Hardball's Softball hillary clinton 'Interview' Elevates Access Journalism to Historic New Heights

MSNBC, NBC | 11.24.02 | Mia T

[Mia T]

Hardball's Softball hillary clinton 'Interview' Elevates Access Journalism to Historic New Heights

by Mia T

LBANY, Page Hall Auditorium, SUNY, Wednesday, Nov. 20 -- Facing Hardball's transmuted-by-access softball host, Chris Matthews, and an audience Matthews, in an apparent pre-emptive attempt at absolution disclosed as "all Ds,"[Democrats]...You packed the house," hillary clinton made it clear she will continue to subsist on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind. Tickets to the event were limited to University at Albany students with a photo ID and/or independent proof of illegal alien DNC or DNA sequencing.

 

 

By eschewing the politically obligatory Sunday morning circuit and formidable inquisitors like George Will, hillary clinton only encourages the incipient whispers of ineptitude, depravity, cowardice and failure that fill cloakroom and kitchen, alike.

NO MANO A MANO THIS...

The much-hyped "college tour" showdown at Albany Downtown was promoted for weeks by Matthews and MSNBC as "a one-on-one with the senator from New York." The show -- and the "senator" -- were not as advertised, however.

 

 

Unfortunately for America, the only visible adversary at the SUNY access-journalism extravaganza was a free press. MSNBC trumpeted clinton as Zogby-polled presidential timber: "Always finishes a strong second to Gore." (A patent disqualifier if ever there was one, if you ask me.)

Notwithstanding this obvious lapse in logic, one wonders where and when Zogby collected its data, According to the most recent relevant poll, which was conducted by the Marist Institute last month -- and according to the results of this month's election, nary a soul wants hillary clinton back in the West Wing.

 

 

In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news." The smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy," as Charles Kuralt once put it. She would not be reduced to packing audiences and.flacking reporters.

By continuing to confuse "strident" with "presidential," clinton once again demonstrated the ease with which she fails to exceed minimal performance parameters. Lawless to the core, she managed to turn nature's abhorance of a vacuum on its head, clogging the airwaves with standard-issue clinton claptrap.

REVERSIBLE TRANSMUTATIONS...

This collegiate meeting of the minds, so to speak, managed to elevate nothing but access journalism, raising it to historic new heights. Not content with this dubious achievement, Chris Matthews decided to become hillary clinton's full-fledged advocate the following day when it became clear that the softball interview did not go quite as planned; clinton's limitless vengeance and limited intellectual dexterity unwittingly, and much to her political disadvantage, reversed the Matthews transmutations: softballs were transformed to hardballs with each clumsy move and cheap shot.

OLD SCORES TO SETTLE...

No answer exposed clinton's cognitive flat-footedness or her thirst for revenge more than her comment about President Bush's motivation to oust Saddam: " I mean it is clear that a lot of people in this administration have some old scores to settle...with Saddam Hussein."

Psychologists call this projection. It is the clintons who know about settling old scores. It is the clintons who only know about settling old scores

 

 

We're not inflicting pain on these f*ckers.

When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers.

I believe in killing people who try to hurt you.

And I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit pricks.

Bill Clinton, quoted by George Stephanopoulos,

All Too Human: A Political Education

 

 

Mrs. Clinton was still flush with her triumph in New York [i.e., Today VRWC interview] when she returned on Tuesday afternoon to join Harry Thomason's vigil in the solarium.

"I guess that will teach them to f*ck with us," the first lady said.  

A Vast Conspiracy, p. 258, Jeffrey Toobin

 

WOODWARD WALLOPS CLINTON...

Bob Woodward disagrees with hillary clinton. (Meet the Press, 11.24.02) Woodward is the author of the new bestseller, "Bush at War," which "draws on four hours of interviews with President Bush and quotes 15,000 words from National Security Council and other White House meetings in reconstructing the internal debate that led to U.S. military action in Afghanistan and the decision to aggressively confront" the Iraqi president. Woodward says that Bush's motivation to confront Iraq comes not from revenge but from lessons learned: That one must take care of threats early, that given the range of Saddam's psychological disorders, an Iraqi nuclear capacity would change the equation not only for the region but for the world.

FOURTH-ESTATE FAILURE...

Chris Matthews failed utterly. He had his shot at hillary clinton and avoided asking anything of significance. No questions on the eight years of clinton corruption, on the rapes, on the utter failure of the clintons to confront terrorism, a failure that resulted in 9/11, a failure that threatens our very survival.

 

 

Oh yes, he did ask the obligatory "Will you run for president in '04?" question no less than three (3) times as is apparently required for access to hillary clinton.

