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The Showdown Between Chris Matthews And Newt Gingrich Was Cable News At Its Finest
Posted by: | CommentsIf MSNBC was looking to spice up its afternoon lineup, it may have found its answer in former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The notoriously grandiose Republican went up against the network's notoriously grandiose Hardball host Chris Matthews today, and the result was 19 minutes of thoroughly entertaining political cable news television.
Gingrich took Matthews' liberal browbeating good-naturedly, even letting the host coax him into calling Mitt Romney a liar. In fact, both men appeared to thoroughly enjoy their sparring match, which bounced around from birtherism to George Washington's money to food stamps, before ending in a serious heart-to-heart about snakes. Seriously.
Watch the interview below:
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Here are some of the highlights, via the MSBC transcript:
On Gingrich's role at the convention:
GINGRICH: Yes. I will take whatever Romney thinks will help him win.
MATTHEWS: You're just a supplicant now. You're just a humble...
GINGRICH: I'm not a supplicant, I'm a team player.
MATTHEWS: A team player?
GINGRICH: I started my career as a team player.
MATTHEWS: You know, when you smile, I see what you are!
On birthers:
MATTHEWS: Why do some people in your party keep pushing that he's not an American?
GINGRICH: Beats me.
MATTHEWS: Thank you.
On animals:
MATTHEWS: Best -- best animal, favorite animal to go watch?
GINGRICH: Favorite animal to go watch? Hard to say. Maybe elephants.
MATTHEWS: That's me, too. Me, too.
GINGRICH: They're amazing.
MATTHEWS: I'm with elephants.
GINGRICH: They're just remarkable.
MATTHEWS: Yes. I'll show you in the picture in the office here. Let me -- do you like the reptile house?
GINGRICH: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Favorite snake?
GINGRICH: Probably a python.
MATTHEWS: Why? A constrictor, right?
GINGRICH: Big and passive.
MATTHEWS: Constrictor?
GINGRICH: Yes. It's...
MATTHEWS: You like the constrictor aspect of it?
GINGRICH: No, I just think they're very...
MATTHEWS: You like that it eats cows whole?
GINGRICH: They don't eat cows whole.
MATTHEWS: What about a mamba? I would have thought you would like a black mamba. They go 30 miles an hour. They attack your nervous system. You have got 15 minutes to live. They attack like this and they keep attacking.
GINGRICH: You have a more ruthless approach to politics than I do.
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PORN STARS: Bill Clinton ASKED To Take That Picture With Us
Posted by: | CommentsBrooklyn Lee and Tasha Reign, the porn stars who posed for a picture with Bill Clinton at a gala in Monaco last night, claim that the former president personally requested the now infamous photo.
The two adult film stars called into TMZ today and explained how the whole thing went down:
"He kind of was looking over at us once in a while, and we're huge, like psycho fans of Bill — we just think he's really cute," Lee said. "So we ended up wandering by and we were going to approach him to take a picture and his Secret Service sort of brushed us away."
"As we were walking away, Bill actually had the Secret Service guy call us back and take a picture."
You can listen to the whole call here. And just in case you missed it, here's the picture:
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