Earlier this week, Shaft posted a review of The Sociopath Next Door. It made me think of the host of Hardball, Chris Matthews. Matthews was recently on The Daily Show promoting his new book, Life’s a Campaign. The book purportedly shows how to get what you want by running your life like it was a political campaign. For example, Matthews says in the interview that Bill Clinton got lots of girls in college by listening, while he, Chris Matthews, tried to get girls by drinking beer and acting cool. Therefore, the secret is to pretend that you care what people are saying in order to get what you want. Stewart calls the book “sad” and says it was written before and called The Prince. You think that a guy who hosts a show called Hardball would be better equipped to handle criticism. You’d be wrong. See the interview here.
If you’d like to try out Stewart’s act yourself, Matthews will be reading at the Carter Center on November 19th. Of course, you should already have other plans that evening…