A variant of the "When did you stop beating your wife?" complex-question type of fallacy, the clinton "infrastructure" requires media myrmidons of the left to ask hillary clinton this question no less than three (3) times per "interview," operating on the theory that the implicit question ("Why in the world would the zipper-hoisted wife of an impeached utter failure ex-president be qualified to be president anyway?") will be rendered, if not moot, certainly disremembered.

A subset of the CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme , the clinton "infrastructure" complex-question fallacy scheme is intended to confer legitimacy on an otherwise loony concept: Another clinton--uh--presidency.

 

 

[Henchster]

ART? More like a waste of bandwidth.

[exit82]

Mia, when I read of Hillary's statement about "settling old scores" the first thing I thought of was "projection". This is something they do all of the time, and someone who is obsessed with settling old scores would say something like that. Of course, Matthews did not require Her Heinous to actually back up the statement, because she could not without trivializing her own argument about why we need to beat Saddam, or with trivializing the President further, which would damage her image.

I project too. I project her, Bubba, Algore and Janet Reno in Leavenworth in orange jumpsuits someday for crimes against this country.

[Republic]

Appreciating this work is like a good glass of really great wine (you know what I mean-wine that tastes so good ya actually want to guzzle it but refrain, taking it as a sweet torture to sip). The more you study her intricate, sometimes annoyingly detailed, artistry-the more delighted you become-wanting more.

[anniegetyourgun]

I assume you feel the same way about the work of Registered, Billie, and so many other talents on FR? Oh well, I guess it's an acquired taste.....or someone is just grumpy.

[Republic]

Hey there-no one forcing ya here-why not go pluck some figs or something?

[Vidalia]

No answer exposed clinton's cognitive flat-footedness or her thirst for revenge more than her comment about President Bush's motivation to oust Saddam: " I mean it is clear that a lot of people in this administration have some old scores to settle...with Saddam Hussein."

Psychologists call this projection. It is the clintons who know about settling old scores. It is the clintons who only know about settling old scores.

We're not inflicting pain on these f*ckers. 
When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers. 
I believe in killing people who try to hurt you. 
And I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit pricks.

 
--------Bill Clinton, quoted by George Stephanopoulos, 
All Too Human: A Political Education 

 

Mrs. Clinton was still flush with her triumph in New York [i.e., the co-rapist's Today proclamation, "My husband isn't a rapist-pig. There's a VRWC"] when she returned on Tuesday afternoon to join Harry Thomason's vigil in the solarium. 
"I guess that will teach them to f*ck with us," the first lady said.

   
 --------A Vast Conspiracy, p. 258, Jeffrey Toobin  

All of this is going to catch up to the Clintons in an "extreme manner", for they have ruined and/or killed too many people.

Many whom they have screwed still have plenty of money and power...

[Paul Atreides]

I think that he saw where the ratings opportunity was and he found it in the Clinton corruption. It seemed that he went back to the fold when W started looking more presidential after 9-11.

[Henchster]

Registered, Henchster, etc, DON'T post their efforts under breaking news, AND post NEW items, not the same old Sh!t with a new headline.

Have a nice night.

[Republic]

Really? Ooops. I didn't realize you had the mental ability to read Mia's mind as she was composing her analysis of hitlery's dance with crissy.

[Ann Archy]

I believe that's Chrissy Matthews internal strife is between how he was raised...I THINK conserative, but his harpy wife, Queen Kathleenm he calls her, is a LIBERAL...all pink...so he is sooooo damn waffley I can't stomach him anymore.

[Mia T]

Hi...been back since right before the election...Thx for asking...

[Republic]

Yeah. Ratings. Ratings to newsprograms are like polls to politicians. And certain folks, from each group, are willing to bend principles to attain better results. Cris must be one of these. Klinton and gore are most definitely in this group.

[Republic]

Ahhhhhhhh---a marriage thingie. Poor chris. That does make it difficult. (Especially right before the Christmas party invites are due.)

[Mia T]

Confounding the issue is the thing Matthews has for lapsed liberal turned conservative, Peggy "Margaret" Noonan.

Noonan, clearly aware of Matthews' crush, reciprocated the other night, refusing to agree with Sean Hannity and the obvious, that the Matthews interview was "pathetic."

[Republic]

Pathetic. Thought Peggy was way above that nonsense and is certainly smart enough to stand on her beliefs while smoozing ol crissy at the same time.

[aristeides]

Is there a way to prove that the questions were submitted in advance to Hillary and her staff (or even that they were suggested by them)?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

...HILLARY RODHAM =

...HO CHI MINH...

still.

NEVER FORGET

[aristeides]

With his network going down, Matthews is probably worried about his prospects for a new gig.

[anniegetyourgun]

I'd say the Henchster is grumpy....

[Ann Archy]

I have SEEN his crush on Peggy...it's sooooo obvious!!! She seems like a nice airhead anymore.