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Chris Matthews, Vocal Coach

July 16, 2004 08:34 PM

Chris Matthews speculates on why Hillary was not given a more prominent speaking slot at the convention, and comes up with an ingenious theory: Concern for animal welfare.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Men—and I‘ve known this—I‘ve been trying to stop—tend to shout when they‘re on television or at public events. And they get away with it. . . "The McLaughlin Group" is like that. The men yell. When Eleanor yells, it sounds high-pitched. Is that just a problem for Hillary, because I‘ve seen so many women in politics, like Barbara Boxer, who in person have moderated, wonderful tones. They‘re very charming in their presentation.
MOLLY IVINS: Right.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: They get behind a microphone and they start to yell. It doesn‘t work.
MOLLY IVINS: Well, not all of us have those high, shrill voices, Chris.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well, you‘re giving me the, what, Raymond Burr now? You know what I‘m talking about.
(LAUGHTER)
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Hillary Clinton can squeal right so the dogs are going crazy, OK? Right?

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What Part Of NEVER AGAIN Don't We Understand?

SHAME.

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One day, God willing, my grandchildren will click open their history textbooks and read about the Central American migrant internment camps. They'll learn about sick kids, locked in cages, kept hungry and dirty and cold for weeks on end, and they'll be horrified.

"Bubbie," they'll say, "how could this happen in America? How could there be toddlers sleeping on the ground without blankets, without soap or toothbrushes to clean themselves?"

"I don't know. I wish I had done more. I'm ashamed," I'll say. We will all have to answer for this atrocity. But some of us will have to answer more than others. Not just the archvillains like Stephen Miller and John Kelly, but the people who kept right on doing their jobs, even as those jobs morphed into defending concentration camps.

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