Matthews and the DLC: Setting the Agenda?

I see some heavy attention being paid to Chris Matthews.  Certainly it makes sense to call someone to account for their words.  

But I think we're getting played here.

My theory below.  

Reverse psychology is all it takes for the power brokers to keep the focus exactly where they want it.   If gender is the focus, Hillary wins, because she's the only woman running.  The DLC will do everything it can to frame everything in terms of sexism.  They want 2008 to be a referendum on whether a woman can be president.

How about we focus on whether THIS woman should be President, rather than whether a woman should be able to be President.  We all know the answer to the latter.  Even Tweety understands it.  

There will always be some idiot out there saying sexist things about Hillary.  When deciding whether to ignore it or confront it, consider whether you are falling right into the frame that someone else intends.  That's not to say sexism should be ignored.  It's just to say that shifting the focus to sexism takes little more than some bozo with a TV show and a group of good-hearted bloggers who want to call him to task.

Consider the possibility that Tweety doesn't really hate Hillary and is just saying the kind of shit that will stir the netroots up to defend her.  He's saying precisely the things that the DLC and the folks at CNN (who were previously coronating Hillary as inevitable) have to know will merit front page focus on this site.  There's as much evidence that Tweety is playing us as he is not.  We just don't know what goes on in that bird brain.  But one thing is for sure:  misdirection is a powerful tool.

All I'm asking you to do is to think beyond the idea that people say what they mean.  Tweety gets power through attention.

Thanks for your consideration.