MSNBC Promo for Chris Matthews Special Gives Bill Clinton the Superhero Treatment
With a script and a dramatic voice over befitting a trailer for the latest superhero movie out of Hollywood, one of the first promos for Chris Matthews' documentary on Bill Clinton has begun airing on MSNBC. The ad begins with an announcer teasing viewers, "His presidency was over, his mission just beginning" and then goes on to tell the story of a post-presidential Clinton achieving universal adulation complete with shots of adoring crowds and accolades from the likes of Tony Blair and of course Matthews, who shrieks like a fan boy: "You're like a one man Peace Corps!"
Even the Academy Award winning actor Kevin Spacey shows up, narrating a scene he was once witness to: "And they were yelling 'Peacemaker! Peacemaker!'"
(video, audio and transcript after the break)
The following is a full transcript of the promotion for A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews: The President of the World, that was aired during MSNBC's February 2 afternoon programming:
ANNOUNCER: His presidency was over, his mission just beginning.
BILL CLINTON: I left the White House but I'm still here.
ANNOUNCER: Chris Matthews-
CHRIS MATTHEWS TO CLINTON: You're like a one man Peace Corps.
ANNOUNCER: -with exclusive behind-the-scenes access-
CLINTON: The American people are having a tough time.
ANNOUNCER: -to former President Bill Clinton.
FORMER PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR: I think he's the single most competent politician I've ever met.
ACTOR KEVIN SPACEY: And they were yelling, "Peacemaker! Peacemaker!"
CLINTON: It's what makes me happy.
MATTHEWS: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews: The President of the World. February 21st at 10 on MSNBC.
—Geoffrey Dickens is the Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here
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Correction: One Man Piece Corps
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 5:43pm.
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double correction
Submitted by charlietexas on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 5:49pm.
One man pees corpes..............
Arizona to Secede
Submitted by gotmail87 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 5:52pm.
Arizona to Secede http://bit.ly/fRu5uL
Key West did it first
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 6:09pm.
Arizona is behind the times on this one, http://www.conchrepublic.com/history.htm
One man man?
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 6:12pm.
Has Chrissy lost that lovin' feeling for BO? He must be so upset about this.
What I want to know is
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 6:14pm.
Does Chris put on a black dress for Bubba too?
How gauche!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 6:28pm.
It's the blue dress when the cigars come out.
I just puked
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 8:14pm.
When I considered where Clinton would put his cigar with Tingles.
Anyone can become an international hero . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 6:27pm.
. . . by roaming the globe, handing out baskets of money.
Having been upstaged by his VP Gore and world-savior Obama in the Nobel Peace Prize quest, Clinton will do anything to get one.
Uh hoh gaggghhh......
Submitted by NeoKong on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 6:38pm.
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Flowers
Submitted by SnapTie on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 7:01pm.
If you follow rating,Crissy's obsession with Beck has pushed his rating higher.Then look at Tingles going down.Glen, send roses.
Wear ya Blue Dress Tingly
Submitted by donabernathy on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 7:29pm.
roflmao
Mathews is a real piece of work
Submitted by Bobbygn on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 8:02pm.
. Seems as though every Liberal twit in the USA can come in a room and rattle their zipper and this horse's a$$ will be scurrying around looking for floorspace.
Pathetic
Submitted by Texndoc on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 8:43pm.
Just read this column and realized Tingles is on so I tuned - Well, Tingles and RON REAGAN and CHARLES BLOW are discussing Sarah Palin. Well, who gives a ########. Every Republican politician should just boycott this ########, and they apparently are.
BTW, Ron Reagan declares the Tea Party over.
Clinton was a good President
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:00pm.
Economy was good, no wars, highest home ownership in history minus the foreclosures and most important of all he worked well with a republican congress. The mid and late nineties were good times, when we could afford to talk about a blue dress, because things like terrorism or the fact the US might go bankrupt was never a true fear back then.Somewhat agree, Shawn
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:05pm.
And he continued the Iraq War.
Good times?
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:07pm.
Tell that to the occupants of the Khobar Towers, Shawn. Or the sailors on the USS Cole, or the occupants of the two embassies in Africa. No war? Terrorism "was never a true fear"? I guess you weren't taking notes back then? And, at least some sources credit Egyptian Islamic Jihad with the bombings. Wonder if Ears met with their reps too?
He was not perfect
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:22pm.
Nobody really is. Except for Oklahoma, and the first WTC attempt, we had no attacks on American soil He also should have killed Bin Laden when he had a chance. I am saying the 8 years that he was our President, I felt things were quite good. Much better than anyone that has sat in the Oval office after him.
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Well, you're entitled
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:26pm.
to your opinion, regardless of the facts. And, your two exceptions are really large exceptions. And you forgot to give at least partial credit for 9-11 to Billy Jeff. Unless you believe that the planning and pilot training all took place in less than 9 months? And, don't let that little old impeachment thing bother you.
BTW, an attack on an American warship is an attack on American soil, as is an attack on an American embassy.
Like I sad
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:44pm.
