I know "JUST DON'T WATCH". I am sure at least one kossack will remind me to change the channel. But sometimes, on cool dreary days, I cannot avert my eyes from the train wreck that is Hardball.
After hearing parts of the previous shows, and Matthews DRONING on and on and on and on about Hillary's clapping, or her shrill voice, or the lies about HER playing the gender card by saying "the boys were picking me" (it's his narrative, not unlike the one about Gore saying inventing the Internets , also a lie, that he likes to play and say over and over and over until it is picked up and believed, I was curious about his "lead" today.
So today, I was curious as to what he would lead with, considering the breaking news on Guiliani's BFF....
What do you think he led with?
If you think it was Kerik, Judith Regan and Guiliani..GONG! You are wrong. He led with "Let's trash Hillary over Spitzer's decision to back away from the licenses."
His second story was Kerik and Regan. Schuster did the story. Then Matthews has some New York guy (don't know him, but he was of this ilk: An African American man claiming Rudy did great things to clean up New York, but this story could hurt him.)
And OH MY! You should have heard Tweety spinning this. He was angry. I don't have the transcript but in essence Matthews view was: Judith Regan is a litigious witch who is trying to just make trouble. And (drool, drool) this shouldn't be a problem for Rudy. Really what's the problem. Seriously, Matthews did everything but take an eraser and say to the public. Use this. This is not an issue that should hurt my boy Rudy
Matthews spun and spun and spun and spun for his boy Rudy for the full time. Poor Rudy. This has nothing to do with Rudy. Judith is a liar. Poor Rudy. (Compare and contrast his treatment of Flowers years ago as she accused both Clintons of murder on his show).
Five minutes later he's back to trashing Hillary. Now he is getting frustrated with Rachel Maddow. Damn those liberal women.
Oh yea, he is angry because Rachel disagrees we should all carry ID's with us. And because she was sarcastically smiling at the notion of that republicans weren't willing to go after businesses for creating jobs, he yelled at her. "Why are you laughing?" What a pr*ck!
Matthews is turning into a fascist on the immigration issue. He has always been a water carrier for millionaire republicans; always been misogynistic pig; now add fascist. He was just totally rude to Rachel (not a surprise....the only women he is polite to are the wingnuts like Anne Coulter). I hope Rachel Maddow gives him the "up yours" sign after and never goes back to that pigfest show.
Next segment is about a person at a McCain fundraiser asking "What are you going to do about the b*tch?" Prediction. We will hear some HA!! HA!! from Tweety. I hope he gets a bathroom break in between because I am guess he cannot even contain the glee he feels upon hearing a repug woman calling Hillary a "bitch". Ooops either I missed it or they decided to skip ut.
Anyway,the man is a biased misogynistic pig. But he has gone so far in jumping the shark, at times I watch just to see how incredulous that right wing mentality can be.
UPDATE: It just occurred to me. What do you think would have happened if some person screamed out to any of the democratic candidates about Rudy: "What are you going to do to stop that bastard Rudy?" Except for Sanchez on CNN, the story is a "Blip" and move on.
I bet if someone had screamed that out at a dem candidate and he/she laughed the way McCain did, it would be the lead story all day on MSNBC about how horrid those loony rude lefties are...and how the (dem candidate) was so wrong for going along.
Just sayin.....