It wasn't Hillary's tears -- it was Obama's shrug

No one, male or female, young or old, Left or Right, has trouble recognizing, and applauding, the historic, inspirational aspects of Barack Obama's campaign.

But this campaign season has shown that men, including the leading male Democratic candidates and their mostly male campaign advisors, may be having difficulty fully recognizing, and effectively acknowledging, how historic and inspirational Hillary Clinton's campaign is for women.

That failure to grasp what the first serious female Presidential candidacy means for women, including those who are not committed Clinton supporters, or fully decided on any candidate, had consequences in New Hampshire.

For instance, if the Obama camp had been able to put themselves in the shoes of women, to see the campaign through their eyes for a moment, Obama might not have missed the opportunity handed to him in the New Hampshire debate, when Clinton was questioned about her "likeability" -- a question that, for women, resonated with all the age-old dismissals of public women and their attractiveness. He would have known that he needed to strongly and immediately denounce the cringe-making, sexist nature of the inquiry. He would have understood that it wasn't Hillary's likeability that needed defending -- with a shrug and a diffident, "You're likable enough" -- but a woman candidate's right to be taken seriously, and engaged with, seriously. He would have known that it wasn’t about standing up for Hillary, a strong and able competitor, but about demonstrating that he would stand with the women whose votes he seeks and needs.

Today's women, especially those of Clinton’s generation, have spent most of their lives bushwhacking into new territory, without guides or guideposts. They understand that competing against a woman is mostly new, and therefore tricky, territory for male politicians. They're willing to forgive a few mistakes, but not too many. Both Obama and Edwards made rooky mistakes in, at times, appearing to take cues on how they should compete against a woman from the mostly clueless, still male dominated, media. They also allowed themselves to be lulled into over-estimating how much the orgy of over-the-top negative coverage of Clinton could benefit them. Now they’ve been given a chance to get a clue from women voters themselves.

If they know how to listen, here is what they’ll hear; they have to take every opportunity possible to disassociate themselves from the boy’s club discomfort with a woman in the tree house that characterizes too much of the coverage of Clinton’s candidacy -- and run like men who fully understand the respect women have earned.

Male candidates can be reassured that women won’t vote for a woman just because she is a woman. But it’s past time for them to wake up to the full implications of this; increasingly, women don't have to vote for men simply because they have no other choice.

Tweety turns into a snarling cornered beast in 3 . . 2 . . 1 . .

I love our librul MSM.

I think Hillary ran to get the "experience" to make a run for the White House. I think she won because she was the best choice for New York.

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What I wanna know is the reason Matthews still on the air? and please be brutal

The media and the Republican Party made Hillary Clinton. She would have had no chance in hell of winning anything, anywhere by herself without their help. Just as, if she was not Bill Clinton's wife, she would have been out of this race long ago. Anybody that thinks different is only fooling themselves.

I wonder if KO has the balls to put someone from his own network in the running for today's Worst Person in the World award?

ConcernedCanuck @ 12:

The media and the Republican Party made Hillary Clinton. She would have had no chance in hell of winning anything, anywhere by herself without their help. Just as, if she was not Bill Clinton's wife, she would have been out of this race long ago. Anybody that thinks different is only fooling themselves.

Oh and I still say that Matthews and Hillary either had an affair, or are in an affair. It's WAY too obvious.

"What is wrong with Chris Matthews?"

Well to begin with he reads the New York Post, and even goes on to advise others to read it.

ConcernedCanuck @ 16:

ConcernedCanuck @ 12:

The media and the Republican Party made Hillary Clinton. She would have had no chance in hell of winning anything, anywhere by herself without their help. Just as, if she was not Bill Clinton's wife, she would have been out of this race long ago. Anybody that thinks different is only fooling themselves.

Oh and I still say that Matthews and Hillary either had an affair, or are in an affair. It's WAY too obvious.