...Clinton was not perfect. No President is. The attacks that happened on his watch did not devastate the American economy to which we arguably have not truly recovered.
I do not blame Clinton for 911, neither do I blame George Bush. I am saying overall I thought things were much more peaceful and stable during his Presidency than during Bush or Obama.
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The Impeachment thing did not bother me because he tried to coverup an extramartial affair. I am not biased either, It is not for me to judge and mock somebody in office if they had extramartial affairs unless one of their platforms was high morals and fidelity regardless of who it is Dem or Conservative.
Clnton wasn't impeached for having an extramarital affair
Submitted by 26CX on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:52pm.
He was impeached for lying under oath. Surely you don't think it's acceptable for the President of the United States to lie under oath, do you?
I did not like it
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:55pm.
I felt he strongly bent the truth about what the meaning of is is. He apologized and that was good enough for me. However if was a person like Elliot Spitzer that liked to prosecute prostitutes and get caught with one himself, I would have loved to watch him go down in flames.
Liars and hypocrites
Submitted by 26CX on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:01pm.
No wonder things have been going downhill. The next thing you know, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee will decide he doesn't have to pay taxes...
→ Hey Shawn
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:06pm.
Please provide us with the actual definition of the word "is"
Then provide us with the alternate definition.
I'll help you out from Catholic School memory.
is: The present, singular, second tense of the verb "to be"
Now all you have to do is give us the other definition.
Lol Cool
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:12pm.
I will be the first to admit Clinton bent the truth. He felt his DNA on blue dresses and placement of cigars and Monicas mouth was not considered "sexual relations"
I felt that what he did in his personal life as long as it did not interfere with his day job did not bother me.
OK, Shawn I have to ask:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:16pm.
How could getting regular hummers IN THE OVAL OFFICE not affect his "day job"?
Sure as hell would affect mine.
I judge by his performance
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:27pm.
I felt the job market was good, the economy was good and homeownership was high and no foreclosure mess.
One thing about the Hummer, it gets lousy fuel milage and probably did not get very far, considering that the tank was never filled.
→ I don't know, Shawn
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:33pm.
Clinton's Hummer almost got him all the way back to Arkansas.
Yes Cool
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:43pm.
But his Dodge broke down and kept him in DC
How much performance is required to get a hummer?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:47pm.
It's been a while, but if I remember, you pretty much just sit there.
Yeah shawn
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:39pm.
He did a bang up job on that Waco thing, huh?
Yes BK
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:42pm.
That was not one of his finer moments.
"Clinton was a good
Submitted by MrShy on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:42pm.
"Clinton was a good President"
Shawn begins. And then....
"because things like terrorism or the fact the US might go bankrupt was never a true fear back then."
"Never a true fear", right. Or so Clinton and his do-nothing administration (and the complying media through it all) had us thinking. Forget that some 6 or so major attacks on our interests happened during his two terms, starting with WTC 2/93, the bombings of our embassies in Africa, and culminating with the 2000 Cole bombing. Forget that Al Qeada began it's rise all through the 90's, getting away scott-free with these attacks. Forget that 9/11's plan began hatching in early 1999, and possibly earlier. Forget it all.
"we could afford to talk about a blue dress"
And good to know you're kinda cool about a President being an adulterer and lying under oath -- exhausting so much of the American people's and atttorney's time and energy -- while on the most important job on the planet (which, btw, directly explains why he was horribly delinquent in his Commander In Chief duties, above.)
As for the economy, any president would shine if they happened to land right on the birth of the internet and the booming computer-age.
Clinton was a pure, lying politician and nothing more. He shined the most when he lied to us like the sleazeball he was/is about humping interns in the Oval Office, while the world around him was descending into chaos.
He was incompetent.
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I never said he did not make mistakes
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:45pm.
I said I felt he did a good job, not a great job.
BJC was and is an
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:36pm.
Elitist, pandering, putz, and we are far worst off, for having elected him President.
I don't know Boudin
Submitted by shawn. on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 1:23am.
Like I said he was not perfect but I thought he performed better than Bush or Obama.well if Mathews can only prop
Submitted by jkwtrading on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:37pm.
well if Mathews can only prop up a has been, he has now hit the bottom of the barrel.
Never Ceases To Amaze Me
Submitted by Bourbeau on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 1:39pm.
How this individual, sits there night after night, spewning his nonsensical name calling to those he don't like, yet will criticize others for their disparaging rhetoric. Maybe if Chris Matthews took one night, got off his pedestal of liberal muckraking, and spent an hour with Glen Beck, talking civily about the issues of the day, he might think differently about him.
I'm not a huge Glen Beck fan; I think he has some very valid points and has gone to great lengths to enlighten his audience with the historical and it's influence on today. I think he does go overboard at times with his teary eyed pleas, his wearied intonations of despair, etc. which tend to force me to flip the channel. There are time where I think he would serve his audience well if he took hold of himself and stuck with just the facts, organized and specific, which I find enlightening.
That being said, he's light years ahead of Chris Matthews, who you can barely understand when he allows his emotions to flow thru his mouth.