiffie or something?..mph, heh…”
Butthead: “Huh, huh, huh, huh ‘Hardwood’…huh, huh, huh…”
Matt Boyle: “Ba-DOINGGGGGG! heh, heh, heh, heh…..”.
The whole thing in two lines:
Thom Hartman: Did you actually interview the teacher (with 2 master’s degrees and 11 years experience earning $58,000/yr) that you trash in your article?
Inflamed Boyle:(managing to squeal and sneer at the same time) NO, and he’s doing fine and if he really was a good teacher and not a money-grubbing teat sucker he would gladly give up pay to make rich people richer, commie!
My brother was at a party, many moons ago, where one of the other attendees happened to be a gymnast.
“So, you’re a gymnast?” my smart-ass brother said to her. “Do something gymnastic.”
Without further ado, she did a full split, right there in front of him and everyone else in the room. They could hear the soft yet quite audible thud of her crotch hitting the hardwood floor.
She looked up and was smiling serenely while every guy in the place said “Ow”.
and “blows” too— when taken totally out of context and juxtaposed with “hard wood” is downright filthy and added to jill biden’s remark about seeing Jo up close while holding her arms apart– you get the idea—- Paul Ryan is a much better Catholic than Biden which is because Biden married a jew and he just blew (oops) the conservative catholic voters whom go to latin mass; now you might think they were voting for romney anyway and that may be so but now they’ll NEVER vote for a democrat and it could tilt the senate to the gop
In his Camaro!
Ah, yes, the old "X is broke!" chestnut (with X being any public entity). Do I detect a positive feed back loop? Less taxation begets less tax revenue; doesn't seem to be a mystery to me. Cut off a person's feet because he can't win a marathon shouldn't result in complaints that his time is worse for future endeavors. What did you think would happen? Maybe you should amputate at the knee caps now? That will should make him run faster! How much taxation does Boyle advocate? How functional of a government does he expect? The government is broke and doesn't work! Let's defund it! What? Hey, the government is broker and less workier? How did that happen?!?!?! They are obviously incompetent!
At last someone who actually questions the underlying premise of all of this anti-labor and anti-union bullshit: Why don't we demand benefits instead of demanding those who have benefits give them up? Also interesting is that we are not to hate or resent those who have more money than us, yet we are clearly supposed to revile those with more benefits. Why is that, I wonder…
Finally, "This is a clear attack on the Democratic Party!"? Thom, the DLC, Obama and Clinton have been doing that for the last 20 years. The murderer is in this very room.
Stop shilling for the wolves in populist clothing.
how about anne romney, mr boyle
“Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring,”
What blows (get it? get it?) my mind is that a chipmunk like Boyle even knows what hard wood is a euphemism for. It seems rather unlikely that he’s ever, uh, had any experience with such a thing.
I have purposely avoided installing TV capabilities on my TV, for many years now. I refuse to watch a recorded vbersion of one of the very reasons for my TV abstinence.
So, my sanity and intelligence is unsullied by the seemingly unending parade of numbskulls, liars and just-plain-assholes, who find themselves in front of a camera and somehow broadcast their lunacy to a whole lotta people.
I stand in awe of those who choose to engage the monster, and escape relatively unscathed.
Firedogfriends All,
This is the best thread I’ve read in ages.
Very fine form, folks, Very Fine.
Big “G”.
The Daily Caller – the favorite blog of Beavis & Butthead.
Man, that is just so adorable when the chipmunk’s voice goes all squeaky when he’s stressing out under the onus of having to actually explain what the hell he’s on about.
Also
Inapropriateresponse writes: This is what I love about America. You have people called “Trip”.
There was a brief contest, I think at Tom’s old blog, to suggest a name for the offspring of Bristol and Fading Football Hero, and my suggestion was “Trap.”
See, I was thinking of the whole nature of the upcoming shotgun marriage, which I guess never actually took place, or maybe it did, I don’t remember, and who the hell cares anyway.
But ya gotta admit, pretty close, and I really think I should have won a prize or something. Perhaps a trophy, or at least a plaque or lovely parting gift. Still sulking. Dammit.
You did win a prize but we spent it on bacon…
Wow, the victimization of Xtians going on at that link is awesome.
Matty’s free hand disagrees…
Retweeting Boyle is some of your best work.
It’s kinda beautiful that his last name rhymes with a putrid skin abscess.
Was he moving his lips along with Hartmann, reading the prompter, as the camera came to him? It sure looked like he was lip-synched to what Thom was saying as he first came on the screen. Weird, I’ve never seen anyone do that.
Douchebag.
Yeah he did.
Typically, you see this behavior in children, who learn as they grow older to not mouth the words when reading, but, well…
Since we’re talking showbiz here, an actor mouthing another character’s dialog while they are saying it is an occasional frustration to directors, and again, it’s usually the younger or newer talent that do this.
And it’s more common than you think. In the first Harry Potter movie, for example, the adorable but nevertheless very green Emma Watson can be seen mouthing Daniel Radcliffe’s lines as he delivers them (see the IMDB “goofs” section for the details), and then there’s Paul Reubens. Oh my, Paul Reubens.
Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) conducted a master’s class in “things green actors do” in “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”. As you may recall from the story, Warner Brothers decides that his adventure would make a swell movie, and casts James Brolin as “P.W.”, while giving Pee Wee himself a small role as a hotel clerk interacting with P.W. and the result is a comprehensive catalog of every mistake an actor can make, and a work of genius.
His single line of dialog is so badly rendered that it’s necessary to have it looped in by an actor obviously not him, and he goes on to cover all the bases. He fumbles the props, he fidgets, doesn’t know quite where to put his hands, shifts uncomfortably in and out of frame, looks at the camera and the director as if asking for cues or approval, and oh hell yes, mouths Brolin’s lines along with him.
Brilliant.
WHAR? WHAR IS BACON?
YouTube recommended another video to the one up in this post. I watched it and if anyone wants to see a Boyle get excised something fierce, watch this clip especially starting at 4:20 (pass the dutchie, indeed!). Joe Madison, you have the honor, sir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H-oQ9FkuqY
So, Matt Boyle is sort of setting off my Gaydar in that clip. Is he in or out of closet?
Nice haircut, Matt. Makes you look like a chimpanzee.
Also, nice one, Joe Madison, for pinning the chimp’s ears back so forcefully, a thing of beauty.
Watching that kinda makes me wish I could sneak up on Boyle from behind and smack both of his cheeks at the same time to watch the “Rolos” fly out.
Yes, in both his words and his appearance here, Matthew Boyle is a uniquely unappealing person.
I just listened to conservative talking head Bradley Blakeman on Tavis Smiley’s NPR radio program, and his constant interrupting, ranting, and lying suggested to me that he might be Matthew Boyle’s uncle. Alternatively, perhaps they were popped out of the same mold from the Wingnut Spokesperson Press-N-Heat production line.
Neither of these third-string clowns is going to convince anyone in those respective listening audiences. The plan must be to rouse their tepid drool-cup wingnut base to some level of enthusiasm; ranting at libtards and blah people is (presumably) one of the few ways they see to accomplish that. Seems desperate, but given the performance of Money Boo-Boo’s campaign so far, and the closeness of Election Day, perhaps some Hail Mary passes are among the few options left to them.