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I Can’t Believe He Said That

by AltHippo @ 4:58 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

I can’t get through more than a sentence at a time of this Chris Matthews quote from Operation Beefcake Day. I just get so choked with astonishment I have to get a drink of water or take a walk. There is a dissonance between Mathews and reality that bewilders me:

MATTHEWS: We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical, who’s not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who’s president. Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It’s simple. We’re not like the Brits. We don’t want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a [Russian Federation President Vladimir] Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.

Who are these people? What are they doing on my television?

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