Mary Matalin "slaps" one on Sarah Palin
This morning my crazy thing locator pointed to this pro-Palin oped by Mary Matalin, who pooh-poohs complaints in Palin's book about the rough, nasty and foul-mouthed staffers inside the McCain campaign:
Time is the most valuable commodity on a campaign and you just can't waste it thinking about how to choose your words carefully or get your job done more diplomatically. If someone isn't in tears every day, that day wasn't all it could be advancing the campaign. I once witnessed an experienced (big) man slap a professional female colleague across the face over an ad buy... and no one thought anything of it, starting with the woman. In fact, she would have been insulted if anyone told her she should have been insulted.
Yes, politics is a hard job full of lots of pressure, long days, and high-stakes high-stress decision making. And many of the personalities attracted to that kind of work are narcissistic, most to the point of tantrums, and more than a few to the point of violence, and think it's no big deal. Matalin isn't just dishing about a specific instance here; she's pimping her insider importance--you bet she can remember just exactly the specific "ad buy" mistake that "deserved" the workplace assault and battery--and contrasting that insider importance to Palin's relative political naivete.
Matalin should be ashamed of herself, her politics, and her "professionalism" on a daily basis. That she actually points to an instance of physical assault of a female employee by a male superior as "the way it is in a campaign--get over it" just puts everything that's wrong with her argument in high relief. Does anyone wonder what would happen if that kind of thing happened in the private sector, or the outrage if a former corporate employee reported such physical assault as "acceptable in the business we're in" hearsay on the pages of CNN's website?
***I once witnessed an experienced (big) man slap a professional female colleague across the face over an ad buy... and no one thought anything of it,***
wow. i am truly speechless.
she speaks for republican campaign history. It probably was an ad buy that exposed some sort of truth about the candidate's incompetence.
it was her who was the slapee.
And she likes it...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
And clearly she has never recovered from it.
Gee.I hope that happened on "Take your Daughter to work day" so the lesson wasn't wasted. I hope Mary M immediately taught her 2 daughters that a good slap in the face is how you recognize a great workplace.
Matalin has read too much Ayn Rand, the climax of whose books involves the slapping and/or rape of the frigid heroine.
Touche! Great retort.
"By words the mind is winged." - Aristophanes
that thought a man needed to "put Pelosi in her place" not that long ago?
This is who they are - when they aren't slapping their women around, they're either screwing them or screwing around on them.
It's all about power - and the other side of that coin is submission.
". . . an experienced (big) man slap a professional female colleague across the face over an ad buy... and no one thought anything of it,"
There is a definition of those kinds of individuals. Abusive Sociopaths.
That's a keeper, bluegal. Nice one!
Mary, like most all other GOPhers, believe a little smacking around is not just okay but a necessary thing.
It is part and parcel to the "might makes right" mentality.
It is also clearly a gender thing. Imagine it was a female who smacked a male? There would be hell to pay and the female would no longer have a position.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
It is also clearly a gender thing. Imagine it was a female who smacked a male? There would be hell to pay and the female would no longer have a position.
Is this snark? (slapping self, trying to tell)
SShhh. It's earlyish. And I get a lot of my gender cultural "examples to live by" from tee vee, where males are slapped, kicked, scorned and screamed at whether they do right with the kids and the housework or not. I always wonder what would happen if the male acted that way, and what the difference is, decency-wise.
What TV shows are YOU watching? Is there a NeoCon channel? (I mean besides Fox)
And show me a man who takes a slap from another man and doesn't escalate.
I don't know, maybe Lindsey Graham?
The GOP is all about physical abuse. It is how they were raised and it is all they know.
Sad really.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
With a list near the end -
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
for Jesus
Damn...
And I have to hire women to do it...
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are so bad
a happy man.
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."
... negative fairy tales.
Where's the happy ending?
The Bible: the biggest con in publishing history.
but I'm willing to bet the farm that it was a man who was just certain that's what God was telling him.
When in reality, it was probably one lush in the tavern listening to the drunken ramblings of the lush next to him that he heard through his own drunken stupor.
But it probably sounded good at the time.
Recounts a story in one of his books about his beating his little dog with a belt because the dog wouldn't "obey" him. This man is a hideous piece of shit.
