Matthews: Palin Running 'Somewhere Between VP and First Lady'

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The liberal campaign to seek to diminish Sarah Palin by sexualizing her continues.  Yesterday, I described how Frank Rich used a number of sexualized terms in reference to Palin's relationship with McCain: "shotgun marriage," "speed-dating" and "embrace."  Chris Matthews employed a similar tactic this evening, claiming that Palin is running "somewhere between a VP and a First Lady."

During the first segment of this evening's Hardball, Matthews tried out his theory, with no particular success, on pollster Stu Rothenberg and NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd.  For the record, Matthews did stop short of telling Palin to iron McCain's shirt:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me try my theory about why Sarah Palin seems to be catching on. I don't think she's running as a traditional VP, which is no big deal. She's running as kind of like the other partner, somewhere between a VP and a First Lady, maybe.
Imagine the liberal/feminist outrage if a Republican had sought to portray a sitting governor and VP candidate as a First Lady.

Note: Matthews was on quite a roll tonight, trying to undermine Palin and the McCain ticket at large.  As my colleague Geoffrey Dickens has noted, Matthews wondered whether Republican mention of "community organizer" is akin to "welfare queen" or even "outside agitator," the segregationsists' term from the '60s for civil rights activists.

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Why does Matthews even try

Why does Matthews even try to float these inanities? Doesn't he realize that his viewers (both of them ;^D) already think all Republicans are Satan incarnate? Normal, critical-thinking people stopped listening to Chrissy a lo-o-ong time ago.

 

"... smells like... victory." - Robert Duvall

Joe, This is the latest spin

Joe,

This is the latest spin from the Acme Anti-Palin Kit that Wile E. Matthews ordered last week. The crappy things keep blowing up in his face. It's back to the drawing board for Wile E., you, "Genius, sheer genius"...

McNotObama '08

Business card

Wasn't it "Wile E. Coyote, Super-Genius?"

 

"... smells like... victory." - Robert Duvall

it's the first female

it's the first female Republican VP nomination 

what, no thrill up the legs?!!?

i'm so shocked

really thought Sarah would be a hit with the notorious champions of "female progress" and all

imagine my suprise 

Journalism is the opium of the liberals

Oh, yeah, TM

Chrissy says "She's running as kind of like the other partner, somewhere between a VP and a First Lady, maybe."

In other words, it's sending a different kind of tingle up his pants leg. And everytime Obama compares himself to Sarah, he (Obama) look small, and she looks GOOD!

Still tingly, Chrissy?

I saw the show

I saw the show tonight....

Matthews defines desperation and fear..he proved it tonight...

Wonder just how his Queen as he calls her would feel about his comments tonight.

Hmmm?

She is suppose to be an emancipated woman...who raised kids and held a job in his same industry....has or had her own job on a DC network nightly doing the news.

I want to hear from her!

I am serious...

Kathryn I think her name is....speak out woman!

 I want to know how she feels about his sexist, racist implied comments tonight.

Btw...If he doesn't have a heart-attack first after losing this election, he may want to practice saying President Palin in about four years or so/ 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

"PORKER"???

HEY BT!!!

 Catch that Freudian slip by what’s-his-face talking about pork barrel spending???

 He used the term: PORKER?!?!?

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I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

You probably won't get a

You probably won't get a response, I think Crissy mixes up the Kool-Aid at home.

Evenin' ER... ..or she

Evenin' ER...

..or she does....

Think about it...lol.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Hi BT, funny thing is her

Hi BT, funny thing is her bio states she now "heads global communications at Marriott International." I guess she jumped to soon, before Michelle's call to public servive. She surely feels great pangs of guilt every payday, at least for 10 seconds or so...

ER... LOL...at least

ER...

LOL...at least every ten seconds or so is right!...

