Chris Matthews Battles Nancy Pfotenhauer Over Economic Fundamentals (VIDEO)

Thanks to the heroic collapse of the world financial markets, no one on teevee felt compelled to spend fifty-six minutes out of every hour today debating whether the phrase "lipstick on a pig" was busy installing a glass ceiling. Here's an example of what went down today, with Hardball's Chris Matthews doing battle with McCain flack Nancy Pfotenhauer. It goes about as well as one can expect, with Pfotenhauer changing the subject just as fast as she can and Matthews attempting to wield "statistics," which everyone knows are totally in the tank for Obama. The whole tete-a-tete might have ended up being scored a draw were it not for Pfotenhauer's bizarre decision to debate middle-class economics while dressed in the aristocratic weeds of the Baroness Dierdre Von Goldencollar.

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Comments

[Perfection]

Wow, uniforms!. What a great idea Matthews. And you get paid for this?
Obama is no messiah. He is going to send the US to Babylon.
You guys are right, Stephanie Cutter is totally clueless

[AudsMom]

Man she is horrible!

[sd619guy]

AARRGGHH - I just want to slap that dumba$$ smile off her face!!

[PT6]

McStretch on McSwitch on topics "I just don't understand" so I McDeflect.

[middlefingermedia net]

What does she think is so funny?

[JonStewart4President]

McCain and his people are LIARS, beginning to end in this interview and in their ads and in their campaign speeches. Obama will not raise taxes for 95% of people in the US. That has NEVER changed. He's not on his third version of his economic plan, it's same one he's had. And it's the same one that correctly forsaw the mortgage subprime problems and has solutions for the middle/working class. Not rich people and corporations like McCain. and his 'deregulate everything! include health care, Social Security, markets!'

[jnah]

who is this drag queen and why is he so ignorant about the economy? oh wait thats mccains second senior economic advisor. The first was the one who created this fiasco

[Crog63]

Somebody please explain this to me since I didn't take ECON 101. If keeping taxes low for corporations and rich people creates jobs then why are there more people losing their jobs? Bush's tax cuts are still in place are they not? Doesn't the national debt figure into the equation? So if you keep taxes low on the wealthy and let the national debt continue to rise won't the value of the dollar grow weaker? How does that benefit the majority of Americans since a weaker dollar means higher prices?

[akindependent]

Once upon a time, there was some truth to the trickle-down theory; what was good for General Motors was, to some extent, good for America. But the paradigm has changed since then. If corporations were doing well decades ago, it meant that jobs that supported a large middle class were created. Nowdays, many of those jobs are shipped overseas; the corporations do well, but they don't sustain a workfore in America. The gap between the haves and have-nots gets wider and wider.

[arbee1]

This woman is a perfect surrogate. She will not shut up and gets away with lying by persistence. If you want a reasoned discussion she is not the one.

[DueTruthinesss]

What, you guys can't see Nancy operating heavy machinery? This is obviously a lady with grease underneath her nails. She's another example of how McCain's campaign connects with the every-man and woman.

[Star2000dancer]

lol!! I watched this. This lady is not only clueless, but she's whack.

[freedog]

And how would you describe Chris "tingling up my leg" Mattews. The left really scares me.. If up to you, we would elect Obama and then create a dictatorship to allow him to create a communist/socialist nation.

Move to China, please.

[Miss Lola]

Hmm, where does Obama say anywhere that he will be raising taxes on 95% of the American public????

I love to hear her st-st-st-s­t-stutter.­..

And he's RIGHT..the republicans have been running the congress!!!!!!!

[miocid31]

you are such an idiot, he's cutting taxes for 95% of americans, and raise for those who make more than $250K

[Miss Lola]

Can you READ?? That is what *I* said...

Sarcasm...­rhetoric..­..

I said, "where does it say...?" obviously it doesn't..and he's NOT!

DUH.

I would suggests, dim bulb, that before you slam someone, you take the time to READ their post so you can comprehend it, and then comment.

We're on the same side, tho' i am LOATHE to admit someone as dopey as you has something in common with me.

D'oy.

[Dannydel]

She looks like Cindy McStepford...only with a brain. American ingenuity is so advanced, they are building some of the worst cars in the world and people are rewarding the auto industry by sending them to bankruptcy court.

[cw9580]

Where do the McCain people find these women? It's embarrassing because this country has a lot of very smart, earthbound women that don't wear $400 sweaters.

Of all the people to lecture us, Carly Fiorina. Have you seen the new T-shirt?

I cut the value of HP stock in half and all I got was $40 MIllion to go away.

[fudgebuster]

man... what great theatre. she's getting burried by the guy but she's still smiling? she's insane.

[AFPISCES]

I got it wrong! She was one of the saloon gals from Westworld!