"By words the mind is winged." - Aristophanes
should just slap the %$#@ing bitch when she get home tonight for writing this dispicable dreck.
I bet she would't even think twice about it, don't you?
You notice she married a Democrat, I guess she was a little leery of these family value Republicans.
that she, or her husband, would accept seeing one of her daughters come home with a red slap mark on her face from an employer or supervisor and she would just tell her daughter to buck up and take it.
Lots of jobs are tough and deadline driven, why is physical abusiveness just appropriate for campaigns? And who determines when it's good employer-employee relations? Does Matalin smack the household help around?
What a self-serving ass she is.
No doubt the man involved was a "family values" Republican, slapping around the little woman, oops I mean female colleague.
Of course, if the woman in question was Matalin, I would have paid to see it.
"I once witnessed an experienced (big) man slap a professional female colleague across the face over an ad buy... and no one thought anything of it, starting with the woman. In fact, she would have been insulted if anyone told her she should have been insulted."
Fucking primates.
it gets better.
These people bear children and teach their values to them.
Hooray for the USA!
Mary Matalin could finish Sarah Palin's sentences. That's enough said about both of them.
Oh, and I wonder how Mr. Carville hides all his bruises after he pisses her off.
Considering that Palin rarely speaks in complete sentences.
"If someone isn't in tears every day, that day wasn't all it could be advancing the campaign."
Come on down and help out yer favorite "family values" neanderthal. Great benefits:
Do something good = smack on the ass
Screw something up= slap to the face
Oh, and never expect any of the honorable southern gentlemen to step to your defense. These things are expected and "no one thinks anythings of them". Your tears will be the sign of another successful day on the trail.
I've been told that when I wax political my eyes take on a distant gaze, sometimes even rolling back into my head, or more often darting from side-to-side, left-to-right, like I'm reading something only I can see.
They really hate it when they ask me a question, and I reply, Accessing..." and do one of the above. When I find the answer I've been told my eyes light up, and they can all but hear a ding.
And when angered or aroused I growl.
Hmmm...might explain why I was never known to have a lot of dates.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Bob forbid I defend sarah
But there's a big difference, mare.
Being on the ticket as vice president means you work for her.
Would you verbally or physically abuse the vice president of your company.
If I was president I would make it the function of the vice president to gather the strippers and the courtyard courtesans.
I believe in putting the vice back into the vice presidency.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This slapping of little woe-man by hulking big man seems to lead to the ole wild monkey screeching and the jumping on each other, male chimp female chimp, or male male, who cares in a campaign, to have da totally understandable (hoo hoo hoo!) white jungle campaign sayex.
I mean, I just want to validate her seriousness. It's not like it would be abuse or anything. But somehow I suspect that there would be plenty of people out wanting to validate her in this manner, so we need to be orderly and form a line. Wouldn't want there to be any violence associated with all the seriousness as all those people wanting to be the first person to validate her lights out try to push in front of each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_GJkKMPHxw
Everything that could possibly happen in the universe defined by our ever-diminishing politics has indeed already been documented in Airplane or Monty Python. They say that history replays every tragedy as farce. But in our political universe, we start with cinematic farce and replay it as tragedy in the real world.
"I once witnessed an experienced (big) man slap a professional female colleague across the face over an ad buy... and no one thought anything of it"
And I'll bet she didn't say a word. Family values folks.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Matalin should be ashamed of herself, her politics, and her "professionalism" on a daily basis.
Delusional psychopaths, disconnected from everyday reality, rarely (if ever) feel shame even though it, ironically, tends to be one of their prime motivators.
if any man slapped a woman I cared about, I believe we would have more than words over the matter.
What a disgusting pile of human waste this less-than-man is.
I would love to know just who this POS is.
Or a woman I cared about. I'm goin to jail. Simple as that.
If I saw a woman being slapped, I'd interfere. Then I'd call the police.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
than that level of sacrifice for those who need assistance from violent offenders.
Violence cannot rule, but at times must be met with greater than equal abandon.
GOPers aren't tolerant? /
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Guy grabbed a lady's purse at Sears, smacked her in the face when she wouldn't let go if it.
