Hillary and All the Gossip that’s Unfit to Spit
He’d be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected. – Chris Matthews (date
unknown)
“I love these topics,” said a salivating Matthews today on “Hardball.” Oh, but only because it has everything to do with politics, he added, as an aside. It's time for Mr. Matthews to come out of the closet and rename his political porn show once a for all, because he's more interested in soft core subjects than anything remotely to do with fact.
Howard Dean put in a stellar performance on “Hardball” today, against the sex obsessed Chris Matthews, who can't seem to quit fantasizing, speculating and prognosticating on what other kinds of sexual experiences former President Bill Clinton might have in his future. It was a disgraceful display of prurient gossip mongering by a man who just last week sat his pious proselytizing rump in the middle of Opus Dei to bring the truth to his audiences on behalf of the Catholic Church. Today was Chris Matthews' Natalie Holloway moment in politics, where he not only gushed about the gossip surrounding Senator Clinton, though he didn't refer to her by her title, but continued this slobbering sex theme later with Charlie Cook and Howard Fineman, to close out the hour.
It put Matthews' later comment about Bush being like Lincoln in a whole new context, if you know what I mean. Because it's obvious after today that Matthews' real metier isn't politics. It's sex.
Having done my share of research into the sexual habits of people
of all stripes, Matthews would fit into the category, if I were just speculating,
you know, gossiping out loud, not unlike Chris did today on cable; of a supposedly
religious man who loves to sneak off at night, while his “queen”
is asleep, to call phone sex lines for hours. In fact, some religious men I
have talked to said just that to me: they were religious, but when their wife went to bed
they got kinky in private calling 900 lines. Of course, I don't know if Chris,
who portends to be a good Catholic, would ever do such a thing. But, you know,
it fits a pattern I've investigated before. In other words, it wouldn't surprise
me, especially when you see the
glee to which he advanced the Tabloid Times front page article just recently.
I mean, just look at his
face. Does it seem red to you, or is it pale, I just can't tell?
Howard Dean was right on when he said, “I don't care who
writes it. … It's still gossip.” Absolutely true, but that didn't keep
Matthews from gushing.
Matthews: What's the gossip in saying that party leaders are
worried about the marriage?
Dean: … I think it's untrue. … …
Matthews: Are you sitting here and telling me that when you
sit down with the big … the guys that have to make decisions about big campaign
investments in this campaign of Hillary Clinton, don't whisper back and and
forth, “Is everything okay? Are we going to get embarrassed next year
by something with regard to that marriage?” You're saying this story
is essentially not true.
Dean: … What I'm saying is, yes, it is not topic A on anybody's
list that I talk to. That is gossip and most people are not going to vote
on gossip.
Matthews: Well, let me tell you my observation is, I talk to
a lot of people in politics, in and out of it, journalists and everyone else,
and they talk about it. Because they want to know what will be coming next
year. People try to figure out what's coming next in American politics.
Now, that's not an exact transcript, which I will provide when
available tomorrow, but it's as accurate as I can get because I'm not a stenographer,
though I'm willing to play one here on important occasions. Like when a political pinhead targets
a Democratic Party senator through sexual innuendo, trying to scuttle her seriousness.
Atrios
and Digby
made these points already today, before “Hardball” aired this afternoon.
What Matthews did today makes Senator Clinton and other Democrats look less
serious, which was his goal, among other things. People like Matthews have done
it before, with John Kerry and the bogus mistress story in the middle of the
2004 election campaign. But Matthews didn't stop with his line of questioning,
making sure he got David
Broder into the mix, blasting this beauty across the screen.
But for all the delicacy of the treatment, the very fact that
the Times had sent a reporter out to interview 50 people about the state of
the Clintons' marriage and placed the story on the top of Page One was a clear
signal — if any was needed — that the drama of the Clintons' personal life
would be a hot topic if she runs for president. – The Shadow of a Marriage
Matthews continued slobbering over the sexual lives of the former
president and Senator Clinton later. The naughty little bad boy inside of him, the former drinker, titillated
by the tale, practically needing a bib to catch his drool.
Matthews: I'll say it indelicately. The question is whether
he's going to cause trouble in the news for her, not what he's going to do.
But is he going to cause her trouble in the news by his personal behavior,
that is the question.
Charlie Cook agreed that it was the number one question of “Democrats”
in private, with Howard Fineman saying “that is the question.”
Alright already, right? Not even close, as Chris continued, topping
his last tease with more.
Mathews: If he becomes part of the news with his private life,
does she have to, uh, end the relationship, the marriage, to win the presidency?
Does she have to be brutal, that much of a butcher, or can she simply forgive
him again?
Now, Hillary is not only incapable of keeping her man happy, her marriage together, while being a prominent and respected senator in her own right, which she's earned. But she's a brutal butcher, aka ballbuster, ready to emasculate her man any minute. Oh, unless she's a wuss and forgives Bill again, mind you, for some fantasy affair there is no evidence whatsoever is going to happen.
Chris continued, saying Hillary has several problems, being “a female, being Bill's wife,
and having to deal with Bill.”
That doesn't begin to cover it.
Senator Clinton's problem isn't her husband. It's people, faux journalists like Matthews, Broder and Patrick Healy of the Tabloid Times, who have to bring
readers to the page or viewers to the tube by providing political porn for the
masses. It's gutter gossip that harms the great work of the Democratic Party
and makes the American people step away, because of portrayals less than serious,
which affect our outreach on subjects that affect people's everyday lives. If Democrats can't control their sex lives, what can they control? Headlines at eleven.
The only reason people are talking about the Clintons' marriage is because people
like Matthews, Broder and Patrick Healy are pimping it from paper to political porn show. They're exactly the type of men my research once revealed did bad boy things
in the dead of night while their spouse wasn't looking. Anyone got anything on Chris?
About Taylor Marsh
Veteran political analyst and author of "The Hillary Effect - Politics, Sexism and the Destiny of Loss," now available in print at Amazon.com, and 1 of 4 books chosen by Barnes and Noble to launch their "NOOK First" Featured Authors Selection program. Former Miss Missouri, Broadway dancer, & relationship consultant at LA Weekly, produced & wrote one woman show "Weeping for JFK."
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