Matthews probes Thompson’s smell, “sex appeal.”

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/14/matthews-probes-thompsons-smell-sex-appeal/

Matthews probes Thompson’s smell, “sex appeal.”

Glenn Greenwald highlighted this series of questions from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews last night:

Does have sex appeal? … Gene, do you think there’s a sex appeal for this guy, this sort of mature, older man, you know? … Can you smell the English leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva, the sort of mature man’s shaving cream, or whatever, you know, after he shaved? Do you smell that sort of — a little bit of cigar smoke? You know, whatever.

Watch it at link~

Greenwald notes:

What can even be said about that? And nobody really seems to find this odd or disturbing or objectionable at all — that night after night, one of the featured “journalists” of a major news network goes on television and, with some of our most prestigious journalists assembled with him, speaks admiringly about the smells and arousing masculinity and the “daddy” qualities of various political officials, and that this metric is, more or less, the full extent of his political analysis.