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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[alt365]

are there people who listen to her and really believe she is sincere? There's nothing behind the eyes.

[Busterdawg]

SO, Moderator.... my comment about the extreme Left, the HuffPo and sexism is deleted but dozens of postings that attack Pfotenhauer's looks are allowed through? Way to prove my point.

[guajiro]

Why the heck didn't Matthews interrupt the baroness when she said that Obama intended to raise taxes and that everyone knows you don't raise taxes during a downturn in the economy? He should have told her that neither Obama nor anyone will take lectures from a Party that has run the economy and country into the ground. Jeez!

[PT6]

Pftoenhauer is to the RIGHT of Palin and believes in deregulation of most everything as that creates jobs! So now she is arguing for regulation of Wall Street as McCain is.

It is the season of the "complete make-over" I guess.

[PT6]

Pftoenhauer is another George Bush conservative who served on his transistion team and was trained by a person who substitutes for Rush Limbaugh. Pftoenhauer is so "brain-fixed" on defending the Bush/McCain/Bush approach that she is willing to cross into "Limbaugh land" when explaining policies. The idea that McCain will now regulate is counter to what he has done and said all his life. Sure he may have warned about Freddy and Fanny but improved regulations were no where in his warning.

She is funded and linked closely to the Texas based Koch family who want "less and less regulations" which is what got us into this Wall Street mess.

Sounds like just what we need to get out of this crisis caused by Bush appointing cronies to regulatory jobs and them not doing the regulating.

[ElectronoftheOne]

Well done, Chris.

I love Pfotenhauer's "Econ 101" comment about how increasing taxes is a "recipe for recession." It's a little late for talking about the recipe when the stew is already on the table.

[DA1215]

When this woman comes on, as she did on Hardball last night, I want to shoot my TV.

[josezeros]

Ptonenhauer is the dumbest jagoff I have ever seen on political TV. Doesn't she ever shut her piehole. She is awful.

[princessofnowt]

Well, now.

If we are going to need expert translators for our president (if McCain were so to become) to tell us what he really meant after every time that he speaks, then isnt that a bit of a disconnect? A sign that something is clearly wrong?

If we cannot understand the man nor his words, nothing good can come of him being in charge of our fate.

Perhaps more importantly-- who is behind all of these expert translators, and what is their motive in attempting to make an unfit man appear to be worthy of this office?

this should be viewed as something to which there is more than meets the eye.

[DoomtoNeoCons]

She looks like a bored, Rich housewife who thought it might be fun to get involved with "those people" 's election thing.

[truthsforsaken]

I really love his facial expression around 4:30. Absolute bewilderment trying to understand what she is talking about.

[blueshield]

I've been trying to recall who she reminded me of....where she's getting her talking points....

Remember Comic Ali Sahaf, the Iraqi Information Minister, Saddam's mouthpiece during the invasion?

"Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honor and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts."

"Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/

[bobhobard]

She reminded me of Miss hathaway on the Beverly Hillbillies.

[princessofnowt]

Miss Hathaway meets the Julie Andrews of Victor/Victoria

[maxfax]

On CNN, MSNBC, they let her get away with murder. She's an I. diot.

[Busterdawg]

SO, Moderator.... my comment about the extreme Left, the HuffPo and sexism is deleted but dozens of postings that attack Pfotenhauer's looks are allowed through?

Way to prove my point.

[DoomtoNeoCons]

Get a life, dink.

[j0hnwi11iams]

So McCain isn't really a republican now . . . So what was all that nonsense at the RNC

A message to Rick "this campaign isn't about issues" Davis: The economy just became an issue.

[DoubleD]

Oh comely Pfotenhauer,
Young darling of the Right,
You've spent most of an hour
In a one-sided fight

With Matthews, king of cable,
On MSNBC
You lied when you were able
'Twas clear for all to see.

The blame lies with your Party
For Lehman's quick demise
Your evasions were tarty
And fear was in your eyes.

McCain's George Bush's brother
Completely in his thrall,
Thanks for deregulation
Thanks for the market's fall.

[mnieman101]

nice..