Video: Chris Matthews aghast that Palin doesn’t write her own material
posted at 9:32 pm on December 7, 2009 by Allahpundit
Yeah, I know, fish in a barrel, but Palinistas should appreciate this as an especially fragrant example of the double standards she’s subjected to. Her use of ghostwriters is a minor preoccupation of Matthews’s, dating back to when she first got her book deal and he seemed to express surprise that she can read. Why this bugs him so much when virtually every other major politician uses ghostwriters on their books and speeches (Democratic royalty included) is beyond me unless he really does believe that Palin, a former governor, is semi-literate and committing some type of “extra” deception. It’s to the point where he actually seems to take exception here to the fact that her jokes — a form of writing with which literally every politician in America has help — are written by someone else.
The speechwriting bit comes in the middle but I recommend watching the beginning too, where Jonathan “Hit Piece” Martin describes how enthusiastic the crowd to see her was in Iowa — whereupon Matthews instantly asks whether they were all white. Another minor preoccupation, don’t you know.
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Enoxo on December 7, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Sweet. I kept hoping to read something about the EPA/ CO2 issue, but then wondered if she’s waiting until after Obama does his Copenhagen gig.
If he makes a commitment on our behalf there, etc. I could see her ripping it in a very pointed way as he’s leaving Copenhagen.
We’ll see.
cs89 on December 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Stepping onto the set of Hardball is, well, it’s like going into the enema camp.
fogw on December 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Hmm yeah thats nice. Hay Matthews STFU and STFD !!!!!
sonnyspats1 on December 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Well then there’s your counter-argument right there. Chris, read her Facebook posts, ok? She can read AND write, you dope. Let’s all write him emails calling him a pussy if he doesn’t invite her on his show, so she can b*tch-slap him.
smellthecoffee on December 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I’ll explain:
1) Millions of people love Sarah Palin. Matthews hates that.
2) Millions of people are buying Sarah\’s book, which enriches her. Matthews hates that.
3) Sarah Palin isn’t a northeastern liberal who went to an Ivy League school. Matthews hates that.
4) Sarah Palin can tell you what she thinks and feels without depending 24/7 on a teleprompter. Matthews hates that.
5) Unlike John Kerry at a photo op hiking a football with a tie on, para-sailing, skiing or duck-hunting, Sarah Palin looks natural doing stuff outdoors. Matthews hates that.
6) Matthews insults his miniature audience by trying to convince them that Sarah Palin is some cartoon character which the audience knows she isn’t.
7) Matthews projects his bigotry and hatred by claiming that Sarah only draws white crowds. Show me a picture of any minority Matthews has ever dated. I’ll wait right here.
perroviejo on December 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Is to be expected. Mom jeans affect the windup.
Spirit of 1776 on December 7, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Spirit of 1776: Especially when you have a cupcake in the
other hand,!:)
canopfor on December 7, 2009 at 10:22 PM
It’s December 7th, it’s sushi night, do you have to ask…?
Seven Percent Solution on December 7, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Wasn’t Matthews a speech writer for some has-been democrat?
This obsession with Palin, the guy really needs to get a life.
bkm on December 7, 2009 at 10:22 PM
I believe that he was Groom of the Stool for Tip O’neil.
thomasaur on December 7, 2009 at 10:24 PM
At this point that tingle in the leg has turned into a full blown seizure.
elduende on December 7, 2009 at 9:58 PM
elduende: That would be so,Serendipity!haha:)
canopfor on December 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM
He was a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter too. Why is it so hard for him to believe that Sarah would use a speechwriter. Liberals are shameless
bkm on December 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Anybody remember Chris Matthews being trashed by John Stewart about his new book on the Clintons??
It’s comedy. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-2-2007/chris-matthews
I wonder if he had a ghost writer? Listen to what Chris Matthews praises Bill Clinton over.
JellyToast on December 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I’m sorry, doesn’t Chrissy “read” his telepromter every single day of his life…?
Seven Percent Solution on December 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Seven Percent Solution: I think,its connected to his leg,
ahem!!:)
canopfor on December 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Does anyone know where GrowFins or BleedsBlue are tonight?
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on December 7, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Dr. Carlo Lombardi:There probably somewhere in the White
House,under the authority of the Presi
dent,on a murder spree,killing fly’s!:)
canopfor on December 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM
curled up in a fetal ball crying make the bad woman go away. They are doing a Tiger tonight I guess
unseen on December 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Show me a picture of any minority Matthews has ever dated. I’ll wait right here.
perroviejo on December 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
does that include the gay bathroom stall hook-ups?
unseen on December 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM
I hung out, on-line speaking, in other sites because Palin hit a homer with her fun break at Gridiron.
