Posted on 03/25/2008 5:59:56 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Salesman on train: How far you going, friend? Harold Hill: Wherever the people are as green as the money, friend. -- The Music Man, 1962
Among the many gaps in my knowledge is a broad unfamiliarity with Broadway musicals. So when Chris Matthews said that Bill Clinton would make a perfect Harold Hill in The Music Man, I scampered Googleward and discovered that the Hardball host had just called the former President of the United States . . . a con man.
Appearing on today's Morning Joe, what set Matthews off was footage of Clinton making the case to a crowd in Indiana yesterday that Hillary is the only Dem who can win in November.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let's not get into Cloud Nine here and start thinking the way Bill Clinton wants your mind to think. That was delusionary that speech, yesterday.
It was a bit later that Chris made his Music Man analogy.
MATTHEWS: Let's remake the Music Man, I think I've got a great guy to play him, Harold Hill. Let's, I'm serious, I'm dead serious. Meredith Wilson has been waiting for this guy to come along for years. He'd be perfect as the Music Man.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Chris Matthews calls Clinton the perfect Music Man con artist ping to Today show list.
This guy is really playing with fire.
I can’t decide, though, are the Clinton’s just going to let him implode into a drooling mess. Or are they plant a dead girl in his office?
Matthews finally got something right.
K. I. S. S. I. N. G.
First comes Love....
Matthews really does not like the Clintons.
To be fair to Chrissy - who has been a absolute moron the past 6 years or so - he did see through the BS during the Clinton impeachment hearings and actually ran a good show back then. He asked a lot of hard questions to the Clinton apologists.
That’s odd. Matthews used to gush and glow when talking about Hillary. Maybe he changed teams?
And all week long your River City
Youth'll be frittern away,
I say your young men'll be frittern!
Frittern away their noontime, suppertime, choretime too!
Get the ball in the pocket,
Never mind gittin' Dandelions pulled
Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded.
Never mind pumpin' any water
'Til your parents are caught with the Cistern empty
On a Saturday night and that's trouble,
Oh, yes we got lots and lots a' trouble.
Today, but tomorrow we may hear a different tune. His opinions make me dizzy.
Thanks for posting that fantastic photo. Mind if I update the NB article to include it?
You’ve got me hooked on Morning Joe...:)
I couldn’t listen to what Chrissy was saying. He had a glob of spit on his chin for the longest time and I couldn’t take my eyes off of it.
He finally became aware of it and wiped it away. Such a delightful fellow.
Thanks for the ping/watching/reporting. BTTT!
They do get good guests and have lots of interesting conversation. Lots of liberal BS? Sure. But entertaining and at times insightful, as this morning.
Funny thing, coming from Chris Matthews.
He’s been in Clinton’s “boy’s band” for ten years, playing “flute” if you know what I mean.
A few decades late...
Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded.
Never mind pumpin' any water
So the small mind of the liberal cable guy has finally come to the conclusion that we conservatives have known for roughly 16 years or so, eh? Figures. That picture of El Maximo Sleeze O above really says it all. Clinton is a zero. A sleeze artist. His wife is a no-count who could never make it on her own...hence her clinging to the turd that floats.
Me too. Even though Mika makes me barf, the show is well-done and they discuss the issues I want to hear.
With a dog like that I dare not refuse ;-)
But seriously, thanks for your interest and welcome to the list.
If Hillary wins God forbid, Craig Livingstone will be sent to get the FBI files of her enemies. I think Democrats like Mathews will be at the top of list. It may take while to get down to the VRWC folk.
Actually, it’s Obama who reminds me of the Music Man.
Don’t you love all the Libs who just looked the other way at Clinton’s graft and corruption...who are starting to object now that the dirty work is pointed at other Democrats?
Actually, I think Matthews may like all three candidates, just Hillary the worst. Matthews just loves Obama though, and has usually been a fan of McCain's.
He’ll be Fostered.
Where was it that Bubba appeared to give a speech after his surgery...was it Philly for Lurch? (help me here, kids) Anyway, I remember Chrissy Matthews was breathlessly reporting with a schoolboy crush on Bubba saying—He looks good, the guy looks good.
“This guy is really playing with fire.”
Got that right!! Both Spittin’ Chrissy and Lyin’ Bill Richardson better watch their backs! Hell hath no fury like a Clinton scorned! Arkancide knows no bounds!
I guess this means that Gore will be singing “Shi-Poopie” anyday now.
So Matthews is just informing us of something we knew back in 1992. Matthews’ man crush on Obama is becoming too much to stomach. He gets more and more deranged every time he discusses the Clintons. He’s lost any claim he had to the slightest semblance of objectivity. When are we going to get these former political hacks out of “journalism”? I think an organized boycott of these “news networks” is necessary.
I mentioned this a few weeks ago on FR, but it’s change-artist Obama who is Prof. Hill and Hillary the librarian. Here’s a clip from the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKH9fkSHuH0
Both are.
Obama sounds exactly like anyone selling the latest ‘miracle’ gadgets at the State Fair. He keeps talking until his listeners are all nodding and murmuring amens.
Both have only one principle: belief that they should be in power, and will say or do anything required.
Hugh Hewitt played clips from the audiobook of “Dreams of My Father” and asked his audience to phone in with their reactions - would hearing Obama read his own profanity-laced words have any effect on the election.
Many of the callers said it would make no difference and made every excuse for the normalcy of a US Senator making a CD that used street language consistenly.
(Although the book was written in 1995, the audio version was made in 2004!)
Matthews reaction to seeing the post-op Clinton was revolting - and played so often on some talk shows that his voice is seared in my memory
“There he is! Oh G-d, he looks great, he looks so fantastic......”
I liked the old “Spanky and Our Gang” version of that tune... but imagining Bubba as doing the vocal gives me a sickly feeling. Not that I disagree with the analogy...
The eyes are the window to the soul, aren't they?
That photo's been reproduced a million times. I stole from the biography page of the "dandelion puller" on the Education Week site.
Good point...
This Klinton/Obamarama thing is so good. You couldn’t write a novel this good.
Oh we got trouble
right here in Denver city
With a capital T and that rhymes with B and that stands for Barrack.
We've surely got trouble; right here.
Gotta find a way to keep the young dems loyal to my wife.
Are you sure that was spit?
LOL. Don’t even go there.
Is Pris Mouthspews part of the fair and balanced media?
he’ll be forced to apologize. (wimp)
Gee; this is amazing. Have the Clintons halos tarnished or have all the Kool-Aid drinkers finally seen the light?
Amazing how the ‘Rats will eat their own when they no longer serve their purpose.
“Matthews really does not like the Clintons.”
Matthews was a big Tip O’neil fan. He may have worked for him. Matthews has gone negative on Clinton ever since Obama was endorsed by Kennedy.
Music Man. One of my all time great movies.
Unnngh. Thank you for forever ruining a perfectly good musical for me. Unnngh.
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