Daily Howler - August 17, 2005

VACATIONS DON’T WORK! Matthews, back from a long vacance, stuck his nose into Sheehan’s divorce: // link // print // previous // next //
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2005

VACATIONS DON’T WORK: Is it true? Do vacations really produce better judgment, as the president recently said? We had a hard time deducing the principle from Monday evening’s edition of Hardball, when recently-recreated, refreshed Chris Matthews clowned at the expense of Cindy Sheehan.

The trivia quotient was set on HIGH when Matthews spoke with Sheehan. Sheehan appeared with her sister, Deedee Miller, who has played no real public role in the story from Camp Sheehan. But after one question—one!—for his actual guest, Matthews found himself deeply distracted by—what else?—her sister’s t-shirt! The t-shirt bore the words “FED UP,” under which Miller had written “with Bush.”