http://dailyhowler.com/dh110707.shtmlWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2007
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What happens in a middle-class nation when multimillionaires run the press corps? Citizens are handed perfect monstrosities, of the type they were served on last night’s Hardball. Chris Matthews is a Welch-endowed multimillionaire too; he too summers, with Jack, on the Island of Swells. In what follows, we see the kind of brain-rotted swill he dished to the rubes and the peons last night. Once again, Matthews was deeply troubled by videotape in which Hillary Clinton could be seen clapping her hands. He spoke with Julie Mason, Jonathan Capehart and Matt Continetti, a trio of fresh-faced, eager young climbers who would never dream of telling their host that he’s a certified nut-case.
As we start, Mason is displaying her knowledge of current Hardball scripts. She says she still “has no idea” where Clinton stands on the driver’s license matter:
MASON (11/6/07): I still don’t know where she stands on that issue. Do you? I have no idea.
MATTHEWS: I don’t know. I know that she sympathizes with
— Well, there she is clapping again! I don`t whether she is clapping— Would somebody please tell me why she claps every time she goes somewhere?
CAPEHART: Maybe she’s responding to the crowd.
MATTHEWS: She’s clapping for them!
MASON: We should clap more.
MATTHEWS: No, I think it`s bizarre behavior. Anyway, I think it has something to do with—men don’t know what to do with their hands. I guess she’s like us. Anyway, we’ll be right back with more of the roundtable. I want an answer—why is she clapping? Matt, please! Tell me! Why does she clap all the time?
CONTINETTI: She’s happy, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Well, that’s a good answer. We`ll be right back.
This was the second time in the past two weeks when Matthews played tape of Clinton clapping her hands, then told the world how crazy it is that she does such a thing. (For previous transcript, see below.) And as usual, it all came back to gender for Matthews. Last night, it was all about the things men tend “to do with their hands.”
You’re right! Matthews citing “bizarre behavior” is like a chimp saying you live in the trees. But in the past few weeks, Hardball has entered full propaganda mode, trashing Clinton at every turn and begging its viewers to see the greatness of the alternates, Obama and Edwards. Of course, this is precisely what he did in 1999, when he tried to keep Gore from the Dem nomination, before going on to trash him savagely all through the general campaign. Next week, we’ll take you on an historical stroll through some of this fruitcake’s most egregious past work. You might be surprised to recall a fact: We’ve sat through this movie before.
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