Nah, I think Hillary turned him down, told Matthews that Bill was more man that Matthews would ever be! ;-)

I don't care for Hillary but Matthews is grasping at straws trying to justify himself

Hillary became Senator because the GOP couldn't find any one to run a serious campaign against her. Rudy had his shot but backed out, cowered some say. Am I the only one to remember that?

Tweety's other neocon hero Rudy Giuliani Scores 9.11% In Three NH Towns.

This tool is definitely gonna be one of the first against the wall when the Revolution comes. 1776 2.0.

I think the reason why Chris Matthews is like this is because he has a crowbar stuck up his ass. I mean, really, it's gotta hurt having that thing lodge in there day after day! Spit.

joze46 @ 28:

So, in his book

“The Audacity of Hope” . Please I’m tired of MSNBC Chris Mathews telling me what kind of person Obama is. Here, I’ll give some of my own analysis and try to tell the truth as I see it, in the way Obama presents himself.

Right off, Obama is a good writer in reference to this book, but like all married couples Obama credits his wife, Michelle, with shaping a lot of what is in his book. If Americans have the sense to carry this ideal to Bush, or Hillary, lets be sure a lot what they all do and think is shaped by each other. So, what you think is being said here? If Michelle shapes some of the way Obama thinks, it perfectly normal to think Hillary would have shaped some of what Bill Clinton thought.

What’s my point? That argument Obama makes that Hillary didn’t shape any of the government during Bill Clinton’s administration is now “Hard to Believe in”.
I use that phrase because of the simple rant Obama uses but is very misleading. “Change we can believe in”. So, honestly Bill Clinton needs to be on the campaign trail just as Michelle needs to be. The whole thing the Mainstream Media paints as helping or not is a moot point. A married couple helps each other to shape ideals for the best acceptable way. Let me place emphasis on acceptable because what I accept is not what you accept. Probably what Chris Mathews wouldn’t consider.

Chances are Obama and Edward's spouses are there to support them. Chances are Bill Clinton is there looking for cigar holders.

Can I like CM again? Please...

Here in Canada, we follow your presidential race with a mixture of hope and despair. Hope because of the greatness of your country and the quality of some of the people you may elect who will bring an end to the era of GWBWTF. But despair at the quality and stupidity of some in the media, like Chris Matthews, who seem too often to control the message and the perceptions. It is a tragedy if your political process can be subverted by these intellectual pigmys and their narcissistic views of the world. I hope the vox populi continues to prove Matthews and his ilk wrong and incompetent. Please press your elected reps to break up the stranglehold a few media companies hold on your great country.

ConcernedCanuck @ 31:

Chances are Obama and Edward's spouses are there to support them. Chances are Bill Clinton is there looking for cigar holders.

Ah, another entry in the competition to be the most vicious.

Has it occured to you that either or both Clintons could easily be dead by the end of the year? We are dealing with GIGANTIC enemies over her, Canuck. I lived through the sixties, and I remember what is going on. How come you're so slick?

yeah that's it.. i'm voting for Hillary because Bill cheats on her..uh huh..

i vote for Hillary because Bill cheats on her??

Obviously Matthews is wrong to treat sympathy as the sole reason for her electoral success, but certainly any adequate explanation of that event must take that sort of socio-psychological data as a voter motive into account. That seems a poor reason to vote for a candidate, but it may have been one and helped provide her a platform for her to cast a new myth about why she's presidential material.

At best this sort of coverage and blogosphere chatter about it proves that the Onion is one of the best sources for information on contemporary American life. B.S. does appear to be the most important election issue.

But as a more practical matter - do we really want four more years of braindead polemics about Hillary's femininity and Bill's love of courtesans?

he's right.

I'm sorry, do all actually doubt that?

From the passing conversations of women I know down here in Florida, the "Tweety Effect" is a very real possibility. Even women I know who voted Repub in the past thought Matthews was a shit head. They were visibly angered by male pundit class negative treatment of Hillary. They viewed it as a slap in the face against women in general.

These white boy pundits who cater to upper middle class corporate males have no idea what they're messing with.

I learned a long time ago that you don't mess with the Sisterhood. Women can vote and deserve their proper respect.

