Obviously Mr. Carville is not a worldclass Sports Fan, but by association, both are known as 'hitting games'...baseball bats being the central symbol. I myself used to be a rabid sports fan many years ago, in my teens, but at this particular moment I would be very hard pressed to tell anyone anything about standings, players, scores, rosters ... you name it. My mind has been occupied with other things.

If we are to judge our Political Advisors by their knowledge of Sports, then we have surely passed the test of The Lilliputians ... and should expect the same fine results.

These are 'mixed metaphors'. They are used as literary devices commonly to make a point. An example would be very current to the day and would include things like 'Too big to fail', 'the safety of Insurance', 'the reliability of Banks'. It is the subset of what is common between metaphors that then becomes the 'idea' in the communication. Admittedly, it is a scattered form of communication, but very much in tempo with our times, as if to say 'yes, things are confused'. It does not detract from meaning, however.

Well, except that Vince Lombardi always referred to Football as a 'hitting sport' as opposed to a 'contact sport'. In Lombardi's opinion, dancing was a 'contact sport'...and said so on many occasions (see 'Run To Daylight'). The idea, to Lombardi at least, was to make the distinction between levels of violence....in a humorous way so as to gain the player's attention.

Scotty Bowman described and designed the movement of Hockey Players in the same way that John Wooden did with Basketball Players...with pre-designed movements or 'plays'...a series of setups that tactically create the opportunity for teams to take a shot or to defend an area or space. Tennis is also a 'court game', the primary tactic being to strectch the area of the court to it's maximimum size in an attempt to wear out your opponent, just as is done in Ice Hockey...particularly during power plays. There is even a 'alley-oop play' in Ice Hockey, though few recognize it for what it is designed to be. It is called the 'tip-in' or 'deflection shot'. It is essentially the same as Basketball's Alley-Ooop, in that a long pass, designed to look like a shot on goal is actually a well orchestrated alley oop pass to the forward who's job it is to tip or deflect the puck into the net. Goalies hate this play as it renders defense of the goal virtually impossible, especially if the tip is down and to the ice while the goalie is standing, or up and into the corner when the goalie is down in butterfly defense in front of the net. The same play occurs in both Soccer and Lacrosse, which are also court games. Ned Harkness, 'the coach' at Cornell was the only NCAA Coach ever to win Div I National Championships in both Ice Hockey and Lacrosse.

You are confusing the name of the physical space with the tactics and strategy of the games themselves. Carville is not. Maybe he knows more about sports than he lets on. That would be known in Football as a 'hip feint' or 'juke'.

This is classic Southern 'we're all from the Holler' humor. Come on, guys - wake up.

Caradog - you got it. It's a funny ironic twist. I guess it flew over some people's heads.

Yes, I, a liberal, am very grateful. I pray that he gives us an equivalent for 2012. That would make him my hero.

I think Rhonda meant it as a positive comment for Ms. Maddow, shi is a "by the book" pundit.

Oh, that would explain her knowledge of teabagging. It must be the close proximity to San Franciso.

Hey Connie, Maddow is still just a Pin Head! She talks like she knows everything, but she actually hurts my brain with her Left Leaning MISINFORMATION!
I can only bear to listen for about 30 seconds, and thank God for the Remote...LOL You gotta give me credit, I do try, but she is out in Left Field most of the time, and I do mean FAR FAR LEFT

Rhonda likes to put people down who are smarter than her. It makes her feel better about her lack of accomplishment.

yea, and Meghan McCain is a graduate of Columbia. Why does she sound like a teen-ager spreading some good gossip? Is she dumbing down? speaking so the dumb people can catch up? an authority with a punch line? you explain

So diamondgirl, you'd prefer it that people in the clips you watch talk like idiots? Maddow is confident and intelligent, don't let that get you down about your own cognitive abilities.

All that education and she's still an idiot. Liberal professors must have taught her all they know.

So typical, all you can do is name call.

Rachel Maddow always look deeper into subjects than most pundits. I think over time we will find that she has one of the sharpest minds on television. The more I listen to her, the more I realize that she is one of the Democrats best weapons.

Wow, who knew that Rachel Maddow's accomplishments was going to make the right winters so angry?

Maddow, the only thing he proves is that you can go to college for years and still be the dumbest guy in the room.

Uh, Baddchild, Maddow is a woman.

really??? what was "she" doing next to me at the urinal then?

Diamondgirl, it really is too bad you can't comprehend the really big words. I love Rachel Maddow.

She doesn't need one. She has a doctorate (so that's Dr. Maddow to you), and was a former Rhodes Scholar. Unlike other people who need to enter beauty pageants and had to go to 6 colleges before getting 1 lame undergrad degree. You can attack her politics and her looks but she at least wrote her own dissertation.

Bet you didn't learn much about Acorn watching Ms. Maddow!

rhonda

Actually Maddow has talked a great deal about how BOGUS the claims being made against ACORN are. The difference is that she uses facts to back up her assertions, understands that pointing out to election officials that some voter registration forms may be fraudulent is totally different from perpetrating voter fraud, and that the big push to try to discredit ACORN is coming from conservative groups who don't much want more people registered to vote unless they are Republicans.

