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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid anyone see Mary Matlin
on Real Time Friday night? She looked terrible and sounded like she drunk.
Lex
(34,108 posts)Response to Lex (Reply #1)
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Cleita
(75,480 posts)I don't know if meds or alcohol, or maybe both, but she was tanked and seemed to have a hard time not slurring her words and sitting up straight. I used to be a bartender and she was no different than a person who had been drinking for a few hours while polishing a bar stool with her ass.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)She looked very disoriented, IMO. I couldn't stand to watch her.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Maher and Carville knew she wasn't ready for prime time but there was no time to sober her up before her appearance so it's convenient to say someone is recuperating from something and therefore still woozy from residual medication and pain killers. Her eyes were a dead give away of her condition even if she had managed to control her slurred speech and exaggerated gestures which she couldn't quite accomplish.
woolldog
(8,791 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)Her appearance was that of alcohol, but the combination of both is a bad thing. I hope Carville took her home and put her to bed before she could hurt herself.
JI7
(89,279 posts)so i'm not sure how he always is. but usually isn't he more stronger with his arguments and would tend to make more jokes if someone was acting as she was ?
but if he knows there is more going on i could see him just kiind of going along and letting things pass. like on the climate change thing.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Or is her punditry so important, she can't just stay home if she is not up to it? The egos of these people.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The entire broadcast was produced entirely for viewing in your home only.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)LOL. I love these, "did anyone else see..." OPs.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)My first peeve are news items lacking geographic reference.
pnwest
(3,266 posts)people are overreacting a little bit. She's buzzed, and feeling good...but all threads I've seen made it seem like she was shitfaced, falling-down drunk. I've tended bar for several years, too. She's at the point where I'd be asking her who's driving her home, but not at cut-her-off status yet. Give her a break, it's Friday night, it's HBO, and it's Bill Maher...probably more than cocktails rolling around backstage, I'm guessing.
Paladin
(28,277 posts)And I have despised her political viewpoints for decades. She was so fucked up, I couldn't take any pleasure in it.
Skittles
(153,226 posts)she's gone way overboard with the plastic surgery
Mira
(22,380 posts)and she was too drunk to sing it well. Or medicated - my vote is for a strong dose of Oxycontin or equivalents.
She also looked horrible and was fidgety, flirty, gave sexual undertones to comments that did not warrant them, and kept touching Bill. She was 100 percent inappropriate.
Bill then looked at the spots where she had touched him as if he wanted to have them amputated.
She was a fright. I predict hers is a very unhapppy household this weekend.
I am waiting for - but will only read it with my eyes closed - the daughters' book on what it was like to grow up with these parents.
I would not be this critical of her, if there had EVER been ANYTHING about her that was tolerable to me.
She has blown it all, the plastic surgeon(s) definitely was a Democrat. He barely allowed enough of her face to remain moving for at least some of the venom to fall out in order to collect his fees.
edited to add the link:
http://gawker.com/heres-mary-matalins-bizarre-appearance-on-real-time-w-1504272157
edited to add second link, look at the difference in Jennifer Granholm and Mary M - and the subject is women:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mary-matalin-battles-granholm-on-maher-you-think-only-women-know-how-to-fix-this-country/
Cleita
(75,480 posts)It's believed that a little glass of wine or scotch will relax an often nervous guest. Even celebrities, used to the spotlight, tense up when they have to be themselves. However, when the guest arrives already in their cups whether from pills, herbs or alcohol, those little pre-appearance drinks will send them over into the state Mary was in.
Cha
(297,806 posts)Cosmic Karma. After years of Lying and Pushing Dick the death knell Cheney down the throats of Americans who were snagged by corporate news.
thanks Mira~
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Usually special guests are interesting and a highlight of the show. Not her.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)to Bill saying he had never dated a repub. That was good.
librechik
(30,677 posts)because the answer is, "Of course, and here's why, Mary
"
He just ignored her, sadly. I would have loved to see her reaction to that!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)She made a couple of sexual innuendos that both Bill and her husband ignored.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)I thought Carville was married to Michelle Malkin
Cleita
(75,480 posts)poor thing. Well, at least you've got it out there.. you can move on now.
SayitAintSo
(2,207 posts)She was slurring and tipsy acting...
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)I've never actually seen her and only knew that she was married to Carville. What a pair!
That show is a wonderful illustrative example to use to show people how illogical repubs can be. Every one of her comments was nonsensical. Bill was pretty good at exposing that.
OMG! She loves animals! WOW!! How very unusual! How compassionate! How utterly humane she is!!!
Typical hypocrite.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I had a link in my thread about Jennifer Granholm.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)forward let alone backwards. I doubt if she could.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)she was perfectly fine. Her husband and Bill should have discouraged her if they could have. She's a pretty strong willed woman though and maybe they couldn't.
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)I've seen her many times over the years on these kinds of shows, and she never was in that condition. Although I usually don't agree with her, she usually come off as an intelligent person who has thought out her statements. Sometimes humorous, too.
It could have been painkillers, but I think alcohol or a combination of the two.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Married to James Carville.
elfin
(6,262 posts)Is the most charitable description of her conversation.
Horrible plastic surgery didn't help. Medication or booze self-medication moat plausible. However, might be something more serious.
Carville looked like he was on edge, worried, the whole time Maher was trying to coax some half-cogent remarks out of her.
Their income probably took a whack after CNN cut them loose, with the lame reason being they wanted them in studio as opposed to remotes from Louisiana.
Hence the latest book trying to wring more cash out of the tired shtick of a marriage of political opponents.
Pathetic.
At the very beginning of their story so many years ago, they had some humor and spark. Then she fell off the cliff into GOP wacko land - moreso than he in the opposite camp. Her increasing harshness transformed her into a harridan from just an annoying flack.
Friends like Maher will try to prop them up for a while, but they are done.
broiles
(1,370 posts)Must have been pain killers. It was taped the day of the Saints Sea Hawks game. She was funny and charming (am I allowed to say that here?) For the first time I could sort of understand their relationship.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Mary and James together with bald heads would send anyone running screaming from the room!
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)Looked like a wig to me. But hey, that's show business.
tavernier
(12,410 posts)A bit too much silicone in the lips which probably made her sound a bit blubbery - and before you say it, I've had nips and tucks so I have nothing against a girl getting a little work done - but otherwise she the same Cheney space cadet she always is.
I did find it interesting when Bill said he had never slept with Ann Coulter. Must be he prefers women. Or perhaps humans.
Lex
(34,108 posts)to some video and also interesting comments:
"Here's Mary Matalin's Bizarre Appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher"
link ---> http://gawker.com/heres-mary-matalins-bizarre-appearance-on-real-time-w-1504272157
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Shampoobra
(423 posts)My guess is, all three of them were drinking, and Matlin appears to have misjudged her own tolerance level. But Mahar and Carville definitely appear a little tipsy to me.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Shampoobra
(423 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)I'm not sure that wasn't a wig she was wearing. She looked thinner than usual and pretty frail. And there was the speech issue. I think she may be fighting something that they are not making public.
Lex
(34,108 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)some of us close to elderly folks aren't always at the top of our game. It was probably past her bed time, and she had been in the lounge waiting her turn. Probably had a few, on top of prescription drugs from her friend Rush Limbaugh.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)had a face lift and maybe botox. She seemed to have trouble moving her mouth.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Amy Winehouse came back and slapped her.