Chrisball - No Strikes, No Balls

Chris Matthews Bends Over For The Paycheck; Meanders, Eventually Apologizes: About Hillary Clinton, Chris Matthews recently stated on MSNBC's Morning Joe program that, "The reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That's how she got to be Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on the merits..."

A clammy, amazingly harsh and judgmental stab - a near psychiatric example of one individual's furious, unhealthy need to spew bile at Hillary Clinton.

Then, in the words of fictitious observers, "the phone rang; the money was mentioned, camera access was mentioned, and all the hallway doors slammed shut but for two: Fix-It and Unknown.

Bobbin' an weavin' like a squirming piglet angling for his spot at the teats, he acted quickly to remove anything in the way of his access to the money and the fame."

"On the particular point, if I'd said the only reason John McCain has come so far is that he got shot down over North Vietnam and captured by the enemy, I'd be brutally ignoring the courage and guts he showed in bearing up under his captivity. Saying that Senator Clinton got where she's got simply because her husband did what he did to her is just as callous, and I can see now that it comes across just as nasty. Worse yet, just as dismissive.

Finally, if anyone doesn't know this, I love politics. I love politicians. I like and respect people with the guts to put their name, their very being out there for public approval so that they can lead our country. And that goes for Hillary and Barack and John and all the rest who are willing to fight to take on the toughest job in the world."

Upton Sinclair offered more than a hunch, saying, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."