Had the guy lying on the sidewalk when the police arrived. They arrested me. Took half an hour of explanations by myself and the lady who had been hit by the guy just to get the cuffs off and even then they told me they hoped HE didn't press charges.
In my mind's eye (it won't get out) is that big sloppy guy who never fought in a war, never would, but insists others climb up on the mountains of KIA and fight in them forever, who compiled the verses of other writers into a "book," put his name on it and published a bestseller. Who is that quivery fat baby-pout-mouth? He's on CNNs Greatest Political Panel In The World. His brother is a Democrat named "Bob."
Work all day, party like animals at night. Lots of booze. Lots of sex.
Why else would they do it? For the glamor? Maybe a few. But, they jump into the orgy's late. When the crowd has died off and fallen asleep. That's when the real partier's get goin. Then the money comes out.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
So this female staffer then came back to work . . with her jaw wired shut because this experienced (big) man loves me and it was for my own good.
Worked at a company where one of the mid level managers was known for his tantrums. He never struck anyone, but he was known for yelling and turning over desks.
Decisions made by him ended up with dozens of people getting laid off, millions of dollars in fines, millions of dollars in restitution paid to customers and a handful of criminal investigation.
When you are willing to accept some behavior that is “just wrong” you are likely to find out there is a lot more of it following closely behind
It’s not demagoguery - It’s enhanced political marketing
"When people show you who they are, believe them."
Matalin's been showing us for decades who she is - and who the people are she aligns herself with.
Anyone this self-serving professional liar would be allowed to work for is not worthy of holding public office.
Matalin should be in prison anyway - she was one of the group that planned the dishonest market campaign that sold the invasion of Iraq to the American public.
Imagine going to work everyday with the single goal of talking America into going along with mass murder for profit?
How much slapping should she get for that? Forget slapping - waterboard her, hang her by her arms for days, leave her naked in a freezing cell for weeks, force her to watch her children being abused....you know, justice.
Instead, she's still getting a public forum.
Matalin now has publically declared that she is an enabler of authoritarian and condescending behavior that has compromised women for centuries. If I were you Mary, I'd be getting in front of a mental health professional to determine why your slavish addition to a toxic, backward looking ideology that regards women as second class useful objects is more important than equality and fairness for all.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Matalin has now publicly endorsed the physical abuse of women.
Where the heck is NOW?
And further...where is Michael Steele?
BTW - does assault have a statute of limitations?
If a Democratic bigshot insider told a campaign story like this, with this slant on the incident, or ANY slant, what would the media do?
I did it because in order to build her back up I had to break her down. I didn't really hit her. She just imagined I did.
She ran into my hand, repeatedly.
Maybe a few slaps to GW Bush early in his term would have done this country a world of good
Did you really believe those scratches and bruises on Bunnypants were from a bicycle accident?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
a black eye came from choking on a pretzel, passing out and hitting the table while Chimpster was watching the Super Bowl all by his lonesome? I didn't.
when Matlin and Carville got married, and when Clinton started chumming around with Bush Sr.
HAIL, MARY
August 1992
The president’s chief political strategist has blue-collar roots, is a one-time beautician and a self-described “chick” –everything the Republicans WASP stereotype is not. Jane Mayer reports on Mary Matalin’s life among the White Boys.
http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/v...
After all, her penance for being a GOP shill is that she has to sleep with James Carville every night.
JP
http://giveusthisdayourdailtydread.blogspot.com
where it's all about the big rough tough dominating man. Or the knight in shining armor crap.
for the morning. Nothing like kicking off the day with nausea.
That should be run as a parady republican campaign ad during the 2010 mid-terms.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Here's my interview question for sarah:
How often do you spank your kids, how long, how hard and with what?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I believe that's the best idea you've ever posted.
It is most certainly appropriate to ask Palin this - she trades on her maternity and her religion and her faith - how does she practice the discipline of her children?
Wonder what Levi would say?
I do suspect she doesn't pay that much attention to them, except for show. And I'm willing to bet her "punishment" would run more to the psychological manipulation than physical - one comes naturally to her, the other could be construed as work and is therefore just too darn hard.
I'd figure she'd just answer, "Ask Todd."
