Chris Tingle Thinks McCain Bought a “Mail-Order Bride”
By SusanUnPC on March 30, 2009 at 11:20 PM in Chris Matthews, John McCain, Misogyny, Sarah Palin, Sexism
This astonishing exchange is from March 30th’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. Matthews, who believes we live a “post-feminist” world, also believes in a world where women are objects of exchange, and flesh is for sale:
MATTHEWS: You’re a great reporter, Howard – I’m going to set you up. You are a great reporter. You are the best – the best in the business. What happened between those two?
FINEMAN: It was a lost weekend that didn’t go beyond the weekend.
MATTHEWS: He thought she was something special. He thought she was the genuine article.
FINEMAN: He had no idea. He had no idea, with all die respect to the Senator. He had no idea what he was getting. They came into the convention and I was covering it closely at the time.
MATTHEWS: What was she – a mail-order bride? What do you mean he had no idea who she was?
FINEMAN: Practically he really didn’t know. He didn’t know her. They didn’t have any other good choices. They had a boring convention they were facing in St. Paul. They wanted to liven it up. They said, hey – let’s pick this conservative young woman governor from Alaska. And he crossed his fingers and said fine. It was a great convention, it was exciting. It was fun.
Matthews seems to have no problem characterizing women in these terms. On the March 27 broadcast of his program, Matthews referred to Rep. Michele Bachman, R-Minn., as the "Mata Hari of Minnesota."
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