Straight Shooter @ 30:

I didn't like John Kerry, either, but I supported him and voted for him because I thought he was better than george w. bush.

That comparison didn't take much IQ. It's possible to like or dislike anyone, in any moment. We are fickle monkeys -- and they are doing the impossible, trying to satisfy the range of voters who are ten times more fickle than the (reasonably) informed. Can you imagine what a sonofabitch it is to deal with the entire spectrum of opinion as a candidate? And this coup is NOT politics as usual. We're in deep, deep trouble, and the idea that we will coast through to next year is HILARIOUS and worth crying about.

I go out to protest again in an hour.

• Kerry will make an EXCELLENT Supreme Court justice.

The other thing about Tweety is that if Rudy ever stops suddenley, Matthew's head is going to be in a very dark and smelly place.

The man is pathetic.

Maggie @ 46:

As a woman I was moved by her response and enjoyed a secret glee that she won in NH. I wonder if other people feel the same?

You don't have to be a woman. This is the problem with negative attacks -- they backfire. They humanize the opponent.

You want to dismember them on the facts. You do not want to seem desperate, which is what personal attacks (by candidates or media) suggests.

Tweety is a jackass and most of us watched his disgusting performance in his interview with Elizabeth Edwards, his Hillary bashing and his Obama coronation hype. What he was serving up wasn't journalism it was infotainment.

In this campaign he and the rest of the media could have been analyzing the candidates substantive positions, but instead chose to treat the whole affair with a "Spears vs. Lohan" mentality.

This election is by far the most important that most of us will ever vote in and to trivialize it and the campaigns with superficial coverage of the candidates and the issues does a tremendous disservice to all of us. Instead of educating or illuminating the issues, they chose to excite, provoke, and distort what the candidates were really saying for ratings and one can only speculate as to what the media's agenda is.

C&L posted two segments on Tweety which were excellent, but left off this exchange between Tweety and Brokaw... which shows that Tweety just doesn't get it and shouldn't be doing election coverage:

TOM BROKAW, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: You know what I think we‘re going to have to go back and do? Wait for the voters to make their judgment.

MATTHEWS: What do we do then in the days before the balloting? We must stay home, I guess.

BROKAW: No, we don‘t stay home. There are reasons to analyze what they‘re saying. We know from how the people voted today, what moved them to vote. You can take a look at that. There are a lot of issues that have not been fully explored during all this. But we don‘t have to get in the business of making judgments before the polls have closed and trying to stampede, in effect, the process.

Look, I‘m not just picking on us, it‘s part of the culture which we live these days. I think that the people out there are going to begin to make some judgments about us, if they haven‘t already, if we don‘t begin to temper that temptation to constantly try to get ahead of what the voters are deciding, in many cases, as we learned in New Hampshire, when they went into the polling booth today, or in the last three days. They were making decisions very late.

MATTHEWS: You know, Tom, there are whole universities that depend almost entirely for their identity, their brand, on their polling operations, whether it‘s Quinnipiac or Marist or whatever. It seems like so many people depend on getting out an early estimate of what is about to come.

BROKAW: You know, yes, but I think that‘s a lot less important than letting this process go forward in the way that it should. I think people probably are not as honest with pollsters when they get called anymore because they‘re called constantly and they do change their minds. We‘re in a culture now, Chris, in which attention spans are very short, which people make quick decisions and change them equally quickly.

So we have to be very careful about that. What we ought to do is invest in the American people and their wisdom. They‘ve always decided what‘s best for them.

Amen Tom Brokaw... Amen.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22574559/

"But the more assholish her detractors behave, the more you help her. The way she was treated the past few days in New Hampshire was a disgrace, and likely a large reason for her surprise victory. So keep attacking her for bullshit reasons, and you’ll be generating more and more sympathy votes for her."

