Jeopardy!

Just when you thought it wouldn't happened but it did.

On October 2, 2008 before that evening's Vice Presidential debate, Chris Mathews said of Palin:

"Do you think she’d do better on the questions on Jeopardy! or the interview they do during a half-time?"

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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Matthews Theme of the Night Is It about.html

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!”

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Matthews: Neo-cons Took Cruise to Alaska to Find Empty-Headed Palin

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?"

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http://archive.mrc.org/notablequotables/uploads/Nov152010.pdf

And Chris Matthews finally said 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.”

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RealClearPolitics - Video - Chris Matthews: I Want To See Sarah Palin On Celebrity Jeopardy

But when he actually goes on to the real Jeopardy! show he tanks badly coming in last place.

Video with partial transcript.
Chris Matthews Bombs on 'Jeopardy!' After Repeatedly Mocking Palin for How She'd Do | NewsBusters.org

Wolf Blitzer, a CNN anchor, crashed and burned in Celebrity Jeopardy, too. And into the red who was bailed out with a $1000 to help him keep going. Guess who was the winner in that show?
Wolf Blitzer

Wolf got off easy since he didn't bad mouth Palin using the Jeopardy meme while Chris Matthews did so on many occasions.

This is news? Or is it more hand wringing by Conservatives worried about protecting "Our Sarah" from those neanderthal Liberals? Geez, most of the dates are years ago. You telling me there are no archived Fox bashings of Democrats?

Step down from the ledge.

saywhatkid said:

This is news? Or is it more hand wringing by Conservatives worried about protecting "Our Sarah" from those neanderthal Liberals? Geez, most of the dates are years ago. You telling me there are no archived Fox bashings of Democrats?

Step down from the ledge.

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Not about Sarah if you had read a bit more closely. It's about Matthews putting his foot into his mouth in the end, again.

kokonut said:

Not about Sarah if you had read a bit more closely. It's about Matthews putting his foot into his mouth in the end, again.

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Foot in mouth; it is not strictly an MSNBC trait. Also, these stories date back four years. Find some fresher material. Surely you have more...

saywhatkid said:

Foot in mouth; it is not strictly an MSNBC trait. Also, these stories date back four years. Find some fresher material. Surely you have more...

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I'm talking about Mr. Tingly's trait. It's called "karma" at the end when he challenged a person's intellectual inability to even compete in a Jeopardy! game. Kind of makes you smile upon him realizing that his name really is mud when he fared for the worst in that game show.

kokonut said:

I'm talking about Mr. Tingly's trait. It's called "karma" at the end when he challenged a person's intellectual inability to even compete in a Jeopardy! game. Kind of makes you smile upon him realizing that his name really is mud when he fared for the worst in that game show.

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Depends on the categories. If it is all opera, Shakespeare, fabrics, art....I am stupid. Give me geography, sports, history!

saywhatkid said:

Depends on the categories. If it is all opera, Shakespeare, fabrics, art....I am stupid. Give me geography, sports, history!

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It wasn't all that but he blurted out answers when it wasn't his turn. And he managed to think Instanbul is a "6-Letter Capitals" and flunked basic math. His gaffes were unbelievable.

"The debacle was intriguing to see," Billy Hallowell wrote on TheBlaze.com, "Matthews bounced between confused and unknowing."

"In a delicious example of instant karma," Noel Sheppard wrote on NewsBusters.org, "the self-proclaimed brainiac got his chance to show American how smart he was, but came up quite short."

"This guy has the nerve to ridicule anyone," Sheppard added. "Where do you find 'attorney' in the acronym 'U.S.D.C.'?"

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Chris Matthews bombs on