ZDD Live Blog: New Hampsheer!

Of MSNBC. I only have one channel.

5:00 I get home from work, after having observed the MSN reported today the HRC appeared at the Union Leader drunk, with road flares strapped to her body, raving that Chris Matthews had dumped her.

5:11: press roundtable swap stories about what a lousy lay HRC is, and how Clenis should have shelved the ice queen ages ago. Her camel toe is gross, and how she should shoot herself.

5:27: Andrea Mitchell adds from HRC headquarters that her thang stunk.

5:52: Chris Matthews bludgeons De De Meyers with a max lite while Pat Buchannan sits on her stomach.

6:01: Chris Matthews, Timmeh and some old guy fart and brag about how smart they are.

6:09: Rachel Mathow asks whether or not it's fair that the national media should viciously assault feminism on the public airwaves in the heat of a national election. Male guests beat her, smear her with feces and stuff her in a Hefty bag.

6:15: The old man spots a headline in the newspaper that the stock market just fell 900 points.

6:26: Andrea Mitchell complains about the dip.

6:58: The gang cheers and talks about the Patriots.

7:01: The race is even.

more later....

NOTE: I'm giving up. Of course, they knew it all along. Once, again the MSM were right no matter what.

MORNING AFTER NOTE: From Crooks and Liars:

Air America host Rachel Maddow had the best reason why Hillary won: let’s call it The Tweety Effect.

BUCHANAN: My guess is this: the New Hampshire voters said ‘look the press has been telling us Obama is the second coming. We don’t think so. The press has been telling us she’s gone.” And the women came out and said, “no, she’s not.” What New Hampshire did was stand up and body slam the national establishment, the press corps, the pollsters, the whole bunch who came in here as well as Barack Obama’s folks, who must be in a state of shock tonight.

MADDOW: Pat, I will tell you that on the influential-influential, perhaps, on the left-website Talking Points Memo today, you want to know who they’re blaming for women voters breaking for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, who they’re blaming for this late showing and a big vote for Hillary Clinton? They’re blaming Chris Matthews. People are citing specifically Chris-not only for his own views but also for…as symbol of what the mainstream media has done to Hillary Clinton.

Jane Hamsher

t's typical of the kind of deference Matthews always shows "manly men" (witness the embarrassing codpiece fealty that Digby has disturbingly chronicled for so long). What's up with that? I don't know, and I'm not sure I want to know.

But on cue, this morning, Matthews is back to bashing Clinton as nothing more than somebody's wife. And nobody challenges him, because as Bob Somerby has long argued, when liberal women disagree with Matthews, they're never invited back again. So to the extent that the women on the show aren't a pack of misogynistic vultures themselves (Andrea Mitchell, Maureen Dowd, Kate O'Beirne -- come on down!) and they disagree with Matthews, they're forced to choose between joining in in the festivities or being disappeared.

There are no women hosts on MSNBC who get that kind of tight content control. And that's a problem.

Four words, MSNBC: The Rachel Maddow Show.