They know this; Matthews knows this. Why does he keep doing it? He wants her to be president, so do his bosses. In being easy on corporations it makes the whole "make profit, damn the people" easy for the latter, while the former, as a pundit, its easier on him. If he sets his position against her at the height of her popularity than he really has no challenge, nothing to fear. With Hillary he'll never have to face the "wrong" charge like the Faux-folks and Bush; all he has to say is either "told you so", or "a broken clock...".

esmense: great point, the question was as out-of-bounds as if Obama were to be asked if he were black enough. Nevertheless the media is giving Hillary a free pass on the second greatest story ever sold, her 35 years of experience. By that count, Babara Bush (pick one) has nearly as much experience . . . as would Dennis Thatcher . . . etc. Oh, and what "change" did she ever introduce and implement, not just lip-service or merely vote for? And on another matter, why the first name . . . none of the other candidates use or could get away with that moniker; so its use and repetition (by the campaign and media) appear as institutional sexism, don'tcha think?! (If there is a need to distinguish between the candidate and the former president, then call him the former president or use his first name.)

From the BBC News website:

"Ex-Arkansas governor and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani came in with 11% and 9% of the vote for the Republicans."

9-11!

This Sunday's cover story in The New York Times Magazine makes plain the threat: The winner of the 2008 presidential election could be decided by flawed, insecure, and hackable electronic voting machines.

This is the most prominent news coverage this issue has ever gotten, so it could be our one last chance to get this right before the election in November.

Congress is poised to consider a new emergency paper ballots bill next week—but we'll have to convince them to act right away.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Congress,

If it is not asking too much of you folks, can you please take this information serious and get this problem taken care of?

As you can see by the turnout of voters that American people, particularly Democrats, who are turning out in record numbers in these Caucasus, are very serious about removing these sick Republicans from office, but we cannot do that when you folks allow them to keep these worthless voting machines in play.

I am tired as hell of these voting machines coming into question each time these bastards play this disgusting game and then attempt to convince the American people that voters just changed their minds at the last minute for these cheap stupid reasons like this stupid bitch crying, when she is much disliked by so many more democrats then do like her ass. Stop playing American people to be so ignorant when you know dame well they are not and these same ass holes all over the networks the next day playing along with this corruption.

And stop calling those people raciest,as I am sure that their may have been a few people with some kind of sick motivation, however I believe that the majority of those people were sincere and if that were a question, again get rid of the dame voting machines and their would not be any questions if you dame dare. They recognize that Senator Obama is as white as he is black, less we forget that small tidbit.

Give American people a dame real reason to not question the outcome of these elections by taking these dame corrupt voting machines out of play so that when their are questions about this elections and their are many, when we see something entirely different then the outcome we are given and it is given by all these right wing junkies, that have stolen all of our national media.

I plan to continue writing about this vile, disgusting corrupt behavior, in our election process, until the cows come home and slamming the shit out of our elected officials that continue to leave this shit on the table. It is the most ignorant move you could make and it is going to cost us another election, can't you see this?

Another thing is this disgusting notion that these honorable people that switched from democrat to independent voters would never be so stupid to vote for an old disgusting bastard like McCain who is a part of the very establishment they all want to get rid of as much as they want to be rid of George Bush and they should be shouting at the top of the roof for even playing them to be that dame stupid.

Can we at least get you folks to take this off the table and do what we put you folks in office to do.

Get rid of the voting machines or we will all go right to hell

Sincerely

Reda StCyr

Agent Provocateur @ 58:

He wants her to be president, so do his bosses.

You buy the myth.

The bastard media wants McCain or preferably 9iu11iani, who are already co-conspirators.

The idea that they want a Dem President is hilarious. The Congress is in our hands, and those media companies know that they will get very little support from the White House when Congress under an ALL-DEM leadership of the country start ripping their monopolies into little pieces (again, as we have done, as even the R have done, before).

i meant democrat.

Chris is starting to lose it, i swear. he got smacked down by Olbermann and Brokaw, and he's decided he's going down in a last defiant stance.

Amen to Clevelandchick. And now Jessie Jackson Jr. has opened his fat mouth which should quickly become toxic for the Obama camp. The more sexist remarks that are made, the more Hillary gains points.

