Chris Matthews Holding Long Time Grudge Against Arianna Huffington?
Posted on May 30, 2008
-By Warner Todd Huston
Let’s take a little time off of more serious matters for some juicy gossip. Over at gawker.com there is a somewhat humorous little tale of an MSNBC photo shoot that saw TV yaker Chris Matthews of “thrill going up my leg” fame storming out after being told he might be required to share the camera frame with blog maven and born again lefty arianna Huffington. Apparently Chris is still mad at her for supposedly having hired a private investigator to stalk Tim Russert after an unflattering 1994 article written by Russert’s wife, Maureen Orth.
Matthews is reported as having said, “I will not be in the same f_ _ _ing picture as Arianna Huffington!! Not a chance of that!”
Apparently, Tucker Carlson was also in the shoot and the witness made the following comments about what was said:
“I want you to know that she hired a Private Investigator to spy on one of my colleagues; someone in the media.” Tucker walks in at that point and I’m literally writing down what he just said on a paper towel so I’d remember that quote. Oh yeah, so Tucker walks in and says, “Yup, he’s right, she did hire someone and nobody really talks about it, but I really like her so it doesn’t bother me.”
Well, it’s all rather interesting and certainly based on the claims of only one witness as reported by gawker.com. But, I agree with gawker that it all has a ring of authenticity to it. And the original posting of this little tale had at least one photo that made it seem as if the writer really was at the photo shoot.
But, what makes this story even more interesting to me is that the original blogger pulled down his posting of the photo shoot incident. It looks like John LaCroix pulled his post after gawker got hold of it and in place of the original post left this message:
The original author of this post and the editor of this blog would like to sincerely apologize to Conde Nast, Portfolio, Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson and the photographer on set for any problems or inconvenience we might have caused. We had no intention to bring harm to anybody involved.
This little mea culpa almost screams out that LaCroix is covering for Douglas Thompson, the original source of the info (see cached version HERE), who was going to get fired from whatever job he has that placed him at the photo shoot unless he pulled the post. It also amuses me that our pal Johnny seems to be making the lie to his own mission statement as posted on the “about this blog” section of the blog.
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I always love this sort of mindless bravado. Oh we are soooo brave to be unapologetically offending people, we are soooo cool that propriety and an effort at serious content is beneath us. Generally used as cover for slovenly work, this sort of blowhard-like posturing is as childish as it sounds. But, I am amused to point out that their puffed up sense of cool-to-be-cruel, outrageousness seems to have taken an immediate back seat the second someone’s job was threatened!
Suddenly their original false bravado is the last thing on their minds and a groveling apology becomes of great import when real life comes a knocking. So much for their claim that they intend “offending” one and all. Playing at coolness instead of sticking to their guns.
Dontcha hate it when lefties are mugged by reality like that?
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Warner,
Thank you for covering our story, as you can imagine the Blogging on Meds demographic is drastically different than that of Newsbusters, therefore we appreciate the new exposure and we welcome your readers to check out our mindless bravado.
I mostly agree with your assessment of our latest controversy. We were too quick to publish a post describing an anecdote from a photo shoot on set with Chris Matthews and Tucker Carlson where they both said some interesting things. Our blogger wasn’t so much criticizing them or making a big deal about their specific comments as much as he was documenting a brush with two top pundits for his diary. When Gawker picked up the story, it brought heat onto the photo crew for obvious reasons. Our blogger was asked to remove the original post. So we did that and apologized for compromising the shoot because it was the right thing to do. Yes, we do understand reality as you have alleged.
There are, however, some flaws in your comprehension of what you described as our mission statement. It’s a confusing one, I admit (it was written to be so), but I clearly stated that the offense you should take is not to what we say but to the state of this f-ed up world. The economy is in shambles, governments are more corrupt than ever and there’s war and death everywhere fueling the fire.
An effort to write serious content is our goal that is why our writers travel the world, particularly the Middle East and Africa – like our lead writer Ray Lemoine, who wrote a book about his time in Iraq as one of the very few volunteers right after the fall of Baghdad. In fact, yesterday we had posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (that takes away even more of our civil liberties), Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Musharraf/ Pakistan, Air Force Colonel Morris Davis and some apes. Among other topics, you wrote about us on four of your blogs, so we thank you.
John LaCroix
Ps. you may now resume beating down the civil liberties of Americans.