I heard the sanitized radio version driving to work. I think Matthews is still fired up from his gig judging the Miss America pagent.
" I think Matthews is still fired up from his gig judging the Miss America pagent."
Apparently.
" When reporters asked MSNBC news host and pageant judge Chris Matthews what he was looking for in a Miss America, he gave an unexpected answer."
"Baraka," Matthews said."
And he went on to talk about Obama.
Matthew's questions to the contestants were a hoot and could have been scripted by The Onion.
“Why did Mississippi seem to do a better job than” Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?” he asked Miss Mississippi.
“If you had a long plane ride, who would you rather sit next to, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush?” he queried another.
“Why can’t [Oprah] find a guy?” he continued.
And even though it didn’t air on TV, Miss D.C., Kate Michael, said Matthews dominated her interview, asking her several political questions.
“He asked me where Osama bin Laden is now,” she said.
But the strangest query he concocted had to be this one, aimed at another contestant: “Faulkner never used commas when he wrote. Why is that?”
Matthews has a looooong history of bizarre comments.
In October 2005, Matthews was in the lobby of the Mayflower hotel in DC, talking to a reporter.http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh013007.shtml
The liberal reporter was aghast at the weird comments Matthews made while making small talk .
“I just saw the most incredible prostitute,” he weirdly said."
" But Chris wasn’t through with his weird discussion;
his eyes continued to scan the long hall as he said something like,
“Yeah, you have to ask for the ‘pink sheet’ rooms when you check in.”