Matthews probes Thompson’s smell, “sex appeal.”

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/14/matthews-probes-thompsons-smell-sex-appeal/

Matthews probes Thompson’s smell, “sex appeal.”

Glenn Greenwald highlighted this series of questions from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews last night:

Does have sex appeal? … Gene, do you think there’s a sex appeal for this guy, this sort of mature, older man, you know? … Can you smell the English leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva, the sort of mature man’s shaving cream, or whatever, you know, after he shaved? Do you smell that sort of — a little bit of cigar smoke? You know, whatever.

Watch it at link~

Greenwald notes:

What can even be said about that? And nobody really seems to find this odd or disturbing or objectionable at all — that night after night, one of the featured “journalists” of a major news network goes on television and, with some of our most prestigious journalists assembled with him, speaks admiringly about the smells and arousing masculinity and the “daddy” qualities of various political officials, and that this metric is, more or less, the full extent of his political analysis.

[kurth]

1. probes?

[BlooInBloo]

2. The mancrush is a powerful force.

[Madspirit]

9. hee

:rofl: :rofl:

[Fridays Child]

19. Beneath that neatly pressed button-down shirt of his...

Tweety's nipples are hard with the stigma of desire. :puke:

[Cabcere]

20. Thanks for that, Fridays Child...

:puke: As if Fred Thompson's "manly scent" wasn't disgusting enough...now there's another mental image I really didn't need! :spank:

[Fridays Child]

28. At your service.

:P

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. What is it with Tweety and his man-crushes?

Alas; I guess he's thrown W and his sock-stuffed flight suit overboard, now that he has a new, manly-odored fave...

:puke:

[Kool Kitty]

67. Looks like he's thrown Rudy over, too.

He was quite hot for him for a while.

[waiting for hope]

4. Oh Gawd! Not another man crush for Tweety!!!!!

He gets all rabid and foamy...eeuuww.

[BlueStater]

5. This has taken on a whole new level of creepiness

Can someone get Chrissy as drool bucket?

[Mabus]

6. That is just so creepy

I DVR'ed it and showed it to my husband. He thought it was creepy too.

Fred Thompson looks like a cross between Mr. Burns' ill-kempt brother and the Crypt Keeper.

Did you hear Matthews talking about Gore last week? He was asking pundits if Gore had had an eye job. It was stunning and bizarre.

[waiting for hope]

45. Jon Stewart compared Thompson to

Franken Berry...



:rofl:

[muntrv]

7. Chris is having a hard on for Fred.

[whistle]

8. Right, Fred Thompson has Aqua Velva on his face, cigar smoke in his clothes

...and English Leather up his ass! Mature and manly? I don't think so.

[bullwinkle428]

17. If he's actually using that crap to "aroma-rize" himself, then all

it proves is his complete lack of taste and class!!!

[Cabcere]

21. Which means he'll get the Republican vote. (n/t)

[youthere]

50. but it does mask the odor of decaying flesh....

I'm just saying.

[ryanmuegge]

10. This Thompson idiot has been created by big business and the media.

This fucking idiot wasn't even on the radar as a candidate, not even to himself before the big businesses (FOX News morons, the business press pundits on CNBC and FOX's money shows, idiots like Matthews) that own the media anointed him. It's clear, from watching the media coverage, that Guliani (sp?) and Thompson are the only people that are real candidates.

Fuck. Why even have primaries at all? Why even go through the formality of having them "open" to the public?

[Old and In the Way]

32. We use to put a premium on statesmanship, accomplishment, and public service.

Guys like Matthews typify the new corporate media which has reduced our politics to a literal sniff test. They sell the package, not the content. What has Fred done in politics? Nothing. How bizarre and sad. Tomorrow, he'll be complaining about Hillary's perfume.

[AX10]

11. Don't click on this post if you are easily upset ("vomit alert")

Matthews wants to put his head in Thompson's lap, if you know what I mean.

[supernova]

12. Tweety now has a mancrush on Thompson?

:rofl:

[Old and In the Way]

13. Tweeter sure has a thing about Republican males.

1st Bush, the DeLaqy, then McCain, then Rudy, now Thompson. It's getting downright bizarre. But Glen Greenwald has the last word on this....there's a meme developing around the 'masculinity' of the Republican Party that the inside-the-beltway pundits seem to be coalescing around. Forget policy, character, knowledge, and corruption factors of candidates....do they smell manly? Do they remind you of your dad?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

[Berry Cool]

31. They've actually hit on something key here.

The most devoted Republican friend I ever had (she even worked for Regent University once) used to tell me that Dubya reminded her of her father.

