Annoying Things From Page One of the NYT Chris Matthews Feature
This week’s Times Magazine features everyone’s favorite Senator-pinching loudmouth. I started to read it online, and then saw that it was nine pages long. I quickly decided I wasn’t that interested in Chris Matthews’ life.
So what does the first page have to tell us?
Firstly, Matthews enjoys extended and belabored metaphors about game fish (i.e., Hillary Clinton). He also really likes women. And touching them, even if they’re strangers.
Actually, I really like Mark Leibovich’s observations:
The spin room is a modern political-media marvel whose full-on uselessness is perfectly conveyed by its name, but Matthews appeared in his element.
or
I imagined a little superego hamster racing against a speeding treadmill inside Matthews’s skull, until the superego hamster was overrun and the pause ended.
and, the best:
He is, in a sense, the carnival barker at the center of [the media/political echo chamber], spewing tiny pellets of chewed nuts across the table while comparing Obama to Mozart and Clinton to Salieri. At one point, Matthews suddenly became hypnotized by a TV over the bar set to a rebroadcast of “Hardball.” “Hey, there I am — it’s me,” he said, staring at himself on the screen. “It’s me.”
Sadly, this brings us to the end of page one. I have promised myself to actually start writing my thesis today, which means there will probably be many more blog postings today.
Look forward to it.
By the way, I’m becoming impressed with how still annoyed I am by that Clinton cheek-pinching. It’s been months, and I want to smack him every time I see the still from that video.
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