This site was obsessed with other issues.
I just don’t hang out here when this blog veers to that level.
It may drive me back to other candidates.
AnninCA on December 7, 2009 at 10:30 PM
OK
Aviator on December 7, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I am starting to think that there truly is no hope for GOP.
It’s about this kind of stuff.
No thanks.
AnninCA on December 7, 2009 at 10:32 PM
does that include the gay bathroom stall hook-ups?
unseen on December 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM
unseen: That would be tapping,done in either fine or
coarse thread,ahem!!:)
canopfor on December 7, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I am now becoming convinced that both parties are entirely incomptent.
So, just check out, except locally.
AnninCA on December 7, 2009 at 10:34 PM
I do remember that. How ironically ironical.
Geochelone on December 7, 2009 at 10:35 PM
And Martin answered “Why yes, Chris. Just like MSNBC’s morning, afternoon and primetime line-up”.
yogi41 on December 7, 2009 at 10:38 PM
O/T
Allah, didn’t you say earlier today you were considering banning people who complained about the blog content? Well, AnninCA has basically been spamming this whole thread with posts like that. Make an example of her!
Emily M. on December 7, 2009 at 10:42 PM
OMG. Hilarious!
cs89 on December 7, 2009 at 10:43 PM
MSNBC had one black hosting one hour a day. They canned him for the white “Dr”. WhatsHerFace.
Marcus on December 7, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Emily M. on December 7, 2009 at 10:42 PM
What? Sounds unlike allahpundit’s general hands-off approach to freewheeling comments.
cs89 on December 7, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Matthews is jealous of two things Palin has that he doesn’t have.
#1 Strong moral Catholic values and
#2?…………Cajones!!
PappyD61 on December 7, 2009 at 10:45 PM
A Simple Gay Test:
If President Obama makes you tingle and Sarah Palin doesn’t. You’re gay.
Congrats Matthews, you passed (or failed, depending upon your perspective).
29Victor on December 7, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Eh, it was on the Natalie Portman thread in headlines. I doubt he was being serious. It just shows he’s starting to get really annoyed with it – as am I, for that matter.
Emily M. on December 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM
There was a practice in ancient Ephesus where the hired help would go down to the bathroom “potties” and warm up the seat above the hole for their rich masters.
Matthews is the hired help.
Obama is the master.
Get busy warming it up Chrissy.
PappyD61 on December 7, 2009 at 10:48 PM
I dont know what Matthews sexual orientation involves;however, I am positive that he has $hit for brains.
mobydutch on December 7, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Is Matthews going to open his show “Hardtack” with the theme from “Ghostbusters” now to demonstrate his hard-hitting investigative powers?
onlineanalyst on December 7, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Hey, I drove from AL to KS today and listened to the audio of her book in my car. It was a great day.
Anybody notice that Chrissie is getting nervous about the Guv’s popularity?
Sapwolf on December 7, 2009 at 10:56 PM
What job was it that Matthews held in the Jimmy Carter administration?
Oh yeah…he was one of Carter’s speech writers. Guess that means that Carter was pretty stupid if he had a drunk like Matthews writing his stuff.
OxyCon on December 7, 2009 at 10:58 PM
LOL.
atheling on December 7, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Update: Television Test-Pattern beats Matthews in a head to head battle for viewers.
Geochelone on December 7, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Chris Matthews is self medicating a serious mental illness. And it’s not working.
RadClown on December 7, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Welcome to the party, pal. Yippee ky-yaa!
BobMbx on December 7, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Who writes Matthews’ material?
LibTired on December 7, 2009 at 11:08 PM
It’s Iowa Chris. Of course they’re all white.
JohnGalt23 on December 7, 2009 at 11:09 PM
I’m beginning to think it’s some sort of frontal-lobe tumor.
Jim Treacher on December 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM
a 6 yr old.
Fighton03 on December 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Chrissy sounds like he’s had his removed.
Fighton03 on December 7, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Yes Chris. I bet your circle of friends looks like a Benetton ad….
Caper29 on December 7, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Chrissy does flinch a lot on his show
Now I can see why
macncheez on December 8, 2009 at 12:40 AM
One more reason to love Sarah America.
She turns Chris Matthews into a blathering idiot (OK, he does that himself but it’s extra special when directed at Palin).
