A life devoted to that kind of definition of success just seems like a whole lot of work for things that bring only superficial and temporary pleasure and fulfillment... with little to no time for anything more lasting to be built or experienced.

It really does sound sad... and frankly pathetic.

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That's entertainment! Another strange title from alternet.

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Chris is buffing Hillary big time now, he has decided he loves her. He wants to pick the winner. He fancies himself (and is) a political kingmaker. He likes to call the shots like it is a game of craps.

Uber corporate conservative in his knee-jerk reactions to things, thinks he is middle of the road, us lefties are all crazy. I have felt personally labeled as nutty many times as he proclaims whatever his judgement of the week is as THE conventional wisdom.

He reads us and will certainly check here.

Sept 24 I wrote MSNBC, joe@msnbc.com this missive. I was answering his question. So Chris is on to my service project now, they all are over there at MSNBC. I love watching people figure out how they are going to react. Hee hee. More flying monkeys to join the fray! Isn't Quiddich a great game? Keep your eye on that flying snich, but watch out for the bloggers! They can knock you right off your broom.

Hey Joe,

Arrianna started her site after I blogged in AlterNet that she would be my press agent. I laid out a plan. I am a witch.

It is a great story, epic even. I shudder to think what Disney will make out of me. Towards controlling that eventually, I write my own story. I recommend looking my comments up in the deep freeze. Put some researcher on it who isn't too christian, it will take some time, maybe lots of tolerance.

The quick way to discover my story is to find one of my religious believers, I have followers. I recommend research over faith.

God send.

Lauren

See, I really DID have a plan. It took me four months to work it out. I am not crazy. I will eventually prove I am not crazy, I am really clever and selfless, not crazy. Peace.

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On par w/Hilary's cackle, except more dumb than artificial.

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For years, reading lefty blogs, people speculate on what are CW's real motives. Is he a liberal, a conservative, a con man, servile to power, servile to corporations, what is his real deal?

Well, now we know. It's his life philosophy, that of the ultimate self-serving cynic. And this is 'the best and brightest' of the DC insider class. The DC insider class is so fossillized, so corrupt, so immoral, and he is one of the better ones.

John Stewart is his foil, the honest man who honors truth, likes a joke, plays the fool but is wise by being true to self.

We need a broom to sweep that DC place clean, then the boardrooms, and the rest of the dirty rooms in the country, after all it is our home sweet home.

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sick, demented, irrelevant, not too smart, bought and paid for prostitute to the Corpse.

He is delusional, political campaigns are, unfortunately, completely irrelevant to the vast majority of Americans, and this idiot expects us to run our lives like one.
I hope not. Another parasite in a suit with the plastic smile of deceit.

Term Limits, and remove all private money from campaigns, the only hopes to regain democracy as one vote per person and not the present system of one vote per dollar.

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merely a book he wrote with an angle towards the coming elections. If anything, John was kind to him. John could have said the book was just crass commercial opportunism... which it plainly is.

The fact Mathews wrote it as a life guide to success just goes to show what a shit he is.

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He is of the utmost journalistic integrity and always asks the hard questions. He does as little editorializing as possible.

I have had the pleasure of working with him and he is the only centrist I have ever admired.

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what most people miss is that systems and structure influence human behaviour.

unchecked capitalism what france calls savage capitalism has created this american society of greed is good even if it leads to imperialism.

wars for profits is an outcome of this savage capitalism. 50 million without health care is another example of this savage capitalism.

a belief that huge profits should be made from the sick and needy another example of savage capitalism. need I go on?

most americans are imperialists and they believe that their might makes right and dont have a clue that they are imperialists.

this is another immoral book from the depths of capitalism.

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It was compared to "The Prince" on the Daily Show. Is that necessarily a bad work to be compared to? It's sitting on my book shelf now.

Let me sum it up for you, "do whatever it takes to get whatever you want out of life."

Some people sit around whining about how unfair life is and how they can't do what they want. Other people are more creative, they find a way to impose their will on reality and shape it to their ends.

I guess we know which group most of you come from. Most of you are calling the book, "immoral." What does that even mean? What is morality but an artificial creation of man to limit our potential range of action? The only thing I let limit my action is the laws of the physical universe and consideration of consequences.