But this campaign season has shown that men, including the leading male Democratic candidates and their mostly male campaign advisors, may be having difficulty fully recognizing, and effectively acknowledging, how historic and inspirational Hillary Clinton's campaign is for women.

Male candidates can be reassured that women won’t vote for a woman just because she is a woman. But it’s past time for them to wake up to the full implications of this; increasingly, women don't have to vote for men simply because they have no other choice.

I disagree; there is ample evidence that women are voting for her JUST because she is a woman. And that is as wrong as voting for a man because he is a man. But it is definitely happening.

Ms.blonde @ 72:

And now Jessie Jackson Jr. has opened his fat mouth which should quickly become toxic for the Obama camp.

Why? JJJ is a well known quantity, and a lot more noble than you apparently think. The idea that his 'negritude' makes Obama and his campaign anything is hilarious.

It is odd, but at the end of the impeachment of Bill Clinton he had job approval ratings in the 60%.
Compared to his enemies he was the descent man.
The same applies to Hillary visa ve Rick Lazzio.
So here's looking forward to a total melt down of Chris and the his ilk.
By the time this is over her poll number could climb to 60% job approval.
When you see the future and then try to change it you are just advancing what is inevitable.
Read Illustrated Man.

Medical Diagnosis by Video @ 74:

there is ample evidence that women are voting for her JUST because she is a woman. And that is as wrong as voting for a man because he is a man.

Apparently it doesn't occur to you how rare a woman President is. You deny the glass ceiling, do you?

I will vote for her if she becomes the candidate, and be damn happy she is a (competent) woman.

Keith BUSTED Chrissy last night when he noticed that it was Chrissy who touched Hillary's cheek first, she then touched his.
I know everything I need to know about Chrissy - by that I mean he worships Ann Coulter, yet bashes Hillary at every chance.
I hope his days are numbered right along with Tucker. Chrissy, Tucker, and Delay can run off and be very happy together somewhere.

The idea that they want a Dem President is hilarious.

No they don't, but Hillary is their 2nd choice behind a Republican. If a Democrat is going to win, they would much prefer Hillary Clinton over Edwards or even Obama.

Paul in LA @ 66:

Agent Provocateur @ 58:

He wants her to be president, so do his bosses.

You buy the myth.

The bastard media wants McCain or preferably 9iu11iani, who are already co-conspirators.

The idea that they want a Dem President is hilarious. The Congress is in our hands, and those media companies know that they will get very little support from the White House when Congress under an ALL-DEM leadership of the country start ripping their monopolies into little pieces (again, as we have done, as even the R have done, before).

People like the idea of a big sexy conspiracy where the neocons control all of television, every voting machine, etc., etc. Excessive power in the hands of corporations and the MIC just doesn't have the same old zing it used to.

mark from manhattan @ 78:

The same applies to Hillary visa ve Rick Lazzio.

The French (Latin) is 'vis-a-vis' (face to face).

It's fascinating to watch one of the most odious pro-cons (Tweety) implode under the weight of his own bullshit.

These slick pseudo-attacks couched in pundit-ism have to be answered tenfold by the truly passionate. If we're left to stew in our own indignation, we will get what we deserve. Does anyone out there know the direct address of the NBC/MSNBC ombudsman? This kind of complacent gnawing at our own wounds must be replaced with action. We can mount a campaign to get this ill-informed, ill-tempered, and ill-mannered sycophant away from a position where he can do any more harm.

What the hell are we waiting for?

Blue Lensman @ 86:

People like the idea of a big sexy conspiracy where the neocons control all of television, every voting machine, etc., etc.

It's easier to think that way, in gross generalities.

In this case, they're right.

tr @ 89:

could it be that hillary is the brains in the clinton machine and bill was just the front man.

No. Sidney Blumenthal, who is a smart guy, said that he was constantly stunned by how BC knew more than he, the briefer, did about the world around us. BC is a VORACIOUS intellect, and he is ten times better informed than any R president since...

No it's because she's gushes rivers of estrogen soaked tears when she's losing and the rest of the female population follows.

