A Special Kind of Stupid: Only ‘Culturally Backward’ People Find Weiner’s Conduct Objectionable, Chris Matthews Says
Posted on | June 10, 2011 | 17 Comments
The Stupidest Man in TV News™ — the Ted Baxter of MSNBC — has perhaps outdone himself with his latest astonishing foray into the frontier of brain-addled commentary:
This is, to me, the stakes here. If [Anthony Weiner] stays, [Democrats] never get the leadership back. They never get the Speakership back because the people in the rural areas of this country who are Christian conservative culturally – you can say backward if you want – but they don’t like this kind of stuff at all. They’re not part of that 56 percent in Brooklyn and Queens who say, “okay, we can live with this guy.” Your thoughts, Ben? Isn’t that the cutting edge of this?
What did Ben Smith of Politico say in reply? I don’t know. But I hope when he left the studio, Ben sent an e-mail to an MSNBC producer asking, “Exactly why do you continue permitting this babbling fool to host his own TV show?”
Given the evidence suggesting that Weiner was cybersexing teenage girls, is it really true that 56 percent of Weiner’s constituents “can live with this guy”? Or is it rather the case, as I suspect, that many of them are not fully informed about what Weiner was up to online?
The weird thing here is, Chris Matthews is one of the few people at MSNBC who even acknowledges WeinerGate as a legitimate and politically significant story. Ace of Spades observes:
Most of MSNBC’s hosts . . . are on a campaign of minimziation.
See, especially, Rachel Maddow, who insists there’s nothing to see here and it’s all a laugh.
But how the hell is it, I ask, that the people who know the most about what Weiner has actually done — including Andrew Breitbart — are those who find it most objectionable? And why would Chris Matthews suggest that the “culturally backward” people in “rural areas” might be offended?
Is Breitbart a dimwitted backwoods clodhopper? Are 56% of voters in Queens and Brookly really more sophisticated than Breitbart?
Permit me to suggest that anyone attempting to “minimize” WeinerGate consider how the story has unfolded to date, and ask themselves: What new surprising revelations await?
(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)
PREVIOUSLY:
- June 10: Did Anthony Weiner Send Obscene Messages to Teenage Girls Online?
- June 10: Impossible to Parody
- June 9: When Will Weiner Quit?
- June 8: Feminism and the ‘Friendly Stranger’
- June 8: Weiner’s Secret Desire UPDATED: ‘X-Rated’ Photo Emerges; Weiner’s Wife Is Pregnant; More Democrats Now Calling for Resignation
- June 8: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong: Belated Notice of Charles Johnson’s Total Beclownment
- June 8: Joan Walsh: ‘I Look Kind of Stupid’
- June 8: Weiner’s Race-Mongering Past
- June 7: WeinerGate Götterdämmerung
- June 7: Beware of ‘Feminist’ Men
- June 7: Breitbart’s Vindication
- June 7: Yub Nub!
- June 6: Anthony Weiner Press Conference UPDATE: Admits Trying to Send DM UPDATE: Weiner Will Not Resign UPDATE: VIDEO ADDED
UPDATE: Dems Call for Ethics Probe - June 6: #WeinerGate: It Gets WORSE UPDATE: Press Conference 4 p.m. ET UPDATE: ABC News Interviews Woman
- June 6: #WeinerGate Fallout: Democrats Criticize Weiner for Missing Israel Day Parade UPDATE: Breitbart Releases 2nd Photo
- June 6: New #WeinerGate Allegations? UPDATE: Weiner’s Photo: ‘It’s Me’
- June 4: ‘Is He the New Tiger Woods?’
- June 4: ‘You Can’t Lawyer the Media’
- June 4: ‘UR SO HOT! C MY WANG?’ (Or, #WeinerGate Explained)
- June 4: GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!
- June 3: Because I Know What’s News
- June 3: Wow! Strange Plot Twists in #WeinerGate’s Third Act
- June 3: Brutal. Simply Brutal.
- June 2: Finally, Weiner Calls the Police!
- June 2: #WeinerGate: Who Is @PatriotUSA76? @AndrewBreitbart Wants to Know
- June 2: VIDEO: @DaTechGuyBlog Talks #Weinergate in Boston TV Interview
- June 2: Who’s Winning #WeinerGate? (Video)
- June 1: All the Weiner You Can Handle: Why MSM Can’t Ignore This Scandal Now
- June 1: Oh, My: In NBC Interview, Weiner Won’t Deny Authenticity of Lewd Photo
- June 1: #WeinerGate: Where the Story Goes Next
- June 1: Official #WeinerGate Theme Song
- May 31: #WeinerGate OMFG! @RepWeiner Gives Worst Press Conference EVAH! (Video)
- May 31: The Power of Simple Sentences
- May 31: Da Tech Guy, Da Columnist
- May 31: The AOSHQ Legal Department: Now Offering Advice to Victims of ‘Pranks’
- May 31: BREAKING: Weiner Lawyers Up! UPDATE: In CNN Interview, Weiner Dismisses Hacking as ‘Prank’
- May 30: Ace Is Suffering Weiner Overload
- May 30: The Curious Case of the Weiner-Following (And Weiner-Followed) Teenage Girl
- May 30: @JoanWalsh Blames @AndrewBreitbart and #tcot Bloggers for #WeinerGate Story
- May 29: #WeinerGate Victim Gennette Cordova Issues Statement: ‘I Cannot Answer the Questions That I Do Not Have the Answers To’; Describes Her Reaction
- May 29: MSM Starting to Cover ‘WeinerGate’
- May 28: Weiner’s Wiener? UPDATE: Who Is ‘Gennette Nicole’? UPDATE: Questions Piling Up