News on Chris Matthews’ Leg
By Bud White on November 7, 2008 at 8:30 AM in Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton
As if it hasn’t been obvious for months, Chris Matthews declares that his job is help Barack Obama:
One of the highlights of this whole miserable election was watching Just Say No Deal’s Diane Mantouvalos tell Chris Matthews that his sexism towards Hillary was one reason she started JSND (at 4:15). She left him stuttering:
By the way, there’s a blog tracking Chris Matthews’ leg, called Chris Matthews’ Leg. Their motto is: “If his lower extremities feel something, you’ll hear it here first.”
Chris Matthews’ Leg already has the inside scoop from election night:
Barack Obama’s victory speech overstimulated the sensitive neuro-receptors in Chris Matthews’ lower left extremity and caused it to hum like a tuning fork.
The Leg couldn’t help feeling it had played a small role in making this historic night possible.
Yes, Chris, MSNBC and pretty much the entire broadcast news industry traded the last bits of their journalistic credibility in the bacchanal of fawning coverage. Sure, Matthews’ and Olbermann’s Bush-Derangement and over-the-top Obama water-carrying during the election made them a national punchline.
But as the nation’s union bosses, trial lawyers, grievance mongers, Israel haters, and global warming hysterics uncorked the champagne and prepared their legislative agendas–The Leg could be heard to whisper:
“Totally, worth it, man . . . totally worth it.”
Here’s the original Chris Matthews’ confession:

