Maybe that's the difference right there. John Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience would certainly seem to indicate that. Conservatives are always looking for someone who reminds them of Daddy.

Me? The last thing I want is a president who reminds me of my father.

[badgerpup]

66. Just out of curiousity...

...which way does Tweety swing?
No TV here, and only seen a few still pics.

The man-crushes would make sense if he that was his orientation...and you know the old saying about how there's no accounting for...er...taste.

Just sayin'...

[Cabcere]

14. Ewwww.

That's just...creepy. Maybe even creepier than Mitt Romney. :scared:

[LyndaG]

15. Oh, please

Thompson has a face that could stop a clock! Even some of the RWers have admitted he isn't much to look at. Sexy?? Tweety's views are mentally disturbing.

[TwilightGardener]

24. This is what I don't get. He's absolutely fugly. Old. Looks ill. I am baffled.

[Eurobabe]

40. Good, let him get the NOM, a Dem will kick his hound dog ass!

The thought of looking at him for 4-8, makes me :puke: :puke: and my guess is it will make most people barf too.

[polichick]

16. This was the most obvious Lust Fest from Chris yet...

Kinda icky the way he was talkin' bout Thompson's cigars!

[Philosoraptor]

37. Nothing gets Chris hotter than Aqua Velva & Cubanos on a fat man.

Maybe Chris should hire a female celebrity model to 'date' him before he's discovered.

[polichick]

72. LOL

Couldn't believe he actually mentioned A.V. ~ guess he "likes an Aqua Velva man" as much as the girls in those old ads do!

[orleans]

18. i saw that show and was aghast! i was wondering when tweety will be

unzipping fred's trousers on air.

i had to turn the channel after that. (the sex fantasies of political talking heads has never turned me on)

[TwilightGardener]

22. Oh...my...God...

Can this get more homoerotic? I am officially embarrassed for him (and his wife).

[muntrv]

23. No Chris, Fred is actually using Eau De Toilette, as in WATER FROM THE TOILET.

:evilgrin:

[Beausoir]

25. God. Next, Matthews will be describing the smell of Thompson's boxers. Sorry, but there it is.

What a sicko. What a freak.

[Catherine Vincent]

26. Talk about grasping at straws.

:eyes:

[valerief]

27. Ugh, ugh,ugh, ugh. Thompson is gross. Not because he's old, but

because he's a gross Rethuglican. Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh. Matthews is a talking turd.

[Decruiter]

29. Just fell all over again in love with Mr. Greenwald. Thanks for calling out on it, sir. n/t

[Horse with no Name]

30. Thompson has what I call "rubbery" features

Attractive? I think not. I think you might be lucky to not have him stench of stale cigar smoke and rancid breath.

[TwilightGardener]

33. Excellent (though older) blog post from Digby that Glenn Greenwald

links to at the end of his Salon article--highly recommended reading, totally hits the "chickenhawk" faux-masculinity nail on the head:

Edit--post entitled "Rights of Passage"

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_07_03_digbysblog_archive.html#112094486398202142

[Gabi Hayes]

34. the manly Instapundit, Glen Reynolds

http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-rubble-wine-coolers-less-trouble.html

http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

[annabanana]

35. "Stop Smelling Me"

(Any sane human being to Tweety's creepy little teenage crush)

[Philosoraptor]

36. Chris likes bears, fat, old, stinky bears, is that so WRONG?

[Solly Mack]

38. blech

that's very disturbing

[Philosoraptor]

39. stink kick

[Hubert Flottz]

41. That's why I never watch Oddball!

I can't stand to see Kriss's juices flowing like a mad hound dog.

[Philosoraptor]

42. I gave it up too.

Used to actually watch him, but realized what a fool I'd been.

[Hubert Flottz]

49. I guess the thrill that arouses the primal wild animal in KKKriss the

most, is when he thinks about the GOPer smelly/sexual connection, between Actor Fred Thompson and Actor Ronald Reagan. I'd always heard that how Ron and Nancy had sex in the White House, was that Ron would let a paint blistering, big, pickled egg, hot wings and beer fart under the covers and then pull the covers over Nancy's head, until she screamed for mercy. Maybe old Freddy does the same thing and Kris has gotten wind of it! Kris is prolly just dreaming of Fred's next KKKolon KKKlensing and wishing he were there.

Hai Karate, Jade East, Old Spicy, Canoe, Pickled Eggs, Possum and Sweet Taters, Pinto Beans & Raw Onions and so on, are little smells that a super human political reporter type guy like Kris's(news nose)can zoom right in on more than most other humans, because just like a bloodhound uses it's chin slobbers to enhance it's already enhanced sense of smell, to the tune of 10,000 times stronger than that of most humans, so can Kriss!

