ha!

...like Ari knows how to give real answers to questions.

Have you checked out Arianna's take on it?  She notes the similarity between MM and Maleficent -- and provides pictures.

Let's start with the unavoidable: what was she wearing? First, the brooch. Or was it a sculpture? Or was it perhaps some bizarre new NSA listening device? It was so, well, there, that hard as you tried you could not avert your eyes from it.

And then there was the black Asian pajama top to match the black eye makeup and the scarlet red nails to match the scarlet red lips. It was impossible to watch her without thinking of Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty. And then there was her manner, which was so incredibly nasty that it was hard to focus on her ludicrous talking points.

First things first.  The wardrobe.  BooMan couldn't have described it better himself.  Clearly, she should have worn a pantsuit.

Oh Susan, you are too kind.

Mary Quite Contrary
Posted by James Wolcott

I only caught the bitter end of Meet the Press so I'm not sure what provoked Mary Matalin's pout-fest (I'm sure Arianna will issue a full forensics report later), but she made quite a petulant spectacle of herself, shaking her head from side to side in silent, lemon-puss disagreement whenever Maureen Dowd and David Gregory made mildly critical comments about Shotgun Cheney. (Another prominent deployer of The Disapproving Headshake is sister conservative Kate O'Beirne, who wields it to upstage other panelists and ensure herself additional face-time: after her reaction shot, the host invariably calls on her next to vocalize her mute dissent. "Kate, I noticed you nodding your head..."--as if anyone could not notice!) Even without the immature pouting and pissy expression, Matalin would have been a car wreck in repose: With a bad haircut topping a mistaken facelift and a ghastly floral pin that looked like spray-painted aluminum, she looked like the Beltway's Madwoman of Chaillot. Maybe defending the defensible is getting to her, and the acid reflux has gone to her brain. [my emphasis]
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To thine own self be true. W.S.

... a little old and Carville looks a little silly when she carries on in such a partisan way.  I mean, are these issues so flimsy and unimportant that when they go home they can put this stuff aside?  

Or is it all just a big circus act so when they go home they can put it all aside cause it don't mean shit to them...doesn't it gotta be one or the other ?  Either the issues don't matter or they don't care.  Either way it is a slap in our faces.

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Occasionally the WH press corps works up the courage to stand up to that little piss-ant, Scotty. Then the right-wing spin machine starts to roll and they crawl back in their shell.

Mary(Frau Blücher)Matalin was allowed to spew a stupefying amount of unchallenged, unadulterated bullshit.

The truly fascinating result of the ari and mary show was the complete collapse of D Gregory. It appeared that either Gregory was offered a ton of bucks or what probably was the case-- OK kid- shut the hell up or you are done in this town! Pathetic.
  It should be quite interesting to see the coming WH press conferences!
                 billjpa

Surely, Mary's apprearance is not grounds for criticism. What she says and what she stand's for provide plenty of ammunition for legitimate attack.

Also, it is hard to imagine a couple more opportunistic than Carvelle and Matlin. Maybe Stephen Colbert should use "the word" Matlivellean to reflect just that.

If you want things to get better, be prepared to deal with change.

She used the word Jihad intentionally to imply that Gregory is supportive of terrorism.

It´s as simple as that. It was intentional.

He got scared and shut up. That´s where their power lies, in the use of key phrases.

THe truth is there are practically no terrorists anywhere. It is alll a big myth.

  There are no consequences for lying or misleading and there is no support for the truth. Nothing else will change until that does.

  Once Matalin invoked the jihad word, Gregory was stuck in a no defense position. Nobody stood up for him either or spoke in his defense on that word usage so they all gave their silent nod of approval for Matalin's reference.

  They must be scared, too.

I cannot believe what a poor presentation Matalin made.

Her make-up and costumery were right out of 101 Dalmations--the horrid hag who wanted the spotty coat.

I thought the bloom on her chest had been plucked from a man-eating plant. Now, I am a person with large hands, but Matalin has horribly monster-claw hands and she looked utterly threatening and witchlike as she ranted on.

OK! OK! So I'm having a meow moment but Mo Dowd was utterly lovely and saintlike in comparison.