Chris Matthews Outdoes Himself

Perhaps Chris Matthews' job description has "professional ass" in it somewhere.  He's been spewing sexist crap about Hillary Clinton for years, but this morning, he proved that he's really trying for a spot in the Misogynist Pundit Hall of Fame.  Christy Hardin Smith at Firedoglake has an excellent post about it.

Behold:

As if an entire week's worth of Pundits Gone Wild idiocy weren't enough, this morning's Cuppa Joe on MSNBC sent me right over the edge.   My own transcript here:

Mika Brzezinski: Do you think...that there was a turn at the last minute for some voters, given the really sharp twist in the media in terms of how they went negative...

Chris Matthews: It's not in the polling. I'm just saying, it's not in the polling data.

[snip]

Matthews: I think the Hillary appeal has always been about the mix of toughness and sympathy. Let's not forget, and I'll be brutal, the reason she's a US Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front runner, is that her husband messed around.

Brzezinski: Yeah, but...

Matthews: That's how she got to be a Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on her merit, she won because everybody felt, "My God, this woman stood up under humiliation," right? That's what happened. That's how it happened. In 1998, she went to NY and campaigned for Chuck Schumer as almost like the grieving widow of absurdity, and she did it so well and courageously. But it was about the humilation of Bill Clinton.

Ms. Hardin Smith goes on to say:

What is wrong with Chris Matthews?  With all of these media people?  I mean that, in all honesty, what in the hell is wrong with them?  Their personal loathing of Hillary Clinton shone through in every sniggering, overwrought report this week.  Their building up of Barack Obama is only their prelude and set-up for the frenzied clawing and shredding of him that is to come.  And they have well and truly written off coverage of either John Edwards or Bill Richardson solely based on their current fundraising numbers, and never mind that, as of yesterday, there had been two -- count them, only TWO -- Democratic contests.

None of it has anything to do with substance.  It's as if a pack of hyenas were crossbred with the characters in Mean Girls and then sent out to play at journalism.

If you can stomach it, here's the video.

Chris Matthews, it's high time for you to go.  None of us dainty ladies out here who depend on our husbands to get anywhere in life will pull out our lace hankies, drop onto our fainting couches, and cry a single tear when you're gone.