Did anyone see Mary Matlin

[49jim]

on Real Time Friday night? She looked terrible and sounded like she drunk.

[Lex]

1. Yes, it spawned several threads here. nt

[Cleita]

2. I watched it again and yep she was drunk.

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]

3. Bill Maher said she had been ill and had suffered a fall.

She looked very disoriented, IMO. I couldn't stand to watch her.

[Cleita]

5. I think that could have been a cover up.

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]

16. She could've been on painkillers. nt

[Cleita]

21. She might have been but with alcohol on top of it.

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]

51. Maher did seem pretty gentle with her, i don't watch this show and just saw this clip

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]

33. So take a sick day is what I'd say of that

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]

4. No. No one saw her

The entire broadcast was produced entirely for viewing in your home only.

[Duer 157099]

10. LOL

[Wilms]

14. No wonder the ratings were so bad.

LOL. I love these, "did anyone else see..." OPs.

[jberryhill]

44. My #2 peeve

My first peeve are news items lacking geographic reference.

[pnwest]

6. Just watched the clip, and I think

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]

18. Even I don't think she was in any shape to be on national TV.

And I have despised her political viewpoints for decades. She was so fucked up, I couldn't take any pleasure in it.

[Skittles]

52. I was more concerned about her face

she's gone way overboard with the plastic surgery

[Mira]

7. It was her Swan Song

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]

19. There is a bar in the green rooms of those shows.

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]

49. It sounds to me like

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]

8. She was not worth the appearance.

Usually special guests are interesting and a highlight of the show. Not her.

[oldandhappy]

9. Altho I did love her reaction

to Bill saying he had never dated a repub. That was good.

[librechik]

12. "are you suggesting Republicans are immoral?" she slurred. The crowd hushed

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]

20. He was being a gentleman not taking advantage of her condition.

She made a couple of sexual innuendos that both Bill and her husband ignored.

[Aerows]

48. I know! What was up with that? n/t

[arcane1]

11. COnfession: until I watched that episode Friday night...

I thought Carville was married to Michelle Malkin

[Cleita]

25. I don't think even Carville has the stomach for Malkin.

[Cha]

50. You

poor thing. Well, at least you've got it out there.. you can move on now.

[SayitAintSo]

13. I thought so too...

She was slurring and tipsy acting...

[Duer 157099]

15. I am glad she was on

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]

17. She was drunk as a skunk

I had a link in my thread about Jennifer Granholm.

[Cleita]

23. Yep. I would have liked to ask her to say the alphabet

forward let alone backwards. I doubt if she could.

[hrmjustin]

22. She should have canceled.

[Cleita]

24. People in that state don't have the judgement. She probably thought

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]

26. She was hammered

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]

31. She was definitely on cocktails

Several

[Rex]

27. Who is Mary Matlin?

[Aerows]

32. Right wing hack

Married to James Carville.

[elfin]

28. Watched a rerun after all the threads - "under the weather"

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]

29. I saw them on C-Span's Book TV and she was okay.

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]

30. She was pretty odd on ABC this am. Has she shaved her head and started wearing a sheitel?

Mary and James together with bald heads would send anyone running screaming from the room!

[Mr.Bill]

34. First thing I thought when I saw the video.

Looked like a wig to me. But hey, that's show business.

[tavernier]

35. She acted the same as always IMO

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]

37. The link here

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]

40. How embarrassing for James.

[Shampoobra]

41. Thanks for the link

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]

38. I thought maybe she had suffered a stroke. n/t

[Shampoobra]

39. Peter Pan was drunk?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

42. She looks ill to me -

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]

45. For the record that's what I think too. nt

[Hoyt]

43. When you are that full of right wing hatred, you ain't gonna appear lovable. With that said,

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]

46. looked to me like she had

had a face lift and maybe botox. She seemed to have trouble moving her mouth.

[Aerows]

47. She was so drunk

Amy Winehouse came back and slapped her.