Newsbusters.org sets the scene:
On Monday's Hardball, previewing an interview with anti-war activist Fred Boenig who recently publicly rebuked Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Matthews slammed the freshman Republican by practically comparing him to Norman Bates, the titular character of the Hitchcock classic Psycho. Matthews repeated the slur during his chat with Boenig.
MSNBC
Hardball
June 8, 2015
June 8, 2015
7:12 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: [S]tanding up to the war hawks, we're going to meet a father tonight, right here, who lost his son in Afghanistan. He's now taking on Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, one of the Senate's biggest hawks, about the never-ending push for war in the Middle East. By the way I call Tom Cotton, Bates Motel, you figure it out.
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7:32 p.m. Eastern
MATTHEWS: This guy, the Bates Motel, it's always like that. He always reminds me of Tony Perkins in Psycho. I mean, this guy is so hawkish, it's always, we've got to fight right now. We have to fight for the world because they're coming to get us.
There is also remarkable facial resemblance.
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Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and the rest of the degenerate concubines of war wish to spill the blood of America's youth on the most minimal of pretexts to fulfill their unquenchable thirst for the eternal revolution of the neocons.
ReplyDeleteFunny man, that Tom Cotton. I live in Arkansas. During an off the record, pre-election conversation with a good friend of mine, Cotton said (paraphrase): "I hate war, I've been to war; I don't want to go back; I don't want to send my kids or anybody else's kids to war; in fact, I'm ANTIWAR!"
ReplyDeleteYep, this is the same Tom Cotton, who two days after his clownish stunt signed by 46 if his brainless fellow Republicans, was off to give a speech before and hob knob with, the Defense Contractors Association.
The war loving evangelical christians here in the Bible Belt, love this guy. Last man out, carry the flag.