DCNewsUpdates: Chris Matthews: “This picture is appealing to ‘traditional Americans’”

DCNewsUpdates (9/10/08)

Chris Matthews: “This picture is appealing to ‘traditional Americans’”

Chris Matthews digs himself another hole:

“Do you think what is appealing here? I’ll be careful here. This is not about sexual relations… Everybody watching this. This is not what I am talking about. When you see the picture together of John McCain, who is an older man, but he is a kind of Audie Murphy hero image and this obviously attractive woman much younger than him, it’s like they are offering themselves up as a kind of a political couple, almost like Clinton and Mrs. Clinton, Senator … President and Senator Clinton. They are offering themselves. It’s a fascinating tableau. They’re hugging and even Elizabeth Bumiller on the front page of the Times today. When have we ever had running mates hug? I mean obviously they are different genders. But what I find here, is that, it is a fascinating, are they offering themselves up to run as an alternative to Barack and Michelle Obama to go to the White House? I am telling you. Politically speaking. This picture is appealing to traditional Americans. They go, yeah, that’s a nice traditional formal, we’ve seen that picture before.”

This alternative to Barack Obama and Michelle Obama makes an appealing picture “to traditional Americans”? Matthews must have used up half a Chapstick after blowing the dog-whistle that hard.

African Americans vs. Real Americans.

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