I'm starting to question if allowing women to vote was maybe not such a great idea...

Take a deep breath, and think about this:

Hillary and a Democratic House and Senate.

Do you think the U.S.A. would benefit from such an arrangement?

If you do...well, good luck. And I mean it most sincerely.

Mike @ 84:

The idea that they want a Dem President is hilarious.

No they don't, but Hillary is their 2nd choice behind a Republican.

Well, I find it hard to worry about that. She would make a good president -- not my favorite, and we would have to fight her in any case, as a lot of us did Bill -- and the main point is that we will make MAJOR gains in the Congress, and that the media cannot control.

One of the strongest Congresses in history, with ANY kind of Dem president, will be the REAL agent of change.

dave @ 96:

I'm starting to question if allowing women to vote was maybe not such a great idea...

Maybe we need to rethink 'giving you' testicles.

dave @ 96:

No it's because she's gushes rivers of estrogen soaked tears when she's losing and the rest of the female population follows.

I'm starting to question if allowing women to vote was maybe not such a great idea...

dave, dave, dave, dave....

Dude, I hope you're wearing a cyber-cup. 'Cause the odds are 1 to 5 someone's gonna start kickin'.

King of Kings @ 101:

I don't believe in leveraging family connections to positions in government.

That's nice, but the machine Clinton is riding is made up of many parts, and without a machine, we end up savaged like Carter -- with the bad results maybe you remember.

vote for hillary so bill can get blowjobs?

um, no.

C & L please put a link up to MSNBC's president, so we can complain about him!!
And could you keep the address up permanently? Please!
The time for complaining to ourselves is OVER! This is just unbearable.

He obviously has no idea how normal human beings should behave. A 3 year old knows better. If Obama thinks that we can *reach across the aisle* to these wingnuts (I know he's talking about Congress) he is sorely mistaken.

As a woman.... I am insulted! His poor wife.

Nicole Belle @ 107:

Hillary was ALWAYS the smartest person at the table.

They are both brilliant, in that sense. But the suggestion was that BC was a 'front man.' No, he was and is a genuine force of intellect.

I spent eight years protesting many of 'his' decisions, and especially his inaction vis-a-vis foreign policy. But I never thought he was an empty shirt.

........ and the only reason why Chimpy is President, is because his father and grandfather both were criminals.

Paul in LA @ 112:

Nicole Belle @ 107:

Hillary was ALWAYS the smartest person at the table.

They are both brilliant, in that sense. But the suggestion was that BC was a 'front man.' No, he was and is a genuine force of intellect.

I spent eight years protesting many of 'his' decisions, and especially his inaction vis-a-vis foreign policy. But I never thought he was an empty shirt.

i didn't mean to imply that bill was an empty shirt, just that maybe, hillary is smarter.

Paul in LA,

Please don't.

Del Capslock @ 17:

The fact that she is hated by so many assholes is becoming a more and more compelling reason to vote for her with each passing day.

That's 50% of my reason.

I listen to fat asses like Rush and angry assholes like Mark Levin bash her on the radio and I PPRRAAYY that Hillary gets elected.

VietVet8666 @ 111:

David Hawes at 105

Thanks.

Never did glue except when I was 10 in 1955 and building model airplanes.

Just say here what I believe.

Yes.Isnt that the beauty of blogs? You get to say what You believe with the understanding that anyone who actually believes that Jeb Bush should be president will be thought to have serious problems.Perhaps You could save some pain and peruse some other blog.

Timmy_D11 @ 120:

Del Capslock @ 17:

The fact that she is hated by so many assholes is becoming a more and more compelling reason to vote for her with each passing day.

That's 50% of my reason.

I listen to fat asses like Rush and angry assholes like Mark Levin bash her on the radio and I PPRRAAYY that Hillary gets elected.

I wish that people would not diminish a great Canuck band by referring to that scat-muncher by his first name like he was Cher or Madonna (although I can see the whore aspect come into play, now that I think about it)

Hillary won in New York because the GOP nominated a turd named Rick Lazio. Had Giuliani been the nominee he probably would've won. Then again, he probably would've lost. Matthews is just losing his mind. I really think he needs a nap.