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This is self important Mary Matlin's way of telling Sara Palin to be more serious, like all the serious republican people doing serious work.
'Men do not go to the gallows and put their heads in a noose if they can avoid it.' - Mark Twain
I believe Mary likes a bit of "rough trade."
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what is worse, ignorance or indifference?
I don't know and I don't care!
I don't see how Carville and Matalan have stayed married so long. One of them MUST be a poseur.
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
Well, clearly she was asking for it.
([/snark] btw)
Matalin just dropped into the too much information category, and by extension, Carville too.
I mean seriously, in what decade would this sort of behavior be considered anywhere near appropriate?
. . isn't that the point she's trying to make?
It's always excuses about their scared, paranoid, NO self esteem, behavior from all these stupid Reslug whores.
A troglodyte slaps another troglodyte. Fun!
Is it the 21st century yet?
I suppose we'll have Matlin and Lady Gaga as panelists on some show discussing Barry in the Bush with smiles next.
If you're a hard-core Palin-hater like I am, Friday night's "Countdown" (O'Donnell subbing for Olbermann) is well worth watching. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann
The "#2 Palin angers fans" segment shows in graphic detail how Palin doesn't give a shit about anyone except herself.
While you're there, "#1 Palin makes late night punchlines" contains some very fully stuff, especially from Jimmy Fallon.
anymore apparently.
This was good.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Indeed it was. Thanks, mudshark, for spreading this around.
nor will I ever do so. But, I'm pretty sure it should be listed on the NYT list under "Fiction."
And, why does ole Mary M even feel the need to defend poor Miss Sarah's hard time on the campaign trail? Old, 'tough-as-nails,' moose-hunting, basketball-playing Palin should be able to defend her own short-comings without assistance.
So, campaigning is hard and sometimes people in the press (and others) say mean things about you; and, sometimes they tell the truth about you, Miss Sarah, and the truth Hurts!
Sarah is an intellectual light-weight, a political hack, and a prevaricating sociopath. I'm waiting for the day when, during a 'real' interview, Miss Sarah will either start crying or screaming, and no one will have to slap her, forcing her to admit the truth will do.
By the way, why is everyone so focused on some stupid story about a 'slap' that Matalin likely made-up for effect?
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Her relating it displays the mindset of the group she's chosen to shill for. The fact that she... and by extension those she represents... see nothing wrong with it is the point that should be taken from her statement(s).
Mary Matalin believes that, in the heat of a campaign, a little assault on a female is A-OK.
Just like OJ Simpson felt that, in the heat of a marital separation, there's nothing wrong with nearly decapitating your ex-wife and a waiter.
So... assault is OK?
Like wars that are unnecessary,Capital Punishment,lies and all the other 'wonderful" things republicans do?
And that woman thought it was OK to be assaulted?
And everybody else accepted it? WOW
Diane
Violence IS the means to their ends.
Maybe they aren't just warmongers but are more violence-mongers?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
A way to control people.
Now THAT is a slap in the face, eh?
I hadn't thought of that . . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Wow, Mary I'll keep your slap story in mind in case we ever meet.
Should be fun!
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
Come on let's get busy.
"...why just yesterday, one of my bitches at the law office I manage really pissed me off by buying a different brand of toilet paper. God damn, I dragged that whore into the break room at lunch time and slapped some sense into her before the entire office. That'll teach that skank..."
Holy motherfucking Jesus on a pogo stick balanced on the edge of a rickety table, is Matalin more insane than we always knew? What is happening here? This kind of insanity, the depths of which we're examining daily, cannot be sustained, nor can it be stopped soon enough.
I remember a couple:
Patton and the hospitalized soldier
Bobby Knight and player
Oh, those did have some consequences? Guess it was because those were not high stress cases and were man-on-man.
By the way, Kansas plays Texas today in football. Rumor has it KU coach Mark Mangino will eat his team if they lose. Slapping apparently no longer makes an impression.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
WRONG!
Troll!(I know you better than that, ricky)Patton was stripped of his command of Seventh Army. By the time he got another command (Third Army), his Seventh Army subordinate, Omar Bradley, was Patton's boss.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Time is the most valuable commodity on a campaign and you just can't waste it thinking about how to choose your words carefully or get your job done more diplomatically.
gee... i would think that would be at the top of the list...
thinking it a "waste" of time explains a lot though...