Thanks, I was pretty sure I had heard, and I think it was from Chris himself that she had moved to where you mentioned....that's why I put the word 'had' in my post above...she may of also been on his show when I heard this...can you imagine though if Chris was speaking of her the same way he has about Palin if she had been named VP...

I want to hear from her...I am serious.

We should demand this from Chris Matthews...turn-about is fair play.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

DISGUSTING.  This is

DISGUSTING. 

This is lower than a bunch of lawyers...well, you know the rest.

They are thrashing around, this is incredibly stupid on Chrissy's part.  I guess he really wants to get fired ALL THE WAY.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Matthews is particularly picayunish today.

I'm thinking it's because of the public embarrassment he endured last nite...being dismissed and being dismissed WITH olberman.  Sorta puts him in the same category as olberman and Chris sees himself as above olberman, intellectually and professionally.  THAT has to be maddening.  Yet see who he takes it out on.   This isn't going to help him or msnbc. 

   Are you sure he doesn't read Newsbusters?    He's shoving it back in the faces of McCain/Palin supporters.

They're throwing out

They're throwing out everything and anything in desperation, including the kitchen sink, but Olbermann won't let'em throw the bathtub...

Trivializing Governor Palin and her achievements

Has been the lefts tactic from the moment her name was mentioned. Mathews and his ilk are not trying to get new converts now, they are trying to stop the bleeding from the Obama camp and in the process making it more obvious where their bias lies.

More and more women are hearing this trashing of a very successful woman and thinking "Wait a minute, that's me they're dissing!" The Obama camp is in for a bad Sept ,and worse after the Palin/Biden debate! 

September?

I think they're more worried about November!

 

"... smells like... victory." - Robert Duvall

Matthews

Can you imagine his surprise, when she goes from Vice President to President in 2012, completely by passing the First Lady spot!

Please..DO NOT FORGET THE "OPRAH" FACTOR!!!

 Oprah just alienated white suburban "soccer moms".  At least half her audience!!  Help me with the numbers guys!!!  This will be a BIG factor!!  What do you think??

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What did you expect? "Welcome sonny," "Make yourself at home," "Marry my daughter." You've got to remember, that these are just simple Moose Hunters, these are people of the land, the common clay of the new west. You know . . . MORONS.

Star

Yeah, and guess what else?

That's really why she doesn't want her on. Talk about a whole new bump in the polls for McCain/Palin if she goes on THAT show. They know she'll charm the dress of women and just solidify that voting block even more.

 

Obama... a total fraud. Palin... a total hottie.

 

"Palin Fashion"???

Hear about the run on "Palin Glasses"?!?!?  Women are asking for the "Palin Hair"???  Does that mean a connection or what???

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I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Palin glasses

I wonder if Matt, Meredith and the rest of the morning show airheads are going to profile this, like they did with Michelle Obama's dress that everyone had to have.

I'm thinkin' not! 

Olbermann Glasses more FEMENIN than Palin's??

IS IT ME???? 

??????????????????????????????????????????????????

 OBAMA:

Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp-out runaway decency in the west. Now, you will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

The First Name

Even better.  The Spurs Haters I have been around in various places have always taken me to task for doing something almost all Spurs fans and local San Antonio media does: calling the power forward/center of the Spurs "Timmy".  We ALL call him Timmy.  Not Mr. Duncan, not Tim Duncan, not Tim.  Timmy.  And it isn't disrespectful.  Note it is always said with something akin to affection.  How can we be disrespectful to a standup guy who led the Spurs to FOUR NBA titles?

In this same vein, I keep hearing the Governor of AK called "Sarah".  If you say Sarah you know the last name already.  (This was also pointed out by a caller to Limbaugh's MN sub today on his show.)  What does that tell you?

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

Speaking of the Oprah

Speaking of the Oprah Factor...gander this...

He speaks the truth!

Palin Power! 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

I remember, and have

I remember, and have commented here about Oprah's claim about all these white people "workin' for me!!"

Now what do you suppose would happen if a white celebrity not only hired all blacks, and then crowed about it?