There are people like me and Chris out there. We will embarrass you at work, we will sabotage your projects, we will brown nose and kiss ass like you've never seen - we will be your boss while you stay in the cube farm for 15 or 20 years.

Get used to it. The information is out there if you want to stop letting people trample your dreams into dust on the way to accomplishing their own.

The choice is yours.

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Matthews is a complete shill for the administration. Centrist my ass! Yes, he can relate to a campaign, he's so giddily star-struck that he'll do anything for success [MONEY!]. One solid, corporate whore, he is.

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Isn't this the guy who had the theory that the US is a reluctant warrior?

So let me get this straight...An interview where he's constantly interrupted, criticized, and can barely get a word in is the worst interview of his life?

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Well, Chris Matthews isn't exactly a moron, but this video is proof that he's no match for a (comic genius) like Jon Stewart. Jon gave Mathews a liberal dose of his own medicine. It must have irked he who NEVER lets anyone finish a thought, let alone a sentence, to be one-upped by a lowly COMEDIAN. I think Mathews is in for a nasty surprise if Jon takes him up on his invitation to the Crossfire show.

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His book (which I have read) and his show is an example of how little meaning honor and integrity have in so much of American life today. The fact that the majority of our political system, corporate structure and routine business in this country use precisely the system that he is esposing indicate how shallow the 'family values' slogan by the far right really is and how little it has to do with real religion of any kind. Now honor and integrity are traded in for advancement at any cost- to anybody! Whether it is outsourcing jobs, cutting benefits while CEO salaries soar, denying medical care to the insured or outshouting or labeling 'unpatriotic' to anyone who disagrees with you, honor and integrity are trampled underfoot. No wonder that fascism is on the rise in America.

We have been drugged and propagandized by the media to the point that only consumption supports our way of life, consumption that is placing people in such massive debt that they will never recover, just so those that are living the role Chris Mathews outlines (to achive) can stay at the top. We are a divided society, deliberately encouraged to be bigots, to live in fear, to spend our last dollar, so that we can never unite into a cohesive alliance to fight the very thing that is enslaving us.
Religion has been used as a weapon by those who have no religion, painting those on the far right as the only 'true believers' when the thing they believe in is not the average Christian's faith, but self agrandizment and continued control of power and wealth. People of real faith, who try to live the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount fall victim because they are too nice to fight back; they forget that you can be faithful and nice and fight back, as Jesus did to the money changers in the Temple. Many also forget the admonition about 'false prophets' - those that are the neediest among us are most vulnerable to these 'prophets' who promise a golden hereafter, and admonish them to follow those leaders who pretend to be 'saved'.

Until our education system teaches people to think, how to use their own minds, Chris and his kind can get away with what they are doing.

And I completely agree with other writers on this blogg: Where was Mathews on the lead up to this war? Where were his questions about attacking Iraq when 85%+ of the hijackers came from Saudi Arabia? Where was he when the phony stories of "Mission Accomplished" and the tearing down of the statue of Saddam were aired? Where has been been on the stolen elections, the fauty voting machines, the disappearing votes across the country? Hiding behind his own behind, doing nothing to shake his place among the neocon power bases. That's where.

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Okay, Chris got a taste of his own "Hardball" medicine, but this is going to sell a million more books to all those people who are wondering what he really did say! "Any publicity is good publicity, just spell my name right."

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I've tried my best to ignore Chris ever since he stuck it to Zell Miller. I can't stand the turncoat, but Matthews drove me crazy - he'd ask a question and seconds into Miller's answer, he'd interrupt and shout him down. He did that like three times. I totally understood Miller's "duel" reaction. I would have wanted to punch Matthews in the face. That spoke as much to his character as anything.

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And Matthews is exactly right. Honesty in a job interview ill only show you the door. And generally, the people who get to the top are crooks and liars, just like politicians. It very much is like The Prince, which was merely describing the human condition -- people lie cheat and steal to gain advantage. Those who don't, don't end up at the top. Which is why wealth and power is concentrated in the hands of so few. So few of us are willing to live life like a campaign.

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...the Bible is where you go for morality. Well that says it all. The bible is the most genocidal book ever written. It endorses slavery, killing, etc. Not a book that you would want to follow for good moral behavior.

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