Anyone that isn’t severely proMatthews/antiPalin will watch that and think Matthews showed his ignorance.
Mr Purple on December 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Sorry Chris, no matter how hard you try you are not going to stop the Palin momentum. You are looking really silly trying to grasp at anything to complain about her. You should just go back to listening to Obama so you can have that tingling feeling again.
WyoMike on December 8, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Chris Matthews and Tiger Woods have one thing in common: a fixation on white women. Hmmm. Maybe Matthews plays golf when he’s not dealing with his leg tingles, who knows? Maybe Tiger could give him lessons.
bradley11 on December 8, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Chrissy prep for Hardballs:
Look smug: check.
Think you are cool: check
Call mommy: Check
Take whats wrong with your guy”man crush” and try and pin it on that other one: check check.
Defend why no one watches your show becouse they are Racist: Check.
Indian Outlaw on December 8, 2009 at 1:40 AM
Tomato boy has probably assured himself an anchor job on MSNBC.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on December 8, 2009 at 2:07 AM
And before you ask Sissy Madnews, yes , the tomato boy is white
macncheez on December 8, 2009 at 2:18 AM
Chris Mathews make me want to become a racist.
EscapeVelocity on December 8, 2009 at 2:33 AM
Once again, I can’t get beyond 2.5 minutes of Matthews.
Dopenstrange on December 8, 2009 at 2:52 AM
Allah, could you BE more irrelevant?
First, how smart can you be when you don’t understand the difference between a “collaborator” and a “ghostwriter.”
Forget the obvious, the fact that Palin, HarperCollins, and everyone else concerned announced from the get go that Lynn Vincent would be involved. That kinda kills the ghost angle, dead.
Past that, it’s more than obvious that you haven’t read the book. If you had, you’d certainly recognize the tone.
I mean it’s not like she got her domestic terrorist buddy to (ALLEGEDLY) write her book! She used the journals she has kept all of her life. Looks like Vincent’s job was more in the edit department, maybe the pick and choose area.
But past that, you’re linking to this waste of bandwidth Matthews, who no one would even know about without a link from here!
Meanwhile this is sort of big news:
This is actually news you can use. And quite interesting since the Obama administration just outlawed freakin’ AIR!
gary4205 on December 8, 2009 at 3:11 AM
If chris had used a ghost writer maybe Jon Stewart wouldn’t have slammed his book so hard it became the first book killed by a comedian.
borntoraisehogs on December 8, 2009 at 3:49 AM
Chris Matthews: “I see white people……”
What is this guy, nuts? He is about as white bread as they come and he is floating in a sea of white. Why would he try to make an issue out of such a thing from his vantage point?
As for the jokes, it is all in the delivery. Every late night comic has a team of writers cranking out those one-liners and it is an excepted part of their business. But, the delivery makes all the difference.
joedoe on December 8, 2009 at 6:31 AM
my thoughts exactly Allah…I was listening to this real time and thinking, duh, even dear leader had a someone write his books…what an asinine thing to say
Chrissy-ultimate putz…
cmsinaz on December 8, 2009 at 6:33 AM
What did Matthews do before he became a TV pundit????
Oh yea, he was a speech writter.
Now he’s upset that a Republican uses a speech writter.
What a flaming hypocrite.
MarkTheGreat on December 8, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Why is it always the lib douches on MSNBC, asking about the skin color of the people in lines at these things? I cringed when heard Matthews ask this, out of the blue, like it has anything, anything to do with Sarah Palin!
4shoes on December 8, 2009 at 8:43 AM
All the more reason to give govt as little power as possible.
MarkTheGreat on December 8, 2009 at 8:44 AM
ditto
I just wished his guests would have called him on it a little more forcefully….I guess they are afraid they won’t be invited back if they do…
cmsinaz on December 8, 2009 at 8:48 AM
I just csan’t see Comcast putting up with losing money while getting their cans kicked night after night by Fox News. They will have to eventually make changes at MSNBC.
kingsjester on December 8, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Fluffer.
greggriffith on December 8, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Am I the only one wondering if Susan Page is trying to get a job on Fox?
darktood on December 8, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Chrissy, the tingling legs, is now really losing his marbles.
He’s actually mistaking Palin’s book from Obama’s. Obama didn’t acknowledge the ghostwriters in his two books. Plus …. Obama never said that he’s keeping memoirs, which is supposedly the basis of one’s autobiography. Everything Obama had written were just “dreams” … meaning, his own fictional life.
TheAlamos on December 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM