Chris Matthews is "Scared" of Hillary Clinton

There's been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about Chris Matthews picking on Hillary Clinton.

I don't get to associate with TV types much, but my one brush happened to be with Chris Matthews in 2002. I never have before because I figured I might get some of his staff in trouble, but it's been more than five years and I'd imagine most, if not all of them are gone. Anyway:

I did a few days of volunteer work for Hardball when Chris Matthews came to town in 2002 to interview Hillary (I chauffered him around and helped some of his staff run errands)...

Nearly to a person, his regular staff told me and whispered among each other that Matthews was never afraid of any guest, but he was "scared" (in at least one case, "scared shitless") of Hillary.

During the time I spent with him, he totally antagonized me, a 22 year old kid at the time -- the first thing he told me was that I must've been helping the show out because I was a "Hillary lover" like it would've been a horrible thing (I've never particularly liked her -- I even volunteered for Tasini against her for a while in '06), but he'd have none of it). He proceeded to ask if I was the "love child of two hippies" (I'm not sure what the hell that's supposed to mean) and on a couple of occasions accused me of being gay (I'm not).

Going into the few days with him, Matthews was my idol (I was in the middle of a neocon phase at the time before becoming an uberliberal the last 3-4 years) and I rarely missed his show... However, he is exactly in person like he is on TV. A mega-asshole!

An asshole, a homophobe, talks all the time at the top of his lungs, and scared of Hillary... I'd guess the dude is pretty damn insecure.

Labels: 2008 Election, 2008 Primaries, Hillary Clinton, TV

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