Carville about this. Does he think he should slap Matalin when she does or says something with which he disagrees?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I lived a couple of houses away from a superchristian family that home-schooled their little boy. He was so cute, he looked like a blond-headed Harry Potter, not but about 8 years old, and the sweetest little fellah, with beautiful manners.
One day he was playing with the other kids in the neighborhood. The soccer ball they were kicking around flew into a wooded area behind the back yards. Blondie ran in like Huck Finn, rooted it out and brought it back. His father was there to meet him. His father began kicking him and yelling. I didn't see it, my kids told me.
Yeah, I called the child abuse hotline, although I almost didn't. They didn't care. I got back a notice that an investigation had been made and no problems found, and checked to be sure I could find the too-safely-hidden bullets for my .25 semi-auto pistol, in case he knew it was me.
A violent world is here and a worse one's coming. The decades of hard work of the anti-violence, anti-hatred, try-a-little-empathy trend is fading away as the Palin/Buchanan/Matlin/Bachman/Limbaugh conservatives ascend, more stars born every hour, upward shooting stars lighting up the skies day and night, with all the bipartisan wimp-ass help from our president and congress they could wish for.
Young girl digs grave and kills little boy to see how it feels. "Unsupervised" kids set boy on fire for interfering about a stolen bike. Honor student beaten to death while others watch and do nothing. School girls videoptape themselves beating up one girl (several of these). This stuff has always gone on, right? I hate it that I have to hope so.
But it certainly seems like it's happening more now.
Like the rape case in Oakland/Richmond. The girls Homecoming?
That was despicable. It seems that being depraved indifferent is growing. That and people are becoming desensitized.
No one wins . I have no idea how this can be fixed. I wonder if it's too late now.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Like the rape case in Oakland/Richmond
I forgot that one. How deep is the Hell we're in, that I'd be this unable to remember ALL of the most recent, horrific instances while making a list?
but i do believe those violent role playing video games have played a huge role in the de-sensitizing of a whole generation...
there's movies and music too, but the 'war' (i call them all) games are so intimate and close... it has to leave residual negative vibes...
you are what you eat...
"but i do believe those violent role playing video games have played a huge role in the de-sensitizing of a whole generation... "
I have been a video gamer all of my life, and favored RPGs. The one I have been playing since 2004 and is the Big Deal is World of Warcraft. It has well over 12 million players today, and I can tell you that the community and realm sub-communities aren't violent nor do they espouse anything remotely like what I have seen on Fox News, or right wing forum boards. It isn't tolerated.
WoW and most other rpg 'war' game communities are actually some of the most peaceful and welcoming communities you can possibly find on the net.
The 'violence' in any video game ISN'T REAL and only those who are already mentally ill can confuse the two and become desensitized to real violence.
If anyone ever slapped me, I'd call the police. It's assault, not an everyday workplace activity.
Matalin is the reason people in the country, including Palin devotees, believe Washington insiders are out of their minds.
he called her a dumb bitch and told her to get her ass back in the kitchen where she belongs. And as she did as she was told she smiled and said, "I sure love being a Republican. They know how to treat a woman."
Who do YOU think he voted for?
Who do you think the prof voted for and why?
Were I to start slapping i wouldn't know where to stop.
This may have been asked already, I'm usually afraid to read upward after a while in case somebody got riled at my mouth and posted back at me...
But...
Only question left to ask is, has a MAN ever slapped a MAN's face in the heat of a campaign?
And the answer just came, surprising me: YES.
Young, skinny, glasses-wearing, exudes fear from every pore, lowest level staff sub-assistant, whose college money next semester depends on his coming through this campaign withot pissing off any bigshots, or walking away in a snit.
THAT guy has been slapped by a MAN I betcha. Many times.
They say young men working in the bush white house used to throw up, he made them so scared. He was a bully, raised in privilege to expect ridiculous love and praise, like Louis XIV, just stupider and worth a lot less to posterity.
