Matthews: Snagglepuss Hillary Ready to Exit Stage Left?

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Heavens to Murgatroyd! Chris Matthews has reduced Hillary Clinton to a cartoon character. Snagglepuss to be precise. "Exit stage left" was one of the Hanna-Barbera animation's catchphrases, and Matthews used it to wonder whether Hillary was prepared to leave the presidential race, given her flagging political fortunes. Here's how Matthews put it at the top of today's Hardball:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Meanwhile, listen carefully. That sound you hear is the slow falling of electoral delegates, of superdelegates, to Barack Obama. Seven more came aboard today. So with Obama way ahead in elected delegates, now trails Hillary Clinton by only four-and-a-half superdelegates. It didn't help Clinton when her long-time supporter and U.S. congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois called Obama today "the presumptive nominee" of his party.

As Snagglepuss flashed on the screen, Matthews wondered out loud: "does Hillary have an exit strategy at this point?"

View video here.

Ouch.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Matthews mocks Hillary as “Snagglepuss.”

[Bon mots]

She's going to go down and take the whole ship with her!

Leave Hillary Alone!

[Sybeck1]

Hopefully she won't leave just yet. With a summer of reruns fastly approaching I need the entertainment!

[econjack]

Matthews mocks Hillary as “Snagglepuss.”

If I were Snagglepuss, I'd be pi$$ed.

[DaveyB]

Heavens To Murgatroid... She is royalty!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“He who steals my purse, steals cash.”

[Eurale]

I wouldn’t bet a dime that Matthews will live long enough to run for office.

[Diogenesis]

The present weakness of the Clintons is proven by each breath
Matthews has made after his depraved cartooning insult upon the World's Smartest Senator.
How dare he!!

[quark]

“Snagglepuss” — isn’t that Hillary’s Secret Service code name?

[Cicero]

Actually, “Exit, stage left” was used a good deal earlier by Shakespeare and the playwrights of his time.

Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction is in The Winter’s Tale: “Exit, pursued by a bear.”

[Kakaze]

Matthews is mistaken, if he believes, The Magic Negro, will protect him from Hillary and his F.B.I. files.

Better put that head on a swivel Matthews, before the Arknsas Mob knocks it off.

[Enchante]

"her long-time supporter and U.S. congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois called Obama today "the presumptive nominee" of his party."

If Clintonista lackey Rahm Emanuel has jumped ship then it's really over - he is as dialed in as anyone to 'Rat power circles and knows that the remaining Superdelegates are likely to do......

[Enchante]

There's also the rather (in)famous stage direction from Titus Andronicus:

"Enter a messenger with two heads and a hand"

[Ghengis]

Coming from H.R. Pufnstuf, this means something.

Might it be that this whole democrat thing is a turf war between the Hannah-Barbera and Sid/Marty Krofft gangs.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

LOL—nicely done!