See the pundit explaining the ways of his reporting peers! There was Pat Buchanan—in his way—getting at the Conflict/Conventional Wisdom dynamic in the press that ensures Big Perpetual Play for stories like Angry Bill Clinton. In a segment devoted to discussion of Angry Bill Clinton. Of course.

Finally, what would MSNBC’s triumphant wall-to-wall coverage of HecklerGate be without Chris Matthews’ take on it all? Matthews devoted a good portion of Hardball yesterday afternoon—under the chyron, “Bill Clinton’s Anger Management”—to the Two Heckles and whether they help or hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign. (Note: Matthews was clearly impressed by his network’s technical wizardry as he rolled the unavoidable Heckle footage: “We caught [Bill] in that little silhouette there… It’s almost like a crime scene the way they show these things now.”) At one point Matthews compared Bill Clinton to a giant balloon (“He’s a big Thanksgiving float and all [Hillary] can do is hold onto the ropes!”). At another point, Matthews saw Old Blue Eyes in Bill (“I keep thinking of Frank Sinatra because he was the guy no matter how big he was if somebody wanted to poke fun or cause trouble for him, he was ready for him… If you want to come after me, I’ll come after you.”)

It’s a Thanksgiving float! It’s Frank Sinatra! It’s… it’s… Angry Bill Clinton!