Whenever I think that CCTV is getting too weird, it’s refreshing to take a look back across the Pacific and watch American punditry in its own downward spiral of absurdity:
From Chris Matthews last November, via Media Matters:
“On the November 6 edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, discussing presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), host Chris Matthews said, “[W]ell, there she is clapping again,” and asked his panel of Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart, Houston Chronicle White House correspondent Julie Mason, and Weekly Standard staff writer Matthew Continetti, “[W]ould somebody please tell me why she claps every time she goes somewhere?” Capehart postulated that Clinton was “responding to the crowd,” and Mason speculated that “[i]t’s an affirmation,” to which Matthews replied: “No, I think it’s bizarre behavior. Anyway, I think it has something to do with — men don’t know what to do with their hands. I guess she’s like us. Anyway, we’ll be right back with more of the roundtable. I want an answer. Why is she clapping?”
Similarly, the next day on the November 7 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-host Willie Geist said to Matthews, “I gotta ask you