Hillary did this. Obama said that. Even here all we hear about is Hillary and Obama.
The media is successfully sweeping Edwards under the carpet just as they did Kucinich.

The repug corporate media is trying to make it a 2 horse race between the corporates.
Plus the repugs think that either one of them is beatable by a repug.
They are banking that there are enough bigots to keep Obama out of the White House.
They are hoping for enough anti-Hillary + anti-woman voters to beat her.

Edwards is a true Democrat and a true leader.
He'll fight for the people, not the corporations and insurance companies.
And, he has the best chance to win.

Don't let the media decide who will lead our country for the next 4 years.
Vote for the peoples candidate.
Vote Edwards 08 - Please?

ConcernedCanuck @ 27:

Swashbuckler @ 20:

ConcernedCanuck @ 16:

ConcernedCanuck @ 12:

Oh and I still say that Matthews and Hillary either had an affair, or are in an affair. It's WAY too obvious.

Nah, I think Hillary turned him down, told Matthews that Bill was more man that Matthews would ever be! ;-)

LOL! Not sure about that. Many years ago my brother had a girlfriend that ended up getting caught in the sack with one of his friends that she just totally "despised" to the point of sounding obsessive, just like Matthews does. Food for thought.

I totally agree. Hillary turned the jackass down. She probably laughed at him, too.

What the hell is wrong with Chris Matthews?

He either decided to get back on the sauce and say anything he feels at any given time, or his puppet masters are feedng him this crap. Either way, its bullshit and no one should watch the jackass.

By the way, the real stories are that Rudy just barely beat out Ron Paul, and Fred Thompson just barely beat out Duncan Hunter (both at less than the write-in total).

New Hampshire is conservative. So, they went for Clinton over Obama and Edwards? Big deal.

By the way, Romney just pulled his ads from Florida and South Carolina and is going "all in" on Michigan (which, I think, doesn't have the full slate running). The genius behind Romney's strategy? Former Sen. Jim Talent, the guy who lost an incumbent Senate seat despit having a four to one edge in funding.

Paul in LA @ 93:

Max-1 @ 91:

What exactly is Mathews? A news anchor? A journalist? A propagandist? A gossiper?

You left out JESTER.

....and charlatan.

Uh...so, by that logic, when exactly was it that BOB DOLE messed around for the sake of getting HIS wife elected?

Look who Tweety's got on tonite......DeeDee Myers . Last nite she was very irrated with him and basically thought he was a fool, but here she is back for more crap. No wonder Matthews gets away with saying anything he wants. He really does'nt seem to have any control over what comes out of his mouth.

As usual, Mathews is only half right.

what he should have said was:

"the reason she’s a US Senator, the reason she’s a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front runner, is that her husband is Bill Clinton."

Matthews is a POS... and I keep wondering how/why MSNBC keeps this asshole on the payroll. How about his condescending 'pinching of Hillarys cheek'? Bets he wouldn't have done that to any MALE candidate. He makes me want to take my size nine foot, put it in a steet toed boot, and kick his balls (if he has any) up through his nostrils.

they think the hillary bashing worked in NH to raise her totals, so chrissie has the go-ahead to step it up.

KayInMaine @ 134:

Paul in LA @ 93:

Max-1 @ 91:

What exactly is Mathews? A news anchor? A journalist? A propagandist? A gossiper?

You left out JESTER.

....and charlatan.

... and assjacket!

Del Capslock @ 17:

The fact that she is hated by so many assholes is becoming a more and more compelling reason to vote for her with each passing day.

I'm getting to that point as well. I'd be happy with any of the top 3 winnnig the nomination, but the more these douchebags kick Hillary around the more I'm leaning toward her.

CoIntelPro @ 146:

KayInMaine @ 134:

Paul in LA @ 93:

Max-1 @ 91:

You left out JESTER.

....and charlatan.

... and assjacket!

don't forget fucktard.