Anyone see the Chris Matthews-McCain interview?
Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 05:28:52 PM PDT
First diary and I am sure it will not pass muster but I just had to see if anyone else saw the absolutely hilarious live interview on Hardball today.
I do not know how to link to videos,and I am not sure it is out there anyway but this was some priceless stuff.
The setup:
John McCain and his 95 year old mother Roberta did a live remote interview from some ski lodge in New Hampshire with Chris Matthews.
The idea was to reinforce how ''young'' the 70+ year old McCain actually is when contrasted with his elderly mother or just to show how great his genes are which Matthews harped on initially. And I will say Mrs. McCain did look very well-preserved for someone of her advanced age.
OK- it was going ok even though Matthews was his usual verbose self making the delayed response interview rather cumbersome when Matthews asked Mrs. McCain about her son's credentials for the presidency versus Mitt Romney and Rudy Guilani.. She proceeds to say that Mitt was a senator or something and then he did that Olympic gig but that the Mormons messed up the olympic deal anyway and so as a Mormon he should have to clean that up...wow. McCain immediately jumped in and said that those views are hers and not his..
So after a commercial break they come back and before Matthews can ask a question, McCain breaks into a full fledged apology to the Mormon people and Mitt Romney, calling him a fine human being.
Then Matthews asked Mrs. McCain on why her husband next to her would make a fine president. She was confused, Matthews unaware, and McCain uncomfortable at being called his mother's husband. Finally you could hear McCain say to his mother '' he is talking about me''. Finally, Matthews ends the interview by telling Mrs. McCain she did a good job of representing her husband in the interview.
Live television, you cannot beat it. Somehow I have a feeling that John McCain was a little hot afterwards when he thinks about being called his 95 year old mothers husband twice on national television when the whole purpose was to make him the bouncing baby boy next to her. For the record, they did look like they could have been a couple.