Salon: "A guy who wants to impress this girl he has a huge crush on"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Salon's transcript and commentary on the video clip posted by Harry Shearer on Huffington Post.

But that's not the worst of it. Today Harry Shearer, who covers the media for the Huffington Post, posted an outtake from the Matthews-DeLay lovefest, a clip apparently filmed during a commercial break or right before the interview began. It is a piece of work. Do watch it.

But if you don't, let me write up a rush transcript: "Thank you for calling me," Matthews begins," as assistants shuffle about the set and producers call out the time in the background. "It was a good thing for me."

DeLay: Was it?
Matthews: Oh of course it was. We went on the air as fast as we could ... Have you seen this new focus group stuff on the candidates?
DeLay: No I haven't.
Matthews: It's great stuff!
DeLay: Really?
Matthews: I'll send it to you. It's great, it's great stuff.
DeLay: Really?
Matthews: Hillary, John Kerry, all these guys ... Frank Luntz did it.
DeLa: Oh, I like Frank Luntz.
Matthews: Hillary did not do well.
DeLay: Really?
Matthews: Kerry did well.
DeLay: You're kidding!
Matthews: I am not kidding. They didn't like Edwards, they thought he was a rich lawyer pretending to care about poor people.
DeLay: Too slick.
Matthews: Hillary was know-it-all.
DeLay: Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all.

The chumminess here is at once fascinating and sickening. At first I couldn't decide what was worse -- DeLay's sexist remark or Matthews' desperate effort to impress the sexist with his insider knowledge of Democratic presidential hopefuls' prospects. But after watching the video about a dozen times, I have to say -- and I can't believe I'm saying this -- it's Matthews who fares worse. DeLay is pretty much just responding to Matthews' "guy who wants to impress this girl he has a huge crush on" attitude. DeLay is typically annoying; Matthews is aggressively so.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Matthews = Tweety = MORON! nt

[mdmc]

2. that isn't the guy from LeShow and the simpsons, is it?

:kick:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. He's also Derek Smalls in "Spinal Tap"...

"We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water."

:toast:

[mdmc]

4. oh wow oh wow oh wow WOW WOW WOW!!!

This is neat and awesome!:toast::kick: cool-i-o!

[radio4progressives]

5. Harry Shearer? Yes Le Show and the Simpsons..

Harry Shearer is fabulous..

[mdmc]

6. truely

YO!

[Nostradammit]

9. We Love Harry Shearer in this house!!!

Oh yes we do! Le Show is damn fine entertainment and his choice of music is exquisite.

http://www.harryshearer.com/leshow/

[Theres-a]

7. Sickening.

[driver8]

8. "Wait a second, Tom...I need to adjust my knee pads." n/t

[crispini]

11. LOL! nt

[senseandsensibility]

10. kick

I'll watch the video later. I'm afraid I'll lose my breakfast if I watch now.