I agree about Graham and I am a Repub. I am surprised he went anywhere without McCain. Bet he has never watched any of Beck's shows, you watch Beck for a week and he will win you over with logic not feel goodness.

You shouldn't talk about McCain's boyfriend that way.

Jinglebob

Just beacuse he has a chalkboard doesn't mean he is logical

logic!? please tell me you're joking. were you watching the day he "decoded" the communist symbolism of Rockefeller Center? or the day his "patriotism" was so strong he wept?

that "logic" that wins you over after a week is actually brainwashing. congrats, you're a zombie.

I'm shocked, shocked to see that the fringe right-wing representatives here are throwing a Republican, Lindsey Graham, under the bus because he does not support the combined lunacy and lies of Glenn Beck.

Urban Dictionary-
Silly.

Ok, if you say so, but somehow Her, Schuster, and Anderson all seem just a wee bit too familiar with the term if you catch my drift.

reardongalt, she knows what it means. I just watched her in the above clip. She is talking about Palin and who she picked as a ghost writer. Watch it above... this is why she makes my brain hurt when she speaks, she is blaming Palin because the ghost writer she picked has is connected in some way so she says to a white supremacy group. That is guilt by association...
Let's TALK ABOUT OBAMA ASSOCIATES: Rev Wright,Ayers,Mentor Saul Alinski,Van Jones,ACORN,SEIU the list goes on and on and on.. They need to take her off the air, she is killing the show and the ratings. you know what leave her on..thats better for the middle/right media shows

She read it in Urban Dictionary like every other literate person in America, except for the tea-baggers. Since she is gay, she's not going around doing any tea-bagging, which is more than I can say about the tea-baggers and some of the Republican men!

Check out what Alaskan's have to say about Palin's affiliation with White Supremacists. Did you ever check in on a Palin rally during the election while the KKK was follwoing her from town to town. When the neo-nazis showed up to render their support in Florida, McCain lost Florida.

very good nightdragon. keep up the good work. rgalt

I agree, she's very smart and well informed, unlike Beck who is a crackpot and a near dunce. Rachel, though, can be annoying sometimes.

Many blogs posting her as a possible crackwhore today!!! Can she prove she isn't ??

Really? You seem to know a lot of information about a network you claim to hate. A network people claim nobody watches. I bet you secretly watch when nobody is looking :)

Let me guess. Fox News reported that.

Wouldn't YOU like that.
They're here to stay, pal. The world needs more than just FOX.

I will agree that her investigative commentary tends to support her political leaning but she is the only one who even bothers to investigate so she does bring forth relevant data. The reason I refuse to embrace the political ideology of either party is because it clouds objectivity and leads to closed minded premises. It is natural for people to look for validation of their own values, tenets, and beliefs, but you have to be willing to put them aside and attempt to see the world through the eyes of those who disagree with you to continue to grow and learn. Neither political philosophy will solve the massive problems we currently face. These are concrete versus philosophical problems.

Way to go, xintcat. Too many people tend toward dogmatism.

It wouldn't kill a liberal to, for example, disavow abortion on moral grounds, but still remain a liberal. Neither would it kill free-marketeers to admit that a totally unfettered free market is a disaster waiting to happen.

That too many people are locked to their ideological boxes is a large part of the problem in our political and social discourse.

I watch Rachel and I think she does a reasonable commentary. However, much like the folks at FOX news, I believe that she can be sometimes to dogmatic in her approach. I dont hold that against her as I believe MSNBC is nothing more than a counter to the propoganda that came out of FOX. I still believe that the tennor from both conservatives and liberals needs to be more civil. I am against abortion and yet dont feel it is my place to tell a fellow american what she can do with her body, does that make me a conservative? I claim to be a Liberal..It is my sense that it is time to turn our backs on media propagandists, campaign strategists, think-tank goons, and political pundits. These professional hucksters flourish on the assumption that the majority of people are easily duped. They are not compatriots of freedom, but rather users of freedom who propagate deception.
It is time we no longer delight in scandal and innuendo, as political strategists count on. Behind the media presentation of scandal is a hidden motive designed to draw out attention from something else, and paint everyone of a given party as sharing in guilt. There is no honor in this. When corruption is discovered, take care of it according to the law, announce it on the news in a sane, respectful manner, and avoid the media circus.
It is time we choose to vote according to the worth as candidates, rather than party affiliation or unrelated issues.
It is also time that we embrace the liberal and conservative traditions that we have, merge them into something positive, and make our democratic system the shining example of government that it can be.

What do you expect. Women are always judged according to superficial things by the right. They sure didn't pick Sarah Palin based on her superior intellect. But she's OH, SO pretty!

jforty, funny! What about the men, kinda dull brains and usually sort of unattractive to look at with the guns and interns and other activities they engage in!

She's in love with him, and knows a heck of a lot more about him than you do.

Is it just me, or do Carville and Matalin look like twin brothers, one of whom is in drag?