The Kicker
Counting the “Ha!’s” in a Matthews Interview
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 10:21 AMHow many “Ha!’s” might Chris Matthews let out during the course of a 10-question interview? I counted eight in Matthews’ Q&A with the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jonathan Storm (perhaps some were edited out)?
When asked why, at age 62 and with his MSNBC contract running out in about a year, he wouldn’t just “hang up the bullhorn and go fishing,” Matthews replied:
Ha. Ha. Ha. The money is enormous. I’d probably talk politics if I wasn’t on the air. Mike Wallace is, what, 90?. These people just keep doing this stuff. It’s not like it’s a real heavy-lifting job. It’s talking about what you want to talk about, and old men love to talk about politics.
That explains a lot.
CJR
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