Ain’t Chris Matthews the total ass, Ms. Buono?
Barbara Buono, known more widely as the woman Democrats put forward to run against Chris Christie after Cory Booker took a pass, is asked her first question early, before the cameras go live and the set falls silent for the countdown to air. The state senator is in Hardball‘s Washington studio for a national television interview — her third-ever — and a rare chance to get her name on the screen and into the living rooms of Chris Matthews’ tens of thousands of MSNBC viewers.
But first — before any talk about New Jersey, where Buono has experience two-decades-deep in the state legislature — a query from the cable news vet, as she later recalled it:
“Can I say you’re attractive?” Matthews asks.
“No, you can’t,” Buono remembers responding.
She slogged to Washington for this?
Continue reading Meet Barbara Buono (D CAND, NJ-GOV). Or, as MSNBC called her: “Dawn Quixote.”