[terrya]

43. Fred Thompson has about as much sex appeal as Wilford Brimley.

And memo to Tweety....I don't look for any "sex appeal" when I'm choosing the leader of this country, thanks. That's not even close to being a quality to look for in a President.

[Ganja Ninja]

44. I suspect if you got within range of Fred the predominant aromas

you would detect would be last nights gin and cigars. Too bad for Tweedy he's married. Oh well I guess there's always Hannidate.

[Canuckistanian]

46. Thump thump thump thump

(obscure reference to Rude Pundit post)

[warrior1]

47. uck

fred smells like a old man?

[peekaloo]

48. Wha? No Hai Karate?

Chris Matthews is such a tart.

[Hubert Flottz]

51. K&R and headed for the DUzy page!

I posted about Hai Karate before I saw your post...sorry bout that!

[peekaloo]

53. You're one of my DU heroes......I'm happy that we think alike.

:D

[Bluebear]

61. :spray:

[Philosoraptor]

52. Now I wonder where chris's nose has been....I'm getting ill.

[rox63]

54. Ewww!!

I really didn't need these images invading my brain this early in the morning. :puke:

[Philosoraptor]

55. Mrs. Matthews: 'What's that smell all over you Chris?

"Where have you been at all hours of the night"? "You've had your nose up fred thompson's ass again haven't you"?

[The Backlash Cometh]

56. I think Matthews is trying to create an aroma that isn't there.

Thompson looked old and tired next to his young bride.

[progressoid]

57. Outstanding. A continuation of the journalistic excellence we've come to expect today.

[Philosoraptor]

58. It started with the highly aromatic reagan.

Man, now THERE was a man with a real sexy fragrance.

People like matthews and the others are just not funny anymore.

[Hubert Flottz]

59. We have our HDTV...

Can smelleyvision be far behind?

EDIT...Scratch and sniff political mailings from Fragrant Freddy?

[UTUSN]

60. Yesterday he was claiming his diabetes needle sticks were enjoyable like men shaving

Surely, his producers must make him aware of what we and nationally published writers are saying about his man-crushes. His performance in "moderating" the debates shows he is shameless.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

"Of his regular, self-administered blood tests, he says, “I (now) enjoy it the way men like to shave in the morning.”


(My compassion for his illness is compartmentalized over by itself.) Perhaps that quote is a bit of explanation of his continual man-crushes on RAYGUN, Shrub, McCAIN, GIULIANI, Fred THOMPSON---that Tweety is always trying to be one of the dudes and he is attracted to stereotypes of what these REAL MEN are like.

When I was a kid and wanted to shave, my daddy said, "Some day you're going to hate doing it." He was correct. And I don't hear other dudes singing the praises of shaving. And I have no enjoyment of needle sticks.

[Politicub]

62. If Matthews is lucky

Perhaps Fred will rub some of his stink on him. Chrissy would surely swoon then.

[Bluebear]

63. I was OK until Matthews sniffed in deeply the chair seat Thompson had gotten up from.

It was then that I realized his fetish ran deep.

[regularguy]

64. Phere and balanced....

[blondie58]

71. LOL!!- Phere and balanced! thanks for the morning chuckle

[Chulanowa]

65. Makes my skin crawl.

Hawtness.

[MilesColtrane]

68. Funny, whenever I see Fred Thompson I smell farina and urine.

The GOP goes back to the well for another actor.

They must be mighty dissapointed in the Chimp's performance.

Christ! If in 20 years some pundit on Holovision is lauding the strength of the national economy after Thompsonomics, and going on about how "Gravitas Fred" single-handedly won the war on terror, you all have my blessings to put a bullet in my brain pan.

[StrongFRONT22]

69. wow what insightful commentary

n/t

[radfringe]

70. can't think of any better reason to vote for "Fred"?

in 2000 we were told we should vote for bush because he's likeable

in 2004 we were told we should vot for bush because he's a good beer buddy

now we're being told we should vote for Fred because he smells like English Leather Aqua Velva and cigar smoke?

Slap my head and call me silly - can't think of a better set of standards for the job than a smell test.....

< \end :sarcasm: >

looks like tweety should have his nose examined - that ain't the smell of cologne coming from Fred's butt. And we all know where press-puppy noses are frequently found

[WinkyDink]

73. I'd have voted for "Lenny" from "L&O", 'cause he was the MAN! Hee.

[DFW]

74. Not that I have any great insight into what turns women on

I still consider it a miracle my wife has stayed with me
for 30 years without coercion, but even so:

I can't imagine Fred Thompson being attractive to any woman
whose optical and olfactory nerves were functional.