But NO, the Slapping Man in Matlin's story has not and would never dare slap an "actual" other man. Not even as an accidental reflex under stress.
i can appreciate your attitude...
.
the sun is out after a week of rainy weather...
i'm out to the yard for a bit...
Thank you.
It's noon, good God, time to get some work done, self.
the chix with dix bluster shores up the delusional Gooper all power, all the time narrative.
But how does that explain why rightist bedwetters are scared shitless of dark hairy Middle Easterners in bedsheets?
One thing's for sure, whatever point Frau Carville is making, just know her crowd thinks they're better than everyone especially libruls.
...Palin is going to hold a propaganda meeting, er..I mean a 'book signing' at Camp Lejeune. That's just wrong.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
A GREAT spokeswoman for the neocon/fascist party.
Everytime I see this bitch on the tube or in a video, I can't help but see her in black leathers and a whip in my mind. YUCK!!
If she weren't so fugly, poor James would have never found someone to love.
Give James some slack in his wife selection, as he's not exactly Brad Pitt so he did the best he could wife wize.
If she wasn't so ugly, James wouldn't have had a chance with her. The two of them are so ugly that they are the only ones they could end up with.
rest in pieces.
BTW nekked pics of Sarah and Mary here:
http://www.cpusa.org/
Hey, how many times have we all wanted to slap Mary, except that she was on TV and it's hard to slap a TV screen.
How can James Carville be married to this "woman"??? There is nothing sexy about her. He looks like he might be fun to be around but she looks like she is forever smelling something funky...like maybe her snobbish attitude. Sheesh!
I think she's HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWTT!
Oh yeah man. She lights my fire./
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"I'll slap you and you'll like it."
lol...Mary the masochist.
Doh!
Matalin should talk! She is probably the most self-conscious GOP talking head on TV today. She is SO self-conscious, she constantly flits her eyes around, looking for everyone's reaction to her words, uses her fake fingernails as props, and worries MUCH too much whether her clothes are presentable or not.
Mary, you are a walking shrink visit, dear. If you were in ANY of my business meetings, I guarantee you would leave in tears. DC -- tough? hahahahahahaha If you think that's tough, try being poor in America, you pantywaist.
is never acceptable, regardless of the context.
I don't believe violence against men is acceptable either.
The amount of aggression (whether verbal or physical) against women, animals, children, detainees, political opponents or those Republicans disagree with is highly disturbing.
The authoritarianism described by Matalin makes me wonder -- how does she treat her child? What if some (big) man slapped her daughter in a similar situation a few years from now when the child is of age? Or does Mary slap her kid around and think that a day without tears isn't a good day at all.
"By words the mind is winged." - Aristophanes
My first thought after seeing this was "What did James Carville say when she first told him this story?"
And then, "When did he start hiding the children?"
S
They say that history replays every tragedy as farce. But in our political universe, we start with cinematic farce and replay it as tragedy in the real world.
I used to like Mary Matalin when she was on "Equal Time". I didn't agree with her often, but I respected her. Unfortunately, she's become completely unpalatable over the years. I turn off the TV as soon as she comes on now.
Watching, particularly when she was on MTP defending Cheney, you soon learned that she would say anything, no matter how outlandish if it supported the team. She has no credibility. Toward the end of Russert, I couldn't watch MTP if she was on. The truth is simply not in her. Her storyline during the Libby trial was unbeleiveable.
We're defending Sarah Palin against ever increasing Republican craziness.
I guess there's just no bottom to the GOP snake pit.
Mary, you'll never replace Sarah as the teabaggers' heroine even if you talk about Jesus, shoot a moose and wink.
If someone ever slaps my wife or daughter, they better have their affairs in order by the time I catch up to them.
James had his heyday when he helped Clinton get elected. I started to lose respect for him over the years, and then he married this neaderthal. Rightwingers daily show that they've a defective gene, and for her to cite a staffer being slapped and just rough and tough compaigning is just otherwworldly.
If the smackee didn't think anything about it, then there must be a lot of that sort of thing going on. But usually its the butt cheek and not the face cheek.
so besides being a bunch of racist thugs, we are stunned to discover that they are sexist thugs who promote violence against women? sleaze through to their core, which is why we are battling them every day.
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