Even he claimed that he was doing good by giving them all jobs, he would likely be accused of wanting to run a plantation.

I know people that live by

I know people that live by whatever Oprah and Doc Phil sell, books, diets, etc. Why would they now discount her judgement for not having Palin on? I think she took her hit with the endorsement.

Matthews was on quite a roll tonight

 Maybe it is a "parting shot" before his demotion from the anchor position him and the Olbermister recieved for becoming the kings of media bias.  Did the NBC chants on the convention floor have anything to do with this?

 Rovin

 

 

Rovin - BALLOON AVALANCHE

Or perhaps it was the Attack of the RNC Balloons that ensued.

Got the message, Andrea? And all you minions at MSDNC? :p

 

Obama... a total fraud. Palin... a total hottie.

 

Loved the guy on the left...

He keeps slappin' ballons on her!!!

ummm...did those hits on the head effect her??? 

 QUESTION:  SHE LATER DEFENDS PALIN??

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I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Glad you posted that link

I see the man's arm batting balloons at her and i do believe all those smiling laughing delegates are having a bit of fun with her..They were very subtle.  And at one point getting near the end, do i detect a look of concern or perhaps closer to annoyance on her face (just briefly) that an important representative of the media  is being toyed with in this fashion?

ALERT!!!! MADDOW STARTING HER NEW SHOW NOW!!! 8PM CST!!

 SOMEBODY START A NEW TOPIC...NOW!!!  THIS IS TOOOOO GOOD!!!

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I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

......and i don't know how to start a new topic....

Watching Monday Night Football...

 GREAT GAME SO FAR!!!

OFF TOPIC...i play fantasy football...not well...just lost Brady..pissed.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Go Packers!!

Brett who?

You sure Brady is done for?  Patriots are known for their tricky news releases...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION...

ummmmm....where u at???? 

...i don't want to catch a wrong wind current...and get hit in the face... 

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I want (DEMOCRAT VOTING BASE) rustlers, cutthroats, murders, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con-men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglars, horse thieves, bull-dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, sh**-kickers, and FELON Voters!....(Palin Church Go'ers = SNAKE CHARMERS)

Where do you think?

Running between the computer and the tv....

 Lompoc, CA...Coastline....wind is coming from the ocean so unless you're in Hawaii, I think I'll be okay.

 

INTERCEPTION!!!

 

PACK WINS!!

I find it both pathetic and

I find it both pathetic and amusing that a dolt like Matthews has the nerve to demean a powerful woman on the verge of becoming more powerful, especially when you see his nightly blather seems like one ongoing audition to be Obama's fluffer -- literally and figuratively.

Especially since he was so

Especially since he was so slavish in his adoration of Hillary Clinton, doing everything but kiss her shoes that SNL parodied him. Most of his lines were "Great, you're just great!  Can I tell you how great you are?"

Motherbelt, one can only

Motherbelt, one can only hope Chrissy owns a good pair of knee pads for all the boot licking and other services he seems to willing to provide. :-)

What's really funny about Darrell Hammond's uncanny impression of Matthews on SNL is that he doesn't have to act all that much.

Using Community Organizer as a Bullwhip

You omitted my favorite Matthews metaphor of the night - he aksed if their wasn't a racial aspect to the Republicans use of "community organizer" , weren't Republicans using the term like a bullwhip.

So exactly who is it that

So exactly who is it that has all these race and slave metaphors swirling around in his brain?????

As I said before the left

As I said before the left wing-extremists need to start wearing kilts and tennis shoes,

Matthews use of the

Matthews use of the racially charged term "bulwhip" is to be deplored, of course.

I suppose he is trying to evoke ugly, vicious scenes from earlier times when blacks were treated as sub-human.

However wasn't the most famous wielder of the "bullwhip" a man called...

"BULL CONNOR"

 

And wasn't he a ... ahem... DEMOCRAT?

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